/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16574439
Apparently my little sister is luscious downstairs with a tempting pink vulva.

>>16574439
i thought kenji was cool until that reddit-tier rant about something about social distancing, promptly unsubbed to that manchild

>>16574439
i don't give a fuck naygguh

James is a tard. His food lab is full of garbage and his "science" is flawed I'm sure this one will be equally as bad

That's really his name? I thought it was just the name of his alternate youtube channel.

Is his food lab book any good? I’m culinarily retarded and want to know the science behind cooking

A bigger question is, "Isn't this cultural appropriation?"

>>16574880
>his "science" is flawed
Any specific fuck ups I should be aware of? I know he just does meme "experiments", but controlling for variables is better than basically every single other chef out there.

>>16574928
His name is James Lopez. He took his wife's surname and hid his Anglo forename to appear more diverse.

>>16575319
His name is James Alt though. He just has a combined last name.

But can he make soup in a wok?

>>16574439
I hope someone kills this fag execution style

>>16575498
So his name is James Alt. He took his wife's last name to make the double-barrel.

>>16575131
All the techniques and experiments are solid. Pretty much anything that involves a test with multiple people is a guaranteed good recipe or technique.

He just sometimes has a strong opinion about dumb minor things, like spending tons of time researching how to perfectly cook a burger in a specific, special way and then swearing that it should be topped with shitty American cheese. Follow his techniques but just adjust for your specific taste when it comes to food profiles you're familiar with.

Pretty much all the other complaints about him on here are that he isn't a white guy and he has opinions that don't align with Trump voters and voices a minor quibble every 20 videos.

>>16574946
Really good but wordy.

>>16574527
Anon if you didn't know how massively reddit he was despite all the star wars references in his cookery book then the reddit here is you

>>16574439
You've all forgotten about George Floyd.

I haven't. Rest in peace King.

>>16577128
What does that have to do with woks except Black are going around beating up Asian senior citizens? Kinda funny Kenji was silent about this.

>>16575319
His name is James Kenji Alt, dingleberry.

>>16577150
whites did that too

>>16574439
How many umms is he going to get in there?
Is he going to burn shit that is ready to go off?

>>16574439
Yeah, I no longer care when he wants to claim that uncle roger is racist somehow.

He made an entire career of reading harold McGee and presenting the information in faggy Reddit I love science manner.

>>16577066
As a rule midwits write in a painfully wordy manner

this gay nigga couldn’t even win guys grocery games. i wouldn’t mind if a plane fell out of the sky and landed on this gigacuck’s ugly head. hypothetically speaking. what kind of queer takes his wife’s name holy shit

Imagine taking your wife's last name, hyphenating your last name and putting hers before yours. Absolute cuck move. I honestly have zero respect for him for that.

>>16577229
See >>16575567

>>16575778
>muh trump

thanks for confirming you have no idea what you're talking about. You're the exact kind of person who would watch James

>>16578774
Children aren't supposed to be on 4chan

>>16575778
American is the superior burger cheese though.

>>16578774
Did you have an argument about any of the other points or do you reduce everything to whether orange man bad?

>>16577587
lol what

>>16575778
painted nails typed this post

>>16578868
I grew up thinking cheeseburgers were disgusting until college because all the family BBQs I ever went to had the shit American cheese. When I decided to try them again years later thinking I just outgrew my disgust for cheeseburgers, turns out its still total shit.

Provolone, swiss, even a nice cheddar are all better and actually make a burger better

>hope for this being good=zero

He's responsible for the absolute abortion of a ramen broth recipe that made the rounds through all the big youtube cooking channels.

>>16575131
He once blasted cast iron with high heat, showing how "inefficient" it was with heat transfer. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there are going to be hot spots on the sides of a pan if the flames are licking up the outside. Had he turned down from a "10" to like a "7", he would have actually heated the skillet and not the air around it. A lower temp and a shorter time would have given him much better results than just pissing gas around the sides of your pan.

>>16579591
Yeah, but he's still head and (hilariously narrow) shoulders about most food bloggers, many of whom believe that a pinch of salt meaningfully alters the boiling point of four litres of water.

>>16580182
1 step above mommiebloggers with stolen recipes is still 6 steps under basic culinary knowledge.

>>16580206
eh

>>16580214
So what kenji recipes are a staple in your kitchen?

>>16580431
every goddamn day

>>16580446
Using a thermometer is
>6 steps under basic culinary knowledge
like I said.

>>16580431
None. I dl’d his book and found nothing in it worth adding to my menu. I was disappointed.

>>16577252
Really? So white specially went into Chinatown like the Blacks to harass the Asians?

>>16581909
Yes, it's a straight up lie to blame all of those hate crimes on black people, there were of course some that did them.

>>16581953
Please, nobody said only Blacks did this but doing so after crying about racism, is laughable. How about they quit being a strain on society?

>>16579591
No, cast iron is made from cheap castings, the internal grain structure itself is going to make for inefficient heat transfer.

>>16580431
His stroganoff recipe.
His pan pizza recipe.
His NY pizza recipe.
His mac and cheese recipe.

At least those.

>>16581973
Whites commit the majority of anti-asian hate crimes. Cry about blacks all you want but blaming them for all the ills of society is stupid and solves nothing.

>>16582004
Niggers are animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NUfI8qKwE

>>16582004
Per Capita, champ?

>>16582073
Dunno, I just know that 75% of the perpetrators are white.

>>16582031
So are whites who commit crimes like these, they also exist in greater numbers. Have fun seething but I'm gonna take this thread off the watcher.

>>16582117
Another one for you.

https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1357410040462733312

>>16582117
>75%
Source?

>>16581992
You need a recipe to put toppings on circular flatbread, or to make a cheese sauce?
>>6 steps under basic culinary knowledge

>>16582154
You're arguing with a 5'3" r/asianmasculinity hapa who hates his fat white dad for knocking up his green card-chasing SEAmonkey mom. Don't expect honest discourse.

>>16574928
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who originally thought this lol

>>16582430
Given that his mac and cheese recipe uses a mostly novel method involving evaporated milk, instead of the standard bechamel method its valuable to learns.
Proper pizza dough is something that takes good knowledge to make, and getting high quality dough even more. If you've ever had shitty pizza you'd know that. And most pizza recipes out there for home cooks are terrible.
All you've shown is that you don't know enough to even do basic judging of what is 'basic culinary knowledge' and what are valuable and well written recipes for dishes.

>>16582523
>Proper pizza dough is something that takes good knowledge to make
Read flour water salt yeast bozo. Should take you about an hour. Incredibly simple. Generally I add flour and water, then salt and yeast. In varying amounts.
>All you've shown is that you don't know enough to even do basic judging of what is 'basic culinary knowledge' and what are valuable and well written recipes for dishes.
God is so easy to trigger ecelebposters. Kenji isn't reading this. He's not going to give you whatever shitty misen knives and pans he shills now.

>>16582576
So your counter for pizza dough being 'basic cooking knowledge' is for an individual to read a different set of recipes about the same dish from a different source.
As though there is anything different in practice between reading from that cookbook and reading from Kenji. Them both being sources of recipes on dough and bread with their own idiosyncrasies and explanations with differing conclusions.
You're not the smartest person around, are you?

What you're doing is projecting anger about being called out for being a moron onto me.
I don't care about Kenji as a person, he effectively isn't one to me. What he is, is a good source for recipes about a variety of dishes.
And you are an idiot here that can't even compare what he's saying between two different sentences.

>>16582621
>So your counter for pizza dough being 'basic cooking knowledge' is for an individual to read a different set of recipes
No, its to read a basic book and learn. Thats much less of a recipe technique than it is a technique book.
>As though there is anything different in practice between reading from that cookbook and reading from Kenji.
There is. Foodtubers take basic techniques and dumb them down for the lowest common denominator i.e. you. Its not
>How do I execute this concept to the best of my ability
its
>How can I simplify this for my mouthbreather subscribers.
But please, go on. I could use some laughs while I drink my coffee. I'm looking for valuable and well written posts.

>>16582687
Kenji started as a cookbook writer before he ever had a youtube channel. Won a James Beard award for The Food Lab.
The guy basically built the SeriousEats website as well.
You can get the same talk of technique over pure directions just reading one of the accompanying articles with any of the guy's recipes. Where he talks about the exact reasons for the things that he does, and suggests alternatives or substitutions. I tend to use them to avoid doing some of the more anal steps or techniques the guy uses for more practical techniques.

You're only digging a deeper hole for yourself at this point.

Didnt he have a recipe that was basicallu yeah microwave cauliflower and put some sauce on it.Money well spent lol

>>16582791
Steamed asparagus, with a guide of how to do it in a microwave properly.

>>16582769
>Kenji started as a cookbook writer before he ever had a youtube channel. Won a James Beard award for The Food Lab.
Babish is next in line for that prestigious award. Really cements him as cream of the crop. What other foodtubers do you worship?

>>16582803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0

>>16582687
>getting this mad over youtube
go outside dude

I enjoy some of Kenji's recipes, appreciate the science discussion he adds, and am not bothered by his holier than thou shilling he sometimes does.
Thanks for reading!

>>16582820
I'm not the one who is wasting time posting the guys fucking resume on jamacian basket weaving forums. It took you 2 minutes 33 second to respond to cauliflower anon. You don't see an issue with this?

>>16582809
Given that googling every permutation of Babish and James Beard Award, or even the guy's ostensibly real name, Andrew Rea, and James Beard Award returns nothing, I'm going to have to see some kind of substantiation.
If Babish ever got on it'd be for a fake category like food journalism, which they gave to Alton Brown for example.

>>16582854
>But please, go on. I could use some laughs while I drink my coffee.
this is supreme pic related by the way

>>16582854
You're a fucking retard that doesn't understand more than one person other than you is using the thread.
God I hate that subhumans like you have access to the internet.
Don't ever confuse me with another poster again you fuck up.

>>16582879
Dude his book has 5/5 stars on target.com. He's a shoo-in to win the next one. People who pretend to cook love shopping at target.

https://www.eater.com/2020/8/26/21402574/james-beard-awards-canceled-due-to-no-black-winners-chef-restaurant-harassment-allegations

>>16574439
For me it is Lee Mack's Wok Around the Clock

>>16582894
I've been on this site since its inception. You're all lardy white bozos to me pal. Post those fat fingers cooking a kenji recipe please. We could really use some quality content.

>>16582888
picrel

>>16574439
>Does he know the difference between chow mein and lo mein yet?
In your words, what is the difference?

>>16583890
Chow mein - Stir-fried and dry
Lo mein - Stirred and saucy

>>16582576
>anti kenji fag can't cook
pottery

>>16582809
babish is doing a good job by getting more people into cooking, which is great and americans desperately need seeing how it's practically unheard of to cook your own meals.

>>16585790
Julia Child already stated doing that in the 60s. If you're talking about the internet era, Chef John started doing that way before Cringing with Babish.

>>16574946
it's a solid introduction for a starting home cook. good bits on the fundamentals of flavor, what heat does to food chemically speaking, etc.