/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13827145
I'm a girl btw, not sure if it matters

>>13827154
:/ Well I guess start with cooking eggs. Have eggs and butter and learn to scramble them just right so they taste like cheese. The trick is to use as little heat as possible and constantly stir.


I really hope you're young, even if you are I'm kind of dissapointed that your mother had a daughter and didn't teach her how to cook. Like what am I looking at here?

>>13827145
is that... pasta, ground beef, scrambled eggs, and tomato sauce?

>>13827145
what is that supposed to be?

>>13827145
>>13827154
the pasta look way too soggy... cook them for less time. also, mix the sauce with the meat in when it's still in the pan.
what are the balls on the second pic?

>>13827145
>>13827154

You have to go back.

>>13827145
just start by doing recipes that aren't too complicated and following them precisely step by step and watch some youtube vids on how to cut stuff.

>>13827215
I think it's a fucked up attempt at carbonara

>>13827231
liquor ball sandwiches

>>13827238
I can actually recommend you watch some binging with babish, chef john, or adam "i prep the bull, not my wife" ragusea

>>13827248
cringing with babish u mean?

>>13827243
wtf?

>>13827145
And learn how to ferment too. Making sourkraut is easy af. Just cut up cabbage, add a ton of salt, massage it in, and put it in a jar and leave it out for several days.

>>13827248
Ragusea has some good recipes but an incredibly annoying personality to me. You can really tell he thinks he's cool

>>13827154
Those are pretty hairy legs and manly legs for a girl anon.

>>13827145
properly kill it and butcher it first perhaps

>>13827263
His real name is "Adam Dubrovnik"

Start following recipes. The two things you posted look like garbo but that's because you have no idea how to combine ingredients or flavors on your own. That's not an insult, but learn some recipes before you try to wing it so you understand some basic techniques and flavor profiles.

>>13827186
>just right so they taste like cheese
What the actual fuck
>use as little heat as possible and constantly stir
Sure, if you want a 3 minute meal to take 10 minutes and end up with a load of eggy, pebbly garbage. It's medium/high heat and infrequent "stirring" (it's not really stirring because you let the egg in contact with the pan cook then gently scrape that layer up exposing uncooked egg to the pan base). Before all the egg is fully cooked, remove from the pan from the heat and grab your toast, plate, etc. It will continue to cook in the pan. This way you end up with larger, velvety sheets of egg which are pleasant to eat and don't bounce all over your plate like a thousand tiny rubber balls.

>>13827145
Search for a recipe and commit to it.

>>13827186
I just got out of college :/
>>13827214
Pasta, beef, eggs, red sauce
>>13827231
Fish balls

>>13827248
follow chef john recipes, he keeps everything pretty accessible

>>13827145
Use recipes first.
Good recipes.
Don't just look up the name of the dish you want to make and use the first one you find.
It can be difficult to find good recipes online though so for an absolute beginner like you I would just recommend versions from celebrity chefs.
Since they are always checked for edibility and often get a bit dumbed down.
Follow those recipes to a t, not straying whatsoever.
If you don't have the right ingredient or dish to make the food, then don't make it.
You are not at the level where you can improvise yet.
Now while you are making these recipes take time to think about how the individual ingredients coms togeteje, what seasoning is used and what happens when each ingredient is cooked with their respective cooking method.
Through this perhaps start experimenting with 1 or 2 ingredients at a time.
For example: eggs and different types of oils
There are a million ways to cook eggs, and 2 million ways to fuck them up.
Learn what makes them come together the best in each cooking method you try.
Don't be afraid to do some online research!
These are important first steps to being a good cook, steps which 9/10 people don't even bother with.
Best of luck
Oh yeah I know you probably don't trust me (this is 4chan why would you) but I'm a professional chef who's currently sitting at home in quarantine cause no restaurants open.

>>13827294
a) what is red sauce, is it some American thing?
b) sauce isn't supposed to have the consistency of water

>>13827294
do you not stir your pasta while its cooking?
It's all clumped together

>>13827215
>This
took the post right out of my mouth

>>13827344
Oh yeah 2 other super basic things.
Get yourself a set of measuring spoons, dry measuring cups and at least 1, 2 cup wet measuring cup. If you need to know what these look like just reply and I can show you.

Once you have these you must do one thing.
Always. Always. Always. Measure your ingredients!
It takes a long time to learn to eyeball ingredients and even then it's easy to fuck it up!

Anyways aside from that maybe just go to a thrift store and pick up some cookbooks, that's always a good way to get some recipes.
A good trick is to try and by books that look beat up and well used (look for cracks in the spine). This means the last owner must have liked the recipes in it enough to beat it up so much.
Anyways once again, best of luck and read the directions of the box of pasta before you cook it. Make sure they're fully covered with water in a large pot! Those look fuckin wack!

>>13827344
ignore this asshole

to achieve specific ends you need the scientific method and follow that to a T

baking is more science, cooking is more art

you can just look up recipes and go in vaguely making a dish a number of times in different ways until you get what you want to eat

>>13827388
if you have no idea what you're doing you should at least be precise with your spices

>>13827252
his basics with babish is a good starting spot for inexperienced cooks

I got into cooking just by looking up recipes I found interesting and following the directions. Plenty of resources just by using Google, or go out and buy a physical cook book you can browse through

Also Crockpot/Pressure cooker are usually good for newbies and never really stop being useful.

>>13827154
tits or

>>13827145
>>13827154
funny. but if you do seriously suck at cooking, follow foodwishes recipes for a while and pick up on a few tricks and tips, most of his recipes follow similar routines. thats how i started.

>>13827145
Keep trying. Read a lot.
For pasta for instance, keep a glass of the pasta water and dilute a bit of it with your sauce to add the starch that will get the pasta to stick to the sauce. Also the sauce should be panned and heated first (cooked if you make it from scratch which is the better alternative) and then you dump a bit of pasta water AND THEN you put the pasta in and mix them up.
A whole new world opened to you anon. Walk before you run and you'll be grand.

>>13827145
Maybe start with some simple yet really good:

- minced meat 300-400g
- 2 yellow onions
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- a can of crushed tomatoes
- a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of black pepper
- 1dl red wine
- 1-2 tablespoons of basil
- maybe add some time or oregano (depends on your taste)

some spaghetti of-course and maybe top it with some parmesan (gf loves parmesan i don't :D).

There is no such thing as "not being able to cook". all cooking is is following simple instructions. So it's not that you "can't cook" it's just that you are stupid and deserve to starve.

>>13827614
Since I assume you're an absolute beginner OP, this is a good recipe but he doesn't tell you how to cook it. Try this:

1. Prepare all of your ingredients first. Dice your onions, how small depends on your preference. If you don't even know how to do this look up a tutorial (not even joking, improper knife technique can hinder you)

2. Put a saucepan on the stove at medium high heat. Once it's warm, drizzle some olive oil in, and put the onions in. Cook the onions, stirring occasionally until it's starting to get transparent and the color goes from solid white/yellow to clear white/brown. If you're feeling adventurious adding a clove of two of crushed garlic here isn't a bad idea.

3. Put in the minced meat. Break it up, stir it around in the pot till the meat is gray, but not brown

4. Put the crushed tomato cans, red wine, oregano, basil, bay leaf if you have it. The wine serves a few purposes but the main one is to offset the acidity that comes from canned tomatoes. So if you don't have wine you can use a pinch of sugar instead, although using too much can irreparably ruin everything. Key with seasoning is to use less than more, and then add more if you need to.

5. Bring the mixture up to a simmer (when you see little bubbles coming up), lower the heat and let it cook for 40-60 mins.

6. Cook pasta and then pour the sauce over.

>>13827686
I do it almost like you do it but i let it simmer for 15-20 minutes then add red wine and basil and let it simmer another 5-10 minutes.

Taste and add depending on ypur taste pressed garlic or time or oregano.

Cook pasta and top it with parmesan or another cheese depending on your taste :D

A green salad addon also :D

>>13827294
Follow a recipie religously until you get it right.
Any simple recipie ANY simple meal, when you think you have got it switch up to a new one.
A personal favourite of mine is fried rice/chow mein.

The more recipies you learn the stronger your grasp on cooking methods will become

Remember to not be disencouraged if what you cook turns out bad, all food is good if you are satsfyied by it.

Every cook has made a bad meal/had a accident in the kitchen.

>>13827145
>I just started cooking because of this quarantine
>has a bunch of spaghetti noodles and ground beef
I bet you’re one of those niggers that panic bought a ton of stupid shit and made it harder for normal people to live their normal lives. Fuck you, I hope you choke on your shit food, cooking is a normal human function that’s part of survival and any “adult” that’s as pathetic as you deserves to starve or choke on their shitty garbage.

>>13827145
you can go fuck yourself with something pointy you piece of shit.

>>13827154
are your balls as hairy as your legs?

>>13827145
Don't do what you feel like it is right if you are a beginner. Only after you have cooked for some time you get a sense of missing ingredients or what could be a good mix/addition to what you are cooking.

Going online might be overwhelming in the beginning since there is so much info. A good place to start might be what you already ate. You probably have some favorites from your childhood. Maybe track some family member who knows how to cook them.

>>13827186
>what am I looking at here?
uh a set of hairy legs nt tho

>>13827145
>I just started cooking
You should stop.

>>13827145
First off, did you put scrambled eggs in with meat for spaghetti? Really? Don't do that ever again is good advice for that particular meal.

Second, since you seem to be struggling with sauces for pasta in general, you might be better off learning to make a simple pesto or garlic butter sauce. Meat sauce can be purchased in a jar. Burgers are a good use of any beef you might have as they literally just involve forming the meat and seasoning with salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder and then cooking them to whichever type you want (rare, medium rare, medium well, etc)

>>13827145
Literally just look up recipes, there's millions of guides and how-tos online, follow them exactly, then when you feel like you know what you're doing you can start experimenting with your own ideas. Same as every goddamn thing in the world you hollow cretin.

>>13827154
damn woman, start reading cook books and start shaving your legs! you will never get a husband with thous shitty perks!!

>>13827145
I could eaten those eggs and made a nice meal with it anon. :(

>>13827294
You have posted three dishes and only one contained any vegetables. And the vegetables was jarred sauce. No hope.

>>13831565
Women who don't shave their legs are much sexier than conformists. Hair on legs is not a masculine trait. It is normal.

>>13827145
Readniggah.gif

your shits probably look like coke cans

>>13827145
So how did it go? did you try the what me and another person in the thread suggested? some Italian inspired minced meat, pasta and parmesan?

Long cook 45 minutes or 2 stage cook 15-25 and then add wine and another 5-10 minutes?

>>13827154
You misspelled gay.

Watch Gina. She'll learn ya a thing or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hNWAyvzys&feature=emb_title

I'd be willing to bet that OP hasn't' willingly ate a salad in over a year.