So when you make alfredo you take heavy cream, which is usually already 30-40% fat, and you add even MORE fat in the form of butter.Why? It seems redundant and retarded. Even like 10-15% cream when reduced and mixed with parmesan is great. Why do you need so much fucking fat?
Fat is flavor
>>21976701Diminishing returns.
You don't put cream in Alfredo sauce unless you can't cook and are using it as a crutch. Butter and cheese only, then use the pasta cooking water to get the viscosity right.
>>21976702Need more fat for my gullet
>>21976711Ok but if we move back into reality, cream is a part of the sauce in the vast majority of recipes and restaurants.
In Italy we just eat pasta with butter and parmesan. Alfredo is for american piggies.
Why not just use a fattier cheese?I like greddeost for Alfredo, and I am pretty sure the Italians also have preferences for a fattier cheese, or just use more dehydrated hard cheese to get more fat %
>>21976699You forgot the additional fat (cheese).
>>21976699you are a stupid moron, and your question is stupid. go be stupid somewhere else.troll.
>>21976799Someones a lil upset. Are you ok lil guy? Want some candy?
>>21976720Restaurants cut corners all the time because they're worried about profits. If you're cooking for yourself or your loved ones then there's no reason to cut corners unless you're a cooklet.
>>21976720Fuck off faggot REAL Italian pasta dishes uses no cream and they laugh at you when you do. Stop looking at American recipes
>>21976942Alfredo, like all globally popular """Italian""" recipes, is an American invention.
>>21976942alfredo is an american recipe. you might as well be saying that detroit style pizza can't have pepperoni because they don't have pepperoni in italy.
>>21976945Except it was literally created by a dude named Alfredo that had a restaurant in Rome. He took a simple Italian comfort food of buttered pasta, added some extra cheese, and sold it to Hollywood stars visiting Rome. Those stars then got American cooks to make the stuff when they went back stateside. Some lazy asshole along the way used cream instead of making it correctly and that led to where we are now.
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>>21976956Dumbass, ALL recipes change over time. There is no "correct" method or list of ingredients. Only cooklets think like this. Ingredients and methods change over time, tastes change from era to era and location to location. Go compare your grandmother's cookbooks to your mother's, then look up those recipes on the internet today: you'll find 3 different recipes for the same dish, and guess what? They're all "correct."
>>21977000Basically cream was added so it can sit under lamps in a buffet for hours
>>21977006>gpt lobotomite using a machine to think for you is a sin, anon
>>21976727They're both amazing but you're actually missing out on alfredo if you think it's only "America bad" slop.
>>21977006How is it thinking for me? Its literally just an advanced encyclopedia
>>21977071case in point...
>>21977078Maybe u should ask chatgpt what to write next
>>21976942No one cares what Italians think. Silence guido wop, i cream the fredo, i break the sketi, and by momma mias good graces i will not eat the maggot cheese
ultimate girl dinner pure fat and carb explosion. disgusting
juusst dont put butter then
>>21976942>MUH REAL BLAND ITALIAN DISHES
>>21977454Do you have to sound so gay about it? It's like you've just been on the end of a blowbang >>21977078
>>21976699Alfredo isnt supposed to have cream just butter parmesian and pepper. Fatties.
Why are Italians so autistic about food? No other culture is like this when people alter their food unless they alter it badly. 90% of their dishes that they're so proud of are American anyways and were made in 1940s Chicago.
>>21977598IDK but it's pretty funny desu
>>21977598>has prideOH WTF WHATIS THIS THING YOU ARE DOIGN AND FEELING NOOOOOOO
>>21976699Adding heavy cream is easier than emulsifying butter and pasta water. Heavy cream also adds a little sweetness.I do find it a little too rich though unless you use just the bare minimum of cream and butter to coat the pasta. If I want something saucier like that then I'll just make a regular bechamel with milk which I think has more flavor than cream anyway.
>>21976942>MAMA MIA YOU NO PUTTA DE OREGANO IN DA PIZZA SAUCE OR NONNA GONNA HIT YOU WITH A SHOEshut up
>>21978033>proud of dishes that aren't even 100 years oldThere's so many great things about Italian culture. The art, the cities, the history...There is no need to act needlessly autistic about dishes that are younger than the mars bar. This just projects absolute insecurity about their own culture.
>>21976699Alfredo is made with parmesan and butter though. Cream is not involved at any point.
>>21978095Spoken like a troglodyte with shit food.
>>21978033NOOOOOO DONT ALTER OUR BLAND POVERTY DISHES IN ANY WAY AND MAKE THEM BETTER
>>21978108At least my food isn't so shit I had to steal it from America because all my country had was povvo food. Then pretend its "heritage" food that you must not alter in any way.
>hurr durr only butter and cheese allowed! muh shitalian tradition!don't care. the addition of cream makes it taste better. Also garlic and parsley are a must.
