/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>using recipes

>>10489935
>not using recipes and creating trash

>>10489968
>not knowing how to cook without recipes
Holy fuck lel

>Between my 6 sons, their soccer games, and my hubby, it's like I don't have time to make dinner! Here's an overly complicated recipe for mac n cheese.
>My hubby is so picky! Haha it's like he PREFERS fast food over my cooking or something! Can you believe THAT? Now let me tell you how amazing this imitation moo shu chicken using blended hot dogs and gelatin is.
>I made this recipe to distract me from my constant hot flashes from early menopause! It's ice.

>>10489968
>Not understanding flavor profiles and portioning so that you can make food without a recipe.

>>10489935
using reddit memes

>>10489986
>>10490016
>being better than everybody at absolutely everything
wow, guys
if only we could all be pros lurking 4chan

>>10490016
The thing is I'm trying to learn. Sorry, not all of us were born a fruity faggot that was naturally good at cooking. Maybe I should have posted a meme thread about fastfood to look like I fit on this board.

>>10490032
Sorry, I was being snide on purpose.

Learning flavor profiles is pretty useful though. Knowing those pairings helps you come up with your own recipes.

Using an existing recipe to try something new is good too though!

Obviously it's better to fire from the hip and come up with your own shit.

That said sometimes I just want inspiration and/or want to reference ratios of ingredients and I have to read a tumblr-tier blog post on why Lemonade is a tasty summer treat.

>>10490032
>>10490047
I'm sorry

>>10489914
They all wanna be that pioneer woman, op.

>>10490067

No but seriously, don't bother with these shitty blogs, you're not gonna learn anything from them because most of the authors have no fucking clue what they're doing. You'd be better off learning classics and basics from Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and such. Disregard the ancient recipes no one's made for 30 years but do pay attention to the prep methods and ingredient combinations.

>>10490107
As far as food websites go, I like Serious Eats. Despite being kind of fluffy sometimes, they do have good techniques and recipes.

>>10489935
>not using recipes as a jumping off point for more advanced cooking

>>10490048
>>10490067
Uncharacteristically civil

>>10490009
>>Between my 6 sons, their soccer games, and my hubby, it's like I don't have time to make dinner! Here's an overly complicated recipe for mac n cheese.
lol spot on

>>10490117
Serious Eats is good but that fucker Kenji overcomplicates things on purpose.
You want to get a recipe to make something today and he wants you to let shit rest for two fucking days for a miniscule change in taste.

>>10489914
>calling yourself a "foodie"
When will this cancer end?

>just want a fucking recipe
>google the fucking recipe

>sponsored search result (i.e. useless)
>woman's blog
>woman's blog
>woman's blog
>some website shilling a product
>woman's blog
>woman's blog
>another website shilling a product
>woman's blog

>give up and go eat beans

>blogger asks me, the reader, to let her know how the recipe turned out for me
>recipe was good
>don't comment
BUST A TRAVIS BICKLE WHEN I FEEL THAT I'M GETTING PUSHED
DON'T STEP TO ME OR YOU COULD BE GETTING MUSHED

>>10491026
shill sites are ok,you can use whatever brand you want or if its something that can be homemade ,you can do it your self

Just imagine what it's like to fuck her

Then go do it

>>10489986
IDK-YouTube has helped me save way more than one wrecked dish-I mean so wrecked that it turned into a completely different dish than I had intended.

>>10491063
But that would first involve listening to her whole life story before getting to the part you want. Just like recipe searching.

>>10489914
If you don't want life stories then why are you reading blogs? Read a cookbook if you want recipes.

Do you also attend concerts and then why there is so much music being played?

>>10491063
The same as any other chick? She lies there and does nothing then bitches when I'm done.

>>10491596
>She lies there and does nothing then bitches when I'm done.
I'm indifferent to the bitching when done part (unless by bitching you mean complaining it hurt or was uncomfortable or 'weird' in which case I like that)

I'm just confused that you seem to be implying "she lies there and does nothing" is a bad thing

>>10489914
wow ur so cool for noticing this

huh... you guys(gays?) sure get triggered by a successful woman pretty easily

ITT what are the best websites for finding reliably good recipes, for those of us who still like to use or read them?

personally I really like Genius Kitchen, usually their recipes are very basic but solid, they make a great base to add to. also in the same vein as this >>10491026 post, I like the King Arthur brand flour website, they post great baking recipes and I find that whoever they have writing those recipes is a really great baker.

I will never understand why people whine so much about recipes being bad and shit

You don’t need to follow any recipe to the letter. You cross reference them and look at pictures and shit to work out what you’re generally aiming for. It’s just common sense.

>>10491596
virgin detected

>>10491668
That assumes you already have some skill in the kitchen so you know what to change, and also that you're not a turbosperg who insists on following directions to the letter.

Both of those seem counter to the average /ck/ poster.

Ok, here's the thing about these blogs. If you look into SEO and getting their blogs to actually appear into search engines, they need to bloat up their mediocre recipes with text. It's unfortunate, but it's necessary if they want literally anyone to read their blogs. Social media can only take you so far.
I just scroll past and glance over ingredients and method if it's something I'm interested in making. I'm sure they have a pretty shitty bounce rate in that respect because of this.