/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Ever read Streganonna? Do that. Boil up that pasta pot nigga.

>>13987724
We're about a month and a half in. This is going to be 12-24 months before "the world" even STARTS to go back to normal. What the fuck were you expecting? A movie ending?

>>13987724
Get fat.

>>13987724
Pasta doesn't go bad as long as you store it in a dry place. Just eat it over the next few years.

>hoarding dry goods
What about other stuff that runs out faster

>>13987724
People who hoarded food when this thing started should unironically be shot on sight.

>>13987831
No, they are smart

>>13987831
>don't go out! keep your trips to the store to an absolute minimum, if you go out more than once every 4 weeks you should be shot on sight!
>don't wear PPE! you should donate it, if you wear PPE you should be shot!
>don't limit your trips to the store! if you buy a month worth of stuff you should be killed with bullets!
>everyone should wear PPE! if I see a person without PPE I'm going to shoot them with my gun!
At what point do you just admit your life revolves around looking for an excuse to shoot someone like in "death wish"?

>>13987831
I couldn't care less. The panic buying lasted for like 2 weeks and now everyone is back to normal. Even seeing tp back in stores. Now THAT is the only hoarding that really pissed me off

>>13988121
The point of all this was to keep people at home and minimize needless contact, literally none of this shit had to explode like it had to but noooooo, everybody just HAD to freak the fuck out.
It's a disease outbreak, we've had them throughout all of human history, the easiest way to minimize the effect is to just stay the fuck home. It doesn't mean toilet paper, pasta, and chicken is going to disappear off the face of the fucking planet.

>>13988147
We made the mistake of letting medical professionals address the nation. Those retards only spout the worst case scenarios so everyone freaked the fuck out over it

>>13988147
>freak the fuck out
A temporary change in buying behavior is "freaking the fuck out" to you. Ok. Sounds like you just can't handle your favorite cereal being sold out because you're the autist from the other thread who starts screeching and rocking back and forth at the sight of a raw tomato

>>13988172
Or not being able to buy any fucking groceries because everybody emptied the shelves of god damn everything.
Everything went back to normal but now everybody thinks it IS back to normal. I fucking hate stupid cunts like you.
It's not about the inconvenience, it's about the absolute retard monkey behavior you fucking morons exhibit, and then when the inconvenience goes away and you take 3 seconds to stop freaking the fuck out you think we should all just go back to normal. If you'd just shut the fuck up and listen for once none of this shit would be fucking up the economy like it is.

>>13988172
do you honestly believe hoarding a pallet of TP is smart?

>>13987839
Bang

>>13988186
>Or not being able to buy any fucking groceries because everybody emptied the shelves of god damn everything.
There's plenty of groceries you fucking sperg. Try eating something you haven't tasted before. Like a vegetable or a bean. It might actually make you a better person, you fucking train wreck. Your parents did a number on you didn't they.
>>13988192
Nobody does that here. There's no space. We live in apartments not McMansions. I bought a 4 pack of Charmin when Italy locked down, and I still have 2 rolls left.

>>13987724
The hoarding isn't supposed to be during this meme flu lock in
The hoarding is supposed to be when inflation kicks in due to giving trillions out and things start to crash significantly worse then they did now

>>13988214
>I got what I needed so why should you complain?

>>13987724
You eat it over an extended period of time. Get creative.

>>13988272
Correct. Did I get what I came for? No. For some reason my favorite yogurt is sold out, I can't get the brand of steel cut oats that I prefer, and for some reason everyone developed a sudden interest in one specific kind of dry beans that I prefer, so I had to go with a different kind. Oh also I had to buy a different brand of rice, and instead of KA bread flour I had to make do with Gold Medal whole wheat AP flour. Oh no! Now I know how the slaves felt!

Get over yourself sperg, 1 out of 1000 people died in my city. Not 1 out of 1000 hospitalized people, I mean there was literally a 1 in 1000 chance that any random person I saw wandering around the neighborhood in February is now in a mass grave. And somehow you have the temerity to complain that you had to slightly change your shopping habits.

People like you are what's wrong with society.

>>13987724
My favourite thing to do with pasta is cook it up and combine it with Tinned Tuna, Mayo, and Sweetcorn.
Then with the leftovers I let it cool down then put them into plastic containers you get from takeaways and put them in the fridge. Lasts a couple days. Easy luncheons.

>>13987724
>What am I going to do with all this pasta now?
shit you better eat it fast before it goes bad!

>>13988346
you have a lot of aggression maybe you should go outside for a walk?

>>13988346
This. Whilst everyone was freaking out. I calmly waited until I had a free afternoon, went to the store whilst it was quiet, during the time when all the panic buying was at its peak, and grabbed a bunch of essentials, not being too picky. Tins, frozen meat and veg, cupboard bits. I bought some large packs of meat, divided them into portions and froze them in freezer bags. Bought some fresh loaves, sliced them and froze them in portions too.
Then, because I work at the store, I just do little shops in my breaks and get the odd thing my family wants as and when I see it. Only do like one big shop a week and most of that is for diet soda because its hot and we burn through it.
Still have tons of food left. So many store reductions now I just casually scoop up the odd bit. I got four 500g packs of mince for like 60p each the other day. Thats a good four meals there with some leftover pasta and sauces from like four months ago. I got half a cheese wheel for £6. Strong cheddar cheese is the best thing to stock up on because it lasts a long time.
The hardest part of all this is dealing with customers acting stupid and absent mindedly wandering over right next to you and ignoring instructions, and the boredom of being at home the rest of the week.
The stores stocks are really good. The only thing missing is flour and yeast and eggs because everyone's getting baking stuff to pass the time and entertain their kids.
This situation is pretty rough but its good to see it as an opportunity to try and learn new things and chill out at home.

>>13988487
there's a difference between buying what is necessary and going out of your way to buy up any and all dry goods to either keep to yourself or sell at a mark up. this thread is not about the average person trying to have enough for their families this is about people taking advantage of a disaster out of their own greed

>>13988487
Meat was actually pretty hard to come by in my neighborhood, all they had left was some sketchy mango flavor turkey sausages that I didn't want. So I just ate a whole bunch of random third-rate cheese instead (because the kind I like was gone), more beans and lentils (my non-preferred kind but it didn't kill me), and also ordered an extra tub of whey protein off Amazon so I still hit my macros. Not that it matters I guess because I'm not lifting anymore and I can hardly even get any real cardio in.

Meanwhile I see people online demanding that we murder our grandparents so they can go back to inhaling a basket of deep fried cheese sticks at the bar every night and ragetweeting about how they can't buy their favorite potato chips, like it's the Bengali Famine or some shit. You'd think people would take this opportunity to learn something new, but instead they just get angry and spend all their waking hours playing Animal Crossing and bitching online about Chinese people.

>>13988532
Is there a black market for King Arthur flour somewhere? That seems far fetched.

>>13988558
I'm always learning so really this literally is business as usual for me. The only difference is I'm working and everyone else is off work paid with free time to drag me into their projects too.
Well, I have my own projects still somehow. At the moment I'm into 3D printing. Cheap hobby. Going to learn some blender, and print some miniatures.
Just annoys me I get treated like an idiot by staff and customers alike when they don't even realise the goblin I modeled and 3D printed staring at them in plain sight.
I work there because I only work to earn money to play with and its a 15 minute walk from my house. With my business degree and experience in all kinds of technology I dabble with I'm grotesquely overqualified.
I always think its best to approach problems like its a puzzle to solve. With enough fiddling you can get to the solution, even if its not the ideal one.
Really drifting away from /ck/ territory there but the point is still pretty valid. You are never going to get a better opportunity to better yourself than you are now with some of those annoying commitments stripped away.

I have 800 pounds of flour and they won't fucking let me return it.

>>13987724
lol it's funny to me that 4chan, one of the most skeptical and conspiracy prone communities on the WWW, swallowed the medias apocalyptic rhetoric wholesale. I guess it's because quarantining justified the userbase's already reclusive lifestyles

>>13988636
>You are never going to get a better opportunity to better yourself than you are now with some of those annoying commitments stripped away.
Agreed, just need to try to stay detached a little bit for the inevitable loved ones dying. I haven't lost anyone yet but it's coming and it's going to hurt. A bunch of my coworkers have had parents on ventilators already and I was running on 1/5 my normal energy level for a few weeks when I got the virus. But I'm almost fully recovered now and it feels amazing to be alive and healthy again. To think that 3 months ago if I had to wait 15 minutes to use the squat rack it ruined my whole Saturday. It's unbelievable how spoiled I was.

>>13988706
>when I got the virus
No you didn't. You had a cold for 5 minutes and acted like a dramatic bitch.

>>13988808
150,000 tested and confirmed cases within 15 miles of where I live (bear in mind for the last several weeks you only get a test if you're in the ICU). My doctor told me I probably had it after a telemedicine appointment. My cousin who is a nurse in queens talked to me and said I probably had it. Latest antibody study suggests 1 in 5 people in my area have had it long enough to develop IgG antibodies (the kind you get after several weeks of infection). So you're right, I might have just had a cold. But probably not.

>>13988808
That's how the virus can come across in most people

>>13988663
LMAO that's what you get you fucking fucking queer. I've got customers who actually want stuff for sane reasons and cocksmokers like you made it nigh impossible.

>>13987724
Use it whenever you feel like having pasta?

>>13988845
Anon probably thinks these are crisis actors hired to make orange man look bad for the lamestrema media

>>13988867
They were paid to do that. Look it up.

>>13988867
I like how being realistic about a virus makes people assume your political affiliation

>>13988867
based crisis actors spreading fear left and right

>>13988882
>being realistic means the doctors are wrong
Go drink your bleach, qanon-kun

>>13987724
>normies already bored of larping over the meme virus and I still have a whole cabinet full of beans

>>13988845
Apparently the virus has been going around for hundreds of years then numbnuts.

>>13988909
Where did I say they were wrong?

>>13988913
Yeah respiratory viruses have been around for a long time

>>13988919
The part where my doctor lied, a nurse that has watched dozens of patients die of the virus doesn't know anything about it, coronavirus has been around for hundreds of years, and the MAGA cult hasn't been spreading insane pseudoscientific nonsense for political reasons

>>13988930
I didn't say any of that. Also we don't really know how long the virus has been around considering we only very recently discovered how diseases are spread. Doctors weren't washing their hands just barely a century again, if not more recent

>>13988930
And as for the maga cult thing, people have taken advantages in times of crisis for political leverage for all of human history. The left is just as guilty as the right during all this. Singling out one side is retarded when the other is just spreading panic and fear

>>13988968
>>13988953
You're right. There are many problems on both sides. How can anyone really be sure that drinking bleach isn't a good plan? Can we REALLY be certain that it won't magically go away in a few days, weeks at most? The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Maybe the jury is still out on drinking bleach - we should study this more! Let's just act like nothing is wrong for the next month and see what happens.

Enlightened centrism saves the day again!

>>13987724
donate it to a food bank

you could also cram it into your asshole

>>13988977
This is a good example of a fear ridden citizen. Angered over nothing, jumping to strange conclusions, being condescending towards anyone who differs from their stance. Truly a prime example of retardation in hard times

>>13988999
>a fear ridden citizen
When your supposedly developed country has been turned into a third world basket case by a bunch of ignorant hillbillies, it's quite reasonable to experience fear.

>>13987724
Make pasketti

>>13989036
Our country was already like this. The virus just exposed our weaknesses. Luckily it's turning out to be as bad as a seasonal flu based on recent antibody testing. If anything this is a solid learning moment that will probably be forgotten in 3 years.

>>13989087
>i-it's just the flu bro!
It has already killed more than the flu and is still going.

>>13989087
4/10, a bit too obvious to be taken seriously

>>13989095
The flu varies every single year. Some are worse than others

>>13989095
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Here ya go. These are just estimates though. You can look in past years. Our vaccine for it varies in effectiveness as well

>>13989113
Who's baiting? The difference between this and the flu is we have proven treatments for one. Corona were still figuring out. You should take this as serious as the flu. Both are deadly and highly infectious.

>>13989133
>These are just estimates though
Yeah no shit. You're comparing estimates of flu to confirmed deaths of covid and covid is still overtaking it.

>>13988867
those boxes are empty

>>13989163
No they're not
>The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths

In prepping once you have stock you rotate it. You don't suddenly sperg out because you are prepped. Don't be an idiot. Use five of them up and then buy five more. Same goes with all your other supplies. The only thing you cannot rotate is your fresh produce and proteins. You can still process that down, can it, or freeze it. Eventually you can get a MRE kit with a 3-6 month supply that last 20 years. Then you can donate your excess food to a family in need.

>>13989181
Estimates. Worldwide. And again, you're comparing flu estimates to confirmed covid deaths. Do you think every death and case of covid has been tallied? You're fucking retarded if you do. And despite that, covid is already at 200k worldwide, and still climbing.

>>13989219
You think every influenza death has been tallied? There's more testing for covid than influenza going on now. Again, there are "confirmed" numbers from past years on influenza as well as a plethora of other diseases. Unless you want everyone to stay in a bubble their whole life you're going to battle this stuff endlessly. Just wash your hands and avoid at risk people until there's a vaccine

>>13989219
Also, covid has been around since what? November? So we've had 6 months of the thing, maybe 2 of them on lockdown and we're barely breaking the bottom estimate of influenza. Get a grip

>>13989234
Okay I think I see the problem. You don't understand what an estimate is versus confirmed death. I'd take the time to explain it to you but I'm not your fucking gradeschool teacher that you didn't pay attention to because you're too fucking retarded.

>>13989219
Don't forget the "annual" bit. We're at ~3,000,000 confirmed cases and ~206,000 confirmed deaths in 4 months.
Not to mention those are cases and deaths that have occurred even with social distancing and quarantines.

>>13989241
Estimate. Confirmed. Estimate. Confirmed. Learn the difference. Moron.

>>13988121
at what point in your life did you decide to promote strawman arguments because the facts don’t fit your narrative?

It's going to get worse.

>>13989249
For example, here's a fun little estimate vs. confirmed sample
>New York State Governor Cuomo said that preliminary findings from an antibody study conducted on 3,000 people at grocery stores across New York State found a 13.9% had coronavirus antibodies, suggesting a 13.9% actual infection rate statewide (21.2% in New York City), which translates to an estimate of about 2,700,000 actual cases in New York State (10 times more than the about 270,000 cases that have been detected and reported officially). Governor Cuomo acknowledged that the official count reported by New York State (which still is not including probable deaths as recommended by the new CDC guidelines) of about 15,500 deaths is "not accurate" as it doesn't account for stay at home deaths. Based on Worldometer's count (which includes probable deaths reported by New York City) of about 21,000 deaths and the 2,700,000 case estimate from the new antibody study, the actual case fatality rate in New York State could be at around 0.78% [source]

>>13989249
Again, plenty of data behind all these estimates with years and years worth of confirmed cases and deaths.

>>13989243
Don't forget that those in charge want all deaths to be labelled wuflu deaths. If you die with the virus, regardless of it was the cause or not (a lot of which are not due to the virus), they want the death to be attributed to the virus.

>>13989275
Great. Doesn't change the fact you're comapring estimates to confirmed cases. Now what would the estimate for for covid be? Higher or lower than the confirmed number that is already close to flu? I'll give you a minute to think about it.

>>13989282
>those in charge
Republicans?

>>13987831
Hear that I do have over 100 rolls toilets paper but people need food.

>>13989265
Wrong, you idiot. It's going to get better.

>>13987728
delusional to the point of being retarded

>>13989285
It was estimates to be something like 2 million? Just like aids was supposed to be 5 million. New viruses have little data to make accurate estimates. They also make these estimates in worst case scenarios with the new crap. Flu estimates are very reliable based on recorded data. Its kind of how climate change has been proven ya know? Years of recorded data coming together

>>13989398
Talking to yourself again? Not a sign of a healthy mind champ.

>>13989438
Talking to yourself again? Not a sign of a healthy mind champ.

>>13988172
>A temporary change in buying behavior is "freaking the fuck out" to you.

>>13989430
I didn't list any estimate. The point is whatever the estimate is, it would be significantly higher than the confirmed cases. And the CONFIRMED covid cases are already matching and close to overtaking the ESTIMATES for flu. You can't say "it's just the flu" when the data you are using to make that claim is comparing an estimate to confirmed cases. Stop being retarded.

>>13989282
>"Sir, I'm not sure how to fill in this death certificate?"
>"What's the problem?"
>"The patient, aged 63, died from complications similar to Covid19 after coming into contact with a confirmed Covid19 patient and developing symptoms 2 weeks afterwards. He developed severe breathing problems, was put on the ventilator, but didn't make it."
>"Sounds like Covid19. What's the problem?"
>"He wasn't tested and also had an ingrown toenail."

Okay, anon. Pop quiz. What should be written down on this patient's death certificate as cause of death? What's the reasonable thing to do?

Remember: assume you can't test post mortem due to lack of testing kits.

>>13989519
>What's the reasonable thing to do?
Write it off as "natural causes" obviously. Kinda like how they did in Puerto Rico. For purely apolitical reasons, of course.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972

>>13987724
Anything is pasta-able when you put your mind to it, anon!

>>13988172
panic buying large quantities of 1 thing because the magic box made you scared is freaking out, yes. People bought 100% of the rice, but the barley and dried beans right next to it was untouched. People bought all the bread and even the supplies to make bread but the tortillas and bread dough were untouched. People weren't thinking about what they were buying or why, that was freaking out

>>13989818
>People bought 100% of the rice, but the barley and dried beans right next to it was untouched
You went to the store to stock up on rice and were mad that someone else got there first. Too bad eating barely and beans was too much for your smooth little brain.

>>13989818
my local store sold out of tortillas but had full shelves of bread
figured it was because tortillas keep longer or maybe they're just mexicans

ITT

>>13989818
>People bought 100% of the rice, but the barley and dried beans right next to it was untouched

People buy what they are familiar with or what the common public perception (skewed via their cultural entertainment consumption no doubt) leads them to believe would be good to stock/a good way to behave.

Rice and pasta and oats are all familiar to sheltered westerners who don't know how to cook and aren't comfortable with things like pulses, dried beans etc. which otherwise make up the staples of many other peoples on this planet. You can bet what they would have bought if they were to panic buy. At the end of the day - who cares? They left a good deal of other perfectly fine and long-lasting staples alone out of culinary fear and ignorance - all the more for those who can use them.

>>13989291
Obama obviously

>>13988663

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5iTunRkO4

Have some fun with it instead.

>>13987724
Like your image suggests, you could donate it to a food bank.

>>13989087
>Luckily it's turning out to be as bad as a seasonal flu

AND THIS IS DESPITE THE SOCIAL LOCKDOWN MEASURES.

>>13989467
Except I can since the flu estimates are based on decades of real numbers and the estimate for covid is based on a couple months

>>13989937
You're completely missing the fucking point, moron. Even without a fucking estimate covid is already on par with flu. God you are fucking stupid.

>>13989818
They bought up all the toilet paper but nobody thought to get cloths and brushes.

>>13989291
I guess if Birx is republican.
>>13989519
No, but nice strawman. Clearly you're not paying attention to anything going on. There's many people who are trying to be heard when a family member dies and were labeled a wuflu death; unfortunately I did not save any screen shots, but relatives are very upset that either 1) their family member isn't even dead and 2) that their family member was already dying from another disease or illness but got labeled a death due to the virus. But hey, gargle the semen fox, cnn, msnbc, all media, bill gates' unload into your mouth like the faggot you are.

>>13987724
All you faggots do know image search exists, right ? Pic is not Op's

>>13990232
to be fair, all pics are never OP's

>>13990247
Mine are. and they're always sideways :)

>>13987728
What do you think is going to happen? Things are going to start running next month over here.

>>13990097
Except it's not. It's barely touching the bottom estimate of the flu

>>13990571
Except it is. That is still an estimate for flu. And that is the yearly estimate for flu. For the entire year. With just confirmed covid cases. Confirmed. Not even total estimates. Think about it, nutsack.