/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17788143]

>be me
>throwing a dinner party for family and friends
>decide to make homemade pasta, tomato sauce and meatballs so that everyone’s happy
>serve the meal, and like half of the table starts bitching and moaning about how its “too tangy” and “spicy” despite the fact that I didn’t put any chili pepper in it at all and the ingredients are just the basic tomato, basil and salt you’d find in tomato sauce.
>I end up throwing some Ragu into a pan and serving that with the pasta instead
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I make you a fresh and simple home-cooked meal and all you do is bitch about it? I even went out of my way to pick a dish that wouldn’t offend your man/womanchild asses. That’s the last time I try to entertain these fucks.

[Anonymous No.17788154]

>>17788143
I have a legit celeriac disease friend and a vegetard friend. If they both come over at the same time nobody can have a good time.

[Anonymous No.17788159]

>>17788143
This did not actually happen.

[Anonymous No.17788166]

Next time make it potluck thing make everyone bring their own dish you complain you have to cook next time everyone will start getting pissed at the people that complain cuz it means they'll have to cook to

[Anonymous No.17788173]

>>17788159
I wish

[Anonymous No.17788174]

>>17788143
Y'know, Syndrome was a great villain but he only really gets one good scene, or two if you count his death.

[Anonymous No.17788178]

>>17788143
Many people are addicted to sugar.

[Anonymous No.17788184]

>>17788174
Wats the first one

[Anonymous No.17788185]

>>17788143
Why not just order a pizza like a normal person

[Anonymous No.17788192]

>>17788185
Because we’re adults.

[Anonymous No.17788214]

When you know people are picky, it's not worth your time to try to home make something they'll like. I suspect you probably knew the Ragu was the safe bet to begin with.

Pleasing picky eaters is a fools errand. One time my friend refused my dessert because I used Jif instead of Skippy for peanut butter, there's just no winning with these people.

[Anonymous No.17788232]

>>17788214
>like. I suspect you probably knew the Ragu was the safe bet to begin with.
Well I knew that certain guests had good taste, and like I said it turned out that half the table loved it, so for that reason I didn’t want to make some canned shit and look like a lazy cunt.

[Anonymous No.17788244]

>>17788184
His villain monologue where he explains he's going to sell superhero technology to the public just to spite and devalue superheroes. It has very Ayn Rand vibes to it.

[Anonymous No.17788490]

>>17788166
I'm sure the people in question are the exact type to rely on jars of ragu when it comes to this shit, it's a certain type of "person"
Honestly better to not even try, I'd be thrilled to try homemade spaghetti

[Anonymous No.17788503]

>>17788143
you’re not a good cook

[Anonymous No.17788510]

>>17788143
OP real reply here. How many times have you made homemade pasta sauce before? Are you sure you are doing it right? I have made pasta sauce homemade only a handful of times and I'd say out of 5 times I only got it right twice. Perhaps you got unlucky. Keep making dishes to improve upon them. Hard part is having taste testers and outside critics because you may have been practicing imperfect technique. It's practice makes permanent, always.

[Anonymous No.17788527]

>>17788143
you need to treat these people like picky children. if they don't like it, sucks for them. you enabled them by conceding and heating up ragu.

[Anonymous No.17788544]

They were rude to complain about a complementary dinner. However, have you considered that perhaps they were right and there was too much acidity left in the sauce

[Anonymous No.17788606]

>OP fucks up a basic dish
>comes to whine to total strangers about it
I feel like I read this story at least once a week.

[Anonymous No.17788801]

>>17788192
>no one will like bread, cheese, and sauce unless I am the one to make it
ok faggot

[Anonymous No.17789030]

>>17788143
If you used canned tomatoes they can be acidic. Try making your sauce a little sweeter. No idea where the spice complaint came from though, did you add garlic? You may not have cooked it enough.

[Anonymous No.17789083]

>>17788143
>the ingredients are just the basic tomato, basil and salt
Sugar. You forgot the sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes.

>>17788174
I liked how casual he acts in what should be dramatic scenes.
>Mr Incredible terminated
Casually wanders away
>Deadly robot in rocket, ready to launch
Casually walks up to the launch console and just pushes the button

[Anonymous No.17789142]

>>17788154
Get friends that don't have shit genetics

[Anonymous No.17789149]

>>17789142
Vegetarianism is a mental disorder not a genetic one.

[Anonymous No.17789158]

>>17788154
>celeriac disease

[Anonymous No.17789160]

>>17788143
Sounds like you didn't actually cook the tomato well enough. You need a good amount of oil to get the temp up and cook out the acidity.

[Anonymous No.17789165]

>>17788143
either your family has shit taste or you didn't simmer the sauce long enough
>inb4 'the recipe said 2 hours'
tomato sauce is an all day occasion
but if you did that, your family needs to shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.17789174]

>>17788154
Just cook multiple dishes and make sure to label everything. Granted that can mean more work, but if you focus on either simple dishes or pre cook something then warm it up in the oven it's not too bad.

[Anonymous No.17789238]

>>17789174
Last time I made a cajun shrimp pasta but with jasmine rice instead of my normal pasta. I still gave the chick the runs because I deglazed the pan with a splash of beer and forgot there was wheat in it.

[Anonymous No.17789253]

>>17788143
My brothers wife once cried because she ordered hot chocolate from a snack stand and it didn't come with marshmallows. She also cried once when she ordered a club sandwich and it didn't have bacon on it.

it was very common for her to make a face like someone had shove a turd sandwich in her face when presented with common foods like gravy, because it wasn't the powdered stuff you make from an envelope.

[Anonymous No.17789283]

>>17789083
That's it. He's a villain too good for the role to the point where the undertones just get passed of for casual actions. The bit where he gets self-aware about how he's monologuing is kind of great, but in a tempo-breaking way.

[Anonymous No.17790095]

>>17788154
Oh man only being able to eat celery must suck.

[Anonymous No.17790598]

>>17788801
If you weren’t a loathsome shutin and a disgrace to your family you would know that its accepted procedure to actually make the food that you’re serving for the dinner party.

[Anonymous No.17790611]

>>17788503
>>17788510
>>17789030
>>17789083
>>17789160
Ok, just to clarify, I simmered the sauce for 3.5 to 4 hours, used half fresh and half canned tomato, and did use garlic which I forgot to mention. I know a lot of people do use sugar but I didn’t because it wasn’t particularly acidic by the time it was reduced.

[Anonymous No.17790621]

>>17790611
so you're saying it was spicy... and tangy......

[Anonymous No.17790624]

>>17790621
It was not. I make this recipe for my kids all the time and they’re pussies.

[Anonymous No.17790644]

>Cook frozen ravioli in some "organic" sauce with ground beef to appease my family
>They tell me it's delicious and I did a great job
>It tastes like you'd expect
Haha your family hates you

[Anonymous No.17790646]

>>17788143
>move in with my ex-girlfriend
>she grew up poor
>i cook healthy, fresh foods
>she doesn't know how to cook at all
>relationship disintegrates over her unwillingness to eat foods that aren't packaged garbage
>only vegetables she'll eat are brussel sprouts(if I pan fry them in butter), spinach, and green peas
>won't eat rice
>won't eat soup or stew
>complains about everything I make

Eventually I just had to punt her ass. In most other regards she was fine, didn't have BPD or Histrionic or Depression, so that put her in the upper quartile of women my age, but holy shit, it was agonizing.

How the fuck am I supposed to cook without carrots, onions, garlic, celery, rice, tomato, any form of spiciness, any form of acidity.

I haven't spoken to her in years but I'm like 95% sure she's probably a whale by this point.

[Anonymous No.17790908]

>>17788159
I think it might be a bit too detailed and honest to be a troll thread desu

[Anonymous No.17790912]

>>17790646
Nothing is worse then a picky partner
My bf is like this but getting better

[Anonymous No.17790917]

>>17789083
>Sugar
No, you don't need it. OPs family just have dead palates

[Anonymous No.17790918]

>>17790646
All those ingredients you mentioned except garlic are cheap poor person standards.

[Anonymous No.17790922]

>>17788143
>friends
get the fuck off my website

[Anonymous No.17790924]

>>17790646
>Move in with gf
>She will try anything I make for her, is picky about just a few things
>Will rarely cook for herself and will resort to takeaway or ham sandwiches if I'm not there to make dinner

[Anonymous No.17790948]

>>17790924
Lazy people

[Anonymous No.17790962]

>>17790924
She sounds trans.

[Anonymous No.17791121]

Never had this problem. I can add as much pepper and Garlic as I can in a dish, and it or adored. Mostly cause I can only cook putanesca, but hey!

[Anonymous No.17791246]

>>17788143
What is the subject of this thread?

[Anonymous No.17791701]

>>17789238
>I still gave the chick the runs because I deglazed the pan with a splash of beer and forgot there was wheat in it.
How does this cause the runs ?

[Anonymous No.17791708]

>>17791701
she has celiacs, and should not ingest gluten

[Anonymous No.17791735]

>>17791246
reeee normalfags

[Anonymous No.17791742]

>>17791708
I'm retarded, I didn't go back far enough on your post-thread

[Anonymous No.17791780]

>>17788490
Remember when Toys r us had customers? Haha

[Anonymous No.17791823]

>>17788143
Don't invite the picky eaters next time?
I had my family come into a restaurant I was working at to try the tasting menu and one of them tried to modify everything on it. You can't win, don't let them come it's fine they will continue to eat garbage and that's ok because they have garbage hearts and trash for brains

[Goodbye OP No.17791881]

Skill mogging. It upset them so they became naggers

[Anonymous No.17792827]

Most picky eaters have the pallets of children, just throw some boxed mac n' cheese in a pot or some hotdogs in the microwave.

[Anonymous No.17792894]

>>17789149
Mental illness is caused by genetics

[Anonymous No.17792923]

>>17790912
Post tits

[Anonymous No.17792930]

>>17791708
People like that don’t deserve to breed

[Anonymous No.17792997]

>>17788143
Just use Ragu and tell them it's homemade and see how they react to it. Or vice versa. Play some mind games with them.

[Anonymous No.17793079]

>>17788143
>too tangy
Yah didn't simmer the sauce long enough and yeah basil is spicy if you add too much.

[Anonymous No.17793082]

>>17788143
Sorry OP but your family hates you.

[Anonymous No.17793670]

>>17790624
>Kids raised on slop can't tell that they're eating slop
Found the answer.

[Anonymous No.17793698]

>>17789083
>Sugar. You forgot the sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes.
Dear god never add sugar to your tomato sauce.

[Anonymous No.17793842]

>>17790922
lol

[Anonymous No.17793874]

>>17790598
shut the fuck up retard, apparently your nigger family didn't like your food all that much. Eat shit and die.

[Anonymous No.17793902]

>>17788143
Whypipo...

[Anonymous No.17793968]

>>17790611
Sounds good, anon. Sorry about your friend and family's palates.

[Anonymous No.17794099]

>>17788143
>Fly home, Buddy. I cook alone.

[Anonymous No.17795815]

>>17788143
Just sneak some chloroform in all their meals.

[Anonymous No.17796341]

>>17788143
>make dinner
>someone complains
>they’re banned for life
Try getting a fucking spine