/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11784639]

Why do some people never learn to cook? How can you be content with eating microwaveable meals and instant ramen all the time? My housemate literally never cooks anything that you can't throw in the microwave or oven. Sure he's pathetically lazy, but he's never shown any interest in wanting to learn either.

[Anonymous No.11784648]

>>11784639
He'll have a stroke and then you can stop worrying about him.

[Anonymous No.11784655]

>>11784639
>never cooks anything that you can't throw in the microwave or oven

Literally anything can be cooked in the microwave or the oven.

[Anonymous No.11784660]

Some people don't see the worth in it. I sorta understand, being a loser that ate instant ramen all day before I realised cooking your own meals was fucking delicious. It takes so little time and effort to prepare a bowl of instant noodles or throw something in the microwave. Plus, instant noodles are dirt fucking cheap. Cheaper than cooking your own meals (excluding muh rice n beans), almost.
Also, some people live in constant paranoia of burning the house down. It's incredible. I once knew a zoomer who wouldn't even operate a microwave because he was so scared of burning fuck knows. That's an extreme case obviously, though people afraid to use stoves aren't that rare.

[Anonymous No.11784661]

Sometimes things aren't as important to some people as others.

[Anonymous No.11784662]

>>11784639
What else does he do in life? some people give little to no value to food, other than to sate the uncomfortable feelings of hunger. They'll eat anything to make it go away, then go on to other things they think are more important.

If your housemate is a busy guy with a heavy work and social life, he's going for easy food because it saves time and he doesn't really care beyond feeling full.

If he's a lazy slob who just plays video games and loafs around the house all of the time, he's just a lazy piece of shit and likely too depressed to care about food beyond eating what he needs to survive with the least amount of effort.

[Anonymous No.11784673]

>>11784655
Sorry I should've clarified - doesn't "cook" anything, only throws frozen meals in the oven or microwave.

[Anonymous No.11784678]

>>11784673
Is he a boomer? Only boomers think microwaves are acceptable replacements for the stove and the oven. They were right.

[Anonymous No.11784684]

>>11784678
No.

[Anonymous No.11784687]

I have enough disposable income to just get food delivered constantly

[Anonymous No.11784697]

>>11784684
You can cook steak in an oven.

[Anonymous No.11784909]

The time and dedication that needs to be put into it can bet pretty taxing and over what some wageslaves living a hectic live can simply afford.
Simply putting something on a chopping board can be way too mentally draining after 8 hours of work and an hour+ of travelling back home

[Anonymous No.11784917]

>>11784687
I did this for almost all of 2018, only recently started getting groceries and coming to this board to get inspiration.

[Anonymous No.11785027]

>>11784639
> Why do some people never learn to cook?

I’m 51 years old and can’t cook worth a shit and hate cooking (though I like eating good food) and here’s my story;

When I was growing up, my mom did all the cooking (though dad would run the BBQ in the summer) and being an old school post-WWII Polish immigrant, she never saw any reason to teach me how to cook as that was women’s work and I had no interest in learning.

After graduating high school, I started working in the machining industry and thus was working 60 hours per week and when I got my own place, my free time was so minimal that I saw cooking as just another chore like cutting the grass or doing laundry, so I’ve been eating mostly canned, frozen and otherwise processed food that can be quickly cooked in a microwave ever since.

True story; my oven has only been turned on once in the 20 years I’ve lived here and that was a few weeks after I bought my house and had a house warming party and a friend used it to make won-tons.

[Anonymous No.11785032]

>>11784917
>coming to this board to get inspiration
How are you enjoying the McChicken threads?

[Anonymous No.11785218]

>>11784909
Cooking takes little actual time and dedication, and for the tasks that require effort, there are tools to make the job easier.
Most of your time is going to be spent waiting for something to finish.
There are very few recipes, especially in the French manner, which require you to constantly look over your food to ensure that you don't fuck it up.
As always, money is the root of all solutions.

[Anonymous No.11785227]

I'm afraid to buy ingredients due to social anxiety and because my money might be wasted if it turns out bad which it likely will.

[Anonymous No.11785324]

>>11784661
/thread

[Anonymous No.11785569]

>>11784639
I've always been curious too. My brother loves delicious food. But is super lazy he hates cooking.

Maybe it's because I like to cook so I think it's a essential skill for everyone

[Anonymous No.11785592]

>>11785027
You can just start with stuff that can be mostly premade like spaghetti. Then add stuff you think you might like to it.
Now in the age of youtube and shit you can find recipes that don't even require much work, just literally dump stuff into your pot or pan and stir every so often.

[Anonymous No.11785596]

>>11784639
get back to packaging my tv dinners wagie

[Anonymous No.11785676]

>>11785027
>51 years old and browsing 4chan

[Anonymous No.11785680]

>>11785227
>I'm afraid to buy ingredients due to social anxiety

How do people become like this? Nobody gives a single fuck about you dude. Just go buy the fucking groceries it's not hard. You're not going to get laughed at and mocked by the cashiers.

[Anonymous No.11785682]

>>11785676
>Zoomer wasting their youth on a Zimbabwean Nose Flute Music forum

[Anonymous No.11785694]

>>11785676
You poor slob.

[Anonymous No.11785701]

>>11785680
Easy for you to say. I become manic whenever I force myself into a social situation and it lasts for hours after.

Sometimes I go to the supermarket nearby but I don't buy anything because they don't have self-checkout.

[Anonymous No.11785706]

>>11785680
>You're not going to get laughed at and mocked by the cashiers.
Not the weirdo dude you're replying to, but I got called a pussy once when I bought a kebab out of a shop and chose the garlic sauce instead of the hot chilli sauce with it.

[Anonymous No.11785735]

>>11785706
Oh wow, a stranger called you a pussy. I guess they know you better than you know yourself.

[Anonymous No.11785765]

>>11785227
>my money might be wasted if it turns out bad which it likely will
Really hard to fuck up in such a major way that it becomes uneatable. Just eat it, even if it's not great. It will be a learning experience

[Anonymous No.11785777]

Cooking is stressful and when it's not it's boring. Food doesn't even taste that nice either.
The only reason i cook is to prove my self discipline. That and the itch comes back if i'm not doing anything for too long.

[Anonymous No.11785787]

>>11785706
>talking about cashiers

Yeah. This happened. People don't risk their jobs to call some neckbeard a pussy to their face.

[Anonymous No.11785793]

>>11784639
what is so terrible of buying a huge bag of frozen ravioli and just boiling them in a pot and eating them?

Do you really have the time to make ravioli completely by hand?

[Anonymous No.11785795]

>>11785787
Why not? I called someone a faggot when I worked as a cashier.

[Anonymous No.11785810]

>>11785777
>cooking requires discipline
That how I know you're doing it wrong, that's why it's stressful/boring for you. You're probably doing your best to autistically follow some weird guidelines. What you should be doing is experimenting with ingredients and gradually learning more about each one, eventually your experiments will get tastier and tastier. It will also never be boring or stressful because it's just a sort of game for you, you're just playing around with ingredients

[Anonymous No.11785820]

>>11784639
A friend of mine has never cooked a meal for himself beyond popping something in the oven or microwave. He can't even boil an egg.

Fucking hilarious desu, love to give him shit about it before I make us a nice meal.

[Anonymous No.11785822]

>>11785820
>before I make us a nice meal
Sounds fucking gay

[Anonymous No.11785889]

>>11785810
Techniques are more important than ingredients. For example, almost every culture has braised dishes so if you master braising you can branch out to other ingredients for different flavored braises. If you haven't mastered that technique, no matter what ingredients you use, it'll be shit.

[Anonymous No.11785899]

>>11785889
It's obviously both, those techniques are the experiments I'm referring to. I didn't mean shove an onion up your butt and see how it feels

[Anonymous No.11785900]

>>11785889
>Techniques are more important than ingredients
Let me guess you live in Europe where it's illegal to sell garbage below a certain standard of quality

In America ingredients matter and anyone who fails to pay attention will suffer

[Anonymous No.11785908]

>>11785822
sounds wholesome to me

[Anonymous No.11785921]

>>11785027
you have old man intellect and could probably learn relatively fast

[Anonymous No.11785933]

>>11784639
My brother is like this, has all the time in the world to make decent food but goes to mcshitters and eats value menu garbage

[Anonymous No.11785937]

>>11785933
It tastes better to him and it's instant.

[Anonymous No.11785947]

>>11785937
but cooking good tasting food isnt that hard or time consuming, its just a mental hurdle i feel

[Anonymous No.11786023]

>>11785899
Didn't feel like much of anything since I prefer hot peppers to onions for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.11786216]

>>11785592
> You can just start with stuff that can be mostly premade like spaghetti.

Oh I make spaghetti or mac & cheese (from a box) and fry up bacon & eggs or pirogi, it’s all the peeling, chopping, stirring and paying attention part of cooking I don’t care for, as well as all the cleaning up and dish washing afterward, in addition to planning a menu and buying the proper ingredients.

It’s simply much more time efficient to nuke a can of chili, then to do it all from scratch.

>>11785676
> 51 years old and browsing 4chan

The Internet has been around for a while now, son. I’ve been posting to Usenet for the last 20 years, long before the term “social media” came about. 4chan ain’t your secret club.

>>11785921
> you have old man intellect and could probably learn relatively fast

Sure, but at this point I’ve been living this way for so long that the habit is ingrained and I’m still working 50-60 hours a week, so the issue of a lack of time hasn’t changed.

I get up at 5:00am, I’m out the door by 5:30 and punch out of work at 4:30 and walk in the door by 5:00pm, literally half the day is spent and then I’m in bed between 10:00-11:00pm, which leaves me 5-6 hours a day to do everything one has to deal with in life.

I’d rather not waste what little free time I’ve got standing around the kitchen chopping, pealing and washing dishes.

[Anonymous No.11786552]

>>11785676
lol faggot

[Anonymous No.11786621]

>>11785777
>stressful
>boring
>food doesn't taste that good
speak for yourself faggot