Complaining about tofu being bland is the equivalent of saying that a blank canvas is boring.
Saying you hate tofu is such a self own. It is one of and maybe the most versatile food of all time. It is cheap. It’s macros are at parity with chicken breast. It keeps well AND is much safer (food safety and healthwise) than meat.
I can confirm as someone going from eating meat with every meal to vegan, basic ass fried tofu tastes better than most restaurant meat these days.
What is even wilder is that the US grows a lot of soybeans, and the ideal target for MAGA would probably be a soybean farmer.
My hypothesis is that it forces some of the water inside to turn into steam which then boils off, but it’s definitely very counterintuitive.
You’d think the same would happen when you just throw some tofu in a pan
It does, but you’re not heating the tofu evenly with only one contact surface, and once you’ve got a nice crust on there’s nowhere for water to go very efficiently. When you put food in an oiled pan and it sizzles, that’s water leaving the food and boiling off.