/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>In a city where rents have never been higher, groceries also cost huge chunks of money. As long you can buy five dumplings in Chinatown for $1.25 — forever, I hope — it’s never going to be purely economical to cook at home.

>And what kind of monster wants to turn on an oven in August, anyway? That wheezing window air-conditioner can only do so much. Did your landlord find your grill on the fire escape and confiscate it, your only way to cook without melting in your apartment?

>Cooking, especially a new dish, is a huge gamble. Did the recipe author forget that you don’t have line cooks doing your prep? Was the ninth ingredient in that recipe a confit you were supposed to have made weeks ago? Do they chide you for not using the “best” butter? So many potential pitfalls, all of which could be avoided by not participating.

>Even good recipes lie. The yields are often bananas. The cooking times are always dubious, too. A “20-minute recipe” seems to take me, on average, about 75 minutes.