/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Ive had both an LC dutch oven and an InstanPot for years I would choose the DO easily.

>>14564058
Dutch oven, but I already have a pressure cooker. If you don't have either go ahead and get the instant pot. But a Dutch oven can be a beautiful tool that you'll use for the rest of your life, and leave for your children. The instant pot will break in a few years.

Dutch oven. If it can be cooked, it can be cooked in a dutch oven.

>>14564058
Even if that green Le Creuset wasn't 3 times the price of the baby toy on the right, I'd go with the dutch oven every day of the week. It's not even in the same ballpark.

Things that /ck/ memes that are actually good:
>secret aardvark
>japanese fuzzy logic rice cookers
>sous vide immersion circulators
>angry grandma sauce
>maangchi
>ipa
>taco bell
>michelin starred restaurants
>alcoholism
>liverwurst
>anchovy pizza
>sardines
>cottage cheese
>sprouts
>enameled cast iron dutch ovens

Things that /ck/ memes that are actually terrible, and only posted ironically:
>monster energy drinks
>chili without beans
>mcchicken
>veganism
>instapot
>keto
>not tipping
>jack
>mre's
>indomie
>detroit style pizza
>crispy fried eggs
>smashburgers
>killer dave’s bread

If I lived in an RV or something, Instant Pot. I don't though, so I'll take the enameled cast iron dutch oven please. If I had my choice between an instant pot and a non-enameled dutch oven, I'd take the instant pot.

>>14564058
For me, it's the Ninja Foodi

>>14564100
You made this post without putting 5 guys or that guys nigerian wife in either category? Plebe.

>>14564109
He also forgot trannies and puerh. I can’t take this clown seriously.

>>14564100
What about that drunk that lets their cat on the counter?

>>14564123
/ck/ has always been a dog board and pro-OC, but the cat blog isn't a meme, he's just an attention whore.

>>14564058
>dutch oven
so weird that yanks call it that, its just a pot. 'Dutch oven' is when you fart in bed and its all warm, pulling the blankets up over your partners head is optional.

>>14564058
Dutch oven no question

>>14564182
Not so much. Yeah, we have that meaning too, but the "dutch" part of a Dutch oven comes from the method the dutch were using with casting in sand in the 17th century. Not new.

>>14564058
Insta Pot. More versatile and turns out food just as tasty as a DO in a fraction of the time.

>>14564058
One of them will last longer, that's for sure.

>>14564058
dutch is infinitely more versatile. so that one.

dutch oven but i never had and instant pot
i think my dad is getting me one for my birthday
don't really know what i'm gonna do with it..

>>14564100
>japanese fuzzy logic rice cookers
Once I finish remodeling the kitchen I'm rewarding myself with one of these bad boys, the piece of shit rice cooker that an old roommate left has finally started to fail.

>Get into a thread on /ck/
>Everyone there shills Instant Pots
>Buy one
>Now go into this thread and everyone bashes them
>Regret buying one
Drone life is hard life

>>14564058
Instant pot. You can remove the inner pan, put a lid on, throw it in the oven, and it’s a poor man’s dutch oven. Conversely though, dutch ovens cannot pressure cook, even in a poor man’s way.

The discussion is kind of stupid, though — just get both. Use the Dutch oven for braising and non-pressure cooking and use the Instant Pot for pressure cooking and slow cooking (yes it can do that too). Personally I have both.

>>14564100
... I like killer Dave's bread!
I didn't know it wasnt just a regional thing. I live in the Bay Area and I only get it at good corner store near me, figured it was a small local company.

>>14564100
This list is so fucking wrong. Just going over some highlights.

Sous Vide - not horrible, but a giant waste of money
Taco Bell - dogshit
Detroit Pizza - better than all Chicago pizza, and better than the average NYC slice
Smashburgers - biggest smoothbrain take of the post, really

>>14564108
Air fryers are the biggest meme I swear to god.

What do you even use an instant pot for that you can't do with a regular pot or dutch oven? I have one and only used it once to make a stew, and the bottom of the stew burnt somehow.

>>14564100
>alcoholism good
>smashburgers bad
nevermind the other shit that's wrong, this is enough to disregard the entire post

>>14567169
Imagine choking down a well-done burger completely sober.

>>14564058
We eat a lot of rice so we got an instant pot. We still have a smaller rice cooker, but the instant pot does a good job with vegetables too.

I got like $1500 to spare, Maybe I buy both.

>>14567215
imagine cooking a burger so poorly you have to "choke it down"

>>14567248
>i can totally cook a well done burger so that it's juicy and succulent
>only a bad cook makes a well done burger that's dry, even though the entire point of cooking it well done is to remove all the moisture

>>14564058
Dutch Oven 100%

>>14567289
nice selfie, it matches the ridiculous translation of what I actually said

>>14567310
>the ridiculous translation of what I actually said
What did you "actually" say then? That you enjoy eating dog food because you were raised by a single mother who couldn't cook and didn't love you, and you considered McDonald's an occasional treat and a rare taste of "real" food?

>>14564100
Crispy fried eggs are good. Please consider sudoku.
>>14565981
Lmao they're from Portland or maybe Seattle I can't remember now. The story is a meme too, Dave's brother makes the bread and he pimped Dave's story for profit but then Dave couldn't handle the pressure and had a nervous breakdown and relapsed into recidivism and stole an SUV and led cops on a high speed chase before crashing it and is in prison rn. His brother is still free and still pimping his story to sell essentially commercial grade regular ass sliced bread at a premium.

>>14567323
projection: the post. keep trying, puppet.

>>14567332
>essentially commercial grade regular ass sliced bread at a premium
I couldn't care less about the back story. I hate Killer Mike's because it's the most bland and mediocre "premium" and "healthy" bread they sell in grocery stores, and yet they somehow charge more than all the other dozen much better brands.

>>14567333
Diversion: at the best
- Goebbels

>>14566046
Am shit for brains. Never used a sous vide but wish I could. Why is it a waste if I'm a cook let and can't do medium rare?
>>14564100
>mcchicken
Always gets a laugh from me

>>14567510
You'd probably be better off spending the money on a dozen steaks over the course of a month and dialing in your technique. If you absolutely need one, go for it, it's why I didn't completely shit on it. Reverse sear gets you a pretty similar steak with less set up. You can spend a decent chunk of change on a good temp probe alarm to make it a little more fool proof, and the probe will have many more uses than a water circulator. Good for roasts, birds, or if you ever want to get into BBQ.

>>14567688
Honestly if you need to reverse sear and thermometer to make a proper steak you don't belong doling out advice.

>>14567728
>if you use the most user-friendly technique and tools you shouldn't be giving out advice
Yeah, I guess we could wing it like your greasy fat ass. Stop gatekeeping guesswork in cooking like some obscure point of masculine pride and go suck a fart.

>>14564058
Cast iron dutch oven. Sold my instapot. It was useless

>>14567744
I use mine often to make rice and stock but my dutch oven stock tastes way better bro

>>14567735
It's not guesswork if you know what you're doing. Touch, feel, smell. If you can't tell when a steak is done with your 5 senses that's a sign that you need more practice. It's literally the simplest thing someone can cook but cooklet spergs do all sorts of mental gymnastics in place of simple observation, practice, and technique. Like look ball up your hand into a fist and poke the meaty part of your palm connected to your thumb. That's medium rare. You don't need to poke and prod and bake a steak.

>>14564058
I own 7 dutch ovens and 0 instant pots.

>>14567779
>this one spot on the body feels exactly the same for every person
coping hard to cover your guesswork, bubba.

>>14567728
If you can't properly comprehend the discussion going on, you don't belong doling out critique. The post I responded to basically said he was too dumb to cook steak properly. A probe is absolutely an aid for doneness, especially if you don't have the feel. I don't use a probe because I can +/- the time in the pan and don't feel like breaking it out. And it's not the only, or maybe even best, method, but reverse searing makes a wonderful steak and it's getting kind of old having the faggots on this board who don't have any taste higher than Taco Bell talking about shit that's out of their league.

>>14567766
Everything I put in it burned or desintigrated.

>>14564100
you take that back about dave

>>14567950
Never

>>14567857
>the method taught at every academy and decent BoH is wrong
OK bud! You tell 'em!
>>14567940
So teach him the proper way. Short cuts and "hacks" are for faggots who can't make it. It's literally a fag enabler for bums. Might as well used canned beans too while you're at it and boxes of stock too! And then act super superior about your half assed methods as if it makes you the accomplished cook you pretend to be. Your ilk are honestly worse than the fast food fucks, at least they know their place.

>>14564058
Dutch oven's far more versatile. Only thing I use my pressure cooker for is stocks and stews, and even then it's only a time saver and doesn't make them better than ordinary methods.

>>14567940
>dOn'T uSe A tHeRmOmEtEr
Do you realize how fucking retarded you sound? Do you think spoons are a crutch and you should be mixing pots with a cupped hand? Yes, if you've cooked steaks for a while you don't need a thermometer every time, but there is no better way to calibrate your "feel" than to use a thermapen for a while. You'll know exactly what doneness things are in the pan, then you can see how much carryover cooking happens before you slice. Sometimes you even get a wonky piece of meat and just having that insurance to check it if you aren't sure saves you from fucking up the steak. If you ever decide to cook a good thick butcher steak, like a 1.5-2" porterhouse, that poking shit goes out the window unless you work in a steakhouse and cook them all the time to get the feel for those, because they respond totally differently than the 0.5-1" grocery store steaks.

>>14564100
>>japanese fuzzy logic rice cookers
Where to get this, and which model is the best?

>>14567949
I love this meme.