/ck/ - Food & Cooking

/ck/ taught me how to cook

>>14877528
God help you

ja/ck/ taught me how to cook

>>14877523
Literally no one. I grew up before the internet and my dad was too autistic to show us how to cook and mom was a shit cook so I just trialed & errored my way through burnt bland and otherwise awful shit for years until i got half decent at it. I still have ways to go though I'm 35 and never used a BBQ.

youtube, mum's a great cake baker but phoned it in with frozen food until she started reading leafty newspapers and kept trying to feed us couscous, quinoa, fake meat and other self hating middle class foodie type meals i.e piss poor white people attempts at ethnic food. also every sunday was roast chicken, even when xmas was a day or two away

>>14877569
>and kept trying to feed us couscous, quinoa
lmao imagine being so poisoned by internet idpol shit that you think basic grains are fancy elite lefty SJW ethnic foods.

Fake meat? Sure, no one likes that and it honestly defeats the purpose of being vegan.

>>14877591
That's how they're sold in Burgerland

books and recipes on packaging

>>14877591
They're hippy foods, just like mung beans and lentils have been since before the internet or even home computers existed.

>>14877591
couscous and quinoa are not part of the european culinary tradition and foreign or "ethnic" by default. you of course know this and are just trying to start a flame war.

>>14877523
No one. I've been learning by myself with the internet for years but sometimes I make mistakes that I can't figure out how. I just learned recently that I was kneading dough wrong and that's why any dough I made was sticky and didn't end up like expected. It kinda sucks because if I knew someone who cooked it would've saved me a lot of time.

>>14877597
>>14877608
Yeah sure there's hippies out there eating hippie foods and quinoa is def part of it but at one point you gotta grow upand enjoy food for what it is instead of being like "oh no! The anonymous frogposters on a chinese cartoon webforum would call be a epic blue cringe pill is they saw me eating tranny grains! I want to look cool-pilled and based for them!"

>>14877610
>not part of the european culinary tradition and foreign or "ethnic" by default
Okay, I guess, but so is the most basic herbs and spices.

Worked as a line chef for a few years, intense peer pressure and scary x-cons with scars on their faces taught me.

Living on my own forced me to teach myself, my main ways of learning is youtube, googling recipes, and just winging it to see what tastes good.

>>14877651
>and enjoy food for what it is
kids eating a traditional commonplace diet they enjoy vs being forced to eat Peruvian peasant grain because mum read an article in the guardian and the UN declared 2013 to be the "International Year of Quinoa"
>herbs
most common herbs are native to Europe, especially the ones used in Europe culinary traditions
>spices.
define basic spices. pepper, mustard, nutmeg, cinnamon, cayenne, paprika, mace, cloves are all common and some are even less commonly used today than centuries ago

>>14877523
urban peasant and school
mom didnt want me in the kitchen when she cooked so i couldn't learn jack shit from her

she would cook chicken with chicken flavored rice as a side....wtf bitch
she was wasnt "terrible" but she wasnt good either

>>14877700
>are all common
but not native to Europe

>kids
oh so you're underage

>>14877523
food network and pbs

>>14877528
might as well learn how to lift with /fit/

>>14877741
>but not native to Europe
its almost as if the spice trade was a thing
>oh so you're underage
when my mother cooked for me yes, thats how families work, this is a thread about who taught us to cook after all

>>14877769
>its almost as if the spice trade was a thing
sure, and trade is still a thing today which is why you can have couscous and quinoa in British supermarkets.

>>14877523
Lived at a youth hostel when I was a teenager for 2 years, later worked there in their Cafe.
Nothing much to do around the property so I would hang out in the cafe area most days.
Guy names Tim was working there and ask me if I wanted to help out in the kitchen. Would have me prep up vegetables, showed me how to properly do the different cuts and such.
After I demonstrated the ability to follow basic directions he would have me do more and more complex stuff.
My nickname was "laceration boy" because I nicked myself a bunch the first couple days helping out.
He even bought me a cheapo basic knife set and toolbox to keep em in.
Honestly some of the best memories from my childhood were just standing in the kitchen dicing onions for an hour absolutely fucking weeping from the sting.
Was one of the first times in life I gained some real confidence by being able to help out the kitchen staff with prep and close-down.

Later I worked there as a dishbitch and learned alot by watching what the cooks would do, especially if they were fresh out of a culinary school.

Kitchens are a great place for at risk youth to learn a good work ethic.
It also helps that most kitchens are not staffed by nancy boy middle or upper class cunts with no sense of humor or fun, so the kid can get a bit of camaraderie too.

:)

Chef John

>>14877818
difference is spices are desirable, peasant grains are not no matter how hard they're pushed, there's a reason why the Americas all eat wheat and quinoa is a fad in spite of the centuries of trade back and forth

Self-taught mostly. I want to get better but I have nobody to cook for and am on a very stringent diet, so making myself hearty meals is not an option right now.

>>14877523
this man

>>14877980
quinoa is extremely nutritious but okay your majesty enjoy your indian curry on silver plates

>>14878012
>""""Basics"""" with Babish

My mom, myself, and the internet.

>>14878023
>quinoa is extremely nutritious
yeah shame about the taste though
>indian curry on silver plates
silver is reactive and will taint the taste of food, which is why i use bone china, pleb

>>14878012
> tattoos
No thanks

>>14878023
>Eating Quinoa in the year of our lord 2020
why do you want the poor people of peru to go hungry?

I used to cook with my mom. I like helping her.

>>14878084
Peruvians eat guinea pigs, and the quinoa we get is grown in Canada

>>14878063
tattoos are pretty degenerate, but what do you expect from some city dwelling numale

>>14878152
>city dwelling
is this the new frogposter insult now, we all LARP as farm owners?

>>14878137
i dont trust chink grains

>>14877523
Combination of my dad, self-teaching and cooking shows.

Learned in the boy scouts when we had to prepare our own food on campouts. Ran with it

>>14877523
I learned to cook because my mother burned everything. Started cooking when I was 8. I am mostly self taught until I got the food network and Good eats.

gennaro contaldo on youtube, and some recipes from me mum

>>14877523
Worked at a fine dinning restaurant as a food runner and later as a server, would watch the BOH prep as well as cook. Became friends with all of them and would constantly ask question about cooking.

I still don't know how to cook.

>>14878172
Sounds like a /tv/ sneedposter to me

>>14878172
What do you think the suburbs were invented for?

>want X
>look up how to make X
>buy ingredients
>follow instructions
>WA LA

>>14877523
legit, this show called Oishinbo taught me the basics and what to look for in food

>>14879004
>WA LA

>>14878172
man did this website get flooded with losers after 2016

>>14877523
PBS

>>14877523
Purple hair bitches are always the most retarded ones

>>14877523
When I was a kid, like 4-5 I used to pester my mom about letting me help her cook, so I'd stand on a chair next to her and she'd let me stir a pot, flip shit when it needed flipping, or keeping an eye on food getting brown in the oven. She'd let me help mix shit, like operate a whisk, knead dough, all that shit. My brother and sister would sometimes help, but I was always in there putting in work. I would help out my grandma too when I would be over at her house, right there in the kitchen manning the stove. One of my favorite memories of my grandma was one time I came home from school in elementary and no one was home. My grandma called and we chatted for a while, I happened to mention that I was hungry and she asked me what we had in the fridge/freezer, I told her and she literally walked me through making stir fry, from defrosting the meat to how done the veggies should be... My real first solo dish at like 8 years old. Only made enough for myself, grandma said if no one else is there, then they don't get none.

>>14877523
is this the female version of ja/ck/?

>>14878012
It's Reddit, the chef.

Years of living alone taught me how to cook

I learned my way around the kitchen observing mom & grandmas.
I actually learned what to do watching Froog on PBS.

Also learned that any cooking show with a live studio audience is probably more about entertainment spectacle than showing you useful techniques. (Possible exception for Justin Wilson, but you don't get much technique out of it.. more philosophy and humor and "can't cook sober, so test that your wine hasn't spoiled before you pour it into the pot".)

>>14880516
>grandma said if no one else is there, then they don't get none
This is so very sweet.
I awwed.

>>14877610
>"ethnic"
all cuisine is ethnic.

>>14877523
Watching Emeril Legasse.

>>14877610

You know couscous is literally just pasta right

>>14882927
it's made from pasta wheat but it's more of a refined grain.. i mean like, less refined than pasta

my mom, pre 911 food network, and the internet

>>14877523
Went through an apprenticeship and then placement at 2 restaurants.
But the 2 people that taught me how to cook was the head prep chef at the last restaurant I worked at and the tutor at the apprenticeship.

>>14877523
mom, then grandma, then little old italian lady at restaurant i worked at, then the internets. in that order.

dont cook for a living but i do ok

in order of what I learned the most from

culinary school which i didnt finish
the internet
mother

that all said I do pretty well

>>14877523
My 90 year old maw maw

I started with the Nintendo DS cooking guide. Then I taught myself how to cook, and I was helped by famous chefs’ (not e-celeb) videos/tv shows

>>14877523
I learned from watching my mom. After I left home, I learned a lot from watching various friends cook. Now I can follow a recipe pretty well. Sometimes I watch a youtube video.

I love watching people cook.

>>14877523
is this the power of wh*teoid cooking?

>>14877610
Every single dish has been created by someone who has an ethnicity.

>>14877523
I'm sure I learned a lot of things subconsciously from my Mom, but it certainly feels like I learned by Googling and doing it.

>>14882927
You know couscous is not something most Americans eat right?

>>14877523
10% mom
30% gordon ramsay and other youtubers
30% internet recipes
40% my own shitty mistakes and actually cooking

>>14882910
>>14884069
im going to assume you are ESL. "ethnic" is a euphemism for "foreign"

This guy taught me how to cook, and a few fuckin other things too man.

>>14877523
My dad taught me the basics and self taught from there. He's not great at cooking but I'm glad he taught me what he did. When I went to college, I was shocked at how many people struggled to make simple things like eggs.

>>14884863
No it used to convey the food is from a different culture. British and Canadian food is foreign but not called ethnic because they're similar western cultures, Lebanese food is ethnic because its from a different culture. Dumb fucking mutt cunt how are you this stupid?

>>14886008
Why are you agreeing so angrily? Have you been diagnosed with something? You need to be analysed if you haven't.

>>14886055
oh its a browser addon, i forgot to turn it off. it was supposed to insert whity insults into my comments whenever I post anything using neural network deep learning ai algorithms. Turns out its just a simple script that detects whenever post on low iq boards and adds a string of expletives on the end. To be honest it's still been very accurate and helpful.

>>14877555
False because you are still alive

>>14884863
This is a pornstar isn't it

>>14877523

My dad. I love my mom, she's great but she was a SAHM and cooked maybe once a week, so my dad came home from the office (he's the boss so it's not like he could just dick around until his supervisor showed up) and immediately went right to the kitchen to cook, and since I hadnt seen him all day I'd want to help him out.

I love my mom but goddamn the fact that she hardly ever cooked still pisses me off to this day.

>>14886204

Yes. And I just followed her on Twitter <3

>>14877523
Youtube videos. I watch a lot of youtube videos on recipes, most of which I don't plan on making, but I end up learning ideas and techniques that I try.

Every time I cook something that I haven’t made before I ask my mom for instructions

Youtube

>>14877523
dumb bitch puts more into her appearance than into her education

Both of my grandparents. My grandma always made Christmas candy every year, for us and for neighbors, and even as a kid I would get to stir caramel, fudge, etc. because her arms would get tired. When I was a little older, my grandpa would let me help make breakfast on the weekends (often fried onions, potatoes, and scrambled eggs stirred in at the end) and sometimes stir fries on weeknights.

I think I'm a better, more curious cook these days than either of them managed to achieve, but they came up in the Depression and a lot of their culinary knowledge was rooted in survival more than anything else. But I'll always be indebted to them for encouraging me.

>>14877523
I learned a few simple things from Mom
Then learned from cook books and online recipes
Then started tweaking recipes once I understood want each part did
Then went completely nuts and made up whatever I though sounded good, it works great I am confident I can cook just about anything if I wanted to now

Some of the stranger dishes I don't share as people just freak out, but they love my more traditional meals. I also stopped competing in neighborhood cook-offs as I thought it wasn't fun for others if I always win. I often just do cheap simple stuff as it's not worth my time to make a masterpieces most days, but I can really cook if I have time and a good reason.

>>14887302
sounds like the right move, since when did a smart woman ever have a better life than a pretty one?

I took a cooking class in my Senior year of high school on a whim, and ended up learning I was somehow actually good at cooking, and that cooking itself was kinda fun. I got a GF almost immediately upon starting college, and she was a great cook who helped strengthen my skills further. Her mother was a God-tier baker, like I mean she could put a countryside French grandmother to shame. I learned a lot from her too.

>>14886008
>from a different culture
oh, you mean like, FOREIGN?

>>14880516
Cute post, and a very nice granny.

this video game/recipe book I pirated
I was 11 or 12 and I remember spending 1 hour making omelettes with cherry tomatoes, as they looked like the easiest thing I could start with, and filling plates with stuff that I think I ended up eating myself because nobody else wanted more than a bite of that overly greasy, bland, garlicky mess

then I got interested in cooking, cooked a lot and discovered a lot through trial and error
I'm currently reading a copy of The Professional Chef to improve/perfect the various cooking techniques I know and learn new stuff, but at this point I'm definitely the best cook in my family

I sometimes asked my mother, who was the only figure you could call cook in my house at the time, to teach me how to cook stuff, but soon enough I realized that most stuff she does she does "because I was taught that way and I've always done things that way and it's always worked fine", even if some stuff I find really questionable

now my sister is getting more and more interested in baking and I'm helping her out sometimes, hopefully she won't come here on /ck/ but if she does I hope she'll talk about how it was all thanks to her cool big brother that she learned to make custard and pastries and whatnot

>>14887846
How do her dirty panties smell?

>>14887824
No, specifically a different culture, dumb cunt mutt fucking too stupid to understand simple concept kill yourself for the good of humanity.

>>14887866
sorry browser restarted...

>>14887824
wow shes from melbourne isnt she ive fucked her

>>14877523
who he hell had parents that taught them the fundamentals of cooking rather than just showing you how to make whatever recipe sloppa they make

>>14879102
is it summer already

>>14883650
I learned a lot from my mom. the problem is it was all really bad information

>>14886204
top right corner of the image is an ad for her fucking porn channel dude. I'm so sick of all of this porn being sold in social media like fuck off whores

>>14877523
I bet you sound like a female when you speak. All your sentences end in a question mark. Fucking homo.

>>14877528

>>14877523
me mam :)

>>14877658
This. You learn pretty fast.

You learn how to drink too.

I didn't learn shit until I took a home economics course for a semester in middle school. That taught me some very basics and to this day all I can do are the basics. Like, I won't die in the apocalypse because of my inability to cook, but I'm also never going to impress anyone with my cooking. It's pretty shit.

>>14877523
I learned almost everything from a team fortress server I played on. There were about 10 regular players from 2011 to 2014ish and they'd have culinary discussions most of the time with all talk on.

/ck/
learned about fitness from /fit/
learned about guns and the military from /k/
developed my favorite bands from /mu/ essential charts
my wallpapers are from /wg/
my political opinions are from /tv/
I made meme purchases on robinhood from /biz/ posts
If i didn't have 4channel I'd probably kill myself though my life isn't really that great with it

>>14877523
Nobody showed me anything, I just spent all day cooped up in the house forced to feed myself every summer. Eventually I will learn how to make food taste good. It all started with toasted cheese, pancakes, and a quesadillas.

>>14888795
Gonna make it.

>>14877523
Unholy mix of my own fuckups, mom's advises, russian imageboards and 4chan.

>>14879063
its a meme you dip

>>14877523
Emeril Lagasse, Martin Yan, Alton Brown, my mum. I miss shows where chefs cooked in front of a live audience, talked about food and told stories to entertain.

as a zoomer, this dude