/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9679026
I like it because it helped me getting into cooking by seriously thinking about how ingredients and techniques actually work rather than the monkey-see monkey-do of watching my parents cook. My parents taught me shit like how to hold and use a chef knife and basic stuff like searing, sauteing, roasting, etc. But watching Good Eats made me more adventurous with ingredients and techniques, and I'm not scared going into weird recipes. I know a good amount of people that even if they cook for themselves, they're petrified of winging it on a recipe that they've never tried.

That being said, I feel like I've outgrown a lot of what most of the episodes were trying to teach me. I still have the entire show saved on my hard drive in shit los-res quality and watch an episode every now and then because it's fun. Really looking forward to his new series he's been talking about, it's shaping up to be Good Eats 2.0: Tryhard Edition.

>>9589177
Didn't happen

>>9224408
>farmers market is more expensive than the supermarket

>>9183970
>being this condescending when you're wrong

>>8903747
>he says doesn't support GMOs
>is apparently a Monsanto shill

wtf are you even talking about?

See, OP? Avoid this kind of discourse.

>>8492637
>coffee is supposed to be hot though
not 190 degrees celsius

>>8040120
>>8041384

I'm now steppin right into this dogshit for no reason.

Ok, first of all, nice/expensive Japanese meme knives are not exactly as flimsy and easily damaged in kitchen tasks as you're assuming. second, usually anyone who bothers to cook in someone else's home is usually confident enough in their cooking skills to not be banging someone else's knives on a granite counter top or gouging cans.

Secondly, decent roommates/girlfriends without kitchen skills should generally understand not to use your fancy knives anyways; if they aren't decent enough roommates/girlfriends to respect your nice stuff, then you got bigger and more expensive problems ahead of you than kitchen knives. Kids will always find something just as expensive and dangerous to fuck up even if you hide your knives, so who cares? Teach the little shits to not fuck with the knives like any sane parent.

Thirdly, I'm willing to wager that most of the knife nuts in this thread that have the money and knowledge to buy fancy knives and be able to sperg out on stones, steel types, honing vs. sharpening etc. will also have an "insurance policy" knife in the form of a cheap Vic or an inexpensive robust German blade that they can hand to their guests or roommates without offending them.

Oh, and finally. Are you seriously implying that a catering chef is too fucking dumb to bring his own knife roll? I know I wouldn't hire a chef that unprepared. That's a stupid argument.

>>7989850
You're still failing to refute my points

>>7977359
>a big fat pile of pasta coated in creamy cheese sauce and herbs looks unappealing

>>7966802
Why do you do this?

>>7945988
/ck/ used to have one of the highest average ages on 4chan with reasonable discussion that wasn't full of ironic shitposting and super cynical /v/-tier edge. Everyone look at this guy. This is the kind of guy who posts Jack and spews 'go 'za memes. You let this happen, /ck/.