/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13593454
You didn't let the skin form on them by letting them dry out before baking. That's why they aren't smooth

>>13593472
NOOO! I like the cracked ones better

>>13593454
Look like shit but I’m sure they taste fine.

are these fagusea's failed macarons that people keep bringing up? they don't look so bad.
reminds me of our orehovki (walnut meal sweets)
don't get me wrong, they're no macaranos, in terms of appearance or flavor and i guess that's why france is france and bulgaria is bulgaria when it comes to cuisine, but they're still pretty damn good

>>13593505

>>13593454
use a pipebag. youll save time and have a good presentation.

>>13593454
What is this? Fryballs?

>>13593879
Cursed combination, and i once saw paulie x wolverine

>>13593879
NOOO!!!

>>13593454
Adam's really onto something with demystification through science and smashing food elitism, last vid plus the soup one were fun on top of that.

What makes them french?

>>13593454
as opposed to australia macarons ?

>>13593454
Did you name those after the French president, Macron?

>>13593508
They are not macrons. Adam is a lazy dumb home cook who thinks he knows shit. His result could have been a million times better if he had just used a bag for laying out the batter, but this he "didnt have time for" so he used a spoon like an eight year old.

Why bother cooking if you are going to halfass it every step of the way like he does? Making things easy for yourself? OK, but this is just stupid.

>>13594725
But he likes it better this way :-)

>>13594725
i haven't seen the video but what do you mean they're not macarons? i understand he fucked up the presentation but did he do anything else wrong?

>>13594751
The more you deviate from a recipe, at a certain point a dish is no longer what it was meant to be. Drawing this exact line can be difficult so I am sure some people disagree and think these are proper macrons. But IMO in both technique and result adam deviated enough from what macrons are to call these things macrons. But my biggest problem is his laziness. He thinks its better the more a recipe is dumbed down. This is only true to an extent (if true at all), and by now he is just making an ass of himself

>>13594875
no, i understand and agree completely. but i legit don't know in what ways he fucked up the recipe, besides not using a bag. i guess i should watch the video before posting, but i think i'll miss some stuff even then, since i'm not familiar with the original recipe

>>13594932
He makes sure to point it all out himself with a soyscream

>>13594944
just started the video. 40 seconds in and i can barely take it anymore

>>13594944
wow shit, that was a pretty annoying video. he's such a tool
yes congrats, you achieved a similarly tasting product. but all those things you said didn't matter turned out to matter in the end.
i think i agree with you. i honestly feel like in this case his attitude matters. if a home cook had tried his best at macaroons and came out with an ugly result, calling it "failed/ugly macaroons" would have been justified

but fagusea was as flippant and dismissive and disrespectful of the recipe as he could be, so he shouldn't call these things macaroons. he thinks low of the recipe anyway, why should he care if what he made is macaroons.

>>13594993
Yeah. Adam is intensely insufferable.

>>13593508
Orehovki are the chad macarons

>>13595087
since i made that post another video of his popped up in my recommendations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ofoREnXbM
so i guess this is some kind "series" he does. this soup one is arguably even more annoying since the whole video could all be summed up by just saying "just throw some vegetables in the pot and boil them"

>>13595103
you could say that. as i was watching the fagusea video i realized medenki are also basically macarons

>>13593525
Oh. They were made by an eceleb I don’t care anymore.

>>13594944
I made it 3 minutes in. I agree with him about having more control with a hand mixer as stand mixers whip 2 egg whites way too fast. Other than that, what a fag. I can't stand dumbed down recipes. I've never found a "quick" or "easy" titled recipe that I like.

>>13595361
the dichotomy he tried to set up between a stand mixer and a hand mixer is fake as fuck because 90% of people would never consider using a stand mixer for this task
he picked an easy topic to be "controversial" about because he's a cowardly self absorbed rat who wants to feel he's special

>>13594875
I agree with the former. A recipe is a recipe in so far that you follow every step of the way. Ragusea's methods are worth notice, however. His videos, at least to me, seem based around the idea of cooking for your children and on a strict time schedule. Anyone who has children, or takes care of them knows that they're impatient little fucks and you're not going to always have time to do it "the right way". Not to mention his simplified versions are often a great start to get your kids or untrained spouse into cooking.

>>13595137
adam presenting his bull's cock to his trap wife

>>13593454
It makes me happy that Americans pronounce them "macaroons", even though there's only one 'o'. I like to thing that it makes French people rage.

>>13595368
I don't know. In stand mixer suburbia-ville where every single woman has a kitchen-aid, they use them for everything no matter how retarded it is. Every youtube cooking video seems to do that too. He did seem like he wanted to show off his expensive stand mixer though.

>>13593454
if more people start to cook because he's lowering expectations and simplifying things is that so bad? better than people microwaving premade cookie dough. maybe those people will go on to make macarons the hard way someday

he is a total fag though, that video was annoying as shit

>>13593454
I dont see an issue with this.
He has pick related energy, which is kind of annoying.
NOOOOO NOT THE GOOD FRENCHERINO GOOD BOIS
Think about who he’s trying to reach: very beginner chefs that are just trying to start learning how to cook.

>>13595396
he Is epitome of reddit

>>13595734
>very beginner chefs that are just trying to start learning how to cook.
so he teaches them the wrong way to do things?

Nobody gonna comment on the fact that he calls them "macaroons" the whole time? He presents himself as an authority on something he doesn't even know the name of?

>>13595721
if you can't cook that's 100 percent on you

ah macaron
shakaron macaron jaja jamon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

I tried...no bully pls

>>13596106
>>13596114
based and chacarronpilled

>>13596120
they look better than his and i'd eat 'em

>>13596091
no shit

>>13594585
Their country of origin. It's called France.

>>13593454
Girls like Macarons. Girls like pretty things. If you make shitty looking ones girls won't be impressed. The whole appeal of the macaron is the difficulty in getting it exactly right.

Adam is an utter moron. It would be a perfectly fine video if he said "here's the lazy way to make a shitty macaron that still tastes good". Instead he tries to play it off like this is a good thing to do in any way.

He should write a cookbook called "The Gay of Cooking"

>>13595993
That way he can get paid to sell them books to correct it, it's nothing more then a multi level marketing scheme.

Imagine if this douche was into woodworking instead.
>alright first you need to sand it do- NNNOOOOOO! IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SMOOTH THE EDGES ARE, IT WON'T AFFECT ITS STRENGTH!
>now lots of people would bring out their fancy pocket hole jig right now... NOOOOO! JUST HOLD IT AT A 45 DEGREE ANGLE!
>now let's stain it and then apply some polyurethane... NO! IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LOOK PRETTY, IT JUST HAS TO HOLD THINGS!

>>13594458
Fuck off, Adam

Go buy your wife some braces

>>13596106
>>13596114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQalPR_fJw

>>13596120
I think Adam exaggeratedly botched his macarons on purpose to further push his point.

>>13593454
I hoped he'd went all out and change the shape too, opting for a log for example, or a burger sized one.

>>13595396
underrated

>>13595393
>Anyone who has children, or takes care of them knows that they're impatient little fucks and you're not going to always have time to do it "the right way".
Then why the FUCK would you make macrons in the first place?

>>13596319
underrated

>>13596058
It might be a US thing, but "French Macaroons" is a common way to refer to macarons. If you don't make sure to call them French then people are probably going to expect coconut macaroons.
>A macaron (/ˌmækəˈrɒn/ mak-ə-RON;[1][2] French: [makaʁɔ̃]) or French macaroon (/ˌmækəˈruːn/ mak-ə-ROON)[3][4] is a sweet meringue-based confection ...

>>13596120
was that the test kitchen mag's recipe? saw that image earlier today

>>13593454
>>13596120
why not just call it almond sandwich cookies at this point?

can you imagine some person from china making a video on how to make hamburgers, it ends up looking like a hot dog and say "yeah this is my hamburger, its fine if it doesn't look like a hamburger, it's perfect according to me"

>>13599274
cook's illistrated, myself

>>13596120
>>13599317
they're not even french, and they dont use almonds

>>13599348
wtf image didnt go

>>13599197
The two words sound entirely different. You'd have to be pretty damn thick to conflate them.

>>13596276
Just buy the cute girl a purse or some shoes, that takes less time than macarons for some ungrateful but cute cunt.

>>13599357
Yes macaron is a different pronunciation from macaroon. That doesn't change the fact that, likely regionally, "French macaroon" is a common/standard way of referring to this dessert. Apparently it's fairly common in the UK. Growing up, my French Canadian grand parents and other relatives (1st through 3rd generation in the US) all called them French macaroons vs macaroons or coconut macaroons. In some areas people probably mostly say macarons vs macaroons, but there are definitely English speaking areas that call them French macaroons.
>There is some variation in whether the term macaron or macaroon is used, and the related coconut macaroon is often confused with the macaron. In English, some bakers have adopted the French spelling of macaron for the meringue-based item to distinguish the two. Stanford professor of linguistics Daniel Jurafsky describes how the two confections have a shared history with macaroni (Italian maccheroni). Jurafsky notes that French words ending with "-on" that were borrowed into English in the 16th and 17th centuries are usually spelled with "-oon" (for example: balloon, cartoon, platoon).[5] In the UK, many bakeries continue to use the term "macaroon".[6][7][8]

Made some chinese style pork buns today, just used some bread dough made a few days ago, didn't bother to make pleats, I just joined dough ends together and threw the balls right away in a pressure cooker (still steamed them, as in I didn't throw them in the water), Adam would be proud. I'm working my way up, when I'm more confident I'll add the traditional ingredients, chinese water chestnuts, bamboo, shiitake, wheat starch, etc.

>>13596120
they look cute

>>13596319
Kek.

>>13594458
Food has always and will always be science, he is just a weak bitch who wants a slap on the cock and a man to fuck his wife just because he does things his way I.e lazy or contrarian

>>13595393
Those little shits will eat when its ready and not a second sooner, if you don't have time you just make something different you don't fuck up the recipe you are using.

>>13595993
Haha we taught them wrong as a joke