• forkDestroyer@infosec.pub
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      14 days ago

      Cherry tomatoes are tomatoes.

      While your statement is objectively correct, surely you would have a preference when it comes to tomatoes on sandwiches, or when making a caprese/other recipes that use sliced tomatoes.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      14 days ago

      You sound like my dad in his insistence at all potatoes are baking potatoes. I’ll just go make my jacket new potato then, sure it’s only four centimetres across, nonetheless I’m sure it will make a lovely meal.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        14 days ago

        For most tomato uses an equivalent volume of cherry tomatoes works fine. In some cases they’re superior because they’re already divided into bite sized portions.

        Tiny potatoes bake up a treat (in groups of course ) if you oil and salt the outsides first and time them correctly.

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          14 days ago

          If a recipe calls for sun-dried tomatoes and you put in cherry tomatoes it will not work. You can’t just swap between two different types of product.

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            14 days ago

            You can “sun-dry” (in real sun or a dryer) cherry tomatoes (and oil them if that’s the kind of sundried ones you need)

            • FishFace@piefed.social
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              14 days ago

              Roasting implies cooking them in some kind of fat. Roast potatoes are doused in fat after having been parboiled and their outsides roughened specifically to cook better in that fat. A baked potato is just heated dry. (And if you just ate them like that they’d be shit, but you typically add some butter or cheese)

              • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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                14 days ago

                Try rubbing your big ol’ russet potato with a little oil and seasoned salt before baking it next time. Little potatoes like this treatment too, no parboiling needed. When finished, add your butter/sour cream/chives/cheese/bacon as you usually prefer. Because they’re still baked potatoes, just with crackly delicious skin and slightly less dry center.

              • Venator@lemmy.nz
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                14 days ago

                Roasting implies cooking them in some kind of fat. Roast potatoes are doused in fat

                Sounds like you’re describing a baked potato to me 😆

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      14 days ago

      Spoken like you consider diet cream a suitable replacement. Without talking to the cook first.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        14 days ago

        There’s an entire subreddit for people who complain about recipes because they decided not to follow the ingredients list.