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Once I saw a video of a chef that swears by putting fish sauce into his chili. I tried it and it tasted good. I no long have a fear of fish sauce. I put fish sauce in everything,
Mmmm umami 🤤
Ancient romans when they created garum:
What’s that?
Fish sauce
ooh I’ll have to try that! fish sauce brings an amazing flavor to many dishes
If you don’t like or don’t have any fish sauce for some reason, adding some worcestershire sauce (technically a fish sauce of sorts, I guess) accomplishes the same thing.
Or even soy sauce, both of them were created to imitate fish sauce.
“smells like feet, tastes like meat”
-Adam Ragusea
Bulk Barn does that! A bunch of bins; you scoop what you need and pay by weight. Good for spices and other baking ingredients. No fish oil though.
You may notice by the domain’s country code that Bulk Barn is only found in Canada.
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Is the website also only available in Canada?
They just really dislike you. It worked for me
They might be blocking known or low-reputation VPN exits… I’m blocked as well. But I also came here to comment Bulk Barn, so 😎👍
That’s already a thing.
Look for one of those hippie grocery stores that sells spices etc. in bulk, where you scoop however much you want into a baggie and pay for it by weight.
I’ve never seen a place selling fish sauce in particular that way, but the one near me does sell liquids like soap, honey, and various nut butters.
Yeah, and after the $60 membership fee, everything is twice as expensive and you might as well just go to the normal stores and throw half of it away.
The place by me that does this and doesn’t require any membership fee and is fairly affordable. You walk in with your own mason jar or some canister, note the initial weight, fill up with what you want, and then at checkout do the final weigh and pay for the weight of what you filled up with.
The place by me doesn’t require a membership either, although being a co-op, it certainly offers one. The prices are generally terrible – think “even worse than Whole Foods” – but the bulk spices are less outrageous. More importantly, you still come out way ahead buying only the little bit of some weird spice you need for that one dish instead of a whole jar, even if the price per pound is higher.
Or just buy a bunch of small containers and split normal size things with friends.
I’m legit thinking about doing this now, I have so many containers in my fridge that don’t have to be anywhere near as large.
I don’t need a big bottle of Worcestershire, and I like having a large selection of mustards.
But it’s fresher so you only use half as much.
But then it’s so delicious you’re cooking with exotic spices twice as often.
Find your local hippie grocery store/co-op (or WinCo). They usually have a “bulk” section where you can buy all kinds of things this way, like spices, rice, nuts, beans, yeast, honey, peanut butter, liquid soap… I’ve never seen soy/fish sauce, but they might make it available if you ask. I’m gonna go refill my Dr Bronner’s soap today!
Your Winco has Dr. Bronners in the bulk bins? :O
I kinda wish this for everything, Europe does it better but they still have stuff I just can’t use all of before whatever it is expires.
In Korea there are Costco Club Clubs where lots of people come together and purchase stuff under one account that later on split in smaller amounts based on how much they need.
Never heard of it, how do I get in?
Move to Korea, befriend the frugal people, get invited into the club.
Does the leader of the Club wield a Costco Club Clubs club to display their dominance?
Fish sauce isn’t going to go bad, no need to keep it in your fridge
LoL like seriously, just do a little research on how it’s made
1/8 tsp of turmeric.
✨ IT’S CALLED WINCO ✨
That’s why I have 1162 square pyramid studs of various sizes. Only needed 8, but I don’t know enough punks with notions.
Dollar General kinda already does this, and it makes food more expensive over all, as the packaging to product ratio is worse, and you end up paying a lot more for a lot less. Sometimes it’s so extreme you pay more for less product than if you wentt to a regular grocery store.
That’s basically what those meal delivery services are: you get exactly the ingredients you need to cook a meal, with no extra left over.
This is common in the Philippines for commonly needed things like shampoo etc. Downside is increased packaging litter
Could turn it to a no waste store. You can bring your own container and pay for what you fill
I could also see a store where you’ve got a running balance and get charged full price for a bottle of fish oil, bag of salt, whatever, but if you bring it back you get credited back most of what you spent based on the remaining weight.
At least until the one asshole comes along and cuts the cooking wine with vinegar or something to save a few cents.
I wouldn’t worry about vinegar as much as I’d worry about piss.
That sounds ripe for contamination
I believe that companies package products like this because it is easier to distribute. It is also easier for them to sell. They know it will likely expire before you use a quarter of it. That is all inbuilt into their model. Waste. They know you will throw it out, go back to the store, buy some more and waste it again. They don’t care. They want that. There is no reason to not have smaller packages except profits.
Honestly, there’s a lot that goes into it, logistics costs, packaging costs, average usage, apparent value, etc. are all taken into account. The manufacturing and distribution cost of a 100ml bottle isn’t really much less than a 250ml one. If someone see’s a 100ml and 250ml sitting next to each other, with the actual price difference, they are vastly more likely to buy the 250ml… even if they’re only going to use 75ml. It seems like a “better deal” and thoughts of “what if I need it for something else? I’m not driving all the way back here for it!”. Combine that with “there’s a finite amount of shelf space” and the grocer isn’t going to want to stock both if 90% of the time people just buy the 250ml.
Smaller packages can be more wasteful. If you double the volume of a box you only need about 1.6 times more packaging. So assuming the same material was used for both packages, larger packages are more efficient.
I want to buy an individual regular onion, not the big ass Spanish onion that’s as big as my head, not a white onion, not a red onion. A regular onion. The ones that come in 20 kilo bags.
I can buy individual fruit and vegetables from at least 6 different supermarkets/fruit shops where I live and it’s a smallish town of ~20k people. Where are you living that you can only buy brown onions in bulk?
