/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20349767
carbonara is supposed to be creamy

>>19682951
using bacon over guanciale I can understand, some might actually prefer the flavor and like he said guanciale is insanely expensive especially when you consider how much you have to cut off before you can even work with it. there is simply too much fat and the rind isn't usable either. as for the fat % it's always like playing lottery and most of it can't be eaten so the real price for guanciale is probably 10x the price of bacon which is ridiculous when you consider the most important thing: flavor. it's not better, just different.

breaking spaghetti in half is stupid because it ruins all the joy. you can see that his carbonara looks like shit even though he tried to make it l good by using that tiny japanese ramen plate. he could have just cooked the spaghetti whole in a separate stainless steel pan or pot while cooking the bacon but for some reason he insists on using that subpar le creuset dutch oven although it makes zero sense for a dish like this even if you cook for 8 people. he cucked himself into using it anyway because he paid so much money for it although it's not nearly as good as the cheaper staub equivalent.

just do it like luciano, it's not hard