/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>if your time has very little economic value, might as well spend it spinning a handle

Vegetable proteins and the skills to cook them deliciously well.

>>18767637
>burnt green onions and steak
What is this? Does anyone use green onions with steak like this? genuinely curious

>poorfag cope
>just cook
>richfag 'cope'
>start a gay thread on /ck/

>>18767637
>>18767654
But these are both objectively great tools.

>>18767654
>number-crunching assburger who idolizes Andrew Tate can't appreciate the pure bliss of personal labor and sensation
Post a pic of your fridge for me bud, let me count the takeout boxes

>>18767654
>hooks a drill up to the grinder
heh, nothin personal

>>18767676
>gay thread
You are welcome anon, I wanted to make y'all feel comfortable.
>>18767715
They are, in fact I had both of them until I grenades the k4 by putting a >>18767762
drill to it.
They are just pain in the ass to use that is all.
>>18767723
It's bretty empty at the moment anon, I've got nothing to show you. Going on a trip tomorrow.

>>18767637
You hide the nail on the head, big guy.

Now watch the poorfags cope with not using a weigh scale

>>18767813
>They are just pain in the ass to use that is all.
Only if you are hopelessly incompetent.

>>18767813
reddit hates andrew tate too, you are like reddit

>>18767980
How would you know? Kek

>>18767989
spoken like a true redditor
go back

>>18767926
Anon are you gonna tell me that cast iron will start conducting heat as well as the aluminium layer, I can start dishwashing it, and the manual grinder will start spinning on it's own if I was just more competent?
>>18767829
Anon kitchen scales start at $10, and scoops are quicker to use. That's not a poorfag issue.

>>18767674
>burnt
They're crisp and I broil salmon over green onions like this with a sauce. Its very good.

>>18767637
Cast iron is superior fore cooking its impossible to damage, last houndred of years and distributes the heat more evon than stainless steel pots and pans plus when you burn a steak you can grin it off with a sander add some butter and it's better than The day it was manufactured 50 years in the past. Cast iron is my favorite fore cooking egg.

>>18768061
>distributes the heat more evon than stainless steel
Anon, steel and iron suck at conducting heat. The reason stainless pans are better is because of the aluminum layer sandwiched in between steel.

I have all 3 B^)

>>18768061
>impossible to damage
Cast iron is pretty easy to damage though. Stainless steel is much more durable.

>>18768146
where's the 7-ply demeyere?

>>18768146
>muh heat distribution
this makes absolutely zero difference in real life cooking. pic related, its you

>>18767980
I hear that redditors breathe air, you know what to do anon

>>18768146
i just can't justify spending more than $15 on a pan that does literally everything i want and will outlast me, there aren't many things like that anymore

>>18768242
I don't like when I put a steak or something on a pan and half of it browns. It's annoying and you need to fiddlefuck with it to get it even.
>>18768278
>$15
I take it you haven't bought a pan in a very long time.

>>18768306
>https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Skillet-Pre-Seasoned-Ready-Stove/dp/B00006JSUA/ref=sr_1_10?crid=39ES4T3TMMAYA&keywords=lodge+10+inch&qid=1672796358&sprefix=lodge+10+inch%2Caps%2C79&sr=8-10
i mean you can buy this and cook a million fucking things and never have to sperg out on people about pans ever again, and then get buried with it

Man cast iron is so cheap in the US

>>18768366
>10inch
NGMI

>>18768004
Ok newbie haha

>>18768011
>Anon kitchen scales start at $10, and scoops are quicker to use. That's not a poorfag issue.
Not in 1st world countries

>>18768785
You have the same access to Alibaba as the rest of us.

>>18768456
It fucking sucks on an electric range.

>>18768785
>Not in 1st world countries

>>18768857
What redeemed cast iron for me was getting an induction stove.
But it sucks on normie electric ones, somehow it's worse on glass top than rentoid spirals.

>>18768306
>and half of it browns
maybe let your pan fully heat up before putting food on it?

>>18769169
Or maybe I use a non retarded pan and don't have to wait for that to happen?

>>18769171
heavy pan absorbs more heat
intredasting

>lightweight pan doesn't hold much heat

>>18767654
Your time doesn't have much value if you're posting on 4ailchan

lemme guess, you're a teenage Libertarian who thinks real life is like Minecraft

;)

>>18768223
My idiot wife burned down our kitchen with oil in my cast iron. Afterwards I cleaned it up and it's perfect like it was 6 months ago.

>>18768146
I have a 15" cast iron, i like how i can use the cold spots to move food to when it's almost done cooking. Or for cooking veggies on when stir frying.
I have my breakfast routine fully optimized
>cook eggs on the hot spot while pan heats up
>after it's around 600F i move eggs to cold spot
>fry bread and butter on hot spot
>plate texas toast
>fry bacon on hot spot briefly each side
>put bacon on eggs, plate

>>18768857
Everything sucks on an electric range

>>18769197
>burned down our kitchen with oil in my cast iron

>>18769176
>>18769182
You are just proving my point, it's annoying to use.
>slow to warm because 2x the amount of material for no reason
>still warms unevenly
>rusts if damp
>requires you to develop a special polymerized layer of fat on it's surface
>can't be dishwashed
>>18769211
I have cope griddle option on my stove, it just links two small burners together but without anything between. Adding picrel on top leaves me with place for 2 steaks and bunch of cold area.
Used it twice and it's been on the bottom of the pan drawer since.
>same amount of cook space as a regular pan because hot spots
>huge cope griddle left out to clean that can't be diswashed
Anon, just get two pans, put them in the dishwasher when done.

>>18770240
>eats food cooked on pans dish washed with cancer soap
ngmi

>>18769073
>he can afford prime

>>18768146
I got a 5-ply USA Pan skillet. Its amazing

I use cast iron on electric coil

>>18768242
It 100% does, cooklet. When I pan fry some battered fish over a gas range the cooking is uneven.

>>18768242
>heat doesn't matter when cooking
what in tarnation

at least >>18769211 came up with a cope that it's a "feature" and didn't pretend it doesn't matter kek

>>18772378
He's right, thermal mass doesn't matter after the pans reach heat saturation and if searing, that the heat source is perfect that the pan sustains its temperature during energy transfer from pan to food. And I've never seen a thin pan out-sear cast iron.

>>18767980
Redditors drink water, I guess you'd better stop drinking water anon

>>18774163
not him but i've been binge watching andrew tate videos because he's based and redpilled

>>18774078
>heat saturation
the heat won't be even just because it's "saturated", see >>18768146

Vague example:
>start at 450/300 end at 425/275 (-25)
vs
>start at 450/425 end at 400/375 (-50)

Latter loses more heat but cooks better. You don't want an uneven sear, with some parts burnt and some parts grey. Yes, you can position things or move the meat around to work around it. But even heating means less crap like that to deal with, and you need to leave meat alone before it detaches if you want a good crust.

Plus, if you lose more heat, just start with slightly higher temp, easy. You need decent heat capacity but stainless has that, it's not aluminum shit.

>thin pan
don't buy cheap thin shit, with stainless you need to buy the good, heavy stuff.

>>18768146
>That copper heat distribution
QRD on copper frying pans, anons? Are they for richfags and YouTube chefs? Are they worth it for everyday cooking?

>>18776356
If you have a gas stove and cook a lot of sauces they are worth it. Otherwise not so much. Try getting them cheap from ebay.

This board shilled me into buying cast iron after I read all the shit about microplastics in my nonstick. It kind of sucked at first but everything went better after reseasoning it. For all of the schizo nonsense that gets posted on 4Chen this one was actually really decent, just wouldn't get a pot since scrubbing that fucker sounds like a pain in the ass.

>>18767637
>poorfag
>not thrifting for stainless clad cookware

Invest in a rubber mallet and you can literally beat the warped stainless pans back into shape.

Will it have perfect contact and heat distribution? no.
Will it be weaker and more prone to warping in the future? yes.
Will you save 95% off MSRP? fuck yes.

Which pan material is best for oven finishing

Is it always and forever going to be cast iron

>>18776782
Doesn't matter as long as it doesn't have a plastic handle that will melt off.

>>18776325
>if you lose more heat, just start with slightly higher
Bretty much anon, lower heat cap means it also heats up faster. Unless your stove is weak and can't keep up. If you have to sear on your highest heat level than you might really benefit from cast iron.

>>18767637
OP, there's only one criteria by which I judge my cookware: if I put it over my crotch, and someone shoots me in the dick, will my weenie be okay? Only cast iron can give me that.

>>18776782
Copper of course as it will cool down much faster.