/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>eyeballs a recipe
>HOW COME ITS NOT THE SAME AS LAST TIME???

>>17747781
I don't have an idyllic memory idiot

>>17747821
>idyllic memory
you mean eidetic memory

>>17747781
I have to follow instructions for things I’ve done a thousand times, my brain doesn’t work correctly

>>17747833
>he fell for it
regards like you are a diamond dozen

>>17747781
I work in a professional kitchen and you have no idea how many times I've had to yell at people for not pulling out the recipe because "I've made it a thousand times" and of course it doesn't come out right. Home cooks are way more retarded than even the most mediocre restaurant cook.

>>17747781
>she has to follow a recipe the first time

>>17747833
No my insulin levels are fine

>>17747878
>Home cooks are way more retarded than even the most mediocre restaurant cook.
I also work in a professional kitchen and I'm honestly not sure that statement is true.

>>17747842
>>he fell for it
>regards like you are a diamond dozen
Sweaty I now better than yew

>>17747900
When's the last time you actually watched someone with no real experience cook at home? I have a number of people I love and respect and think are very intelligent and practical, but when they get in the kitchen it's painful to watch.

>>17747908
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with Flying Carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>17747909
I was a homecook my entire life before I got a job as an unskilled linecook last year.
I consistently outperform every culinary student and newly graduated chef that comes through our kitchen.
And that's not because I'm some kind of cooking savant. It's because culinary schools tend to scoop up the retards who couldn't get into real education. They can learn to do certain tasks really well and really quickly but they have zero fucking common sense or reasoning ability. They do things the way they were told and completely freeze if someone asks them why they don't do it differently.

Homecooks hold the knife the wrong way and other basic shit like that but a lot of them actually apply their brains to what they're doing and adjust if they make mistakes.
Proper chefs with a lot of experience manage to think for themselves, but you didn't specify those in your post.
The most mediocre restaurant cook is just a home cook who has learned some French words and basic knife skills. Sometimes barely even that.

>>17747927
I worked at a cafe that also ran a small culinary school. Literally some the biggest retards in the world. Like astoundingly retarded. Some competent, funny, based as hell people though.

>>17747927
Nobody was talking about kids coming out of culinary school. I'm talking about people that have spent a few years in real kitchens and have some actual experience. We hire plenty of "kids" where I work (and past places I've worked) because they don't come with bad habits and are sometimes easier to train, but old or young we know within a couple weeks if someone is going to make it or not.

The one thing that irritates me about watching boomer home cooks is they cut EVERYTHING by pointing the blade at themselves and pushing the food into the knife.
Not just peeling fruit but dicing celery/onions/carrots they just shove the food into the knife and take an hour doing it.

>>17747957
The exact words were "most mediocre restaurant cook" so you sure as hell didn't specify chefs with 20 years experience either.

>>17747781
take it from me, if she makes this face for any reason whatsoever you need to dump that bitch to the curb asap.

>>17747781
i don't even need a recipe to cook most stuff the first time. unless you're making a very particular or specific dish you don't really need a recipe if you understand basic cooking principles. of course there are some higher end dishes that people are unlikely to just guess as to how to cook it but majority of homecooks don't make any of that shit for dinner anyways.

>>17747927
i find that people who watched a lot of food shows like Good Eats and Iron Chef tend to be capable at throwing shit together. not classically trained 3 star fine-dining tier chefs, but people who have an interest in cooking and have years of tips from tv chefs like alton aren't as mediocre as some of the burnouts I've known to work in commercial kitchens

>>17747919
dis my fayvrit maymay

>>17747970
I really don't think many people know what "mediocre" means any more

>>17747842
it's a doggydog world

>>17747967
because their knives are all blunt as shit from cutting straight onto china plates

>>17747781
Who is in OP's picture?

>>17747781
>>17747887
it infuriates me when you people make this face at me

>>17747967
Wait, is there a different/better way to peel an apple than this? It's the only way I've known

>>17748670

>>17748678
that's still exactly what he said boomers do. point the sharp edge towards themselves and push the food against it

>>17748695
NTA, I'll give you that the edge is pointing towards him, but he's very obviously moving the knife while holding the apple still. That is not the same as pushing the food into the knife.

>>17747781
Imagine ever needing a recipe. Cooking is an innate ability that comes from the soul of the gifted.

>>17748678
Is this achievable natty?

>>17748599
my mom

I have a lot of shit to remember and memorize in the rest of my life. Stuff at work, learning a new language, history, video game strats, etc. Ill have a recipe memorized after like 3 times.

>>17747967
You sound like an insufferable faggot.
That’s always been a common way to peel small produce items, especially if you’re only peeling a few.
Do you seriously pull out an actual peeler if you’re just peeling a couple of apples or potatoes instead of just using the knife you already have out anyway?
And please link a video of someone unironically dicing an onion by shoving it onto a knife. I’ve never seen anyone do some shit like that.

>>17747781
How bout I sex your face bitch?

>>17747781
I just glance at the recipe the first time and then do whatever I want, no recipe after that, it's always a little different from them on but it's always good.

>>17747781
anyone else just read a couple recipes or watch a couple videos to get the idea - then just execute it as you see fit? I've got the technical know-how to do 98.5% of the things thrown at me, I just need the parameters