The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds could trap microplastics better than a commonly used synthetic polymer. Previously, researchers proposed using these sticky natural polymers to clean up water. Now, they report in ACS Omega that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics in ocean water, freshwater and groundwater.
Okra is the most unpleasant vegetable I ever did eat
But if it helps save the world, it’ll have my eternal respect.
You just didnt have good okra then! Good chef can easily control the goeiness and other attributes.
My favorite take is simply young quality fruits on a skewer grilled on low heat with butter, salt and chilly and its absolutely delicious. It’s very big in China especially with sichuan chily flakes.
Man when you’re talking about the “goeiness” of a vegetable, I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it.
They’re pretty good batter fried. Good for stew too if used appropriately, too much okra can make the stew boogery in texture
Fried okra is too damn good. The best tasting way to eat it.
Even in Creole dishes? Or Southern fried?
I wouldn’t know. The only Okra I ever ate was the one my mother made when I was a teen. And it was slimy and gooey and got my autism going crazy.
Nowadays I don’t eat dishes that have it, or do but push it aside.
Shouldn’t be slimy and gooey when prepared well. Sounds like a cooking fail.
In my culture, properly cooking okra is a rite of passage/test of a good homemaker (I hate that word). Kind of as a difficult task to separate the men from the boys. (Well not specifically men and boys. You know what I mean.) It reflects on how you were taught to cook and manage a household as well, so it’s a test of the household you came from, in a way.
Simultaneously, okra occupies the same cultural context that my child self saw for broccoli in western cartoons. The unpleasant vegetable your mom makes you eat. Only I never found broccoli to be foul at all, and my parents don’t like okra so I never had to eat it lol
How about a good enough cook? Because knowing how to cook without trashing the kitchen in process is a feat worthy of respect. Took me a few years to achieve.
I think I was being obvious about holding my nose and using outdated words to imply my own distaste for how it’s still thought of around me.
I just suggested a more neutral expression, for future use. That expression doesn’t have an equivalent in my language but I understood your words. Carrying around bagage of that sort just weighs us down; I went through a similar situation in my life and it was not pleasant.