Feeling a little blue

[PlainName]

[Body isn't empty, honest]

[T3sl4co1l]

Dabba dee dabba die?

Also orange cauliflower, looks neat, eats pretty much the same as any other cauliflower.

Did the florets/tips change color just from cooking (steaming?), or is there some pH stuff involved too?  (Likely it's anthocyanins, red in acid, blue in base.)

Tim

[PlainName]

A bit less flavour than the normal stuff.

Started out a nice pinky-violet, mostly in the tips but some veins in the stem too. When cooking, turned deep blackberry and then wound up as the colour you see there. The water was close to cyan!

Edit: There is orange stuff too, as you note:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/307357062

[T3sl4co1l]

Ahh, probably a little basic in the (hard?) tap water.  Splash some vinegar on there, wait no, vinaigrette for extra flavor and brightening up the red shade if you like.

On a related note, it's always so disappointing frying up some red cabbage with eggs, say as a hash; eggs are somewhat basic so end up stained ugly-blueish.  Not the most presentable thing, but just as edible as with any other cabbage.

Tim

[PlainName]

Thanks, I'll try that next time (there will be a next time because my SO wants to try the water for dyeing her, er, strings).

[coppercone2]

if you boil pasta in wine it looks kinda like that.kinda wonder if you boil califlour in red wine

[PlainName]

Sounds like a waste of good wine to me!

[T3sl4co1l]

I mean, as an experiment, I guess it's something.

Not a waste if you go on to make a soup, maybe the pasta is the last step to a variant on coq au vin!

Tim

[Ed.Kloonk]

Sounds like a waste of good wine to me!

What is not revealed is the price of said red wine.

[RJSV]

Making me think, looking at your colors, for simple CAULIFLOWER:
   Does (ANY) Gardener enthusiast tried INJECT with syringe, various (edible) FOOD COLORING ?
You know; like Lime Green Cauliflower, or...how about Blue or YELLOW Sunflower Seeds ?
Sounds pretty vain, I know, espec when others don't feed their families, in extreme poverty.

  A Cobalt Blue dish, of Sunflower Seeds, would be a party staple.
   Artichokes, well, you'd have to 'bleach out, the natural green, first.
   Heck, I heard that BEARS, as parents; ENCOURAGE the little cubs, to play with their food.
 
   There is, likely, a safe-consumable LUMINESCENT chemical, for safe food additives, once in a special season.  People do their HAIR luminescent.

   Believe it, or not, I actually have too much, imagination...But it helps drive commerce, if you get the right combo, of circumstances...

[PlainName]

Heston Blumenthal does that kind of thing, but at the cooking end of the chain. A sample is chicken liver mousse created to look like a mandarin orange.

[T3sl4co1l]

Sunflower I don't know, but pistachios are often dyed red -- just the shells though.

Might also be possible by breeding; consider the spectrum of jewel corn (maize).

Tim