Carbonara is bacon, egg, Parmesan….that’s it.

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I’ll accept garlic.. WTF is this?

Carbonara recipr

That's just a totally different recipe. That's like me saying I make beans on toast, but with a potato and some crisps on top. Yum.😳

"The rich creaminess comes from cream of chicken soup, so you don't have to spend time making an egg mixture for the sauce."

This bit made me laugh. Yes, it's so time consuming cracking a couple of eggs and stirring the pasta into them. Probably takes about the same amount of time as, oh I don't know, opening a tin of soup?

There’s a book out about the history of Italian cookery. Up until the 1990s cream was a standard ingredient in carbonara. The current ‘traditional’ no cream version is really pretty recent.

This plus nutmeg. And cracked pepper. No cream. Bacon should be pancetta cubes.

Ugh. I have flashbacks to student days when my flatmate used to make a tuna pasta bake with Campbells mushroom soup, raw onion and pepper and cover with a whole block of cheddar sliced very thickly.It was grim, the veg were still raw and there was way too much cheese. Though, mushroom vol au vents are good, I agree.

There used to be an Italian (lovely, family-run) restaurant near me in Glasgow that had both 'Italian Carbonara' and 'Scottish Carbonara' on the menu- they were very different dishes 😂

It must be a US recipe, they do use tinned soup

so many American recipes, could be for carbonara, chocolate mousse, tiramisu - anything! start with 'open a can of Campbell's chicken soup...'

Like it's the 1950s.

Forgot to add. Pecorino is better than parmigiano for carbonara, but the latter is acceptable. May I reiterate, no.cream. Sounds as bad as pineapple on pizza. Please.

No cream here.

Never cream. Needs black pepper. Needs guanciale (or pancetta slices) chopped finely not great lumps. Needs gg yolks. Parmesan and spaghetti.

Sometimes I’d add mushrooms, often a little garlic. Sometimes chopped fresh parsley but none of additions are correct.

Jesus. Wtf?? I am a total militant about what makes a carbonara. My mum thinks this involves a shop bought sauce. I could disown her over this.

Actually it should be Pecorino Romano swans off

We use pancetta rather than guanciale and parmesan or grana padano rather than pecorino.
Definitely no garlic (Italian traditional dishes use much less garlic much more rarely than you'd think)
The egg ratio is also important for the silkiness of the sauce. 1 whole + 1 yolk for 2 people. 2 whole + 1 yolk for 3.

Haha, I like it when I’m googling for cake recipes and land on blogs full of lifestyle photography of the cake, and long rambling irrelevant intros, then the recipe is like, “Box of yellow cake mix, jar of chocolate frosting, pack of sugar decorations”

THIS with bells on

Is it American, they’re always putting tinned soup in things (casseroles etc). I always think it seems gross. I made carbonara yesterday with just bacon (can’t get the fancy stuff the chefs use), Parmesan and eggs (and a bit of garlic). No cream or tinned soup.

Ewwwwww. And takes 25 minutes to cook, claiming it's easier than whisking an egg? So so wrong.

Someone upstream scrambled the egg! The raw eggs cook with heat from the pancetta and pasta!

My only deviation is to slow cook from onion with pancetta. My only defences are that my Italian ex said it was fine and I am an onion addict!

apart from the disgustingness of the suggested ingredients, making a proper carbonara is actually EASIER than Campbell's dire suggestion!

It is the same in Canada, somebody at work offered to share their family heirloom cake recipe with me, and it was basically “pack of Sarah Lee cake mix, with chocolate buttercream on top”. No judgement, it tasted fine, but it didn’t really need handing down over the generations.

The Americans are obsessed with using tinned condensed soup when cooking (in much the same was as the Brits use Bisto gravy granules).

Pasta as a vehicle …..

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what Is wrong with you? This is the second time I’ve seen you policing Aibu tonight. Go and have an early night!