/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19823335
I love cooking and my parents and siblings say I do it better then our mom even. What really gets my juices flowing though is eating at a deficit. I mean like making really tasty meals without breaking 500kcals a day. I like the challenge of limiting myself and cutting at the same time.

>>19497343
If you visit a place very often, enough that the entire staff knows you, your service will suffer a bit. You'll still get your food and stuff but refills are less frequent. Less likely to be given leeway's on the bill if there is a mistake. Say you ordered something you thought was discounted but technically wasn't. There are horror stories or spitting in food or stuff of that nature but it is so fucking busy back there and cameras are so cheap it rarely ever happens. At most the staff will bitch about you and draw straws to serve you.

Any decently run establishment will fire any employee that is outright vengeful. Personally I work a lot of service and customer/tip based jobs and I appreciate every tip and verbally express even a dollar with gratitude. If my tips are short I take it as an opprotunity to self explore and ask "Did I do anything wrong? Could I have done something better?". Working with that mindset I've self corrected a lot of behaviors and added some that make the experience one of a kind and fun. Worked on constantly expressing a smile or at least appearing to be in a good mood. Learned how to match energy or direct the flow of conversation with a list of preset jokes and introductions. My tips have skyrocketed because people like to tip people that make them feel special.

Sorry rambling but no it is not required but low tier workers may take it out on you with shotty service in the future but for the most part is it a social credit type situation. You appear to be well off and incharge and respectable when you tip in front of people. It is why men will literally argue over who is paying the $200 bill.

>>19397378
They also don't want to see you spending 45 minutes on something that takes 10 minutes
Shit...that might be the crux. I am over analyzing this and will end up wasting time on something simple. I am still gonna caramelize the sausage but just scramble the eggs french style.

>>18516325
thanks for the reply and you're using the wrong image

I am not a person who is very familiar with sugar. I have seen some episodes of cooking shows on sugar here and there, and I do not own a candy thermometer (or any thermometer). I have tried to make caramel sauce twice now, using this recipe:

https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/424/Simple_Caramel_Sauce12192.shtml

The first time I stirred for what seemed like an hour and wasn't able to get it smooth. It came out slightly gritty, but otherwise fine.

The second time, I wanted to see how it would change if I used 1/2 brown sugar 1/2 white sugar. I was able to get it smooth, but I think I had the heat too high. It got to the point of being a soft boil, I think, regular bubbling here and there, and seemed to reach what I understand to be the "soft ball stage." when I tested it.
It cooled into a half crystalized, half "soft ball" mess, that is still pretty tasty but certainly not presentable.

Where did I fuck up? (I have a pretty good idea, but...)
Why did the first sauce come out gritty?
Can I save this by cooking it into brownies, or will it fuck up further?
Also,
Please share any good easy caramel sauce recipes that utilize condensed milk and brown sugar.
Please share sugar knowledge that you may have.
If you don't want to do any of the above, please post about caramel and sugar.

Thank you anons.

>>14893752
what the fuck OP

>>14823899

Agar e Vin
>>14090212
good contribution to this thread chain replying jackass

>>13746290
>nice, fluffy omelet
If I want a fluffy omelet I'd whip it first and make thicc pancake omelets

>>12874511
I think it's a midwest thing, I remember visiting one of my mothers friends from college and her family. They put mayonnaise in the guacamole and told us they wanted to make fondue originally, but they had run out of Liquid Smoke.

>>12517913
P/a/ncakes

>>12306968

I really want to try one of these.

>>11448810
UNF

>>11347159

>>11204990
Yeah, that's why he only kept that part of his mustache, back then they called that style the 'cloot tikeler,' german for clit tickler.

>>11004255
Unf

What do you guys make when you're not really in the mood to make something with a bunch of leftovers or just want a quick lunch?

I feel like I don't have a lot under my belt that I can just "whip up" except stuff like stir fries, and that gets kinda old since I only cook for myself most of the time.

>>10246145
absolutely not

>>10119019
This is pretty much all moeshit.

Nice post.

>>10005968
yes op i do like thicc cakes