Food Theory: ROCKS Will Be Your New Favorite Food!

Bold of him to assume I don’t already consume rocks on a basis.

Food theory: How many substitutions can you do in a recipe before it no longer makes the dish? Especially with baked goods.

I remember a long while back, there were various gum companies saying that “chewing gum cleans your teeth and helps prevent cavities” and they stopped advertising that so id love a food theory that actually test how well gum cleans your teeth

I went out to eat with my coworkers today and I saw that the restaurant offers ladies night on Thursdays with discounted drinks/food items. I know many restaurants do this sort of deal for different categories as well. It would be cool if you can do a food theory about the origins of “ladies nights” at restaurants! Kinda got me curious!!

There's a rock soup here in Mexico called "sopa de piedra de oaxaca" but here the idea of adding rocks is that they are part of the cooking, not necessarily of the ingredients. The rocks are heated up enough to make the broth boil once they are added into the rest of the soup. The plate is served still boiling with the rocks sticking out in the middle, supposedly giving it flavour and helping the broth stay warm.

I think another factor that helps this dish being seeked out is the fact that you can get a mouthful of flavor, without the hassle of digesting a full plate of food

Actually, my mom has made bread for years both before and after the pandemic! She doesn’t make it that often, but around Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter, she makes amazing cinnamon rolls! Those cinnamon rolls are a brioche, a type of enriched dough (baking nerd code for “We added eggs to this”) with tangzhong, a Japanese technique for cooking the flour beforehand to make the bread fluffier. Sometimes, she also makes pizza/calzones/Stromboli with homemade crust, although again, this is a special treat and not super common. But it does happen!

I can actually see this being adapted into a more edible varient, like using a stone-like ingredient that’s safe to ingest, or maybe a sort of dessert varient, that uses edible rock candy, and while isn’t stir-fried, could be dressed up to look like it is.

The ultimate example of “it’s just a vehicle to get the sauce to my face”

Stone soup was one of my favorite books when I was a kid, so this really doesn't sound farfetched to me.

5:56 I lost it at “snot rocks of the ocean” XD

This reminds me of making “stone soup” in my first grade class. We started a “broth” with a rock, and everyone brought ingredients from home to add to it. My mom volunteered in my classroom a lot, so she came in that day with some elk meat that she and my dad recently got from bow hunting that season. My best friend is a kindergarten teacher, and they still make stone soup in her class every year. Such a cool activity for the kiddos!

You know it’s a good day when MatPat says 4 dad jokes at the very start of a video

I actually remember in in elementary school my teacher taught us how to make stone soup. First and main ingredient was stone. Followed whatever little seasonings were at hand. She told us a story about the soup but I forgot the story but could never forget being given a bowl with thin liquid and a couple of stones.

I can sort of see why you would add rocks to the cooking process to imbue flavor to the food, but it is different to be sucking directly on the rocks themselves. We do it all the time with plants like bay leaves that are supposed to be removed from the broth before dishing up, for example.

0:27 Honestly, I respect that you're getting boulder with the jokes despite the backlash.

THANK YOU! and HUGEE respect for all the theorist team for actually doing their research and doesn't making fun of it for being a poverty food, I saw too much people mocking this dish and said such horrendous stuff about it (it's either racist slurs or straight up mocking poor people) :/ sorry if my english is bad it wasn't my mother tongue, greetings from asia!

Gnocchi could be considered "famine food" I think, it was created by peasants in Italy, it's made out of basically just potatoes, and flour, and was combined, originally, with simple tomatoes sauces. Not it can go for like $40 in high-end Italian restaurants.

I love watch every theory channel because they give a good distraction for when I don't feel like breathing anymore. It makes me learn something interesting and new. I feel like now and days I can't really feel that, but watching these videos help in a way(?)

We have had a lot of famine food in Norway, because of the winter. Most of it was with potatoes, fish or mushrooms though lol. They would salt the fish so it would last through the winter. I also recently found out that salmon sushi was actually made by Norway and Japan together. Norway wanted a bigger marked for our salmon so they got Japanese chefs (in Japan) and together came up with salmon sushi. Before that they didn’t use salmon on sushi