/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15187046]

Do you use these?

[Anonymous No.15187050]

>>15187046
nah, I don't serve people
I also don't like cooking with chopsticks

[Anonymous No.15187051]

Only for some foods. I never bother using them for rice though. Just doesn't make sense unless it's REALLY sticky.

[Anonymous No.15187061]

meme sticks for meme people. lmao just use a fork. anybody who uses them instead of a fork is a guardnteed beta male (even if female).

[Anonymous No.15187272]

No, I own a spork.

[Anonymous No.15187285]

>>15187046
for salads and spaghetti, yeah

[Anonymous No.15187289]

>>15187061
>he didnt level dex

[Anonymous No.15187602]

>>15187046
I'll bust some out every once in a while just to mix things up. I enjoy it, even if I'm not particularly amazing with them.

[Anonymous No.15187626]

>>15187289
>DUDE VIDEO GAMES LOL
>CHARACTER STATS LOL VIDEO GAMES
Shut the fuck up nerd

[Anonymous No.15187667]

Yeah, I especially love the disposable ones you can get a pack of 100 of from my local Asian grocery store. I have some nicer washable wood ones, but I have a hard time gripping saucy/greasy foods with them.

[Anonymous No.15187676]

>>15187626
>stfu nerd, people who do women's hobbies are talking

[Anonymous No.15187677]

>>15187046
Just to whack it.

[Anonymous No.15187679]

i've started using gloves and chopsticks like the koreans do

[Anonymous No.15187718]

>>15187626
Oof, that was pretty mea-
>>15187676
Oh wow, yikes. Yeah... he's kinda got a point there.....

[Anonymous No.15188526]

I don't know how and I'm too much of a lazy asshole to dedicate time to learning how to properly use an eating utensil because it feels like a big fucking waste of time.

[Anonymous No.15188555]

>>15187679
NOSTRIL

[Anonymous No.15188565]

i use them with vietnamese noodle soups.

[Anonymous No.15188637]

>>15187046
I do. I can’t imagine eating sushi, pad thai, or chow mein without them.

[Anonymous No.15189116]

Only if they’re the only thing there. I’ve been to Japan, lived with Chinese roommates and still and only mediocre with chopsticks. They’re insanely retarded compared to forks

[Anonymous No.15189146]

>>15187046
I have two metal long sets I use at work.
One for tempura and frying, the other for the occasional weird grill item (I rarely use them for this)
I have four or five sets at my house just for the fact that they’re easier to clean than forks and shit.

I enjoy them, but forks, spatulas, tongs and spoons have

[Anonymous No.15189153]

My hands are too fat for chopsticks

[Anonymous No.15189168]

>>15187046
I like too snap them at restaurant tables and let out a roar

[Anonymous No.15189180]

>>15187046
>Can only use thumb, middle and ring finger to hold them properly.

[Anonymous No.15189206]

>>15187046
whenever i have any excuse to, i used to eat ice cream with chopsticks when i was a teen and actualy ate ice cream

[Anonymous No.15189438]

>>15188637
Imagine eating dumplings without them...

[Anonymous No.15189464]

What's that? Anon, you don't know how to use chopsticks?

[Anonymous No.15189475]

>>15188637
>>15189438
have you ever tried using a fork? it works fine

[Anonymous No.15189479]

>>15187046
I only use them for cooking. I use silverware for everything else

[Anonymous No.15189507]

>non-asians using chopsticks in public

[Anonymous No.15189516]

>>15187046
Nope. Westerners invented Forks for a reason.

I can see the upside of Chopsticks in a developing society (They're literally just two sticks, you can get those off any tree), but once your society gets metalurgy and a blacksmith in every village, I see no reason to continue using Chopsticks except for cultural reasons.

[Anonymous No.15189528]

>>15187046
only with soup

[Anonymous No.15189549]

>>15189507
poor fishy. look at the big bump he got from banging his head

[Anonymous No.15189727]

>>15189475
Those aren't dumplings but aight

Chomping on metal tines is not really fun to me tho lmao

[Anonymous No.15189734]

>>15189727
>Chomps down until you hit the fork
>Cannot just put item into mouth and pull out fork without biting fork

How many times did you pee on the toilet lid before somebody told you to lift it boy?

[Anonymous No.15189742]

>>15189516
In Chinese cooking the chef is the one who uses a knife, not the diner. The cuisine is designed to be eaten with chopsticks, just as western cuisine is designed to be eaten with a fork and knife.

[Anonymous No.15189748]

>>15189734
That's still shitty, biting around it and avoiding a piece of metal, as the tines barely poke your tongue.

Chopsticks give a lot more control and allow you to maneuver your food mid-bite and manipulate it.

Forks let you stab it.

[Anonymous No.15189753]

>>15189742
I never mentioned a knife though: Forks function 100% well independent of knives, so the chef can do the same thing there and the person eating could function with just the fork.
Name me one thing that can be eaten with chopsticks that a Fork won't work equally well for.

[Anonymous No.15189762]

>>15189753
I mean it's not the same thing, there's a definite difference between eating with a fork and eating with a knife

[Anonymous No.15189944]

>>15189762
>>15189753
Eating with chopsticks is just more pleasant, it's holding your food rather than stabbing it. It's not only easier for many foods (if you know how to use chopsticks) but it's also nice to bite into something that hasn't been stabbed a bunch.

I do like spoons, and I eat with them often too. But overall I don't like forks much. I don't use them for anything except steak usually or like holiday dinners.

[Anonymous No.15189970]

i don't really care. my korean girlfriend and her hawaiian friend use them whenever. i use them if it's all they give me. it's part of the "east asian experience" to some people. i honestly don't care either way. just fucking eat with your hands if you want to be an unironic alpha high T caveman.

[Anonymous No.15189974]

>>15189742
try eating rice with a chopstick, faggot.

[Anonymous No.15190024]

a time ago see in a dude in a porn movie putting a stick inside his penis i want to know how is feel i do the same thing with one of this chinese stick and hurt a lot, that answers your questions?

[Anonymous No.15190027]

>>15189753
Grapes
plus I go hard mode with metal chopsticks and it's still easier

[Anonymous No.15190032]

>>15189974
It's difficult communicating with someone who has a rudimentary grasp of english, Deng. How many years of shitposting do you have left before they'll let you see your wife and kid again?

[Anonymous No.15190209]

>>15189974
I do that all the time lol it's basically the only way I eat rice. What do you use, a spoon? I mean I'll sometimes use a spoon for rice with curry or something, but overall I eat rice with chopsticks. I have Japanese food and Chinese food and Korean food extremely often and usually eat the meal with just chopsticks unless there's soup which I use a spoon for (except miso soup which is ofc just eaten with chopsticks also).

[Anonymous No.15190333]

>>15187046
no, my eyes are normal

[Anonymous No.15190334]

>>15187046
No, my hands are too stupid.

[Anonymous No.15190336]

>>15189748
>>15189727
I can't even imagine someone being filtered by forks of all things. How bizarre

[Anonymous No.15190388]

>>15187046
I made katsu chicken today and wish I had chopsticks around to eat it with

[Anonymous No.15190397]

>>15187046
My grandpappy didn’t die in the war so that his grandkids could eat with chinaman sticks like some kind of subhuman. God bless America.

[Anonymous No.15190457]

>>15190336
I'm that anon.

I mostly used forks for the first 26 years of my life. When I was 27 I decided to use chopsticks exclusively for a little bit to develop the skill, and now I love them and feel that forks are just a bit barbaric. I hate washing them, hate how the tines want to stick in the dishwasher and such, and how they'll scratch and poke you if you aren't careful with them.

Look, even if you don't dislike forks, you have to agree that they're shitty for something like steamed dumplings. Poke a hole in it, juice runs out, the thing starts falling apart. And then once you're eating it you either have to pop the whole thing in your mouth or remove it from the fork to reposition it. Compared to chopsticks which let you gently hold it as you eat from one end to the other. It's strictly superior to eat dumplings this way, with no room for nuance or argumentation. Forks lose here, full stop.

[Anonymous No.15190473]

>>15190457
Oh that's not to mention something like sharing foods with a group. When there are plates of shared foods, chopsticks are much better than forks for reaching and grabbing things from the center of a table or whatnot. It also might be more sanitary depending on the food, but it's definitely easier. Try grabbing something off of a plate with a fork while your arm is extended. It's an awkward angle, and it's made more difficult by the fact that the only way you can grab the food is by pushing into it (and if it slides around you're fucked). Chopsticks are precise and very ergonomical as well. When I'm eating I like to be able to grab an individual leaf or bean or maybe a delicate piece of fish. These tasks are much more difficult with a fork.

[Anonymous No.15190487]

>>15187061
Seethe harder you pathetic culture wars numale faggot.
Reddit will take you back if you ask nicely.

[Anonymous No.15190639]

>>15189974
you don't?

[Anonymous No.15190978]

I do indeed. I prefer them over forks. Now I need to pull the trigger on getting those chinese takeout boxes and do a meme diet of OBAD One Box A Day.

[Anonymous No.15192210]

>>15187679
arent squids rather intelligent? poor things

[Anonymous No.15192294]

>>15187046
>using memesticks in anno domini 2020
Just use tweezers like a normal, functional human being.

[Anonymous No.15192313]

>>15187046
I use them more and more each day it seems. I used to just use them to eat popcorn so I could snack at my computer without getting my fingers greasy, then I got good at using them. Then I discovered ramen and other Asian restaurant foods I really like.

Today I'm sick and made myself chicken noodle soup, except with udon noodles and leftover (previously frozen) thanksgiving turkey in chicken stock. I ended up using chopsticks to eat it.

They're also useful in the kitchen for stirring or just picking up or manipulating things cooking in a pan. When you learn to use them they just become an all around practical new tool to have around.

[Anonymous No.15192316]

>>15192294
>using metal
The texture and hardness is all wrong and when used to flip or grab things in a hot pan it will heat up too rapidly. Impractical.

[Anonymous No.15192402]

>>15192316
god I really need to get myself some wooden spoons

[Anonymous No.15192424]

I'll use them at Asian restaurants or if I buy supermarket sushi (yeah yeah I fucking know Jiro says it has to be with your hands otherwise you're destroying years of Japanese history) but I don't have reusable ones at home. I tried cooking with them once because I say a YT video of it, its too fucking stupid to use chopsticks for that when I have wooden and silicone utensils

[Anonymous No.15192458]

>>15192402
You do. They're a necessity for cooking. Don't just get one, get a set of at least 3 that are different shapes and sizes.

[Anonymous No.15192479]

>>15189438
There's this thing called a spoon.

[Anonymous No.15192990]

>>15187046
I always take a pair when I go to the local kinoplex so I can eat popcorn and not get my fingers dirty.

[Anonymous No.15192992]

>>15192479
Wtf lol that sounds annoying af trying to pick up a dumpling with a spoon. I like spoons but they're not great for picking up solid oddly-shaped objects.

>>15192294
>>15192316
I like to use tweezers while cooking (they're easier than chopsticks) and I love the pairs that I have for various things around the house too. Imo it's one of the most underrated kitchen tools. That said, chopsticks are also great for cooking. It's nice that you can usually open them wider with less effort, can separate them to use as a "skewer" and ofc being wood means that they won't scratch stuff up.

[Anonymous No.15194687]

Yes I use them

[Anonymous No.15194703]

>>15189753
Cooking on a non-stick pan

[Anonymous No.15194720]

>>15189753
salad greens

Forks are so awkward for salads

[Anonymous No.15194721]

>>15187046
i just hate japanese/korean chopsticks with the sharp points

[Anonymous No.15195549]

>>15190487
>Le rock based lmao

[Anonymous No.15195553]

>>15194687

[Anonymous No.15195576]

>>15187046
Someone told me you're not supposed to roll your chopsticks together in your palms because it implies to the restaurant owner/chef that they've given you inferior/cheap chopsticks.
Any riceniggers know if that's actually true?
I do it because, believe it or not, they're cheap, inferior chopsticks and I don't want loose bamboo fiber in my food/poking my hand.
The chick who told me isn't asian and likes to make up arbitrary shit to seem more cultured.

[Anonymous No.15195584]

>>15192992
You just put the spoon underneath and lift. It's better than using chopsticks because you don't squeeze any moisture out.

[Anonymous No.15195667]

>>15194721
I also like the long Chinese chopsticks best.

[Anonymous No.15195722]

>>15195576
that's a jap thing, most places that give you single use chopsticks don't care what you do once you get your food.

[Anonymous No.15195752]

>>15194721
I think they have different uses.

I generally like the pointy ends, it gives me better grip on things. But the wide flat ended ones are better when you need more surface area on soft things that'll tear if you put too much pressure on them.

[Anonymous No.15195770]

>>15195576
Yeah honestly if they do give you cheap inferior chopsticks then why not react exactly like you should? That said I live in Japan and have never felt the need to roll mine.

[Anonymous No.15195777]

I enjoy using chopsticks as long as everything is portioned out. I'm just not using it for noodles or rice unless I'm somewhere that I'm really offending the host.

Especially with sushi they're good, so you're not smearing a fork that was just in your mouth on someone else's piece. Or stabbing it so the whole thing falls apart. They seem more ideal for shared foods.

Also, my dad was based in Korea in the Air Force and taught me how to use them young. I can pick up almost anything with them, but I use them weird. Hand strength for something other than jerking my cock.

[Anonymous No.15195783]

>>15187046
Not anymore, i have arthritis in my hands

[Anonymous No.15195833]

>>15195584
it's not the lifting part that's hard
it's the fact that dumplings have a flat bottom and when put onto a plate while wet, they stick to it like glue, and trying to get your spoon under the dumpling would just slide it around the until it either breaks or slides off the plate

[Anonymous No.15195935]

>>15190473
That's a whole lotta cope for getting filtered by forks of all things.

[Anonymous No.15195994]

>>15187046
I did when i was in China but i kept pinching the inside of my cheeks :(
Forks are better.

[Anonymous No.15196101]

>>15187046
Yes. I made Taiwanese Beef Noodle Spup for dinner last night, and it would have been weird eating it with a fork over chopsticks l

[Anonymous No.15196124]

>>15187046
Yeah, I do. I use them when I'm eating Asian dishes and I use them for cooking too.

[Anonymous No.15196169]

>>15187046
Fingers? Yeah, all the time: Picking my nose, scrathing my ass. masturbating two-finger-style.

[Anonymous No.15196183]

>>15187679
If you're white and you want to fuck this thing, you deserve the bullet.

[Anonymous No.15196190]

>>15187051
This, eating sushi rolls with a fork is retarded, but eating stuff like stir-fried rice with chopstick is masochism

[Anonymous No.15196221]

I bought a 100 pack on amazon for like $8. They're good for certain uses plus I don't have to clean them.

[Anonymous No.15196782]

>>15196183
Then you can shoot me up like an American preschool

[Anonymous No.15196840]

>>15189753
Sushi

[Anonymous No.15197552]

>>15187679
Why do nips eat stuff which looks fucking vile and they stuff their mouths to the brim whilst making disgusting noises?