/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8157100
It just takes practice. Knowing when a piece of food has too little or too much salt is really up to you, but its also up to you to find out how much salt that actually is. An easy starch for a meal like that might be mashed potatoes, but there are so many other options, such as carrots or even breading on the pork.
When cooking a piece of meat, you're looking for the most even temperture gradient through the meat as you can get, sitting just above or at the temperature the meat is 'cooked' at, and that can vary by meat. For pork, it's 145F, however this temperature varies by type of meat (These temperatures are easily found online). Because of this, it only makes sense to fully thaw the pork before you cook it so as to lower the temperature gradient from the outside to the inside of the pork when you cook it.
Cooking in oil is used to keep the meat from sticking to the pan, as well as allowing more surface are for the heat from the pan to touch the pork. The extra seasoning that you might've added to the oil would get cooked on to the surface of the pork. Don't use too much oil though, because that's just a waste of your oil (and your spices, if you want the right amount of spice flavor).
When it comes to knowing what seasonings go well on certain meats, thats really up to you to decide. You can google common pork seasonings and try them and see what sounds good, but really it all comes down to what you like.

I'm going to sleep, you can fuck off and get gud now

>>8122469
tri-state as in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming?

>>8118412
substitutions