Eating Natto

[two_heads_talking]

Harisenbon wrote:

PsychoSP wrote:

hiwa wrote: Natto could help maintain your health if you eat it daily.

Yeah, but why bother? An apple a day works the same magic.

I'm allergic to apples. An apple a day would probably kill me.

what's the harm in that?

[PsychoSP]

Yes, I'm sure the stuff is peerless in its health benefits. :@

Of course, I also heard awhile back it could help you lose weight.

Not that I'm a doubter. If all I were allowed to eat was natto, I'd lose a pound a day.

[two_heads_talking]

if you ate natto all the time, they would throw you out of Wyoming.. Cowboys like beans, but not fermented ones.. only fermented stuff cowboys like is hops and barley.. hehe

[saikyo]

Foreign kids in Japan hate it too! I love this photo. A neighbor kids mom attacked her with natto. Gross.

[Yudan Taiteki]

But see, she's doing it wrong. Mix it in with that rice over on the right.

[Oyaji]

I agree with hiwa: mixed with a little soy sauce, green onion, and wasabi, natto is good. Having said that, it is still forbidden at our dinner table when I'm home because of the smell. Sometimes when I come home after dinnertime I can immediately tell that my family has eaten natto. The whole house smells worse than when my sons leave their gym socks laying around after basketball practice. :p

[Dehitay]

dang, the underside and overside of the hands holding those chopsticks has a awkward difference in color that distracts me from the rest of the picture

[AussieB]

hiwa wrote:
Except for some unlucky countries including UK and US, nation has its tradition of fermented proteinous food in which a part of protein is decomposed into its constituent amino acids giving both its characteristic taste and smell.

It's true - we Aussies have VEGEMITE

[hiwa]

> Foreign kids in Japan hate it too! I love this photo.
From the photo, serving is wrong. Throw away feed for a stray dog? It's almost terrible and doesn't make a decent dish in a meal which should be a culture of human being. Even me, if I am a kid, would becom natto hater if it is served like this.

Kids love hot rice mixed with natto and a raw egg + soy sauce.

A general conclusion for the current state of TJP: your handling of natto and Japanese grammar is awfully wrong by making them tasteless and hard to swallow.
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/readarticle.php?article_id=104
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/readarticle.php?article_id=14

[two_heads_talking]

Oyaji wrote:
I agree with hiwa: mixed with a little soy sauce, green onion, and wasabi, natto is good. Having said that, it is still forbidden at our dinner table when I'm home because of the smell. Sometimes when I come home after dinnertime I can immediately tell that my family has eaten natto. The whole house smells worse than when my sons leave their gym socks laying around after basketball practice. :p

oyaji, isn't that the traditional way to eat natto? with what you mentioned?

and eating natto one bean at a time is like eating rice one grain at a time.. there is a reason that Japanese rice is a bit sticky.. and natto is as well.. rofl

[aKuMu]

Just now I've taken the last bite from my なっとう. Just ate it with からし　and しょうゆ.
Somehow it smelled and tasted almost like peanut butter... Old.. peanut butter..

But I expected it to be a lot more worse.

Good thing was I had a bowl of らーめん beside it.

[coco]

Somehow it smelled and tasted almost like peanut butter... Old.. peanut butter..

AkuMuさん　
どれだけピーナツバターが古くなると、納豆のような味になるのか知りたい。
納豆のようなピーナツバターを食べたとき、具合が悪くなりませんでしたか?

[aKuMu]

cocoさん
古いピーナツバターが食べませんけど、古いピーナツバターは変な味がしたと思う。
僕はピーナツバターが好きじゃないだから味が善く知らない。
でもぜったいに悪趣味になると思う

[coco]

なるほど。 たしかAkuMuさんは化学に詳しい方だったと記憶しているので
An article says there are 65 ingredients of scents in なっとう.
One of the ingredients, which name is a Diacetyl(ジアセチル), is also main scent ingredient of butter. According to the article, some ingredients of fatty acids cause bad smells of なっとう. Especially one of fatty acid, an Iso-Valeric acid, is awful. They say that is a same scent ingredient with a smelly feet. .

I never noticed a similarity of scent between なっとう and peanuts butter.
I am going to find an old peanut butter in order to force my friends to eat it.

If you( not AKuMuさん) like peanut butter, なっとう toast would not be that terrible.
http://erecipe.woman.excite.co.jp/kantan/0401/0284.html

As Harisenbon-san says, taste become milder by adding heat. Instead of filling your house with with fatty acid's scent.

AkuMuさんの行きつけのラーメン屋さんのメニューにチャーハン(炒飯)があるなら、お店の人に「納豆チャーハン」(←)を作ってもらえないかどうか訊いてみるのもいいかもしれません。
・行きつけ

[two_heads_talking]

cocosan, as much as I like peanut butter, and have eaten natto, I find it hard to find any similarities between the two. they don't smell the same. They don't taste the same.

However, I do like the fact that you mentioned heat. It seems that heated natto is not so offensive to the nose.