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Currently vibing with cereal and cheezits

By choice!! By choice. I'm not starving. I could be eating pancakes.

My username is so ironic in hindsight

I went to a vocational school for high school and did Culinary Arts. We had a full blown restaurant, bakery, etc. I would probably give myself a 6 or 7/8. I'm no chef, but probably better than the average person.

I have posted my baking on Discord. I am an above average cook and baker 

I like plain white rice

What type and method do you use? Now I'M genuinely curious

...are you Asian 

Not Japanese from the sound of it

Recipes in my hands are as useful as Greek inscriptions would be in the hands of a North Sentinel Island native

Chinese?

I know very little about Asians, knowing zero irl. I thought Chinese people hated Japan?

Chat GPT says I should've guessed you're South Korean 

So can I have the recipe instead? You never specified what it's for but I would assume it's rice related?

I think I'm gonna have to confiscate any bag of Doritos you have in your possession. The things you've suggested doing to them are crimes against humanity.

I put cheese sauce and chopped up hot dog bits in my ramen like a normal human instead of committing the unforgivable sin

lol, i can tell youve been getting multiple days of laughs and enjoyment from Bezros antics. 

What sort of foods dont you eat Mizal? You seem to be pretty aware when it comes to how different foods affect the body. Do you have any no gos? 

Mmm ravioli. It's been a while. I'd forgotten it exists

He's trying to poison me T-T

You're penalizing her for not knowing that you're Korean?

I only recently came across a head of lettuce that was not wrapped in plastic and on a store shelf or coming across my register because someone wants to buy it, and luckily had enough common sense to figure out how that works. I'd only ever gotten it out of bags before. Y'know, those premade salad pack things.

What's a skillet? I've only ever heard that as a band name 

Oatmeal is nasty. I know how to scramble an egg in a bowl and cook it in the microwave without dying (yet) though, so I think we're good.

I meant to say I had seen them in stores, but not out of one until recently.

But no, we do not have a Walmart. We do have a grocery store, and it is the only one in the county. We also have the only stoplight in our county.

I'm leaving once I get that high school diploma. We're still a few months away

Hes just your average anime high schooler. non anime watchers will not understand the layers to this joke.

Even having a beard isn't necessarily enough to look 40. I'm 21 and I switch between being clean shaven or having a dense stubble and people still think I look young even with facial hair, I can't imagine you looking older than you say you do. 40s crazy for a 14 year old Korean lol I'm beginning to just imagine Bobby Lee. So you're definitely overestimating I bet

And this weird recipe can be made so much cheaper and healthier by replacing ramen noodles with vermicelli, a bit of broth, soy sauce, some meat and easily cookable veggies like spinach. 

You've been eating this stuff? I want to see proof.

Potatoes are good alone too, though I prefer them with bacon, butter, more sour cream than should be legal, and salt.
Pasta is good with butter and salt, or just plain.

Americans and their desire to fry everything. Soon y'all gonna make deep fried butter on bread a thing. I'll stick with my beans on toast, thank YOU very much. 

Ever been to an American fair? Deep fried butter is definitely a thing, even without the bread. Also deep fried Oreos, peaches, ice cream, snickers...

I agree with Bezro. Rice has a distinct flavor, albeit not a strong one. I like eating just white rice, by itself. I actually prefer that over eating it with anything

Because I can't make rice

I genuinely wonder if it's possible for me to order you a rice cooker. The type I have can cook the basics like rice and porridge, and you'll also be able to steam food (vegetables, chicken, seafood, etc), warm up meals, and make soups. Definitely helped me a lot in my first year at uni. 

This, this should've been the basis for your thunderdome entry

I'm reasonably confident in my ability to make edible rice (one cup at a time) without looking it up. I have the timers for each part of the process saved on my phone! If you asked me to do it by vibes, rather than by exact minutes on a timer, you may be disappointed.

I would say I'm at a 4 just because I never plan ahead for any reason, but I do cook pretty regularly and have more knowledge of what raw ingredients I'm allowed to eat on short notice than most.

8 - and I have a hard time considering someone an adult who would be less than a 4 on this scale.  Being too lazy to do it is one thing but being unable is quite another.

I'll take the 8 rating and I can absolutely make rice, but why stop with boiling it? What other style do you want? Pilaf? Risotto? Fried? Just thrown in an oven with water if you somehow don't have a stovetop or rice cooker? What kind are we thinking? Arborio? Wild? Long grain? Medium Grain? Short Grain? Sushi? Jasmine? Basmati? 

Man, now I gotta go make some rice

I'm probably a 6/8 cook when I actually try, but most days I just dice up whatever I have laying around, bake it on a sheet tray, and call it a day. As for just boiling rice, I'm easily an 8/8 so at least I have that going for me. 

I am capable enough to cook all my own meals and make the daily soup at work on occasion. Granted, it's the same few recipes on repeat, but I have not died of food poisoning quite yet, so I'll rate my abilities a 4.

I am probably capable of boiling rice. I find steaming it less prone to error, though.

I'd probably give myself a 2, I know, I know - disgraceful. 

I think I'm a 6 or a 5, definitely a 2-3 when I started. Honestly think it's wild that some people say that they can't cook since cooking is just like riding a bicycle. It all comes with trial and error and practice. In the beginning I got stomachaches because I didn't add enough water to my rice. Nowadays, I can cook a decent amount of dishes without recipe.

When I try making a new dish, I try making it a few times till I get it right. 

I absolutely can boil rice! I mean, if we're going based on sheer plausibility, there is very little I can't boil. Cheese, sand, alarm clocks, small animals, (large animals too if I can find a pot big enough). What I'm really struggling with is trying to think of examples of things I can't boil... Sodium! I can't boil sodium. It will turn to hydrogen gas as soon as it hits the water and disappear into the atmosphere before it boils. ^_^

And deep frying them ^_^

Truly our best quality. They do say you should hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because the lazy person will find a way to make a hard job easy. 

I hear Gordan Ramsey makes a mean Idiot Sandwich. ^_^

6 if I have a recipe with cooking times, ingredients etc.

2 if I have to work from memory because I will definitely make stuff up.The only thing I can make without a recipe is brownie, because brownie is awesome.

Hm. I've never cooked rice specifically, but I've cooked a lot of other things and assume it's the same process. 6 if I have access to the instructions on the bag. 1 if I don't; I don't trust myself to eyeball boiling rice.

Id say thats very debatable. I think id struggle, ill have you know that i failed BOTH my English and Math in high school. While everyone else was busy getting their grades up to get a good job, i was busy getting my chakras aligned. We. Are.Not. Equal.

I've pretty much lived on ready made store meals my entire life. I never really thought much of it until one day when my dads girlfriend was round she was tutting at how he never cooks food and complaining about it. Nowadays my blood has more chocolate milk in it than a yazoo.

The only thing I can operate with complete confidence is a microwave. It's not that I lack the knowledge to use other things or the physical capability, I'm just really scatterbrained. I never remember all the things I'm supposed to do. Then I get bored waiting and go to do something else for a little bit and completely forget that there's an unfinished task waiting to turn into a disaster. 

I made cookies out of frozen dough balls today. Be proud.

Cheezits are good.

I've made Mac and cheese at my grandma's house with supervision. My only attempt at making it on my own resulted in me melting a glass jar that was on the stovetop and also turning on the wrong ring of the burner? Like there's an outside one and inside one and I don't remember which one I used but it was wrong and no boiling occurred 

As someone who recently couldn't cook, I'm sympathetic to the people who feel instructions would not save them. When I was learning to cook, I took ~40 minutes to steam broccoli, accidentally boiled the water off a pan and left it cooking on the burner (melting steamer marks into the pan in the process), used the wrong burner multiple times, and left the oven on overnight.

The building did not burn down, and I became older and wiser in the process. I think for learning any skill you have to go through a minimum initiation period of being appallingly terrible at it; so for all the people sharing their embarrassing stories in this thread; that just means you're getting through your quota. Keep going! Delicious meals await you on the other side.

For me, the appliance I didn't know how to use when I started cooking was a microwave. I never had it back home so I thought it would function like an oven. Long story short, I made a microwave meal for the first time, removed the plastic covering, and when I returned, the whole microwave was filled with sauce lol. 

My biggest fuck up with a microwave was definitely when i had a kebab takeaway, i had some leftovers from the day before so i decided to microwave it, however i didn't realize tinfoil sparks in microwaves, so i got a bit of a scare from that lol

I broke a butter braid in half and stuck it in the microwave once, turns out frozen bread does not taste the same when heated up for 20 minutes as it does when baked properly. 

Also the gooey insides got everywhere.

Never took it! Isn't required

Boiling rice is one of the easiest things to eyeball. You put rice in the pan, then add water till the water level reaches one or 1,5 knuckles of your hand. It depends how big your hands are. If you have tiny fingers like me, it'll be 1,5 knuckles, but for most people it's 1 knuckle.

If you still find that the rice is not fully cooked and all the water is gone, pour a bit more water in it. It's okay.

Don't stir the rice in the pot while it's cooking. It's done when you see the grains getting puffed up and having little holes. It also smells different.

I'll rate my cooking abilities about 4 - 5 (the average). I can make basic meals and managed to cook for a society without poisoning anyone. For anything slightly complex, I tend to scrupulously follow recipes to the point where I'm setting timers and using exact measurements. That feels less like cooking and more like instruction-following. As for rice, I've never made it without a rice cooker so that might lower my score.

Many of the people responding to this need to be shot like the fucking infirm dogs they are 

I'm a 8/8 at making 5/8 food

Using this rubric, I would rate myself as a 5/8. I can and have boiled and prepared rice. White rice works best with some sort of seasoning mix and protein to put on top.

My mother taught me the basics and showed me some recipes for family casseroles. I used to work at Olive Garden (fake Italian) in almost all kitchen positions and was taught the soup recipes and several sauté dishes, including a decent Shrimp Carbonara. I cook for myself often enough, either to take to work or just for dinner at home. One of my favorite dishes to bake for a crowd is a baked mac n' cheese with a melted, blended roux (using heavy cream) with bacon and honey ham. For bonus points, I can start a fire, catch a fish, descale, gut, filet and cook that fish to avoid starving in the wilderness.

Wouldn't rate myself above a 5 because I don't generally enjoy cooking unless it's for someone else and I'm not creative or effectively spontaneous in that particular department.

When I first joined the site, I was definitely a 1/8 spoiled little shitstain, who would be fed amazing, nutritious meals by my overworked mom. Now though, I've lived by myself for about two years, and I'd say my cooking ability is around 6/8. I have a few simple dishes that I have down to a science (funnily enough, egg fried rice is near the top of this list), and I have lots of kitchen know-how now. I learned just about everything through youtube videos, cooking with friends or lovers, and some tips from my mom. It's honestly disappointing how many people my age, as evidenced by this thread, have a total lack of one of the most important human skills, especially in a world where we have google and youtube!

Oh, and we also have air fryers nowadays, which are literally stupidproofed baby ovens that can make so, so, so many foods with almost no hassle, and usually in under 20 minutes.

Air fryers are pretty useful. I use one for my fries and chicken nuggets. Not sure what else I can use it for though. 

Personalised mizal responses will always be superior to google responses. Thank you, you've motivated me to try cooking some noodles tomorrow. 

The subjectivity of people's ratings may be an issue...

Anyway, If the average person is a 4 I'd rate myself a 3 probably.

I would say a 6 or 7 depending on if I'm trying to impress someone.  I make 90% of the meals my wife and I eat at home, and they are usually pretty good if simple.

The newest episode of "CYS members have taught me more than my own parents"...

This was amazing to read, really fun actually.  I did learn a lot! Mostly that an air fryer isn't actually a fryer, it just has fans in it and that a microwave cooks from the inside out first. Do not regret it, I loved it lol

I was at a wedding and part of the venue they hired was to have these guys that came with a real stone pizza oven. I was soo excited to try but I was so disappointed. The pizza basically just tasted like charcoal lol. Not sure if those guys were just ass or if stone cooked pizza is just shit or what. 

Stone cooked pizza is amazing. Those people should be burned in their own oven :)

I think they were a bit too big to fit in so first We'd probably have to chop their arms and legs off but use a tourniquet to ensure theyre  still alive and conscious during their roasting session. Can't be letting them pass out from blood loss. 

Just make sure you remember to flip them once one side is done to ensure they roast evenly

@Petros how do you feel about this 

It's spelled "noongar".

excusivity

I didn't realize this was a bad thing. It's like Mac and cheese. Just don't put the chicken seasoning in it

It's... it's good. I call it cheesy ramen. It's really not bad at all, I swear

I'm sorry I cannot confirm this. I've never tried. I probably could?? How hard can it be

OMG, youre not allowed into my vault fresh. Cant even open a can smh 

I'll learn I swear

I have now lost all faith in the future of humanity.  

I've done this before when all I could afford was ramen and miscellaneous sides and wanted to change up the ramen day to day.  It is better with real macaroni.  Higher class ramen also is better without the cheese.  This is really only a valid option when using the Top Ramen 10/$1 packs.

I had a similar mindset once I started trying ramen purchased from actual Asian stores, or even using freeze-dried vegetables as an addition.  Once you know to look there are cheaper (or at least similarly priced) options that are better both nutritionally and tastewise, it's good to look, but if you are young and inexperienced (as I was) you don't even know that is an option.

If you think ramen is bad wait till you find out I ate nothing but ready store bought pizza for breakfast my entire childhood. Those little pepperoni Chicago town ones. 

Today i ate an our of date chicken casear salad sandwich wrap, i just added some salad sauce to that bitch. Sometimes you just have to remind your gut whos in charge of this vessel.

Things I've learned today: alcoholics indirectly funded the invention of all our favourite savoury treats. 

Post the results when you do. 

Dairy Queen tacos?  And you were criticizing young fresh for ramen atrocities.  At least she isn't paying restaurant prices for this foul fusion fuckery.  Quick looking makes this seem to be a regional abomination, but limited scope does not really limit repulsion.

Dairy Queen is for ice cream or burgers if you must.  It's pretty much in the name.

Also, I like how folks not from Texas assume that their idea about tacos carries any validity whatsoever.  We have plenty of options, some of which are very authentic, so basically if you are not from TX, just shut your pie hole.

I will admit that that looks better than pretty much anything served by my local DQ, so local quality may have induced a bias in my judgement as well.

We have more "authentic" mexican restaurants in my town than any other kind of restaurant.  Are you implying that our lovely local immigrants are lying to the good people of central KY?

lol Yes, absolutely.

Usually if they say they are authentic, it is not.  You kinda need to know the right neigborhoods to eat in, or just go to your buddies Abuelas house to get true authentic food.

My town is about 3 hours from the border so we are loaded with Mexican food! Especially the ghetto side.

never trust the aliens. 

blasphemy

To add to what mizal said, how do almonds make Milk? How do you milk an almond? 

Yes.

No I'm just lazy and can't be fucked to make food that takes a long time to prepare.

I think you should teach the children about alcohol production.

edit: oh wait, perhaps I meant consumption.  Production and then consumption.  Sustainability and all.

That works fine for me,, but say I want something with a bit more kick - for the advanced class.

Buy the scotch. pour the scotch. let it breathe. drink the scotch.

Depending on region, substitute bourbon for scotch as desired.

Indica > japonica. 

One example of such a deficiency is niacin deficiency, a condition also known as pellagra, which was then characterized by “the four D’s”: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death, and was widespread in southern states.

Yeah, people don't realise how common health issues were from vitamin deficiency. My dad's probably talking shit but he said when he was young he'd sometimes see people with bowed or curved legs. You don't really see that anymore. even if you think about why some populations have darker or lighter skin it shows the advantage just getting vitamin D must have had in certain climates for everyone to eventually get lighter skin or darker skin in sunnier or darker climates. 

I'm vampire tier white. I'm now beginning to find comfort in that fact.  When and if I have children later in life, definitely going to have to make sure they're eating their multivitamins! 

Yeah, I think two things humans fuck up on right now a lot that people will look back on and think is barbaric like we look back on and think are barbaric, would probably be things like sun protection (even uv resistant glass will probably be the norm in the future) and probably air quality. It's thought even in Europe and America people lose up to 2 years of their lives due to shitty air and in places like India it's on average 6 - 9 years of life lost. Let's not forget microplastics too. 

Would say I am a solid 6-7. I've been cooking for myself since I was a kid, I can competently cook most things, just need a recipe. I could always use some improvement and I am certainly no gourmet chef. Plus I would say I am better at baking than cooking, but I just enjoy doing that more. 

Rice is one of the easiest things you can make, though I also grew up in a Mexican family so I watched my mom make spanish rice all the time as spanish rice and slow cooked beans are a staple of every Mexican dinner. 

I dont tend to usually eat rice often though, not because it's bad - as others have correctly pointed out, it has no strong taste of it's own - but I just tend to prefer allotting my carbs to other things depending on what kind of dish it is. Like a good lo mein or glass noodle dish >>>  

If I had to give any advice I'd say, learn the basic safety rules on whatever stove you have access to, then find some recipes. Watch videos on how to make it, nothing wrong with mimicking someone else until you have it down yourself, no one was born knowing how to cook. Get an idea of what you want to make, find a well-rated recipe on it, and just take a bit of time to go make it. Trust me, it's easier than it looks and soon you will be customizing it to your own liking. 

Also, I know it seems cutesy to be a 22 year old who eats frozen mac and cheese and chicken tendies every day and is proud that they don't know how to cook, but it's really not. Expand your taste, eat and try things you wouldn't normally try. Learn to cook, no one should ever be below a 4/8 here. Cooking basic dishes (even some scrambled eggs or basic pasta) is one of the easiest things you can do. Bragging about not being able to work a stove is like bragging about not being able to do your own laundry, it's a life skill everyone should have down!

 A similar poll to this but seeing who has an adequate emergency fund would be equally enlightening It might be fine with the CYS population since most are older and seemingly more sensible but you'd be surprised how financially illiterate most people are. 

Look, if you want to kill yourself, be my guest and go right ahead! Just don't burn down the house with you. 

Yeah nice try PAL, I know how that ends. 

Sherbet only photoshopped this because he was mad I beat him in a video game!

Bag of microwavable rice

Pouch of tuna

Potato sticks

Malt vinegar

Done.

And you don't even need to cook soup or that chef boy ardee shit, you can eat it straight out the can.

Wtf is that, looks like the spaghetti monster. No no  no no no, that ain't right. Some things wrong. Somethings off. I've never seen something look so plain, yet so wet and so dry at the same time

Reminds me of my childhood when my dad got laid off and couldn't find a good job for a bit

Erm

This makes me uncomfortable

I'm sure you boil with salt.

You see, the reason why I don't make my own food is that my dad does the shopping and he buys shit for us both (we go half on the food) . The issue is that he's a very very angry and grumpy man, he can make arguments in an empty room. He's also super fridged about using the gas, he complains about it constantly, he only tops it up for his baths and cups of teas (he will make any excuse, ukraine war, inflation yarda yarda) , as such even using the oven is a pain in the ass for me without getting an ear wigging, you think I'm exaggerating but he's really like this, even the rest of the family call him grumpy, always mean mugging empty space, and yes he's unemployed. With that being said I'll try but no promises! 

It might be a little difficult for people without an oven.

Tea?!? In the microwave???

No. You must work for tea. That's why it tastes good.