Seems very likely you’re eating bad tomatoes, sliced at the wrong thickness and on poorly constructed burgers.
I could make you a burger with tomato that would make you cry with joy. There are few actual “bad” foods/combinations, just the wrong chef preparing them who is usually undereducated on the nuance of a given cuisine.
A problem with the internet is that because you hold the world’s knowledge in your pocket, many start to think they hold the world’s knowledge in their heads. Just because it “feels” like your cooking, doesn’t mean you’re a chef. A YouTube video doesn’t make an expert, it might make a convincing copy that can’t improvise to save it’s life because it lacks a basic knowledge of foundational concepts.
It’s like chat GPT; yes, it drew hands, at a glance, but if you look closer you’ll see there are 8 fingers, extra knuckles, no fingernails and no bone structure within the fingers - because the program doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. So you and I may both have burgers with tomatoes on our plates, but we’re having entirely different experiences.
Unfortunately, being a chef feels too accessible as a concept and marketing patches many wounds, hence the boom in food trucks and YouTube channels run by “chefs” churning out garbage.
See, I dont really disagree with anything you say. Its just that on that burger you make that willmake me cry of joy… Its not the tomato that breaks or makes it. Its not going to be the tomato that pushes me to tears. No matter how good that tomato is, that’s not what makes the burger.
I’ve had amazing tomatoes, the tomato itself is not the problem. Its the tomato on a burger. It might, in the best of cases, enrich it. But it will never make it, or break it. And in the most cases, it’s just annoying fluff
That’s very dependant on the other characteristics of the burger and the protein type and size. I’ve had tomatoes stand out in a beautiful way in certain burgers that would have been less without them.
The acid and sweetness in certain tomatoes, cut and compliment the fat/salt in say a seasoned beef patty. There are also texture and temperature contrast when prepared correctly. In certain combinations, both are less without the other. That acid cutting the fat of the beef actually chemically changes the way that your taste buds translate the bite. So in some cases you might not think of the tomato first as you bite, but it’s actually changing the way you taste other ingredients, like the beef.
Again, hard to convince someone “outside the circle” on a concept like this, but the wrong person is making your burger, friend :)
Source: worked as a chef in Michelin starred restaurants for years.
Seems very likely you’re eating bad tomatoes, sliced at the wrong thickness and on poorly constructed burgers.
I could make you a burger with tomato that would make you cry with joy. There are few actual “bad” foods/combinations, just the wrong chef preparing them who is usually undereducated on the nuance of a given cuisine.
A problem with the internet is that because you hold the world’s knowledge in your pocket, many start to think they hold the world’s knowledge in their heads. Just because it “feels” like your cooking, doesn’t mean you’re a chef. A YouTube video doesn’t make an expert, it might make a convincing copy that can’t improvise to save it’s life because it lacks a basic knowledge of foundational concepts.
It’s like chat GPT; yes, it drew hands, at a glance, but if you look closer you’ll see there are 8 fingers, extra knuckles, no fingernails and no bone structure within the fingers - because the program doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. So you and I may both have burgers with tomatoes on our plates, but we’re having entirely different experiences.
Unfortunately, being a chef feels too accessible as a concept and marketing patches many wounds, hence the boom in food trucks and YouTube channels run by “chefs” churning out garbage.
See, I dont really disagree with anything you say. Its just that on that burger you make that willmake me cry of joy… Its not the tomato that breaks or makes it. Its not going to be the tomato that pushes me to tears. No matter how good that tomato is, that’s not what makes the burger.
I’ve had amazing tomatoes, the tomato itself is not the problem. Its the tomato on a burger. It might, in the best of cases, enrich it. But it will never make it, or break it. And in the most cases, it’s just annoying fluff
That’s very dependant on the other characteristics of the burger and the protein type and size. I’ve had tomatoes stand out in a beautiful way in certain burgers that would have been less without them.
The acid and sweetness in certain tomatoes, cut and compliment the fat/salt in say a seasoned beef patty. There are also texture and temperature contrast when prepared correctly. In certain combinations, both are less without the other. That acid cutting the fat of the beef actually chemically changes the way that your taste buds translate the bite. So in some cases you might not think of the tomato first as you bite, but it’s actually changing the way you taste other ingredients, like the beef.
Again, hard to convince someone “outside the circle” on a concept like this, but the wrong person is making your burger, friend :)
Source: worked as a chef in Michelin starred restaurants for years.