“The authentic Valencian paella.” Logically, no. But humor is what saves social networks and, on this occasion, where we are faced with a dish prepared from the Spanish recipe par excellence outside our borders, it is the only thing left to us. As predicted in this latest chapter, the “Cooking Kate” Tiktok account has been filled with hyperbolic comments and jokes about making frozen rice.
The first thing to say is that the dish is from The Gym Kitchen brand and is sold in different Central European countries. Among its ingredients there are chicken, chorizoin addition to tomato, peas, zucchini and red peppers. What’s curious, as if that wasn’t enough, is the way Kate cooks it. Although the packaging indicates to heat for 10 minutes in the microwave, the cook prepares a pan with a large quantity of sunflower oil and releases the frozen “mazacote”, to which she adds another generous sample of salt .
“Finally, someone is making paella the way God intended,” says another user, tugging at the thread of irony that has established itself in the British TikToker’s wall of replies. During cooking, he continues to add salt, which is not foreign to his followers: “I just had a cardiac arrest“.
But things do not stop there, because few people know how to handle humor and satire among the Spaniards, who were happy with different comments on the quantity of oil supplied: “Will 100 hectares of olive trees be enough for me to make this paella or should I not take the risk?or “Every few miles do you change the oil in the paella?” “.
As expected, references to the justified tension of Valencians with the “rice” suffered by their star dish also found their place in a video that has more than 2.5 million views and more than 8,200 comments on TikTok. “I am Valencian and I send greetings from the hospital» or “I think paella isn’t made that way but since I’m not Valencian I don’t have an opinion. »
