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A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Aliph Date: May 2, 2019, 1:49 am
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Looking up for recipes for a dinner party at the end of the
week, I came up with a recipe with eggplants The guy on YouTube
was telling that one should use male eggplants which are
seedless.
Never heard of male or female eggplants or the gender of any
other other fruit.
I am a total ignorant in this field. Can anybody explain me the
difference please.
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Alharacas Date: May 2, 2019, 3:06 am
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Brilliant, Sofia! Thanks, I'd never even heard of this
particular myth, but apparently, it's quite wide-spread. Jerry
might disagree, but here's what looks like an answer from a
reliable source:
HTML https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/resources/wp-resource_search.php?term=2697
tl;dr
No. Flowers often have male and female parts, plants may be male
or female (not the eggplant, er, plant, though), but fruit is
fruit, neither male nor female. (Looking forward to hearing
about some exotic botanical exceptions, probably from Neal. :D
)
BTW, did you know it's also a myth that pricking eggs before
boiling stops them from breaking? I was quite disappointed when
I found out, it's something which had always made sense to me.
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: NealC Date: May 2, 2019, 3:46 am
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Isn't the fact that the seeds are inside part of the definition
of what makes it a fruit?
They have bred seedless watermelon, perhaps seedless eggplant
exists but I have not heard of it. But any sort of seedless
fruit I would equate more with a mule (sterile, not able to
reproduce), than a "male".
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Aliph Date: May 2, 2019, 6:32 am
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Great article Alharacas. Thanks a lot. It’s incredible, all
those culinary myths.
Since I will be cooking lots of eggplants (my favorite
vegetable....I know it’s a fruit) I wanted to tell you, if you
ever roast aubergines in the oven or in the microwave, you
better prick them before. Otherwise they explode!
I never pricked eggs. I use British egg coddlers for the Sunday
brunch.
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Alharacas Date: May 2, 2019, 6:53 am
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=1016.msg14951#msg14951
date=1556796754]
Since I will be cooking lots of eggplants (my favorite
vegetable....I know it’s a fruit) I wanted to tell you, if you
ever roast aubergines in the oven or in the microwave, you
better prick them before. Otherwise they explode!
I never pricked eggs. I use British egg coddlers for the Sunday
brunch.
[/quote]
It's my favourite vegetable/fruit as well. Sadly, I've never
lived with anyone who shared this predilection. Fortunately, it
had never occurred to me to roast them whole, though. ;)
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: NealC Date: May 2, 2019, 7:17 am
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I am not a big eggplant fan, unless you fry slices up nice and
crisp :-) Same with zucchini, serve them both with Greek
Skordalia (garlic sauce).
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Truman Overby Date: May 2, 2019, 7:41 am
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Personally, I never saw the point of eggplant. Aren't they
mostly water and tasteless?
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Nikola Date: May 2, 2019, 9:26 am
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[quote author=Keep America Great!
link=topic=1016.msg14959#msg14959 date=1556800891]
Personally, I never saw the point of eggplant. Aren't they
mostly water and tasteless?
[/quote]
They don't have a point, their ends are round :P You can get rid
of the water by letting them sweat before cooking them.
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Truman Overby Date: May 2, 2019, 9:46 am
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1016.msg14961#msg14961
date=1556807201]
[quote author=Keep America Great!
link=topic=1016.msg14959#msg14959 date=1556800891]
Personally, I never saw the point of eggplant. Aren't they
mostly water and tasteless?
[/quote]
They don't have a point, their ends are round :P You can get rid
of the water by letting them sweat before cooking them.
[/quote]
What does the sweat taste like? Slightly salty?
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Re: A question for those who have a green hand: male eggplants?
By: Nikola Date: May 2, 2019, 9:55 am
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[quote author=Keep America Great!
link=topic=1016.msg14962#msg14962 date=1556808398]
What does the sweat taste like? Slightly salty?
[/quote]
It tastes very much like aubergine sweat :)
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