/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>>6061481
you're welcome to hide the threads if the influx of OC annoys you.

But out of curiosity, any particular reason?

>>6061506

tripfag circlejerking, and it spreads into other threads and begins to pollute the board culture

it's gotten worse with each successive "challenge"

hey bubbles!

I'm happy to supply a prize pack for one of the rounds same as last year

breakfast theme as one of the opening rounds is a good starting point as everyone can do breakfast

fruit theme is nice and general too

I think stickying the contest thread was a nice idea so people don't have to bump it constantly and it gives high visibility to what is basically an annual event at this point

haters gonna hate but they can hide the thread easily and vice versa

>>6061509
there is an option to filter non-anonyomous posters you silly goose

>>6061481

>the year 3000 - 986
>still being such a faggot


>>6061475
I've only been on /ck/ for half a year anon, do you have an infographics/can you summarize what last years event was like?

>>6061514
http://ckchallenge dot blogspot dot co.uk/

replace the dot with .

>>6061514
http://ckchallenge.blogspot.ca/
Also any recipe on the booru with the /ck/ challenge tag. We've had >100 vertical submitted per year for the last few years during the course of the challenge.

>>6061512
Awesome, thanks for volunteering again! I can reach you at the same email as last year?

>>6061523
Yep, same email! I'm happy to help out with the same stuff as last year too, though I may not be able to participate as fully in february.

>>6061512

sure, I could also write a million scripts to wordfilter everything I don't like, and update it every few hours based on my ever shifting mood, causing threads to become nearly incomprehensible over time

the thing is if you guys want to jack off and pat each other on the back for putting on a good show old chap how's the wife and kids, you can go make a blog for that. in fact there is a blog, you can all blogspam each other and treat it like facebook or something, and you'd all have identifiable avatars and shit

so why not do that instead?

>>6061529
Because getting people to actually cook on a cooking board is logical. But if you'd rather go discuss the latest Joey review you can do that and hide the thread?

>>6061529
because honestly i don't care about your feelings, im just here for the food and cooking and related activities

sorry

>>6061517
>>6061523

Holy shit, this looks fun as fuck!

>>6061538
>I'm not spamming a fat slob so it's ok that I'm shitting up the board with tripfag garbage

if you want to post OC, you can already post OC. you can do it right this second, make a thread about what you're cooking right now.

but this isn't about OC, it's about turning /ck/ into a fucking chatroom. so go fuck yourself.

>>6061549
I post a weekly OC thread already. Gets few comments, but that's ok.

The contestants could cook specific country-themed food, like Spanish, Japanese etc.

>>6061549
>waaaaah people are being friendly on my secret club
/r9k/ exists for you bitter friendless losers.

>>6061545
It's lots of fun, despite what Mr "I hate people actually talking to each other on a discussion board" up there is saying.

Lots of work if you stick around for the full 10 weeks however, just be warned!. Open to everyone, so I hope you jump in!

>>6061475
Hey BubbleBurst!
I was just sitting here making out my grocery list for all the baking I have to do this week (to take to friends and coworkers), and saw your thread!
Just like Borneo >>6061512 (Hi Borneo!!) I'd be happy to offer a prize for one or two rounds this year.
I will not be participating as a contestant, though, I think I've had a good run, and I think I ought to let it go, lol. But, I may cook along with some of the challenges, if I have time, just for shits and giggles.
I'll brainstorm some ideas for rounds, and post them later if this thread is still around.

>>6061555
Nice trips

>>6061636
Thanks Pye! I will keep an eye out for the theme suggestions :-)

>>6061475
>Got a round theme suggestion?
Considering the board lately, do a round on "What do you put in your Chipotle burrito?" :-(

Save us, Pyewacket, you're our only hope!

bump

>>6061514
>calls anon a faggot
>is the biggest faggot of them all
hypocrite much?

Hey friendlies. I doubt I do much this season, I work so much now and barely cook anymore. But if I see somebody submit a nice bowl of chili, ive got a prize to send regardless of whether you win or not. Looking forward to the cookoff.

>>6062588
That's fine. Real life gets in the way sometimes. But at least the job seems to be working out ;-)

Bump

>>6063844
I'm just bumping this because I'm working on a list of ideas for rounds, but I can't sit down and get it together yet, because I'm in the middle of both a family crisis and having to do a bunch of baking. So anyway....bump.

Anyone save some moneyshots from last season?

>>6064422
Yay!

>>6064862
All previous seasons are on the blog. See >>6061523

>>6064422
Just re-read what I wrote here >>6065001
And figured that sounded kind of harsh...
so...my reaction really should have been
yay : For rounds ideas and themes
booh : for family crisis
Good for you : for baking.

saged because this is pointless.

>>6065014
Okay, well, I'm just going to post the ideas I've managed to write down so far, because I don't have time tonight for any more and I'm afraid this thread is going to drop off before I make a more comprehensive list. ANYWAY, these were just brainstorming ideas, they may or may not be appealing, IDK, If I have more ideas later, I'll email you, if you still have the same email address! :)

Famous Chef Round: Pick (or it could be a rolling round) a famous chef, living or dead, and recreate one of their signature dishes (or just one of their really good dishes). This could offer an opportunity to show off some technique, plus peak and interest in a classical chef, or could be used to troll the challenge with dishes made by Food Network idiots, you know….

Roll for Cuisine Round: as implied, roll for a set list of cuisines, for example, Peruvian, Ethiopian, Burmese, Lithuanian, Transylvanian, Guatemalan, etc.etc. etc.

Barbecue Round, with the stipulation that cooking it inside the house is fine and won’t be penalized, since a lot of people don’t have outdoor bbq situations.

Children’s Party Round: Make a creative spread for a children’s party (I actually think this could be a chance to be very creative and deceptively more difficult than people would think) and it’s a silly theme to throw in there.

Surf and Turf Round (self explanatory) make your best surf and turf dish

/ck/ Potluck Round: make a creative dish to bring to a /ck/ potluck

The Blob Round (lol, working title): A round where your dish must include one of the following: jello, aspic, or agar agar.

Food in the Arts Round: make a dish based on a food or meal referenced in either a book, a movie, or an album (this could be narrowed down to just one if necessary), plus explain why you chose that particular book/album/movie

>more simple rounds that could be part of the first few open rounds:
Breakfast
Fish and Seafood
Meatloaf Round
Appetizer Round
Rice (or Bean) Round

>>6065445
Thanks! and yes, same email as last year.

>>6061775 again
I was thinking of rounds last night.

1. What to put on your Chipotle burrito round
2. smug vegan round
3. evil carnist round, bonus points for murdering your own meat
4. wat make with ramen
5. pathologically detailed complicated recipe round, sponsored by the Himalayan Pink Salt Cooperative
6. desserts
7. cheese plate

>no hearts
>no advent
why live?

>>6065641
More seriously, please include a bread baking round. It's a major skill that is underrepresented on /ck/ in my opinion.

You might even preselect the recipe and judge based on visual quality of the loaf produced. This would put everyone on an equal footing, more or less, so that we don't get bedazzled by a pumpkin spice glutinous Japanese tentacle porn bouffant creation over some newb's simple but perfectly done white bread.

A cake decorating round might also be fun.

BTW, I'm writing as an observer, as my kitchen currently consists of one hotplate and a fridge.

I was thinking of joining you tripfags this year instead of pissing all over your parade.

>>6065445
I know you're just spit-balling, but
Barbecue Round = Picnic Round (last year)
Surf & Turf is a bit vague, you could take almost any of the rounds and cook surf & turf if you wanted.
I like the jello/aspic.

>>6065655
One vote against bread.
Decorating cake is neither cooking nor baking.

It would be nice if the rounds were food that the contributors can and will eat. As in, I would never be able to (or want to) eat a whole cake, so I wouldn't waste the money or time making one. Something to keep in mind.

>>6061475
>go crazy n this one, I know that was the major sticking point of last year's post-mortem

If you go too crazy, you may lose participants.

Just my 2 cents.

Also, Bump.

I have 4 ideas so far, maybe an ingredient like tofu, not many people have much experience with it, secondly, maybe a veg only dish, as someone who has meat in every meal, this would be very hard for myself and probably most other contestants, 3rdly, an alcohol round, where some alcohol must be used in a dish. Lastly, maybe a round where contestants must use the oven, or sous vide something etc

>>6065874
>If you go too crazy, you may lose participants.

i meant to go crazy with suggestions, to make lots of them.

>>6066455
Gotcha.

>>6066368
>an alcohol round, where some alcohol must be used in a dish.
Why not make it a pork round, then we can force out the Jews as well as the Muslims and Mormons.

>>6066368
>an alcohol round, where some alcohol must be used in a dish.
Why not make it a pork round, then we can force out the Jews as well as the Muslims instead of the Muslims and Mormons.

>>6065445
those are some brilliant ideas pye!

I'd avoid having specific cooking styles that require extra equipment as it would appear a lot of people on /ck/ don't even have ovens, and certain ingredients that aren't widely available.

>>6067172
We did that last year, it was surprisingly well received (round 4)

>I'd avoid having specific cooking styles that require extra equipment as it would appear a lot of people on /ck/ don't even have ovens, and certain ingredients that aren't widely available.
yeah, I was trying to avoid that last year but the participants found the rounds too vague and open to interpretation.

Rules wise :
Last year I went with the cummulative score to determine the winner. Do we want to keep that (I was trying to reward participating in all rounds since it is a ton of work). Or do we want to revert to the last round being sudden death?

>>6061475
Omg I'm really looking forward to join this challenge

>>6068807
IDK. On one hand, cumulative average makes everything "fair" down to the last vote, BUT, I really think the final round being sudden death is more exciting and brings out a more competitive edge in the final four, and more people might vote.

There needs to be a round where the competitors each make a video of themselves reviewing a fast food item in their cars. I'd be more than happy to supply a prize for this.

>>6068824
Happy to read that.

>>6068936
We had a good rooster of voters last year, no matter the round # however.

>>6069837
I'd be less likely to participate in all of the rounds if it WASN'T cumulative, but maybe it's easier on everyone if they don't HAVE to participate to every single round.
What about having a cumulative score winner, and then having a different prize/different competition based off of "signature dish"? Like, just a one shot deal.
I vote cumulative though.

Braised dish
Soup/stew/(chili, lol)
Roulade
Pub fare
Sandwich
All fried food
Poached
Farmer's market finds (at least 50% or something)
...
i dunno

>>6070160
thanks for the suggestions!

>>6067507
>I'd avoid having specific cooking styles that require extra equipment as it would appear a lot of people on /ck/ don't even have ovens, and certain ingredients that aren't widely available.
Where I reside, a lot of apartments don't even have kitchens. If you're going to cater to the lowest common denominator, I may as well enter the crap food I pick up at 7-11 and throw in the microwave at work.

>>6069837
>had a good rooster of voters
Yeah, we were a bunch of co/ck/s all right. :-)

>>6061475

lasagne round

A poor man's round, meal has to be of say less than $5-10 and only ingredients bought in that one shop and nothing else from the cupboard/pantry or fridge.

>>6070676
This has been done before (with the added stipulation that it came from a convenience store)

The results were sadly what you'd expect: turns out you can't do very much with $10 at 7/11.

It was a fun one time experience, but when you have basic meringues winning a round, it probably isn't the best for a culinary challenge competition.

To be clear, I'm not trying to knock on BubbleBurst - I still think he deserved to win by making the best of what was available within the constraints. I just think that it's kind of a bad measure in general for who is the best, especially if you use it at a later round.

Fuck me, I'm in, so long as I don't have to add a trip to this name.

>>6061512

>fruit theme is nice and general too

I love you Borneo, but nobody on Earth, or /ck/, likes grapes as much as you.

>>6061549

This is honestly the only reason trips should exist, and pretty much everyone who participates only uses a trip/name during these competitions.

You should spend a little more time on /ck/, it's a nice board. Shit, I've never used a trip/name, but talked to hearts enough times as anon that she hooked me up with her book club.

>thinking you have any idea what that even means

What's wrong with anons who enjoy cooking putting on a cook off on a food and cooking image board every year or so? You realize you can participate while otherwise remaining anonymous.

>>6065445

I feel like the ideas need to be a bit more open to interpretation than doing a specific cuisine you might not be familiar with (at least in the early rounds...), or generally something most anons might not have the time or money for.

I think the blob and /lit/-/mu/-/tv/ crossover ideas are great, though.

I like the /ck/ potluck round unless it becomes

>>6065641

which is basically a, "shit constantly posted here" round, and nobody was happy with the ramen round last time.

>>6070777
>"shit constantly posted here" round
Yeah, it was a joke.

>ramen round last time
We had a ramen round last time??

Nice trips, BTW. Best airplane.

>>6070705
No trip required.

>>6070697
Lol, yeah. Other then eggs/milk/stale sandwiches my convenience store pretty much only sell junk. It was either the meringues or attempting that over posted Doritos consomme.

>>6070332
Thank you for picking up on my terrible pun :-)

>>6070870
Ramen was i. 2013, round 3. There was a huge backlash against it.

See >>6067733 for all the past themes.

>>6070705
You're already a hated know nothing idiot who uses a name for no fucking reason, what does it matter if there is code after your name?

>>6070885
Yeah, I'd imagine ramen and chili are bad ideas.

Casserole
Potato round
Rare round (carpaccio, sushi, tartar, etc)
3 course may be nice for the last round
Roots
Modernist
Medieval
...
i dunno

>>6070980
more great ideas

>>6070705
Well m8, you can rely upon your tripcode until the end of the challenge and go back anonymous after it. At least it's how I'm going to do it.

I'll give some ideas

>Stuffed round (stuffed pepper, chicken, etc)
>Bone round (use a bone-in meat)
>Cold/ not served warm food round
>Tailgate type food round

lel I remember the color round last year. I liked the idea but everyone got brown and it was boring

I'd propably participate as well
Some round suggestions that I like
Soup/Stew
Meat dish
Vegetarian Dish
Breakfast
Signature Dish
Drunken-Chef/Alcohol Dish
Desserts

Probably limited ingredients for the whole challenge? Like participants post everything in their kitchen in the beginning of the challenge and cook only with that until the end?
You can play around this, maybe extra 2/3 ingredients can be bought, or limited amount, idk.

>>6071333
soup/stew is boring for presentation

>>6071347
no.

>>6071313
Yeah. I was not expecting that as a roll result.

>>6071333
Thanks!

>>6071347
As it covers 10 weeks and people to need to live outside the board this would be logistically impossible.

I left a comment on the blog site just now. Thank you Mr. (or Mrs.) BubbleBurst.

Also, good job posting stuff to the booru BB.

Also, Bubble, are you Euro or Burgerstan? If you are Euro, I'd be willing to assist you by sending fellow Burgerstan folks their prizes. I imagine shipping is awful.

>>6072873
I'm Canadian ;-)

Can you send me an email? Bubbleburst.challenge (over at) gmail.com

>>6072866
Thanks! I feel like I might have missed some on the OC in recent months, though most of it was never collected as a vertical...

>>6061475
Hey OP, just a suggestion for timing of each round - could each round cover 2 weekends, eg. for this December the rounds (as in time to post your entries) would be:

Round 1: Dec 6 - Dec 14
Round 2: Dec 20 - Dec 28

The short rounds (and I think a change in schedule in one of the early rounds) really screwed me out of participating beyond round 1 - between full time job and family life and no full weekend to work with I was just physically not able to plan and prepare.

But if it's just me and it would stretch the Challenge out too much then oh well, I'll try if I can but probably I'll just watch you have fun.

Masa/cornmeal
Smoked (you CAN do it on your stovetop, and someone could be creative and use tea leaves instead of wood), meh
Burger
Tempeh/Seitan
Instead of convenience store - Under $10 or $15 round (post store receipt) or perhaps combine this idea with another
Game night food

Think I'm pretty tapped out for ideas.

>>6070883
>over posted Doritos consomme
I resent that.

>>6071313

>stuffed round

Love it.

>bone-in meat round

Pretty broad, but actually sounds limiting enough to make it interesting (would fish count?).

>cold round

I seem to remember there being a garde manger round in one of the past few competitions (it might have been a casual thing, as I'm not seeing it in >>6067733), and it was such a broad category that people were submitting everything from salads to desserts... I don't remember exactly, but I remember that I thought it didn't really work.

>tailgate type food round

I'm from 'murrica and even I'm not sure what that would be. I'm guessing that wouldn't go over well in a pretty international competition.

>>6073121
I suggested roulade, but I guess that falls in the "stuffed" category
Bone-in IS too broad IMO

I like the idea of a "cold" round, but like you said, It's a bit vague and I can see it leading to ... what you said happened. Someone suggested aspic, so that could rein it in. Cold soup maybe. Something that is normally served hot... Yeah, it's pretty vague, but we are just spit-balling and sound-boarding.

Tailgate/game night/smoker/BBQ is all kinda vague, but I think BB can take the ideas and condense them into specific rounds. As an observer, I liked the "picnic" round and I feel like it encompassed most of the ideas while not being "American". And I suggested "game night food" partly because I'm interested to see what other parts of my country and what other countries eat while sitting around watching a game. I'm not even sports. I don't even know what sport season it is. Pretty sure it has a ball in it though. GO TEAM FROM MY AREA! SPORTS!

>BB
Are you thinking of putting the rounds to a vote
Or just deciding on your own
Or deciding on your own and then running it by /ck/
?
Just curious.
I prefer a dictatorship; one man to lead.

Aside from the weeb associations, how about something like a "bento" round (no box required). It would basically be like a combination of picnic/cold food/tapas; in other words, maybe 5 or so distinct small bites that you could put in a lunch box and eat at room temperature to have something like a composed meal.

>>6073223

>one man to lead

>always thought of bb as a grill
>miss hearts

>>6073264
I like the bento box idea, it coincides with other ideas posted.

>always thought of bb as a grill
He identifies as a black female lesbian wolfboy, so keep masterbating to your fantasies.

>>6073341

>he identifies as a black female lesbian wolfboy

You just described my dog, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

>>6073349
You should probably go to church.
Do some soul seeking.
It gets better.

>>6073264
>miss hearts

>tfw

Going with the drunken chef round from the other year, maybe instead of alcohol in food, contestants must make a webm drink a certain amount of alcohol in a certain period before commencing cooking.

Cant wait. I can finally participate this year!

>>6073223
I'll be picking them. To keep some surprises for the participants.

>>6073264
Who says I'm not? But I miss heart's advent calendar too.

>>6073653
Glad to hear that!

>>6073679
>Who says I'm not?
>>6072873
I'm Canadian ;-)

Pretty sure Canadians reproduce asexually.

>>6062588
well thats somethuing i can do.
my presentation is abysmal, but luckily there is more important stuff than presentation for a chili

>>6068807
what about:
count all rounds, but allow 2 rounds to be byes, so peole who may not be strong at/well enough equiped for one round have achnace of winning, too. or ofc. if they for some reason cant take part in just one round

>>6070980
>medieval
not everyone can cook over an open fire here

Is there anyway I can keep informed on this other than just lurking? I'm definitely keen

>>6073745
ckchallenge.blogpost.co.uk
was linked by BubbleB before.

>>6073748
Thanks man

bumpety bump

>>6073704
>Pretty sure Canadians reproduce asexually.
Hush. If they figure out we've mastered anakoinosis everyone will want to copy us.

>>6073720
This made me think, how viable would a theme like the 100 mile challenge be for the participants? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Mile_Challenge

>>6074829
doable, for most people.
BUT pretty much impossible to detect cheating.

With myself as reference, i know i could do it, but it wouldn't be cheap (whilst living on low budget, too) and easy (not that it should be to easy)
That is under the assumption that i am at my little student dormright in teh center of a metropolitan area.
f i am at my families place, on the countryside, i can get everything cheap, and with way better selection.
So i guess everyone could do it, but it might end up being pretty unfair.
also i guess not everyone wants to disclose where they live, what would be necesary to at least somehow check if the rules where followed

>>6074902
pretty much the same hesitations I had. Good to hear them from outside my head.

I have a suggestion for a round.

Local specialties.

Pretty much make your version of what your city/state/province etc is famous for.

>>6075179
Have you seen Australian cuisine, it's god awful, please no

>>6075179
please no.
i hate german cuisine, and expecially where i live there is no real speciality besides 'some sort of meat and potato and whatever you can find mahsed up poor coal miners food' except for curry sausage

>>6075650
>>6075912
lol

>>6076228
what?
not having a worthwile local cuisine is not that uncommon

>>6076234
It's the visceral and rather immediate reaction that made me laugh. Not the cuisine woes.

Just wanna thank BB for hosting again.

<3

>>6073712
Chili isnt about presentation, it was never meant to be pretty. Kind of like Indian food. Its all about your meat and method. I did fancy up my presentation when I made one last year and it made me feel like a faggot. Also, if you use fucking beans and ground beef, no prize for you. If you use bourbon and/or some sort of smoked meat in your recipe I might hook it up with an enhanced prize.

>>6067733
I really want the gas station challenge round again.

>>6065445
>make a dish based on a food or meal referenced in either a book

Dibs on Green Eggs and Ham

>>6076759
In a box or with a fox?

>>6076759
>>6077833
I've got mine picked out too. Trying to figure out how to pull it off... I'll need a blue plate to start...
Hmm

>>6076466
You're welcome! Sorry for not seeing your post sooner.

>>6073223
>I prefer a dictatorship; one man to lead
>>6073679
>I'll be picking them.
All hail the iron fist of Canadia.

>>6075912
Fick dich junge,deutsche regionale Küche kann extrem gut sein

>>6075159

>good to hear them from outside my head

In case you aren't entirely sure, I'll second that anon.

Just imagine what kind of nightmare verifying every little thing would be when some anon tries to argue, "I'm from that area and I can't find etc."...

>>6081123
Point taken.

Cholula here, I got a really great job between the last challenge and now and thus would be happy to offer some prizes. I'd like to compete as well, but not sure if I'll be able to with time constraints plus my new place has the shittiest stove/induction range in existence so...

Anyway I'm not super creative so can't really think of any good ideas for rounds. I thought maybe we could do like a US regional round, like everyone has to roll and make a dish based off of a certain region of the US (Southern, New England, etc) but that might not be fair to folks from other countries.

I'm a fan of slow cookers, so a slow cooker round would be pretty cool, though I'm sure there are people who don't have one so that wouldn't really be fair.

Honestly I never had a real issue with any of the rounds unless they required a big budget, which is no longer an issue for me.

I really enjoyed the color round last year, that was my favorite. I was lucky to get orange though, lol. Pic related

Pye, btw, I still use your brioche bun vert probably once a month.

>>6076755
Also gas station round would be so bitchin!

>>6082554
I'd like to add too for anyone thinking about participating but not too sure, it really is fun and at least for me a very big learning experience. I still use a lot of the recipes other people posted. Just don't let yourself get stressed... heh. It can be really intimidating with some of the amazing cooks we have on this board, but it really pushes you to stretch your boundaries and for me, to learn new techniques and recipes.

And Bubble as always thank you for taking your time to do this, you are so much more patient than I am with the trolls, etc. You rock!

>>6082554
Cool! Shoot me an email for the prize sponsoring!