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Can you boil rice?

one month ago
I'd like to make this into a proper quiz later. But reddit would have me believe an alarming number of people reach adulthood and move away from home with zero idea how to do the most basic tasks to fend for themselves in a kitchen.

Before I move on with the poll, go ahead and rate your ability on the 1/8 scale to give me an idea of what we're dealing with here.

(1 being that when faced with nothing precooked and microwaveable you'd just lie down and starve, 8 being for people named Ogre11 or Yummyfood.)

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one month ago
I think I can boil rice, but I'm used to having a full rice cooker at all times, so I've never had to boil rice. I can cook at like a 6. Most of what I do is guerilla cooking, I usually don't have a recipe in mind. Except for my eggdrop soup, I do the same thing for that soup every time.

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21 days ago
r u asian? cuz i am-

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21 days ago
An Asian that's lazy AND illiterate? I find that hard to believe.

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21 days ago
Which one of us are you talking about?
I just looked at his profile, did he really ask someone to write a fanfic for him?

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21 days ago

Prove it

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one month ago
Does my kitchen open out into the carport in this scenario?

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one month ago
I knew you were going to make this joke.

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one month ago
I do love a good bit

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one month ago
I just spent over 4 hours in the kitchen making some awesome food including a pumpkin torte, yeast rolls, and a tomato poached cod.

I'll go ahead and claim that 8.

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one month ago

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one month ago
We'll start you on ramen and work up from there.

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one month ago

Currently vibing with cereal and cheezits

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

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one month ago

My username is so ironic in hindsight

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one month ago
I had no idea how to do any of this stuff when I got on my own. Boiling hotdogs was a new skill I learned through trial and error. First time I did it I made like 18 at once and ate that for about five days. Only ketchup and mustard, too. But I had the will to get off my ass and risk burning down the kitchen to learn, so 3/8 to start. But now I make my own pizzas from scratch, exclusively Neapolitan style like a pizza purist, so I'll bump that up to a 6/8.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
8 :smugpepe:

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one month ago
7. This kind of question can only originate from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Reddit.

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one month ago
2/8

I did it once. It tasted bad. Never again

I have plenty of fat stores so it’d be a few months before I starve anyway

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one month ago
Okay, there's no way you can post this without a reaction lol. What was bad about the rice? How does one even you make bad rice, were you scraping it in scorched bits from the bottom of the pot? The whole point is that it's bland and inoffensive on its own but has a nice fluffy texture and absorbs other flavors. ....did you use salt? I presume you've had other rice cooked by certified rice cooking professionals who have been to eight years of rice cooking school that tasted fine though?

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one month ago
What rice are you using that's bland? The fact you say rice is bland is making me so confused, angry, and sad, all at the same time.

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one month ago

I like plain white rice

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one month ago
I like it too but usually as a bed for other things. But it does not have a strong taste until you add things to it, and I've never seen anyone but Bezro argue that it does. The blandness is what makes it so versatile for flavors from literally every culture, or even as breakfast porridge or dessert. ...so many wrong opinions in this thread already, we are actually going to kill each other.

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one month ago
Please, for the love of all that is holy, tell me the brand and type of rice you use, along with the method you use to cook it.

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one month ago
You're perfectly welcome to eat meals consisting only of plain unseasoned white rice straight out of a rice cooker, most people eat it with other things though and you know this.

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one month ago
I eat it with other things, and I'm perfectly okay with it, but why does your rice taste like nothing? I'm genuinely curious and would like to attempt to help you resolve this issue. Only time I really just eat plain rice is when I'm on a Buddha diet to cut weight. One grain baby.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
Tiger JNP-1500-FL 8-Cup uncooked rice cooker and warmer, floral white. Extra Fancy Calrose Rice with the brand Botan. I make sure to use Botan because as far as I know, it is not from Japan. I am ashamed of my rice cooker slightly, because it's not Samsung, but it gets the job done without any extra fancy equipment. Make sure you wash the rice about 4 times or until you get clear water, then for standard use rice it's about a 1 to 1 ratio of water and rice. You can add your different ingredients too, such as sushi vinegar and maybe for Jamaican dishes coconut milk, although my mom hasn't completely sold me on that.

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one month ago

...are you Asian 

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one month ago
I'll give you a recipe if you guess the type of Asian I am.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
If I can teach my sister the basics of cooking, I can give you a recipe you can use.

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one month ago

Chinese?

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one month ago
I'm disappointed. Samsung and an extreme hatred towards Japanese exports should have given you an idea.

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one month ago

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 

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one month ago
All Asian countries and groups are racist towards each other, none of us live in harmony. I'm Korean, and we especially dislike the loli-con anime watching fags. They did some bad things to us in the past.
Chat GPT was right.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
After consideration, I figured I would let her try to make rice before telling her any sort of recipes. But here is two recipes. For Trenches Rice Pudding, mix rice with milk, sugar, and cinnamon. Then, after consumption, discharge a 12 gauge shotgun into your mouth, as that combination of foods was never intended by god. You could also do something silly, like take a can of Rotelle Tomatoes, mix them into cooked rice with a splash of soy sauce, and simmer until the liquid is almost completely cooked out.

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one month ago
Even though you guessed wrong, you still need to know how to cook considering your current living situation. Let's start with some simple snack food, and work our way up from there. Hope this helps others. Keep in mind they may not sound appetizing, but they're also foods you can make from ingredients at the dollar tree or a gas station, and they've been made many times by many different people, so they're at least somewhat good.

Pizza Toast (Fancy)
I used to eat this all the time as an afternoon snack, and you can’t knock it until you try it. You can buy most of this stuff at some convenience stores. Get you some white bread, some ketchup, some shredded cheese, and a big mama’s sausage, along with a pan and some butter. Cut your big mamas up into little slices. After that heat your pan up, then you add a small amount of butter until it’s spread all over the pan. Then you place your bread in, wait about 2 minutes, and flip it. Then you spread your ketchup over the bread, sprinkle some cheese on top, and put your big mamas sausage on top of the bread like pepperoni. Wait until the cheese melts, then you’re done.

Pizza Toast (Simple)
This is the same as the Pizza Toast just simpler. Cut up a big mama's sausage into pieces. Toast a slice of bread, then put your ketchup, cheese, and big mama’s all on there, and microwave it for 15 seconds. If you don’t own a toaster, put your ingredients together and bake it at 350 degrees for about 5 minutes, and it should be done.

Gas Station Noodles
Go to the gas station and grab a small pack of beef jerky, a small bag of Doritos, and a pack of noodles. When you get home, boil two cups of water and once it’s bubbling like crazy, you want to add your noodles in, stirring with a fork or chopsticks occasionally.
While the noodles are cooking, you want to pour the seasoning packet into the bowl. Now, once your noodles are just how you like them, you pour them into your bowl, along with the beef jerky, and crush some Doritos up and pour them in there. Mix it all up, and you have gas station noodles.
Not ideal, and they don’t sound appetizing, but after a few weeks of plain ramen noodles, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep sane.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
You try eating plain ramen noodles for 2 weeks in a row, you'll get creative with what you have too. That's a Snoop Dogg recipe too, and you know he's got good snacks and meals.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
Hotdogs get expensive though. Try it, and if it's gross then I'm wrong. But if it isn't, then I put you on.

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one month ago
Not to keep harping on this, but every post makes me question whether you've really even bought the stuff you're suggesting. Hotdogs are pretty bottom tier and I won't even comment on what she's doing to ramen, but they're a CHEAP bad food at least and you get several meals worth for the cost of one tiny pack of jerky.

@fresh_out_the_oven

But you know you can open a can of beans and slice up hotdogs in a pot with them right? Way more filling and better for you than ramen. (Beans have loads of protein and a good amount of fiber compared to ramen's...uh, well starch and salt overload and not really anything else.)

Beanie weenies and canned ravioli are still a staple for six year olds as far as I've seen, should be right up the alley for this thread.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
I wasn't fully paying attention the first time!

Just don't ask Sherb how he feels lol.

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one month ago

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? 

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
WHAT FUCK IS THIS

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one month ago

He's trying to poison me T-T

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one month ago
Why did you think you would get good recipes from answering questions wrong?

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
She said Chinese and I died a little inside, that's all.

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one month ago
Simple cheap meals. Usually eaten after walking past several dice games. If End is from Detroit, he's probably had at least one of these in some sort of variation. Look, just try it, trust me bro.

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one month ago
Fresh, put pizza toast and doritos from your mind, don't take advice from a 14 year old booze stealing hoodlum who claims to be a burly bearded six foot tall Korean who looks over 40. Just learn to make hamburger helper and mac n cheese from a box to start with. They'refilling, cheap, better than Doritos, ffs. And come with clear instructions on the box, and a lot of those HH mixes you can improve with mixing bell pepper or spinach or the like. Or pick up a pack of tortillas and some beans with some cheddar or monterey jack, jar of salsa, a can of green chiles or jalapenos maybe. Lettuce and tomato maybe, which obviously can also be repurposed to other things. Rice and pasta would be life savers since you can mix them with just about anything and make a basic meal for literally pennies. A pot of beans is also a good thing to know how to make, cheap easy way to make food for days. But cans are fine too and relatively inexpensive even then, and of course have the benefit of being able to sit there on a shelf ready to go. You can grill quesadillas, or make bean and cheese burritos, both super easy beginner things that are hard to mess up (and have options for fancying up with better ingredients any time you're in the mood for the extra effort.) They have been the staple 'just got home and too tired to do anything else' meal for me for a long time. Or get tortilla chips instead of the tortillas and you've got everything you need for nachos. Or, just make a grilled cheese sandwich if that's more comfortable for your Kansas hillbilly roots. Buy a pack of chicken thighs when you're ready to start experimenting with real food, I know you don't have your own fridge right now so it's a problem, but you can get a family sized pack of thighs in most big chain stores for very cheap. I never see them over $7 here and they're often cheaper. Breasts are easy to render dry and inedible with just a little overcooking, but thighs have enough fat that that's hard to do, and can actually benefit from a little char on them. Season those up however you like (paprika and garlic powder with salt are more or less the default, but there's not much that DOESN'T go with chicken--if all else fails just marinate inside a ziploc with BBQ sauce and sliced onion.) Then just either throw a couple in a skillet, or for 20 minutes in the oven at 375 or so if you want to cook them all at once. Pair with pretty much any vegetable and any starch (a bag of frozen veggies is easy to keep at hand, so are those pouches of instant potatoes) and you've got a balanced meal for adults with infinite variables you can experiment with or adjust to your own preferences. And if you like oatmeal or malt o meal or cream of wheat or the like, ANY of those are a better breakfast option in cost and health than a box of sugary cereal that's mostly air.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Christ. You kids are ALL making me sad. I know you live in some little podunk place, but do you guys not have a Walmart? With a produce section? A skillet is like a frying pan, which can be like a saute pan. The differences probably are not relevant to your situation. Y'know what, learn to cook eggs in a pan, maybe that would be a good starting goal. Eggs and bacon and toast, or diced potatoes. Breakfast ingredients are USUALLY cheap (I know eggs are freaking expensive right now though) but it's always a big satisfying meal and fairly easy to make. Anyway, maybe at your "level" of 1, it would be good to decide a few basic items you WANT to be able to make, then look them up on youtube. And google any terms you're unaware of. Also, all oatmeal needs a pinch of salt with butter and milk and cinnamon and sugar. You're not supposed to eat gloppy paste, if that's what you've been doing.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
...and I suppose it is not realistic to escape? Got relatives in any place where they've replaced the horse and buggy?

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
That's probably a good idea. Glad your parents at least can't hold anything over you to convince you to just stay and rot there NOW.

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one month ago
(Actually scratch all this due to your series of unique challenges, but I'll leave it up in case it's useful for anyone else.) If you like pasta salad at all, this is a good recipe here: Cook your pasta (boil it in water according to the instructions on the package, do not overcook or it will be very limp and mushy and sad) Drain and let it cool. Toss in diced bell pepper with sliced olives, shredded cheese, and some pepperoni or diced ham. Mix in some of the cheapest store brand Italian dressing you can find with salt and pepper, chill in the fridge and eat. Of course "recipes" for pasta are one of those things that can change every time you make it. Use that same dressing, mix in broccoli florets with halved cherry tomatoes, then grab a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and shred some of in. Or add different things but also use a jar of spaghetti sauce instead. Those grocery story rotisserie chickens can be a godsend for a lot of things. Chicken salad is also easy, you can google a basic recipe and find a billion variations on more elaborate ones too.

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one month ago
I still can't get over this.

Doritos and beef jerky in ramen would be a damn near fatal sodium overload, if eating ramen for weeks hadn't already fucked with your blood pressure and kidneys.

And you could practically buy a meal in a restaurant for the price of beef jerky and Doritos these days.

Remembering that you are 14, I do kind of get the impression you're talking out of your ass on some things around here lately lol.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
I'm still over laughing at him over there in the other thread claiming he has a beard, is 6 feet tall and has so much testosterone everyone around him mistakes him for a grizzled 40 year old man instead of a 14 year old kid.

But now that mental image has to be reconciled with being Korean.

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one month ago
Some over exaggeration may have occured in my description of myself. Also, I never claimed to have a beard, I said if I managed to grow my mustache out then I could probably pass.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
I actually used to eat Pizza Toast, but I misremembered gas station noodles. I was allegedly offered a bowl of it, and punched my friend in his chest for even offering that shit to me, I got to talking to him about it last night. I remembered eating it, and he remembers a 15 minute curseout.

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one month ago
Interesting that the recipe that gets pushback suddenly wasn't your idea, and you were actually so strongly against it that you assaulted someone and cursed them out for 15 minutes (even though you just recommended it to someone else?)

The 6th-grade lunch table sure is wilder than I remember.

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one month ago
I don't think he ever even rated his ability in this thread, probably Pizza Toast and Doritos are all he has, and we took it from him.

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one month ago
Claimed to be a 6, so pizza toast and horrible jerky noodle soup might be higher level recipes than we comprehend.

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one month ago
Most of the stuff I'm good at cooking are family secrets, so I had to think of something I could give you.

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one month ago
Well he convinced me to eat it, and it was actually pretty gas. That was the first time he tried to get me to eat it. Then the second time, when I was about to leave, I had the munchies bad enough to try it.

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago
I don't believe Bezros's bit about the friend, but I can 100% believe violence being the reaction to hearing about this.

I'm should price some gas detail Doritos and beef jerky, and then see how much real food can be made with that since it was presented as some kind of struggle meal. And this is me not even discounting "adding things to ramen" as a legitimate and reasonable 2/8 or 3/8 tactic, I'm sure most people have doctored up some ramen at some point even if using better pasta is just as cheap.

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one month ago
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/eOsfNR50Q0o this is definitely not a me thing though.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
Taiwanese people love Japan, because Japan used to colonize them pre WW2, but they were nice colonizers?And they really helped the infrastructure apparently? Idk it's really confusing to my freedom loving ears.

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one month ago
Nobody said rice tastes like nothing, just that it does not have a strong taste, which is true.

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one month ago
You're on a writing site, why do you think bland means "nothing"? It's "lacking strong features or characteristics" just so you know. Like the flavor of rice, potatoes, pasta, most common starches.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Fried potatoes with cheese are my weakness.

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago
Well, you've got the fat right there in the pan for eggs and potatoes if you've already made bacon.

If just making them on their own, I guess they're more like sauted potatoes.

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23 days ago

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...

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one month ago
I over reacted slightly from you saying bland. I can taste rice clearly through other flavors, so it weirds me out when other people can't taste rice.

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one month ago
Everyone here can taste rice you psychotic slant-eyes

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
This is why I'm a proud member of the fresh fanclub

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one month ago
Then why are you eating cheez its and cereal???

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one month ago

Because I can't make rice

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago
A smaller one that's nicely portable would be really good for her with all the bouncing around she's doing between friends right now.

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one month ago
Or, or... now hold on. Are you sitting down?

Maybe she could learn to make it in a damn pot!

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one month ago
Well I'm not sure if we can always assume she'll have a stove to work with, or will want to use one in somebody else's kitchen.

Rice cooker can be used for a lot of other things too as Mystic mentioned, they're also steamers, and some have a slow cook setting so they can be used as crockpots too.

And they're really just the ideal thing for rice, I never use a pot anymore since I typically will start rice now when I know I'll be out of the house a few hours.

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one month ago
This is my rice cooking story. It was like at least two years ago. But I really liked chicken friend rice with Yum Yum sauce at this one resteraunt. So I ventured to make it. I got a bag of white rice and a jar of yum yum sauce and late at night I started to cook it. I'd never boiiled water in a pan before, so I tried, but it wasn't boiling. I asked friends and they said to keep it on there longer and it'd start to boil. 45 MINUTES LATER I finally realized that the burner was broken. I moved it to another burner and cooked the rice. And when I tried to eat it it was pretty bad, either too sticky or too hard I don't remember which. I don't think I used salt? Anyway, kind of crazy I expected to get chicken fried rice without cooking the rice in chicken, but whatever. Now that I'm in Taiwan and have tried rice that is apparently supposed to be amazing, I can say I don't really like it very much. Plain white rice with toppings is meh. Maybe I like white rice cooked in things, like chicken fried rice.

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one month ago
This is amazing.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
I actually remember you saying now that you had only tasted rice at restaurants, and found even the taste of hamburger meat too revolting to stomach unless it was in the form of a quarter pounder at McDonalds.

Your depressing childhood of freezer-foraged junk may have just broken you. Idk, maybe there's a 12 step program or some kind of detox possible for your tastebuds.

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one month ago
I like hamburgers from all restaurants, but don't like homemade hamburgers. No idea why tbh. I mean I like a decent amount of decent food. When I become the next E.L James and get super rich off my writing I'd like to go through a phase where I just eat steaks for a while. Decently healthy and taste amazing. Plus I can cook a great one just by butter basting. If I was an adult who lived in a situation where I bought groceries, which won't be for a while due to eating out being dirt cheap in taiwan and campus meal plans when I get back to america, I wouldn't mind cooking just a bunch of chicken and vegitables and having that. Sounds pretty satisfying health wise and decently good tasting, while also being cheap. Unfortunately, cheap is more expensive than the free food I'll get on campus, so maybe once I graduate I'd try out actual meal prepping.

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one month ago
"Chicken and vegetables" is the basis for a billion different meals, and I'm sure you could learn to make that chicken fried rice too when you're ready to give that all a go.

Just did some glancing around and there's thankfully a lot of resources for absolute beginners out there.

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one month ago
I wasn't actually thinking about being so fancy with it. I boiled chicken once and it was good (though everyone said I was a monster for doing so). But I could always just cook a ton of chicken and eat it with some broccoli, or asparagus if I wanted to get REALLY fancy. I don't doubt that I can cook these things, and honestly once I reach the "straving adult graduates college and needs to eat on a budget" stage of life I'll likely be feeling adventerous after the 5th meal of just cooked chicken.

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one month ago
Try putting asparagus on a cookie sheet with a few cherry tomatoes sometime, drizzle with olive oil and add salt, pepper, then roast the shit out of them in an oven at a high temp. It tastes amazing and looks colorful and is one of those things you can make that impresses people for no real reason, there's very little effort required.

Or zucchini also is great the same way.

Most roasted vegetables have a very different flavor with more depth than when you cook them any other way because of something to do with the way it caramelizes the natural sugars.

Roasted carrots are also great, you can bake them together with onions and potatoes and a little rosemary and garlic for a side that pairs really well with beef.

Everything requires salt though, I can't emphasize that enough lol. Salt is a given.

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one month ago
Also, since you didn't think to put salt in rice I'm betting you were eating plain unseasoned hamburger meat too and wondering why it didn't taste like tacos.

Pro tip anything you buy premade has salt, among other things. Salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika or chili powder would be good things to add to most things you try to cook, at the absolute minimum.

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one month ago
I don't think I was, I think the problem the opposite, the southern obsession with putting 20 spices on a burger. It feels like when I go to restaurants their burgers are a lot more basic, with obviously a lot of cheese and other nice things to complement it.

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one month ago
Loads of salt is still a given with anything in a fast food place or restaurant of course.

You could also consider putting a slice of cheese and "other nice things" on a burger at home. Although really the main point of cooking hamberger meat at home is all the other things you can do with it, if I wanted a burger I'd probably just go out somewhere too.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
Hi Yummy, I'm glad you took my invitation seriously! Even though I'm not sure if this is "humblebragging" as defined by the LII Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, it might just be the regular kind! Rice is good though. I could eat rice every day (like most of the world's population, as it happens) but I really try to limit it. Spanish rice, fried rice, and dirty rice are probably what I make the most often, but usually with some variety in ingredients. Or rice with various kinds of beans. Always been a throw things together cook because that's how my mom would do it. I'd rate myself a 5 I guess? Or a 6 if I was putting the extra effort in. I can plan shopping for a week and cook your basic normal protein/starch/veggie meals ez along with soups and various kinds of salads and whatnot of I feel like it. I know enough about flavor profiles to mix and match however I feel that day, and I keep a pretty stocked spice cabinet. But I don't do any of the ultra fancy ultra photogenic culinary stuff, and besides cornbread and banana bread haven't really baked much that wasn't from a mix since we stopped doing big family get togethers.

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Well anyway, my mind is already boggled. I had a funny poll in mind which I may still do, but I feel now like it'd be actually useful to sit down and go over some really REALLY basic techniques. I had started to write up a post explaining how to make spanish rice and refried beans, as I had considered that a beginner recipe. But now I feel like we might need to take a few steps back lol. I shall return and decide how to proceed at some point when it's not after 2am.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago
My serious answer is that I'm a 3-4 by choice. My lack of success in the kitchen is due to one thing only. I have literally no impulse control when it comes to cooking. A "what if" scenario plays in my head and I have to see it to fruition.

The most infamous results have been, of course the engine block grilled cheese and the engine block bacon. Both of those were very edible btw. The most common result is that unlike storygames, I have never in my life read a recipe all the way through. I get bored and make stuff up. Most of the time though, the experimentation is simply looking in my seasonings cabinet and deciding to make a thing spicy for no reason. I have been known to put crushed red pepper in sugar cookies.

Other notable experiments have been: What if I slow cook expired vegetables from the previous renters, what if I marinate a steak in dark roast coffee, and what if I add cocoa powder and liquid smoke to my chili.

The first resulted in the infamous bowl-o-shit which was seen by a few members

The second resulted in an alright steak. Not better than most conventional methods.

The third resulted in an incredibly good chili. I almost won a chili cook off against a bunch of old ladies at a local church. It is my opinion that they rigged the last selection to avoid a riot.

TL;DR I cook like a wild magic sorcerer for no reason at all

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one month ago
Cocoa can be used in a spice rub for meats, I could see it being actually amazing in chili.

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one month ago

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. ^_^

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one month ago
I absolutely believe in your abilities! That's the foundation of all British cuisine: boiling things.

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one month ago

And deep frying them ^_^

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one month ago
I don't believe any UK fag will ever top a 3 though, you guys literally conquered India to avoid learning how to season your own food.

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago

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

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Yeah, I think most here who have claimed they can't cook at all are intelligent enough to follow the simple step by step instructions on a package.

Maybe best not to try any random recipe on the internet because anyone can upload those and some of them can be wildly hit or miss, but going to like a company site there are recipes that have not only been tested, but idiot proofed too.

I really would like to challenge Fresh or anyone here who has never cooked to buy a box of Kraft macaroni and follow the instructions to produce a meal. I'd feel better knowing they can do at least that much in a pinch and without resorting to paying four times as much fur Doritos and beef jerky lol. (The only other thing you guys need for mac n cheese is butter and milk.)

Or of not, I guess there are also sandwiches.

But seriously, people squatting in caves with stone tools a million years ago were able to cook their own food, this is such a very basic and fundamental part of being human, and a very simple, enjoyable and satisfying thing to do. It's wild to me that it's been just lost for a lot of people now arriving at adulthood.

I do blame the parents, but it's like, if your parents were fucking animals who never taught you to bathe with soap or do your own laundry, you still should really should make your own effort to learn those things.

Especially when a lot of people are struggling financially and that's likely to get worse, you can feed yourself hot and filling and nutritious meals for literally pennies by cooking at home.

Also you can get a basic rice cooker for under $40 on Amazon, if nothing else at least do that much. All you have to do is measure in the amount of rice and water it tells you to, add salt, and press a button. Anyone who can't do that much I assume wouldn't be on this website, and in fact would've died a long time ago from not being able to figure out breathing.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Guys, I can cook mac and cheese, I can cook basic meats like steak and chicken. I'm also retarded and can't cook to save my life. If you cook worse than me you should feel bad perpetually. I've never even had a reason to cook, I had meals at home and a meal plan at college, and yet I can still follow three steps to cook mac and cheese. I feel old now.

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one month ago
I really think anybody can, just some I guess have never had a reason to try or think it's much more complicated than it is Fresh eating cheez its and cereal and microwaved eggs just makes me sad though.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
I missed this post, good job on the cookies though, I like the part where you applied heat to food without destroying anything unrelated. And you can't tell me fresh baked cookies weren't way better than the packaged snacks.

You could try setting timers on your phone for things if forgetting is a problem though. And when you can smell the food that usually means it's either already cooked or right on the verge.

Lots of meals just take 20 minutes or less of focus though. Although, this all sounds like another reason a rice cooker might be good for you, ADHD phone browsing won't let you burn anything there.

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one month ago

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 

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one month ago
Okay, well learning to use the equipment and apply the heat only where you intend is a necessary part of things. But only needs to be learned once before you can use the heat applying device for anything else.

It sounds like you turned on the burner that the jar was sitting on, it melting might have been a clue anyway.

Well, don't burn down your friends' houses anyway. Idk, maybe an electric skillet is a good investment for the future.

You can learn these things though. You are old enough to join the military and be handed things that are actually way more complicated and dangerous!

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Between this and Fresh's and Ace's story, I see there probably should be more emphasis on learning to use whatever heat making appliance is on hand before doing anything else. Just like any other kind of equipment.

Maybe it is a good thing ovens have mostly been switched to electric, damn. I'm suddenly imagining you guys trying to deal with a pilot light going out lol and flooding the house with gas lol.

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one month ago

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. 

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
My heat appliance story is one time I bought bread knots, and on the back it said 8 minutes in a toaster oven.

I knew a microwave oven was another name for a microwave, and I also knew what a toaster oven was, but I didn’t think at all and stuck them in the microwave for 8 minutes

I smelled the smoke about 6 minutes in and took them out. I then realized that bread in microwave for 8 minutes was obviously really stupid.

My dorm smelled of smoke for 2 days. Bread knots weren’t very good

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
I am learning that half the people in this thread probably also flunked high school physics.

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one month ago

Never took it! Isn't required

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one month ago
Ha! I’m a physics major!

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
2:1 ratio of water to rice is always how we did it, but I haven't gone back to that since getting a rice cooker a few years ago. Those come with their own scoop that's a little smaller.

It's also pretty easy to make rice in an oven in a giant casserole dish or whatever if its needed in larger quantities. Just measure it out at the same ratio and cover the pan with foil.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
If we go for the parents instead we can double our score.

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
I would rate my cooking ability at a comfortable 6.

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one month ago
7/8. It isn't 8/8 because I can think of three distinct times I made not-good food as an adult. These were the time I learned Chinese five spice does not go well with habanero, the time I learned dried lemongrass was not a good substitute for the fresh white part, and the time I learned that I should not make large portions of food while blindly following the instructions (except for my questionable substitutions) on some Somali website.

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one month ago
This makes me wonder what rating system people are using for themselves. I didn't define anything since it was a very informal poll, but I don't think having a few off attempts would knock you down a peg. To me it's more about the overall comfort level with cooking at varying levels of complexity. I'd rank you an 8 anyway since at least on the mental scale I'm going by, you have to be comfortable with baking to break into a 6, and the last two are reserved for demonstrated experience with more complicated dishes or techniques. (I know you bake, do home canning, made noodles from scratch and so on so by that criteria you'd definitely qualify.) Roughly I'd probably describe the scale that's going into any quiz or poll as: 1) zero practical experience, no idea where to start and too overwhelmed or afraid to try 2) Can make sandwiches and hot dogs, and heat food from a bag? The freezer section is pretty varied these days, but a 2 rarely branches from fries and tendies. 3) can probably brown hamburger meat, scramble eggs and follow instructions on skillet mixes when necessary or on a budget. Not likely to injure self or others using common household appliances. 4) consistently produces basic meals for self using staple ingredients and knows enough to successfully look up things they don't know, comfortable with common appliances. Understands nutritional balance, doesn't become stunlocked planning weekly shopping. 5) All of the above but with more variety, and can do more when willing to make the effort. Practical knowledge of flavor profiles and spices, probably has absorbed a good deal of theoretical knowledge from videos or shows. Would be comfortable cooking for others as well. 6) Routinely makes moderate to high effort meals for themselves or others and is an alchemist of flavor whose spice cabinet overfloweth. Owns multiple kinds of oils and vinegars, can bake bread and make a pie crust if required. Enjoys cooking as a hobby. 7) and 8) These kind of blur for me or maybe I'm just sleepy. The difference is likely to be subjective anyhow. People with these ratings probably either grew up in an environment where they helped with family meals, or had some kind of culinary education. They're comfortable with many recipes and techniques that contain scary foreign words, and are willing to just for fun put the effort into whipping up the magic beyond even what the previous category of cooks would bother to mess with. (Note that I'm not asking anyone to readjust their rating based on this, I'm just rambling.)

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one month ago
I will accept my 8 and would like to thank my mother for having me do things.

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one month ago

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.

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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.

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one month ago

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

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https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/air-fryer-recipes

https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/meals-menus/g32264697/best-air-fryer-recipes/


This might go back to Wizzy's point of, "Google exists".

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one month ago

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

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one month ago
Yes, I fill a pot with water and boil the water. then I put in about 70g of dry long grain rice. I wait about 5 mins (sometimes 6). Decant the water and it's ready.

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one month ago
Clearly you have not read this thread fully. You see, many of those words will be utterly confusing to many of the people in this thread. You need to define, for example, 70g. They will have no idea what that means, and besides, you're using grams which is non-American. You also mentioned "decant." No chance most of these readers will even know how to look up that word, and if they did, they'd probably find something on urban dictionary and yes, would likely think that's what you meant. And "dry long grain rice?" Oh my. No, that's incredibly confusing. Heck, with this group, I'm thinking you're going to have to define pot, mins, and perhaps even water.

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one month ago
Sounds like he's using instant rice anyway.

Which makes him at least a 3/8 just the same.

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one month ago
4 or 5/8, if I go off of your grading system.

I've boiled rice twice. First time with guidance (my gf taught me), second time by myself. It came out fine the first time, and just okay the second time. Didn't use enough water. Other than that, I can cook for myself and I generally do to save money. I can follow a recipe or just make something fairly basic on my own. Occasionally I'm string something better than basic together, but that usually takes time that I don't often have.

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one month ago

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.

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one month ago
Sorry, this was not the thread to list how many times you've been run over by a car

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one month ago

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.

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Commended by Sherbet on 11/11/2024 11:17:19 PM
I think this thread has been a very enlightening! I certainly learned so much more than I ever hoped to. One thing I learned is that some of you have done hilarious things with microwaves, so I'm going to ramble a little about how heat conduction works, because I guess that's one of the things that middles schools just don't bother with anymore, much like "how to write a sentence." So still no effortpost on recipes here, I'll save that for later. I actually just picked up sushi for tonight anyway. Okay, so ovens. They've been around for awhile, but they're essentially still just this: So there's heat from the fire, and an insulating material (the bricks) keeping it in and reflecting it on the food. More complicated for more convenience, but still the same concept. The fire is built down in the grate, the whole oven heats up meaning they could bake in one cabinet, another might be for holding hot food, and the top eventually is hot enough to cook on. Pretty sure you would all injure yourselves terribly and probably start a fire that kills your entire family with one of these, people in the past were just built different I guess. Dutch "ovens" were (and still are) also a thing: A thick cast iron or ceramic pan that could be used on a campfire or on an oven (or inside an oven), it saved fuel by the fact the pot itself got so hot it could continue conducting heat into the food awhile even when removed from the main source finishing off the cooking process and then keeping it warm for hours. This is relevant since the same basic concept later became the NAXON BEANERY, which sounds like a slur. Beaneries were invented in 1940, originally intended so that Jewish housewives who couldn't do any work on the Sabbath could still put on a pot of beans, keep it going overnight and keep it hot for eating the next day. But they caught on pretty quickly with everyone else too. This a few decades later became the crockpot or slow cooker, still just a plug in pot with a dial to turn. They're still in use almost as ubiquitously as they were in the 70s I think. Always when I was growing up we'd use them for the classic Sunday roast with carrots and potatoes and onions. (A big hunk of beef when it's a cheaper cut like chuck roast has a lot of muscle fibers that need to be slowly broken down over a period of hours until the meat just flakes off the fork, you need low and slow heat to get it tender that way.) Anyway, slow cookers led to rice cookers, the big difference of course being that rice cookers run at a higher temperature and on a timer, unless they're one of the ones with more settings. But the simple one button toggle for cook and warm with the machine handling everything else seems the most popular, I guess now we know why. Normal ovens meanwhile moved from wood burning to kerosene and then gas and propane. They started taking a little more care that touching the exterior wouldn't give you third degree burns, but it was still the same concept as previous ovens, just with controlled amounts of gas through a line creating the fire in a less dramatic and more consistent way. And now we have electric ovens. Which, honestly, still the same thing. The coils heat up and radiate heat, but they could just as easily be coals. When you cook in an oven the heat is coming from the food's immediate surroundings, cooking the exterior first and eventually the inside. This is why you can get food that's still raw on the inside while it's gotten charred and dry on the outide if your temperature's too high, and why a lot of dishes need to be covered to prevent moisture from escaping and why most packaged food meant to be heated in an oven tells you the time and temperature. Convection ovens (as oppose to conventional) are usually found in industrial kitchens, those are just ovens with fans installed to circulate heat and cook faster. An air fryer as Wizzy already pointed out, is just a tiny, idiot-proof convection oven, not a fryer at all. Now, microwaves as you can see are a little different. They're called microwave ovens because microwaves are the thing producing heat. As in the electromagnetic waves that rapidly heat up the water molecules inside the food and cause them to vibrate, creating friction, creating heat. This is why they cook things much faster than a regular oven. This method also is completely different from other forms of cooking, because it heats the food from the inside. And this is why to bake a potato in the microwave you have to poke holes in it with a fork to keep it from VIOLENTLY EXPLODING, because heat generated rapidly cooks the inside, and then expands, and the steam needs to be allowed to escape from the interior. And metal reflects electromagnetic waves, which is why microwaving foil will create sparks. (And for God's sake I hope, I hope the PHYSICS MAJORS in here already understood that friction generates heat, and hot air expands...but for related reasons, please do not attempt to microwave your pet gerbil, dog, or baby brother.) So anyway, yeah, for a number of reasons, putting frozen bread or dough for 20 minutes in the microwave is not the same as 20 minutes in an oven. Baking is actually this whole complex science that humans have been developing for thousands of years since before even agriculture became a thing. I'll just leave a little video going into that rather than typing more however, since I'm already deeply regretting the stray impulse of autism that led me on this path. You can technically bake non yeast-based quickbreads in a microwave, but the texture and taste will be quite different and unideal just because the actual heating process is so different. Anyway, I'll probably try to save some of this to use somewhere else. I just want to add though that while some of the revelations in this thread have left me flabbergasted, I'm not blaming any of you; just your mothers, who didn't love you. And Fresh especially I realize has a lot of other concerns right now, so I'm not trying to push too hard on all this anyway. But I have a feeling this will be knowledge that will be eventually needed (nobody can eat cheezits straight from a box the next 10 years!), so it's a lucky thing there's a billion resources for beginners there. Sure appears to be a lot of people out there whose parents didn't love them though. :( I'm sure I'll regret posting all this in the morning.

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Yahoo!

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

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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

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Okay good, this is still coherent on a reread. I was starting to fall asleep at the keyboard by the time I reached that last section.

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This thread makes me want to cook something fancy out of spite. I could probably use the wood stove without burning down the house or killing my family. I grew up with a much simpler version we used to help heat the house during winter, so I learned how to start and stoke fires in it without burning myself. The only issue might be keeping consistent temperature since different woods will burn differently. My mom and I talked about cooking a pot of beans on it a few times, but neither of us ever got around to it. I'd kill for a real pizza oven though.

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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. 

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

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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. 

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

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Was it something like this?



The original one I posted seemed to be the standard of "late 1800s upper/middle class" anyway, but I know simpler versions had to have existed. I love how pointlessly ornate this old stuff was though.

Although I'm sure lots of poorer families wouldn't even have made the leap from cooking in a pot over a fireplace or just a fire outside by that time. Lots of Southern families especially were dragging behind anything we think of as any kind of modern existence well into the 1900s. My grandma on my mom's side literally grew up in a three room shack with dirt floors with like ten siblings lol, and didn't own a fridge until after she married.

And on my dad's side there was money and land in their family, with my grandparent's house that they built in the 70s looking like something out of a Southern Living magazine, but my grandma always told us that when she was 13 and 14 she'd hunt possums with her brothers because "that was the only meat except on Sundays"

Anyway, now I, too want to cook something fancy out of spite, AND hedonistic first world excess.

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Something like this, but a little less modern in looks. I don't think any of the ones I've used could be newer than 2000. I don't see a temperature gauge on this one, but on the ones I've used there is one. I've actually had to help take the top off of one and replace the damper (I think that's what it is; could be called something else, but I'm not good with part names) because either myself or someone else forgot to shut it and it got hot enough to warp. My grandpa fixed up the house he grew up in and turned it into a little workshop. The fireplace and chimney is still there, but it's disconnected from the building. It's right behind the house he had built after he got the property. In comparison, the shop he built where I used to live was easily three times larger and looks a lot more comfortable for a family to live in, lol. I can't remember what my mom said about my grandparents' childhoods, but I know she at least said my grandpa grew up without plumbing and running water. Both of my grandma had to kill and clean chickens, which means boiling to remove feathers and the smell that comes with it. One of them hated chicken because of it, the other appreciated the convenience of being able to buy precut chicken tenders in a grocery store. My grandpa had a lifetime hunting license, but he wouldn't get the tags. I know later on in his life he'd kill animals for even looking at his vegetable garden the wrong way. Don't know when he stopped killing for food though. Both of my grandparents didn't really like anyone invading their spaces. My mom pretty much said nobody was allowed in the garden, and my grandma would hover over anyone in the kitchen and tell them how to cook. Even after my grandma was unable to cook, she'd still hover over my uncle and tell him to put more of something in the food or that he's doing something wrong. Then I look at the replies in this thread and know my mom and grandma would be disappointed in me if I showed such levels of incompetence in a kitchen. (Not going to name any names, but Bezro and Ace are, imo, the worst in this thread.)

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one month ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen a woodstove with a temperature gauge before. I do know a household that keeps a pot of water on their woodstove as a makeshift humidifier, which might be a giveaway that they are NOT in the South.

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one month ago
Trying to put MORE sauna in the air, niggas be crazy 😄🙃🤪

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one month ago

@Petros how do you feel about this 

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29 days ago
I'm pretty sure that as a Texan, Mizal is contractually required to use the hard r

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29 days ago
Niggar isn't even a real word, please stop huffing gas fumes.

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29 days ago
Commended by Mizal on 11/12/2024 5:35:00 PM

It's spelled "noongar".

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29 days ago
8/8 excusivity rating on this reference, maybe three people will get it.

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23 days ago

excusivity

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29 days ago
My grandpa kept a pot of water on the woodstove to help keep humidity up during winter. Not sure if my uncle has used the makeshift humidifier part of the woodstove since my grandma passed away though.

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29 days ago
Fresh did claim to put cheese sauce and sliced hotdogs in ramen, if that was truthful and not just a bit of DEPRAVED, HORRIBLE fiction, I think Ace has made a better showing. He hasn't suggested doing anything explicitly disgusting to food, he's just a passive amoeba.

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29 days ago

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

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29 days ago
Knowing this, I'm going to have to switch you and Ace. This is an utterly revolting revelation that I can't ignore. Even if you can't make homemade mac and cheese, make some from a box like a relatively normal human, vile creature. And next time you see your parents, tell them how loathsome and pathetic they are for not even passively teaching you basic survival skills.

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29 days ago

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

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29 days ago
VILE! REPREHENSIBLE! If ramen and cheese sauce is your definition of good, in nutrition and taste, what have your shameless, godforsaken parents been feeding you all these years?!

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29 days ago
At least you're not putting the seasoning pack in too. But like the others, I'm confused at this point as to why use ramen noodles at all, especially when there's already options for cheesy pasta that do not require a separate purchase of cheese sauce.

Or I would honestly feel this was a morally and spiritually better act all around if just opened up a can of beans and heated them with the hotdogs, then topped with shredded cheese.

Maybe a little diced green onion garnish as a token nod to vegetables.

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29 days ago
A terrible thought has occurred to my. Fresh, can we get it confirmed that you know how to use a can opener?

Because I remember it coming up that Ace hadn't until he was 14, and it took him some time to figure out. And so I suppose anything is possible.

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago

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

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23 days ago

I'll learn I swear

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28 days ago

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

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29 days ago

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.

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29 days ago
Yeesh. There's family lore about how my aunt gave my cousin high blood pressure by the second grade from feeding her ramen every day, that shit is bad lol. And idk, I just can't see any reason anybody should be doing that to themselves or their kid, especially when rice and beans are cheaper, more nutritious and filling, and have just like, way more variables with the flavors.

As a once in awhile thing, sure whatever. But daily ramen should only be an option if you're in prison and need that shit as currency.

I have had the Top Ramen mixed with red beans and cayenne before to try and Cajun them up, and that was decent, and I used to toss in a handful of mixed veggies from the freezer (the ones with the tiny square carrots). But just kept coming back to wondering why I was eating such shitty noodles at all when regular pasta is already cheap and other options existed.

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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.

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29 days ago

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. 

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29 days ago
Why don't you just make macaroni and cheese?

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Commended by Daji on 11/13/2024 10:59:02 AM
Chemical Changes

A chemical change is a change in what something is made of. We can tell that a chemical change has happened by looking for certain clues.

One clue is gas. Gas is produced during a chemical change. The next time you bake a cake or flip a pancake, look for the bubbles. Inside each bubble is a little bit of a gas. This gas is made when the ingredients change each other.

Bubbles help make the food you bake fluffy. If you cut into a cake, you can see the spaces where there were bubbles of gas in the wet batter.

Misconception Alert

Not all bubbles come from chemical changes. When you mix batter with a whisk, you might see bubbles. These are just air that gets trapped in the batter during whisking.

Speaking of gas… Smell is the second clue that a chemical change is happening. Sour milk, rotten bananas and mouldy cheese all make smells. These smells warn us not to eat this food. Food that’s rotten or mouldy could make us sick.

The third clue is a change in color. Think of the perfect golden brown you can get when you toast marshmallows over a fire. Or that dark brown colour when you accidentally burn it. Whoops!

When tomatoes change colour from green to red, that means they are ready to eat. When bananas change from yellow to black, that means they are not good to eat anymore.

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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.

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Thankfully the industry takes people who do this into account to, it was probably just a "sell by" date, meaning it wouldn't kill you for a couple of days yet if it's been properly stored. There's nothing sadder than wilty lettuce though.

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Commended by Daji on 11/13/2024 1:08:29 PM
Since you mentioned cake: one interesting thing about cake is that prior to the mid 1800s, there was no cake. Not the way we think of it anyway, and that goes for pancakes and also for cakes that don't have 'cake' in the name, like cookies, waffles, cornbread, squash bread, muffins, banana bread, etc. All of those things are less than 200 years old. If you're a wholesome Christian child like Fresh you might have encountered mentions of raisin cakes in the Bible, but those were just the dried and compressed fruit. (Which would fall under the much less appetizing definition of the word, "a block of compacted or congealed matter") Basically the closest thing to what we think of as cake, back in the day would've been just different kinds of tricked out yeast bread. Usually with fruit, honey, nuts or so on, maybe like so: Yeast was all there was as far as leavening (another term the authentic Bible-readers should be farmilar with; leavening makes bread fluffy, in the case of yeast it's because those lil guys are gassier than Ogre.) But when women were used to baking bread every day to feed their families, it was a problem that a lot of them were moving west in clunky wagons in places where roads didn't exist yet. Bread has to be kneaded and allowed to rise for hours while the yeast organisms do their thing (they fart in it), and the dough can't handle all that bumping around without collapsing in on itself. And bread really needed specific, good kinds of yeast (there are over a thousand species, including the kinds that give you gross infections in places we won't talk about) which had to be kept alive on these trips, you couldn't just buy them dehydrated in the little packets like today. So there were all kinds of problems for pioneers and homesteaders. Luckily, it turned out that in the 1700s a solution had been discovered; that would be potassium bitartrate, these weird little crystals that were a byproduct of the wine industy. They'd form inside vats and sometimes build up on the corks inside bottles. (Other names for them were bee's wing, or wine diamonds.) And when you refine and grind those up, you get cream of tartar. (No relation to actual cream, OR cocaine!) Now cream of tartar when mixed with sodium bicarbonate (aka baking soda, and you 1/8 guys had better at least have HEARD of that, it is a common as fuck household item with it's uses not even limited to cooking, try acting like you don't know what it is and I'll find a way to go back in time and smother you all in your cribs, DO NOT TEST ME ON THIS) Ahem. Uh, anyway, cream of tartar mixed with baking soda leads to a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas, which fluffinated baked goods in a way that for thousands of years people had had to rely only on yeast for. Since France is both a big wine country as well as a big fancy food country, they were making limited use of this already, but it didn't really catch on elsewhere until pioneers and homesteaders realized how much easier this made their life. They just needed to make a trip to a chemist (not a grocery store), and buy these two products, and this brought about the invention of delicious, mouth watering, flaky biscuits, and pancakes (also known as hotcakes, griddlecakes, and flapjacks, all of which are actually way more fun to say) and all the other foods where doughs or batters can be mixed together and then immediately cooked. And it may also have been pretty significant during the Civil War. Even saltines came about because of this. They used to be sold as 'soda crackers', and it's how they're so light and crispy. (Cheez-Its, however, are yeast based, I checked.) Later somebody whose wife was allergic to yeast figured out that the baking soda and cream of tartar (which until then had had to be kept separate to keep them from chemically reacting to each other) could be mixed with corn starch for safe storage, and that became baking powder, which is also a ubiquitous household product that is not cocaine. ....clabber means 'clotted, souring milk' btw, if someone calls you a clabber girl at school, kick them in the crotch.

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

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While Mizal did a great job introducing our young population to the more conventional side of cooking, there are a couple other methods she left out. Now you could stick to ovens, crock pots and microwaves, but I know what you kids want. It's excitement, adventure, dare I say "danger?

That's where I come in. This one's for all you kids who think cooking is BoRiNg and just for squares with sticks up their butts.



That's right kids (and retards who are interested). Any method of cooking that requires only a single direction of heat, you can cook under your hood. Now, it should be noted that there are not necessarily any standard times for recipes because of the unconventional nature of engine cookery. It will take longer than normal, and depending on the food, it may require you to flip the parcel once about halfway through your journey.

I grilled a grilled cheese over about thirty minutes and frying bacon took about the same amount of time. Now gasoline is expensive, so I would not recommend making engine grilling your main source of nutrition, but better to pull over and unwrap a fresh baked potato than brave the gas station breakfast sandwiches again. Just wrap that foil tight to keep the fumes out.

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29 days ago
But how does it do with popcorn?

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29 days ago
There's no chance that turns out okay. I'm definitely trying it though

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Post the results when you do. 

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I hope they do not try this. No because they shouldn't, but because I'm really hoping that these people who cannot understand simply physics are not driving motor vehicles

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29 days ago
Well I spent $30 on groceries yesterday and because I know how to cook I'm reasonably confident I won't have to buy food for the rest of the month unless I just really get an urge for Dairy Queen tacos.

And yes that includes the possibility I might need to make something to bring to Thanksgiving, earlier in the month I already got what I needed for mashed potatoes and gravy, or cornbread dressing, or green bean casserole (since ingredients for making all three of those things for eight people cost less than $20 in total)

So yes, I'm absolutely flexing my ableism in this thread.

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29 days ago

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.

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I'd never heard of a DQ taco until this, looked it up and it seems to be a Texas thing. Honestly though, they don't look bad at all. I trust them.

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29 days ago
I know we've discussed the tacos before. The fact I have pictures on my phone proves this.

Anyway, with the slander cropping up in this thread it sure is a good thing I carry clear refutations around in my pocket at all times.



(We have an enchilada plate too, as well as a smothered burrito, and nachos and taco salad. In fact I'd argue a burger is one of the weaker options. But I think the 2000 calorie chicken strip basket is probably the most popular around here because of course it is.)

Anyway that's a $9 plate, including the tea. And now I'm be sure to eat there again this week; sure, for a few extra dollars I could make many tacos at home, but sometimes it's about sending a message.

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29 days ago
And after eating the Texas exclusive DQ tacos I will go to HEB and gas up my tank at $2.37 a gallon. Sucks to be not in Texas I guess.

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29 days ago

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.

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29 days ago
Sounds like I might need to write up another of those very special "deep ideological dispute" Thunderdome episodes for you guys.

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28 days ago

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.

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28 days ago

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?

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28 days ago

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.

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago

never trust the aliens. 

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29 days ago

blasphemy

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29 days ago
Please raid his house. He deserves it.

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29 days ago
Hey, all of you who rated yourselves in the lower half:

@fresh_out_the_oven @MrAce321 @ISentinelPenguinI @TypewriterCat @Crimson @Celicni

Is there anything that absolutely mystifies you about the cooking or baking process about which you'd like to know more?

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29 days ago
Can you explain how they get the cows to make chocolate milk?

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28 days ago
Sadly, I can confirm that a study in 2017 confirmed that approximately 16 million Americans believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Now you might think that's not all that many people, but based on population estimates for 2017, that's 5% of the population. If there's 20 people in your classroom, kids, that means 1 of them thinks brown cows make chocolate milk.

There are different breeds of cows, just like there are different breeds of cats and dogs. The most common cow that is brown is the Jersey cow. The Jersey cow was originally bred in, wait for it, Jersey, an island in England. The island of Jersey, while under official protection of the British Crown, is actually physically closer to France than it is England. Vikings lived there in 933 A.D. It is just over 46 square miles in size. In 2021 there were estimated to be just over 100,000 people living on the island.

Jersey is just one of over 11,000 islands around the world that are considered permanently habitated. Scientists estimate that there are over 650,000 islands total in the world. While you may think of Norway as a place with nothing but ice and fjords, Norway is the country that claims the most islands in the world, claiming 239,057 islands as property of Norway. The United States only claims 18,617 islands.

Chirikof Island, in Alaska, is the home to the largest herd of feral cattle in the United States. There are over 700 untrained cows that live there, likely because there are no people there to train them. Because the island is in Alaska, it is cold there. The cows there are a mix of breeds, including highland, hereford, and angus. Most of these cows are red, white, and black cows. This does not mean they do not produce milk because when they have babies (when a mommy cow and a daddy cow love each other very much), the mommy cow produces milk for the baby cow. You could drink that milk, but since the bulls (the daddy cows) are untrained, you will likely be crushed into the mud by the daddy cow.

So, once you have the milk from the Jersey, the milk is heated to 60°C, then homogenized at 2500 psi. Afterwards, cocoa powder and sugar are slowly added to warm milk and mixed to dissolve them properly.

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28 days ago
I've seen a video compilation of classrooms being asked about that, or at least I assume that's where the meme came from.


I have an aunt who isn't THAT bad, but she does seem to think that the beans come off the tree with milk inside, given the things she makes a big point of not allowing her lactose intolerant grandson to eat.

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29 days ago

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

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29 days ago
I can tell you that oat milk can be made at home by pulsing dry oats in a blender and then submerging them in water awhile before straining them out. I assume it's similar for all the other kinds.

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28 days ago
Soak almonds in water overnight or for up to two days — the longer you soak the almonds, the creamier the milk will be. (This is true of any nut milk recipe you make.) Drain and rinse the beans from their soaking water and grind them with fresh water. The resulting liquid, drained from the almond meal, is almond milk.

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29 days ago
What's the other 98% in my 2% milk?

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29 days ago
For anyone seriously wondering this, the percentage refers to the milk's fat. The rest is skimmed off and getting made into butter or sold as cream.

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29 days ago

Yes.

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28 days ago
Thank you.

Wait, I didn't tag you!

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28 days ago

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

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Commended by Mizal on 11/13/2024 2:54:00 PM
I must teach the children about grain.

Cereals
No, not like Lucky Charms. Cereals are the edible grains of grasses like wheat, rice, oats, and maize. They are important staple crops that everyone should know about.

Rice
Rice is one of the first cereals most of you should learn how to cook, because of its importance in many world cuisines, its wide availability, and its ease of cooking. However, there are several different kinds of rice, each with their own uses. Depending on what you are doing, having a vague idea of how to use which kind can be very important. I will be focusing on Oryza sativa, which is Asian rice, because it is the most common and the only kind most of you will run into.
The two important subspecies of Asian rice are japonica, which tends to be short-grained and sticky, and indica, which tends to be long-grained and not sticky. (These names are a clue about regions where the respective subspecies are popular.) An example of japonica is the Botan calrose rice, which is widely available in the United States and is good for sushi and sticky rice. A widely available example of indica rice is Basmati, which is commonly served with Indian curries and is famous for its pleasant taste and aroma. Another example of indica rice is Jasmine rice, which is a bit stickier than Basmati rice, has a sweet fragrance and taste and is common in Southeast Asian cuisine.
Most rice can also be classified into brown or white rice. Brown rice is rice which still has the bran and germ on. It naturally contains several important vitamins and has a less neutral flavor and a chewier texture than white rice. White rice is rice which has been milled to remove the bran and germ. It cooks more quickly and can be stored for much longer than brown rice (if kept clean and dry and away from pests, white rice can last forever). However, because many of the vitamins were milled away, it can be less nutritious. Eating a diet of primarily unenriched white rice can lead to a vitamin deficiency called beriberi, which is not fun. To solve this problem, white rice is often enriched or parboiled. In the United States, enrichment tends to happen by dusting the rice with a coating that has the vitamins. For this reason, American white rice should generally not be rinsed. In some places, it is common for rice to be parboiled before milling. This leads to many of the vitamins from the bran and germ being absorbed into the rice's endosperm (the main part) so that they are retained.

Wheat
Wheat is another extremely important crop. There are a number of varieties, which are grown in different climates. In the United States, North Dakota is the leading producer of hard red spring wheat (used for yeast breads and for blending with other wheats) and durum wheat (used for pasta). Other important kinds of wheat are hard red winter wheat (used for all-purpose flour and some Asian noodles), hard white wheat (used for Asian noodles and flatbreads), soft white wheat (used for Asian noodles and some tender foods like cakes), and soft red winter wheat (used for blending, crackers, and for tender foods like cakes and cookies).
The choice of wheat used for a given application depends mainly on its protein and gluten content. Wheat flours that are high in protein, the most important of which is gluten, are able to create a stronger dough that rises well and is good for yeast breads. Wheat flours that have lower protein contents are able to make a more delicate product and are good for things like delicate cakes.
The only wheat flour most of you need to concern yourselves with is all-purpose flour. This is flour that has been blended from a variety of wheats so that it will be versatile enough to be used for most every-day baking. If you only have one flour on hand, it should be all-purpose.
Like rice, wheat flour is available in white and brown. I have never seen white wheat flour that was not enriched here in the United States, and enrichment is a requirement in some countries. White flour is generally easier to work with, as it rises better and has a longer shelf life and more neutral flavor.
A few wheat products other than flour are most pasta and noodles, farro (a different kind of wheat that is cooked like rice), and couscous.

Maize
Maize, Indian corn, and corn are all the same thing in North America. In fact, North Americans call maize "corn" because the word "corn" refers to the staple cereal crop of a region, and maize is and was widely grown here.
Corn is an interesting cereal because it is relied on by millions of people around the world as a primary source of nutrition, but the human body cannot effectively digest it in its unprocessed form. American Indians invented a way of processing corn called nixtamalization, which involves soaking the corn grains in limewater (quicklime, not the fruit). The result of this process is hominy, which can be eaten on its own or ground into masa flour (available at most grocery stores). Masa is used to make corn tortillas and tamales. Corn can be cooked without nixtamalization, like with corn on the cob, cornmeal, or polenta, but a diet overly reliant on un-nixtamalized corn can lead to a vitamin-deficiency disease called pellagra.

Other Cereals
There are many other cereals, such as oats, barley, millet, rye, and sorghum, each with their own uses and means of preparation. Often, other grains are ground into flour that is blended with wheat flour to make bread--either to take advantage of wheat's gluten content, to add flavor or texture, or to stretch the wheat flour out in a time of shortage. Other times, the grains are served on their own and used to make porridges, flatbreads, and cakes. Even if you choose to not eat cereals, they are something most people on earth depend on as sources of fuel, sweetener, and animal feed. Cereals are also very important in alcohol production, but that topic involves a lot of interesting processes and is worth its own post sometime.

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29 days ago

I think you should teach the children about alcohol production.

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

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28 days ago
You buy the beer, you drink the beer.

Questions?

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago
Two beers?

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28 days ago

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

Depending on region, substitute bourbon for scotch as desired.

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29 days ago

Indica > japonica. 

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28 days ago
How do you feel about those degenerates who have fallen so far from God's light that they willfully preach of the pagan god "Keto"?

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28 days ago
As our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus said, "give us this day our daily bread." I cannot imagine rejecting a gift from God that Jesus himself wanted for us.

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https://foodinsight.org/is-food-fortification-necessary-a-historical-perspective/

Here's some more info on enriched and fortified foods, without which some people in this thread would no doubt be suffering immensely from their terrible diets. In the past, vitamin deficiency was caused by being poor and not having enough to eat, but today we'd probably have just as many sufferers if not more from people eating unvaried diets by choice.

Pellagra sounds fucking nasty and is one of the reasons there are so many additives in bread. (To white bread or any other product that contains "enriched flour" anyway. Whole wheat bread uses the whole wheat kernel, as the name suggests, so it didn't have the part with the nutrients stripped away in processing.)

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.

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28 days ago

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. 

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28 days ago
That would be rickets, lack of vitamin D in childhood means they don't absorb calcium properly and so it messes with bone development. That is like an Oliver Twist era problem though, wtf.

edit: okay, looks like the UK does not fortify bread and milk the way most first world countries do. I guess that and not going outside onto your dreary fog-shrouded streets would explain it!

And I found this article from 2013 complaining about how cases there had increased since the 90s: https://apnews.com/article/4cd3f752b4f747aaa21a14038b29302f

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28 days ago

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! 

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28 days ago
I think everybody has minor stuff they can do to get healthier and improve their quality of life even without significant effort. And yeah lol, everbody has stuff about the way they grew up that they just normalize until they really step back one day and take a look at it.

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28 days ago

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. 

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28 days ago
And I'd meant to say it earlier, but this was an excellent post from Daji. There is just something really comforting to sitting down to a bowl of grains for me too. It's hard to explain but it's a little akin to sitting down with a really old book and a mug of hot tea, just knowing that even though modern life is completely bizarre and unnatural, you are partaking in the exact same simple pleasures that countless other humans have enjoyed going back for many generations. Also, we need to bring back frumenty, it's a fun word to say. But it's actually pretty amazing how significant rice became to human civilization, seeing what a pain in the ass it was to both grow (basically underwater) and then process by hand. I've read somewhere that for like half the planet, the phrase "to eat" actually translates to "to eat rice". Barley btw is severely underrated, I think it's my favorite grain to have for any meal of the day, its got that perfect chewy texture but is all creamy too, and it holds its texture really well in a stew. It just takes awhile to make, and I've found I have to be careful with making it in the rice cooker because it will foam up dramatically and overflow it. I have had farro before with parmesan melted into it, and I'd like to try sorghum.
In fact, North Americans call maize "corn" because the word "corn" refers to the staple cereal crop of a region, and maize is and was widely grown here.
...and as I learned not long ago, THIS is why there is corn in the Bible!

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28 days ago

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!

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28 days ago

 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. 

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28 days ago
Safety is for fag— er I mean siss—, I mean... uh...

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago
Look. Before lighting the stove, you just say , "May God defend the right." Then whatever happens, happens

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28 days ago

Yeah nice try PAL, I know how that ends. 

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28 days ago
You're just SCARED. On account of God hates gays

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28 days ago
Canary is a NOTORIOUS racist, there is ample screenshot evidence. Good on you for sticking up for yourself!

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28 days ago

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago
Super Crossburn Racing 3000!

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28 days ago

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.

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28 days ago
@fresh_out_the_oven



In case you want to mix it up a little.

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28 days ago

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

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28 days ago

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

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23 days ago

Erm

This makes me uncomfortable

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24 days ago

I'm sure you boil with salt.

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22 days ago
This week I would like it if everyone made a pie. Pumpkin is traditional, but anything will do and some don't even require baking. Purchasing a crust is obviously fine, I am keeping my expectations low.

Skill level needed: reading instructions on a label

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22 days ago

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! 

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22 days ago

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

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22 days ago
No bake pies exist. With some of this crowd I'd be impressed by instant pudding in a purchased graham cracker crust, or that thing where you mix the cream cheese and marshmallow fluff.

For those of you who do want to bake, cobblers are also acceptable.

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22 days ago
Does a cardamon pumpkin pudding cake count?

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22 days ago
Grown man flexing on the pre-K class, smh.

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22 days ago
Damn straight!

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22 days ago
That sounds delicious

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22 days ago
Hmm, I guess I'll have to see if I can resist the giant $6 Costco pumpkin pie this year...

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15 days ago
UPDATE: I was not, and honestly, I knew the whole time I wouldn't be able to.

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15 days ago
Thank you not just taking it out of the package and faking it.

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15 days ago
If you only bought one, I'd call that a win

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15 days ago
Let me guess, you're going to pair the pumpkin pie with sherbet, right?

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21 days ago
I really need to try making another cheesecake. Maybe I could make it a pumpkin apple cheesecake with a streusel topping, or perhaps a streusel crust. Wait, that's a cake. My bad.

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21 days ago
I'm not sure if cheesecake is a pie, but it's definitely not a cake.

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21 days ago
AI says

Pie is defined as a baked food in a pastry-lined pan or dish that has a filling, which can be fruit, meat, or pudding, and often includes a crust on top. In contrast, cake is a sweet, baked, breadlike food made primarily with flour, sugar, eggs, and baking powder or soda, and it typically lacks a pastry crust.

Given cheesecake's structure, ingredients, and the way it is baked, cooked, and served, we’re chiming in to say that cheesecake is a hybrid between cake and pie. It’s not possible to pick a clear-cut side. It’s a category all on its own, and it’s a delicious one at that.

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21 days ago
Well, in that case, I'll call it pie and bake a cheesecake!

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21 days ago
The dictionary also says what both those things are, why are you so lazy?!

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21 days ago
Are you really asking me that question?

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5 days ago
Is that Serj eating chop suey?

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8 days ago
I would've said I don't cook, but this thread has made me realize I'm very accomplished in the kitchen. I give myself a 4 or maybe even a 5.

I don't cook often but I make a spaghetti dish with Italian sausage and zucchini, or baked potatoes with mushrooms and spinach if I really feel like it. I've been able to bake brownies from a mix since I was 8. Day to day I don't sit down for meals often but I snack constantly, veggies with hummus or different dips, popcorn, almonds, string cheese, turkey or ham with crackers. I boil eggs and make oatmeal sometimes so indeed, basically a goddess of the kitchen. Some of you really need to take better care of your bodies, they teach what a food group is in the 2nd grade.

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8 days ago
I have been inspired by this thread to offer to cook for my family tonight.

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5 days ago


I came across this and wanted to say something like, "kill yourself, unironically" but that might be frowned upon in less based areas of the internet, so just coming here to express my disgust instead.

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5 days ago
Step 1: heat water to near boiling.
Step 2: pour water into eyes.
Step 3: place head in microwave.
Step 4: smash head in door until unconsciousness attained.

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4 days ago

Tea?!? In the microwave???

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