/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12674302
>>12674460
>treat their employees like dogs
????

>work at a place, in a job you can quit at any minute without any reprecussions
>zero financial investment from your end
>zero financial risk from your end, you won't lose a dime if the company goes belly up
>GIVE US PROFITS!!!
do these people also just go to a bank and ask for interest without having anything in an account?

>>10275617
>baguettes come in bags

>>9763980
I don't know how to respond to that post

All these eggs in the refrigerator.

>>8504869
>I found very ugly brutal full of chemicals toxic cancerous moldy truth that I was

Oh, you're just Asian.

nvm, carry on.

Hey /ck,
So I've only really been cooking for myself the past year and a half, or so. That's when I moved into my first apartment with my wife, and at first she would cook and I would do some baking here and there, but at some point in the past year I fully eclipsed her skill and just enjoyed it way more than she did, so I took cooking over.

I know I have a lot to learn, but like, man I've learned a lot? I can make a handful of things exceptionally well (my meter stick is "would I pay money for this at a restaurant, and be happy I did?") and I try new stuff all the time, and mediocre is about the worst I get.

But ever since I started to learn to cook and bake and improvise and know what spices to do what with, etc, I've wondered this--why do people cook garbage food?

Like, I can't think of anybody in my life who cares about food as much as I do, or has as much skill and know-how as I do--and I don't have that much. It's mostly reading stuff and watching YouTube videos.

But why do people settle for less? Why do people buy weird, bad pasta sauces, why do people buy rolls at the store, why do people buy break-and-bake cookies, why do people not know how to dice, chop, or sauté vegetables?

This isn't about snobbery or about poor people, because I'm a couple notches above shithouse broke all the time. But making food from scratch isn't nearly as hard as anyone makes it out to be. Why don't people care? Why don't so many people want to learn more, or learn anything about anything? It seems like a lot of people throw a bunch of garbage into a crock-pot (which are great devices, SOMETIMES) and are like "mmmm wow I made this so great". Why don't people give a shit about cooking?

tl;dr It's not even that hard to learn a couple base skills to vastly improve what you're up to in the kitchen. Why do people eat food that isn't very good, night after night after night?