• space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    The correct answer to “will adding cooked pineapple to this dish improve it?” is always “yes, that will always improve everything whether it’s a burger or curry or pizza or soup or rice.”

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    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Pineapple covers two (sweet and acid) of the four major flavor-carrying categories (sweet, acid, salt, and fat) and cooks up to have nearly as much of a sort of substantialness as cooked tofu or meat does. These characteristics make it mesh neatly into basically any dish and allow it to serve the same role as a wide range of other ingredients as long as one’s cognizant of what it’s adding and what the substituted ingredient would have added.