# Cooking Tofu?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 5, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157 "2006-11-05T04:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157/1 "2006-11-05T04:32:23Z")

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So Mrs. Small gets off work in an hour, I know she’ll want something for dinner, and we bought some tofu the other night at the store (extra firm).  
What can I do with it?  
What are your favorite ways to cook tofu? I have cooked it once before but grilled it after marinating it all night…  
Quicker ideas? are there any?

Brendon

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157/2 "2006-11-05T09:12:57Z")

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Marinating tofu doesn’t help, and believe me, I tried.  
You can buy pre-seasoned tofu (my favourite is the smoked variety) but the easiest way is just cutting it in half-inch or smaller cubes and stir-frying it while adding soy sauce. The flavour seems to stick much better during frying then during marinating.

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**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157/3 "2006-11-05T13:00:23Z")

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You’ll find some good advice [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=364152&highlight=tofu) I got 63 threads to show up in a search of the term “tofu” in Cafe Society over the past year.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-tofu/379157/4 "2006-11-05T13:33:56Z")

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Try [this](http://www.tofu.com/).