/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14193848
Stop trying to make things with veal demiglace.

>>14193848
Cooking is not that difficult or time-consuming but it can be. Cook other foods.

that looks fucking disgusting

>>14193848
>>get inspired by video games to learn how to cook
>>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
Nigger just go watch food wishes. Almost every recipe on that channel is easy as fuck and can be replicated with ingredients you can find at your local store.

>days of preparation
Are you digging pit roasts?

The most time consuming food I make are spaghetti bolognese and tomato soup, lasagna once in a blue moon.
Wish we could eliminate the need for eat and sleep, robot bodies when?

>>14193848
>>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
what the fuck are you trying to make

I'm 28 and have lived by myself for a decade but didn't learn until this year how to properly cook rice.

>>14193848
>days of preparation
6 hours, tops to make something from scratch. That includes coming up with a recipe and going to the shops to get everything

>>14193848
>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
Not really. Though I will give you that coming home from work and knowing that I'll have to put some effort into getting something to eat sucks.

>>14193857
Rice sucks anyway, no big waste

>>14193848
Stop cooking pretentious food and just look at what you grandma used to cook

>>14193860
Rice done right is tight as fuck.

>>14193852
>the triple shot of carrot penetration
what the fuck man, that poor chicken meat

What food have you made recently, /v/? I baked some lemon cookies today and they actually came out really good, I almost didn't get to have one because they were almost all gone by the time I got back to them.

>>14193855
>remove sleep
Imagine all the free time

>>14193848
I can make a pretty damn good curry in about an hour and it will do for two meals. Same for spaghetti bolognese

>>14193852
>Rice and potatoes
what the fuck

>>14193855
God I wish we didn't have to sleep.
Giving up food would suck though.

>>14193865
Hello, Kramer

>>14193857
Just put it in a pan with boiling water

>>14193864
I made an egg sandwich.
I wanted pancakes but I didn't want to get everything out.

>>14193852
>At 0:30

Not my proudest fap

>>14193855
I would rather live forever but able to sleep and eat.
Nothing beats good food and a nice nap.

>>14193848
you finally figured out why many poor people are fat. Unfilling and extremely fattening food. Healthy food is prohibitively expensive.

>>14193864
I've been making ramen recently. I still don't have it down yet but my fuckups have still been tasty.

>>14193848
>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
Nah, a good cook will make a good meal out of anything. Go to /ck/ sometimes, if you ask for help, people will oblige.

>>14193864
i made iced tea for the first time ever
i took a sip and it tasted like sugar, had to dilute it lol

>>14193874
>Healthy food is prohibitively expensive.
You could eat mostly cheap vegetables, it's both inexpensive and healthy.

>>14193848
>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>expensive
Just ask your mom for help if you're that retarded

>>14193864
Ham and peppers stew.
Not exactly the high point of my cooking career but I'm tight on resources.

>used to be somewhat serious about cooking
>enjoyed making my own sauce from the juices of cooked pork chops
>knife work was decent
>get really lazy
>literally all i eat now is egg rice, sardines, almost no prep veggies & fruit and protein shakes
cooking is incredibly easy, most stuff is eat & serve or chop & serve if you aren't baking. still, i don't want to bother with that anymore i'd rather just have convenience unless i'm trying to impress someone or cooking for fun

>>14193848
>Days of preparation

How? Do you start to cook, then fall into a multiple day coma, then finish cooking when you wake up?

>>14193874
>Healthy food is prohibitively expensive.
back to plebbit

>>14193848
Yes, and as you get better at it, you figure out what works, what doesnt, how to multitask and substitute.

It then become super easy and super cheap

>>14193874
Where the fuck do you live that has expensive vegetables? You can even grow your own what the fuck

>>14193881
This, pretty much. I'll cook for other people but I generally just eat whatever when I'm hungry. The shit I make for myself is stupid low effort, rarely actually tastes decent and mostly just ticks off nutritional boxes.

Why is it that anons can't get into anything remotely freeform

>>14193874
>"""""Healthy food"""""
Stop buying those 10 dollar bottled smoothies you mongoloid. Raw vegetables are always the cheapest thing in the supermarket.

>>14193848
Where the fuck do you live.
Also you dont need luxury shit to make good and tasty food.

i realised a while back that unless you cook in big batches this shit isn't worth it

to make meals cheaper, you need to cook a lot of something and freeze it. to avoid spending all your time in the kitchen, you need to just cook it all on sunday.

these faggot chefs and websites don't think about this shit, they list off a bunch of crap you'll use one drop of per meal, and shit you have to buy in a handful when you only need one.

>Not prepping your meals for hours (or days) and getting the sweet satisfaction of having a godlike meal made by your own hands for the few days.

Cooking familiar recipes with some music on is incredibly nice, except when your cat decides to run full pelt into your leg while you're chopping something and you stab yourself in the fucking finger

>>14193864
Chicken with rice (Spain)

>>14193890
>buy in bulk
>cook again later
Whoa...

>>14193852
This is an absolutely inefficient way of preparing whole chicken, though. Simply slip prepared butter under the skin. You get soft meat AND crispy skin.

>>14193852
I'm not what I was expecting after seing the "5 lbs butter" at the start. Fucking fatties, drowning everything in butter isn't cooking and if you call it that I feel bad for your taste buds and your body in general.

t. /fit/

Does anyone else find cooking with other people to be worse than watching someone else play a puzzle game? Its the worst shit.

>oatmeal with milk and apple sauce or raspberry jam
M O M M A

>>14193874
>people still spewing this bullshit

>>14193864
Chili verde. Pretty easy, just blend the shit out of some peppers and seasoning and put it over cooked pork butt bits. Tastes fuckin good man, and the shit lasts for days if you do the whole butt.

>>14193867
they are both starch retard same thing

>>14193881
Get a wife who does all the cleaning while you do the cooking.

I just rotate spag bol, fajitas, chinese5spice stir fry, and a few basic marinades endlessly and swap in different meat and veg

As long as you use fresh herbs and spices and fresh ingredients for your sauce you can do whatever you want and it will taste good. Initial buys of spices hurts but most will last months

>ordered from a local Chinese place recently
>lot of Chinese students around here so the menu seems a bit more authentic
>selling pigs ears, intestines, feet, duck tongues, frog leg hotpot and more
>ate some beef noodles i'd never heard of before
>and pig feet
actually wasn't the wost, the texture and having to bite between what i assume were like toe bones to get to the good stuff fucked me up a little though

>>14193897
Almost like too many chefs spoil the broth haha

>>14193852
>5lbs of butter
Im american and im shocked how the fuck do people eat like this

>>14193848
professional cooking is all about prep work and making the dish quickly
if you are spending hours you are doing it wrong, make broth once and make it last for a week instead of make it whenever you need broth for something
I can go throw together a rice pilaf with marinated chicken and 5 different vegetables in under 40 minutes, because I already have shit already cut up and the marinade is just sitting there from before

Where are the videogames cookretards?

>>14193904
Did they sell bats?

>>14193864
I do all my cooking and don't own a microwave
mostly chili or burgers but pan fried chicken is good and if you learn to debone thighs very cheap
rice is a good meal plusser upper
don't forget the vegetables
they are very low effort

/ck/ thread?

>>14193897
Yes, but I might be biased because I find doing the vast majority of things with other people to be incredibly irritating.

>>14193909
i would've tried them just to see if they're worth causing a global pandemic if they did

>>14193860
Say that to my face you fucking faggot.

>>14193904
>the texture and having to bite between what i assume were like toe bones to get to the good stuff fucked me up a little though
That jelly goodness is worth a thousand women.

>>14193855
I'm not overweight but I really, really love eating food and my number one hobby is trying processed FMCG goods. its probably because I was born into a middle class family and my parents stepped up their game and we became kinda alright 6-7 years ago. the day I die is the day I stop enjoying food.

pic related. I can't wait to try it out this sunday (its my fancy FNCG day)

>>14193897
I love cooking with the boys. Someone more competent in what we're making usually takes the lead, so we don't really run into any issues.

>>14193904
Pig feet are excellent, though. Connective tissue is rich in collagen and has a unique texture. Skin is the real problem because if it's too dry it becomes inedible. It's just one of those animal parts most people are never exposed to so they never learn how to prepare it.

>>14193897
Only when it comes to prepping the ingredients. I understand that you may not be the most familiar with kitchen tools, but holy fuck, do you have to cut the veggies so god damn slow?

I thought that girls were usually good at cooking.

>>14193903
On and ratatouille and hash meals are super easy too. Cooking websites are mostly a meme there are lots of simple recipes that you’ll discover if you type “italian cooking” or “French cooking”

>>14193857
>didn't learn until this year how to properly cook rice
Put it in a rice cooker and wait?

>>14193908
Cooking is artificial difficulty

First time I moved to America for college I got hooked on fast food for the first month or so. I stopped and started cooking home meals and noticed the huge gain in energy I got from eating my own cooking. How can Americans just eat fast food on a daily basis and still get work done? I get exhausted, or just want to sleep after eating out.

>>14193912
>tfw "just do the thing" is not valid instruction

>>14193911

>>14193848
I made Chicken Katsu with a simply curry & rice yesterday and it was nice
it's cheap as fuck too.

>>14193852
>5lbs of butter
Why

>>14193919
>woah I’m so good cook I cut fast
If you aren’t a professional cook there is absolutely no reason to be rushing your prep. How many ingredients are you even preparing you enormous douchebag?

>>14193852
How much calories is that?

>>14193852
I genuinely can't tell if this is bullshitting or not.

>>14193915
>>14193918
I did enjoy them, I've always been a little pussy when it came to stuff like the gristle on the end of chicken wings. i'mma go back and order them again with the frog leg hotpot maybe just to really test my tastebuds

>>14193852
>Five pounds of butter

Closed it, I don't need to see any more

I tried making rice and chicken stir fry yesterday because it looks cool. I've never cooked anything before. Bought some vegetablers(peas, carrots, broccoli, potato, corn), some rice, 1kg chicken breast, sesame oil and wok. According to the internet shit cooks fast af in woks but my chicken still took like 20min to fry(had no flavor and texture of sandpaper anyway). Vegetables and rice came out mushy as fuck (rice took me like 40min to cook + cool down, is this normal?). So yeah, fuck cooking.

>>14193928
found the slow cutter.

>>14193855
I can't be bothered doing a bolognese sauce
Once you know how to do it, it still takes a long time but you can make such a massive batch that it boils down to being a very fast meal
However if you want to LEARN how to make it, it's gonna take for fucking ever, because you don't want to make large batches in case it goes to shit

>>14193852
>those retarded, unnatural hand movements

>>14193853
>You will never have chef john ravage your b hole while making a seafood gumbo

>>14193933
what's that yellow thing on the top of the rice block
how do you cut it? is that a cucumbeer on side?

>>14193848
>if not days
you're exaggerating and need to stop this attention seeking behavior. At the very most you'd need to brine something overnight. Anything that takes days to cook isnt cooking, just breaking down/accelerated decomposing at that point

>>14193848
>Expensive
Anyone can make good food with expensive ingredients
A good cook can make good food with any ingredient

>>14193877
>not making unsweetened ice tea & then adding sugar afterwards
why

>>14193904
Chinese/Spanish mix here. You should try the pig intestines (Tripe, they call it). I like it honestly. Also, if they have chicken's feet you should try that too. The frog legs are usually a hit or miss for me, but if it's a hotpot then I say go for it.

>>14193927
They cover the whole chicken in it, though that's extremely inefficient, they should have rubbed a thinner layer of butter under the skin instead.

>>14193911
How do you even attempt to eat this?

>>14193928
I'm not saying you have to cut it like Raiden you fag. But it shouldn't take anyone a long time to chop a carrot into pieces, with some people I cooked with it was like watching a 5 year-old taking forever to write a word with more than 2 syllables.

>>14193942
was following a recipe

>>14193939
Fried egg. This one looks better.

>>14193934
Different ingredients cook for different time periods. You also almost always want to brown the meat first. Not to really COOK, but to give it some flavor. Dumping everything into a pot and just letting it cook is something first timers always, but you have to build flavors in layers.

>>14193848
Yep.
Welcome to cooking.
Work in a restaurant kitchen and you quickly realise that restaurant food is all cheap, easily batch prepared dishes that can be pumped out in 5 minutes.

>>14193848
The big trick:
Learn how to properly seal and can mason jars. Me and my dad, every summer, buy loads of locally grown tomatoes, and we boil them, and skin them, then make a large tomato marinara batch. We can them in mason jars, and properly sterilize and seal them. You then have a good years worth of premade homemade marinara that you can store away for later. Any tomato dish you make, you can just pull the marinara out. Good for making spaghetti sauces, if you want a good bbq sauce you can blend the marinara up, you cam make tomato chicken dishes, etc. It's a godsend.

If there's ONE talent that every single human should cultivate and foster, it's 100% cooking. It has no downsides save the labor, and people will love you if you treat them to good cooking

>>14193923
I don't know what region you were in, but we cook at home most of the time where I live.

>>14193864
La vina basque cheesecake. Google that shit. what a noble fucking recipe. A retarded toddler could make it and still genuinely wow people at a dinner party. Just don't be like my mom and slather that shit with shitty homemade raspberry jam.

>>14193951
Any tips on proper canning? Also, how long does the marinara sauce last, you say?

>>14193925
>bloody chicken

No

>>14193848
>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
These are not factual statements.

>>14193947
so why not just leave out the sugar?
It's not baking, especially with something like sugar you can just leave it out then adjust later based on taste

Fuck you anons now I'm hungry

>>14193955
Welcome to Ja/ck/.

>>14193848
>>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
What the fuck are you doing?

>>14193852
That was perfect until it hit the bake point. That was good to go, they ruined it

>>14193864
I made banana bread based on some recipe I found. It's basically just bananas, oat flakes processed into flour, peanut butter, nuts, raisins and a bit of water.
It's not really spectacular, but it tasted nice and was a great way to use the protein-rich peanut butter I had that for some reason on its own tasted kind of lame.

>>14193948
I don't think you should eat rice with eggs

>>14193864
I help the family with cooking sometimes, but the last dish I was soley responsible for was making Crepes with melted chocolate and fruit medley. Though I needed help with actually cooking them, still don't have that down just yet

>>14193848
Nigger just make meatloaf and shit like that. Easy as hell, cheap and tastes good

>>14193960
He is a beginner and a bit of a retard.

>>14193963
It's good shit anon

Some meals definitely take a while. Variables are very sensitive (time, temperature, technique, method, step-ordering). Even small details can make a big difference. You have to be thorough, and aware. Don't be fooled, cooking requires a good deal of effort, and can vary from a little work to a lot of work depending on the dish, but the payoff is worth it if done right.

I recommend the youtube channel, Bon Appetit. I watch it just for entertainment, but the recipes are not complex and are well explained for quality chefs.

Good things require time. Just like videogames, find a dish that sounds really good and give it a try. Don't give up anon!

>>14193951
>It has no downsides save the labor, and people will love you if you treat them to good cooking
>make a carbonara for dad
>spend like 30-45 min on it
>he gets home right as it's done
>complains it tastes too cheesy
NO SHIT IT TASTES CHEESY IT'S ONE OF THE SIX INGREDIENTS AND ONE OF THE TWO MAIN INGREDIENTS

>>14193852
>following online recipe
>it's an american website
>half the page is about this recipe reminds the author of her "pop pops" growing up on their farm in Kansas
>all the herbs and vegetables have the wrong name
>calls for things like "sticks of" and "cups of"
>4+6/15ths of a plank of cheese
>calls for "a jar of specific name brand item"
>Have 17 tabs open on web browser with conversions for weights, measurements and temperatures
>give up

>>14193885
Good luck if you live somewhere remote, like the Canadian territories. Food gets stupid expensive since you need to fly them in, and people are banned from hunting like they usually did in the past.

>>14193848
Wtf are you on about, just cause it doesn't take forever or use a shit ton of fancy ingredients doesnt make it bad. Start with learning techniques while making easy stuff. Don't waste "days" making something if you don't know the basics. You don't take up carpentry and decide your first project will be a house.

What food have you guys made recently that youve been proud of?
Post pics of it if you took any pics

>>14193919
My last ex was worthless in the kitchen. She made like rice omelette after 3 or so years we was together and she was proud of it. Needless to say I always did the cooking, but a lot of girls suck at cooking these days.

>>14193946
What time are we talking about here?

I made a 7 hour beef stew in a slow cooker yesterday and it was amazing. Pretty cheap and fed me for several days. All the vegetables and beef made it pretty nutritious too. Sometimes nice and simple is the way to go.

Do you guys think that UberEats, DoorDash, etc. will greatly discourage the following generations from learning how to cook?

>>14193976
>yesterday
>fed me for several days

>>14193848
Cooking is great dude and yes some ingredients can be quite expensive to buy but you often get a lot more than one serving out of it, to keep costs down always make a lot when you cook then freeze the rest maybe keep a day or two worth in the fridge.

Most stuff doesn't take several days to make, in fact I can pretty much only think of stuff that require you to dig a whole, fill it with salt and meat then leave it for a couple of months or where you cook a big chunk of frozen meat in the stove for around 12-16hours that actually take a whole lot of preparations but most things actually don't take much time and when you get a feel for it then most cooking is more or less downtime, try to cook different stuff.

>>14193965
This.
You can make your own good tasting food without it being some pretentious 5 star chef bullshit.
Most people don’t even have a developed enough pallet to really appreciate proper seasoning and flavor notes

>>14193976
recipe?

>>14193970
>1 and a half cups of flour (levelled and not compacted)
American instructions drive me up the wall. Wouldn't it be so much more consistent and easy to just say 100g? Does everyone have to have a set of cup measures? Just buy a scale and learn to read numbers, jesus

>>14193954
Canning is a pain in the ass, and usually my father is the better half. His usual procedure is running the jars through the dishwasher first to sterelize them, then he cans the marinara. Usually you leave about a half inch to an inch of air, and then place the tops in place - you don't need to screw on the ring too hard, just enough to keep it closed, but loose enough to let the air escape. Then you use some specialized jar tongs to drop them into a big pot of boiling water, and wait until the airbubbles stop escaping from the jar. The heat and water essentially pulls the air from the jars, but it's not loose enough for water to seep into the jar, if that makes sense.

>>14193848
Stews are cheap and easy to make. You don't have to actually stay in the kitchen and watch them simmer either.
You quite plainly put cannot go wrong with a nice stew.
You can recreate the coq au vin recipe from Deus Ex if you're a newbie. It's pretty decent.

>>14193972
Not trying to be a dick. Just realistic. Watch some old Americas Test Kitchen, the recipes can be finicky / more time consuming than necessary, but you will pick up a lot of good tips/techniques that apply to more than just that recipe.

>>14193970
>4+6/15ths of a plank of cheese

>>14193865
I'd run out of things to do sans replays and rewatching shows in a month.

>get inspired to make a meal that takes actual effort
>plan on making it big enough for me and my 2 roomates/friends
>buy all the ingredients
>prep like a mad cunt
>turn on my music
>2 minutes into my cooking they both walk in
>"dude that's too much X"
>"you need to turn the heat down on Y."
>"ew why are you using that? Use Z, i don't like that."
>stop cooking and package it all back up
>never cook for anyone but myself ever again

>>14193904
>Order Chow Mein from a chinese place
>Get a vegetable stir fry. No noodles but get a very small pack of crispy crackers that you might garnish a salad with
>Call the restaurant and tell them they got the order wrong
>They tell me that chow mein doesn't come with noodles
>Tell them that mein literally means noodles.
>They respond that this is something that Panda Express came up with
WHAT THE FUCK. MEIN LITERALLY MEANS NOODLES. FUCKING SCAMMING CHINKS.

>>14193977
Zoomers and millenials are overall already pretty shit at cooking, most of us here are mostly self-taught, so I don't have much hope for the next generation anyway outside of the few who will grow eventually tired of eating the same premade and packaged stuff everyday.

This post reads a lot like a wannabe drawfag wanting to skip straight to expensive markers

>>14193978
Yeah I don't know why I said yesterday. I must've had something else in mind. Made it like a week ago.

>>14193954
Marinara easily lasts a year when properly sealed. No mold, no risk of botulism if you sterilize the jars properly. Even if it's just for a year (could probably keep for longer, but when summer comes around again, you're making fresh batches anyways). It's well worth it to have good, homemade materials available through the year. Want nice spaghetti? Pop open a jar of marinara, blend half of it, and leave veggie chunks in the other half, unwrap itallian sausage and make meatballs, cook the meatballs, add the sauce, simmer, and bam, best spaghetti sauce

One thing I dig about Japanese vidya is they seem to really put a lot of effort into detailing food items when compared to western vidya.

>>14193925
for me, its Aunt Myrnas Party Cheese salad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_W7As6xbk

>>14193988
Tell them to fuck off.

>>14193989
>>They respond that this is something that Panda Express came up with
they got you good, gweilo

>>14193957
it's fine bro, i diluted it and it tastes good now

>>14193848
that looks good, what is it?

>>14193977
Probably. I know a lot of people who deride others for ordering too much food but ordered out half the week even before C19. As an aside, I'm really starting to hate the drivers for those services. I'll be in a restaurant getting takeaway doing my transaction with the cashier and some faggot will walk up and start asking about his order. Not to get all /pol/ on /v/ but it's always dudes who clearly came from places where manners haven't been invented yet.

>>14193977
Is there a percentage of how many people use those food delivery services? Cause shit, I might just cook food and run it around if that's the case.

>>14193864
But mine looked better with more filling, not as thick of a potatolayer, more melted butter and lingonberryjam.

>>14193848
>want to do something good
>wow it actually requires time, effort, and quality ingredients to get something good
WAHHHH MOMMY NOOOO I CANT HANDLE IT WHY CANT LIFE BE FED TO ME LIKE MCDONALDS CHICKEN NUGGIES MOMMY MAKE IT STOP CHANGE MY PUSSY TAMPON

>>14193969
Some people are just ungrateful - Don't complain too hard if someone cooks for you, and even if you're a subpar cook, people will appreciate it when you cook and they don't have to

>game doesn't have any Cayenne

>>14193994
>Aunt Myrnas Party Cheese salad
Some classics never get old.

>>14193982
Why should we change our domestic customs for your sake?

>>14193992
no worries mang, post that recipe though

>>14193994
Ja/ck/ always fucking kills me. The DSP of cooking.

>>14193977
Maybe? I've literally never used them because the fee plus tip they ask for is fucking ridiculous.

>>14194001
Palt makes me cum

>>14193874
Healthy prepackaged toddler food is expensive. Healthy ingredients are not.

>>14193864
I made a simple beef stew in my Crockpot
Makes me cum every time.

>>14194003
the weirdest part is, I already made it twice, once with 100g, which I found too much but he found okay, once with 60g and both of us found it too little
I used 80g this time and for some reason NOW he found it too much and I found good. I don't get this shit bro

>>14193994
Don't talk to me about FUCKING Japanese.

>order a steak
>chef keeps fucking messing with it in front of me
>CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES when he cut my steak into pieces
>he still keeps fucking with it
>later find out Japanese cuisine apparently doesn't like crust on meat so you basically just have the color

>>14193998
roast stew in FFXV

Im a cook as a job so my usual dinner is scraps at the restaurant (high quality scraps though)

when Im off I absolutely cannot be arsed to cook, lol

>>14193848
>>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
define good

>>14193999
You're not wrong. It's usually some frat boys who don't know the value of a dollar.
t. sandwich shop cook

Quick anons, what's your favourite ramen recipe? I'm gonna try and learn how to do it!

>>14193982
>Does everyone have to have a set of cup measures?

Yes. There are standardized measuring spoons and cups for this purpose. Although, it's generally about letting you know the ratios. If you're using the same cup for all your measurements you'll get it right.

>>14193855
For me it's Sunday Gravy, but that's mostly shit sitting in a pot for hours on end.

>>14194008
does he actually make a living off his cooking or does he have a day job?

>>14193984

Is the chicken augmented, though?

>>14194014
>>later find out Japanese cuisine apparently doesn't like crust on meat so you basically just have the color
what?
they like their meat very rare but they do put a sear on it

>Live alone in 1 bedroom flat
>Make the same 4-5 foods in bulk because they're tasty, can be eaten hot or cold and store easily
>Make enough to last a week and rotate through
>Fall for the GF meme
>She moves in
>She could probably fuck up cornflakes and milk
>Extremely picky eater
>Won't ever eat the same meal twice in a row
>Won't try new things
>Demands I accommodate her "requirements" and won't ever cook herself
>Forced her to try and she looked like I was forcing her to eat roadkill, and spits it out before it could have possibly touched her tongue
>Wants me to make all these shit meals her parents used to make her as a kid (despite refusing to ever eat my childhood meals)
>Put my foot down one day and tell her if Im the only one cooking, then I pick the meals
>She's eaten takeout every meal for the last 2 weeks in defiance
>Already looks like shes gaining weight

>>14193988
>He doesn't just lock himself in the kitchen when he cooks

My friends usually leave me be when I cook for them, but I've had to kick them out of the kitchen a few times because they kept trying to distract me with vidya. Granted, they do that because they're worried that I'm not having fun but still.

>>14194019
Maruchan.

>tfw can't make a roux to save my life
bros help me why the fuck does this shit not fucking work
I don't understand how I fucked up a fucking roux of all things

>>14193848
Make a fucking aglio e olio you talentlass hack - literally takes 30 minutes.

>>14193855
Holy fuck so much this.
If I never tired or my body didn't need to rest I'd be a fucking superhuman and mastered every single skill possible, or watch a shitload of anime.
Once the cyborg masterrace comes in jumping im head first into it

>>14194008
>has never done this before
What? Handled a knife?

>>14194025
Drop that bitch anon.
>Demands I accommodate her "requirements" and won't ever cook herself
Are you fucking serious?

>>14193994
Is this guy fucking joking? I can’t tell if he’s fucking with the audience on purpose

>>14194009
tip?

>>14193864
>lemon cookies
Now I want some

>>14193970
can relate, their autism regarding measurements is infuriating

That said if you keep doing it you'll eventually get the hang of what a cup actually is in a real metric. Thankfully cup is 99% of the time the biggest confusion in Clapistan recipes so just figure that one out and you'll be good to go.

>>14193925
oh lol that is brilliant

>>14193942
>Adding sugar to cold tea

I too enjoy a slight crunch to my tea ILO carpal tunnel

>>14194019
make two packets of ramen. throw away the flavor packets. strain all the water. douse it with onions sauce. a little rice vinegar. pepper flakes and garlic powder. then a little lemon juice.
if you're looking for a real ramen recipe no fuckin clue lol

>>14194025
She better give godly head anon otherwise you need to drop that bitch.
>Extremely picky eater
Never, ever associate with these "people". They universally have shit taste in everything, especially their food.

Roight...
*slices open Fritos bag like it is a piece of meat*
So today...
*wind blows away bag of Fritos*
So today...
*retrieves bag of Fritos and weighs it down*
We're going to have some /splendid/
*salts salty chips*
Classic, rustic Mexican cuisine
*peppers saltier chips*
Mmm, delicious...

Alright, serious question - how many of you tried making homemade ice cream?

>>14193956
What's the secret for an egg like that? Do you drop the egg in a mold?

>>14194013
Sounds like he's just a complainer at heart. My dad has a similar issue - he loves more mild flavors, and needs me to come and help with spicing and flavors. He hates spicy dishes, can't really handle them.

On the flipside, he's a stay at home dad and his hobby IS cooking. He's always trying new things - crazy guy bought a pasta maker, went and bought an old industrial fryer that he has outside and uses for stuff like fries and doughnuts occasionally. It can be frustrating because sometimes he insists on making his own spaghetti and pasta, when we could just buy the stuff and take some labor out of it, but he just genuinely enjoys the process of cooking. Grandad was Airforce, was a base commander in Europe so my dad had the ability to go and be taught how to cook in France. I love him, and I grew up on good cooking. I'm lazy, but even I picked up some nice skills. He's the one who had the idea to do the tomato marinara in jars, and we've been doing it for years now

>>14194025
>Make the same 4-5 foods in bulk because they're tasty
What do you make?

>>14194028
It's one part butter, one part flour, how do you fuck that up?

>>14194034
American thing. Give us even more money for the thing you just paid us for. Total bullshit, survives thanks to peer pressure.

>>14193855
humans have developed existential dread from merely experiencing half of what they could be, imagine what it would be like if we didn't sleep

>>14193864
i made some empanadas recently
also call whoever almost ate all the cookies a cunt for me

>>14194019
make ramen
don't use plain water use beef bullion
add naruto
add green onion slices
I know a lot of people put egg but I don't like it
add a splash of onions sauce

>>14194022
IIRC he mooches off his family. He also sells sauces. He tried to push them on Shark Tank or some similar show and they made him cry.

>>14194031
Yes.

>>14194042
Tried a few times but honestly it's a pain in the ass without an ice cream maker.

Recently I though to myself I'm too rich to be fat, so I am now gonna pay a private chef to count calories for me and manage my diet for a year.

Gonna pay about 20.000€ for this service without ingredients.

>>14194042
Is it frozen dessert or actual ice cream anon? Tell me the butterfat percentage so I can call you a pleb for making subpar ice cream. I swear to god if it’s 10%

>>14194025
jfc, sorry anon. I feel I can relate since I usually also cook bulk meals and rotate. Its mad comfy.

Why are so many girls picky eaters

>>14194025
Always be willing to compromise. But on the flipside, if she doesn't give you trust that you're making decent food or putting in your best, then you're going to have issues elsewhere. Never trust people who take people cooking for them for granted.

>>14194001
What’s that?

>>14194023
The stew can be augmented by using duck and white wine instead of chicken and red. You will definitely need to remove some of the fat if you do that, though. Save it for to fry potatoes in at a later time.
Man, now I'm hungry for a rich stew and all I've got is this candy bar.

obtain a smoker and smoke wings every few days using the 180/350 method for the rest of your life because brisket is too expensive in any where but south USA

>>14194051
what the fuck is he even doing

>>14194044
oddly enough he's usually an absolute bitch and never complains
my mom decided to buy two electric bikes, 2700€ each for her and the neighbor she's now in a relationship with
Now she wants to sell her old bike, the logical thing for her to do is to put it online & sell it herself. But of course not, she tells him to sell it & now he has to deal with all the retards offering way under what she asks for it. First he just ignored lowballs but now she said he has to reply to all of them

>>14193852
American/10

>>14194025
it ain't gonna work

>>14193989
>No noodles but get a very small pack of crispy crackers that you might garnish a salad with
Those ARE noodles, technically, put them in a soup
But yeah don't expect real chinese food from a chinese takeout place.

>>14194059
>charred meat
disgusting

>>14193864
I made some cornflake breaded pork chops on Monday
Crispiest breading I've ever had, would recommend

>>14194007
>>14193981
>1.5-2 lbs of beef. Cubed. Leaner the better.
>Season beef with your favorite stuff. I use salt, pepper, and some beef seasoning I bought at the store
>Sear it in a skillet with olive oil for just a few minutes. Just enough to brown it. Add to slow cooker
>Quarter some gold/red small potatoes and add to pot
>Mince however many cloves of garlic you want and add to pot. This influences the flavor a good amount
>Chop up an onion and add to pot. Also a large flavor influence
>Can add other stuff you enjoy here too
>Add 3 cups beef broth
>Mix in other seasonings/spices/whatever. I use salt, pepper, garlic, italian seasonings and paprika. Brown sugar can give it an interesting kick but don't put too much. I usually don't do this unless I'm cooking some asian shit
>Cook on low for 7-8 hours
>After the first hour or two, add in other vegetables. Carrots, peas, green beans, etc. If you're lazy, buy a can of vegetable meadly from your store and dump that shit in. Generally you delay this because you don't wanna get them too soggy. Also consider adding some sliced mushrooms for extra meaty flavor
>In the last 30 minutes, take a cup of the broth and add it to a bowl. Add like 1/4th cup of corn starch or flower. Mix it, add to pot again, and then stir until thickened
>Ready to serve. Consider eating it with a side of rice or maybe make some mashed potatoes if you have some left over.

I'm sure there are a million better ways to make amazing stew, but this is a simple beginner level meal that will keep you fed for several days.

>>14194045
Chilli con carne
Stir Fry noodles + mixed veg + whatever meat I have most of
Beef + Veg Stew
Pasta (usually tomato based because I find the sauce easier to make) with chicken and vegetables
Sometimes have Curry but it doesn't keep as well so it'll be a 1 day meal (Plus the sauce will be from a jar because fuck making Indian food from scratch)

>>14194053
>Counting calories
That's a stress and a pain in the ass. What you need to do if have a healthy balance of foods, cut out snacking at night, learn how to cook veggies to be delicious. It helps if you have a lifestyle that keeps you busy and focuses your attention away from wanting to eat all the time

>>14194041
>how could I make this basic shit look posh
>better open the chips bag by cutting it in the middle with a knife
>since people don't do this they'll believe that's how you do it when you are expert at cooking
what a fucking poser

>>14194051
I’m confused does that mean those knifes are a scam? Wouldn’t a good knife be able to cut wood

>>14194059
Is a smoker really all the hype? I've heard once you get it down, you really don't need anything else when it comes to prepping meats.

>>14194051
>let's cut wood with a ceramic blade
I really, really want to hurt this man for his sheer stupidity.
I'm aware that he had several strokes and a small heart attack but holy shit it's infuriating, he's hurting me

>>14193864
I tried making carbonara with gluten free spaghetti (I rent a room and my landlord has celiac and is anal about letting anything with gluten into the house) and Jesus Christ I boiled the spaghetti like normal and it turned all the water in the pot into fucking cum I swear which made all the noodles sticky and impossible to stir with the sauce. Fuck gluten free pasta.

>>14193902
>gf isn't a fan of cooking but is cool with doing all the dishes
I don't understand it, but I'll revel in it

>>14193848
>>all good ingredients are expensive as fuck
>>all good meals require hours (if not days) of preparation
You clearly haven't learned how to cook yet.

>>14193982
>Does everyone have to have a set of cup measures?
Yes, and it makes more sense to buy a $1 set of measuring cups than a $40 scale. And I'm a guy who wants everything else to go Metric.

>>14194058
>not even properly browned
Oh shit, nigger, what are you doing? Unless this was for cream stew.

>>14194067
thanks boss, will do it this week!

>>14194067
alright anon I'll give it a whirl

>>14193982
>Does everyone have to have a set of cup measures?
Yes? Just just buy them in a pack. Its not like you go out and buy each one individually.

>>14194051
>using a ceramic knife on wood
I've seen this multiple times and it baffles me every time how a man can be this big of a retard. Not to mention that he's probably been cooking for a while now, but he doesn't seem to learn fucking anything.

>>14193848
That's some different sort of cooking from mine you're talking about, because actually the good ingredients are dirt cheap and preparation might take at most like an hour of active work.

>>14194074
C-c-c-cum buckets!

>>14194042
I've done it a couple of times
Couple times with coconut milk
Couple times with heavy cream
Never had the opportunity to do it with an egg base or with an ice cream machine

>>14194074
>>14194084
>my room after fapping to Asuka

>>14194053
That is the stupidest way I've ever heard to spend 20000+, but i hope it works out and you get healthy anon.

>>14194070
>he lets all the flavor escape from the top

You gotta keep the flavor molecules confused for maximum effect

Imagine not knowing how to cook.

>absolute favorite think to make in the winter is potato soup
>smells like farts when cold

>>14194058
>Duck
I have a family member that runs a really fancy bed and breakfast - he hired a chef that used to work for a really high end classy establishment, and she used duck fat to enhance the dishes.
The breakfasts they serve are pure, rich noble aesthetic madness. First course was a fruit bowl with creme anglaise, then when you have your order taken you get pastries on a silver platter, and then your main course was your order, rich and delicious and decorated to the nines. It's just a hefty breakfast that you really don't need lunch anywhere.

I was up at 5 am every morning while working there, but by 10 am, she would make us something for breeakfast too before we cleaned up for the morning, and oh my god, I was worked so hard, but those breakfasts were godtier. Shame she plans to move home to the Maritimes next year, but she's leaving all her recepies to him

>>14194069
I eat salad, I eat vegetables, I eat fruit, I eat fish, don't like bread, especially white bread, I still stay fat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm hoping after a year of someone checking over my diet the new eating habits and portion sizes will be so ingrained I can maintain them.

>>14194090
for me its the onion soup
its my farts that begin to smell like onion for days

>>14194071
Its a ceramic knife. Ceramic can be sharp as fuck, but its also brittle so you can very easily fuck them up when using them on solid surfaces instead of vegetables, meat etc.

Metal blades are made out a solid piece of metal so they don't chip

>>14194060
Just being Ja/ck/.

>>14194071
Not necessarily a kitchen knife, especially not a ceramic one. Something like pic related? Absolutely.

>mfw knife skills actually impress people

Nigga, it's just something you pick up if you cook regularly. Not to mention having knife skills will replace device you would otherwise use to process food.

>>14193855
>Wish we could eliminate the need for eat and sleep
Those are my two favorite things to do. You are a robot already, in a sense.

>>14193848
How about you try something that isn't master chef level

these are pretty underrated

>>14194065
You must be from a place that thinks boiling is the superior way of cooking.

>>14194096
You forget the average person has no skills in anything.

>>14194087
If you can afford stuff like that easily, it's literally one of the smartest ways to spend 20k.

>>14194100
What’s wrong with boiled meat?

>>14194096
I've noticed that most people do not know even the most fundamental things about wielding a kitchen knife, so if you can dice something without cutting your fingers off they already don't understand.

Cook chink hot pot
Easy as fuck to do for lazy anons and still very tasty.

>>14193902
>>14194075
My family has a saying. 'I cook, you clean', and it's never steered us wrong. Though I think the cook should clean the stove, personally

>>14194042
I did it a couple times as a kid by hand with the old salty ice trick

>>14194025
God I hate picky eaters. When I was little if I was being a bitch about dinner I didn't like my dad wouldn't say anything, he'd just take my plate and wolf it down in front of me and I'd go hungry for the night. Learned pretty quick to eat what I was given and not be a little shit.

>>14194042
Done it a few times but i don't eat a lot of dairy so it hasnt happened in a while.

The best one was an indian curry spiced ice cream, Earl grey ice cream was good too. It's fun to be able to make flavors you cant readily buy.

I made some fried chicken for the first time a few days ago. I got the breading, texture, tenderness, etc pretty great but it tasted boring. What's a good way to get some more oomph into it?

>>14194059

>tfw huge fan of smoked meat
>tfw citycuck so can't smoke my own

>>14194111
Why not

>>14194053
for every fat /v/irgin not a rich faggot, let me do this for you for free
>calculate your basal metabolic rate
>knock 200 calories off that
for me, it's 1500
so I try not to exceed 1300 calories a day
>1 cup whole milk is 150 calories
>1 scoop whey isolate is 125 calories
4 scoops + 4 cups is 1100 calories
>go nuts (literally) with the other 200 calories
>take a multivitamin mai nichi
>work out
>give it a few months
congrats you are not fat anymore

>>14194069

This. Just use common sense and keep the body in motion. Also dont fall for the comfort food meme. It's heroin veiled under a socially acceptable product

>>14194092
Huh, that's strange. Do you drink booze a lot, or gorge on red meats? I know this seems like a stupid question, but still. Do you eat large portion sizes at all? Usually I find that, unless it's something like genetics or an underlying issue, usually you can solve this sort of thing with common sense

>>14194105
>Easy as fuck to do for lazy anons
all right take me there because when I think hot pot I think lots of preparation and a ton of cleanup. whats your hot pot recipe

>>14194112
someone will cry about it and someone, whos job it is to listen to them cry about it, will talk to anon about it.

>>14193855
I really wish it would become a thing but you can't
>transferring your mind into a machine body means you die and a clone of you lives
>can't attach the brain to the machine body directly or it will get infected on top of other problems such as not actually having an immune system
Brain in a jar will be the most feasible solution but still far from an achievable solution, your brain still uses nutrients and resources to fuel cell activity and then have to eject the waste, the entire sleeping cycle is just putting your body in a restorative coma so that all the useless chemical waste in your body as a byproduct of your cell activity can actually be processed without accumulating too much, imagine operating a machinery at max power but then you put it at low power so that it doesn't overheat. Good fucking luck actually getting nutrients delivered to the brain and a waste processing system set up
If people figure out robot bodies they will also figure out how to get rid of sleep, then you can truly become the 24/7 machine you want to be

>>14194096
I'm not impressed with knife skills
I'm impressed with knife care skill and all the autistic people who sharpen knives every other day and show off the same paper cut trick every time in webms

>>14193982
>>14194020
>>14194077

If you're really serious about cooking or more specifically baking a scale is a MUST. This is because density of similar ingredients vary and cooking with standardized volumes, especially in large batches, can lead to disaster. Especially in baking where some ingredients absolutely have to be measured in weight because volume can be deceiving depending on the inherent moisture.

That being said using fixed volumes (cups/teaspons/etc) is useful in a home setting or if you're a line cook. It's easier to teach and easy to learn for new chefs or homemakers.

>>510956113

Cunt

I'm scared /v/ros

>when mod ruins the party

Where do I learn to cook /v/? I’ve literally only made scrambled eggs. Don’t say /ck/ because they never want to help.

>>510956113
Haha oh wow. At least the thread didn't get axed.
Hi /ck/.

>Multiple BLM threads up
>Wojack threads up the ass
>Can't have a harmless offtopic cooking thread
Okay

Hey at least they moved it instead of nuking it.

>The Virgin Calorie Counter
>The Chad Intermittent Fasting
Eat a good meal and wait 19-24 hours and eat again
Feels good

>>14194120
Also pickling, scales are very useful for pickling.

>>14194111
You can just get a compact smoker. My uncle has one that would've fit on the balcony of my old shitty college apartment.

>>14194114
What would you classify as comfort food?

>>14194129
It was literally such a nice shitpost free thread. Comfy

>>14194133
t. guy who doesnt work

What going on in this thread

>>14194125
start small. watch binging with babish or another cooking show.

it's just doing stuff in order. once you understand basics you can try new things you think up.

>>510955021
>Pasta (usually tomato based because I find the sauce easier to make) with chicken and vegetables
pro tip pasta recipe:

Chop a medium sized onion into 6 pieces
Cut 2-3 carrots into slices
Chop 250g chicken breast into cubes, season with bbq rub
Fry in a pot with rosemary and olive oil
Take chicken and rosemary out of pot, set aside for later
Fry onions and carrots in the same pot with olive oil
Fill pot with 500ml of chicken stock and a glass of semi-dry white wine
Bring to a simmer
Add 250g of small noodles 6-8 minute cooking time
After 6-8 minutes (depending on the type of noodles) add back chicken and rosemary from earlier

Delicious pasta with creamy sauce and something different from tomato sauce all the time. It's my gf's and my go to lazy recipe. You can use different veggies than onions and carrots if you like.

>>14194140
Do you like video games?

>>14194139
If I didn't work I'd be bored and lots of people eat because they're bored and they don't even think about it

>>14194129

>>14194136
dessert.

>>14194140
We got moved from /v/ to /ck/.

>>14194145
then youre an anomaly because let me tell you that 99% of people cant handle a full workday with nothing to eat

Do you guys think if we start talking about video games they’ll move the thread back to /v/?

>>14194140
/v/ was talking about making food and it was genuine enough of a conversation to get moved to /ck/ rather than jannied.

>>14194068
>Pasta (usually tomato based because I find the sauce easier to make) with chicken and vegetables
pro tip pasta recipe:

Chop a medium sized onion into 6 pieces
Cut 2-3 carrots into slices
Chop 250g chicken breast into cubes, season with bbq rub
Fry in a pot with rosemary and olive oil
Take chicken and rosemary out of pot, set aside for later
Fry onions and carrots in the same pot with olive oil
Fill pot with 500ml of chicken stock and a glass of semi-dry white wine
Bring to a simmer
Add 250g of small noodles 6-8 minute cooking time
After 6-8 minutes (depending on the type of noodles) add back chicken and rosemary from earlier

Delicious pasta with creamy sauce and something different from tomato sauce all the time. It's my gf's and my go to lazy recipe. You can use different veggies than onions and carrots if you like.

>>14194149
You get used to it, trust me
It sucks the first week or so then it just becomes a habbit

>>14194150
we should change topic every few posts and hop all over the site

>>14194146
Well? Where's the argument why the other not-vidya threads are still up? Why is calling out hypocrisy not a valid argument?

>>14194149
Its really not that hard.

>>14194133
from what I've been told that's the wrong approach because it's teaching your body to go into conservation mode due to infrequency of meals, though. it's better to have smaller, but more frequent meals instead.

>>14194115
yeah, quite possibly too much booze and my portions are way too big more often than not

>>14194129
shame because clearly the thread still has a heavy /v/ flavor to it.
A /v/ inspired cooking thread, nothing wrong with that

>>14194137
That's why it got moved. It was too good for /v/.

>>14194140
hey /ck/ what's your favorite video game to play while you're making a stew?

>>14193855
Sleeping is one of the only things I really enjoy.

>>14194149
It's it's not physical work, it really isn't.

free style cooking is the best. Nothing better than improv with whatever you've got in the fridge

>>14194147
Dessert is my favorite thing though. I don't even drink booze at all, or partake much in other things. When living on my own, I tend to make lost of veggie stirfries and other simple meals.

With the pandemic though, i'm living with family, and while my fathers a great cook, he loves rich foods. It's hard to resist

How do I marinate chicken for curry properly? The recipe told me to combine curry paste with plain yoghurt and let it marinate for 30min. I did that but the paste and the yoghurt didn't seem to 'stick' to the meat. It pretty much tasted like plain unseasoned chicken after frying.

>>14194096

You must be one of those people who thinks that if it looks easy it is easy.

Either that or you think youre better with a knife than you actually are

>>14194158
>Where's the argument why the other not-vidya threads are still up?
/v/ is the fastest board on 4chan and if you pay attention they get made about as fast as they're taken down.
This thread being on /ck/ now is evidence that they're dealing with the off-topic threads.
I'm just saying that you're a faggot if you think other people breaking the rules means you should too

>>14194179
isn't the marinade just to tenderize the meat?

>>14194179
>30 minutes
Whatever site told you that obviously doesn't know what they're talking about.

>>14193848
French onion soup is cheap and will be good knife practice. I guess it still takes some time to make, but if you go low and slow you don't have to stand there and watch the pot the whole time. It's also delicious and will teach you to appreciate caramelised onions, which can be used in a lot of other dishes.

>>14194078
You're not wrong. I was trying a dumb theory I had about getting most of the browning done in the oven towards the end to have crispy skin on the duck. It kinda worked but I ended up with a shitload of fat I needed to skim off because I hadn't rendered it at the start like I normally do.
I have gone back to just browning it first.

>>14194161
The trick with losing weight isn't dieting or fasting.

It's changing your lifestyle. You gotta cut certain foods out of your life. I know a lot of folks who give up on beef but still eat chicken and fish, purely because beef can be so rich and fattening, and only ever have it as a treat when a friend makes it. Some people give up their alcohol

>>14194188
I started cooking like a week ago.
>>14194189
It said 30min in multiple recipes. Should I leave it overnight next time?

>>14194162
Its the booze. I started drinking regularly and my gut ballooned out. Pretty much had to cut it out completely to get it back in check.

>>14194010
Something so good you have to invent a word describing the sensation one experience after eating too much (paltkoma)

>>14194190
How important are specialized knifes? I literally just use one knife for everything

>>14194125
You best start believing in /ck/ threads, you're in one. Really though just start small and build up your confidence and basic skills. I've found that those
>50 people try to do X
videos on YouTube have been surprisingly helpful. The stuff that you already know will be obvious but I'm now better at processing bell pepper and onions because of them.

As a confidence building exercise I recommend going to your local grocery store and picking up some pork chops. They should have instructions but if they're thin then 1 minute each side, if thick then 3. These are just general guidelines, you'll have to modify them which you'll get better at over time. Lay some chops out on a cutting board. Take a small amount of the highest smoke point oil you have, olive oil will work, and rub it on the face of each chop. I do mean a small amount, this is only to get things to stick. Throw some salt, cayenne pepper, and black pepper on the face of each chop. Do the same for the other side. Heat a skillet on the over over med heat for a bit and then throw the chops on and then just don't fuck with them until it's time to flip. Once you're done let them rest for a couple minutes. Wa la, you just made decent pork chops.

>>14194091
I'd still buy ducks for the fat alone even if the meat were completely inedible. It's absolutely amazing stuff.

>>14194193
This. I had to give up soda because I was drinking 3 cans a day. Hardest shit to do, it’s almost like I was addicted.

>>14194171
I don't play vidya while I'm cooking unless it's some several hour or overnight shit but I have recently taken to watching What Happened on YT. Pretty interesting look at how bad vidya turned out that way.

>>14194186
There have always been off-topic threads on /v/ since day 1. The difference here being those wojack and BLM threads are made deliberately and obviously for shitposting. Some of /v/'s best threads have been off-topic but still somewhat within board culture. This thread was harmless. Off-topic but with some /v/ flavor to it. If this thread were repeated multiple times and in an obvious inflammatory matter then yes I would support removing it. However, this is clearly not the case and should've been left alone.

>>14194125
Literally just start trying. Buy a cook book and work through it or find something that looks good and try to make it. Unless you're 100% retarded its unlikely you'll end up with something inedible.

>>14194201
>How important are specialized knifes?
Not at all, you should be able to cook everything with just a chef knife. Anything else is a crutch

>>14194162
Cut booze out, see what happens. If you continue to have issues of weight, shave a few units off your portion sizes

>>14194208
>it’s almost like I was addicted
Anon, I...

>>14194125
There's so many YouTube videos on cooking, just go there and copy them.
Just be sure to stay away from Tasty and Ja/ck/ and you'll have hi this is chef john from food wishes dot com stuck in your head in no time

>>14194201
>specialized knifes
meme.
What you should care about is sharp knives. Trying to cook with dull knives is awful.

>>14194203
>smokepoint oil
You lost me anon, I’ve only made eggs remember

>>14194217
My point is that as long as /v/ is 99% off topic there is no room for the innocent off topic threads

>>14194208
>3 cans a day
that's because you were addicted

>>14194228
use google.

>>14194201
unless you're doing some specific stuff like deboning you're probably good

specialized knives will make your life a lot easier if you cook a lot

>>14194224
You can’t get addicted to soda anon. It’s only hard drugs. I just drank a lot of soda. Sometimes one right before I slept. But soda isn’t addictive.

>>14194228
smoke is bad
different oils smoke at different temperatures
if you need oil at 300° for a recipe, don't use an oil that smokes at 250°

>>14194225
What's the big meme with Tasty? They look good but is it just super unhealthy?

>>14194237
don't tell him, chat

>>14194208
>almost like I was addicted

But seriously, looking back on it I can't even remember why I drank it. Occasionally I'll have a can and I almost never finish it because its too sweet.

>>14194228
use avocado oil. it's the highest smoke point oil you can get (smoke point is how hot it has to be before it catches on fire. higher smoke point = better/safer cooking)

/ck/ threads on /v/ are always max comfy

>>14194235

ALSO THIS
>>14194227

>>14194237
Cope.

>>14194201
The knife in that photo is a Chinese cleaver. Literally a "one knife for everything" kind of knife.
A sharp chef's knife or cleaver will work fine for anyone who's new enough to cooking to ask the question you just asked.
Once you start deboning hams and skinning fishes and shit like that you might feel a real need for more knives, but don't run out and buy some 28-knife "professional chef's knives" set from Walmart.
You don't even need to get an expensive knife as your first and only one. You just have to make sure it's sharp and that you keep it sharp.

>cook following a recipe i found on youtube
>comes out kinda lame, subpar
>cook by the seat of my ass and constantly smelling ingredients
>comes out amazing

i'm starting to thing everyone has different tastes.

>>14194237
>You can’t get addicted to soda anon. It’s only hard drugs. I just drank a lot of soda. Sometimes one right before I slept. But soda isn’t addictive

>>14194125
I reccomend the big red book. How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.

Just pirate a pdf online somewhere, it will tell you all the basic shit and how you should go about cooking shit.

>>14194201
Not really unless that's what you do a lot of the time. Rule of thumb is: get couple of decent knives instead of a set where you won't use 90% of it.

>>14194228
Oil that doesn't begin to smoke easily. I use grapeseed because it's cheap with a reasonably high smoke point. Look out for stuff labeled grapeseed+ or whatever, it's often mostly canola. Just check the ingredients list and you'll be fine. Olive oil works for most things.

>>14194251
>ou just have to make sure it's sharp and that you keep it sharp.
This

better invest in a whetstone set than a second knife

>>14194253
Recipes are training wheels.

>>14194201
don't ever use a dull knife. you can make a meal using a rusty car bumper, but just make sure it's sharp. dull knives are how people get hurt.

>>14194057
It's Pitepalt (I believe Kroppkakor is more or less the same thing but what it's called around the STHLM-region) a traditional Swedish dish.

You cook a bunch of salted meat which is usually from the belly of a pig (the same cut you make bacon from) that you dice before you cook it, then you cook a bunch of potato and mash it together with about double the amount of uncooked potato, add some flour then use this paste to form balls with a cavity that you fill with the meat and then make sure everything around is filled with the potatopaste then you cook the balls for about 45minutes or until the start to float whatever comes first then you serve with lingonberryjam (the kind that isn't sweetened) and melted butter, it's pretty much heaven on a plate.

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>>14194249
Okay i don’t know why everyone is attacking me. 3 soda cans a day isn’t hard to do if you drink one with every meal. It’s not like I was chugging a 2 liter every day. One for lunch, one for dinner and one during my break at work paired with some chips. What do you guys drink with your food?
>>14194254
Okay I’ve never been that fat. I was only at one point slightly overweight at 160 5’9 but now I’m back down to 150. Fat people just gorge themselves on comfort food.

>>14194261
recipes are watching a boss strategy on youtube instead of going in blind

>>14194239
desu I'm probably thinking about another channel since tasty started the whole "top down POV instagram style" video format for cooking thing and so many channels copy it and a lot are frauds
first result on google has a channel calling out the channel "So Yummy" for their shit videos

>>14194264
>3 soda cans a day isn’t hard to do if you drink one with every meal

>>14194215
Oops, deleted the part about playing Deadly Silence on the couch to monitor the food.

>>14194125
Just look up a recipe and decide to cook what sounds tasty, if you need some help understanding the instructions then Youtube is actually a great resource for anything foodrelated.

>>14194201
Get three knives. A peeling knife, a chinese cleaver/chef's knife, and a carving knife.

You can do literally 95% of all knife work with these three.

>>14194264
water. dude.

just drink water instead.

you can still get diabetes even if you aren't fat.

>>14194264
>>14194277
And if you're going to be a bitch baby about drinking water then drink carbonated water at least.

>>14194264
>What do you guys drink with your food?
I drink water. Milk if it's a sweet breakfast/night snack. Occasionally a can of soda, glass of juice or glass or grenadine.
If you drink soda with every meal, you're addicted.

>>14194280
>tfw perrier's lemon flavored water is amazing but expensive as shit
>the off brand ones aren't nearly as good
FUCK

>>14194277
>>14194280

can confirm, used to drink only sweet tea/sprite for every liquid intake.

ended up weaning myself off by keeping a pitcher of cold water in my fridge all the time and now I can't handle how sweet those drinks are.


there's nothing better than a glass of cold water for drinking. i don't care if that makes me sound like ned flanders, it's fucking true and i feel better in general now.

>mint grows like weed in my garden
>use it to flavour my water with it
>it's fucking delicious
>mint keeps regrowing without me having to do anything
infinite supply

>>14194274
Actually worked as a butcher for a while and unironically the three bottom ones at the front of the catalogue is more or less all you ever need although a good deboning knife and some others depending on what you're doing might be nice to have to save time but anything can be accomplished with these three although you will likely use the one at next to the bottom the most.

Yes I do recommend Victorinox knives with that grip although I prefer the black ones, not only are they affordable but also of great quality and if you want something more suited in a kitchen setting they also make chef knives i.e. with a wooden grip.

>>14194296
How about buying a lemon and squeezing it into some water?

>>14194305
me but with my lemon tree
it won't stop printing lemons I don't need this much lemons oh god

>>14194312
how do you get a consistent lemon squeeze?

>>14194261
Yes or at least a source for inspiration then you do your own thing but it's very good for people starting out.

Think the best thing I can recommend to someone new is a good meattermometer and learning at what innertemperature meats are rare, medium and well done which will help a lot more than only following a set time in a recipe as it varies a lot from cut to cut.

>>14194309
Forgot the picture

>>14194309
can you explain what makes the handle matter, or is it just aesthetics?

>>14194264
A can of Voltage, my personal fave soda, has 30.5 g of added sugar. Times that by three, that's way too much sugar dude. Men should only have an average of 30 g's of sugar, for women it's 25 g, so I'm actually going over my daily sugar intake if I drink a soda at all.
Just think about it lardfat.

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>>14194274
I'm kinda surprised there's no knife thread on /ck/, I looked for one today
Ended up getting fibrox victorinox chef knife

>>14194342
This handle doesn't really slip with or without gloves no matter how much blood there is while wooden handles are a hazard if you are cutting meat all day.

It's pretty much really durable plastic that feels like sandpaper and they are cheaper 'cause they don't have a wooden handle but I understand if you want something that looks nicer in a kitchen setting.

I can't stress enough how important a sharpener is and keeping your knives sharp, if I could choose between only using one knife with a sharpener and twenty different knives without one knowing that they will go dull quickly I would go for the one knife with a sharpener any day of the week.

>>14194364
Great choice anon it will not let you down, think about getting a decent sharpener personally I really like the Dick (lol) ones like pic related (sure nothing beats those collosal electric ones which are pretty much just a big grinding stone but it's not anything you can have in a kitchen and it's very easy to destroy a knife if you're not experienced), I think as long as it is a broad one and not the tiny round ones you're pretty much good to go.

They will keep your knife sharp and it doesn't take that much practice, at first you can sharpen it away from you until you feel confident it's fine it will still do the job you just need to do more repetitions.

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>>14194344
I wasn’t addicted I can stop at any time. But water doesn’t taste good with a slice of pizza or burger.

>>14194401
I have one of those but I'd heard they're mainly just for daily sharpenings, rather than retouching your blade after it dulls. I can't really be bothered doing it every time I'm going to cut something.
I'm likely just going to grab some 800-1000 grit whetstone like the King 1K if it dulls to the point where I dislike it.

>>14194264
I drink water, usually, to keep my mouth properly hydrated to take care of the teeth

>>14194414
>I wasn’t addicted I can stop at any time.

>>14194414
Strange, I always crave water after eating pizza

>>14194414
>I wasn’t addicted I can stop at any time.
Yes, but you admitted that it was the "Hardest shit to do". Just because you could stop doesn't mean you weren't addicted.

>But water doesn’t taste good with a slice of pizza or burger.
it's water, it doesn't really taste good regardless of what you have it with. It can feel very refreshing, especially cold water & especially in some specific combinations (for me it's after kebab, even though it's recommended to have something hot after you eat something fatty, as it'll help dissolve the grease rather than solidify it)

>>14194415
Yes it's mostly to keep your knife sharp it is too fine to retouch a dull blade but it will sharpen your knife as well but sooner or later you reach a point where you need to find a grind- or wetstone if you want to get it sharp again and lasting for more then like a single cut.

I wouldn't say you need to use it daily per se although it might be a good routine to have to keep the knives sharp, I just give the knife some love with it as soon as I feel it's not doing it's job.

>>14194424
ok, robot

>get moved
>thread crawls
thanks mods
>>14194300
this, best fucking switch I've done. can't handle many other sweet sugary drinks anymore.

>>14194414
Cold water after some hot greasy mouthfuls feels great

>>14194300
Can always drink unsweet tea.

>>14194467
/v/ mods are whores.

>tfw addicted to sugary shit
>tfw I almost kicked it but fucked up and went back to it
>tfw I'm gonna have to restock on green tea and start brewing that stuff again.
I reckon green tea is better than the sugary shit.

>>14194454
My medication dries my mouth out to hell and back, and it fucks with my teeth, if I don't drink water to hydrate, it gives me dental issues.

Take care of your teeth, kids

>>14194414
>I wasn’t addicted I can stop at any time. But water doesn’t taste good with a slice of pizza or burger

>>14194025
>She's eaten takeout every meal for the last 2 weeks in defiance
>Already looks like shes gaining weight

Was that part of your master plan, Mr. Architect?

For me it's Knorr® stock pot™

>>14194598
Well I can't really blame him, a lot of women are so terrible in the kitchen I more or less make sure I make the food or let her do it with me until she gets better in the kitchen.

There is simply no chance I am going to suffer through bad food everyother day just to keep the peace and if that would mean she would put on some weight which would be a good time to get her to join me at the gym then so be it.

>>14194478
>Can always drink unsweet tea.

don't ever reply to me again you yankee fuck

>>14194963
Most tea is perfectly fine without sugar m8