>be me >discover mexican cuisine >don't have cilantro

>>9285389

It's a genetic thing. For some people cilantro tastes like soap. For other people it doesn't have that soapy taste.

Be aware that cilantro can easily overpower a dish. I like it, but even so I'm very careful with how much I use. Salsa can be especially insidious because the cilantro flavor gets stronger over time. If you make fresh salsa and you add cilantro until it tastes right it will become a cilantro bomb as it sits for a few hours. For many dishes with cilantro add less than you think you might need because the flavor will become much stronger as the dish sits or cooks.

>>9285389
A decent salsa or pico is kinda like a macaroni salad or potato salad, best made 24 hours before you want to eat it.

Cilantro kinda bleeds into a dish over a day and becomes eatable, but it needs that time. I'm not really a big fan of it, and I find it retarded as a garnish, but it has it's uses.

>>9285401
This. I go out to eat every Thursday with a couple of friends. One friend and I both love this Mexican place because they put cilantro in everything, but the other dude hates it and says it tastes like soap.

>>9285389
I would be careful about using a "shitload" I love the stuff, but it can be pretty overpowering.

>>9285401
OP knew that. This is a bit thread. A mild, well constructed bait thread, but still one.

He knew this and your reply is exactly what he wanted.

>>9285389
I think I must have the genetic thing s well as I hate the stuff. I've found good results replacing it with flat leaf parsley where required.

To me, a salsa without coriander (cilantro) is trash.

>>9285389
>climate too hot
Where the fuck do you live anon?
It grows in my sister's yard like a weed. She can't get rid of it fast enough.
In Phoenix Arizona

>>9285408
So, if I let it sit will taste less than stink bugs?

Also for anyone reading my main question is this: Will I get used to it?

>>9285439
If it's too hot cilantro is prone to bolting/going to seed.

>>9285460
Yep, that's why they don't sell it here.
>>9285439
Greece.

>>9285460
This is true. I live in the south and we grow it. It starts coming on in the fall (it reseeds itself) and wee get as much as we can use through the winter and spring. But it goes to seed at the end of spring and we can't get it to grow in the hot summer. I'm making Tom Yum Gai tonight and I'll just have to do without the cilantro.

>>9285457
No. Cilantro taste is one of these weird DNA-defined thing. Either you have the gene and like it from the start, or you don't and it'll always taste weird. It tastes like soap to me.

>>9286617
Soap is manmade
Is the flavor not also included into soap in order to make it more pleasant, if so why have so much roundabout whining about this
Is this so confusing I heard similar complaining about rootbeer
Really what gives

>>9285389
How the fuck do you know what stink bugs taste like?

>>9287733
OP here. Because I ate stink bugs. I also tried my own poop but it was too bitter to put on my gyros.

Definitely it tastes nearly identical to how stink bugs smelt when they sprayed you and I didn't like it at first but after I turned 13 I now love it.
I figure some people just don't like interesting flavours.

File: x-1.jpg (64KB, 600x351px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 600x351px

i find cilantro to taste a bit soapy and i still think its one of the greatest herbs ever made

>>9287947
This
Not sure what the supposedly 'normal' taste is suppose to be like but I love it regardless.

File: MuchasLogo-web.png (110KB, 1400x379px) Image search: [Google]

110KB, 1400x379px

>>9287915
So it IS an acquired taste
>>9287947
Today I cooked it without the stems and it was really nice.
Anyway, thanks for your help, everyone. I'll go back to /adv/ now.

If you find the cilantro overpowering it's a sign you have too little chilies in there.

>>9285389
>>don't have cilantro (climate too hot)
What the fuck? Mexico is literally 120 degrees and they can grow the shit just fine.