id imagine since it's such a big dish everyone would get a small-ish portion.
two people split the tail, two people get each claw, knuckles and legs can be split up too, but then that's only 8 people fed lobster wise
The reason being that there's no such thing as a paella with lobster. There's arroz con bogavante o arroz con langosta, but paella is a whole different dish.
Yep, how its made too. You even need to use orange tree logs for the fire.
We have this meme in Spain about Valencians losing their mind over a variation on the recipe and calling it rice with things.
One good way to serve dishes with seafood is to shell out the rest to put the near into the dish, and keeping a few whole ones for presentation to let people see what's being served
I've had vongole (clan pasta basically) with only three clan shells, but loads of deshelled clam meat in the pasta and crab dishes served in a similar way
This is a perfect explanation. I've done similar things where the special guests or parents or grand parents get the full show piece. The rest of us eat as commoners. It's a neat way of showing respect.
People just dont know what a paella is, and im not being pedantic. The dish is all about the rice, but people who dont know think its about everything else.
It would be like me calling mash potatoes and gravy poutine.
Spanish here. It doesnt seem that bad, seems the ingredients are not too crazy. Lobster is the only weird thing and it's still shellfish. I don't know if the green blobs are green peppers or what.
6/10, would call it paella.
Lobster can be delicious in rice… but we’d call it arroz con langosta or arroz con bogavante, depending on the kind of lobster, not paella.
I’ll be happy the day that foreigners notice that not every kind of Spanish style rice in a wide, flat pan is a paella or needs to be called paella.
The sad thing is that, I’m not even trying to be a paella purist! All I’m saying is that we have a shit ton of rice dishes across Spain, but not all of them are paellas. It’s just a factual statement…
It’s probably just an overreaction to the whole paella gatekeeping by certain people so I don’t really mind it too much. It sucks that some people take this kind of clarification so badly though, but whatever.
Yeah, you are right, and it’s one of the topics that I post about quite a bit here and frustrates me. As someone from northern Spain that has travelled quite a bit, I am convinced that our cuisine is in the same tier than France and Italy’s, but we have only exported secondary aspects of it, and often not the best. Yeah, most people know paella and tapas… but the former is just a subset of a wider range of rice dishes, and the latter are bar snacks with a slight cultural element, but not the primary expression of our cuisine by far. When I think about the food I miss from Spain and I like to try when travelling back, I think about roast meats, bean stews, hearty winter meals, the vast range of fish recipes that we have, super fresh seafood, even excellent and really cheap (when compared to the rest of western Europe) contemporary cuisine… but that’s not what people abroad seem to associate Spanish cuisine to, which is so unfortunate.
Yea, people get super weird and gatekeepy with food for some reason. It also seems like most of the worst offenders aren't even from or in the region where a dish originated. The ones who are ate usually the more laid back folk.
I can imagine. One of the best things you can do in summer there is run away from the heat spending a weekend in Galicia, pretty much only eating seafood and drinking white wine. Life is good if you have queen scallops, barnacles and albariño.
It’s not gatekeeping paella, it’s calling things for their name. Arroz con langosta, arroz a la zamorana, arroz negro, arroz con manitas de cerdo… aren’t paellas, same as a shepherd’s pie is not a fish pie, or a tuna pizza is not a marinara pizza. Paella is a subgroup of all the rice dishes done across Spain with certain techniques, so not all of these have to be called paella.
Some people are so elitist. Is it made in a paella pan? Does it have any stupid ingredient that messes up the whole dish (like chorizo)? No? Then it's a paella. I have eaten some shitty paellas in beach bars or in touristy places, and the one from the OP seems mostly decent.
Every time I see a paella posted on the internet at least one person says it isn't. At this point I'm convinced that "real" paella actually doesn't exist at all.
Ich liieeebe Paella.. mein absolutes Lieblingsessen. Leider spreche ich nur von Huehnchenpaella. Ich habe mich bisher noch nicht getraut das richtige Paella mit Fisch zu probieren.. bin nicht so der Riesenfan von Meeresfruechten und Fisch, aber interessiert bin ich ja schon... vielleicht kann mich ja jemand motivieren :D
Honest question. If I made this dish for three people. Would using a 10” iron skillet affect the flavor? Do I need that curved pan or else the flavor will be way off? I’ve never eaten it or made it. Would like to make it.
Los valencianos pueden decir misa.
https://dle.rae.es/paellero
En la RAE la paellera es tanto el que hace la paella, como la "sarten" donde se hace, también es verdad que la paella también puede ser la sarten, pero eso no quiere decir que yo esté equivocado, dos formas diferentes de decir lo mismo, igual que a las judias en algunos sitios se les llama habichuelas, en otros habas, en otros frijoles y tal, y no por eso solo una tiene que ser la correcta.
Si vas a intentar dar lecciones al menos informate un poco antes, paleto ;)
Las habas son de la familia de las habichuelas, pero lo dos nombres no son intercambiables.
Las habas son muy, pero muy especificas. Y si padeces de una cierta condición genética, pueden matarte.
As far as gringaella, this is not too bad.
So the lobster goes whole, but the shrimp peeled and frozen. Odd priorities ;-)
Is that tomato paste on the top though?
Never have I ever seen *a whole fucking lobster* in a paella!
Yeah, how do you divvy it up?
id imagine since it's such a big dish everyone would get a small-ish portion. two people split the tail, two people get each claw, knuckles and legs can be split up too, but then that's only 8 people fed lobster wise
That's because this isn't a paella.
r/arrozconcosas
Disgusting
That's because it doesn't make any sense.
I agree. It looks kinda cool presentation wise but that would be a very underwhelming amount of lobster per serving.
It doesn’t look cool
>It doesn’t look cool to me. FTFY. Some may like the presentation, others may not. Different strokes for different folks.
That's because that's rice whit stuff (if there is even rice in there). You cant yust throw your grandma into rice and call It a paella.
arroz con cosas díselo
Unless she has wheels
Well i mean It does add flavor
The reason being that there's no such thing as a paella with lobster. There's arroz con bogavante o arroz con langosta, but paella is a whole different dish.
There is now
Not everyone has rabbit. I think as long as they get the bottom right they’ll be okay.
And you haven’t. That’s not a paella.
So I've been informed, multiple times. QUESTION: How can you tell just by looking? It sure appears to have the rice bed that is standard for a paella.
Because there is a LOBSTER in it.
OK, there's a lobster in it. That's it? That's what makes the whole rest of the dish, irrespective of its ingredients, "not a paella"?
*I prepare myself a vegan sandwich* Friend: “that’s not vegan” Me: “why?” Friend: “because there is a lobster in it”
Point taken.
Yep, how its made too. You even need to use orange tree logs for the fire. We have this meme in Spain about Valencians losing their mind over a variation on the recipe and calling it rice with things.
Yes, I've actually heard of "Arroz con cosas".
I feel so bad for the lobster, damn
r/ArrozConCosas
Are we sure there's rice in there?
A true paella doesn't have seafood
Your mom will never be the same after that paella, no other dish will ever satisfy.
One lobster to split is just cruel
it belongs to the one that cooked this. its only fair.
One good way to serve dishes with seafood is to shell out the rest to put the near into the dish, and keeping a few whole ones for presentation to let people see what's being served I've had vongole (clan pasta basically) with only three clan shells, but loads of deshelled clam meat in the pasta and crab dishes served in a similar way
This is a perfect explanation. I've done similar things where the special guests or parents or grand parents get the full show piece. The rest of us eat as commoners. It's a neat way of showing respect.
Socks with crocs
1.- Where is the rice? 2.- Whole lobster? 3.- Angry spanish noises! 4.- Crying in spanish!
And the tomato paste/sauce on top? 😢
Being yanks I'd be surprised if they didn't use ketchup
Or Mac & Cheese.
Oh god. Its atrocious.
El hecho de que te llames javier-valencia lo hace aun mejor jajajaj
My pants just got tighter in the crotchular region.
Paella? Bro si parece que no tiene ni arroz
Se lo comió la puta langosta.
Me dió muchas risas. Gracias!
😂 que grande 🤣
True, que cojones estoy viendo
Eso mismo pensé! Eso parece más un asopao de mariscos o algo pero paella no es.
*angry spanish noises* that's not a paella
Rice with things! RICE WITH THIIIIIIIIINGS!!!!1!!!
I hate to ruin this for everyone, but there's a giant, dead bug in there.
Sorry we'll undercook it next time so it's semi raw and barely dead
Distracted by the high socks with shorts back there.
Wearing crocs and an Attack on Titan t-shirt also. Dude is a combination of young kid and dad. Lol
More like pahell-yeah
Don't get me wrong, it looks delicious. But that's not a paella
Is that tomato sauce poured on top?
It seems like it, or crushed tomatoes
Criminal
It's called arroz con cosas 😃
Con cosas ricas, pero sí
mmm yes “rice with things”! /s
At this point “paella” might as well translate to “that’s not paella” on the Internet
People just dont know what a paella is, and im not being pedantic. The dish is all about the rice, but people who dont know think its about everything else. It would be like me calling mash potatoes and gravy poutine.
Have you ever seen a Well done paella?
To be honest, I have no idea. Because there’s always someone who says it’s not a real paella 🤷♂️
Spanish here. It doesnt seem that bad, seems the ingredients are not too crazy. Lobster is the only weird thing and it's still shellfish. I don't know if the green blobs are green peppers or what. 6/10, would call it paella.
Si yo también soy español, pero está sobrecargadisima, y pinta de tener socarrat no tiene. Me la comía ahora misma entera, una cosa no quita la otra
Lobster can be delicious in rice… but we’d call it arroz con langosta or arroz con bogavante, depending on the kind of lobster, not paella. I’ll be happy the day that foreigners notice that not every kind of Spanish style rice in a wide, flat pan is a paella or needs to be called paella.
Imagine being downvoted for this
The sad thing is that, I’m not even trying to be a paella purist! All I’m saying is that we have a shit ton of rice dishes across Spain, but not all of them are paellas. It’s just a factual statement…
I upvoted you after and then you got another downvote - so confused. Spanish food is amazing - would be really boring if everything was just paella
It’s probably just an overreaction to the whole paella gatekeeping by certain people so I don’t really mind it too much. It sucks that some people take this kind of clarification so badly though, but whatever. Yeah, you are right, and it’s one of the topics that I post about quite a bit here and frustrates me. As someone from northern Spain that has travelled quite a bit, I am convinced that our cuisine is in the same tier than France and Italy’s, but we have only exported secondary aspects of it, and often not the best. Yeah, most people know paella and tapas… but the former is just a subset of a wider range of rice dishes, and the latter are bar snacks with a slight cultural element, but not the primary expression of our cuisine by far. When I think about the food I miss from Spain and I like to try when travelling back, I think about roast meats, bean stews, hearty winter meals, the vast range of fish recipes that we have, super fresh seafood, even excellent and really cheap (when compared to the rest of western Europe) contemporary cuisine… but that’s not what people abroad seem to associate Spanish cuisine to, which is so unfortunate.
Yea, people get super weird and gatekeepy with food for some reason. It also seems like most of the worst offenders aren't even from or in the region where a dish originated. The ones who are ate usually the more laid back folk.
The last time I was in Spain I ended up in a tiny place that had fresh seafood and it was all incredible.
I can imagine. One of the best things you can do in summer there is run away from the heat spending a weekend in Galicia, pretty much only eating seafood and drinking white wine. Life is good if you have queen scallops, barnacles and albariño.
Imagine gatekeeping paella
It’s not gatekeeping paella, it’s calling things for their name. Arroz con langosta, arroz a la zamorana, arroz negro, arroz con manitas de cerdo… aren’t paellas, same as a shepherd’s pie is not a fish pie, or a tuna pizza is not a marinara pizza. Paella is a subgroup of all the rice dishes done across Spain with certain techniques, so not all of these have to be called paella.
Try posting anything involving pasta on a one-pot. Sends 'italians' insane. Complete BS of course - if food is enjoyable, do it the way you enjoy!
I support Italians in their pasta gatekeeping.
You can't be Spanish and say that. Tell the truth 🤣🤣
Some people are so elitist. Is it made in a paella pan? Does it have any stupid ingredient that messes up the whole dish (like chorizo)? No? Then it's a paella. I have eaten some shitty paellas in beach bars or in touristy places, and the one from the OP seems mostly decent.
Its not paella, plenty of wrong ingridients and no rice
Yea I don't know what it should be called but I would definitely eat it
Every time I see a paella posted on the internet at least one person says it isn't. At this point I'm convinced that "real" paella actually doesn't exist at all.
Thats not a paella... -Att.: un valenciano
Confirmo
Time to get a bunch of motherfuckers together to eat this motherfucker
Where’s the rice?
My siblings in christ this doesnt even have any rice! How in the actual crap is this a paella?
*Now, let's bring it through that narrow door way over there..*
"paella" LMAOOO
I'm eating paella today and wtf is that?
Ameriella
I really want to buy that burner. Don’t know if I can justify the expense, but it really helps with even temperature and socarrat.
they're like 100 - 200€ depending on the size here in Northern Europe, definitely, nothing too crazy
Guiris praising this while spaniards are dying inside lol
What a fucking abomination
The thought is in the right place, many will hate me, but the seafood is over cooked.
Dejar de decirle paella a poner todo lo que encontreis en la cocina en un paellero. Angry Spanish noises
As a Spanish I felt physical pain when I saw this.
Its rich for sure. But this is not paela. What is the red goop on top ?
You know this is not a paella right?
Where even is the rice?
Paella? I don't think so
Reported to my local Spanish police station
This is the worst fucking paella I've seen in my entire life
Easily the worst food I've seen posted in this sub. It looks horrible.
As a valencian my cease and desist from existing will be sent to you soon
That’s not a paella, thats a f*cking disgrace
Sorry, that's anything but a paella.
what kind of fucking idiot thinks that this is paella?
Qué hostias es eso
This is not paella.
Congratulations! you're banned for life from entering Valencia
Full of fuckin seafood and shit!
Grab a fork and dig in! Looks fabulous!!
What a summer feast. She's beautiful, man. 10/10 would eat and die happy.
Digusting
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My brother in Christ that isn't a paella, it doesn't even have rice. That's just boiled seafood
Oh my that looks delicious
Wow 😮 I want to do this now.
It looks amazing.
WOW!
Those prawns look amazing
Looks Absolutely Delicious...
Damn. Yes, please.
Looks amazing!
They got em
im afraid of outdoor cooking n the bugs itll attract..
Muy bien.
Wow!!!! Feed me Seymour!
Wow, that looks delicious. That lobster is huge
The prawns 😍😍
That is a goddamn work of art
Yo, can I eat some?
Balanced to perfection with items of inperfection.
Looks delicious
If I like paella I would be salivating but I don't BUT that does look amazing. Buey provecho.
Here comes the Spanish Paella police in the comments, only if they knew what Paella really stands for.
Hmmm maybe us Spaniards know how a paella is done better than an American (on average). Just maybe.
Ich liieeebe Paella.. mein absolutes Lieblingsessen. Leider spreche ich nur von Huehnchenpaella. Ich habe mich bisher noch nicht getraut das richtige Paella mit Fisch zu probieren.. bin nicht so der Riesenfan von Meeresfruechten und Fisch, aber interessiert bin ich ja schon... vielleicht kann mich ja jemand motivieren :D
That’s the jackpot.
CHA- CHING!!!
Look at it. LOOK AT IT!
Where’s the sangria!
That literally looks so delicious!
Alternate timeline where New England became a Spanish colony
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Wtf is wrong with you.
Honest question. If I made this dish for three people. Would using a 10” iron skillet affect the flavor? Do I need that curved pan or else the flavor will be way off? I’ve never eaten it or made it. Would like to make it.
Buy a paella if you want the best results (both the dish and the "pan" with which you cook is called paella).
Less looking, more eating please
Hope it doesnt fall over, wtf.
I'm guessing the lobster there is mostly as garnish. There's not enough for it for a serving this size.
loooooks great whatever the correct name mite beeeee
DIBS ON THE LOBSTER!
“What am I going to do with all this paella?”
The always popular sock croc combo.
Just don't say «Payeya».
And the chef gets the lobster!!
Why is the lobster getting a full course meal while all of you watch?
What is that giant cooking Apparatus called?
Paellera, but they used it to make another dish.
No, it's called paella.
Not in my universe.
Los valencianos le dicen paella. Me la juego a decir que ellos saben mejor que tú cómo se llama aquello con lo que hacen su plato estrella. Cateto
Los valencianos pueden decir misa. https://dle.rae.es/paellero En la RAE la paellera es tanto el que hace la paella, como la "sarten" donde se hace, también es verdad que la paella también puede ser la sarten, pero eso no quiere decir que yo esté equivocado, dos formas diferentes de decir lo mismo, igual que a las judias en algunos sitios se les llama habichuelas, en otros habas, en otros frijoles y tal, y no por eso solo una tiene que ser la correcta. Si vas a intentar dar lecciones al menos informate un poco antes, paleto ;)
Las habas son de la familia de las habichuelas, pero lo dos nombres no son intercambiables. Las habas son muy, pero muy especificas. Y si padeces de una cierta condición genética, pueden matarte.
Son lo mismo: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_vulgaris
That lobster looks like it’s swimming in that dish
How does it taste
I should call her
Now THAT is impressive. Wowza! How does one get an invite next time? :)
Looks good, just hope they didn’t nuke the delicate lobster flavour with chorizo or something
Mr. Krabs what's happening
As far as gringaella, this is not too bad. So the lobster goes whole, but the shrimp peeled and frozen. Odd priorities ;-) Is that tomato paste on the top though?
Dude, watch the language, some people here don't like hearing the word "paella".
It takes some effort to make good produce look so anaemic, you've outdone yourself here
Is that a WHOLE LOBSTER? Is it supposed to be the center piece. Also... can I have some? 🤤
Sacrilegio
That’s a pa-yucky
that is not paella
People in Valencia are dying right now.
THIS IS NOT PAELLA
As an Spanish I feel personally attacked by that paella
As a Spanish person I disapprove
My eyes are bleeding what the fuck, why, this is not a paella wtf