/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Pumpkin soup with a splash of sunflower seed oil. It was sour, so very sour. Didn't taste of much else.

I was at my uncle's house for Christmas and his friend has a long tradition of making clam chowder for Christmas. Everyone was hyping the fuck out of it because he's been refining and perfecting the recipe for years. I tried it and it tastes like someone had dumped an ash tray into it. Not just the worst clam chowder I ever tasted, but the worst soup I ever imagined. Turns out the guy is a chain smoker and was smoking like a chimney while he made it.

>>10709253
One time I went to McDonald's and my mcchicken was cold.

>>10709253
>thread will be composed of crybaby millennials sobbing about some family recipe that was mediocre
>they'll never understand that the value these dishes have is in bringing the family together for one common purpose
>ironically they'll say all this while circlejerking about how much they hate their family with a bunch of strangers, which is itself an activity that gets most of its value from that same concept of uniting to one common purpose
Way to fall for the globalist agenda boys.

there's a gypsy jazz bar i like going to cause it's free entry before 8pm and sometimes has really great musicians. I never got the food there, usually just went for drink, but a friend asked me for recommendations for her birthday meal and i suggested it. she invited like fifty people. It was supposed to be like classic french/parisian food but they were out of almost everything. i ended up ordering spinach and ricotta ravioli and what arrived was a scorching hot bowl (clearly microwaved), filled to the brim with frozen spinach that was beading with grease and had a giant translucent loogie of microwaved mozzarella on the top. it looked like the tentacle alien from that jake gyllenhaal movie set on the ISS had gone into hibernation on a nutrient slurry. i poked around in it looking for the ravioli and i found none. instead I found three potato wedges submerged within the mass. no pasta anywhere to be found.

I don't understand what happened. I looked around the table and everyone else had basically gotten the same shit. we got some wine comped after bitching about it

I'll take a turn at this
>Be highschool, over at my friend's house
>She claims her grandma makes the best friend chicken and some great dipping sauce or some shit
>Half assed watching her cook it, shes just using normal shit
>See her melt a stick of butter, figure it's for potatoes or some shit idk
>It's done, the whole family literally freaks the fuck out like a bunch of monkeys when the chicken came out
>Start eating it, it's okay, just chicken, no sides which is odd.
>Look down at my hands after a few bites and they're dripping wet
>"Oh hey Anon, you almost forgot my grandma's signature sauce"
>Mongoloid friend drenched my chicken in this yellow sauce
>It's legit just butter, just liquid butter
>"So what makes the special ingredient in the chicken?"
>"Well I let it sit in butter to really make it moist, then I cover it with some more butter as it's cooking"
>This chicken is legitimately more parts butter than chicken
>Have the biggest diarrhea shit of my life the next day

Fucking poor white people man

>>10709280
I don't think being an idiot and making a "family recipe" that blows brings the family together. In fact, burnt roasts are the #1 cause of domestic violence and divorce.

>>10709280
>that 32 year old boomer who loves his family for no reason other than familiarity

>>10709289
chickens are food, not friends

>>10709253
Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in Melbourne, when it was open. Went there for a dinner date. It was underwhelming in all regards.

>>10709305
Meat is murder

>>10709295
>that blows
Did I say that? Exactly dipshit.

>>10709299
>that 23 year old college dropout that hates his mommy because she makes him do stuff
keep watching star wars buddy

>>10709253
High end, nationally known steak house. The coated their steaks with some much seasoning you couldn't taste the meat. Not only did I not finish my ribeye, I didn't ask for a to go container. Their selection of appetizers left a lot to be desired as well.

>>10709299
>32 year old boomer
thats gen x you retard.

>>10709289


>friend chicken

Sounds wholesome desu

>>10709340
Summerfag please leave

>>10709253
It's not really on topic but
>whenever we were out for family meal. >We aren't poor. But my mom is very stingy on money and always order the cheapest food on the menu.
>Sometimes it's like just a small drink
>while dad, brother and I all have big meal.
>it really breaks the atmosphere and it's a lot of pressure eating like that

>>10709344
>some fag doesn't understand meme that's literally 2 1/2 hours old
>gets called a newfag

>>10709334
Everyone knows Ruth's Chris is shit

>>10709344
But the x year old boomer "meme" is forced and shitty. It is the quintessential summerfag-type meme, and it is no coincidence that it started popping up a few weeks back.

Went to a steakhouse in Vegas after winning some money. Bought a top sirloin rare with Caesar salad and mash potato. The steak came out literally barely even cooked. And I love rare as steak but it was literally raw. Sent it back and they just threw it back on the grill and brought it back. I said no that's not what you do... I want a new steak. New steak came out over cooked. And my ceaser salad had eggs and sunflower seeds on it. .. I'm not one to ever complain for the most part but I was pissed. Ending up getting whole meal for free lol

>>10709346
she eats the cheap shit so you can have more expensive shit, anon

parents sacrifice for their children

>>10709344
calling people boomers isnt a chan meme, its a le sjw millenial meme meant to pin their laziness and inaptitude on the prior generations.

>>10709346
Maybe shes trying to diet?

>>10709375
Yea most mega touristy locations have shit to mediocre food that costs a fortune. Honestly going to chain restaurants in touristy locations is often times the best course of actions because at least then you know the quality and prices are generally consistent.

>>10709451
I also bought a hot dog at haute doggery for about 11 bucks the next morning. It was good but way overpriced. Oh Vegas

>>10709289
>best friend chicken

>>10709253
I a was at a pretty nice place and got a flounder stuffed with crab imperial and was very excited about it. But I didn't know this restaurant puts green peppers in their crab imperial. Something no where else does and also something that has no place in crab imperial. It ruined the flavor completely. Went home very disappointed. It was my birthday too.

>>10709253
I grew up raised on Chicken and Dumplings from my aunt who basically adopted me since my parents were never around. She died like two years back and I haven't had any since then. No one does them as well as she did. The only part of it she didn't do was kill the chicken. Everything else was from scratch, the broth, the dough, everything.
So fastforward to last week when a cousin tells me they discovered the recipe she used. I was pretty excited because I didn't think she'd betray me. She used canned biscuits and chicken and let me tell you it was fucking awful. I'm never going to be able to eat chicken and dumplings again.

>>10709280
>that 23 yo boomer who blames globalism for the fact the US has one of the highest divorce rates and family dysfunction in the world
b-but muh (((joos)))

>>10709321
Then murder is meat and meat is food.