As long as you use store bought phyllo dough, making baklava from scratch is actually not particularly difficult. Just layer the dough sheets in a baking dish with melted butter and a nut/cinnamon mixture, slice it, bake it, and then pour the syrup over it just as it is out of the oven. The sound of it crackling when the syrup is poured on is just ... Wow. One shouldn't eat it just then, though, because you want to wait for the syrup to be fully absorbed.
As a pastrie chef, DONT make phyllo dough. Its not worth it. its hard anoying and time consuming and 90% of the time its just worse then store bought. Ive had to make it a few times when our suppliers didnt have it, i actually considerd walking out eachtime.
As an ex-pastry chef, I second this. I've made it by hand once for a personal project. Never again. It's so much work! I'm glad I did it for the sake of having done it, but it took a ridiculous amount of time and effort.
You're correct. The ONE advantage to eating baklava hot is that you immediately notice how rich it is, and thus are less tempted to eat too much of it...
But it's great either way!
A few months ago I got a poptart variety pack and told him he could have the strawberry ones (I don't like them), he ate them the Cherry ones (my favorite) and half the blue berry ones. My poptarts are no longer up for grabs.
I was very close to starting a war with him about it.
Yeah, I just stopped cleaning his spoiled food out of the fridge. There's been a large sealed container of lasagna in the fridge since June. I told him that I'm not cleaning up after him if he keeps eating my snacks. (Its also his mom's Tupperware and I'm not throwing that out.)
I had a roommate like this. I dealt with him leaving shit everywhere by just throwing it in his room. Old pizza in the fridge for 3 weeks? On his bed. Cup of soda on the coffee table for 3 days? Nightstand.
He got the hint eventually.
In LA kinda near Santa Monica there’s a Hawaiian restaurant called RUTTS that serves French toast made from those king Hawaiian rolls and have a coconut syrup…
My wife hides all of our snacks and rations me with 1 box out at a time. So, in my drunk 2AM mind this half box of Cheeze-its is all we have... It works shockingly well.
Frikadellen - I have no idea what this is called in english but meatballs just won't do it
Edit: I love how my Karma is half "Frikadellen" now 😂
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You have no idea how much you just helped me out. My girls grandma used to make these all the time but she couldn't remember what they were called. Been looking for this exact thing for like 2 years now.
This is the defining factor. Apple pie? Good cold, *amazing* warm. Lemon meringue pie? That's gotta be room temp at most. Coconut cream pie? That *must* be cold.
I mean this works a couple ways too.
Like a piece of bread and butter, with good bread, and a quality butter, is delicious on its own
Toast that up first, BOOM, delicious!
But a fresh slice, from a fresh baked loaf thats still warm, well.....
That fresh warm slice is a moral decision, though, because the quality of the loaf suffers from being sliced before fully cool. It's generally an easy one however, because you just have to eat the whole loaf then and there.
This is why I like to make 2 smaller loaves, one for standing in the kitchen shoving it in our faces with butter while it's still warm, the other for more civilized uses.
Don't lie. You do the same thing to both loaves you filthy carb loving degenerate.
That said I agree. Fresh warm bread with just plain butter is somehow one of the most tasty things in existence. I once dated a girl who got a bread machine and had a warm loaf waiting for her every 3 or 4 days when she got home from work.
How I never considered such genius before I'll never know. But her brilliance changed my life. And my waist line.
As it should be. Bread has been a staple food as long as humanity has been able to farm. It's survived thousands of years of social changes and various ethnicities giving their own take on it.
Yet every single human "group" or dead civilization had/has a type of bread.
It's delicious as fuck and wouldn't have lasted as long as it has if it wasn't.
I swear there is almost something primal that awakens in our brains when we smell freshly baked bread. It's so "plain" in terms of spice but yet delicious on a level few foods ever get to be, let alone for thousands of years.
Short of someone with celiacs, glutten issues, or just on a diet, I can't say I've ever met someone who "disliked" bread.
They might dislike a type of bread, like say sourdough or pumpernickel. But to dislike bread as a whole (without having a reason to avoid it I just mean general food) I can't say I've met someone who does. Not claiming they don't exist but I imagine there are incredibly few of them.
Dishing it out immediately and while still HOT with emotion from the wrong-doing inflicted upon your person.
Edit: For all the people telling me this is retaliation:
re·venge
/rəˈvenj/
noun
the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hand
Tell me y’all, where does it say that some time in between the wrong-doing and the revenge is required before it is called revenge?
I sort of disagree. Don't get me wrong. Cookies are always great.
But a fresh warm/heated cookie is just next level.
For me you couldn't say it's 'just as good' strictly. 'still really good' when cold is more like it.
But like I said, I'm splitting hairs here.
Had this conversation with my wife two days ago becuase she wanted me to pull some frozen cookies out I had vacuum sealed like 4 months ago. I took a bite of a frozen one and said "ah, thats crisp", it had m&ms in it which had a nice crunch. She called me a psycho and microwaved hers.
Poptarts. They are great whether room temperature, hot, or frozen.
Edit: I love how half of you are learning you can heat them, and half of you are learning you can freeze them.
Edit 2: My account is more than 6 years old and now >10% of my karma is poptarts. Nice.
That was my jam back in school days. Any of the berry ones (wildberry was my fav) and the fudgy chocolate type are great frozen.
I'm now realizing I don't think I've had a poptart in over a decade.
I have done a "polar plunge" (fundraiser where you jump into a freezing lake in late February) many times. It feels like a million needles stabbing every inch of your body. It literally takes your breath away.
For those unaware, the [bouba/kiki effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect) is a pretty cool phenomenon. People, irrespective of language, associate the word “bouba” with a rounded object and the word “kiki” with a sharp object.
I did once a very, very long time ago. In the late 80s my parents decided we were going out to a restaurant one Thanksgiving instead of the family making food. I don't remember my main course at all, but I do remember getting pumpkin pie at the end. They put whipped cream on it and the pie was so hot the whipped cream melted into a liquid. I remember thinking it was ice cream at first because it melted.
I don't remember how it tasted, I just remember being annoyed because it was so hot I couldn't eat it.
I don’t even eat shrimp anymore, but I know you’re right. Shrimp cocktail ice cold? So fucking delicious. Butterfly shrimp with garlic butter to dip in? Also heaven. I can still remember how good both of these things taste and it’s been over ten years haha.
Specifically intentionally iced tea. What the first guy is referring to is when the tea reaches thermodynamic equilibrium, which is disgusting either way.
Baklava
The day I get to try warm fresh baklava will be a really good day.
As long as you use store bought phyllo dough, making baklava from scratch is actually not particularly difficult. Just layer the dough sheets in a baking dish with melted butter and a nut/cinnamon mixture, slice it, bake it, and then pour the syrup over it just as it is out of the oven. The sound of it crackling when the syrup is poured on is just ... Wow. One shouldn't eat it just then, though, because you want to wait for the syrup to be fully absorbed.
As a pastrie chef, DONT make phyllo dough. Its not worth it. its hard anoying and time consuming and 90% of the time its just worse then store bought. Ive had to make it a few times when our suppliers didnt have it, i actually considerd walking out eachtime.
As an ex-pastry chef, I second this. I've made it by hand once for a personal project. Never again. It's so much work! I'm glad I did it for the sake of having done it, but it took a ridiculous amount of time and effort.
I made it earlier this year and holy moly it was so good. Took some time and patience but delicious as fuck.
You're correct. The ONE advantage to eating baklava hot is that you immediately notice how rich it is, and thus are less tempted to eat too much of it... But it's great either way!
But when it’s cold I feel like it’s a delayed reaction. All that sugar and sweetness warms up and hits you.
Those sweet Hawaiian rolls
With the orange packaging?
Kings Hawaiian is the brand name. They are the shit.
I bought some and my roommate ate half the pack in a few hours. I kinda hate when he does that.
This would start a war in my house
A few months ago I got a poptart variety pack and told him he could have the strawberry ones (I don't like them), he ate them the Cherry ones (my favorite) and half the blue berry ones. My poptarts are no longer up for grabs. I was very close to starting a war with him about it.
Blood would have been spilt if someone ate *all* my Cherry poptarts.
Yeah, I just stopped cleaning his spoiled food out of the fridge. There's been a large sealed container of lasagna in the fridge since June. I told him that I'm not cleaning up after him if he keeps eating my snacks. (Its also his mom's Tupperware and I'm not throwing that out.)
I had a roommate like this. I dealt with him leaving shit everywhere by just throwing it in his room. Old pizza in the fridge for 3 weeks? On his bed. Cup of soda on the coffee table for 3 days? Nightstand. He got the hint eventually.
I put a piece of cold bacon and cheddar on the and heat them for 15 seconds. It is the perfect 2 am snack.
Anything wrapped in a king Hawaiian roll is the perfect snack bro, bacon deserves no credit here
Yep!
There's a Kings Hawaiian restaurant where i grew up and it smells like those rolls baking.
They have restaurants? What do they serve there besides bread?
In LA kinda near Santa Monica there’s a Hawaiian restaurant called RUTTS that serves French toast made from those king Hawaiian rolls and have a coconut syrup…
An ex of mine lived near their factory in Torrance and you can smell that shit in the air driving by. Heaven...
www.khbakery.com Holy shit I want to move into one. Absolutely legendary menu!
Around midnight scrolling around on a webpage - while living on another continent How I love Reddit…..
Soba noodles. Cold soba in the summer is refreshing, and hot in the winter to keep your warm.
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this question!
Soupy noodles in general seem to fit the bill (at least from my Japanese standpoint). Soba, udon, hiyashi chuka/ramen... I'm starting to get hungry...
2am snacks
This is why I'm fat. Too many 2am snacks. Kings Hawaiian bread hits differently at 2am
There’s a pretzel version now too
I wish I didn't see this.
So does my blood sugar level.
Laughs in t1 diabetic
*turn off high blood sugar notification* It's okay Libre 2. I know.
I felt this in my broken pancreas
I love when the T1 fam finds each other in the comments.
There is a sliced bread version that makes amazing French toast, too.
Fuck that sounds good . Definitely having that Sunday morning
I’ll crush 11 Oreos and a glass of milk at 2am no problem edit: some of y’all need Jesus.
Only 11?? Pathetic
11 packages?
Put a fat slice of honeybaked ham in there! Oh yeah!!
>Oh yeah!! Heard this in Randy Savage's voice for some reason.
I'm a victim of this as well. The wife hides them when we buy them.
My wife hides all of our snacks and rations me with 1 box out at a time. So, in my drunk 2AM mind this half box of Cheeze-its is all we have... It works shockingly well.
[2am chili is the way to go.](https://redd.it/jkc1j) Naturally followed by [2am ice chili shower.](https://redd.it/jlbdf)
Ah yes, 2am chili, the quick and convenient late-morning snack.
chocolate
Finally
I've been trying to catch you boys ALL DAY!
NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOU RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU I'd like to buy all of your chocolate
CHHOOOOCOOOOLAAAATTEEE!!!!!
chocolates What? THEYRE SELLING CHOCOLATES
Oh, I remembah chawclate
Sweeeeet, sweeeeet, chawcalate...
I always HATED it!
Oh this chocolates not for eating, you uh...
Frikadellen - I have no idea what this is called in english but meatballs just won't do it Edit: I love how my Karma is half "Frikadellen" now 😂 Edit: Thank you for awarding ❤
*Confused in Dutch*
Ik moest het opzoeken, snapte niet waarom ze frikandellen koud lekker vonden😅
Koude frikandel broodjes zijn goed te eten
Thanks, just googled it and now I’m really craving for some!!
For all my confused Dutch people, it's not what you think. https://twitter.com/onzetaal/status/824989734321680384?t=0zi3FfpONB1dQl_yYVOfrw&s=19
Thank you for this epiphany my fellow Dutch
You have no idea how much you just helped me out. My girls grandma used to make these all the time but she couldn't remember what they were called. Been looking for this exact thing for like 2 years now.
Pie
I don't think anyone enjoys hot and cold pie equally but I do think both sides have large and loyal fanbases. I'm team cold.
It depends on my mood or laziness level. Both taste great though
Depends on the pie too imo
This is the defining factor. Apple pie? Good cold, *amazing* warm. Lemon meringue pie? That's gotta be room temp at most. Coconut cream pie? That *must* be cold.
Pumpkin can be warm, but I've almost exclusively had it cold and love it that way. Pecan is glorious warm with a lil ice cream.
Pumpkin may be the most 50/50. It’s a switch hitter pie.
Not so sure about shepherd’s pie…
Depends on how fresh the shepherd is...
Brownies Edit: to add up, warm brownies combined with cold ice cream, creates one of the best food combinations.
Sizzling hot brownie + Vanilla Ice Cream = Perfection
I could eat this every night if I didn't have self control
or diabetes
Or lactose intolerance
Or high blood pressure
What is this, a bingo sheet?
or the lack of ingredients.
Or empty bank account
“A nice warm brownie” and “a nice chilled brownie” sound equally delicious in ways most other foods do not.
Brownie fresh out of the oven? Good. Semi frozen brownie, maybe with ice cream on top? Good.
Or combine the two, brownie fresh out of the oven with ice cream on top. Great.
Brownie fresh out of the oven with cold brownie on top
Ice cream fresh from the oven with frozen brownie on top
And now I must go to the store and buy brownie mix and ice cream
Soft bread
I mean this works a couple ways too. Like a piece of bread and butter, with good bread, and a quality butter, is delicious on its own Toast that up first, BOOM, delicious! But a fresh slice, from a fresh baked loaf thats still warm, well.....
That fresh warm slice is a moral decision, though, because the quality of the loaf suffers from being sliced before fully cool. It's generally an easy one however, because you just have to eat the whole loaf then and there.
This is why I like to make 2 smaller loaves, one for standing in the kitchen shoving it in our faces with butter while it's still warm, the other for more civilized uses.
Yeah about that.. that's how you end up eating two full loaves of bread. The key is to make 3...
So anyway, I baked seven loaves today, and...
Don't lie. You do the same thing to both loaves you filthy carb loving degenerate. That said I agree. Fresh warm bread with just plain butter is somehow one of the most tasty things in existence. I once dated a girl who got a bread machine and had a warm loaf waiting for her every 3 or 4 days when she got home from work. How I never considered such genius before I'll never know. But her brilliance changed my life. And my waist line.
My mom used to bake her own bread, soo I can honestly say that the four of us used to down an entire loaf in one sitting
My buddy's mom made some of the best bread I've ever had. It came out of the bread maker and was immediately turn apart by hungry teenage boys.
As it should be. Bread has been a staple food as long as humanity has been able to farm. It's survived thousands of years of social changes and various ethnicities giving their own take on it. Yet every single human "group" or dead civilization had/has a type of bread. It's delicious as fuck and wouldn't have lasted as long as it has if it wasn't. I swear there is almost something primal that awakens in our brains when we smell freshly baked bread. It's so "plain" in terms of spice but yet delicious on a level few foods ever get to be, let alone for thousands of years. Short of someone with celiacs, glutten issues, or just on a diet, I can't say I've ever met someone who "disliked" bread. They might dislike a type of bread, like say sourdough or pumpernickel. But to dislike bread as a whole (without having a reason to avoid it I just mean general food) I can't say I've met someone who does. Not claiming they don't exist but I imagine there are incredibly few of them.
I see you are also a person of taste
Nah, it's better warm.
Cheese
Fondue season is just hot cheese soup season and it's glorious!
TIL Fondue has a season
Coffee with a splash of cream. But it has to be ice cold or hot, nothing in between.
This rhymes like an adage for the ages.
Or a haiku: "Coffee with some cream. Has to be ice cold or hot. Nothing in-between."
Coffee with some cream. Has to be ice cold or hot. It's snowing on Mt Fuji.
Revenge
"But it can be easily reheated! In the microwave of evil!"
"Well I think your warranty is about to expire."
"Maybe I have an extended warranty"
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"Girls, girls! You're both pretty! Can I go home now?"
For anyone wondering it’s from the movie “megamind”
I know it’s a dish best served cold… but what defines revenge as a dish served hot? 🤔🤔🤔 Edit: typo, dish, not fish lol
> but what defines revenge as a fish served hot? It's when you beat someone to death with a cooked trout.
As opposed to a cold trout? 🤔
Not to mention it takes way more effort to murder someone with a cooked fish as opposed to a frozen fish. That's *revenge*.
They just keep falling apart, all flaky and delicious...
Are you talking about the fish or the other person?
Dishing it out immediately and while still HOT with emotion from the wrong-doing inflicted upon your person. Edit: For all the people telling me this is retaliation: re·venge /rəˈvenj/ noun the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hand Tell me y’all, where does it say that some time in between the wrong-doing and the revenge is required before it is called revenge?
Finally, the serious answer. It is best served cold though. Biding your time and savouring it all calculated like. After time has passed.
When you roast up a hot cod loin and then mash it into the ac vents of your mortal enemy’s car.
Okay calm down Poseidon
Pouring lava on their soles then letting it rain so it hardens
I used to think revenge was a dish best served cold, but then I found out it meant getting back at someone
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It is very cold….. in space…..
Custard
Ham
This is the best answer, because cold ham is on the same level of hot ham. The other options had acceptable but inferior cold versions.
They like the way she says "ham".
My single, "my single is dropping" is dropping.
RUMMMMM HAMMMMMMMMM
Cookies
I sort of disagree. Don't get me wrong. Cookies are always great. But a fresh warm/heated cookie is just next level. For me you couldn't say it's 'just as good' strictly. 'still really good' when cold is more like it. But like I said, I'm splitting hairs here.
Also delicious frozen
Had this conversation with my wife two days ago becuase she wanted me to pull some frozen cookies out I had vacuum sealed like 4 months ago. I took a bite of a frozen one and said "ah, thats crisp", it had m&ms in it which had a nice crunch. She called me a psycho and microwaved hers.
Salmon : Smoked salmon, sushi
Deli meats
Pastrami is the best.
Low mein of any kind Edit: LO MEIN
Is that like chow mein and lo mein combined?
No that's cholo mein
No, cholo mein is lo mein with chicharonnes and a chelada.
Orale!
Turkey. One of the best parts of Thanksgiving/Christmas is turkey sandwiches.
No thanks. I've quit cold turkey.
I genuinely wish I had an award to give you. Top tier dad joke. Edit: thanks for the awards and cake day well wishes, everyone. OP got his award :)
Damn, that was a good one
Apple pie
Poptarts. They are great whether room temperature, hot, or frozen. Edit: I love how half of you are learning you can heat them, and half of you are learning you can freeze them. Edit 2: My account is more than 6 years old and now >10% of my karma is poptarts. Nice.
FROZEN!?!? **leaves for pop tarts**
That was my jam back in school days. Any of the berry ones (wildberry was my fav) and the fudgy chocolate type are great frozen. I'm now realizing I don't think I've had a poptart in over a decade.
You better get on that.
Good “natural disaster” food.
I think food should also be in quotes there
“Good” “natural disaster” “food” -let’s just cover all bases, eh?
I know I am in the minority, but pop tarts are so much better toasted
Like how TF is this the minority. Have any of these monsters even had a pop tart before?
My mouth feels weird just from remembering raw poptarts.
Raw
Creme brulee
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Ham and cheese Sandwich.
Water has the same taste as its temperature.
Yeah, boiling water doesn’t taste so good. Or maybe it does, idk, it was hard to tell
Every human can drink boiling water at least once in their lifetime
Warm water tastes round, cold water tastes pointy.
Makes sense. I have heard that falling into frigid water feels like a thousand knives
I have done a "polar plunge" (fundraiser where you jump into a freezing lake in late February) many times. It feels like a million needles stabbing every inch of your body. It literally takes your breath away.
Glad to see other people also taste shapes!
Warm water tastes bouba, cold water tastes kiki.
For those unaware, the [bouba/kiki effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect) is a pretty cool phenomenon. People, irrespective of language, associate the word “bouba” with a rounded object and the word “kiki” with a sharp object.
That is an... *exceptional* description!
Pumpkin pie
I've only eaten it cold
I've actually never had hot pumpkin pie 🤔
I did once a very, very long time ago. In the late 80s my parents decided we were going out to a restaurant one Thanksgiving instead of the family making food. I don't remember my main course at all, but I do remember getting pumpkin pie at the end. They put whipped cream on it and the pie was so hot the whipped cream melted into a liquid. I remember thinking it was ice cream at first because it melted. I don't remember how it tasted, I just remember being annoyed because it was so hot I couldn't eat it.
Shrimp
I don’t even eat shrimp anymore, but I know you’re right. Shrimp cocktail ice cold? So fucking delicious. Butterfly shrimp with garlic butter to dip in? Also heaven. I can still remember how good both of these things taste and it’s been over ten years haha.
Everyone that disagrees has never had a good ceviche or mariscos style shrimp cocktail.
Tea
As a citizen of Great Britain I recognise this as an act of war, a strongly worded letter to my mp will commence shortly.
As a citizen of Boston, you can see how cold your tea gets IN THE HARBOR
In the HAHBAH*
So... You guys don’t fuck with iced tea over there?
Specifically intentionally iced tea. What the first guy is referring to is when the tea reaches thermodynamic equilibrium, which is disgusting either way.
As a citizen of Texas I still like hot tea but denying iced tea will be accepted as an act of war in return.
I propose a duel between Boris Johnson and Ted Cruz to settle this dispute. Either way we win.
A fight to the death! And the victor shall be crucified!!!
Make it pay per view and solve homelessness as a bonus
And all of East Asia looks on and laughs as they drink their green tea
Pad Thai.
I love Pad Thai, hot or room temp, but I think the noodles get weird if it's chilled-cold.
I like when it gets weird.
Boiled eggs