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tamater S.
December 1, 2013
@Jeff - Shoyu is not a "fancy word." I live in a little village in the Canadian country, and have known of it for decades. My favourite, Ohsawa brand organic Nama Shoyu, is in my pantry. The vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen (copyright 1976, 1986) devotes a whole page, (pg. 234) to 'Soy Sauce, Shoyu & Tamari' - well over a million copies of that book have been sold.
Shoyu is traditionally made by long fermentation, while soy sauce is an unfermented preparation made from hydrolyzed vegetable protein, corn syrup, caramel colour, salt, and msg.
If you hang around long enough, you'll see that the people at F52 are sophisticated enough not to let a little word stop them from asking a question, or taking a few seconds to look something up on the net; we don't need to be dumbed-down-to. We're foodies after all, and we're here to share information, and to learn from each other. That's the joy of it all!
Did I shoyu a thing or two? ;)
Shoyu is traditionally made by long fermentation, while soy sauce is an unfermented preparation made from hydrolyzed vegetable protein, corn syrup, caramel colour, salt, and msg.
If you hang around long enough, you'll see that the people at F52 are sophisticated enough not to let a little word stop them from asking a question, or taking a few seconds to look something up on the net; we don't need to be dumbed-down-to. We're foodies after all, and we're here to share information, and to learn from each other. That's the joy of it all!
Did I shoyu a thing or two? ;)
jklasd
August 9, 2014
@tamater
Actually, Jeff is right. I’ve lived in four major world cities and never heard of shoyu. So no, you didn’t show us anything, except maybe that you’re a hipster.
Actually, Jeff is right. I’ve lived in four major world cities and never heard of shoyu. So no, you didn’t show us anything, except maybe that you’re a hipster.
tamater S.
August 12, 2014
Yeah, maybe I'm a hipster living in a backwoods cabin. Ok, whatever. It's not rutting season up here yet.
Jeff
November 27, 2013
There's no need to confuse folks with fancy, japanese words. In the English speaking world, shoyu is known as soy sauce.
molly Y.
November 27, 2013
my mom goes through this stuff by the gallon it seems! i'm forwarding this to her.
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