/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10230904
From personal experience I agree with your post, but damn just ban everything along the lines of boiled meat. I admit I was asking for it by trying something that suspicious, but damn it was an edible cliché.

>>10230904
Asian here, used to eating a variety of cuisines that use spices with great complexity and sophistication. I've always found English food to be unbelievably comfy. Maybe it's some sort of reverse exoticism.

British food usually require using an oven. For economical reasons (ovens, gas, electricity, time), not many restaurants put British meals in their menus. In some parts of the world, oven cooking is rare, or they only do things like baking cakes or cookies.

>>10230904
As a brit, thanks for this post. There's a ton of great produce and cooking in this country. I think most chefs recognise that and it's mainly the internet that spreadsheet the negative reputation.

Having said that I think cooking skills, appreciation of good food and just the general culture of food here needs developing. Things are improving and there's definitely a rich/poor divide that makes it worse.

>>10230904
Your stupid roast isn't something typically English. Literally every Euro country has its own version and it's nothing but regular standard food, we don't have to get excited over it because the rest of our cuisine isn't inedible slop.

>>10230996
>There's a ton of great produce and cooking in this country.
When it's not rationed you mean?

>>10231008
No developed country relies entirely on its own domestic food supply chain. Do you expect Britain to grow all its own bananas?

>>10231018
I have never seen empty shelves with signs about rationing in Germany, France, Austria, Italy or Poland.

>>10231024
As a German I'd say it can happen in small stores, sometimes I'd actually prefer that over the ridiculous food waste practiced here

>>10230904
German food can be alright too, it's simple food usually, with french and eastern european influences among others

>>10231035
German food is vastly superior to English "food".

t. Deutscher

I really wish that people knew more about polish cuisine than just the fact that we have pierogi and bigos.
Our game dishes are excellent and very traditional

>>10231049

>>10231056
As a German I will say that Polish cuisine is really good.

>>10231056

That looks absolutely delicious. What is the dish called?

>>10231061
seconded

>>10231030
are those... deep fried ears?

>>10231061
thanks hansbro we share many things in our cuisines like the love for grilled sausages and sauerkraut.
>>10231063
that's a goulash but made with game meat.
In dishes like those besides the usual stuff you use juniper berries, allspice berries, cinnamon lots of wine, honey, or homemade marmolade. Game meat is actually a bit sweet so it goes good with those kinds of things.
Here's a smoked boar leg that my father did for a wedding, with some homemade tinctures.

>>10231072
No, pig snouts

>>10230904
>British/English food,
>gets an undeserved meme reputation for being bland at best and disgusting at worst.
Sorry, it's deserved. It isn't an underrated kind of thing. I get it that Brits don't want this reputation. I get it that there are some (*cough* Michelin starred chefs). I get it that no one wants this reputation to continue if they look around and find some good examples of recipes.
People with money and means and who were foodies of high acclaim, and who traveled during the jet age, HATED THE FOOD in all of the British Isles. It's not just that there was rationing. It's not just that there was postwar poverty. It's that the majority of food offered was utterly the worst in comparison to other places of travel. Maybe education came along and people started to prefer and not just understand two vegetables per plate, no double starches, a pre-dinner salad, less fat,gorgeous produce, but you're not going to make revisionist history here acting like desserts aside, that they didn't once have horrible restaurant food the whole country over. One only has to look at a historical menu on a british ship or the offerings of the finest hotels and restaurants during earlier times to gag and be offended. Read travel articles.

>>10230904
>Roasted meat is delicious and is staple of the traditional English dinner, after all the American tradition of Thanks Giving dinner is an typical English roast just improvising with the local american bipedal land poultry.
You might enjoy a website called food timeline.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
I'm posting it for you because you're making up history again through your own version of logic and grand sweeping statement. Why not know historical facts instead?

>>10231079
oh lord I see it now

>>10231086
>Why not know historical facts instead?
Because they're British and think they invented the Lasagna lol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3067455.stm

>>10231049
>Bavarians
>German
gezeichnet, Deutscher

>>10231095
Ich mag die Bayern auch nicht, aber wenn's ums Essen geht, wissen sie wies geht.

gezeichnet, Hesse

it's not like most of europe has rations at the time and most of it was even poorer that britain

>>10231109
Time to stop lying Nigel

>>10231108
their food is alright, yeah.

>>10231109

I've never seen it happen in my country before.

Although not a national cuisine in its own right, I want to stick up for Southern/Soul Food. It's not all fried brown things with a side of empty carbs (mashed potatoes/macaroni & cheese) and gravy.

We have a variety of produce like turnips and collard greens with cornbread, black eye peas, okra and tomato stew (yes we eat okra that hasn't been battered and fried, sometimes whole and uncut too), squash and onions, butter beans, corn grits before it was called rediscovered as polenta and made cool, etc.

>>10231109
Europe is pretty split in that regard, isn't it. I wonder how fucked the south really is sometimes

>>10231024
Germany here, it used to happen alot with dried milk because the Chinese often import food from here. It only really causes a problem with dried milk from time to time tho.

>>10231086
>http://www.foodtimeline.org/
That website is cool as fuck, thanks.

>>10231149
I wouldn't even know where to buy dried milk here. At Edeka or Rewe? Aldi? Never seen it there....

>>10231049
Wanna hear a contradiction in terms? German fine dining.

>>10231229
Oh Nigel

>>10231229
>Wanna hear a contradiction in terms?
English food

>>10231229
he is right. German cuisine is simple and that is fine but haute cuisine it isn't.
t. german

Mämmi is pretty great but good luck trying to get you southern pansies to try it.

>>10231068

There's nothing better than a good Pierogi. Really reminds me of my childhood.

Fuck I want some now

Britain industrialized first, which people became separated from the normal type of food they had been cooking and eating. It also had more of a puritan way of thinking, where extravagant eating was seen as decadent. But mostly, Britain always looked to France for this kind of culture, instead of developing its own. English kings had French chefs. British food has also suffered because it relies on quality ingredients cooked simply, but with factory farming and market incentives to use the lowest passable grade of food, it's more difficult.

Also even if you accept that British savoury food isn't that great, you definitely can't say that about the baked goods like cakes and sweets.

>>10231030
Those pretzels look great

Filipino
It’s underrepresented but also constantly shat on by cu/ck/s for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12zRnFUTdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdglFjqGouI

>>10235476
it's fucking SHIT that's why you dumb nigger kill yourself for fucks sake the world would be better off without your kind shitting it up

>>10235480
>being this mad about flips
What a pathetic little loser