sparkling husband primitive being good

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Husb2Sparkly  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-04-09 10:19 AM
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"good"

"Use a good dijon mustard"

"Find some good flour"

"Half a cup of a good olive oil"

"Whisk in some good heavy cream"

Does anyone use bad cream? Or bad mustard? Or bad olive oil?

Martha used to say this a lot. Now it seems every teevee cook does it.

Perhaps we need a good dialogue coach.

Or a good editor?

hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-04-09 10:42 AM
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1. Good observation.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-04-09 12:17 PM
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3. They need to drop the "good" and be specific

"good dijon mustard," not that mass produced stuff they hand each other between Rolls Royces.

"good flour," not that year old self rising crap on the supermarket shelf.

"good olive oil," make it green and not that yellow crap with no taste.

"good heavy cream," well it's all ultra pasteurized but try to find one with an expiration date a month later than the day you buy it.

Specificity is everything, especially in cooking.

Simply Fugue  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-04-09 12:39 PM
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4. Maybe they should just substitute the word(s) high quality or even just quality for good. Just my humble suggestion.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-04-09 03:13 PM
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6. Yeah, good is a very relative term. I like your ideas better.

Husb2Sparkly  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-04-09 03:48 PM
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7. See, I think that if .........

..... someone is actually making an actual teevee show about actual cooking that no one would assume to use low quality stuff. If you intend to bother, you'll use the best you can afford.

I know that when I share a recipe, I always assume that and only qualify the ingredient when, it seems to me, that some further definition is needed.

As but an example, there are some things that seem to really benefit from San Marzano tomatoes. If that's the case, i say so. If any canned tomato will do, I'll say "canned tomatoes".