Caramel isn’t a flavour, it’s just burnt sugar. I don’t care for it. It’s sticky and unpleasant and I would rather it not be in my desserts.
Massively faulty premise. The point isn’t to burn sugars but to heat them slowly so as to bring about (wait for it) caramelization.
Quite aside from producing sweets, this is one of the most critical chemical reactions in cooking(†), used in any number of popular, classic dishes.
EDIT: (†) and arguably even in human evolution, believe it or not.
Upvote that your whole premise sucks. 🙂
I would have expected a user named JohnnyEnzyme to value the denaturation of proteins during heating higher than some boring carbohydrates making some polymerisation reactions. ;-)
Ugh.
I took NUTR101 and CHEM102 a long time ago, and never Food Science / Chemistry 101.Consider me your dumbass. :D
It’s an incorrect opinion, not liking caramel is fine but caramelization is chemically completely distinct from burning. That’s like saying you only like sushi because cooked fish is just burnt fish
Nah sugar is just undercooked caramel!
Butter, cream, salt are all a huge part of the flavor too. Also, its a Maillard reaction, not oxidation. So, not only is your opinion unpopular, it is also objectively false.
Butter, cream, salt, and sugar are already in the vast majority of desserts. You do not need more of this! Onions should be caramelized, sugar should not be. This is my unpopular opinion. Someone like you disagrees. We get it
Mmmhh but akshully, when you caramelize onions, you’re technically caramelizing the natural sugars in the onion ☝️🤓
Wow looks you paid attention in year 8. Good job
Shame you didn’t
You need to wear that unpopular opinion cape proudly, not be defensive. Although, it kind of makes it more fun for us, so carry on.
Yeah what this guy said. It’s okay not to like caramel, I’m not gonna force it down their throat or mock them for their tastes. But omg what’s with the abrasive attitude!
I’m not the best at online messaging but my tone was intended to be jokey!
It’s not that they are disagreeing with your opinion, so much as they are correctly pointing out that caramel is not burnt sugar. It’s like saying that a cake is burnt flour. It’s wrong and stupid.
If you burnt your sugar you blew past the caramel stages
Truly unpopular.
Caramel, especially salted caramel is really good.
I agree.
Yep. This is unpopular.
Bourbon, banana, maple, caramel, vanilla… they all dance around a midpoint flavor of the gods.
Maple, Banana, and Vanilla are all natural flavors I enjoy. Bourbon is an American creation I don’t care for and caramel is burnt sugar. Those things do not belong in the same group.
Caramel is by definition not burnt sugar, though. Literally different things.
Definitely unpopular by any metric!
I’ll add to the list of folks explaining that the way you describe caramel isn’t accurate, as there is a difference between burnt sugar and caramel.
I’ll also add my own bit of opinion that not all caramel is equal. When made on the cheap, particularly in commercial sized batches, it’s way less likely to be anything other than why you say you don’t like it: sticky and unpleasant. Shitty caramel is most often not even caramel, it’s a flavored and thickened syrup, which will have only scant flavor beyond being cloying.
You probably wouldn’t like good caramel either though, So I won’t waste your time or mine explaining how to make it. But suffice it to say that if it’s homemade, you have much better control of the results, and thus a better chance of it being good.
What about a caramel sauce, like on Ice cream? It’s sticky like any other syrup, but not in the way that gets stuck in teeth. Curious if it’s also the flavour or mostly the texture.
It’s the flavor and the texture. You just described a way to ruin ice cream, btw :P
congrats, now that is an unpopular opinion. caramel is so awesome, it has its own verb
Upvote for a truly unpopular opinion!
Also, your description of caramel is incorrect, caramel is caramelized sugar. But that doesn’t effect you not liking it!
It can also be burnt milk fat, such as Dulce Leches.
I agree, just like toffee and butterscotch. They’re all trash.
This is the correct opinion, so am I supposed to downvote?
Caramel tastes like shit, has awful consistency, and it gets stuck in my teeth. I hate caramel.
yes. you upvote if you disagree to get the most unpopular opinions to the top and downvote if you agree because its not really an unpopular opinion.
Thank you! I knew I was not the only one!
I also strongly dislike caramel! Maybe we can start a club.
I have noticed lately that commercially available caramel doesn’t taste like caramel anymore, it just tastes sweet
Yea, definitely right about the commercial chemical machine-shat shit. Capitalism is really showing its true colors lately…
