/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20407726
seems reasonable. a good cooler can work really well, but they can get pricey. as for germophobia, cleaning the inside of a used fridge with disinfectant/bleach spray wouldn't be sufficient. i know a phobia is a phobia but, like, bacteria are literally ubiquitous, living on every surface around, on, and in our bodies, which includes the inside of a new fridge. plus, you're not licking the inside of the fridge in any case. are you?

>>20143304
i stopped at a waffle house in the middle of the night while driving from TX to ME nonstop. i don't even remember where i was. somewhere in PA maybe? i was the only one there with my car full of stuff in the parking lot and two black dudes working, one of which was smoking out front the whole time. i got my food and ended up chatting with the guy working there. i ended up with his whole life story, including how he had been sexually abused by at least two older men in his family. try eating your waffles while this guy sheds a tear in front of you. he was a nice guy and his life had been pretty fucked up. he was trying to get right. i'm not sure why people talk to me like this sometimes. i guess a good listener isn't super common. anyways, i love waffle house.

make fried rice. if you have rice, eggs, onion, and some freezer peas/corn and asian condiments you can do it up. you don't have to have leftover rice; you can cook a batch and chuck it in the freezer on a sheet pan. throw whatever you got in there--proteins, vegetables, salty flavors, whatever. easy, fun, delicious. i eat way too much 3am drunk fried rice lately.

>>19740912
no one cares if you're eating alone. do your thing, dude. enjoy life how you want. i read/study at bars pretty frequently. it's great. i've had some pretty interesting conversations (and a few insufferable ones) that were started from people peeking over at what i was reading

>>19738477
this may sound obvious, but if you exercise restraint at the grocery store you'll be in good shape. i temporarily moved away from my family for work and found i couldn't really be bothered to cook for myself much, and i just buy plain boring stuff at the store so when i get hungry, that's all i have. i wasn't fat before, but heavier than i wanted, and i think i lost almost 10 pounds. also i don't know if you're an alcoholic like me, but booze is a big one. i've started keeping booze in the apartment only on the weekend and beer + wine only

>>19430267
it makes perfect sense. you want the white to be totally set and the inside to be slightly less so. as it cooks, the heat radiates inward. at a higher temperature, the white will cook faster but there is less time for the heat to make its way to the center, so you get a set white and nice, slightly gelatinous yolk.

>>18721642
when my wife was pregnant and was having trouble eating, i hit upon a great solution one day. we went to the local fancy grocery store where they have like a huge number of steam trays of all kinds of foods and salads and all kinds of shit where you can make your own plate and she just walked around until she saw something that didn't seem revolting. worked pretty well for my toddler when she was being picky. perhaps you have some place like this?

good luck! good job being a good husband. keep it up. having a newborn is hell. it gets better. i didn't love my kid until she was like almost 4.

>>18680467
have you tried looking for land in places that suck away from a town of any size? where have you been looking?

i think being a vegan is obviously a reasonable choice, good for the environment, etc. eating less or no meat is a good thing; not supporting the horrible treatment of animals for animal-based products is of course good. but i do think that strict veganism, as a philosophy, is incredibly stupid. you don't want animals to die? fine, be a vegetarian, i support that. but insisting that all animal-derived products are unethical i not only, i think, demonstrably false, but is almost borderline cynical in its view of the relationship between man and the natural world. anyone who would see my keeping chickens for their eggs as unethical should get their head checked. they are thriving little beings, well-kept and living a chicken's best life. this is a mutually beneficial relationship. don't eat factory eggs, absolutely! don't eat your neighbor's yard eggs, or milk from a happy cow kept on a small farm that gets to chill out in a field all day? that's nuts. and it assumes that there is no way for humans to have this sort of caring, mutually beneficial relationship with livestock, and thinking of humanity as so separate from the natural world, so incapable of involvement in the animal kingdom with care and also utility, i think is both wrong and, ultimately, paints a pretty hopeless situation in terms of humanity coexisting peaceably with the natural world more broadly.

so, do me a favor, and don't be a strict ethical vegan. that shit is whack. thanks for reading my blog.

>>18344495
counterpoint: rice cookers are good.

>>18264970
i thought that was the diner from U-Turn at first