/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13187161
What country? Europe is a large and diverse region

Refrigerators were invented in America, and we're the only ones who can get them.

>>13187161
they don't have air conditioning either

>>13187189

Wait... really?

>>13187189
Bruh

>>13187161
Europe's an outdated simulation, of course the temperature system is wonky. it was patched when america came out

>>13187202
>>13187281
because we don't need it. It's mostly cold here like this.

>5 months cold
>3months hot
>4months another cold.

>>13187161
european here. we actually rent a refrigerator only in the warmest months of the year. it's cheaper that way than buying one

>>13187958
>>13187189
This is retarded, visited Germany this year for a few weeks and there was no a/c. Very regularly above 33C during that time and it was hot everywhere. So what if you only need it 3-4 months out of the year, that is when you NEED it. Not like it costs anything extra when it's off. God, Germany sucks.

>>13188155
fucking baby
you don't NEED a/c at 33C unless you're an obese man child constantly stewing in your own juices

>>13188164
Yeah and then at 40C things become fucking miserable. Hard pass on ever going there during summertime again. Maybe they'll be out of the stone age in a few decades.

>>13188164
Primitive cope. Imagine not using A/C like a human being.

>>13188155
germans often practice nudity at home in the summer (even with family)
they dont need a AC

>>13187161
>>Visiting friends in Europe
>in Europe
>he thinks europe is a country
Fucking americans, christ.

>>13187163
...do Europeans really?

>>13188287
Imagine needing AC on at all times like a spoiled human being that you are.

One of the worst things in US when I traveled there was going out of 80-90 degree heat into buildings/subway that is 65. You people are fucking retarded with those temperature swings.

>>13187949
kek

>>13188319
Contrary to popular belief, the "temperature swing" doesn't matter. There is an optimal temperature for working and when you stray from it for a few degrees, your brain starts getting fucked up and you make way more mistakes.
Yes, you complain about the mild incomfort when you enter a shop with AC, but try thinking about the people who spend the whole day working here and it's much better for them.

t. not American

>>13188337
nigga, humanity survived 99.99% of history without AC

stop being so soft

>>13188344
Bruh, humanity didn't have to leave the cave to go to work to design engineering software when it was too hot.
Stop being dumb

>>13188145
where the fuck do you do this lmao
even my gypsy ass can afford a refrigerator and an AC

>>13188319
SubSaharan ape detected.

>>13188344
I love reading about the european heat waves that kill off thousands of their oldsters most summers. I think about them often when I see them sperging out about muh kinder eggs and muh do Americans really. These savages cannot even keep their grandparents from croaking when the sun is out yet they loudly lecture us about "education" and "culture." You truly cannot make this shit up.

>Finland and Albania are the same culture
Do Americans really?

>>13187161
>Is this normal in Europe?
No, never seen a household without one.
>>13188155
I'm from the Balkans and everyone has AC here since our summers have always been hot (30C+). But I lived in the Netherlands and nobody has AC. The first year I was there, I think there were like 3-4 weeks max of 30C+ temp with the rest of summer being 22-25. With temps like that there is no reason to have AC. Last few years there has been a lot more hot ass days. To make it worse, the Dutch LOVE having giant ass windows that are 2/3 or more of the height of the room so it gets absolutely boiling inside.

>>13188344
Do you also want to live in a hut like humanity did for 99% of history?

Temperature control, both heating and cooling, is something that every basic modern house should be capable of, I would also include humidity control as well, stop making excuses for living in the past.

>>13188542
>Gets upset burgers can't be fucked to learn about their nations.
Do eurocucks really?

>>13188577
>can't read his own plane ticket
Do Americans really?

>>13188583

>cosplaying as a euro

>>13188609


>making things up

>>13188609
>>cosplaying as a euro

Muslims?

>>13188583
>pretending so he feels better
dial 8

>>13188629
sneed

>>13188631
seethe

>>13187161
>Visiting friends in Europe
>Go to their house
>Go into their kitchen
>eggs on counter

>>13187958
>we don't need it it's only unbearable a quarter of the year

>>13188661
>30C a quarter of the year
lol

>>13188319
temperature swings? the 2 sec to adjust to a MORE comfortable temp?

>>13188667
>can't control the climate in his home
lol

>arguing over not having a cheap $200 window AC because it's only a few days of being miserable

lol Europoors really are poor aren't they

>>13188684
>being miserable

>>13188561
I assume you just buy a minisplit and install them yourselves in your red brick home.

By the time minisplits became truly affordable here in the Netherlands it was illegal to install them yourselves... and the installers make them fucking expensive again.

>>13188684
The houses have swing windows and even if you wanted to jerry rig a window air conditioner into one, they are almost non existent on the market.

only fat obese people have a problem with warm weather

>>13188765
and only poor people can't afford to control the temperature in their own homes, even third world countries mostly have ac

>>13188797
>not enjoying the warm weather
>not enjoying the natural unpolluted breeze
>not enjoying the sounds of nature and bird song
>has to live artificially in his carpeted cardboard home (while also wearing shoes in the house)

i pity you americans

>>13188870
Europeans take their shoes off outside?

Where the fuck did you go to? In my country everybody has a fridge.
Greetings from Austria

>>13188765
As a fat obese person I have a huge problem with cold weather

I underwent an involuntary crash diet due to an extreme medical condition. Lost like half my bodyweight. When treatment brought it under control, I regained most of the weight, as would be expected after an extremely rapid loss like that. Unfortunately, my body responded to this period of starvation by massively reducing its voluntary thermogensis. Despite my 25 bmi, I am fucking freezing in anything below like 20 degrees and come into the office wearing 4 layers and still sit there at my desk shivering.

>>13187161
no
>>13187189
false, maybe northern countries don't, southern ones (poores but hotest) do

>>13188870
>>13189053
I'm American and I take my shoes off as soon as I step through the door because I'm not a filthy animal.

>>13188797
Hi, have you heard of Colorado?

>>13189161
That's a hpta issue probably thyroid

>>13189194
Most americans do not remove their shoes upon entering a house.
>In the United States, taking shoes off indoors is not a tradition within the Continental United States, but is considered expected in Hawaii and Alaska.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition_of_removing_shoes_in_home

>>13189053
yes of course

why do you want dirt and mud and grass and random dog poop all over your carpet?

>>13189281
this isn't true at all, the large majority of people at least here in the midwest remove their shoes when entering a house

>>13187189
How about shower curtains? This one always got me about europoors, why no shower curtain???

>>13189334
oh yeah, I didn't even think of that but of the three airbnb's I stayed at there one was enclosed in glass, one had an absurdly small curtained area that you basically couldn't help being draped in the curtain the whole time but the other was just open to the rest of the bathroom. No idea what is typical

>>13189333
I grew up in the midwest so I know you're lying. But keep coping!

>>13189334
we dont need shower curtains because we dont put carpet in the loo.

also its fine if the sink gets a bit wet

just dont be a spastic and spray water all over the room

>>13189342
Our advanced shower technology hasn’t reached Europe yet.

>>13189350
This is definitely not normal. And in my opinion absolutely disgusting. What happens when the toilet overflows?? Or the stream splits while pissing? You’ll never get that out completely.

>>13189344
Reminder that if you are more than 3 hours south of the Great Lakes you are a southerner

Off the top of the head I can't think of anyone who's house I go to now, or when I was growing up that didn't take their shoes off. Maybe a few people in college, but even then most did

>>13189334
...I have shower curtains

>>13189053
its so gross that americans dont do that
imagine kids and pets just rolling and crawling around on shitty dirty carpet
mites and fleas and entire ecosystems just living in the carpet

pay $ to put it in and pay even more $$ to clean it

no wonder you people are full of allergies and illnesses

>>13189350
>we dont need shower curtains because we dont put carpet in the loo.
Americans also do not carpet their bathrooms dude

>this whole thread
The europoor meme is real

>>13187161
No.

>>13188155
I've lived in Germany for most of my life, and the kind of summers where it's consistently 30C+ for weeks on end weren't really a thing until around 5 years ago, so most people never bothered with AC.

In the 90s and early 2000s you'd be lucky if it got that hot even for a week or two. Sometimes you'd get summers that were hotter than average (2003 in particular was hell), but these days every summer is like that, and it's gotten more common for people to have AC installed.

>>13188660
Eggs keep for weeks at room temp if their natural protective coating hasn't been washed off (which is standard practice in North America).

>>13189803
I live in Wisconsin where summer is like 2 months long and I still would never consider not having AC

>>13188529
>I love reading about the european heat waves that kill off thousands of their oldsters most summers
and it's a good thing
they're the ones bringing the continent down, the one who are nostalic about communism (because they were the ones living in the west, blowing out money from the marshall plan to go in the east nightclubs where it was 20 times cheaper) and the ones activelly bringing everyone down for their own comfort
fuck old people

Also 30°C is fucking nothing you softie, we have a week or two of 40+°C and the feeling of drinking fresh water while being hot is one of the greatest pleasures of summer

>>13188344
That’s a dumb thought, it’s just plain stupidity. What are you trying to suggest, an almost religious assertion that everything will always be okay, that we’re made for this and we’ll survive always? Where could you even get that idea from, historically the top species have repeatedly been wiped out and life had to build back up from tiny survivors. Life itself would be hard to eradicate at the smallest level, things will always be fine in that sense, but we at the top are the most fragile and in danger of change.

>>13187958
its hot as fuck in europe you fat lard their houses are just 500 year old broken down castles

>>13189835
It might be a bit unintuitive, but Germany is actually good bit further north than Wisconsin. Also, 2 months is still pretty long by German standards. Like I said, usually there'd be only a week or two worth of hot days during any given summer, and occasionally there'd be none.

German houses also tend to be made out of brick and concrete instead of wooden frames, so they don't heat up nearly as much. I lived in Upstate New York for a few years and temperatures in our house got uncomfortable once outside temps hit 80F. In Germany that usually isn't an issue until you hit the 90s.

>>13189281
>whole article basically says people take off their shoes in every country
>except the USA and Ireland
It's like an article called 'Toilet use' listing every country and saying people go to the toilet, except for the entry for India.

>>13188174

Dig hole. Sit in hole. Use the Earth as thermal mass to regulate ambient temperature. Works in winter also.

>>13188344
We also spent most of our time scavving or working for subsistence, which actually tended to involve shorter work hours than we have now. Ex. Farm work would STOP at noon because people would fucking die from the heat stroke if they didn't.

It's kind of funny how everyone has this mental image of ye aulden days being constant backbreaking drudgery and while such nisery did exist in general it was the exception not the rule.

>>13189803
>the kind of summers where it's consistently 30C+ for weeks on end weren't really a thing until around 5 years ago, so most people never bothered with AC.
Almost as if the climate is changing g or something, what could be causing this!

>>13189367
Indeed, we only put carpet in the rooms with fireplaces.

>>13189852
I have no idea what your weird centigrade temperatures equate to, and can't be bothered to care. Overall, sounds like everything I thought about europoors is true.

>>13190366
30°C is 86°F, 40°C is 104°F. I'm glad you're happy about your ignorance though.

>>13189852
>muh 40c

Ok I live in a place that hangs around the 30s and gets up to the 40s during the summer and then it's at -10 with regular drops to -23 and sometimes -40.

>>13190267
You don't know anything about preindustrial farming. It was extremely labor intensive and weather was critical. You had to work sunup to sundown preparing the fields for planting (you can't plow when too wet or too dry because it ruins the soil), manuring the fields (you couldn't just spray petroleum chemicals over the field with gigantic tractors), planting, weeding (no carcinogenic roundup in those days), harvesting (all by hand including even wheat), threshing and storing fodder for the animals. Their only slight downtime was winter, but they still had to care fore livestock.

If you were put in that position today, you would be laying in a ditch quivering and blubbering for mama within 4 hours. That's why we need immigrants to perform non-automated agricultural tasks. American citizens are too soft.

>>13190279
Sounds like a hoax and chinese conspiracy to me, lol!

>>13190279
geoengineering/chemtrailing obviously

>>13187189
There wasn't a need for ac above southern europe until a few years ago. Only the recent few summers have been hellish.
ACs are getting more common but getting one is fucked since our flats weren't built with a AC in mind. Depending on the counntry you're in there are also alot of roadblocks like having consent of every inhabitant in the building or the building owners denying it or it being illegal without expensive installation by experts.
Also alot of (especially older) euros think draft and ACs make you sick (which it does).
And shower curtains look ugly. Pro tip: Just don't spray water all around you while showering.

>>13187161
>No refrigerator

You probably overlooked it since it was a mini-fridge built in under the countertop, as Euros live in tiny hovels and thus are constantly having to go to the grocery store and buy only one or two items, whereas Americans go once a week at most and frequently just once a month, because who the fuck wants to go to the damn store everyday?

>>13190556
we don't need immigrants, we can use poor white trash (like juggalos) for that

>>13192386
never seen a fridge like that
t.euro