this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Vegan Home Cooks

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Come join the Vegan Home Cooks!

Participation is really easy, just take a picture of what you cooked today and post it, no recipes needed.


This is a public forum for a discord server of friends who are all vegans and cook at home for their families.

We are here to share some inspiration, to see what others are doing and to stay engaged in something that is both our hobby and a required task.

This forum is not a "food porn" community, a recipe book or a place to teach you how to cook. It is a place for people who already cook to meet other people like themselves and provide on topic support and conversation as much as long distance friends on the internet can do. We are doing show and tell about what we made and we don't care about its instagram worthiness.

Veganism isn’t a diet but I have to eat every day. This is for the vegan home cooks. Anything non vegan will be deleted.


Rules

1. Be Vegan.

If it is not vegan it doesn’t belong here… or anywhere.

2. Post home cooking.

No restaurant or fast food. This is what every other vegan space is about and we don’t want to promote any large or small business tyrants.

3. Join the Discord

We’re an active community of vegan home cooks that like to talk about what we are cooking today.

4. Do not make any rude comments or digs at anyone’s food, cooking style, specific diet, restrictions or technique.

While we are all cooks, we all have different requirements and we’re not asking for help, we are doing show and tell.

5. Do not use trademarked brands

Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.

6. Do not ask for a recipe without otherwise engaging the OP (No posts that are just “recipe?”)

We are not food bloggers. Sometimes we're excited to share and will tell you the recipes we used but this isn't required. Instead try doing your own research and tell us what you learned and we can talk about it.

7. Careful with making unasked for suggestions.

Sometimes we like to hear suggestions but you should be nice about it and know the person you are making suggestions to. We are in the discord and you can get to know us that way. If you are just a visitor from the fediverse, this isn’t the place for you to start telling other people what to do.

8. Adults Only.

While this isn't a community for adult material we expect everyone who participates to be an adult. If you have a gross and profane username you will be removed.

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Now! Go now! You will not do it later, you know it's a lie!!!! THEY WILL BE SLIGHTLY HARD IF YOU TRY TO COOK THEM ANYWAY!!!!!!

[–] emrikol@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I doing it wrong by just rinsing and throwing them in an instant pot for 30 minutes? I know some beans (red?) require soaking to remove toxins, but I just avoid those out of laziness.

[–] hamid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah you're good. This is a meme from the discord server this lemmy comm is for. Whatever works is fine we just think that beans taste better and cook more consistently when soaked and now it is a thing we do/say 🤷

[–] Lopoloma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Avoid metal stuff while soaking and don't add salt before they're cooked.
It can harden the hull.
You may add some sodium bicarbonat to soften the hull but you need to experiment with the cooking time.
A pressure cooker is nice but you either need to calculate in the time it needs till you can open the pot.
Or you take the easy route and cook them till they're done and you terminate the cooking process by cooling the pot in water.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh, what? Many beans do not need to be soaked.

[–] hamid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, you should be soaking the ones that do need to be soaked now

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black beans, chickpeas, most lentils

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I soak all of those.

If you don't soak lentils they explode when you cook them.

[–] hamid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Chickpeas?!