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# um, about 2 1/2 hours at 425F (220C).
pricked all over with a fork and oiled and salted.

do you have chinese eggplants or the big huge ones? the big ones need salting and draining first or they're bitter.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 3:26, archived)
# hahahaha
2 and one fuckinghalf hours?

hahahahaha

edit: hahahahahahaha that's fucking uk cooking right there toi a tea. Vegetable? cook the fucing fuck outof it!


hahahaha

edit: hahahhahahahha
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 3:30, archived)
# um, roasting takes time.
that's why the results are good: the flavours are intensified by the heat and the evaporation of the water content. what remains is the essence of the vegetable.

the nutrition debate is heated (heh), but there is much evidence that the nutrients are locked in the roasted vegetable.

also, raw and raw-ish eggplant isn't appetising to most people. and i'm not from the uk.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 3:37, archived)
# I don't have any eggplants, currently.
Now that I have some idea how to cook them, I may acquire eggplants. Probably whatever the big dark purple ones are, as those are about the only kind I ever see in local supermarkets.
(I helped save b3ta! Shiksa, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 3:51, archived)
# see gaz recipe gaz gaz.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 4:53, archived)
# I've never believed in salting them first (though I've read it in books)
but I do believe in COOKING THE SHIT OUT OF 'EM.

til they melt in your mouth, pretty much.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 4:54, archived)
# it will be worth a try.
(I helped save b3ta! Shiksa, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 5:02, archived)
# salting makes sense with some varieties here,
old bulb eggplants here need it or they are very bitter, but i seem to recall a conversation here (?) about it being a regional thing.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 6:24, archived)