/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>dad eating anything
>does a really irritating thing where he takes a HUGE gulp of air then says "and now the food" before EVERY fucking bite
>says he does it because 'the pocket of air minimizes his choking risk because the air resistance keeps his throat secure'
> one time I screamed at him for being annoying
>he acted mad and said he wouldn't do it next time he ate
>almost choked to death on a fucking dried apricot because he wanted to 'prove' he was right

>tfw mother is afraid of cooking without vegetable oil
>literally thinks that everything has to be cooked in it
>not olive oil, butter, canola oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil etc
>has to be vegetable oil
>to the extent where she adds it to dishes just to have it
>for example, when she makes boiled eggs she pours over some vegetable oil first
>when she makes lasagna she tops with a layer of vegetable oil
>few weeks ago she made fucking pickles and fried them in vegetable oil before jarring them
>insists it is necessary and that her grandmother, who lived to 104, ate vegetable oil every day
>tells me that 'it is concentrated vegetables so it must be healthy'
>once tried to make her own vegetable oil by filling the bathtub with carrots, cabbage, brussel sprouts and eggplants and showering them in hot water for 5 hours because she assumed the oils would run off to the plug hole
>didn't work
>she is obese
>tried showing her research about the dangers of these vegetable oils
>dismisses them as 'scientist lies'

>be me
>19y/o temp cook
>at first temp assignment for two days
>walk in
>everyone balks at young cook
>work with super jaded 60y/o prep cook
>starts to like me and is impressed
>blow through prep
>go home

Day 2
>walk in
>stopped by chef and complimented
>offered job
>no because 64 minute commute and temping suits me
>start prep
>warp speed
>lead cook likes work
>medium dicing bell peppers
>like 0% food waste from my technique
>lead cook starts pointing it out
>feelsgoodman
>start dicing onions
>sharp knife but eyes still water
>line cook tells me it won’t happen if my knife was sharp
>mfw
>tells me to use a steel
>onion strips slip from grip
>have to bunch up again to dice
>line cook walks over
>”let me show you a better way to dice onion.”
>other line cook in passing “I was just about to say that.”

Tfw

Anyone else here temp?