/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Leave it to the Greeks and Turks and Arabs. Why would you bother making it when what you make will never be as good as the real thing.

This rule also applies to marzipan, puff pastry, passata, tomato ketchup, hot sauce, Worcester sauce, peanut butter, ketjap manis etc etc.

There are things better left to the professionals. Halawa is one of them.

>>4391302
whoah wait a minute there bud
marzipan & puff pastry are not all that difficult to replicate & actually taste better due to it being freshly mad.
puff pastry takes a bit of practice to get right but you can definitely improve it compared to buying it

>>4391302

I agree with most of those, but a meth addled retard could make peanut butter that tastes as good as the store shit.

>>4391238
No, but my grandmother does. She also puts it in the apple turnovers she makes, it's great.
I'd imagine it would take quite a bit of practice to get it right.

>>4391302
I'm a poorfag and I always try to replicate stuff.

>Marzipan
>Just egg whites, almond and sugar.

>Passata
It's just fucking fresh tomatoes without seed and skin, ar you kidding me?

>Tomato ketchup
Never tried but can't be that hard.

Shit nigga you don't need to be a "professional" to make these kind of products. Do you think being a good cook is only cooking stuff? you need to do some things homemade also.

>>4391467

Haha, look at this predictable poorfag butt hurt.

His point was that there's no reason to do these things at home because they are not fun, it will not taste better, and you don't save any money that way. It's like trying to make your own toilet paper. DIY culture is all fine and good but it can be taken too far sometimes.

>>4391470
0/10

Even in Halva countries, nobody makes it at home.
The process is not easy.

Yep, I live in a halva country and I have never even heard of homemade halva.

Greekfag here, sometimes people make a homemade halva but it's always semolina-based. I believe the process is relatively easy.

Tahini-based halva is a million times better but I've never seen it made at home.

no, there's a great deli around the corner that makes it better than I could

>>4391470
>thinking passata is even close to as good as fresh tomatoes in taste.
Nigga do you even delicious food?

r u fucking kidding me?
I made one today as a dessert while making another food after sleeping over at a party.
I made the other one yesterday, shit is the easiest thing ever!

>>4393977
>thinking passata is a brand of food and not a generic term for tomatoes forced through a kitchen strainer

Nice gif though.

my mums maltese, we call it helwa (turkish sweet) I love it

>>4391302

>this rule also applies to peanut butter

The fuck? You just throw some peanuts in a blender or food processor and blend/process them for a few seconds. Throw in some salt, maybe some sugar if you feel like it, and there you go

>>4393986
r-r-r-r-recipe?

>>4391302
I agree with your general point but you can improve on tomato ketchup, and marzipan is easy as hell to make (to a high standard) at home, assuming access to the 'secret' ingredient, fresh almonds.

>>4391322
While I agree with you that puff is makeable at home it is hard to improve on *good* commercial stuff. Even run-of-the-mill stuff ain't bad.

>>4393977
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>>4391302
>peanut butter
bro if you can make houmous yu can make peanut butter

I made it years ago, remember it being fairly simple and it turned out great.

If I recall correctly its just toffee + tahini, the most important element being the timing of the toffee so its not too crystalline. I'm sure I fucked up a batch because of that.

>>4391238
>helva with pistacio's

Thank God this blessed sweet