Biggest cooking mistake made by home cooks in 2019

[Anonymous No.13445717]

And the winner is!!!!

Draining or skimming excess fat while cooking.
Dont do this.
Dietary fat is good for you its sugar that is making you fat.
That yuck response you from seeing grease on fatty foods is brainwashing left over from the 80s.
Stop skimming all the flavor off your food.

[Anonymous No.13445732]

grease tastes nasty

[Anonymous No.13445743]

Actually, the winner is to let it cool down so you can remove it when it becomes solid. Letting it float around at the top of your dish is retarded.

[Anonymous No.13445750]

I only skim excess fat if it forms its own layer. Then I wait for it to become a skin and I pull that out. It doesn't add flavor.

[Anonymous No.13445756]

You want greasy soup? Ok retard. Which youtuber did you hear this from?

>b-but muh fat is f-flavor....

[Anonymous No.13445758]

>>13445717
Ehh, I usually make my stews with a reasonable fat content but I guess some fatty cuts of meat might render more fat than you'd actually want in your stew.
I made duck au vin a while back and I definitely had to remove some of the fat from that. Did it early on rather than at the end, though, since I wanted to save the fat but didn't want it to be flavoured.

[Anonymous No.13445761]

>>13445717
When you add your roux or buerre manie it should draw in the excess fat anyway.

[Anonymous No.13445849]

>>13445717
Throwing away/pouring fat down the drain is the actual answer. Some meats release a genuinely excessive amount of grease, but that grease should be saved and used for cooking other dishes. Grease is also terrible for your pipes.

[Anonymous No.13445863]

>>13445732
Depends on the format.
>>13445743
You can do this but what if you don't want to wait for 3 gallons of water to cool to fat-hardening temps?

[Anonymous No.13445865]

>>13445758
You're just describing how stew should be done in the first place.
>you skimmed excess fat.
>>13445849
this

[Anonymous No.13445880]

>>13445743
yeah but i want to actually eat what i'm cooking today m8
not let it cool for hours and reheat it

[Anonymous No.13445895]

>>13445863
>You can do this but what if you don't want to wait for 3 gallons of water to cool to fat-hardening temps?
Take the whole top off and put it in the freezer, you'll only have a few ounces to cool, remove the hardened fat and you can put back the bit of cooled liquid in the main dish.

[Anonymous No.13445902]

>>13445750
>It doesn't add flavor.
Not correct

>I only skim excess fat if it forms its own layer
Just let it cool to serving temp the stir the fat back in

[Anonymous No.13445928]

>>13445902
You can't stir fat back in if there is nothing to absorb it, it'll just float back up in less than a minute.

[Anonymous No.13445937]

>>13445895
or i could just soak it up with kitchen roll in like 30sec

[Anonymous No.13445948]

>>13445937
Only if you don't care about soaking up a part of your dish as well.

[Anonymous No.13445951]

>>13445717

too much fat ruins a soup, any good soup has that shit skimmed. if the soup is bland you can just add a bit more back in to taste.

[Anonymous No.13445968]

>>13445951
>I don't like fat in my french onion soup
I can't say your taste is bad but it's not mine.

[Anonymous No.13445969]

>>13445948
no i don't care about losing like 2ml of sauce from my dish, and i have no idea why anyone would care

[Anonymous No.13445972]

>>13445717
Surplus fat is disgusting.

[Anonymous No.13445996]

>>13445972
You have been ruined by popular culture

[Anonymous No.13446075]

jesus fucking christ why are you cretins making your stew so fatty that it can literally be skimmed off the top in the first place. I knew the retards on this board were incompetent but holy fuck

[Anonymous No.13446098]

>>13446075
Ok but why did you post a showman as a meme of your judgement of cooking? Shouldn't you have posted someone who can cook?

[Anonymous No.13446100]

>>13446075
Some meat have a lot of internal fat and it's basically impossible to remove said fat beforehand. Do you even cook, faggot or just pretend you know shit because you watched kitchen nightmares?

[Anonymous No.13446171]

>>13446098
Hes a competent chef on top of being a celebrity. Thats why he had multiple michellin starred restaurants atnone point. Being popular doesnt mame you a hack.

[Anonymous No.13446208]

>>13446171
>add a little oil so the pasta doesn't stick!
>BURGAH
he's a hack

[Anonymous No.13446216]

>>13446100
>muh internal fat
then lower the ratio of fatty meat, use a different kind of meat, or increase the ratio of vegetables and other ingredients. Fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.13446226]

>>13446216
>use a different kind of meat
Retard.
>or increase the ratio of vegetables and other ingredients
Yep, you're a complete retard.
You didn't even think when you posted this, didn't you?

[Anonymous No.13446249]

>>13446226
you know you can pair different kinds of meats in a stew, right? In fact it's common practice to do so. Ever think to pair a fatty meat with a lean meat? Of course you fucking didn't because you're a stupid fat fuck that is drinking spoonfuls of pure fat every time you make your grease ridden "stew" since you're completely incompetent at cooking. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.13446262]

>>13446249
>thread is literally about removing fat from stew
>hurrdurr you fat
>didn't even address his other retarded points when he realized it was so retarded there was no defending it.

[Anonymous No.13446277]

>>13446262
what the fuck do you want me to address you absolute ass clown? Adding other ingredients like vegetables is indeed going to reduce the overall fat content of the stew, as is using a different less fatty meat. Please fucking kill yourself because I feel myself losing brain cells every time you post something

[Anonymous No.13446289]

>>13446277
>bro just put in 20x the amount of vegetables
>bro just don't use any meat, can still make a great beef stew without any beef

[Anonymous No.13446302]

>>13446277
See, I'm not the only one who thinks it's retarded.
>>13446289
Also, I'm sure you can feel your brain cells disappearing since you can count them on one hand.

[Anonymous No.13446303]

>>13446289
there are plenty of cuts of beef that aren't overly fatty you stupid fat fucking piece of shit. If you even were halfway competent at cooking you would fucking know this

[Anonymous No.13446315]

>>13446302
>>13446303
baited hard

[Anonymous No.13446326]

>>13446315
>j-just pretending, ahah got you good guys, r-right?
Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.13446331]

>>13446315
>i-i was only pretending to be retarded!
absolutely ebin

[Anonymous No.13446332]

>>13446326
Seething

[Anonymous No.13446883]

>>13446303
Using only lean meats in a stew just because you cant cook well enough to balance things out is pathetic
All the meats a good anon and fat is not your enemy

[Anonymous No.13447011]

>>13445902
Fat isn't a flavor on its own. A texture perhaps, but not a flavor.

[Anonymous No.13447018]

>>13446277
>Adding other ingredients like vegetables is indeed going to reduce the overall fat content of the stew

[Anonymous No.13447026]

>>13447011
not only is it a flavor, but it possibly going to be added to the list of things the human tongue can taste.

[Anonymous No.13447053]

>>13447026
>flavor
Fat carries flavors, but doesn't taste like much on its own past a vague oily filminess.

>OK BUT BUTTER
>OK BUT LARD
>OK BUT OLIVE OIL
All of those things have inherent flavors that the oil carries. Sip some soybean or other neutral vegetable oil and tell me what it tastes like. It doesn't taste like anything.

[Anonymous No.13447912]

>>13447053
You are splitting hairs. What a silly debate.
We are talking about animal fats in stews.
Those have flavors.

>buh but if you extract all the flavor then fat has no flavor.
Shut the front door

[Anonymous No.13447995]

>>13446216
Why dont you try making some soup with lean cuts of meat retard. You'll end up with flavorless chunks of rubber.

[Anonymous No.13448009]

Yeah eating the disgusting grease from your shitty cooking isn't healthy and you are getting fat from it
>That yuck response you from seeing grease on fatty foods is brainwashing left over from the 80s.
No thats just common sense. Even low carb low brain activity retards like you acknowledge that, its gross and not healthy, not the same as fat from the animal

[Anonymous No.13448898]

learn what the word excess means

[Anonymous No.13449066]

>>13445849
>tfw live in an apartment complex
>ALWAYS dump oil and grease down the sink
>landlord has to pay for repairs if anything
reminder to get back at the housing jew where you can

[Anonymous No.13449169]

>>13447995
Not really. Maybe if you know nothing about seasoning and can't cook. I guess that must be your situation.