/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15818410
its what you get when your country doesnt teach Home Ec in school.

>>15818412
I never took a home ec class I just had a shitty cook for a mother and taught myself how so I didn't have to eat leathery dry pork chops and boxed everything.

>>15818412
The problems of "home economics" (paying taxes, economizing money, providing household needs...) can be trivially figured out by anyone who's been taught critical thinking, literacy, problem solving, and so on.
Thinking school needs to feed you a memorized pattern for every situation in life is the opinion of a mentally deficient bug, or someone making excuses for society's dropouts.

>>15818410
prepared food is so cheap there is no reason to learn

>>15818410
Someone show this man "cooking for bae"

the greatest piece of the internet that ever died too soon

>>15818496
home ec is just teaching you how to cook and sew.
stop thinking you're above average intelligence and that you're woke, cuz you're a fucking retard my dude.

>>15818410
Because as anyone who works in customer service or food service could tell you people are retards despite how much they claim otherwise

>>15818410
It's honestly a millennial thing. This generation was babied and never taught anything, by parents who earned enough doing menial labor to own a house outright and start a family at 22. Their parents fought 2 world wars and went through the great depression, and made damn sure their kids didn't have to suffer that shit, but then they came out soft on easy street and fucked over the next generation.
>>15818496
>trivially figured out by anyone who's been taught critical thinking, literacy, problem solving, and so on
Critical thinking should be taught in high school, along with home ec. Unfortunately nobody teaches kids how to cook anymore and they're all learning from clickbait YT garbage - if at all - and critical thinking is only taught at decent college/universities that will put you a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt. I can't tell you how many times I've seen highly intelligent STEM fags walk into a kitchen and be completely flabbergasted by the most basic shit you'd think would be common sense.

>>15818410
Cutting veggies is what filters me. I wish I knew how to properly sharpen the knives in my house. Instead I just use frozen ones. She me.

>>15818550
Cook and sew. So it doesn't teach you how to change your oil, to replace a fuse, paint a wall, do a job interview, file taxes, bandage a cut, replace a flat tire, jury duty, calculate a tip, finance debt, handle your parents' deaths or put them in homes, buy or sell a property, or a car, or insurance...
If schools spend an entire year to drill just "cooking and sewing" it's an admission that school can't teach an adequate library of life skills by drill and rote. Life skills are made by people dealing with life as it comes to them, with the fundamental abilities that they have.

>>15818585
You've got some fucking old parents anon. Fighting in WWI and having kids at like 90? Christ.

>>15818606
>reading comprehension

>>15818604
You learn how to calculate a tip in math class and if that's going over your head you have bigger things to worry about than other people not knowing how to cook.

>>15818585
>This generation was babied and never taught anything, by parents who earned enough doing menial labor to own a house outright and start a family at 22.
Yes and no. Parents and society are to blame, since pre-prepared food & eat outs are so easy. The human body wants to eat food to survive, it doesn't matter if the person cooks it or it's cooked by someone else.

>>15818612
What's there to miss other than you probably being a millennial that doesn't know what a millennial is?

>>15818613
I have a calculator app in my pocket, why the fuck would I spend effort on math class?

>>15818627
Because you still need to know what functions to use unless you want to bloat your phone with twenty apps to do every little thing.

>>15818619
My parents are in their 70's. Their parents were born during the first world war, came of age during the great depression, and fought in the second world war. The non-meme definition of "boomer" is people who were born after their dad came home from WW2 and knocked up their mom.

>>15818641
So why is your retarded millennial ass (thanks for confirming that with your parents' ages btw) talking about millennial parents fighting two world wars as if they're the same fucking generation?

>>15818618
>parents and society are to blame
That's such a broad generalization I honestly have no clue where you stand. The words you say make you sound like we're on the same page, but the way you say them makes you sound like a /pol/ dum dum.

>>15818651
Reread the post, retard. It's not that complicated.

>>15818654
Because you blamed parents for babying millenials. I don't disagree. But society has made cheap sugary foods widely available. It's not just the parents fault. They were not taught anything because they didn't need to - these kids didn't starve, they just went out and ate.

>>15818659
I read it. Work on your English if you're honestly not as retarded as you sound. The generations that fought WWI and WWII are not the same. And neither of these generations are the ones that would be considered parents to millennials. You are almost definitely a faggot millennial by the way. MAYBE gen x.

>>15818673
>You are almost definitely a faggot millennial by the way. MAYBE gen x
You say that as an insult, but if you're not either of those then you're either way too old to be here or a fucking zoomer - and there's literally nothing worse than a zoomer.

>>15818410
You're right, that looks terrible and can hardly even be considered cooking.

>>15818680
>that looks terrible
If OP didn't take the picture with an iphone/dslr it would honestly look like hot garbage.

>>15818412
My home ec had us baking cookies.

>>15818659
To be fair your post was poorly written, the agency of your sentences was grammatically ambiguous. Still, it should have been clear what you meant from context so that dude is retarded.

>>15818496
> muh iq

>>15818410
Depends on the country. Here in the east (poland, baltic states, belarus, ukraine, russia) everyone loves to cook, both males and females.
When I lived in UK I did hear about people who never ever cooked anything, only ate fast food and prepped frozen foods.

You have to keep in mind fast food here is still more expensive, and frozen food market isn't that big, yet (also it is a little pricy).

Pic related, champolo I made few days ago, after asking anons what to do with extra sour melons I had.

>>15818697
>clause about millennials
>clause about their parents
>clause about "their" parents
>clause about their children
>clause about "their" children
>the agency of your sentences was grammatically ambiguous
Maybe. I'm pretty drunk. But like you said, it's pretty simple to follow based on the context if you're not fucking 12.

>>15818715
>When I lived in UK I did hear about people who never ever cooked anything, only ate fast food and prepped frozen foods.
UK food culture is a fucking disgrace.

>>15818604
>calculate a tip
hahahaha

>>15818496
They can, yeah, but many people won't take the time to teach themselves. Considering these are at the core of living in modern society, I'd say it's worth teaching people. There's actually no excuse not to. More people will use that than trigonometry.

>>15818735
Fucking
AMERICANS

>>15818801
When it comes to something like trig or calc, yeah, no normal person needs it.
The thing is, the ten percent of people that make a technological society function need it.
If school were segregated into 10% gifted students and 90% fucktards then great, but as long as the farce of equality exists so does high school math.

>>15818733
I liked some fish & chips, also a few restaurants I visited ware nice.

Lack of self-respect and culture: whiteness.

>>15818410
boomers were dogshit parents and let tv raise their children

>>15818412
I took culinary arts in high school voluntarily because I enjoyed cooking, but honestly I don't think I learned that much from it. Just following recipes and learning from experience helped the most

>>15818840
>trig for a technological society
what are you smoking lad

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

>>15818410
I can cook but i really dislike the thought of serving the food i cook to others since i got meltdown thinking what should i do if people tells me that what i cook is just plain shit compared to theirs.