/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9246626
You need to have a dutch oven or a big iron pot without any flamable parts.

Go to Chinese market, buy pork shoulder meat. They go for 2 dollar ish per pound. The meat is great for stewing and have a good amount of fat and is extremely tender after cooking.
Buy enough meat to fit 1/4 to 1/3 of your cooking pot.
Buy dense tofu, ratio 1.5 tofu to 1 meat.
Buy tomatoes, 1 to /1 to meat.
Buy 0.5 ratio of minced lean meat.
Buy mushrooms, about the same volume as 1/4 of your cooking container.
Have spices for stew.

Here's how you cook it.

Cut meat into small cubes, cut tofu into big cubes, dice tomatos, cut mushrooms.

Brown the minced meat, add your spices and seasoning, then on top put a layer of pork shoulder meat, ontop of that tofu, on top of that mushroom, and on the very top your tomatoes.

Put a lid on the container.

Put the container into your oven, set heat initially to 400 degrees F or 200 C. It'll take about an hour for the entire thing to heat through. Once the container reaches boiling or near boiling, lower the heat to 220 F or 100 C.

Just leave it in the oven for a few hours, depending on how big your container is it'll take a few hours to stew tender.

After cooking's finished, leave it in the oven with lid still on, let it cool down till it's safe to handle.

Portion and freeze. Refrigerate only portions that can last you 2 - 3 days at most.

>>9075997
Melt butter before taking it out of the pan.

Put butter in, keep stirring till the butter's melted and emulsified. That's how they do it in restaurants.

Also... wtf people actually buy and use paper plates at home? Fucking americans destroying the environment for the rest of us.

A porcelain or metal plate is so fucking easy to wash after use. Just rinse with hot water and it's already 90% clean. Use a dap of dish washing soap to remove the oil. It takes like 10 fucking seconds.

Wtf guys... this is why /ck/ is shit. People like this think they know what "good" food is.