In Indonesia the most common (the most less hassle) way to cook tempeh is by marinate it with salt water for 1 minutes or more then fry it. Or stir fry it with anything you want, usually with another vegetables. Really, you can mix it with your local stir fry vegetable recipes. In some regions people uses over-rotten tempeh for sauce. It's a traditional food 😅. It's called sambal tumpang if you want to know.
Various Types of Tempeh: - Soy Tempeh (The most popular type of tempeh) - Green Beans or Red Beans Tempeh - Rubber Seeds Tempeh - Cassava Leafs Tempeh - Tempeh Gembus (Tempeh gembus is tempeh that comes from tofu waste with a savory taste and soft texture). - Tempeh Menjes (Peanuts Tempeh) - Lupine Seeds Tempeh
I'm so glad I found your videos! Starting a year of nutrition health. Starting with probiotics. Next fish oil. Going to buy Tempeh today and trying one of your recipes. Thanks!
GMO alterations in most cases is not bad matter a fact it is Great for the environment. Reduction in water consumption and pesticides. Stop bad mouthing GMO people and understand it huge benefit.
Great video. I love both options but now realize tempeh is the less processed of the two. Would love to see another video on soy and how often we can eat it each week and hidden soy in products.
GMOs are only bad if they are grown in hand with herbicides, but the idea is that you in fact end up using fewer chemicals than if you wouldn't use GMOs...
Tofu has a heat in its process. So it's technically considered easier to digest if only considering just the digestion wise against fermentation. Nutritional wise I think fermentation wins because of the vitamin Bs
Excellent point, sometimes people over generalize. Processing some foods with certain, usually ancient processing techniques, actually makes in MORE nutritious, such as the nixtamalization process to make corn into masa dough-it makes it more digestible for people and they can get more protein out of the food.
Hey there! Of course and thanks for the recommendation. I have done one of those videos during my Trader Joe's week series, but I need to make another one soon. Glad the information is helping you out and let me know if there is anything else you would like to see.
Don't forget to cook it. Marinated it with salt water before frying it is my tips if you want to eat tempeh without mixing it with another ingredients.
Tempeh or tempe (/ˈtɛmpeɪ/; Javanese: témpé, Javanese pronunciation: [tempe]) is a traditional Indonesian soy product that is made from fermented soybeans.[1] It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form.[2] Here a special fungus is used, which has the Latin name Rhizopus oligosporus, usually marketed under the name tempeh starter.
I think you description of GMO is misleading, you don't just find most fruits and vegetables "out in nature" people have been modifying the genetics of agricultural foods for hundreds of years and this isn't a bad thing, because as you mentioned it can help crops be more draught and pest resistant and this is good! The reason many people dislike GMO foods is because when a large agricultural conglomerate modifies them, rather than a slower modification process through seed selection, they often do it with the purpose of being able to use large amounts of pesticides etc so the crops will yield heavily and withstand weed killers like roundup. This is the main reason you should consider non-GMO, not because its "genes have been messed with"- this often doesn't mean much and isn't inherently problematic.
I find it depends on what your cooking. Silken tofu is good for cheesecake and mousse. Extra firm tofu for stir-frying but my favourite is grated tempeh in lieu of mince
You forgot to mention the coagulants in tofu. Because of the coagulant I lean towards temphe for being healthier but I do alternate between them simply out of boredom after a week.
GMO is scientifically safe. Even if you’re afraid & buy into junk science, most of the GMO soy is fed to non human animals (consumed by omni’s & vegetarians), or is incorporated into omni foods (via junk food). I’ve never come across GMO tofu, tempeh, or edamame. But, again, GMO is safe & we need to shift away from baseless fear.
slice the tempeh and fry it in a pan with some spices such as garlic, black pepper, cayenne pepper, bell pepper. Than serve with a bit of bbq sauce: tempeh spare rips.
I was about to give you a thumbs up when you blurted out that nonsense about GMO being bad, and I decided to give you a thumbs down instead. GMO is saving lives worldwide making it possible to grow crops where people would be starving otherwise, and there is no scientific research showing it hurts anybody.
I can't explain it but most of the time I criticized unknown bloggers or RUclipsr's but as soon as I saw you I liked you and I can't explain it so congratulations keep it up
im not vegan nor vegetarian. But tempeh is in the top of my menu and tofu is the second. So if you dont like tempeh.. maybe you tried the wrong tempeh.. just search the real one
The correct original name is a Tempe without "H" ... Not Tempeh ...😁... Nutrition fact Tempe have more nutrition compare than Tofu ...thanks for the video it is a great explanation
You must live in Tempe, Arizona? Anyway, the "correct" , CURRENT name, which has been adopted, is Tempeh. This actually prevents the postal service from shipping all that great food to Tempe, AZ. lol
Good points and good video overall. Now, believing that we can STILL these days find nonGMO or trully organic soy products, is a nice fantasy... ask monsanto.
I'm probably going to sound dumb. But..... how do you tell if the tempeh is good. Everytime I go to the store and look they date are all good but when I look at the tempeh it looks moldy. Is this normal? The ones that are at the stores near me are the same brand you got in this video. Thank you for any suggestions.
So i came to this video because i didnt know what it was made of. Tempeh is mold. Its moldy beans. I had no idea. Untill i saw videos of people making it.
Some "discoloration" on tempeh is normal and not a health hazard in any way- as another commenter mentioned, it is "myceliated" meaning that it uses fungus to "ferment" it. Just like bacteria, there bacteria that are bad for our health and bacteria that are beneficial for our health; there are fungus we can eat-like shiitake and the fungus on tempeh, and fungus we can't eat like certain poisonous mushrooms. Hope this helps
It looks like whatever brand of tofu you picked up it's the same brand that probably makes it for Trader Joe's, which is my favorite the extra firm high protein. I also like the fact it's not in a plastic tray. You don't even need to press out any water, but you have to keep it in water if you don't use it all up. My father made me my first tempeh dish back in the 80s, and although I found it a little weird, I loved it, and I've been eating it ever since.
Hi Johanna! It's always great to hear from you. I think you're right. I've purchased the tofu you saw in the video and the tofu from Trader Joe's and they are exactly the same. The only difference is the packaging...lol.
Sorry, I didn't like this video because as a vegan of 30+ years, I found a lot of errors in your analogy between the two. First, you say tofu isn't fermented but, in actuality it is. The soymilk is cooled to a certain temperature before it's lixed with Nigari, or Lemon Juice, etc. The ferment is a short ferment but it's still a ferment. Second, your video almost sounds like you are siding with Weston Price and this is a very slippery slope. Asians have been eating tofu for thousands of years. Tempeh came from the Phillippines where the weather is very hot and the process of making tempeh was stumbled onto as many great finds are. My point is, Asians have been eating tofu for thousands of years. Many Japanese eat tofu three times a day. But the one thing they do, that we don't, is to always good their tofu with some kombu or iodine rich seaweed. This is because soy, even tempeh, requires iodine for proper absorption. If we don't have enough iodine in our system, soy can stress out the thryroid looking for it. This is where excess iodine is stored. Anyway, maybe next time you will ponder more on what you say before you say it. Colleen Patrick Goudreau has a great video on soy and Mark Messina, PhD has two amazing videos on so and I believe he eloquently touches the fermented vs the whole, and mildly processed tempeh. And, for the record, making tempeh requires more work because we have to dehull the soybeans before we ever mold them. The hulls make or s strange flavor and you have two or three pople who purchased products but they basically did nothing when it came iimt to vote.
Everything sounds logical till i read you typed that tempeh is originated from the phillipines. The pinoys almost lost most of their original cultures, historical artifacs and records, that can show their close ties with their nusantaran brethrens, hard to say tempeh is from there when their oldest record shows that even by then most kingdoms in philipines are influenced or even vassals of whether to chinese or Indonesian empire. And FYI Indonesia holds the earliest record of tempeh existence
Honest question, but what is the problem with GMO products? Just because something has been modified doesn't necesarrily mean it's bad. The only problem with i've discovered woth GMO soy, is that it turns it into an obnoxious weed which is the hard to get rid off causing invade other crops
Imdonesian here To all Vegans: Please NEVER cook tempeh like how you cook a beef.... it will tastes disgusting! you should cook it like how you cook potato or chicken
Tempeh or tempe (/ˈtɛmpeɪ/; Javanese: témpé, Javanese pronunciation: [tempe]) is a traditional Indonesian soy product that is made from fermented soybeans.[1] It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form.[2] Here a special fungus is used, which has the Latin name Rhizopus oligosporus, usually marketed under the name tempeh starter.
Objectivityiskey I say NO to GMO's. I don't know the science either, but I'd rather have natural & unmodified foods. Thats what I was brought up on before "science" started messing with foods. I am 56 yo & when I was younger, allergies to peanuts/nuts, dairy, gluten & others didn't exist, but today its in abundance. Gotta be a link & the common link is food.
@@zonagal Just because you didnt heard about them or don't remember it doesn't mean they didn't exist. You know what else is GMO? EVERY corn, that means the corn we know today is GMO, also every carrot, watermelon, banana and so on and so forth, humans have been altering food since the dawn of humanity, just because today we use faster methods with fancy tools doesn't mean it is unsafe.
@@zonagal Natural and unmodified does not mean safe though; it does not even mean a _tendency_ to be _safer._ Your reasoning is entirely flawed. Also asserting that the common link is GMO is complete nonsense and totally unscientific. It's what's called a spurious correlation. There are so many variable it complete nonsensical to just pick a single one and assume it is the problem. Many studies have been conducted and there's no indication of what you're claiming to be true. There's more premature babies born, more air pollution, more helicopter parenting, more reporting of minor health conditions and abnormalities, more professional knowledge of health conditions, and more spreading of health-related knowledge to the general public - both accurate and inaccurate knowledge. Many people who claim to be sensitive to wheat/gluten aren't even-so, and instead have other conditions. In a recent study conducted, 86% of people tested who thought they had wheat/gluten sensitivity *were not sensitive to wheat/gluten.* People didn't know about most conditions 1000 years ago; do you think that means people were healthier then? They didn't know what cancer or gluten even was.
If you really care about the food you eat, you should stop choosing between tofu and tempeh and make your food instead of buying from proceed food stores.
You need to season tempeh. Cook it by marinate it in salt water for 1 minutes and then fry it. Or you can stir fry it with vegetables using your local recipes.
Great video! I was initially intimidated by both. I now feel comfortable cooking with firm tofu but I only tried tempeh once and it was pretty weird. I didn't realized tofu was that processed though so I'm going to give tempeh another try. I would love a video on just soy products and what it is in!
Thanks for letting me know about that video...I'll work on that video for you! I have a few tempeh recipe videos linked in the description that you may want to check out and give a try.
If tempeh is too strong of flavor, steaming it or simmering it in broth or water plumps it up and takes out some of that bitterness, as well as making it easier to digest. That's what I've read anyway.
In Indonesia, we never got that bitter tempe. Seems like u got some over-fermented or over-rotted tempe. Or the company that made it doesn't know how to make a proper tempe
@@DBT1007 that's what i was thinking! I'm half Indonesian and grew up with eating Tempeh. Now that it is mainstream, people out here eating rotten bitter tempeh 😂
I boil it in water and then I'll put it in the frying pan or toaster oven to crisp it up. Then you can add sauces like terriyaki or barbecue to get a delicious, healthy plant based protein.
Silken tofu for making chocolate mousse, firm frozen-defrosted for air frying, bbq and other savory cooking 😊 Never saw “extra firm” here in Denmark, so always wonder if our firm translates to firm or extra firm... But at least the firm tofu here can be bought in a glass jar, to reduce single use plastic waste. Cannot find tempeh in the supermarket here, probably need to go online for that. Is it stored cool? Thank you for a good video! 🙏
Hi Lisa! Those recipes sound delicious. I've just started using my air fryer and really like it. You can always just place press any addtional water out with some rags and books...lol. Tempeh does need to be stored in the refrigerator. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video!
I have been forcing myself to eat tofu because I thought it was healthier than tempeh ... but I’m obsessed with tempeh now I can go back to enjoying my favorite vegan meat substitute 💜💜💜
Tempeh has more solid consistency than tofu. Yeah traditionally our mom tell us that tempeh are replacement for meat, because it has huge proteins, good texture and “cheap” In the past when meat from chicken and beef still expensive for most of us in Indonesia, we used Tempeh for our main proteins source.
1: Tempeh is a myceliated product, it is grown with a number of different Mold cultures and it is not a Lacto Bacillus nor is it a yeast ferment. The most common culture is rhizopus oligosporus, but there are other strains that can be used such as R. oryzae. So while it often gets called a fermented product, myceliated is the proper term for it. 2: Tempeh doesn't have to be a soy product, it can be made with any legume & grain, you can even grow it on Mushrooms and sweet potatoes. The Mycelium is like a stomach that digest everything on the outside by producing enzymes to help break the food down. Making it easier on digestion and making the nutrients more bioavailable. We make ours with Wild Rice, Portabello, sweet potato & Lentils. 3: it is much easier and significantly cheaper to culture it yourself, and you can culture it in just about any shape. It only takes about 48 hours to culture, we grow ours in Dinosaur molds :] Mycology is fun & Tastey
@gifarry hakim Soy has a good nutrient profile but so do other legumes & grains. For those not in Indonesia prices may be different. For us Wild Rice & lentils is cheaper then soy- as we have a good vendor for it; we grow our own beans and sweet potatoes and fruit our own Portabellos. We make red Tempeh with beet root powder grown from our gardens, there is alot of room for experimentation. I like Traditional Tempeh as well, but I tend to make Tofu with our soy instead. Thank you for your perspective Gifarry :)
You didn't give a good reason to avoid GMO. GMO foods are highly important, means these plants can be grown more efficiently, better for the environment, does nothing bad to your health compared with normally made foods or organic. Organic foods can still use organic pesticides which can also be harmful to health. Haven't seen any evidence yet that GMO harms health
Very informative. Thanks. Going to try some tempeh!! :) Just a little disappointed about the bad rep that GMO gets. Almost everything we eat has been genetically modified, one way or another. humans have altered nearly everything the eat through artificial selection anyway. GMO is a more targeted method and can be hugely beneficial, for example, Golden Rice. Especially in poorer areas. I don't think there's ever been evidence of a GMO produce being bad for consumption. Not to say that will always be the case, but being GMO in and of itself, isn't a bad thing.
GMO crops can withstand lot of pesticides and insecticides so the crops are laden with those chems. Another problem is the environmental impact of GMOs.
Am happy to bump into this vid. As a tofu n tempeh lover in asia, hope u all enjoy tempeh chips eps with casava. Tempeh n tofu sayur lodeh or sambal goreng. Both can be done as vegan dishes. Enjoy.
i love both. but if that is an option then I choose tempeh, tempeh has a lot of vegetable protein and contains rhizhopus bacteria. Tempeh is a great alternative for building muscle mass and also preventing cancer
Nice video, but please knock off the vague fear mongering about GMOs. The genetic modifications made to soy via genetic engineering are much less extensive and much more thoroughly understood than those that have been made through selective breeding. There is no evidence that GMO soy is dangerous, and there is not even a proposed mechanism that would justify such a concern.
GMO is not inherently bad and it actually can be better in some instances. Just because the DNA is modified doesn’t necessarily change its nutrient profile, at least significantly, and it can make it so that in certain instances, chemicals do not need to be used on the plant when growing. Of course it sometimes can change the nutrient profile, but GMO is too commonly touted as unhealthy which is not true.
About GMOs... techincally everything we eat has been genetically modified... through selected breeding. Wild cucumbers for example are poisonous in it untampered state. carrots and eggplants are suppose to be white... ect.
I'm not quite sure what your major issue is with GMO. It is just speeding up a process that humans have been doing for thousands of years: selective breading. All fruit and vegetables you buy in the supermarket has gone through the slow process of modifying its DNA over thousands of years through selective breading to produce more resilient and better tasting crops. So in some sense none of the produce you get in the supermarket are 'natural' because they have been altered through controlled evolution. Fruit that we buy in the modern world has far less vitamins and far more sugar than it did in the past but it is not classified as GMO produce because the changes happened slowly over the generations. GMO is just a faster form of selective breading. It can create disease and pest-resistant crops which reduces the amount of pesticides in the environment; create higher crop yields for less land and lower carbon emissions; and GMO can also have been modified to have a higher nutritional content. GMOs are safe and fear mongering about them not being 'natural' is a failure to understand how humans farm and our impact on the environment.
99% of tempeh is pasteurized anyway (so cooking makes no difference). Also, the bacteria used to make tempeh isn't probiotic bacteria that is beneficial. So even if you have unpasteurised tempeh, there's no added health benefit.
I love simply slicing tempeh and pan frying til browned, then salting.
In Indonesia the most common (the most less hassle) way to cook tempeh is by marinate it with salt water for 1 minutes or more then fry it. Or stir fry it with anything you want, usually with another vegetables.
Really, you can mix it with your local stir fry vegetable recipes.
In some regions people uses over-rotten tempeh for sauce. It's a traditional food 😅. It's called sambal tumpang if you want to know.
Try marinating it with salt, garlic, and corriander first, then grill with a bit of oil
It's awesome
@@Meonium sambal tumpang has unconfortable odour and presentation.
Tempeh still much much better
Various Types of Tempeh:
- Soy Tempeh (The most popular type of tempeh)
- Green Beans or Red Beans Tempeh
- Rubber Seeds Tempeh
- Cassava Leafs Tempeh
- Tempeh Gembus (Tempeh gembus is tempeh that comes from tofu waste with a savory taste and soft texture).
- Tempeh Menjes (Peanuts Tempeh)
- Lupine Seeds Tempeh
I'm so glad I found your videos! Starting a year of nutrition health. Starting with probiotics. Next fish oil. Going to buy Tempeh today and trying one of your recipes. Thanks!
If you want to avoid fish then hemp and chia seeds have lots of healthy fats as well. Including your healthy omegas
You should cook tofu and tempeh together when you're Indonesian :"
Yeah very true
GMO alterations in most cases is not bad matter a fact it is Great for the environment. Reduction in water consumption and pesticides. Stop bad mouthing GMO people and understand it huge benefit.
Great video. I love both options but now realize tempeh is the less processed of the two. Would love to see another video on soy and how often we can eat it each week and hidden soy in products.
Hi Jill! Glad the video helped you out and I'll work on that other video for you. Thanks!
I eat soy two times a day but, as I mentioned above, I always include some seaweed for the iodine necessary to break tofu down.
In Indonesia, the country Tempeh originated from, its an everyday food. You can eat it everyday for breakfast to dinner.
Tempe is authentic from Indonesia ... Other countries cannot claim it ... But Malaysia always claims something that is authentic from Indonesia
Ikr
GMOs are only bad if they are grown in hand with herbicides, but the idea is that you in fact end up using fewer chemicals than if you wouldn't use GMOs...
I prefer tempeh over tofu, because tempeh is denser and can be made into a variety of foods
New to the plant based diet. Thank you! Love this & all your vids so far 😎
Check different Indian cuisines, mainly vegetarian for thousands of years.
How has the journey been?
Tofu has a heat in its process. So it's technically considered easier to digest if only considering just the digestion wise against fermentation.
Nutritional wise I think fermentation wins because of the vitamin Bs
Prcessed food does not mean they are bad. It depends on the process. PL do not confuse the opinion!
Excellent point, sometimes people over generalize. Processing some foods with certain, usually ancient processing techniques, actually makes in MORE nutritious, such as the nixtamalization process to make corn into masa dough-it makes it more digestible for people and they can get more protein out of the food.
Just drink
*Jamu*
Its spicy but
Healthy
Yes our ancestor drink
hey can u do a video on what u eat in a day? I am new to this life style and trying to figure out whst to eat. thanks for the information.
Hey there! Of course and thanks for the recommendation. I have done one of those videos during my Trader Joe's week series, but I need to make another one soon. Glad the information is helping you out and let me know if there is anything else you would like to see.
Thank you I learnt a lot from this today. Nice work dude! 👍👍
Yes, please do a soy information packed video.
Thank you!
Hi Amy! Thanks for commenting. I'll make that video for you.
Vince Lia I can't wait...thank you!
😃 Thanks for the video, now I know what Tempeh is. I'm going to try it. 😄
Don't forget to cook it. Marinated it with salt water before frying it is my tips if you want to eat tempeh without mixing it with another ingredients.
Tempeh or tempe (/ˈtɛmpeɪ/; Javanese: témpé, Javanese pronunciation: [tempe]) is a traditional Indonesian soy product that is made from fermented soybeans.[1] It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form.[2] Here a special fungus is used, which has the Latin name Rhizopus oligosporus, usually marketed under the name tempeh starter.
I think you description of GMO is misleading, you don't just find most fruits and vegetables "out in nature" people have been modifying the genetics of agricultural foods for hundreds of years and this isn't a bad thing, because as you mentioned it can help crops be more draught and pest resistant and this is good! The reason many people dislike GMO foods is because when a large agricultural conglomerate modifies them, rather than a slower modification process through seed selection, they often do it with the purpose of being able to use large amounts of pesticides etc so the crops will yield heavily and withstand weed killers like roundup. This is the main reason you should consider non-GMO, not because its "genes have been messed with"- this often doesn't mean much and isn't inherently problematic.
I find it depends on what your cooking. Silken tofu is good for cheesecake and mousse. Extra firm tofu for stir-frying but my favourite is grated tempeh in lieu of mince
Awesome video, great explanation, best one I've found.
You forgot to mention the coagulants in tofu. Because of the coagulant I lean towards temphe for being healthier but I do alternate between them simply out of boredom after a week.
GMO is scientifically safe. Even if you’re afraid & buy into junk science, most of the GMO soy is fed to non human animals (consumed by omni’s & vegetarians), or is incorporated into omni foods (via junk food). I’ve never come across GMO tofu, tempeh, or edamame. But, again, GMO is safe & we need to shift away from baseless fear.
Preach
Yep!
Isn't fermented tofu much more healthier to consume compared to non-fermented?
Tempeh is so easy to make and it's quite expensive in the US. Cheaper and tastier(people who say there's is bitter?) to make large batches and freeze
Tofu vs Tempeh => Tofu & Tempeh are pair like mom and dad dont compare them
I had tofu curry yesterday night😵💫it was delicious! I love tempeh even more!!!
Have switched from TVP to Tempeh. Both high protein with good nutrients, vitamins and minerals. 🙏🏻🏊♀️🏋🏻
Which one is better for weight loss soya or tempeh
great, informative, glad I found your video!
slice the tempeh and fry it in a pan with some spices such as garlic, black pepper, cayenne pepper, bell pepper. Than serve with a bit of bbq sauce:
tempeh spare rips.
I was about to give you a thumbs up when you blurted out that nonsense about GMO being bad, and I decided to give you a thumbs down instead. GMO is saving lives worldwide making it possible to grow crops where people would be starving otherwise, and there is no scientific research showing it hurts anybody.
It definitely is better than starving but these chemicals are obviously harmful
@@itsalexhere8748 nope, nothing obvious about that
I can't explain it but most of the time I criticized unknown bloggers or RUclipsr's but as soon as I saw you I liked you and I can't explain it so congratulations keep it up
Thank you and welcome to the channel!
why would you want either one ? what are they good for ?
Thank you .. for men: between tempeh and tofu , which is better ?
Yes plz.make a video about different soy products and their nutritional.value
The tofu you held up, not packed in water, is our family of 6 fav
Hi Misty! It's may favorite too and the only one I've been buying recently.
Tofu is what i eat when im sick, cold, or need a hug
Tempeh is what i eat when i want awesome food, which is everyday
im not vegan nor vegetarian. But tempeh is in the top of my menu and tofu is the second. So if you dont like tempeh.. maybe you tried the wrong tempeh.. just search the real one
The correct original name is a Tempe without "H" ... Not Tempeh ...😁...
Nutrition fact Tempe have more nutrition compare than Tofu ...thanks for the video it is a great explanation
Magic Bali thats right
You must live in Tempe, Arizona? Anyway, the "correct" , CURRENT name, which has been adopted, is Tempeh. This actually prevents the postal service from shipping all that great food to Tempe, AZ. lol
Thanks for sharing!! 🥰
Great video.
Thanks...glad you enjoyed it!
im having Tempeh right now and its so tasteless, HELP
Thanks so much!
I hope you try tempeh made with leave banana, the taste is deferend than tempeh made with plastic. If you visit indonesia tempeh in there is the best.
You talk about GMO, saying that we should not buy it, but never give an answer to why we should not buy it?
I'll be using tempeh
Good points and good video overall.
Now, believing that we can STILL these days find nonGMO or trully organic soy products, is a nice fantasy... ask monsanto.
You need to insert some visuals between topics / sections.
Dumb Question: Do I have to cook Tempeh before eating it? Tofu can go straight to a salad, right?
David Bourland yeah, but tofu by it self is disgusting
@@gomezmaidelyn4658 I quite like it. Plain but enjoyable.
I'm probably going to sound dumb. But..... how do you tell if the tempeh is good. Everytime I go to the store and look they date are all good but when I look at the tempeh it looks moldy. Is this normal? The ones that are at the stores near me are the same brand you got in this video. Thank you for any suggestions.
So i came to this video because i didnt know what it was made of. Tempeh is mold. Its moldy beans. I had no idea. Untill i saw videos of people making it.
Some "discoloration" on tempeh is normal and not a health hazard in any way- as another commenter mentioned, it is "myceliated" meaning that it uses fungus to "ferment" it. Just like bacteria, there bacteria that are bad for our health and bacteria that are beneficial for our health; there are fungus we can eat-like shiitake and the fungus on tempeh, and fungus we can't eat like certain poisonous mushrooms. Hope this helps
It looks like whatever brand of tofu you picked up it's the same brand that probably makes it for Trader Joe's, which is my favorite the extra firm high protein. I also like the fact it's not in a plastic tray. You don't even need to press out any water, but you have to keep it in water if you don't use it all up. My father made me my first tempeh dish back in the 80s, and although I found it a little weird, I loved it, and I've been eating it ever since.
Hi Johanna! It's always great to hear from you. I think you're right. I've purchased the tofu you saw in the video and the tofu from Trader Joe's and they are exactly the same. The only difference is the packaging...lol.
Vince Lia hehe... Thanks! Take care talk to you soon!
Oh do I need that good bacteria! New to all this, thank you!
Sorry, I didn't like this video because as a vegan of 30+ years, I found a lot of errors in your analogy between the two. First, you say tofu isn't fermented but, in actuality it is. The soymilk is cooled to a certain temperature before it's lixed with Nigari, or Lemon Juice, etc. The ferment is a short ferment but it's still a ferment.
Second, your video almost sounds like you are siding with Weston Price and this is a very slippery slope. Asians have been eating tofu for thousands of years. Tempeh came from the Phillippines where the weather is very hot and the process of making tempeh was stumbled onto as many great finds are. My point is, Asians have been eating tofu for thousands of years. Many Japanese eat tofu three times a day. But the one thing they do, that we don't, is to always good their tofu with some kombu or iodine rich seaweed. This is because soy, even tempeh, requires iodine for proper absorption. If we don't have enough iodine in our system, soy can stress out the thryroid looking for it. This is where excess iodine is stored.
Anyway, maybe next time you will ponder more on what you say before you say it. Colleen Patrick Goudreau has a great video on soy and Mark Messina, PhD has two amazing videos on so and I believe he eloquently touches the fermented vs the whole, and mildly processed tempeh. And, for the record, making tempeh requires more work because we have to dehull the soybeans before we ever mold them. The hulls make or s strange flavor and you have two or three pople who purchased products but they basically did nothing when it came iimt to vote.
Yes, I stand corrected. Got the Asian country wrong. :) Thanks.
Everything sounds logical till i read you typed that tempeh is originated from the phillipines. The pinoys almost lost most of their original cultures, historical artifacs and records, that can show their close ties with their nusantaran brethrens, hard to say tempeh is from there when their oldest record shows that even by then most kingdoms in philipines are influenced or even vassals of whether to chinese or Indonesian empire. And FYI Indonesia holds the earliest record of tempeh existence
Most of our food is GMO, and it's a good thing. Don't worry about the GMO, and learn your science. :-)
YES, THANKS!
You forgot to write: Payed by Monsanto!
Gmo is only bad if it is meant to make the plant immune to pesticides. Then the plant is covered in pesticides that give us cancer
Thank you 🇵🇭
I like the sprouted tofu
Me too...it's the only one I've been buying lately.
You have no idea what you're talking about regarding GMO.
Honest question, but what is the problem with GMO products? Just because something has been modified doesn't necesarrily mean it's bad. The only problem with i've discovered woth GMO soy, is that it turns it into an obnoxious weed which is the hard to get rid off causing invade other crops
Imdonesian here To all Vegans: Please NEVER cook tempeh like how you cook a beef.... it will tastes disgusting!
you should cook it like how you cook potato or chicken
Haha as if theres only one way to cook any of those things.
But tempeh just tastes bad. Tofu tastes nothing, so you can make it taste good.
In indonesia, tempeh taste good, it is freshly made wrapped with banana leaves. There are no frozen tempeh and it doesn't taste bitter.
Tofu is from Japan or China, while Tempeh is from Malaysia.
Tempeh or tempe (/ˈtɛmpeɪ/; Javanese: témpé, Javanese pronunciation: [tempe]) is a traditional Indonesian soy product that is made from fermented soybeans.[1] It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form.[2] Here a special fungus is used, which has the Latin name Rhizopus oligosporus, usually marketed under the name tempeh starter.
Area originated:East Java,Central Java,DI Yogyakarta.
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Jaws beginning. Was a waste of time.
This guy has not learned his science. If this guy did learn his science, he would not be fearing the GMO's. It's that easy and serious.
Objectivityiskey I say NO to GMO's. I don't know the science either, but I'd rather have natural & unmodified foods. Thats what I was brought up on before "science" started messing with foods. I am 56 yo & when I was younger, allergies to peanuts/nuts, dairy, gluten & others didn't exist, but today its in abundance. Gotta be a link & the common link is food.
@@zonagal Just because you didnt heard about them or don't remember it doesn't mean they didn't exist.
You know what else is GMO? EVERY corn, that means the corn we know today is GMO, also every carrot, watermelon, banana and so on and so forth, humans have been altering food since the dawn of humanity, just because today we use faster methods with fancy tools doesn't mean it is unsafe.
@@zonagal
Natural and unmodified does not mean safe though; it does not even mean a _tendency_ to be _safer._ Your reasoning is entirely flawed.
Also asserting that the common link is GMO is complete nonsense and totally unscientific. It's what's called a spurious correlation. There are so many variable it complete nonsensical to just pick a single one and assume it is the problem. Many studies have been conducted and there's no indication of what you're claiming to be true.
There's more premature babies born, more air pollution, more helicopter parenting, more reporting of minor health conditions and abnormalities, more professional knowledge of health conditions, and more spreading of health-related knowledge to the general public - both accurate and inaccurate knowledge. Many people who claim to be sensitive to wheat/gluten aren't even-so, and instead have other conditions. In a recent study conducted, 86% of people tested who thought they had wheat/gluten sensitivity *were not sensitive to wheat/gluten.*
People didn't know about most conditions 1000 years ago; do you think that means people were healthier then? They didn't know what cancer or gluten even was.
If you really care about the food you eat, you should stop choosing between tofu and tempeh and make your food instead of buying from proceed food stores.
Tempeh tastes sooooo bad 🥴
Nope
You need to season tempeh. Cook it by marinate it in salt water for 1 minutes and then fry it. Or you can stir fry it with vegetables using your local recipes.
Season it 🧂
Mybe u was ate wrong tempeh
yeah, I just boiled it😂
but I regularly boil veggies, beans, tofu and love it.
Great video! I was initially intimidated by both. I now feel comfortable cooking with firm tofu but I only tried tempeh once and it was pretty weird. I didn't realized tofu was that processed though so I'm going to give tempeh another try. I would love a video on just soy products and what it is in!
Thanks for letting me know about that video...I'll work on that video for you! I have a few tempeh recipe videos linked in the description that you may want to check out and give a try.
We use to soaked it with salt water for few minutes before fry it.
really concise and informative. I absolutely love tempeh one of my main sources of protein for a really long time. I rarely eat tofu.
If tempeh is too strong of flavor, steaming it or simmering it in broth or water plumps it up and takes out some of that bitterness, as well as making it easier to digest. That's what I've read anyway.
Yup! I also boil it since it also helps the tempeh absorb whatever flavor you're cooking it with and taste much better!
In Indonesia, we never got that bitter tempe.
Seems like u got some over-fermented or over-rotted tempe. Or the company that made it doesn't know how to make a proper tempe
@@DBT1007 that's what i was thinking! I'm half Indonesian and grew up with eating Tempeh. Now that it is mainstream, people out here eating rotten bitter tempeh 😂
I boil it in water and then I'll put it in the frying pan or toaster oven to crisp it up. Then you can add sauces like terriyaki or barbecue to get a delicious, healthy plant based protein.
Silken tofu for making chocolate mousse, firm frozen-defrosted for air frying, bbq and other savory cooking 😊 Never saw “extra firm” here in Denmark, so always wonder if our firm translates to firm or extra firm... But at least the firm tofu here can be bought in a glass jar, to reduce single use plastic waste.
Cannot find tempeh in the supermarket here, probably need to go online for that. Is it stored cool?
Thank you for a good video! 🙏
Hi Lisa! Those recipes sound delicious. I've just started using my air fryer and really like it. You can always just place press any addtional water out with some rags and books...lol. Tempeh does need to be stored in the refrigerator. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video!
I have been forcing myself to eat tofu because I thought it was healthier than tempeh ... but I’m obsessed with tempeh now I can go back to enjoying my favorite vegan meat substitute 💜💜💜
I never had this and actually learned of it today. I’m glad to have watched this video so I can do better with my choices in meat replacements.
Tempeh has more solid consistency than tofu.
Yeah traditionally our mom tell us that tempeh are replacement for meat, because it has huge proteins, good texture and “cheap”
In the past when meat from chicken and beef still expensive for most of us in Indonesia, we used Tempeh for our main proteins source.
1: Tempeh is a myceliated product, it is grown with a number of different Mold cultures and it is not a Lacto Bacillus nor is it a yeast ferment. The most common culture is rhizopus oligosporus, but there are other strains that can be used such as R. oryzae. So while it often gets called a fermented product, myceliated is the proper term for it.
2: Tempeh doesn't have to be a soy product, it can be made with any legume & grain, you can even grow it on Mushrooms and sweet potatoes. The Mycelium is like a stomach that digest everything on the outside by producing enzymes to help break the food down. Making it easier on digestion and making the nutrients more bioavailable. We make ours with Wild Rice, Portabello, sweet potato & Lentils.
3: it is much easier and significantly cheaper to culture it yourself, and you can culture it in just about any shape. It only takes about 48 hours to culture, we grow ours in Dinosaur molds :]
Mycology is fun & Tastey
@gifarry hakim
Soy has a good nutrient profile but so do other legumes & grains. For those not in Indonesia prices may be different.
For us Wild Rice & lentils is cheaper then soy- as we have a good vendor for it; we grow our own beans and sweet potatoes and fruit our own Portabellos.
We make red Tempeh with beet root powder grown from our gardens, there is alot of room for experimentation.
I like Traditional Tempeh as well, but I tend to make Tofu with our soy instead.
Thank you for your perspective Gifarry :)
Thank you so much for those comments. Very instructive.
You didn't give a good reason to avoid GMO. GMO foods are highly important, means these plants can be grown more efficiently, better for the environment, does nothing bad to your health compared with normally made foods or organic. Organic foods can still use organic pesticides which can also be harmful to health. Haven't seen any evidence yet that GMO harms health
Make a zero sense. Avoid GMO for health
Very informative. Thanks. Going to try some tempeh!! :) Just a little disappointed about the bad rep that GMO gets. Almost everything we eat has been genetically modified, one way or another. humans have altered nearly everything the eat through artificial selection anyway. GMO is a more targeted method and can be hugely beneficial, for example, Golden Rice. Especially in poorer areas. I don't think there's ever been evidence of a GMO produce being bad for consumption. Not to say that will always be the case, but being GMO in and of itself, isn't a bad thing.
GMO crops can withstand lot of pesticides and insecticides so the crops are laden with those chems. Another problem is the environmental impact of GMOs.
Tempeh that is packed with banana or cocoa leaves taste better. No doubt
Am happy to bump into this vid. As a tofu n tempeh lover in asia, hope u all enjoy tempeh chips eps with casava. Tempeh n tofu sayur lodeh or sambal goreng. Both can be done as vegan dishes. Enjoy.
i love both. but if that is an option then I choose tempeh, tempeh has a lot of vegetable protein and contains rhizhopus bacteria. Tempeh is a great alternative for building muscle mass and also preventing cancer
Nice video, but please knock off the vague fear mongering about GMOs. The genetic modifications made to soy via genetic engineering are much less extensive and much more thoroughly understood than those that have been made through selective breeding. There is no evidence that GMO soy is dangerous, and there is not even a proposed mechanism that would justify such a concern.
I've never understood what's wrong with GMO foods. And you've not convinced me either.
But thanks for the rest of the video, very informative :)
what's the problem with gmo?. just argument the danger for me
GMO is not inherently bad and it actually can be better in some instances. Just because the DNA is modified doesn’t necessarily change its nutrient profile, at least significantly, and it can make it so that in certain instances, chemicals do not need to be used on the plant when growing. Of course it sometimes can change the nutrient profile, but GMO is too commonly touted as unhealthy which is not true.
I love tempeh more than tofu guess my tastebuds got lucky by liking healthier tempeh.
Please do a video on soy products. I’m new to being a vegan 🌱. I have lots to learn.
That hand scared me.
great video apart from the GMO part, there's nothing bad about it
About GMOs... techincally everything we eat has been genetically modified... through selected breeding.
Wild cucumbers for example are poisonous in it untampered state. carrots and eggplants are suppose to be white... ect.
Good info but do your research pls. Most foods today are GMO lol
Yea whats up with soy products?
I'm not quite sure what your major issue is with GMO. It is just speeding up a process that humans have been doing for thousands of years: selective breading. All fruit and vegetables you buy in the supermarket has gone through the slow process of modifying its DNA over thousands of years through selective breading to produce more resilient and better tasting crops. So in some sense none of the produce you get in the supermarket are 'natural' because they have been altered through controlled evolution. Fruit that we buy in the modern world has far less vitamins and far more sugar than it did in the past but it is not classified as GMO produce because the changes happened slowly over the generations.
GMO is just a faster form of selective breading. It can create disease and pest-resistant crops which reduces the amount of pesticides in the environment; create higher crop yields for less land and lower carbon emissions; and GMO can also have been modified to have a higher nutritional content.
GMOs are safe and fear mongering about them not being 'natural' is a failure to understand how humans farm and our impact on the environment.
When you cook Tempe does it kill the probiotics
Yes, but you'll still get the other benefits of fermentation that makes certain nutrients easier to absorb
99% of tempeh is pasteurized anyway (so cooking makes no difference). Also, the bacteria used to make tempeh isn't probiotic bacteria that is beneficial. So even if you have unpasteurised tempeh, there's no added health benefit.
Great video. Very educative. Thank you for sharing. I definitely choose tempeh. Thank you. ♾🌟💎
Tempe mendoan... Try use special sweet soy sauce from Purwokerto for mendoan.
Tofu and tempeh are foods that I eat when I have less money 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love tofu so i assume I'd enjoy tempeh
I like silky tofo in soup
Orangic Tofu
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Your alternative to GMO soy is pesticide-soaked soy.
Nothing wrong with GMO honestly, he lost me by saying this
@@stefanvandenberg4075 Genetically modified foods are genetically modifying humans. Your comment is uninformed.
@@HerMajesty1 what are you trying to say? that we alter our genome/DNA by eating genetic modified food?
Isn't that why he said "organic"
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