/ck/ - Food & Cooking

ooo are you making spam musubi

>>15398208
>Only had a microwave at my apt
No stove in apartment?

>>15398208
Why didn't you ever buy a hotplate, dingdong?

>>15398212
Not my picture, but I fried span and it actually gets browned, soft, and good tasting vs. microwave where it would just get hot.

>>15398212
>musubi

>>15398208
Your apartment didn't have an oven? Was your apartment a literal closet?

>>15398208
>>15398219
*spam

>>15398208
Bless your soul

>>15398224
it's good
t. Went to hawaii a lot

>>15398235
>went to hawaii a lot

>>15398218
I didn't realize microwaves were that different from other heating methods until I had the stove to try it with.

>>15398217
lol this, wtf kinda apartment did not have an oven

>>15398248
So you've never cooked before? Well, I'm glad you've learned about it now!

>>15398217
>>15398226
>>15398251

>>15398266
Significantly higher standard of living being homeless. Impressive.

>>15398266
Can we just detonate California off the US already?

>>15398208
You now understand why microwaves get memed on. They're only good for reheating since the temperature doesn't get high enough for a lot of the chemistry of taste to happen.

>>15398277
We are all just waiting on the earthquake at this point.

>>15398266
Christ why would anyone choose to live in such a hole. The rents astronomical, the state government sucks, and rampant homeless in all of the big cities. Again, who chooses of their own volition to live there?

>>15398285
If by good you mean less good than reheating on the stove or in the oven, I agree with this.

>>15398266

Why the fuck is anyone even paying that much?

>>15398301
To feel like all of their favorite TV characters working in romanticized positions living in a much larger and expensive studio apartment. These people are vacuous

>>15398226
>Your apartment didn't have an oven? Was your apartment a literal closet?
>>15398251
>wtf kinda apartment did not have an oven
>>15398292
>Christ why would anyone choose to live in such a hole

>>15398242
you are missing out, your loss

>>15398266
Literal Roman insula. I hope he has a thermopolium down the street where he can get his food and wine.

>>15398277
Take your worthless homeless out of my state flyover

>imagine spending your entire life not knowing the difference between microwaved food and real food

>>15398301
>>15398292
Someone post the HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF THE BIG CITY coypasta. You know the one, where he slams his craft beer after telling the reader that he got castrated.

But yeah, jobs in tech.

>>15398208
Earth year 2021
OP discovers fire

>>15398378
DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

>>15398208
What's the next meal you plan on making?

>>15398404
uhhh... BASED MUCH??

>>15398208
If you think that's handy, try toasting your bread in the frying pan with some butter/grease. I quit using toasters when living in a cramped studio apartment. No regrets.

Only professional chefs like Kenji microwave their food and sell it for $30 a pop.

>>15398208
Sometimes a combination is best, like with frozen or leftover pizza, microwave it to room temprature then throw it on a hot skillet. That way not only is the top nice and moist but the bottom gets nice and crispy.
People that think it's gotta be one way or the other are retards.

>>15398417
>What's the next meal you plan on making?
So far I've done spam, sliced turkey, hot dogs, and salmon.
I'm mostly going with meat. Might try buying eggs and frying them like in the old drug abuse prevention commercials.

>>15398485
what's your yearly income OP? you sound like the lowest of the low from your posts

>>15398485
Nice, how many pans do you own? Try making a pasta dish if you can, easy and delicious

>>15398485
>So far I've done spam, sliced turkey, hot dogs, and salmon.
Circle the one that DOESN'T belong in this group.

>>15398532
he probably fucked up the salmon, doesn't mean he didn't try

>>15398277
>gdp is almost 3 trillion
not gonna happen anytime soon

>>15398511
>yearly income
$80K this year (am an engineer).
>lowest of the low
I am a single man and don't have much understanding of worldly things to be desu with you.
>>15398527
>Nice, how many pans do you own? Try making a pasta dish if you can, easy and delicious
Thanks I'll try that out and also just 1 pan right now.
>>15398532
>Circle the one that DOESN'T belong in this group.
Salmon?

>>15398559
your big engineer brain took this long to realize that heating food in a pan on a range is better than using a microwave? nice larp. you sound homeless like you're squatting in a house and you're trying to get the most out of it before the owners return

>>15398559
If you make that much and now own a house, go buy some decent cookware from bed bath and beyond or somewhere. You don't need the most expensive set, but if you're honestly looking into learning how to cook, you will need the equipment.
sauce pan, varied sized skillets, a few pots etc.

I boil spam because it's too salty otherwise.

>>15398569
dudes an engineer, he's probably autistic. totally believable he had no idea how to cook, or the difference

>>15398569
>>15398584
>>15398593
Thanks frens. The pizza delivery guy bullied me a while back and made me answer the door even though I picked the "leave order without contact" option because he said my house looks empty and didn't believe I was there. That was part of what made me stop ordering pizza and start trying to use my stove.

>>15398725
If you want to learn to cook just watch videos on techniques and then make recipes.
Basically makes following a seemingly complex recipes easy.
Like making some stew is easy if you know how to brown meat then brown onions and mushrooms then add garlic and tomato paste then put wine in and then stock then simmer it for a hour or more.
Like when you brown meat dont overcrowd it heat the pot properly and test with a splash of water, add oil when hot, add meat then dont touch it for like 3 minutes or more.
Just watch videos and you can work it out easy just watch basic skills videos first.

>>15398212
>musubi

>>15398762
Cool, I'll try that. Thanks anon.

>>15398224
>>15399017
>poorfag sloppa found in every hawaiian lunchbox
>soyboy hipster face

Sometimes, sperging about the reddit cancer is the reddit cancer.

>>15398208
dude, try vienna sausages in a frying pan. it turns them from inedible to passable breakfast sausages, especially if you dump sage or other spices on em.

Does anyone know if you can do this with potted/deviled meat? im worried its just gonna crumble apart in the pan, but maybe then it can be used kinda like ground beef. anyone ever try it?

>>15399102
>spam musubi at 711
>711 is only 5 minutes from my house
>tfw no spam musubi at my figurative fingertips waiting to be bought and eaten whenever I want it

>>15399102
soyboy hipsters tend to like trendy poor people food

>>15399129
Never tried it but deviled ham is kino

>>15399129
Good call. I used to microwave Vienna sausages all the time (brand I used was Libby's; liked it a little better than Armour which is another common store having brand), and if they were already good heating them the worst way they'll probably be really good with a pan and stove.

>>15398212
>ooo are you making spam musubi
I miss this. A convenience store store at one of my regular train stops made these fresh. I'd never heard of them but my first try and I was hooked.

>Finally get a stove
>Fry spam

Maybe make something that's not complete shit with your freshly expanded range of cooking options.

>>15398208
For good potatoes
Microwave first then fry in pan

>>15398226
Japanese apartments usually don’t
You got a fish toaster and two burners

>>15399761
Spam is bretty gud. Only real bad thing about it is it has more salt than most people want to consume, both on a taste level and for health reasons.
Though I can't bring myself to get that low sodium version. I'm too worried if I try it it'll taste awful and I'll have to throw it out.
>>15399766
I've been using the Idahoan microwavable mashed potatoes for a while now. It's surprising on point.

>>15400397
I try to balance the spam with foods that need that much salt. rice is a good option, and ive done ramen without the flavor packet. The musubi thing people keep sperging about isn't a meme- its literally a block of rice to absorb the salt and delicious pork drippings of the fried spam. its betty gud, and you can skip the seaweed and overly-fancy rice

Another American food gore thread

>>15399129
I've made deviled ham omelets before, you just have to be careful seasoning the eggs because there is already a lot of salt in the ham.

>>15400397
I buy the light version and it tastes the same. It has less fat and salt but still plenty of both as regular spam contains a shitload.

>>15401647
shit, I forgot how good spam is with eggs. This man speaks truth

>>15401651

this. spam with less salt is just...spam with less salt. it doesn't get wierd and substituted like a lot of other "lite" foods

>>15398373
>get out of my burning, water-deprived, AIDS-infested hellhole
>implying any of us with sense in the midwest were ever there in the first place

>>15398208
>ever using a microwave

>>15400397
I try to get the less salt versions if they are available. They taste pretty much the same, just less salty. Would argue that you could taste the meat better with less saltiness, but maybe that's just me

>>15401695
That's the opposite of reality, unless you've been oversalting your food.

>>15401688
Ulillillia had a daughter?

>>15399711
Where did you find the convenience store store? I need a to buy a convenience store.

>>15398208
welcome to /ck/, you can never leave

>>15401688
>don't use microwaves because some dipshit kid in california proved they aren't the healthiest way of heating things up
we all knew this
have fun waiting an hour for a fucking potato

>>15401688
>>15402575
It's not even real.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/will-watering-plants-heated-microwaved-water-kill-them
https://mythresults.com/do-try-this-at-home
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/true-or-false-ridiculous-microwave-myths-you-can-stop-believing/

>>15398208
did your parents never have a pan?

>>15402656
My dad worked all the time and my mom never learned how to cook. We mostly ate at restaurants when I was growing up.

>>15402663
christ.
well literally just google or youtube anything and you're guaranteed to learn something.
also get an oven.

>>15398208
>>15402663
This really bothers me.

>>15398212
Made this once. Was good, if not quite unruly. I guess it's meant to be refrigerated first and then eaten? I just dug in when I put them together and they fell apart.

>>15398212
>>15399711
>>15402779
Thank god the closest 7-11 was 2 miles away when I was in high school, or I'd probably be dead. I'm afraid if I go into the new one down the block I'll have to stop there every time I drive by for a churro or a taquito.

>>15402678
Thanks. My house came with an oven too so I'm set there appliance-wise. Still need to get a pot so I can actually use it though.

>>15398248
How fucking stupid can you get holy shit

>>15398373
>why yes I do enjoy paying $2000/mo to live in a tiny apartment with no stove, paper thin walls, and a homeless nigger infestation
sorry I won't ever be as cultured as you, anon

>>15398208
Heating food in microwave: soggy, works for soups and other more "wetter" foods. Awful for pretty much everything else.

I used to have a microwave and found it most useful for re-heating cooked rice after it had been kept overnight in the fridge. Gave it a really nice steamed texture and took less than a few minutes. Re-heating cooked rice in a pan is a pain and takes so much longer. Other than that I don't really miss having a microwave.

>>15398292
Californians live under the delusion that everything is great here
>muh weather
>muh diversity
>muh nature
>muh ski and surf the same day
these are people who have never lived anywhere else in the country and have nothing to compare the state against. California sucks now
>way too crowded
>hot as balls 10 of 12 months of the year
>tons of homeless people
>DUDELMAO culture
>Chink-controlled state govt
my wife and I are actively looking for homes in eastern Washington, Wisconsin and Maine. Plan to move by next year

>>15403500
>Californians live under the delusion that everything is great here
No they don't. More people are leaving California than any other state. This is something like the eighth or ninth year in a row where more people have left California than the number of people who've moved there, and even the Silicon Valley companies are leaving for Texas now.

>>15402779
You really gotta squish the hell out of the rice, but yeah, no matter what, they hold together better when refrigerated

>>15399711
Ooooh where

>>15402787
I married a dude who had a Dairy Queen next to his high school
He's lost 150lbs since we first started dating in 2013

>>15403500
If you go further down than LA then the weather actually is awesome with daytime temperatures pretty much only ever oscillating between 60ish F and rarely past 90 F throughout the whole year. Plenty of other bullshit problems though. And yes my fucking god these people here are so much stupider than I could have ever prepared for, holy fucking shit. At least on the road it's ended up as a decent confidence booster now, whenever there's even a moment's pause on who should go first through something I just immediately go because I already know the other person is a filthy cretin who does not deserve to go first

>>15403500
Fuck off, we’re full. Even if you don’t think you’re spreading your left coast shit, you most certainly are.

>>15404438
>He's lost 150lbs since we first started dating in 2013
Why are you starving your husband? Gandhi fetish?

>>15404913
Anon
He was nearly 350lbs

>>15398208
You could have gotten one of these at any time in your weird apartment that for some reason had no stove.

>>15405144
Why get a gas one, an electric one would be much better

>>15405152
If OP can't afford an apartment with the most basic of amenities I'm assuming he can't afford an electric.

I was almost going to suggest getting the gas butane stoves with the propane attachment hose as propane is cheaper in the US so it's a better option if you're not only ever taking the stove camping.

>>15398208
>what is a Maillard reaction
>what is caramelization

>>15405160
you can get a electric one for $17

https://www.amazon.com/Elite-Cuisine-ESB-301BF-Electric-Indicator/dp/B00C8C5I7I/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=hot+plate&qid=1610753690&sr=8-3

you pay for electricity anyway so you might as well use a hotplate like this. It's probably cheaper in the long run even if propane is cheap

>>15398224
>>15398242
>traveling and eating local food is now soy
I hate the niggers pushing the meme to these retarded limits

>>15405144
Apartments without ovens or stoves usually have rules in the lease about not cooking. There was some schizo namefag on /pol/ who posted phone conversations with his landlord screaming at him for putting cooking appliances in his unit.

>>15405224
don’t you know anon? anything fun or pleasant, or really anything that requires you to leave your room is now soy.

>>15398292
Does it not occur to you that the price of housing and the amount of homeless people might be related

I miss the Spam Jam. I've gone every year since I moved to Hawaii, but Honolulu's cuck mayor shut wouldn't let them do it in 2020. Hopefully it is still on for this year.

>>15398208
This is unironically true, but I'd add that if you have the space, a toaster oven is energy-efficient and produces better results with some foods. You can save space by using it instead of a toaster. Makes great melts, reheats things like rice better, and more efficient than heating your oven.

>>15398219
Yeah, if you don't fry your spam I don't know what the fuck you're doing. It was introduced as an alternative to other potted meats, but stayed around because when fried it's delicious. Made a whole Hawaiian meal with kalua pork, spam fried rice, mac salad, and a thai fried cabbage this weekend.

>>15398292
I lived in CA most of my life, backpacked around asia for a while and now live in WA state. CA used to be an amazing place to live, high cost but high pay, and starting in silicon valley it gave me a huge leg up in terms of earnings. Once it became feasible to move to the PNW I did, I had lived up here and always wanted to make it my permanent home. We actually have good mexican food now, and there has always been amazing SEA food, so it's paradise if you like eating out. Still kind of sucks in terms of grocery stores except for fruit and fish.

>>15398559
Shit... I thought you were saying an alternative to the microwave for reheating food... not like it's your only method of cooking. Fuck you, microwaves suck for anything other than heating liquids. Buy a dutch oven (lodge actually makes a good one) and you'll be amazed by how things taste when slow cooked in liquid.

>>15398224
>>15398242
>Traveling and eating food is soy
You're a faggot

>>15398248
What did you eat for the eighteen years before you personally had a stove

>>15408956
>eighteen years
I'm 34.
>What did you eat... before you had a stove
Pizza, hot dogs from Sonic Drive-In, Maruchan ramen noodles, sliced deli meat packs, Kraft easy mac, Uncle Ben's microwave rice, Pop Tarts, etc.

>>15409001
>Pizza, hot dogs from Sonic Drive-In, Maruchan ramen noodles, sliced deli meat packs, Kraft easy mac, Uncle Ben's microwave rice, Pop Tarts, etc.
Dear god

>>15398208
Did this really have to be a thread
I mean seriously, what could even be discussed aside from how poor/stupid/gay OP is

>>15409050
You could try discussing food or cooking.

Use micro for melting butter, scalding milk, melting chocolate and melting for a few seconds a soap scrap to add another soap scrap to make a bigger bar of soap-scrap soap.

>>15409001
It's all up from here mate, you're going to make some disgusting fuck ups but cooking is a skill and mindset that can be learned. Never too late to start living the right way.

Godspeed

>>15409050
Did this really have to be a reply
I mean seriously, what could even be discussed aside from how much of a dumb faggot you are

>>15405144
Between one of those and a toaster oven you've got most of the utility of a kitchen.

>>15398208
I feel you
The day my microwave caught on fire and I had to get a heating element litreally changed my life

Oh dude I pan fry my cold pizza.

>>15398373
>take care of my state's problems REEEEE
californiafags everybody

>>15409670
Thanks anon. My company isn't letting us back into the office until 2022 at the earliest now thanks to COVID-19 hysteria so I should have plenty of time to try more kitchen stuff.

>>15398456
basadu

>>15405203
Yeah, propane is cheaper than electric for heating a house.. I'm dubious of anyone claiming bottles of propane and a camping stove are cheaper to run than an electric hot plate though. That one doesn't track with me.

>>15401688
>using a HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT as evidence of literally anything
unironically kys

>>15398219

Get a ham, slice off what you want, and fry it.

You can use it in all kinds of things. Cut into small pieces and spread over a garden salad. Eat with eggs. Fried ham sandwiches. Cut into small pieces and use in fried rice. Or just eat fried ham as part of them meal.

>>15411205

>>15398373
>your
Do you really think homeless people all across the midwest are just walking to california?
Are you schizophrenic?

>>15410892

Using electric for a heat pump should normally be cheaper than propane.

If you can get natural gas to the house, then use that instead.

>>15401688
>When water is heated in the microwave the friction causes the molecules to crash into each other.
Good job, you've described fucking temperature. That's literally what all hot water is.

>It is possible that the structure of the molecules becomes damaged in this process.
Hilarious.

>>15398373
yeah because you dont pile your homeless onto busses and ship them off to neighboring states. fucking commiefornian, your state is a blight on the union and always has been

>>15411205
This is too funny

>>15402349
https://franchise.7-eleven.com/

Comes as a kit, you kinda have to put it together
You're gonna drop some screws and it won't ever be quite right

>>15398292
I don't live there, but my choices for career growth in my industry are: move to Cali, move to NYC, move to Chicago.

Only two companies in my city have any form of solid reputation, and I've already worked at one of them twice and left twice. The other one constantly hires and then lays off people.

Eventually I'm just going to have to move.

>>15411455
Sounds like you need a career change.

With everything going remote, I can't think of any industry that has to be in a specific place other than manufacturing, and there's none of that going on in any of those three cities. What do you do?

>>15398208
I do not have a microwave and have not had one for 23 years

>>15409001
How are you not dead?

>>15398559
Post kitchen. You should make yourself some poached eggs.

>>15398212
>ooo

>>15411455
Move to Chicago. It's segregated, so there are still nice neighborhoods, and you can get a lot more space for your money.

>>15398266
at that point why wouldn't you just live in a big vehicle?

>>15398208
No shit. You don't see any restaurants cooking exclusively with microwaves, fucking idiot.

>>15398208
I only used a microwave exactly once. It made shit not taste good. Never used one again. How people fall for it I will never understand.

>>15398224
This is the opposite of what these dudes like

>>15398266
To be fair, Silicon Valley hires a lot of H1b pajeets and you can't get rid of the curry smell without taking out all the sheetrock. No cooking makes sense.
>>15412915
Many Google employees with six figure incomes do exactly that.

>>15398373
One of these days we're going to renegotiate those water rights treaties and turn off the tap, faggot.

>>15398212
Domo arigato