can you eat kimchi without cooking it or heating it? If so do you have to eat it cooked?

Answer 1

Oh man, is this the question for me to answer, but I'll try to keep my answer brief.

First off, you can eat it either way. A lot of the time, we (Koreans) just eat it with rice and nothing else. Sometimes it's just one side dish of many. Sometimes we'll have kimchi, bulgogi, and rice all on the same spoon.

As for cooking it, you don't fry it or anything like that. It is mostly added in stews, most notably kimchi soup. There is no "right" or "wrong" way of making it, but it usually includes: some type of roast, kimchi, water, garlic, crushed red pepper, and tofu. I add daenjang to mine as well. There are infinite ways to eat kimchi. Some American friends of mine will eat it with steak. One last thing though, fresh kimchi doesn't make as good of a stew as old, sour kimchi. The pungent taste of old kimchi gives stew a more flavorful kick, whereas fresh kimchi doesn't. Also, keep in mind, kimchi doesn't go bad. In fact, it's generally stored in big clay pots for months on end before ever being used, so if you have had a jar of kimchi in your fridge for 3 years and you open it and it smells sour, throw it in a big pot of kimchi stew, but I wouldn't recommend eating it plain at that point. Plain kimchi (i.e., as a side dish by itself) is best when it's fresh (i.e., within a few months after bringing it home from the grocery store).

Answer 2

Kimchi Raw

Answer 3

Unless you work in an office where everyone eats kimchi, may I recommend that you limit eating kimchi to the weekend? Kimchi will give you horribly bad breath (worse than garlic) and if you work with clients, you won't be doing yourself a favor. Nobody will tell you this, but I will (I have been on the receiving end of Kimchi breath and it is horrible). I have eaten Korean food and it's not bad. But in most western societies, coming to work with really bad breath is not appreciated.

Answer 4

I have never cooked kimchi. The fermentation process that turns cabbage into kimchi kills any bacteria.

Kimchi is a great substitute for sauerkraut on a hot dog.

Answer 5

a kimchi cchigae is kimchi cooked. But kimchi is pure raw, healthy, delicious food!! Eat it with rice or just alone, if you prefer. Enjoy it anyway you want! By the way, it's one of the healthiest foods in the world.

Answer 6

Kimchi is a pickle, it would NOT be normal to heat or cook it, any more than it would be to do so with a Dill Pickle or a pickled onion, (though ALL these things can be used in cooking recipes).

Answer 7

on a daily basis, koreans eat it without cooking it or heating it. but there are alot of recipes out there that use kimchi. such as kimchi soups, fried rice and stuff

Answer 8

I love kim chi, and I've never heated or cooked kimchi in my life!

Answer 9

I don't think you could heat or cook kimchi, its purpose is to serve chill.

Answer 10

By law, microwavable meals have to be ready to eat because heating in a microwave doesnt necessarily heat the food to a high enough temperature for long enought to kill all the nasties in raw food. So... you can eat it cold as long as it is within the best before date.

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