Was for me, thought I was picky turns out the folks couldn't cook for shit
I'll eat whatever these days
Personally, I like red braised eggplant. Vegetarian/vegan friendly, and you can easily add mince meat of your choice to it if you want.
PSA: I don't care how you cook it its fuckin gross. Sorry. Some people don't like some foods and that's okay.
Is this a common thing to hate? I was under the impression it was a vegetable that was more palatable to picky eaters than a lot of others e.g. Brussels sprouts
As a person who loves brussel sprouts, I have to say, I've never enjoyed eggplant.
In all fairness, frying makes pretty much anything taste good. There are tons of vegetables that I love fried or sauteed, but not so much when prepared with other cooking methods.
I've had eggplant multiple ways and by different places and the only eggplant dish I ever liked was something called baba ganush and that from like only one place.
There's cultivars of eggplant that you do not have to salt and bake the shit out of, they just usually do not make it to the supermarkets because the yields on them are too low. I grew them in my garden back when i lived out in the countryside, took forever to get two small fruit out of one plant. You could then just slice them up, put them in the oven for 15 minutes under a bed of herbs and olive oil and they were to die for, but we can't have that when profit comes before taste.
I know, it works nicely to break down the cell walls and make the eggplant less spongy. I'm just saying there's eggplants that aren't spongy to begin with.
I grew some Japanese eggplant last year that were much easier to cook.
Sadly i don't, i got it at a local nursery and it just said "eggplant"
i don't think raw eggplant would be any better
100% of badly cooked kinda sounds like impossible to cook good.
Important detail: Eggplant also looks awesome when it's growing. Pretty purple flowers, glistening purple-black vegetables, giant fuzzy deep green leaves.
Become eggplant-pilled.
