/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12403118
It takes less time to prepare than driving 10 minutes somewhere and driving 10 minutes back.

I barely ever make my own bread, so there's that.

>>12403118
Have you tried pickling your fries?

>>12403118
So what you're saying is that your fries turned out terrible

Your parents must be proud

I only make them when frying up more expensive food like fish or shrimp so I can have something cheap to fill guests up on. Making fries on their own is way too much work and messy.

>>12403134
>10 minutes
and for those of us that don't live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere?

>>12403157
You can't read

Proper ramen is nearly impossible to make at home without spending an insane amount of time, effort, and money on something that will inevitably be an inferior product because good ramen places guard their recipes harder than KFC guards their eleven herbs and spices.

Burgers you can make a steak and a salad with half the effort

>>12403198
Umm, BFE is actually at least 30 minutes from anything, including Pajeet's Subway.

>>12403118
Sweet and sour Chicken Balls, the kind that you can get a literally any Chinese food place

I have some breast meat tonight that I want to try again making for dinner, but all my attempts end up with a greasy batter that has no chew to it at all
I ideally want that thick, chewy and doughy coating that's almost like bread, with a firm outside that takes a fair force to get into

Anyone have any tips?

>>12403309
buying frozen premade noodles and broth is the best option, then you just add the toppings

>>12403428
Thats the best way to get something similar to ramen at home, but its still not as good

>>12403428
do you know how easy it is to make your own noodles? how could you not?

>>12403118
I still prefer mine. cut them with a dull knife - helps create a great texture that gets extra crisp.

>>12403361
less water in batter, double fried

>>12403198
>confusing rural for suburban
Spotted the nigger.

>>12403118
you could just do all that then freeze them in bulk to save time when you want more fries. do you think restaurants do all that shit to their fries? They come frozen in a bag. A couple minutes in the deep fryer.

>>12403314
Not true. Takes 45 minutes, tastes better than any fast food place, is cheaper, and healthier.

Pic related are my turkey burgers.

By this logic all deep frying isn't worth it.

>home stinks of oil
>droplets of oil all over kitchen and clothes and hair

But it's a way to make really nice food, like with chicken, fish and yes potatoes. It has to be done even if it's a mess. The best I have eaten in all of those three categories has been deep frying at home. Doing it regularly, no. Doing it sometimes, though, is fine.

>boil with a little white vinegar
>drain and dry
>fry until golden
>cool, freeze
>cook until crisp shards with molten potato within
nothing beats this method

>>12404870
>that cup
>Lipton tea
>that ancient Gibson WalMart plate
>turkey patties clearly premade freezer aisle shit
>patties microwaved, not an iota of color on them
>uneven toasting on store bought buns

jokes on you, yours isn't homemade either

>>12403118
you know what else you can get for less than 2 dollars?
a whole kilo of potatoes

>>12404956
potatos are like 20 dollars in canada lol

>>12403118
Fucking hate making homemade fries. They always turn out soggy for some fucking reason and I can never get them crunchy enough. I have tried Heston Blumenthal's triple cooked fries and they came out good but fucking hell it's a lot of work.

>>12403134
>I barely ever make my own bread, so there's that.
same, basically anything that requires dough. it's easier to just walk to the shops on lunch break, or stop at a local bakery on my way home than it is to make anything from scratch and get flour fucking everywhere.

Ramen

It is complete ass to deep fry at home and I only do it if I have a serious craving or desire to try something. The oil degrades extremely quickly and you generally can’t reuse it. You also have to do it in pretty small batches. It’s just ass. I guess I’m spoiled because I know what it’s like to use a commercial fryer

I hate to say it but fried chicken. It stinks up the house and makes a huge mess. It also never turns out all that great. It sucks because most fast food fried chicken is terrible.

>>12403118
whew lad, you say you dont suck at making fries but they are barely as good as the fastfood ones?
i think you suck at making fries

Pizza. Homemade is just meh. The cheese is never right.

>>12403118
I cook fries and they taste like the ones in high end restaurants. They are crispy, crunchy, perfectly salted and delicious. 2 dollar fries form fast foods are soggy, often lack salt, are either completely covered in oil or completely dry. They are disgusting and mediocre, and you must be bad at cooking fries if the best outcome is them being equivalent to mediocre 2 dollar fries.

>>12405164
Soak for longer beforehand, and if you need a way to cheat toss them in a little bit of flour right before you fry. Bonus points if you season the flour.

>>12404967
No they're not you liar, they're a domestic, untariffed product. We can get a kilo of potatoes for 2 USD here too

>>12404885
Why the vinegar?

>>12405315
fried chicken would be my choice as well
absolutely not worth it

>>12403118
incorrect

>>12405830
He probably lives in the arctic.

>>12404967
How much is moose meat in contrast?

>>12403118
For me its pizza, but thats probably because I'm literally 2 doors from the best new york style in the city, sure a slice is $8-10 bucks but its the size of a small buick.

brb making some fried chicken and homemade fries

>>12403134
Making bread is one of my favorite things when cooking

>>12403118
i dunno, precut and prefried fries cost 1 dollar per pound frozen

>>12404885
You boil them after cutting them? For how long?

>>12406970
Then the retard can grow the fucking potatoes indoors or something or buy frozen fries and leave them outside when he comes home.

>>12405361
>>12407013
Also your home oven will never get as hot as a commercial wood/coal pizza hearth even with a baking stone/steel. Unless it's deep-dish, the pies should be done in under 3 minutes. There's this thing by Breville which BA used extensively in their Perfect Pizza series that get's pretty close but it's $800 and will make like an 9" pizza max at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpv0aTReIw&list=PLKtIunYVkv_RSLdWzWGYx8kmJQBVhNP0w&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u9wPbq4Gic

The same things others have said about deep-frying also apply to Asian stir-fries (in terms of mise en place + oil). Also you don't have a 9001 BTU jet-engine burner to get proper wok hei at home (if you even have gas vs. electric).

>>12403118
Donuts

>Only tastes good the first 5 seconds out of the fryer
>Can either heat up a gallon of oil for the one donut you feel like eating or make a bunch that will never taste as good when you get around to eating them

>>12407066
wa la
im done

bon apetit amigos

>>12407771
That took three hours?

>>12407771
what the fuck is that sauce on the plate??? a fucking glass cup for ketchup? i'm gonna be sick....

>>12407816
yeah but it was worth it

>>12407832
sweet chili and that's a shotglass, dumb frogposter

>>12403118
For me it isn’t because I have the supplies.

I use my pressure cooker as the storage since when I cut 4-5 potatoes to soak them over night in. (The cutting part sucks)

But my deep frier I set to 350 and drop them. After a few minutes I pick them up and shake until the oil is at temp again. Then fry till golden brown

With my spice blend I’d say it’s better than majority of places

>>12403118
OP is correct, not worth it.
Its not like the average person doesn't have multiple opportunities every week to simply purchase fries made properly, cheaply, and mess-free elsewhere. If you need more fries than that, you have bigger problems.
When you cook at home, please make something a little better than labor and mess intensive fries. Seriously, what a stupid choice.

>>12405315
dump flour in a bowl season it and have another bowl of buttermilk, dip, dip, fry

infact i just followed this recipe and it gives you the secret to put buttermilk on your flour to create a texture to the chicken, but i ignored the burger style. i didnt brine them and it doesnt need to be pickle brine. cut your chicken thin and you don't need alot of oil, but the oil should be atleast half way up the center of the chicken and you can just continuously spoon the oil on the bottom of the pan on top after you've flipped it. deep fry in canola oil or something but just dont fry in olive oil lol

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/08/five-ingredient-fried-chicken-sandwich-recipe.html

>>12408373
this recipe isnt any different than heating up olive oil in a pan and cooking chicken your usual route so its not hard to make

>>12403134
That's why you take 5 minutes on the way home to get it stupid.

>>12404910
Where are you supposed to get buns

>>12407771
>wa la

>>12405954
Not sure, it was just in the recipe I followed. I guess it changes the texture of the outside.

>>12407114
Just a few minutes, parboiled

>>12404870
>Takes 45 minutes
what the fuck are you doing lmao

frying patties in a pan takes 5 minutes, slicing up a few veggies another 5, toasting the buns and assembling the burger another 5

making fries is easy but cleaning out the deep frier and getting rid of all the oil is annoying

>>12404870
what's up with that incomplete john 3:16?

>>12403118
I make home made fries literally every time I do burgers on the grill. They're really not that hard, and most of the steps are relatively passive. Use a mandoline to cut them.

>>12405954
the higher acidity keeps them from breaking down
it's the same reason you use tart apples in pies, while sweet ones turn to mushy apple sauce
if you wanna make some bitchin roasted potatoes, boil them with baking soda first (raises alkalinity), and toss them in oil+seasoning. they'll be all spindly and have massive surface area to crisp up

>>12407242
my home oven easily reaches 550, which happens to be the temperature my local pizza place uses, so what's the point ordering out?
I honestly just grill my pizza and make sure that fucker is 700+ degrees

>>12411163
hey there, newbie ;^)

>>12411255
literally come here from the front page
never been to /ck/ in all my years on 4chan but you guys seem alright

>>12411261