I don't "get" the attraction of cauliflower. I suspect that some people are incapable of smelling certain chemicals in it, much like some people cannot smell the effect of asparagus on the smell of urine.
The first time I was offered a bowl of cauliflower soup (the hostess's pride-and-joy) I may have made a comment about dirty sweat-socks. I was younger and stupider back then.
Anecdotally, the sulfur compounds in all of the cabbage-family as well as the oligosaccharides can cause epic flatulence with extreme "fragrance" as well as very, very loose stools when consumed in large quantities. Cauliflower might be a high FODMAP food which is a train-wreck for people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Cauliflower pizza is a hard-pass for me. Thanks but no thanks.
It is the gluten thing. People think gluten makes them fat (and some people are legitimately allergic to wheat) so they think cauliflower pizza will be better. Gluten makes pizza delicious.
ReplyDeleteI agree. My mother was diagnosed as celiac after years of anemia due to the gluten reaction damaging her intestines. Cauliflower pizza is terrible, but is better than no pizza. And as far as my attempts with corn tortillas and rice flour? Well, those cauliflower pizzas were good in comparison.
DeleteDitto. Wife and daughter here (me and my sons are fine?) I've made them home-made and it wasn't bad. We buy the frozen ones for them for dinner once in a blue moon (just not frozen pizza types).
DeleteYeah, I got the celiacs as well, so I’ve been avoiding gluten now for a while. I do miss pizza, and have tried the cauliflower crust ones, but it’s kinda like tofurkey in my experience, it’s just not the same. Play the hand your dealt.
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Yech...
ReplyDeleteI can't stand any of the brassica family except cabbage (in small quantities). Cauliflower, brussels sprouts? Yech.
ReplyDeleteNot just the gluten, it attracts the low carb crowd. Even while it is killing us, everyone loves pizza.
ReplyDeletePeople who follow a keto diet can eat cauliflower pizza because it isn't as high in carbs as bread dough.
ReplyDeleteYeah, when I was trying Keto there were tons of recipes where cauliflower was used as a substitute for damn near everything. We even tried cauliflower "mashed potatoes" for some stupid reason. My son said it tasted like eating your own vomit. That ended our cauliflower experiment. I won't touch that stuff ever again.
DeleteSorry, I grew up with cauliflower cheese as a regular dish and 25 lb bags of brussel sprouts every other week. I think it is one of those things - you like everything that you are given before the age of, say, five, and will enjoy that all your life. That is assuming you are not genuinely allergic to it.
ReplyDeleteThe only brassica that effects me is broccoli. It causes no gastrointestinal irritation but my colleagues have insisted I remove it from my diet as it takes several days for the effects do dissipate in my system. Even eating it on a Friday evening will produce undesirable environmental effect on Monday.
ReplyDeleteEpic flatulence…loose stools? You say that as though it were a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteBTW, due to a knock on the head I received when even younger and even more stupid my olfactory sense is severely diminished.
About the only way I'll eat cauliflower is sliced thick with butter & BBQ rub then grilled.
ReplyDeleteMilton's cauliflower pizzas are pretty good but then I like cauliflower. With butter and onion. You can add to them, the pizzas, or eat as is. I had a Kirkland earlier today and it was just so so. Purple cauliflower is fun to grow and eat.
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