/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17491717
The type of people who read recipes where that's an instruction are the type of people who need to be reminded.
It is stupid advice, but it's for stupid people.

This is why you taste test your food when you can. Adding salt is to taste. If you taste test things you'll know when you need more salt or pepper. That instruction is usually about salt though.
Food undersalted during cooking can't be remedied by after prep salting perfectly, but if you undersalt a little (say 80% of the way there) the remaining 20% can be a decent bit of leeway for people to further salt at the plate.

>>17491717
>cook until done

>add 2tbsp of oil to a pan
o yeah that's exactly what I'm gonna do, whip out a spoon to measure a fuckin oil

>>17491717
Shower apple

>>17491774
What kind of oil?
Better not be seed oil, I'll scream

>>17491809
canola or olive oil is what I usually use

>>17491717
>Brown the meat in a saucepan

>>17491819
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>17491851
Filtered olive oil is alright though

>>17491870
That's why I only screamed half as long.

>one bay leaf
No, don't think I will.

>>17491717
>season to taste
imagine being so stupid that you don't know how to season food the way you like it.

NOW imagine beings so stupid you go on 4chan and tell everyone how stupid you are.

My problem with 'season to taste' is that I have a degen palate that really likes salty food, black pepper, and spices generally. It's good to have a benchmark for what a typical person would like so I don't overdo it when cooking for others.

bake until golden brown

>a pinch of salt

>>17492844
I can understand that cause I have to worry about getting enough sodium and have to add extra salt to stuff.

Seriously though.. like how do you know what to do with that instruction? How do you know if something needs more salt or not, for example?

>>17491717
Literally as the instructions say. Are you too fucking stupid to taste what you're doing?

>>17491774
No one expects you to measure oil. It's for fucking idiots that either put a few drips of oil in a pan or drown the dish in oil.

>>17492849
You need exact times? Just look at what's baking in the oven from time to time. Not very hard.

>>17492862
A pinch is what you can pick up between your finger and your thumb. Learn the nomenclature.

>>17492761
Why read a book when you can make up your own stories

>add red/white/apple cider/ricewine vinegar
fuck you, recipe. you get white because thats the only one i have and you’re gonna like it

>>17491717
>season to taste
>on raw ingredients

>>17491717
What really grinds my grains is when they say "1 cup of X", BITCH IS THIS VOLUMETRIC OR WEIGHT AND EVEN THEN WHAT FUCKING UNIT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, IMPERIAL CUP? METRIC CUP?

Same thing with "Ounce", is this volumetric ounce or weight ounce? Fuck's sake can the world just get together and pick one standard set of units and use that across the board?

>>17491747
>people to further salt at the plate.
That's an insult to the chef though

>>17492916
if someone boasts about their cooking too much, i always ask for some salt

>>17492907

>>17492907
A metric and imperial cup are probably close enough that it doesn't matter unless you're baking.

>>17492916
it shouldn't be. i've tasted things that people said were good that were insanely salty.

>>17492883
I think you misunderstood the topic

>>17492907
>Fuck's sake can the world just get together and pick one standard set of units and use that across the board?
The world picked metric you fucking retard, only the US and a few shithole countries still use something else

>>17492907
My biggest pet peeve is qualifying ingredients with adjectives like "organic" or "kosher". Like really is my dinner going to be ruined if my salt isn't fucking kosher?

>>17492958

>>17492958
the goyim are worse than I thought

>>17491717
>Add water to soil

>>17492874
You get inside the water

>>17492907
>>17492945
I should add, I honestly don't measure most stuff when I'm cooking because it rarely matters. You can estimate close enough.

>>17492972
Jews fear the bathtub saucier

>>17492945
>>17492973
No, they don't differ enough to make a real difference, but that's not the point. The point is that you have vaguely named units that not just differ between countries and systems, but they're often confusingly also the name of a volumetric/weight measurement, which also differs between countries and systems, so it's all one confusing mess.

And that's not even the end of it: whether you scoop with the cup or pour the substance into the cup (if you go by volume) also produces widely different results

>>17492958
I've heard a rumor that you can actually taste a difference between uniodized salt (kosher) and iodized, never seemed true to me

>>17492991
If you're baking it's going to be mostly mass measurements in the same system and if you're not then it doesn't matter.

I had a bread recipe today to tell me to make sure the yeast and salt were on opposite sides of the bowl before mixing w/the flour and water (bread recipe).

Damn good loaf, though. Pic related.

>>17492883
>A pinch is what you can pick up between your finger and your thumb.
What if the person writing the recipe is a lardass and has hambeast fingers the size of hotdogs?

1.76 quarts or some bullshit i’m sorry i’m not an Americuck what the hell is a quart

>anything in american measurements

>HUR CUP SPOON SPORK FOOT QUART STONE

>>17492907
based autistic poster

>>17493027
>no pic of crumb
you retarded or something boy?

>>17493284
Apologies. Very soft, not crusty at all (though could probably have done better w/oven steaming to get one). Dead simple to make, would be a solid base for some garlic bread.

>>17492265
filtered

>>17492874
keep tasting till you've got the balance right
its best to season slightly at the start then check later once its reduced and almost ready to be served

>>17493316
looks nice. where'd you pull the recipe from?

>>17493357
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_bloomer_84636

There's a video of him making one on youtube if you google it, as well.

>>17491717
>>17491717
>one cup of

288mL in uk
250mL in Aus
244mL in US

Cool, let me just find out where the author was born then I can continue the recipe. I always thought those seven rambling paragraphs at the start of mommy blog recipes were useless but it turns out you need them when using imperial measurements.

>>17491825
you can easily do this, though, and it's much better than transferring it if you want to hold onto the fond.

>>17492907
Cup is a unit of volume, not weight. Imperial cup is 238mL as I recall. The metric system doesn't use cups, it uses litres for volume, so you're probably referring to rounding 238mL to something else, like 240 or 250. Just aim for 240.

I think you can reasonably assume people mean fluid ounces when talking about liquids and the measure of mass when talking about solids, but I appreciate some lunatics like to measure powders and so on by volume, I don't understand why.

The world did indeed pick one standard set of units and use that across the board; it picked metric.

>>17492991
>whether you scoop with the cup or pour the substance into the cup (if you go by volume) also produces widely different results
If you are one of the aforementioned lunatics who uses volume to measure powders, then you are beyond any help that we can provide.

>>17493491
It's a carry over from before people had scales in the home. Volumetric measuring is how most measuring was done. One system is better for its ease of use, that's for sure, but to understand the cultural reason for why it exists justifies its existence. I don't like imperial, but I understand why it exists and the momentum that keeps it going.

>>17493512
The volume fixation I feel is just apathy. The US' continued use of the imperial system is just because it has become politicised; look into the history of the proposed switch through the 20th century.

>>17492893
Stock your pantry you fucking cooklet. Those are all common vinegars to have.

>>17491873
kek

>>17492907
being this stupid.

>>17493491
US, the UK and Australia all have different measurements for a cup. see >>17493390

>>17493654
Wikipedia appears to disagree, but then I'm no expert.

Australia doesn't use the imperial system, so you can safely assume that nobody's talking about Australian cups.

>>17493316
>>17493027
holy hell I want a slice

>>17491873
Jej

>>17493870
Make it anon. It requires zero special equipment whatsoever (no stand mixer) and is piss easy. Steaming the oven isn't even required if you want it to be totally soft. Extremely easy for a novice.

>>17493901
saved, gonna take a crack at it this weekend. thanks anon.

>>17493961
Enjoy your loaf of bread, anon.

>reduce until thickened
That doesn't mean anything. Some foods only need thickened a little, and some need thickened a lot.
You need to at least give a time estimate, or a test like the chilled spoon test for making jams.

>>17492897
THIS THIS THIS WHAT THE FUCK

JUST GIVE ME A GUIDELINE WITH WHAT IS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE

>high-altitude baking instructions
I live on a giant slab of limestone, there are no fucking mountains.

>>17491724
Well im retarded so i need them

>>17491717
>Don't overcook

>>17491717
>reduce heat
that could mean literally anything fuck you

>>17491825
how is that useless?

>>17494183
Florida actually has a mountain range and it's a desert with cacti

>>17495061
I imagine because what else are you going to brown something in/on.

>>17495091
oh i thought they had a problem with browning meat.
like
>brew the tea in the teapot
like yeh no shit.

thanks for clearing that up anon.

>heat until just before boiling
Do you expect me to use a thermometer and wait until it's 1 degree off?

>preheat oven to 350
what the hell is "preheat"? i heat the oven before i heat it? how is that possible

>>17495521

>a touch of pepper
>a touch of olive oil
>a touch of salt

Whats a touch!?

>>17495558
to taste

>>17494273
As long as you understand your limits and try to learn something whenever you cook, I'd still eat your food anon.

>>17495558

A smidgen

>>17495558
somewhere betwixt a pinch and a dash

>>17491717
>a pinch of salt

>>17492955
Just keep it simple
>stone
>feet
>yards

>>17492958
>kosher

>>17492761
I like it unseasoned, drowned in seasoning, and everything in between.

>>17495091
Frying pan.