/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I just figured it out based on what I had already seen. Put food together and expose it to heat. Not that complicated, really.

>>13905150
heat and spices!

>>13905150
Based? Based on what?

>>13905160
Based on Based :^)

>>13905162

>>13905148
by cooking shit

Gordon ramsey stuff on youtube, and went from there to various other channel and a few cookbooks
im now in culinary school though

By actually doing it instead of asking questions on a Laotian Fish trading forum.

>>13905148
Trial and error and dicking around, then getting somewhat more serious about it and watching lots of food wishes and cooking with the blues.

My dad was a cook for a really long time before he went into business, and around my late teens (17/18?) I just asked him if he could teach me some stuff so I wouldn't just be some jackass making ramen noodles and TV dinners every day when I went off to college. He taught me a lot of the basics, and I put the rest together through the internet, cookbooks, and plain experience.

>just cook lmao
sounds like a good way to catch food poisoning

My mom is a classically trained chef and she started teaching me when I was about 6. Also, the internet.

I didn't

naw but for real this morning I made a bacon and egg sandwich like my mom used to make for me, it was pretty good I just wish I had milk to make the eggs fluffy

>>13905148
I took a class in high school my senior year. Only took it because I only have two classes I was required to take to graduate so I took a bunch of electives like art appreciation, choir, and other electives. Mostly learned from the internet. God, that just made me remember my senior year and how much stupid shit I did. Fun times.

>>13905211
wait what the fuck, milk makes eggs fluffy?

thanks for all the input but what i am really asking is how do i go from not really being able to cook to being able to cook during the quarantine

>>13905219
Common knowledge, anon. Just put a splash in while you're scrambling em and they'll come out great.

>>13905219
a tiny splash per egg makes them scramble up real nice. Dairy and eggs go together like lamb and tuna fish.

Me mum and grandma

I grew up in a Filipino household. I couldn't stand the food. I started cooking for myself at young age and skill progressed naturally. It's something I had a natural affinity for. One book taught me a lot (pic related).

>>13905148
I want to eat, so i cook.

>>13905183
don't be retarded with meats and dairy then, how hard is that?

>>13905148
I started to experiment around the kitchen, then started watching videos and other stuff to learn. Then mom started teaching me a lot of stuff. I work at a bakery now. Food is my life anon, it makes me happy

>>13905227
>>13905236
no it doesn’t and the fact that neither of you tell him why it would make eggs fluffy shows us it’s momscience garbage

My mom slaved 8+ hours a day at work and slaved away at home. Always put at least a home cooked meal every night often times it was like 4 courses. Even cleaned the dishes eventually.
I got sick of her food and then seeing how she did it I guess I sort of just did it myself when I wanted something different. It's all technique and experience plus your personal taste.
I got some advice from her like hot pan and other little things.

>>13905221
start with eggs I guess. or whatever you have on hand. like you should be able to imagine and deduce what goes well together. I buy whatever loss leaders are in the flyers and just end up making stuff with them.

If you have an empty pantry / lack of ingredients it's going to be difficult experimenting. food might be boring but sometimes salt is all you need.

>>13905350
you're diluting the protein with more liquid it's not rocket science.

>>13905148
Well, first of all, my parents drive this thought that there probably will be times when I will be living alone, even if for short periods, so I should know how to do basic maintenance like washing and ironing my cloth, cleaning and basic cooking. And they taught me basic recipes like boiling pasta, or doing things with potatoes, cooking some meat, etc.
Later in life for about 5 years I was the one who mostly did cooking and I really liked it. So I did it often and gradually I was getting better with it and looking up new techniques and interesting recipes. I rarely do something overly complex and retarded, by I like my basic and local stuff and I like it, and people usually like what I do.

I was a NEET stuck at home with my parents' horrible cooking and I decided that if retarded peasant women could make food that didn't taste like ass so could I.

I pirated culinary textbooks and learned from that plus watching cooking shows and cookbooks.

>>13905148
parents were too retarded to actually cook and I got fed up with eating shitty ramen noodles every day

Look up recipe, follow recipe. Get mileage.

A black man taught me.

>>13905148
Had the brilliant realization as a kid that I didn't have to ask mommy for fried eggs if I can make them myself.

Got tired of eating cereal so I pestered my grandma to make eggs every morning

then one morning she was like "fuck it, here's how you make eggs"

then I learned pancakes, spaghetti, basic stuff, and just learned from there

I cook more than my girlfriend honestly, but she doesn't mind, she pays me back though ;)

>>13905148
w/ Patti the cooking cat
also, online recipes and youtube
still fuck up with burning meat on stainless

My dad is a multitalented genius desu. He can go from fixing every electrical appliance, to fixing a car, to building any type of furniture, to being a really great home cook. He taught me how to cook fairly quickly, the most important things like not cutting yourself with knives and showed me stuff from there on. Otherwise he taught me the science of cooking as well. The rest i figured out on my own easily, since he gave me a good hand for cooking so early on in life.

Started out just watching cooking shows and proceeded learning through trial and error. Have learned recipes are really only good once, after that you can tweak the same recipe to your liking. Tossing food in a pan is one of the most meditating things one can do

I remember the first time I made scrambled eggs all by myself. I was so proud. So in awe at how easy cooking could be. I fell in love with it right there on the spot. Fast forward 15 years, and I'm now a sous-chef at a buddy's restaurant.

>>13905148
my older sisters would have me help with meal prep, then I started doing the cooking, then I did all of it when my mother was bed ridden for a while, now I still cook as much as I can but I have a fucked up back. (retrolistisis)

>>13905246
Based grandma food.

>>13906713
>Tossing food in a pan is one of the most meditating things one can do
Agreed. I love the satisfying sizzle when something hits the pan for the first time. Very cathartic.

i didnt lol, i just have my gf cook for me

>>13905148
Old episodes of Good Eats
Chef John

mother taught me, took a culinary class in hs and two culinary courses in uni

>>13905148
Youtube for recipe's and culinary technique, then it was just practice.

Shit's easy.

>>13906875

easy peasy

>>13905148
I thought I was a picky eater for a while until I just realized that a lot of the food around me is just dog shit so I had to start cooking for myself. Have not looked back since

>>13906803
when I am in a funk I make bread, working dough is good for the mind, body, and soul.

>>13905148
why, from this board of course!
*everyone laughs*

>>13907193
I've been coming to this board since around 2010 and I don't think I've really learned more than a handful of valuable things from here.

Mom. Helping and watching.

>>13905148
Played college football and professional football so it was a necessity but eventually I found it enjoyable

Working in a restaurant. I needed a job during college so I applied to a local startup restaurant despite no cooking skills whatsoever. They hired me for some reason and just told me to watch Alton Brown's Good Eats before I started. Ended up working out pretty well.

>>13907280
>t. Nigger

>>13907280
assuming youre european

>>13907280
tell us your fave chicken breast recipe

>>13905148
I was a poor student and was sick of eating cheap frozen or canned food. Couldn't afford eating out and had no one who cooked for me. Started buying veggies that were in season and googled what I could make with them, because meat was too expensive. I failed many times at the start, but with time my food started to be edible. If I had the cash, I don't think I would have learned to cook.

>>13905221
Find a recipe that sounds tasty and cook it. Choose something not too complicated at the start, maybe a video recipe or a detailed one with pictures. Follow it closely and see what happens.

I started college and had to start making food for myself. I started watching a shit ton of chef john and also binging with babish. The latter didnt really learn me many things but it put the motivation to learn, though. Cooking became a hobby mainly because its the only hobby that you HAVE to do at one point. I dont have to paint warhammer figures (which mean i should do homework first) but cooking? I gotta do that or else ill fukken die.

>My Dad made a complete career change and bought a pub when I was about 14
>Started washing dishes on the weekend with him cooking
>I started to help out more with the cooking on the weekend
>Between me and him, we figured it out as we went along.
>Place got fairly popular and we just served decent pub food and great steaks
>Finished school at 16 with very little idea of what I wanted to do, so became a chef
>Ran the pub kitchen, then got a job at a fairly decent chain restaurant
>Moved to an AA rosette place
>Moved to another pub which then won a michelin star a few weeks later
>Worked there for just about 18 months

Eventually left, went back to college and then went to university. I got sick of the whole industry. I much prefer having a job that pays well where I work 9-5 and I can cook whatever i want in my own time.

>>13905148
I spent most of my childhood with my grandma and great-aunt, both were great at cooking. Also, when in my early teens I started watching cooking shows with my grandma and collecting recipes for her to cook. When she was diagnosed with cancer I made her favorite desert to feel her close, and since then I started cooking.

>>13907231
then why do you come here

Thanks to the virus I bet a lot of people are getting a crash course in cooking. Those fucks are being forced to cook for the first time cause take out is not on the menu anymore...

>>13905148
I didn't.
I want to learn how to cook, but haven't yet.
Mommy still cooks for me :)

>>13907740
>I bet a lot of people are getting a crash course in cooking
haha yeah

Picked it up from my dad who picked it up from his mom. My dad is a farmer but somehow honestly he is one of the best cooks and everyone who tries his cooking agrees.

>>13905148
apu is burning his meal

it's a hobby born purely out of spite for restaurants that fail to execute even the simplest of dishes

>>13905148
We had mandatory cooking and household classes in secondary school.

>t. Swiss

>>13907346
American football, but in canada CFL and only for two years

>>13907306
no im a white guy

>>13907356
I dont know measurements

Chicken breast x2

chilliflakes
tumeric
chilli powder
garlic powder
Onions
peppers
Lemon juice

marinate the chicken with the spices and lemon for a day, take out cook the onion and peppers before, roast chicken and peppers and onions for 25 at 375 and there

>>13905148
i was born into this shit

>If you don't like the dinner your mother makes, then make your own damn food!
>okay.jpg

>>13907958
were your parents boomers that couldent cook?

>>13907959
You know it fella.

>>13907975
Same, at 12 i realised i was a better cook than them

>>13905148
By being a dishbitch for several years.

I made sandwiches and moved on from there to cooking meat. Thickeners, different spices, sauces. You learn as time goes on. Every day you eat. Every day you cook.

>>13905148
Unemployment

I learned to cook before there was a youtube, which somehow has made wanna be cooks dumber. So I learned from the Food Network when it still had cooking shows and cookbooks.

>>13905148
My parents always had me helping in the kitchen when I was little, and before long I was able to make meals for the family. Since then I’ve grown to really enjoy cooking and so I regularly seek out new and interesting recipes to make and try to master. Now I’ve got all sorts of recipes I know how to cook and bake, desserts included.

I especially like cooking for others. Tonight I made chicken piccata for people. Pic related.

I didn't. I keep telling myself every week that I'll start. Been saying it since 2014

Maybe when Corona is over... Until then it's more frozen.pizzas and sandwiches.

>>13908952
Why not start now? It’s the perfect time since you’ll be home so much.

Pick a simple recipe like Piccata, make a run to the store and get cookin’ dude.

>>13908999
Shopping right now is deeply unpleasant. They make you line up for like an hour before you enter and panic buying has stripped half the shelves.

I have no idea what piccata is so I'm gonna go check that out.

>>13909132

It's chicken pounded flat, dredged in flour and fried in an olive/butter mixture. Once the chicken is all done and set aside, you add lemon juice, capers and a small amount of flour to the mix to thicken. Cook to deglaze the pan and get all the browned bits into the sauce and keep in mind to be crushing capers with the spoon along the way to help release flavor.

Once the sauce is done, you have two options. You can either plate the chicken and spoon the sauce over, or you can put the chicken into the sauce on low heat and spoon the sauce over as it permeates the chicken. Which you pick depends largely how much you value crispy bits on the exterior of the chicken, which will be easier to keep crispy if you don't sit the chicken in the pan after cooking.

Remember to rinse the brine and/or salt off of the capers before you throw them in.

Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.

Pic in this post >>13908837 is related. It's the chicken as done the second way, in the pan.

i started with stuff i assumed was basic, eggs, rice, steak, chicken, and bacon. after i got that down i followed recipe's until i decided to improvise on them.

>>13905148
what does kissing the cook do anyhow?

>>13909588
>olive/butter mixture

I mean olive oil and butter, not straight olives, if that wasn't obvious.

>>13909626
My mind just automatically filled it in, didn't even notice the mistake.

you could go to school, read thousands of documents about math and forget it all in a lifetime

you can read recipes online, always forcing yourself to practice them cause a mans gotta eat anyway, and slowly overtime just remember everything you did solely out of experience

huh well i guess thats just the way learning goes

Got put in campus housing about a mile and a half from the dining hall, but a quarter mile from the produce market the school ran (had a big ag program, so some produce was grown at the school I think) I could spend meal plan funbucks at. Kitchen in the common room was a decent size too, but ended up doing most meals in the oven to not compete with stove space. One night four of us cooked dinner at the same time.
Staple meal was: onion, carrot, and potato cut roughly and tossed in olive oil and some Italian seasoning and spread out on a sheet pan. Sometimes I would lay a few strips of bacon over that, but generally I put a chicken thigh in with it since it cooked at the same rate as the vegetables.
The dorms were also attached to some sustainability research program, so there was also a small coop program for more produce, and they didn't lock the walk in fridge where they kept the harvest. Would just walk in when that building was open during the day and take oranges and limes since they always had too many.

>>13907280
>played college ball you know

youtube videos and took culinary classes in school

>>13905148
I haven't really, I just have collated a recipe collection, which I follow and a few I have memorised

>>13905183
>muh food poisoning
retard

>>13907709
not him but purely for entertainment

>be seven
>tell mom I'm hungry
>she tells me to fry an egg
>did a shit job
>do it again later
>do a better job
>eventually cook non-egg things
wah lah

>>13905183
Most people start out burning the shit out of everything.

>see thing
>want to make thing
>look up how to make thing and what it requires
>acquire things
>cook things
>have thing I wanted

>>13911418
Based logic that applies on everything

Chinese cartoons inspired me mostly
Also, whatever family would cook
Sometimes jump on the web and look at making some nice meals. I tend to cook heavy greasy shit though.

>>13912655
also, forgot to add, you learn through experience. If you do something retarded once and mess up, you end up remembering.

>live in the country
>cant drive til 16
>hungry
>nobody delivers to us
Fight, or perish like a dog

>>13905148
Help my dad in the kitchen
Cook together with friends

My mom taught me a lot of the basics and around that time when I was a teenager I was doing some really autistic recipes like cinnamon in corned beef hash with onions. As I got older I started learning more about what spices work best with meats and vegetables and cutting back on using so much. My goal for cooking recently is to make do with what you got since when I lived in a tiny apartment in uni i didn't have much storage space so I try to really hammer home simple recipes but with a twist or two to it.

>>13905148
My parents taught me the basics and the rest is just literally following instructions until you work out how to do it yourself.

I didn't. I just follow the recipe blindly.

>>13906942
Thank you Marcus Aurelius

>>13905160
On what he's seen.

>>13905148
Like everything else in my life, youtube and google.

Mum cooked. I learnt a bit from her. It there's ever anything I want to try and I think she may have cooked it before or know something about it, I'll ask her first.
I also took Home Ec in high school. Remember fuck all from that. I took it as a bludge class and also because it meant I could cook and eat stuff.
First job was a dish pig in a local bar/restaurant. After a few months washing dishes they started getting me to do some food prep as well. Salads, pizzas, nachos, bar food type stuff. A couple of times we had a good chef come in and I'd learn a few things from him.
Otherwise the rest of it is me just doing it and seeing what works.

>>13910053
At some cushy ivy league school

Le google and trial/error

>>13905148
>be young
>think cooking is neat
>start with simple eggs
>move to omelets
>low quality but tasty
>practice slowly expanding shitty recipe knowledge
>start getting better
>shitty meals actually start becoming good in taste, execution and presentation
>expand to better meals
>seek out knowledge to improve
>start cooking better and better foods
all about practice friends

>>13905148
My close family friend taught a culinary class in high school and I took it every year and worked for his catering business. I didn't really start trying to learn skills and techniques until my early 20s though. It's a combination of youtube, cook books, and calling my dear Nana with questions. I'm getting fairly confident, but I would like to go to a formal school in the future.

>>13905148
Do I have to learn recipies or is there a way to learn "skills" instead ? I know a few recipies but how the fuck am I supposed to remember all that shit when it comes to having more and more of them in mind ? I guess I can write them down but then again do I just go by feel or do I autistically write down "do this for 3min" and so on as well as ingredients, order and other stuff ?

Maybe I am a brainlet but seems like a lot of information once you have to have multiple recipies in mind...

>>13916886
I am at the "I can do great omelettes and basic egg dishes but not much else" phase. how do I graduate from that ? I am also fairly confident in my meat cooking abilities, but most my meals are far from fancy and I wouldnt serve them to a woman apart from maybe the Omelette.

However most meals consist of:
>meat
>rice or potatoes
>some added veggies (mostly those pees and carrot mix thingies)
>potentially onions

and those are most of my meals when I cook on my own. otherwise I have a few egg dishes I can make as well. I guess I can also make Chili or pasta bolognese but again that is not a meal to cook for a girl.

What should I learn that is easy to do and would go over well on a date or that girls would like ? All I can do seems inappropriate or too simple.

>>13905148
Is watching Jamie Oliver's cooking videos a decent way to start learning how to cook?

>>13918111
Is this image from Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans?

>>13916886
Same thing that I did but I was uhhhh. 18? 19?
I moved out with my girlfriend and we just ate canned and frozen stuff and I got tired of it.
My parents cooked pretty well but they're Welsh and Polish and that's uh. It's something.
I bought like 6 cookbooks for a dollar or so from goodwill and fucked up a lot of dishes, choked them down, and learned from my mistakes.
Now I regularly have family and friends ask me to cook for them for special occasions.
It feels good, honestly.

>>13905148
by being vegan for 10 years. it forced me to be creative so i could eat shit that was still healthy and filling and also how to bring out the most of the ingredients

now i eat dairy and fish too (occasionally and locally sourced) for health benefits but minimal amounts and it's easy to cook eggs and fish so

>>13919362
to add, experimentation is key. years and years of fucking shit up and googling

it's not something you learn like sitting down and reading a textbook, it's something you learn by doing. ask a boomer how they know to diagnose and fix cars

>>13905211
>>13905219
>>13905227
>>13905236
it can actually be done with just water. milk adds additional nutrients and can further affect the texture and viscosity however the fluffiness comes from the steam of the liquid splashed in. you may notice that butter or heavier creams don't provide the same fluffiness due to not providing the steam to fluff properly.

From my grandma and her sister. Grandma loved baking things with me because she had a lot of people to cook for and saw the help as good bonding time, but it was my Great Aunt who got me into the rest of the cooking world.

I'd always stay a weekend with her now and then. Every day I did, she'd always pull out that huge cookbook filled with all of her recipes, set it down in front of me and ask "Okay Anon, what are we gonna cook today?". She always made it fun, and I really miss that now that we live in different states.

>>13905160
why, based on my peanus weenus of course :)

hahah! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! hahah

Based on what? - my answer is, of course, based on my peanus weenus :D

hahaha!

>>13905148
My mummy taught me the basics

I figured out more shit through trial and error

Then Claire unironically taught me a lot of tricks