/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10684811
>>10684816
literal retard food

>>10684824
Beans on toast is a timeless british classic much like cheesey chips.

>>10684816
>>10684811
false-flagging Amerisharts detected

>>10684849
I am from Norfolk in England don’t know have to prove it to you tbqh.

>>10684811
>>10684847
So, America came from Brits so we have some similar basis for our popular foods, but you guys have to know we have improved upon it right?

>>10684854
why are you posting this slop like it's worth celebrating? Are you from a council estate?

>>10684867
>Are you from a council estate?
Yes, that’s not a bad thing you posh prick

>>10684871
Calling mashed potatoes "mash" has always seemed funny to me. Like calling Macaroni and cheese "mac" , it's just so petulant

>>10684871
Being poor is not an excuse to eat this crap. Learn to cook and stop embarrassing the rest of us

>>10684871
>1600 kj
Cheesus christ, that thing contains more than half of my daily intake.

>>10684877
Completely agreed, 100%. Especially "mac."

>>10684880
You eat about 800 calories a day?
I think you have mistaken kcal with kj

>>10684877
>petulant
That word doesn’t mean what you think it does.

>>10684879
It tastes decent enough can’t be arsed to cook all the posh shit that doesn’t even taste good and comes in tiny sizes

>>10684892
don't be thick, heating up ready-meals isn't cooking

>>10684901
I literally don’t like most food I actually find it easier to eat these microwave meals than the stuff you get at restaurants with all the weird sauces and shit, I pretty much only like fried food or stuff with gravy on it.

>>10684879
I'm standard-issue office admin working class but living in London, so I feel poor, and I agree with Prince Phillip. Learn to cook you useless twat.

Who the fuck buys a single serving of sausage and mash for a pound? You can get eight sausages for a pound, potatoes at 60p a kilo and onions at 40p a kilo. Literally your biggest single outlay is going to be a packet of butter, at £1.45. And you can make six of that ready meal for £4.45

>>10684906
>all the weird sauces and shit
Stick with your tendies then, kid
When you become an adult, your tastes should expand - unless you plan on living with your parents through 30

>>10684910
Good post
Fucking hate idiots that spend more money on shitty prepared food whilst complaining how poor they are
Culture of poverty tbqh

>>10684910
"ugh but making your own food is so expensive"
>spends 9 quid on a single meal in KFC

>>10684867
everyone eats beans and toast. i'm a total rah and i grew up on it.
>>10684877
amusingly enough, there's a petulant tone to your post in which you misuse the word petulant.

>>10684847
Is it real cheddar? If it is real, then you might have an awesome beer snack.

*puts gravy on my chips*

>>10684811
>plain ol' beans
boring

I like to fry an onion (and sometimes even some carrot and capsicum), then I'll toss in some spices and get them nice and cooked before putting the beans in

What is the sauce on them beans you brits eat all the time like? Is it sweet or vinegary?

>>10684973
it's savoury

>>10684977
Post your personally favorite recipe for British style beans?

>>10684984
recipe?
people don't cook these themselves
they just buy them in a tin

>>10684984
It comes out of a can mate literally nobody makes their own bean sauce.

>>10684973
>>10684984
it's tomato based. no one makes baked beans at home. here's your recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_ErHzKx_A

whats the quintessential british salad?

>>10684997
Salad isn't that traditionally British. I would say Gibraltarian, Maltese, or Cypriot salads.

>>10684997
iceberg lettuce
salad cream

>>10684997
beans on lettuce

>>10685001
>Salad isn't that traditionally British
I disagree. Guidance on salads appeared in most housekeeping manuals. Forced lettuce tended to feature heavily, along with cresses, mustard and radish greens, tomatoes and celery.

One thing that's notable is that many housekeeping manuals had a lot of dressed dishes that weren't classed as a salad. One of my books even has a section for 'Mayonnaises', one of which is clearly what we would now call 'potato salad' and one of which has cauliflower and tomatoes in it and spices that seem vaguely like a curry mix. I suspect a Waldorf salad, for example, probably wouldn't have been considered 'salad' to a traditional British cook, but instead some sort of cold lunch dish.

>>10684997
kfc coleslaw

>>10684997
fried potato cut offs

it comes as absolutly no suprise that TotalBiscuit died of ass cancer if this is has been his diet.

not even a respectable British salad.

>>10685133
Tb spent the last decade in the USA though.

Boi
A true Glasgow scran.

>>10685116
Had a pack of faggots the other day with mash and green beans, was good stuff.

>>10684863

fancy lettin me ave a go at that gash, love?

Simple recipe for beans in a tomato sauce. A 400 gram tin if Haricot beans, or any other white bean, such as White Kidney or Caneloni bean. Drain and rinse, put into saucepan add 400g tin chopped tomato and rinse can adding that liquid to the pot. Add Paprika, to taste, bring up to boil then simmer until most of the liquid has evaporated. You may crush some of the beans which will thicken the sauce. This makes two beans on toast meals, it's cheap to make and contains no added sugar and because if that will have a different flavour and texture to commercial tinned beans. Cost of ingredients 55p for beans and 30p or so for tomatoes. The more expensive the tinned toms the thicker the sauce. Add an egg to increase the protein or sprinkle some cheese on top. Beans-on us a meal you can have at any time, it's quick and easy to make and is quite nutritious.

>>10685372
Just buy some Heinz you greasy shitbag.

>>10684973
Tinned baked beans are massed produced, so seem to share the same tasting sauce, which has little to do with tomato and lots to do with sugar. So the sauce is a bit bland and sweet.

>>10685037
Growing up in my lower class family in the late 60's, salad was frequently served for Sunday tea. Mostly comprising, lettuce, Kos or Density, tomato, Cucumber, spring onions, Spanish onion cut into slices and softened in vinegar abd Radish. Cheese and cold meats was added. The salad was dressed in Salad Cream, a kind of mayonnaise. Nowadays of course salad includes many other vegetables sliced or shredded and served raw dressed in a vineagerette. Times change.

>>10685389
Please go away and die, your response is better on /b than here in an interesting food discussion. TWAT

>>10685559
he's right though

>>10684880
No, it's 400

The massive amount of salt and fat is worrying though.

>>10684910
So you're saving 1.55 (you forgot the gravy as well, so the saving is actually less) and having to go through all the effort of preparing and making it yourself

What a waste of fucking time. Especially as it's going to be just as garbage considering you're buying sausages that literally only have 51% pork in them.

Oi mate, where's your 4chan licence?

>>10685133
Funnily enough baked beans are one of the highest-fibre foods around, if he'd eaten more of them he probably wouldn't have got cancer.

>>10686571
What's that?

>>10686681
Food for people with swallowing problems(old people)

>>10685124
>beef jerky and cold potatoes

>>10684863
looks fucking disgusting desu ngl

>>10684811
From the thumbnail, I thought those were some kind of baked beans meal bars. I was simultaneously full of loathing and respect for you.

>this whole thread
Ill never not laugh when britbongs try to criticize other countries cuisine

>not even a shart

>>10684871
>Cheap fucking knockoff cola
>Cheap fucking readymeal because you are so fucking shit you cannot cook anything decent
>The exact same fucking kitchen counter as me

Fuck off you poor estate nigger

>>10684811
lol I thought you said bukkake. Looks like a sloppa shit, by the way.

I grew up with ready-meals so I had never thought it was weird or that there was anything wrong with it. Until I saw this. There's something wrong with food culture in Britain.

>>10685549
Grew up in the 90s in a working class house and that's what our salad looked like too (plus a bell pepper). I still quite like it to be honest.

Does anyone know of a good source for modern British recipes that possibly even have freedom units or at the very least offer a take on British classics for a modern at-home cook? Like I don't think beans would be awful if you made them from scratch with dry beans but the stuff in the can is probably not so great.

>>10689429
4chan

>>10685595
It's satisfying to make your own food, and because you make it yourself it tastes better.

>>10685389
What's the difference between Heinz and the cheap ones? I know Heinz are nicer but I doubt they are any better for you. That anon was offering a creative and wholesome alternative for baked beans in general.

>>10690500

Some people are broken. They think cooking is difficult, so the moment you suggest anything beyond buying premade food they automatically assume you're asking them to perform a task that's on par with teaching yourself sanskrit whilst climbing Everest.

>>10684871
I grew up on food like this. I've since started cooking for myself and I haven't touched anything like this for years. But I think about it every day. There's nothing I crave more than to just go to the supermarket and load some frozen pizzas and chicken tikka curries into the cart and just drink coke and eat ready meals all night. I never do it because I feel that I 'ought' to eat healthy, but my tastes never matured past 'crap' food and I'm somewhat mistrustful of people who claim that their tastebuds have developed in such a way that they find junk food unpleasant.

>>10690500
Brits are some of the laziest fucks around, anything more time consuming that sticking a tray in an oven is too much for most people.

>Go through the canteen in work.
>poles, hungarians, lithuanians and slovaks have home made meals
>brits have pot noodles, microwavable tikkas, cheap pasties from the paki shops, lidl crisps, and pre-packed spar/asda sandwiches.

Bonus point:
>one guy puts tuna sandwich into a microwave.

I like you guys, but you are going into the void when it comes to home cooking, voting labour and political correctness

>>10684811
do Americans really eat this?

Irish heart, English blood this I’m made of. There is no one on earth I’m afraid of. And no regime can buy or sell me.
Bobs your uncle squire.

>>10691702
>I like you guys, but
You're very generous to still like us after seeing things like that. By the way, what kind of meals do the easterners bring with them?

>>10684901
>>10684892
>>10684867
>>10684910
>twat
>prick
>posh
>council estate
>beans on toast
>brekkie
Can this thread get any more british?

I'm a good cook so I'm biased, but good food means different things to different people.

My favourite meals are pretty light with an emphasis on trying to get each ingredient to clearly express itself, but with lots of different textures and cooking methods to keep things interesting and several different small amounts of intensely flavoured things so I can sort of season and combine to taste on my own plate. This is because I don't eat a lot of meat and you've got to make like ... 5 vegetables appealing.

I keep it light because if I need more calories I can always add some decent bread, top with nuts or go heavier with oil, but usually I'm having a couple of drinks with dinner and might want dessert as well later in the evening.

My girlfriend likes massive quantities of stodge cooked together in one pot. She seemingly can't keep track of different cooking methods and can't clean as she goes. She doesn't seem to be able to understand a meal that doesn't have 40-60% carbohydrates on the plate. A lot of people are like her.

I like each ingredient to be able to stand alone on a plate, but combine to form something greater than itself alone because I grow my own produce. I'm mostly vegetarian, but eat quite a lot of fish and while I don't turn down meat out of necessity I'm interested in the taste and texture differences of what I've grown and how things develop over time, both as it grows and as it stores. I've also access to varieties you don't see in supermarkets which I like to appreciate.

This is because I'm older and have access to a shit ton of resources. While I've always cooked my 16 year old self could never have imagined this. When I was at university, I cooked, but a lot of one pot meals. When I am working, convenience foods are key, it'd be nice to have a more continental mindset, but food is fuel during work hours because work is heavily valued in Britain, even if it isn't exactly productive.

>>10693013
What I also wanted to say is the big problem is that industry is quite happy for convenience products to become normal. It is quite happy for meal times to vanish in favour of a constant grazing system. It is quite happy for culinary skills to atrophy and tastes to dull to the point where every few hours you look forward to eating a packet of something on the go while constantly being aware of your obligations to work. Even if that work is nothing more than standing around checking your phone akin to day release prison shooting the shit about how busy and important we all are and deserve another packet of something bland and boring.

People complain about having no time and being under pressure while advertisers constantly push the message that we deserve to put our feet up, enjoy something which is convenient, take off the pressure, go on ... treat yourself.

It is a treat to have the time and the mentality to learn how to properly poach and enjoy an egg.

So I try not to shit on people in their various stages of development. I hope they all get there in the end. The argument is always that if people didn't buy it, business wouldn't provide it, but it isn't that simple. Businesses provide it, advertise it, use tactics to cripple competing options and remove choice until people have to buy it, forget the alternative and start to look forward to it. Business then gets so large that all competing options look prohibitively expensive and ridiculous from then on out.

>>10689416
Grew up in slough. Our salad was: a pickled onion, some beetroot, grated cheddar cheese, two bits of lettuce and a packet if crisps.

God bless the queen.

>>10692918
When I worked with them it was just bread and cold meats. Literal poverty tier sandwiches.

Anyway America. Beans on toast isn't designed to set the world aflame. Canned beans have a place in the hearts of the British public because they were one of the first foods mass produced using modern industrial processes. At first they weren't actually very cheap compared to alternatives at the time and were seen as a novel treat, a stock store cupboard item to prepare when you didn't have the time or ingredients to make a proper meal. Children especially liked them because they were different and quite sweet.

Children grow up and decide to eat them regularly. Mass production makes them quite cheap indeed. We get busier and eat them more often. Supermarkets stock them as a staple and compete on price using them as a loss leader for almost 20 years to the point where a can of beans cost a few pence. By this point they aren't going away.

What is wrong with this? Are western cultures so far removed from our peasant ancestry that we can't eat legumes a few times a week? Peas and beans are OG, you should see how fast they grow in poor soil compared to fussy shit like corn.

Make good toast with good bread. OP looks like wholemeal. Use salted butter. Warm the beans in a saucepan because they can be rather watery these days, especially the very cheap ones so they can thicken. They'll break down a little and that'll help out with that. I avoid the ones which are too sweet because the balance is all wrong and warming them in a microwave just leaves them all watery.

Good bread, toasted with salted butter. Earthy beans, slightly sweet, touch of acidity. Poach an egg if you want to get all fancy and believe in protein combining. Go pick a couple of peppery salad leaves to top it with if you really want to make it look like it is worth £5.95 a plate.

>>10693071
Can you please fuck off mate

>>10693066
Love beetroot. Grows and stores really well so I can see why it was such a staple in many working class homes. Nothing wrong with beetroot, but it is nicer cut thinly and dressed. Only time it goes a bit wrong is when you get given a whole one with bits of skin still attached so you've got to dissect it yourself on the plate and you end up eating a gritty bit of skin.

Growing up dinner was at 5pm and always ...

Sausage
Pork chop
Lamb chop
Fish finger
Crispy pancake
Frozen burger
Fish cake
etc .. basically something you grill.

Adults usually got 2, children 1. This was plated with either ...

Boiled potatoes
Chips
Jacket potatoes
Mashed potatoes

Then you had the third item which was either ...

Canned beans
Canned spaghetti
Canned peas
Canned sweetcorn
Frozen mixed vegetables

Occasionally somebody would make beef chilli with rice. Sweet and sour chicken (often rabbit, we ate a lot of rabbit as my father used to shoot them) with rice. Spaghetti bolognaise, basically something out of a jar with rice or pasta as the carbohydrate once a week.

There was always weekly Sunday roast with a pudding. Saturday mornings we had plum tomatoes, poached eggs and toast for breakfast. Occasionally in spring and summer we'd have a generic salad, lettuce, beetroot, onion, boiled egg, ham and cheese.

All meals came with buttered white bread and tea. There was an evening supper or snack as well, usually half a piece of bread, a thin slice of cheese, some sliced garden tomato, a few home grown radishes, a few pickles etc.

>>10693089
Don't get me wrong, where I work it can get quite cold in winter so I like a hot lunch and see crap like pot noodles, frozen ready meals, sausage rolls and so on as an easy way to have a hot meal at work. Ready meals that are £1 or so are not that bad and are usually 500kcal or less. What I like is I can have them in the freezer at home and if I can't be bothered to make something or have no leftovers from the night before I can just pop one in my bag.

The alternative is to have sandwiches, crisps, chocolate biscuits, yoghurt, bit of fruit. The usual pack up which clocks well over that amount. I find it really dull after a while unless the sandwich becomes something amazing which works out quite expensive and time consuming to keep up with.

>>10684811
I prefer spag hoops on toast, desu.

>>10693134
I went on a tinned spaghetti diet. The value basic ones were 204kcal a can and cost 18p. I figured even if I ate 10 cans a day I wouldn't gain weight and there was no way I could face 10 cans a day. I used to buy a large baguette (approx 1,000kcal) and make it last two days alongside as much spaghetti hoops as I could stomach with plenty of black coffee.

>>10684849
I dunno mate, I've been in British "super" markets before. It's pretty depressing.

>>10685124
That's so fucking sad.
Please start euthanizing the stupid.

>>10693098
>Haricot beans
MMM, pancakes, potatoes, and spaghetti.
>scurvy

All this chatting beans on toast for brekkie. On it lads.

>>10693150
How long did you do that for anon, and what made you stop?
Also did the lack of nutrients cause any ill effects?

>>10684811
you could have at least rotated that shit

>>10689429
Every celeb chef does a take on homemade baked beans and they’re always shit.

>>10684811
beans in the morning is such a bad idea
heavy on the digestion
heavy on the blood flow
heavy on the cortisol
gas in the evening through the night
no wonder brits genes look like garbage

Just had a cheeky bacon sarnie lads.

>>10693365
>bacon
Ain't that haram?

>>10693366
That's why it was cheeky. Better not tell the imam.

I was fat as shit so I likely could have survived on water alone for months if needed. I took quite a lot of vitamins? Like a 'good' multi, vitamin d high dose and 3g combined DHA & EPA omega 3. I also had some basic protein powder which was I'd make up 15-20g with 200ml water and chug it in the morning and evening occasionally if I felt like it.

Um, I lost loads of weight really fast? I didn't really feel any different? Eventually I started washing back a heaped tablespoon of psyllium husk two or three times a day so I could shit?

>>10684997

the one out of the kebab shop that has big bits of lettuce, onion, tomato, red cabbage and cucumber

>>10692918

>Home made: cutlets/schnitzels, racuchy, baked marinated chicken breasts witch sweet sauerkraut salads and boiled potatoes, goullash, pyzy, pierogies. and their variations on pancakes/crepes with either sweet or savory sauce.

>>10693648

dammit, this shouldn't be a greentext

>>10684811
brits are absolutely disgusting and then have the audacity to call anyone subhuman

>>10685116
These are just liver mush. Not terrible but I wouldn't get them again

>>10684811
British food is absolute garbage, please keep it quarantined to your meme of a country.

>>10684896
Can you still get these? Loved ‘em as a kid.