Worth it?
>>22094834For $4? Fuck no
Yeah if you're considering it then please purchase it and subsidize whatever place is fleecing you.
it's probably because i'm in the tampa bay area, but crushed red pepper flakes have never had a flavor. maybe they made them all in the 80s and they're still selling them since they produced too many, the flavor is gone, it's just the texture of those seeds that stick to your pants when you walk in grass
>>22094834The ingredient list is right there. Why don't you make it yourself?
>>22094834Your death? Absolutely.
>>22094834that's as much as a slice of pizza here
>>22094849This. Toast mixed sesame seeds, press a clove of black garlic, grate a shallot. Take the oil you'll be adding it to and infuse it with the red peppers and another clove of garlic on low heat, let it cool, mix it all together. Its already better than the store.
>>22094834Call ice and deport the kitchen staff
>>22094834go buy a jar of lao gan ma instead
>>22094834So it's dehydrated onion, jarred garlic, red pepper flakes and (toasted )sesame seeds in olive oil?Sesame seeds seem out of place, but I'm willing to try it.
>>22094834yes
>>22094905Yes
>>22094846It has always been my experience that red pepper flakes are only useful for heat. It's not that weird, chile de arbol are basically only good for heat, as well.
>Italians are making Lao Gan Ma gutter oil now, and charging $4 for a teaspoon of it
>>22095402Lao Gan Ma is already like five euros for a small can though.
>>22095402There's no fucking "gutter oil". Even if they did make it in China, if it were imported to the states it would not be made with discarded oil.
>>22094834if I were drunk, and that were $2, I might spring for it. $4 is absurd
>>22095417Those videos of people scooping oil from under a manhole cover aren’t fake, but they are not from sewers like the gutter oil claims make. They’re grease traps that store used oil and the oil that gets flushed down there is collected and recycled.So they are not collecting “sewer oil” but I still have doubts in the general cleanliness and sanitary conditions of chinese oil recycling.
>>22095794What if someone just accidentally spilled arsenic and rinsed it down the drain? That would suck haha.
>>22095816They don’t just take the oil from the trap and reuse it, it gets processed somewhere else, which would hypothetically separate out any foreign contaminants. We do the exact same thing in western countries, but china just looks more 3rd world how they do it.I’m not some big china defender, they are a lot dirtier than us in many regards, but it seems like a lot of people are just ignorant of oil recycling as a concept
>>22094834Under what circumstances would this be worth it?
the tourist-y pizza place near pikes place in seattle (post alley pizza) sells a spread/dip called hoagie jazz with anchovies, hot honey, crushed olives and garlic. it is amazing (and only $1.75 extra)
>>22094834If it doesn't state what kind of oil, then no.
>>22095951We recycle oil for a lot of things, to be used again in food is not one of them.
>>22095794>>22095951The only reason we should ever be recycling oil to be used in food is if we're planning on selling it to the disgusting Indian Hindpoo rape rats, and they deserve all the poisons we can keep in it.
