BGE gardens!

BeanHead · July 27

So excited about my new herb garden setup! Can’t remember which member posted the idea but love this idea for giving some extra life to a cracked base. Are you using egg parts for a planter (or another use). I want to see your setup(s).

RRP · July 27

my dealer had an xl base with beautiful flowers on each side of his store entrance, but i have no picture as proof. He sold his biz after 3 ACE stores surrounded him.

BeanHead · July 27

That sounds like a nice planter set. Sorry about your dealer.

Canugghead · July 27

No cilantro? FAIL!

BeanHead · July 27

I did just add an aloe plant in anticipation of future burns….

zaphod · July 27

having an aloe plant growing beside your egging location is a pleasing balance to my brain.

caliking · July 27

There’s a cracked BGE base somewhere in there.

JohnInCarolina · July 27

caliking said:

There’s a cracked BGE base somewhere in there.

With just a few more plants you could adequately hide that Weber.

Let your garden grow!

dbCooper · July 27

Mine has been in use since 2019. Pro tip . . . the Rutland gasket prevents the plant stalks from chafing on the BGE top edge.

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1219655/bge-planter

BeanHead · July 27

Thanks @dbCooper but I’m not replacing a gasket on a trashed egg 😏

caliking · July 27

JohnInCarolina said:

caliking said:

There’s a cracked BGE base somewhere in there.

With just a few more plants you could adequately hide that Weber.

Let your garden grow!

That would still leave a few more to hide

Don't encourage her.

lousubcap · July 28

Sharp eyes and fun thread. My dearly deceased LBGE and guts performed a humpy dumpty gravity induced maneuver a few years ago. Salvage was not an option. No pics but I do have receipt for the recovery buy.

cmac610 · July 28

Here’s some cilantro for you @Canugghead!

RRP · July 28

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

Legume · July 28

RRP said:

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

We have a good friend that has the same affliction. Being good friends, we often use flat leaf parsley in dishes when he's around just to watch him pick carefully through it and make a nice little pile of...parsley.

lousubcap · July 28

Legume said:

RRP said:

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

We have a good friend that has the same affliction. Being good friends, we often use flat leaf parsley in dishes when he's around just to watch him pick carefully through it and make a nice little pile of...parsley.

Do you ever tell him it's parsley when his work is completed?? 🌿

Legume · July 29

His wife always tells him

BeanHead · July 29

As much as cilantro tastes awful to me I would never be able to pick apart food I was served. Pretty sure my mom would come back from the dead to beat me if I did.

RRP · July 30

Legume said:

RRP said:

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

We have a good friend that has the same affliction. Being good friends, we often use flat leaf parsley in dishes when he's around just to watch him pick carefully through it and make a nice little pile of...parsley.

I won't tell you what I was going to say

- but I finally found a local authentic Mexican restaurant with 100% Mexican kitchen and wait staff and even owner. First time there I thought they hadn't rinsed their plates, skillets whatever. I took two bites but then decided to leave. I told the owner who was at the cash register exactly why I was leaving. That's when it was him who told me about cilantro and the soap taste, which I later researched. He suggested their salsa and a couple other dishes which had no cilantro and refused to take my payment - but I still tipped the waiter as it wasn't his fault! I have been back many times now!

Legume · July 30

BeanHead said:

As much as cilantro tastes awful to me I would never be able to pick apart food I was served. Pretty sure my mom would come back from the dead to beat me if I did.

We eat with them at least once a week, year round. He doesn't want us to omit it or cook around him. It's just become kind of a joke for us all.

Legume · July 30

RRP said:

Legume said:

RRP said:

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

We have a good friend that has the same affliction. Being good friends, we often use flat leaf parsley in dishes when he's around just to watch him pick carefully through it and make a nice little pile of...parsley.

I won't tell you what I was going to say - but I finally found a local authentic Mexican restaurant with 100% Mexican kitchen and wait staff and even owner. First time there I thought they hadn't rinsed their plates, skillets whatever. I took two bites but then decided to leave. I told the owner who was at the cash register exactly why I was leaving. That's when it was him who told me about cilantro and the soap taste, which I later researched. He suggested their salsa and a couple other dishes which had no cilantro and refused to take my payment - but I still tipped the waiter as it wasn't his fault! I have been back many times now!

Once you know, it gets easier.

I learned about cilantro and asparagus in biochemistry in college. In a lecture hall with 350 kids, when the professor asks for a show of hands you really see the prevalence of each on a real scale.

Another fun fact I learned later, something like 20-25% of smokers can keep on puffing 2 packs a day and won't get cancer or emphysema. The problem is, you can't know if you're part of that 20-25% with any certainty. You can only know if you're part of the 75-80% that you don't want to be in.

smoke 'em if you got 'em

RRP · July 30

Legume said:

RRP said:

Legume said:

RRP said:

btw you can have all my cilantro as I fall into that estimated 4 to 14% of the world’s population who feels like it tastes like soap!

We have a good friend that has the same affliction. Being good friends, we often use flat leaf parsley in dishes when he's around just to watch him pick carefully through it and make a nice little pile of...parsley.

I won't tell you what I was going to say - but I finally found a local authentic Mexican restaurant with 100% Mexican kitchen and wait staff and even owner. First time there I thought they hadn't rinsed their plates, skillets whatever. I took two bites but then decided to leave. I told the owner who was at the cash register exactly why I was leaving. That's when it was him who told me about cilantro and the soap taste, which I later researched. He suggested their salsa and a couple other dishes which had no cilantro and refused to take my payment - but I still tipped the waiter as it wasn't his fault! I have been back many times now!

Once you know, it gets easier.

I learned about cilantro and asparagus in biochemistry in college. In a lecture hall with 350 kids, when the professor asks for a show of hands you really see the prevalence of each on a real scale.

Another fun fact I learned later, something like 20-25% of smokers can keep on puffing 2 packs a day and won't get cancer or emphysema. The problem is, you can't know if you're part of that 20-25% with any certainty. You can only know if you're part of the 75-80% that you don't want to be in.

smoke 'em if you got 'em

Good point and have a good day!

fishlessman · July 30

for the soap tasters, is culantro soapy as well. a mexican woman told me to use it more for roasts as it holds up better for heat. i taste no soap with cilantro and or culantro.

RRP · July 30

fishlessman said:

for the soap tasters, is culantro soapy as well. a mexican woman told me to use it more for roasts as it holds up better for heat. i taste no soap with cilantro and or culantro.

fish - I didn't know what culantro was so I had to look it up and found that it also tastes soapy! So that means that my being one of the 4 to 14% of the worlds population that can't stand the soapy taste that cilantro gives me then there's no way I going to find out!

fishlessman · July 31

RRP said:

fishlessman said:

for the soap tasters, is culantro soapy as well. a mexican woman told me to use it more for roasts as it holds up better for heat. i taste no soap with cilantro and or culantro.

fish - I didn't know what culantro was so I had to look it up and found that it also tastes soapy! So that means that my being one of the 4 to 14% of the worlds population that can't stand the soapy taste that cilantro gives me then there's no way I going to find out!

i can eat culantro fresh in a taco but where it shines it is cooked. add it with other herbs for roasting a leg of lamb, saute it with onion garlic oregano thyme to make a pasta sauce etc. i never cook cilantro unless im just trying to get rid of it before it wilts up. i would assume cooking may remove the soapy taste but dont really know

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