Knorr had this new product at our store in the soup section. I am not
impressed.
I'm lucky to live in a climate where I can grow my own cilantro nearly
year round, but I could use a shelf stable product. I could freeze in oil or
freeze in water or broth. Commercial bottled or paste is awful, dried is
nearly worthless.
It tastes pleasant. It is very very salty. Besides dehydrated cilantro (I
wish I had noticed that), it has monosodium glutamate, spinach, ground bay
leaf, some other xyz stuff, thickeners, and "artificial flavor."
I saved some out for my neighbor to try and chucked the rest. I need the
real stuff.
Edrena

On 2007-08-25, The Joneses > wrote:
> Knorr had this new product.......

Wow, that's really weird. Knorr makes some handy bouillon cubes, fish
and shrimp being lifesavers on occasion, but cilantro? Bizarre.

nb

"The Joneses" > wrote in message
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> Knorr had this new product at our store in the soup section. I am not
> impressed.
> I'm lucky to live in a climate where I can grow my own cilantro nearly
> year round, but I could use a shelf stable product. I could freeze in oil
> or freeze in water or broth. Commercial bottled or paste is awful, dried
> is nearly worthless.
> It tastes pleasant. It is very very salty. Besides dehydrated cilantro (I
> wish I had noticed that), it has monosodium glutamate, spinach, ground bay
> leaf, some other xyz stuff, thickeners, and "artificial flavor."
> I saved some out for my neighbor to try and chucked the rest. I need the
> real stuff.
> Edrena

Wish I could grow cilantro all year. In our local Asian market I saw a
Cilantro Cooking Base - for rice, beans, soups, child & stews (Goya).
Bought it but haven't tried it yet.

You are not impressed with the Knorr stuff, but it takes pleasant -
Perhaps a translation thing............?

e.

"notbob" in :
>
> Wow, that's really weird. Knorr makes some handy bouillon cubes, fish and
> shrimp being lifesavers on occasion, but cilantro? Bizarre.

Some people reading this might be surprised at the whole range of
convenience mixes and concentrates Knorr-Swiss markets. I think that you
only see a tiny part of it in any one country. But different parts in
different countries. Austrian supermarkets for instance are crowded with
convenience products and mixes, maybe more even than US supermarkets, but
different. A "soup sausage" of dried pea soup pressed into a sausage-like
cylinder. A napkin-dumpling kit box that not only has instant
breadcrumb-dumpling mix, but in disposable forms that shape it as though
rolled into napkins for cooking (very common folksy side dish in that
region). All sorts of other things I don't remember. Occasionally you see
some of them in specialty import stores in the US.

This doesn't even touch on the, probably larger, Knorr "foodservice" product
lines, sold for professional kitchens, and responsible for some of the
things like "Hollandaise Sauce" you will get in restaurants that cut
corners.

On 2007-08-25, Max Hauser > wrote:

> This doesn't even touch on the, probably larger, Knorr "foodservice" product
> [...]
> things like "Hollandaise Sauce" you will get in restaurants that cut
> corners.

"My hypocrisy goes only so far" --Doc Holiday, Tombstone

nb

"elaine" > wrote in message
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> "The Joneses" > wrote in message
> news
>> Knorr had this new product at our store in the soup section. I am not
>> impressed. (clipped) Edrena
>
> Wish I could grow cilantro all year. In our local Asian market I saw a
> Cilantro Cooking Base - for rice, beans, soups, child & stews (Goya).
> Bought it but haven't tried it yet.
>
> You are not impressed with the Knorr stuff, but it takes pleasant -
> Perhaps a translation thing..? e.
Yeah. What I meant was it did not taste exactly repulsive, it didn't
stink. But it wasn't anywhere near the real stuff. Perhaps pleasant was too
good a word ;-)
I use shortcuts from time to time, but this don't get it. My neighbor said
that this flavor as well as others, incl. a chipotle blend and many other
blends tailored for the Mexican market are being advertised on Mexican tv.
She wouldn't even taste it, but she has discerning taste and is a foodie as
well; said these were for lazy, stupid cooks. She did take a whole case of
various jams I make!

On lunch: She took me to eat over the border - we had quesadillas with
local cheese, chiles, and huitlacoche (diseased corn black fungus) sauce,
which is a delicacy. It was delicious, despite it's off putting name in
English. But we eat lots of mushrooms and that's a fungus, ain't it? It's
pronounced wheet-la-coch'-ay. And leetle avocados that were so tender you
could eat the skin. And I did.
Edrena