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Oh, That Disgusting Cumin! (Ach, Ten Nechutný Kmín!)

February 16, 2009

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Living abroad requires a learning curve that is different for each of us. Everything is different - language, culture, fashion, cuisine … and we can go on with this list. One of our readers wrote an interesting story about how it is important to use the right spices when cooking Czech food. As our title already suggests, it was the caraway seed that she had switched with the cumin. You would think: “This can’t change the taste of the food?” but the opposite is true. Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is confused with caraway (Carum carvi) due to its appearance but not the taste that is far different and can completely ruin your whole meal.

 

Eva lives in the United States. She got used to American food and, especially, she enjoyed going to fast food restaurants. Then, she started to date an American guy that fell in love with her accent and Slavic look and origin. Even though Eva did not mind eating American food she always bragged about Czech food. One day she decided to cook a Czech specialty called Vepro Knedlo Zelo (pork with sauerkraut and dumplings), and she even asked her mother to email her a detailed recipe so she would not ruin her first homemade dinner prepared for her new boyfriend.

When she started cooking, everything looked great - the meat was slowly baking in the oven, the dumplings were almost done and the sauerkraut was just hard to mess up. However, when she tasted the sauerkraut, it tasted slightly different. She could not figure out what was wrong but then she started to smell the meat from the oven that did not smell as she remembered from home. She looked carefully through the recipe but did not find a problem. When she tasted the sauerkraut again, she bit on one caraway seed that tasted just horrible. Then she realized that she bought cumin seeds instead of caraway seeds.

Although the food was a disappointment for Eva, her boyfriend still loved it. He did not have the same expectations and did not know what the food was supposed to taste like. Eva, on the other hand, could not stand it and took every seed out of the sauerkraut and meat. Since then, she never made the same mistake again. Her boyfriend had another chance to taste the original Vepro Knedlo Zelo, but to Eva’s surprise, he did not notice a huge difference. Maybe she was already used the original taste. Nevertheless, she still regrets using cumin and wishes she had learned about the taste differences between caraway and cumin seeds before her first disastrous cooking experience in the USA.

Have you made the same mistake as well?

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Kmin luční drcený (www.koreni.cz)

Život v zahraničí vyžaduje křivku osvojování znalostí, která se liší u každého z nás. Všechno je rozdílné - jazyk, kultura, móda, kuchyně … a můžeme s tímto seznamem pokračovat. Jedna z našich čtenářek napsala zajímavý příběh o tom, jak je důležité používat správné koření při vaření českého jídla. Jak již náš název napovídá, byl to kmín římský, který si spletla s kmínem lučním. Myslíte si: “To přece nemůže změnit chuť jídla?”, ale opak je pravdou. Kmín (Cuminum cyminum) je zaměňován s kmínem (Carum carvi) kvůli jeho vzhledu, ale ne chuti, která je daleko odlišná a může zcela zničit celé jídlo.

Eva žije ve Spojených státech. Zvykla si na americké jídlo a především chodila ráda do fast food restaurací. Pak začala chodit s americkým mladíkem, který se zamiloval do jejího přízvuku a slovanského vzhledu a původu. I když Evě nevadilo jíst americké jídlo, vždycky si vychvalovala české jídlo. Jednoho dne se rozhodla uvařit českou specialitu Vepřo knedlo zelo a dokonce požádala její matku, aby jí zaslala e-mailem podrobný recept, aby neudělala žádnou chybu při přípravě první domácí večeře pro jejího nového přítele.

Když začala vařit, všechno vypadalo výborně - maso se pomalu peklo v troubě, knedlíky byly skoro hotové a zelí bylo jen těžké pokazit. Nicméně když ochutnala zelí, zjistila, že bylo trochu odlišné. Nemohla ale zjistit, co bylo špatně, ale poté začala vycházet z trouby vůně masa, která se nepodobala vůni, kterou znala z domova. Prohlédla si znovu pečlivě recept, ale nenašla žádný problém. Když ochutnala znovu zelí, kousla do jednoho kmínu a jeho chuť byla prostě hrozná. Nato si uvědomila, že jí koupila kmín římský místo kmínu lučního.

Ačkoli jídlo bylo velkým zklamáním pro Evu, jejímu příteli přesto chutnalo. Neměl stejné očekávání a nevěděl, jak by mělo chutnat. Eva, a na druhé straně, nemohla tento pokrm snést a vybírala každé semínko ze zelí a masa. Od té doby nikdy neudělala znovu stejnou chybu. Její přítel měl další šanci ochutnat originální Vepřo knedlo zelo, ale Eva byla překvapená, protože nerozpoznal velký rozdíl. Možná, že si již zvykla na originální chuť. Nicméně, Eva stále lituje záměnu kmínu a přeje si, aby se dozvěděla o rozdílu mezi těmito dva druhy kmínu před její katastrofální zkušeností s vařením v USA.

Udělali jste stejnou chybu jako Eva v příběhu?

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I'm not a fan of either of them. I can

Ivanhoe | February 16, 2009 | 6:18 am

I’m not a fan of either of them. I can see that I could easily make the same mistake though ;o)

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Taky se mi to stalo. Bylo to pekne nechutne. Nekdy

Misa | February 27, 2009 | 5:14 pm

Taky se mi to stalo. Bylo to pekne nechutne. Nekdy si i vozim drceny kmin z domova. To jsem tady jeste nanasla. :-)

Very, very true. Cumin is great in Indian and

Evka | October 20, 2009 | 11:18 pm

Very, very true. Cumin is great in Indian and South American cuisine but it absolutely ruins Central European dishes that call for caraway.

Yes, it did happened to me , when I was

Sarka | August 28, 2011 | 4:45 am

Yes, it did happened to me , when I was baking bread. First whot I did was to call my mum toi send me real Czech kmin. BTW I live in Australia and my australian husbands wants only czech food, so it is quite a challenge with ingrediences.

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