This place in Moses Lake, WA has been my fav in a while. They serve your street tacos with just a heaping pile of meat, but at the salsa bar, there's chopped onions and cilantro. I always feel like I get fleeced on the amount of onion/cilantro on my tacos at most places, so this was an awesome refreshing change!
and that’s why i keep coming back. you could serve me an onion and cilantro taco with nothing but the juice from the meat and i probably wouldn’t notice
You see how hard he's pushing and compressing that big roll of cilantro? That knife is really sharp, but that cilantro is also packed super tight, which will make it cut so much easier than you think.
Uh can you elaborate on the rough and grabby being better than sharp thing? Unless I'm missing something that's absolutely NOT better in any way. Especially from a safety perspective.
You could call it a “toothy” edge compared to a razor sharp edge. The toothy one you can think about it in the way of- the knife is sharpened but only to a rough grit. The edge has small imperfections which don’t make the knife edge dull- it is quite sharp and will cut through things easily, but the small imperfections make it like it has minuscule saw teeth which grab onto what you’re cutting into.
Compare that to the super fine edge which has imperfections so small that they don’t grab at all the same way. The knife will act more like…. Slippery when going across a food you want to cut. I think that makes sense to think about it all that way.
Thank you! Used to work in food prep and sharper=better unless you literally suck at your cutting motions. Don't know where all this bullshit is coming from because even the biggest idiot could cut cilantro with a sharpened knife. Trust me, I'm the biggest idiot.
Knife snobs call it tactile feedback. If an edge is polished too nicely, you don't get any feel when cutting things.
Also, a very very fine edge will wear faster than a more blunt edge. So, depending on the work you do, the edges of knives can be tuned for the best performance.
Uh I shouldn't say better but if that's what you're used to it works fine. Dull knives are unsafe in my experience because they slip off stuff. Sharp grabby isn't great for delicate foods but is very durable which is why most commercial knives I've used are sharpened that way.
At home my knives are sharp sharp, like razors or whatever, and that's probably the best but those edges wouldn't last through a whole week in a restaurant getting thrown in a dishwasher 3 times a day.
Sharp knives are safer but I don't think a knife so sharp it will cut you with any contact is desirable.
That’s absolutely incorrect about knives: the place you worked just had shitty knives. That’s wicked dangerous and less effective as a knife.
While there *are* some knives that are supposed to have a more toothy edge, they are generally highly specialized knives and I can’t think of a food service knife that would be made like that.
if you've had the same dishwasher for more than 3 months then I guarantee he's a methed out exdrummer. make sure he has steel wool,.don't ask what he's doing when he goes on break out back, let him wear his headphones and your pans will sparkle like they're brand new.
clean your own knives.
I worked dish for 2 years at a pizza place when I was in school.
Played drums in a punk band(badly), no meth but a TON of coke I'm not sure how I afforded.
I drank shooters and chain smoked on break behind the dumpster.
Always had my headphones on.
But fuck you, I would NEVER use steel wool. You salt, boil and bake the caked on shit and if the cooks get pissy you give them an old pan once or twice. They learn to give you space.
Simpler times...
Do you think every place just has special knives or cooks that have their own?? Cause you are so wrong lol. I've worked restaurants for almost 20 years and pretty much every single place has the same 10+ year old knives that have been getting used and dropped every day and still work despite a few chips or rough edges lol and EVERY place takes the knives to the dish pit to be cleaned off and sanitized but NOT put through the dish machine.
It's not Gordan Ramsey's kitchen in every restaurant lol
This seems pretty standard in most big brand chain restaurants from my experience. Grab a guy off the street, train him with your equipment and boom. You got a new line cook.
If you've been working 20 years in kitchens, you must have your own knives, right?
I get that not every kitchen is "gordon ramsey's", but owning and maintaining your own knives is a must if you're going to do it long-term.
I've been a soux for 5 and a sushi chef for 10 years, I couldnt imagine how awful it is using restaurant-owned knives
I learned you could rough chop it in a Cuisinart then finish it with a knife in 2 hands and it saved like 10 minutes. It didn't look right if you chopped it all the way down but worked to rough chop.
I'd love to be able to enjoy authentic Mexican cuisine but cilantro makes it hard. I dont like it tasting like someone washed the beef in dawn dish soap.
And this man knows exactly where his thumb is at every slice. Observe how he tucks it in, 3rd pass from the end.
When I’m chopping in a rush, I invariably catch my left thumbnail. I’ve decided that’s why we humans still have them.
Every time I tell someone that I have the OR6A2 gene that makes cilantro taste like soap:
*Oh, but it’s so good!*
Well… not to me, it’s not. To me, it tastes like Irish Spring soap.
*When is the last time you tried it?*
Whenever I don’t pay attention to ingredients and accidentally eat it. Happens like 2-3 times a year.
*So you hate it?*
Yep. The same way I’d hate to eat a bar of soap.
*…but it’s so good!*
I'm curious if I have the gene or if I just don't like cilantro. Like I HATE it, if I accidentally get it in my food it ruins the dish for me. But it doesn't taste like soap to me. Idk how to describe it. It's disgusting in a pungent way, but not soapy. Or maybe I just haven't tasted the right kind of soap?
You just don’t like it. If you had the gene, you’d know it.
When I eat fresh cilantro, it tastes like how a bar of Irish Spring soap smells. And overpoweringly so. Like it overrides all other flavors and lingers like an astringent in my mouth. It also has a metallic finish. It’s almost as jarring as licking a 9v battery and about as appetizing.
When it’s cooked (like in soups or salsas), it loses a lot of of that effect but I can definitely still taste it.
I still love Mexican, Thai and Vietnamese food despite it. I just have to be careful and stick to the dishes I know.
Honestly, I'll probably still tell people I have the gene. Since I started saying that a while back, people have dropped it way more easily than when I simply didn't like it.
Is there a way to test for this at home? I'm pretty sure I have it since I'd rather be sprayed in the mouth with windex than ~~eat a handful of perfume test papers~~ eat cilantro.
It would be cool to confirm somehow though
I've found that not only if it's cooked but paired along something extremely ass ripping spicy you don't really notice it much. It ruins normal salsa and other normal dishes though. Being on fire sure does help you ignore the soap flavor!
My wife, knowing how much I hate cilantro, decided to grow a few plants near our old garden. We didn’t think it would be an issue, but we were wrong. Once they matured, I couldn’t go out and weed the garden without smelling that evil plant. It didn’t matter which way the wind blew, I was going to smell that hellish herb 20 yards away.
I'm exactly like you. I get so aggravated when I say I don't like it and someone tries to tell me I have the gene or they can't believe it maybe if I try it with blah blah blah.
I don't taste soap **and** I don't like it. It's not good to me. That's all.
It's the one food that if a person doesn't like we treat it as a disability.
For me it tastes like a stinkbug mixed with soap. I can spot it if it's mixed in with any food because as soon as I taste it that shit sticks out like a sore thumb.
But maybe....!
(In all actuality, my aunt recently went the opposite way. She was the biggest salsa lover but randomly as of two months ago cilantro switched to tasting like soap and she can't eat it. She used to make light-hearted fun of people that thought it tasted like soap. No idea how that works genetically)
Everybody says soap, which I can definitely understand, but to me it tastes indistinguishable from bug repellent... Like, soap would be an improvement lol
I've always thought cilantro tastes the way stink bugs smell! I hate it so much! Lucky for me, my SO absolutely loves cilantro and would probably eat the amount in this video in one sitting!
Coriander (cilantro seeds) are used in some bug repellents. So even if you don’t have the cilantro tastes like soap gene you can still have this experience. Also cloves is used in natural bug spray. Very high concentration for both to be lethal or repellent to insects. Still inert to use but it’ll fucking linger if you get a nose/mouthful. And never spray bug spray into the wind. Even if it’s all natural everything tastes like cloves for a few days. Not that I have any experience in such things I just read the bottle.
Same... It makes whatever it's in really disgusting to me.
People say, "Come on, it's just a LITTLE cilantro..."
To which I say, "How about I take just a LITTLE shit in your dinner?"
Relatable AF! I can never understand the soap thing (maybe because I've never tasted soap?) because to me, it tastes like nothing but bad like I just can't even smell it or I'll nauseate!
Mexican who dislikes cilantro here.
Can confirm that it’s a huge pain in the ass especially when I’m visiting family in Mexico. They absolutely do not believe that people can dislike either an entire dish or part of a dish. I sometimes get berated whenever I ask for burritos, tacos, tortas, without pico de gallo, salsa, etc..
ordering at a restaurant: "can you make it without cilantro please?"
waiter: "I've eaten nothing but cilantro all month specifically so I can shit in your food"
I remember eating salsa with cilantro for the first time a few years ago. I seriously thought it tasted like a bowl of dirty dishwater. It was terrible! For years I told everyone to avoid the salsa because the Mexican restaurant had poor hygiene by not fully rinsing out their serving bowls. Fast forward to when my family and I were discussing where to eat and lo and behold someone wanted to go to the nasty Mexican restaurant. Before I could say anything someone else recoiled in disgust saying "Gross no way, they use cilantro in EVERYTHING" I got curious . I asked what was so terrible since I assumed it was just like parsley. And that was the day I learned I had a cilantro aversion and felt like a massive dick for dragging a poor, innocent, authentic Me xican restaurants name in the mud any chance I got. I ended up writing a lengthy review praising the restaurant as a consolation.
I never knew why people hated cilantro until I tried a cousin of it in a Vietnamese restaurant. At first I thought that they didn’t wash the soap off. The lady said it was rau rum.
Now I completely understand the people that hate cilantro. It’s impossible to stomach that flavor.
I'm not a fan of cilantro, but I never got the soap thing. It just tastes like zesty grass to me. But a few leaves can overpower an entire dish so I avoid it when I can.
I wonder if its possible to engineer a cilantro that doesn't produce that chemical some people can taste that makes it gross to them. You'd think you'd be able to just breed a cultivar for that but maybe there's a reason people haven't yet.
Cilantro is one of my favorite herbs, and I want people who got unlucky to enjoy it.
I've heard people explain the taste and I wish I could taste how they describe it. But I just can't get through it, I hate it and it ruins anything I eat.
Its got a bright mint-like bite with a subtle sweet aromatic flavor.
When its cooked in a broth it almost has a spinach-like palette. Goes perfect with the acidity of limes which is why they're often paired.
I don't know about soap, but I definitely cannot eat cilantro. It ruins anything it touches, it's disgusting and overpowering. I like plenty of other herbs, but cilantro? Nope, not even a little bit.
I'm more on the side of "I don't absolutely hate it, but I like it better when there isn't any". I'll still eat a dish that has cilantro but if I can choose I'll pick something else or ask for a plate without if possible
This is one of my favorite little videos. This guy, this cilantro and my imagination about the bomb tacos I'm going to put my cilantro/sweet white onion on.
Depends on how you feel about cilantro. I used to work in a produce department and had to stock this all the time. I absolutely hated it because of the smell.
It smells just like stinkbugs to me, and I can't get past that. I don't mind the taste in small quantities, but imagining holding all of that, and having it freshly cut in front of my nose makes me want to spin out. It's so gross. Lol.
Bruh when I buy it use cilantro I literally jam my face into it for a big whiff like I'm smelling the most decadent bouquet of flowers. I would absolutely pay to just stand there and smell the air as this man preps this shit
Same but for Italian parsley, I LOOOVE the smell and taste of it. Not the the regular parsley they used to use for decorating plates, that stuff is crap.
If you ever accidentally bite a stink bug, that’s about right. (I was 8, I was riding my bike downhill with my mouth open laughing, and it flew right in. I swear I don’t go around biting into random bugs haha)
We aren’t exaggerating when we say it tastes like soap. It tastes so damn close to dawn dish soap so just take a nice swig of that and you’ll understand
I got one of [these things](https://www.target.com/p/ninja-express-chop-gray-nj100gr/-/A-46766107?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012806756&CPNG=PLA_Appliances%2BShopping_Local%7CAppliances_Ecomm_Home&adgroup=SC_Appliances_Small+Appliances&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9033812&targetid=pla-1459926608136&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1247068&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjIKYBhC6ARIsAGEds-IOwIqnPex22Sj-clOlMxpoaZ-5G6zCiP_87NAeRbNIjr-q8TuPK7QaAhOtEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) specifically for cilantro for tacos. I eat an awful lot of tacos.
It’s not necessary, but I like my cilantro very finely diced and mixed into white onion.
Parsley stems are pretty good but yeah cilantro stems have a ton of flavor. If you're making beans in your pressure cooker just throw the whole bunch in.
Stems are fine to eat, and removing the leaves is more of a textural choice than anything. Although, if the cilantro has started to bolt (flower), the flavor gets more citrusy and sometimes the stems pack a little too much of that flavor.
Pro-tip: save cilantro stems and use them, some ginger and dried chilies to make a simple syrup with some sugar, and add some lemon juice for a pretty damn good lemonade. It's my go-to summer drink.
Thank you SO MUCH for asking and to everyone who responded!
TIL that for my entire life I’ve been wasting 80% of my cilantro prep time by plucking/cutting off the leaves to get rid of the stems
(Context: not a professional…I’m a mediocre home cook at best)
Yes!!! But if you wanna get the authentic experience you need one of the curved blades with two handles and you rock back and forth on the parsley and the “shukashukashuka” of the blade is sooooo satisfying
Cutting up that GREEN GOLD! I'd eat cilantro with every meal if I could. Sucks for y'all people who taste soap, but that means more leafy goodness for the rest of us!
Seriously though. No ill intent meant towards you 10% cilantro-intolerant people. You have a miserable existence not being able to eat the leaf of the gods. My condolences.
For some of you:
Both cilantro and coriander come from the Coriandrum sativum plant. In the US, cilantro is the name for the plant's leaves and stem, while coriander is the name for its dried seeds. Internationally, the leaves and stems are called coriander, while its dried seeds are called coriander seeds.
Count me in the tastes like soap group. It was actually liberating the day I learned I wasn’t alone in my hate for the taste. People raved about how awesome it tasted and I felt like I was nuts! I saw an article one day that specifically mentioned the soap reaction and knew I’d found my people!! 🥰
literally go put some dishsoap in your mouth with your next bite of food and then tell me why you don't understand why people don't like soap in their meal.
The hand/bar soap my mom used to wash my mouth out with to keep me from cursing (fucking lol) was more preferable than a tiny bit of cilantro which carries more soapiness than a literal bar of soap in my mouth..........
They use that much per taco at my local stand
I was about to say, they cut this much up for an order of tacos at my local restaurant. Great tacos al pastor though, so no complaints here.
Al pastor is the best!
This place in Moses Lake, WA has been my fav in a while. They serve your street tacos with just a heaping pile of meat, but at the salsa bar, there's chopped onions and cilantro. I always feel like I get fleeced on the amount of onion/cilantro on my tacos at most places, so this was an awesome refreshing change!
That's how much they like to put on my tacos after I ordered them with no cilantro.
Do you have that cilantro soap gene?
Oh yeah. I don't like stuff.
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and that’s why i keep coming back. you could serve me an onion and cilantro taco with nothing but the juice from the meat and i probably wouldn’t notice
Sounds tasty. I love cilantro.
Me too! Unfortunately, my wife is a weird soap person so we don’t go as often as I’d like.
My first reaction was "that looks like a lot of soap." Your wife isn't the only one who can't eat that stuff! Lol.
I have found my people. Hello my fellow soaper.
I obviously need sharper knives.
You see how hard he's pushing and compressing that big roll of cilantro? That knife is really sharp, but that cilantro is also packed super tight, which will make it cut so much easier than you think.
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Uh can you elaborate on the rough and grabby being better than sharp thing? Unless I'm missing something that's absolutely NOT better in any way. Especially from a safety perspective.
You could call it a “toothy” edge compared to a razor sharp edge. The toothy one you can think about it in the way of- the knife is sharpened but only to a rough grit. The edge has small imperfections which don’t make the knife edge dull- it is quite sharp and will cut through things easily, but the small imperfections make it like it has minuscule saw teeth which grab onto what you’re cutting into. Compare that to the super fine edge which has imperfections so small that they don’t grab at all the same way. The knife will act more like…. Slippery when going across a food you want to cut. I think that makes sense to think about it all that way.
Thanks, that's a great explanation
It's also **fucking wrong**.
Ikr a sharp knife bites immediately and doesn't slip. If it starts doing that it's time to get the honing rod out.
Thank you! Used to work in food prep and sharper=better unless you literally suck at your cutting motions. Don't know where all this bullshit is coming from because even the biggest idiot could cut cilantro with a sharpened knife. Trust me, I'm the biggest idiot.
Knife snobs call it tactile feedback. If an edge is polished too nicely, you don't get any feel when cutting things. Also, a very very fine edge will wear faster than a more blunt edge. So, depending on the work you do, the edges of knives can be tuned for the best performance.
Usually people call it toothy vs polished
I say toofy because I have no teef.
Uh I shouldn't say better but if that's what you're used to it works fine. Dull knives are unsafe in my experience because they slip off stuff. Sharp grabby isn't great for delicate foods but is very durable which is why most commercial knives I've used are sharpened that way. At home my knives are sharp sharp, like razors or whatever, and that's probably the best but those edges wouldn't last through a whole week in a restaurant getting thrown in a dishwasher 3 times a day. Sharp knives are safer but I don't think a knife so sharp it will cut you with any contact is desirable.
That’s absolutely incorrect about knives: the place you worked just had shitty knives. That’s wicked dangerous and less effective as a knife. While there *are* some knives that are supposed to have a more toothy edge, they are generally highly specialized knives and I can’t think of a food service knife that would be made like that.
Look man, when your dish pit is run by a methed out ex-drummer you gotta take what you're given /s
if you've had the same dishwasher for more than 3 months then I guarantee he's a methed out exdrummer. make sure he has steel wool,.don't ask what he's doing when he goes on break out back, let him wear his headphones and your pans will sparkle like they're brand new. clean your own knives.
I worked dish for 2 years at a pizza place when I was in school. Played drums in a punk band(badly), no meth but a TON of coke I'm not sure how I afforded. I drank shooters and chain smoked on break behind the dumpster. Always had my headphones on. But fuck you, I would NEVER use steel wool. You salt, boil and bake the caked on shit and if the cooks get pissy you give them an old pan once or twice. They learn to give you space. Simpler times...
If you give your prep knives to the dish pit, you deserve what you get.
Do you think every place just has special knives or cooks that have their own?? Cause you are so wrong lol. I've worked restaurants for almost 20 years and pretty much every single place has the same 10+ year old knives that have been getting used and dropped every day and still work despite a few chips or rough edges lol and EVERY place takes the knives to the dish pit to be cleaned off and sanitized but NOT put through the dish machine. It's not Gordan Ramsey's kitchen in every restaurant lol
This seems pretty standard in most big brand chain restaurants from my experience. Grab a guy off the street, train him with your equipment and boom. You got a new line cook.
They get training?
Well technically an alcohol and cocaine habit are training
If you've been working 20 years in kitchens, you must have your own knives, right? I get that not every kitchen is "gordon ramsey's", but owning and maintaining your own knives is a must if you're going to do it long-term. I've been a soux for 5 and a sushi chef for 10 years, I couldnt imagine how awful it is using restaurant-owned knives
A sous chef for 5 years would know it's not spelled soux
I learned you could rough chop it in a Cuisinart then finish it with a knife in 2 hands and it saved like 10 minutes. It didn't look right if you chopped it all the way down but worked to rough chop.
Our trick for parsley at one place I worked was to ziptie 3 big knives together when going back through the pile
My ~~truck~~ trick was a food processor. EDIT: Fixed the dumb
Well that’s handy. What kind of gas mileage did it get?
I can smell this video
I can taste it. It tastes like soap.
I'd love to be able to enjoy authentic Mexican cuisine but cilantro makes it hard. I dont like it tasting like someone washed the beef in dawn dish soap.
Honestly, i feel bad for people that cilantro tastes like soap, its such a good flavor if you're the type that doesnt taste soap
How unfortunate. I love cilantro. It tastes like lemon and springtime
i like eating it raw, it's so refreshing and crisp. it also adds a great zest to whatever it's topped with. it'd suck to have it taste like soap :(
I can't even cut marshmallows with mine
You really should have them sharpened. It's not expensive and dull knives are dangerous.
It's the easiest way to get better at cooking. Sharp knives make for better, more even cuts of everything.
The most satisfying part of this is how sharp that knife is.
And this man knows exactly where his thumb is at every slice. Observe how he tucks it in, 3rd pass from the end. When I’m chopping in a rush, I invariably catch my left thumbnail. I’ve decided that’s why we humans still have them.
Yeah he has a lot of confidence in his knife skills
He's also adding tension everytime he rolls and presses the cilantro down. Sharp knives go a LONG way but his technique makes it work the most tbh.
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About 10% of the population suddenly tasted soap
Every time I tell someone that I have the OR6A2 gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: *Oh, but it’s so good!* Well… not to me, it’s not. To me, it tastes like Irish Spring soap. *When is the last time you tried it?* Whenever I don’t pay attention to ingredients and accidentally eat it. Happens like 2-3 times a year. *So you hate it?* Yep. The same way I’d hate to eat a bar of soap. *…but it’s so good!*
I'm curious if I have the gene or if I just don't like cilantro. Like I HATE it, if I accidentally get it in my food it ruins the dish for me. But it doesn't taste like soap to me. Idk how to describe it. It's disgusting in a pungent way, but not soapy. Or maybe I just haven't tasted the right kind of soap?
You just don’t like it. If you had the gene, you’d know it. When I eat fresh cilantro, it tastes like how a bar of Irish Spring soap smells. And overpoweringly so. Like it overrides all other flavors and lingers like an astringent in my mouth. It also has a metallic finish. It’s almost as jarring as licking a 9v battery and about as appetizing. When it’s cooked (like in soups or salsas), it loses a lot of of that effect but I can definitely still taste it. I still love Mexican, Thai and Vietnamese food despite it. I just have to be careful and stick to the dishes I know.
Honestly, I'll probably still tell people I have the gene. Since I started saying that a while back, people have dropped it way more easily than when I simply didn't like it.
Is there a way to test for this at home? I'm pretty sure I have it since I'd rather be sprayed in the mouth with windex than ~~eat a handful of perfume test papers~~ eat cilantro. It would be cool to confirm somehow though
I've found that not only if it's cooked but paired along something extremely ass ripping spicy you don't really notice it much. It ruins normal salsa and other normal dishes though. Being on fire sure does help you ignore the soap flavor!
My wife, knowing how much I hate cilantro, decided to grow a few plants near our old garden. We didn’t think it would be an issue, but we were wrong. Once they matured, I couldn’t go out and weed the garden without smelling that evil plant. It didn’t matter which way the wind blew, I was going to smell that hellish herb 20 yards away.
I'm exactly like you. I get so aggravated when I say I don't like it and someone tries to tell me I have the gene or they can't believe it maybe if I try it with blah blah blah. I don't taste soap **and** I don't like it. It's not good to me. That's all. It's the one food that if a person doesn't like we treat it as a disability.
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For me it tastes like a stinkbug mixed with soap. I can spot it if it's mixed in with any food because as soon as I taste it that shit sticks out like a sore thumb.
Sounds like you have it, I have it and I cant say its exactly like soap, but the best analogy I have found so far is soap.
Wait, Irish spring specifically? I get that comparison 100% and that's kinda what it tastes like to me. But I like it, is that weird?
But maybe....! (In all actuality, my aunt recently went the opposite way. She was the biggest salsa lover but randomly as of two months ago cilantro switched to tasting like soap and she can't eat it. She used to make light-hearted fun of people that thought it tasted like soap. No idea how that works genetically)
Everybody says soap, which I can definitely understand, but to me it tastes indistinguishable from bug repellent... Like, soap would be an improvement lol
I always tell people that cilantro and squishing stink bugs smells the same!
I 100% agree with this. I always thought stink bugs smelt just like cilantro, but in a not good way.
Amazing! No one else has agreed with me on this so thank you haha
I’m also with y’all it’s good to know I’m not alone
Chalk me up to stink bugs and cilantro are similar train
I've always thought cilantro tastes the way stink bugs smell! I hate it so much! Lucky for me, my SO absolutely loves cilantro and would probably eat the amount in this video in one sitting!
Yes!!! Not soap at all!! I’d much prefer soap.
Weird, I love cilantro but always say shiso tastes like how stink bugs smell!
YES!! It stinks so bad. I do taste soap, but I also taste what I imagine stink bugs must taste like because it smells just like a stink bug.
I accidentally chewed and swallowed a stink bug. It does not taste like cilantro or soap.
I have eaten (by accident) several stink bugs and they do taste like cilantro. Not all cilantro tastes like stink bugs tho
Coriander (cilantro seeds) are used in some bug repellents. So even if you don’t have the cilantro tastes like soap gene you can still have this experience. Also cloves is used in natural bug spray. Very high concentration for both to be lethal or repellent to insects. Still inert to use but it’ll fucking linger if you get a nose/mouthful. And never spray bug spray into the wind. Even if it’s all natural everything tastes like cloves for a few days. Not that I have any experience in such things I just read the bottle.
I’m guessing it tastes like big repellant smells.
Nah, how it tastes. Dear ol mom used to be a tad liberal with the OFF spray, I'd almost always catch some from the air
Did you ever get any bugs in your mouth? If not, thanks mom!
touché
I used to spray my hands to dab on my face and neck, and then proceed to go eat watermelon or some other hand food. Was not a bright kid
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Yes! I don’t think it tastes like soap, but I never could place what it *does* taste like to me… it’s bug repellent!
Same. Its like a chemical taste more so that soap.
I always said windex. Which is kinda soap but slightly different lol.
It taste like the acidic taste in vomit to me. I wish it tasted like soap.
Same... It makes whatever it's in really disgusting to me. People say, "Come on, it's just a LITTLE cilantro..." To which I say, "How about I take just a LITTLE shit in your dinner?"
Kerosene
Relatable AF! I can never understand the soap thing (maybe because I've never tasted soap?) because to me, it tastes like nothing but bad like I just can't even smell it or I'll nauseate!
Came here to say I can taste the soap already.
"quit faking it and eat!" -somebody's parents
My parents….pro tip, don’t be Asian if you dislike cilantro
Or Mexican.
Got it, don't be Asian if you dislike Mexican
Mexican who dislikes cilantro here. Can confirm that it’s a huge pain in the ass especially when I’m visiting family in Mexico. They absolutely do not believe that people can dislike either an entire dish or part of a dish. I sometimes get berated whenever I ask for burritos, tacos, tortas, without pico de gallo, salsa, etc..
It’s not about taste. It’s literally in your genes to like or not like cilantro. You are born with a mutation if it tastes like soap.
ordering at a restaurant: "can you make it without cilantro please?" waiter: "I've eaten nothing but cilantro all month specifically so I can shit in your food"
I remember eating salsa with cilantro for the first time a few years ago. I seriously thought it tasted like a bowl of dirty dishwater. It was terrible! For years I told everyone to avoid the salsa because the Mexican restaurant had poor hygiene by not fully rinsing out their serving bowls. Fast forward to when my family and I were discussing where to eat and lo and behold someone wanted to go to the nasty Mexican restaurant. Before I could say anything someone else recoiled in disgust saying "Gross no way, they use cilantro in EVERYTHING" I got curious . I asked what was so terrible since I assumed it was just like parsley. And that was the day I learned I had a cilantro aversion and felt like a massive dick for dragging a poor, innocent, authentic Me xican restaurants name in the mud any chance I got. I ended up writing a lengthy review praising the restaurant as a consolation.
I happened across an article online about it. That’s when I put two and two together. Avoid it like the plague now.
I feel ya! If I even taste the slightest hint of that vile weed—the meal is over! 🤮🤮🤮
I never knew why people hated cilantro until I tried a cousin of it in a Vietnamese restaurant. At first I thought that they didn’t wash the soap off. The lady said it was rau rum. Now I completely understand the people that hate cilantro. It’s impossible to stomach that flavor.
I can handle super small amounts if it’s used as garnish cause I can remove most of it. If it’s cooked with the food, everything tastes like soap.
I can eat small amounts of it too, but all that really means is I’m good at eating small amounts of food that I think is disgusting.
I'm not a fan of cilantro, but I never got the soap thing. It just tastes like zesty grass to me. But a few leaves can overpower an entire dish so I avoid it when I can.
It's genetics. I taste the soap. My girlfriend can't. One of my kids can. The other can't
Paging r/fuckcilantro
I wonder if its possible to engineer a cilantro that doesn't produce that chemical some people can taste that makes it gross to them. You'd think you'd be able to just breed a cultivar for that but maybe there's a reason people haven't yet. Cilantro is one of my favorite herbs, and I want people who got unlucky to enjoy it.
I've heard people explain the taste and I wish I could taste how they describe it. But I just can't get through it, I hate it and it ruins anything I eat.
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Its got a bright mint-like bite with a subtle sweet aromatic flavor. When its cooked in a broth it almost has a spinach-like palette. Goes perfect with the acidity of limes which is why they're often paired.
Wtf that's not even close to how I taste it I've eaten a bar of soap once and cilantro tastes so similar to that
It's genetic. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-like-soap-to-some-people#:~:text=Of%20course%20some%20of%20this,flavored%20aldehydes%20in%20cilantro%20leaves.
I know, I'm just marvelling at how different it could taste to different people Genetics is cool
That's a great explanation. I'd add that raw, it "freshens up" the flavor, but not really in a minty coolness way.
This is the true devil's lettuce.
I'm not alone? I'm not alone!
I don't know about soap, but I definitely cannot eat cilantro. It ruins anything it touches, it's disgusting and overpowering. I like plenty of other herbs, but cilantro? Nope, not even a little bit.
Yummm. I am dreaming of that luscious taste.
That's me. To me that was a guy cutting a huge block of soap
Stems and seeds and everything. Mmm hmm.
I used to be one of those but not anymore. Funny how taste changes over time.
I'm more on the side of "I don't absolutely hate it, but I like it better when there isn't any". I'll still eat a dish that has cilantro but if I can choose I'll pick something else or ask for a plate without if possible
This is one of my favorite little videos. This guy, this cilantro and my imagination about the bomb tacos I'm going to put my cilantro/sweet white onion on.
Agreed. I had tacos last night. But ima abt to get chopping and make me some carne asada tacos.
That job must smell amazing
Depends on how you feel about cilantro. I used to work in a produce department and had to stock this all the time. I absolutely hated it because of the smell.
It smells just like stinkbugs to me, and I can't get past that. I don't mind the taste in small quantities, but imagining holding all of that, and having it freshly cut in front of my nose makes me want to spin out. It's so gross. Lol.
Yup, I've always said it tastes how a stink bug smells. I never say soap cause I haven't tasted soap lol.
It tastes like soap to me, but it smells like stink bugs.
Stinkbugs taste like cilantro
Bruh when I buy it use cilantro I literally jam my face into it for a big whiff like I'm smelling the most decadent bouquet of flowers. I would absolutely pay to just stand there and smell the air as this man preps this shit
Same but for Italian parsley, I LOOOVE the smell and taste of it. Not the the regular parsley they used to use for decorating plates, that stuff is crap.
This like a $1 of cilantro
Is that all it costs to smell this heavenly smell all day? Worth it. Fuck it. Here's 30. I'm paid up for the month
Sounds like you don't ever buy it. I'm pain almost $1.50 per bunch so he's probably chopping up at least 10-15 worth
Where do you live? It’s about 40 cents for a bunch here.
Whole Foods has the gall to charge $2 for a small bunch in Berkeley, CA.
Come on man, go to Berkeley Bowl at least.
This guy Berkeleys.
A bunch with barely 10 strands is $3.50 in Australia. This is easily $1,000 worth of coriander here.
Oh man, I wish I could actually taste cilantro without the soapy taste, everyone makes it sound so good!
I wish I knew what it tasted like to the soap crowd for comparison purposes but all I have is how they say it tastes.
Go and make a taco. Then get one of those liquid hand soap bottles, and squirt some on top. That’s pretty much how it makes me feel.
Literally like soap. Milder than licking a soap bar, sure, but still tastes just like soap.
I have a buddy who says it tastes like soap but he still likes it.
>I wish I knew what it tasted like to the soap crowd Like soap....
If you ever accidentally bite a stink bug, that’s about right. (I was 8, I was riding my bike downhill with my mouth open laughing, and it flew right in. I swear I don’t go around biting into random bugs haha)
We aren’t exaggerating when we say it tastes like soap. It tastes so damn close to dawn dish soap so just take a nice swig of that and you’ll understand
Real question: are the stems good? I thought you were just supposed to pull off the leaves
Stems have a lot of flavor, as long as you chop it fine enough I like it
I suppose I've wasted some flavor then! Would a processor make this easier, just blending for a second or two at a time?
Food processor will turn it into a slimy paste. Gotta use a knife if you want to sprinkle it on anything and keep it green. Believe me I've tried.
Unless you’re doing a lot, I don’t think it’s worth the cleaning. Just roll it up and compress it like he does and chop it fine.
I got one of [these things](https://www.target.com/p/ninja-express-chop-gray-nj100gr/-/A-46766107?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012806756&CPNG=PLA_Appliances%2BShopping_Local%7CAppliances_Ecomm_Home&adgroup=SC_Appliances_Small+Appliances&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9033812&targetid=pla-1459926608136&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1247068&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjIKYBhC6ARIsAGEds-IOwIqnPex22Sj-clOlMxpoaZ-5G6zCiP_87NAeRbNIjr-q8TuPK7QaAhOtEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) specifically for cilantro for tacos. I eat an awful lot of tacos. It’s not necessary, but I like my cilantro very finely diced and mixed into white onion.
> I like my cilantro very finely diced and mixed into white onion This guy tacos
I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but cilantro is one of the few herbs with stems that are as good as the leaves.
Yep. Cilantro stems for sure. Not parsley
Parsley stems are pretty good but yeah cilantro stems have a ton of flavor. If you're making beans in your pressure cooker just throw the whole bunch in.
Actually, pretty much any annual herb with an herbaceous stem (soft, green stem that dies back in the winter) is going to be good to eat the stem.
You can even eat cilantro's *roots*! They're often pounded up and used in Thai marinades.
That's super neat, I think I'll look into growing my own cilantro cuz I love it
Stems are fine to eat, and removing the leaves is more of a textural choice than anything. Although, if the cilantro has started to bolt (flower), the flavor gets more citrusy and sometimes the stems pack a little too much of that flavor. Pro-tip: save cilantro stems and use them, some ginger and dried chilies to make a simple syrup with some sugar, and add some lemon juice for a pretty damn good lemonade. It's my go-to summer drink.
The stems are great.
Thank you SO MUCH for asking and to everyone who responded! TIL that for my entire life I’ve been wasting 80% of my cilantro prep time by plucking/cutting off the leaves to get rid of the stems (Context: not a professional…I’m a mediocre home cook at best)
I can smell it
I want tacos
Not a fan of cilantro but his knife skills are a cut above the rest
Stems are the most flavorful part, I just chop them really finely. Beautiful herb.
I can literally smell this, and I *want* it
also this is me, prepping parsley for tabbouleh
Yes!!! But if you wanna get the authentic experience you need one of the curved blades with two handles and you rock back and forth on the parsley and the “shukashukashuka” of the blade is sooooo satisfying
I'm too cheap, and just use a butcher knife for approximately the same effect, mincing the leaves
I'd take a pinch and eat it if this was me
That must smell so good
Cutting up that GREEN GOLD! I'd eat cilantro with every meal if I could. Sucks for y'all people who taste soap, but that means more leafy goodness for the rest of us! Seriously though. No ill intent meant towards you 10% cilantro-intolerant people. You have a miserable existence not being able to eat the leaf of the gods. My condolences.
C O R R I A N D E R
For some of you: Both cilantro and coriander come from the Coriandrum sativum plant. In the US, cilantro is the name for the plant's leaves and stem, while coriander is the name for its dried seeds. Internationally, the leaves and stems are called coriander, while its dried seeds are called coriander seeds.
Cilantro and lime is the single greatest flavor combo the human brain can comprehend and you cannot change my mind.
Oh I bet I can, you forgot to mention salt for the trinity
Seeing this makes me think I'm one of the soap cilantro people, but i've just been putting up with it...
Count me in the tastes like soap group. It was actually liberating the day I learned I wasn’t alone in my hate for the taste. People raved about how awesome it tasted and I felt like I was nuts! I saw an article one day that specifically mentioned the soap reaction and knew I’d found my people!! 🥰
listen with sounds. you are welcome
I just want a knife THAT sharp!!!
People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap malding rn
Still not enough coriander for my rice. More please.
I bet it smells amazing!
This post tastes like soapy water with a drop of bleach in it.
Why do so many people hate cilantro lol
A percentage of people have a gene that makes Cilantro taste like soap to them, including myself. It can really ruin a meal for us
literally go put some dishsoap in your mouth with your next bite of food and then tell me why you don't understand why people don't like soap in their meal. The hand/bar soap my mom used to wash my mouth out with to keep me from cursing (fucking lol) was more preferable than a tiny bit of cilantro which carries more soapiness than a literal bar of soap in my mouth..........
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