Seriously?? Wow, a friend had been talking my ear off with brassicacea fact and failed to mention this? Thanks for sharing!

So then if I eat mustard, I don’t have to eat the rest of that stuff?

So what is kohlrabi? Is it good? How do you eat/cook it?

In the words of my lord and savior samonella

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That's called bolting, and it's no longer enjoyable to eat when it's done that.

Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)

Same, but it makes the bees happy.

Your loss becomes our gain or something.

Not exactly. It is bolting when it starts sending up a flowering stem, the very beginning of flowering. Every broccoli I've ever eaten has bolted, but not many of them have bolted and flowered.

In my opinion, no. It is picked and consumed when the buds are still tight, if the head starts to loosen or the buds begin to open it has a more bitter taste to it.

Typically when plants flower they become more bitter. There are outliers but the general rule holds. Broccoli is better before it flowers fs

Once it blooms it turns bitter. Still edible, but a different flavor

Yes, you can eat the flowers. We combine them with regular broccoli in a saute. They make a pretty addition. The very end of the stems are also edible but anything more than an inch or two from the end can be woody.

The broccoli and broccolini in my garden have grown so big it's hard to keep up. This means I'll sometimes eat bits that have begun flowering. I haven't noticed much difference in the taste.

Vegetable veal

Yep, pretty much any leafy green or allum. Various others as well.

If your broccoli smells like a fart then that means you have overcooked it in water.

Try roasting that shit, you will find that broccoli smells and tastes fucking fantastic.

In my experience, 'bulb' refers to the part that's in the ground. The part you pictured is called a 'scape'.

And yes, they are delicious.

That's what the Broccoli family (of James Bond fame) claims, but it's contested. The James Bond IP is the source of their wealth.

I thought it was named after Lieutenant Broccoli of Star Trek fame.

A branch of the Broccoli family made the James Bond movies until they sold the rights for gigabux to Amazon.

Grew broccoli for the first time this year. The answer is worse, chewier, stringier.

It becomes bitter.

It’s closely related to mustard, and mustard’s distinct flavor is from the seeds. So I’d assume that if you leave it long enough for the blooms to seed, they’d taste similar to mustard. Most plants tend to get bitter after they bloom, because they send all of their nutrients to the flowers. And mustard does tend to be fairly bitter.

That's what color they are in the "visible" spectrum, I wonder what they look like if you added in the ultraviolet spectrum that bees and other insects can see