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How can you make carrots taste good?

posted 4 years ago by Querelle (1603)
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Carrots, as far as I can tell, are complete garbage. I'm sure they have their fine qualities in terms of nutrients and what have you, but as far as texture and taste, not so much. I have never had a carrot that I thought tasted good. The closest I can get to tasty is a raw baby carrot dipped in something, but really the dip is what I'm going for there. That crunch can be nice, but that's all it's got going for it, and only in raw form. How can one make a carrot taste good?

[–] sslssg (35179) 4 years ago

If you don't like carrots I'm not sure there is a way to make them taste good.

I like carrots best raw.

[–] Querelle (1603) 4 years ago

I can't honestly say I've tried very hard though. I'm usually a very lazy cook, and I'm certain there's a way to zhoosh them into the realm of tasty. There's been a few decent suggestions thus far.

[–] movieace11 (1368) 4 years ago

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[–] movieace11 (1368) 4 years ago

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/baby-carrots-are-liars_n_570d98cce4b03d8b7b9ec7f4

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

When I eat any food that is good for me, it always tastes a bit better. I think this is because I'm an Adult.

Carrots taste fine. Fresh, they have have a nice hard crunch we need to use our teeth to break into
There is a satisfying quality of crunching down that vegetable matter, as opposed to eating processed foods.

Ignore Carrots at your peril. They are your friends if you let them into your world.
More nutrition, more roughage is always better than easy corporate fare.

[–] brux (14840) 4 years ago

> When I eat any food that is good for me, it always tastes a bit better. I think this is because I'm an Adult.

^that

As kids we are programmed by fancy cartoons and funny voices and lying commercials into eating stuff that we get addicted to out of habit and which ends up killing most of us. Adults are lucky ones who can break through that conditioning, the rest of just kids. ;-)

[–] Kowalski (79078) 4 years ago

MY MOTHER ALWAYS USED TO CUT THEM INTO THIN SLICES AND COOK THEM IN BROWN SUGAR...DELICIOUS!

[–] Redsfan001 (6218) 4 years ago

👍 (and butter)

[–] ODB82 (2055) 4 years ago

Like sex, raw for best results.

[–] Stratego (31079) 4 years ago

Make a carrot cake.

[–] ducksoup (3933) 4 years ago

In addition to the many fine suggestions already made, you can add chopped carrots to tuna or macaroni salad. You can also boil and puree them with ginger and make a fine soup.

[–] brux (14840) 4 years ago

I don't think there is much of anything that tastes as good as a carrot fished out of a good beef stew. Before the pandemic I used to go eat prepared food from our local Whole Foods Market and they always had a big pan of beef stew, and I would pick out the carrots because they were so damn tasty.

[–] ducksoup (3933) 4 years ago

Any good stew. I like lamb. (But beef too!)

[–] brux (14840) 4 years ago

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