/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18976201
>straight man
>interested in cooking

>>18976201
If you regularly cook of your own free will and not just because you are forced to, you are interested in cooking.

>>18976201
when you're interested in cooking

>>18976211
Almost everyone regularly cooks a breakfast for themselves, doesn't meant they're interested in cooking.

i'm wary of anyone who calls themselves a, "foodie."

usually means they will eat anything. like people who are "movie buffs" means they will usually sit through literally hours of garbage indiscriminately.

most people have shite taste and it exhausts me.

>>18976201
If you're American, "interested in cooking" means you don't have your dinner delivered to you more than 3 times a week. Most people my age are shocked when I tell them I cook every meal I eat myself, and I don't even considered myself a good cook. If you can cook meat and know the absolute bare bones of presentation, normies will treat you like a Michelin starred chef.

>>18976225
this post is incredibly true.

>>18976201
when you eat the food

>>18976225
This is unironically accurate. "Do you prepare more than half of your dinners for yourself, at home" would be a realistic explicit cutoff. Unless you're fully impoverished (a type of "forced" cooking) the only reason to do this is because you like to cook.

>>18976221
And then they eat (or watch) some gourmet shit and don't like it that much and end up preferring domino's pizza (or big mouth on netflix)

>>18976219
>Almost everyone regularly cooks a breakfast for themselves
Lmao

>>18976201
When you have no choice at your first apartment and making next to nothing in money then you learn to make stuff for yourself.

>>18976201
>>18976225
If you're European and you're interested in cooking, you're interested in hospitality and the values associated with it. That's it. Everything else comes with time. Learn something, share it, get something in return.

>>18976225
making a sandwich is not cooking

>>18976358
What if it's le croque monsieur

>>18976201
Being a "foodie" just means you like to eat. Probably means you're fat and don't have a decent palette as well. Interest in cooking doesn't mean you go spend your paycheck at whatever garbage restaurant that happens to be popular that week.

>>18976225
i cut up hotdogs for some guy and he considers me the best cook he knows
not sure how america got like this

>>18976366
I had a croque monsieur as well as a pain au chocolat with a cappuccino at a Parisian café yesterday and it made me happy

>>18976219
You sure about that?

>>18976225
I made chicken and olive fried tacos at a group kitchen once for meal prepping. Another dude there called me a "Master of my craft" despite me thinking my recipe was rather lazy. I appreciated the comment, but it also was when I started to realize most people don't cook unless they have to now days.

>>18976532
Yes. You're not as special as you tell yourself.

>>18976561
then why are you paying me so much attention
i havent even begun to shine

>>18976519
hello fellow pain au Chocolat enjoyer

>>18976613
bonjour

>>18976221
I've seen your taste, it's shit too.

>>18976478
One of my roommates makes grilled cheese by toasting 2 pieces of bread, putting a kraft single between them, then microwaving the whole thing for 1 minute to melt the cheese. I have literally never seen him turn on the stove, I'm not even sure if he knows how. Every time he sees me cooking anything he seems legitimately awestruck, even if I'm just standing there waiting for pasta to finish boiling.

>40 years
>on dating apps

I'd kill myself probably
I'm 28 and single and it haunts me lol

>>18976225
yeah
I've just realized I only ever eat out about once a month

>>18976973
That's cool. If I was stuck with one bitch for my entire life I'd probably kill myself in that case. So apps it is.

>>18976211
I cook of my own free will, but because I like to eat good food not because I like to cook. I hate cooking. I juts like eating nore that I hate cooking
>>18976221
I would call myself a foodie. If I'm on a trip I will search for the best food or the local specialty regardless of whether I think I will enjoy it or not.

>>18976225
Unfortunately true, my friends praise my roast chicken, even when it's literally just salt, pepper, olive oil, finished on a high heat to crisp the skin and taken out early enough to remain juicy

I'm interested in eating

>>18977503

I'm not but I'm interested in shitting.