/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Rice, onions and carrots.
bon appetit

Rule #1: Stick to the outside ring of the supermarket.

Rule #2: Buy per pound.

Cheap foods per pound?

* Potatoes
* Carrots
* Whole Chickens - simmer until it falls apart is the easiest way to make shredded chicken for a lot of shit
* Canned tomatoes - grocery tomatoes are total shit, canned ones are picked actually ripe
* Corn
* Rice
* Bulk yeast + wheat = make your own bread
* Other cheap veggies
* Only eat pasta on occasion, and don't buy expensive cheese for it. Learn how to make a good tomato sauce like this one: http://lenierchenal.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/basic-tomato-sauce/

* Butter is expensive, only use sparingly on things like baked potatoes. You don't need it for roasted chicken.
* Milk is also expensive, and isn't necessary

* Cheap fruits like Bananas ( i can get them for 19 cents a pound on tuesdays at one local place), oranges, apples

* Butternut, and acorn squash - pumpkin puree works too

* Eat raw food as much as possible to keep utilities down

* Frozen vegetables are usually equal in price to canned, and a lot fresher.

* Beans are cheap, and can be used as a substitute for meat in a lot of ways


My suggestions? Learn how to cook potatoes like crazy. Also learn how to make wonderful roasted vegetables, especially root ones.

>>4759075
>outside ring
what?

>>4759220
Stick to the outside ring. All of the area not in the aisles. This is where the dairy, eggs, meat, and produce are kept. You know, real food.

I figure I'll ask here instead of make a new thread.

Same situation, and I have no idea where to learn how to actually cook. Is it just trial and error? I was at Barnes and Noble earlier today staring at the cooking section and saw a lot of recipe books but nothing that, you know, explained cooking to me.

I've come to /ck/ with envy for years, I want to leave canned foods behind.

>>4759237
I never thought of it this way, but very true.

I remember going to a grocery store in 'murrika and noticed they spread the soda, candy, chips, etc. over several aisles. The soda was across from the diapers, chips near the baking goods, etc.

>>4760316
Watch Good Eats honestly

Things with pasta/rice/ground beef/chicken

steak/pork chops if you're feeling pricey

>>4759030
I found this on /ck/ a week or so ago. I can't vouch for it, but it may interest you.

>>4759237
w-what about the rice and oats

>>4760403

It was tested for a few months, five days a week, in a pool, on an energetic deficit.

>>4760533
So does that mean that it doesn't have enough calories or what?

>>4760640
I think he means that it gives you less calories than what you'd need to float in a pool

>>4760403
That honestly looks pretty good, thanks

Cooking 101
>Buy shit you like
>Throw in frying pan, preferably meat first

Congratulations, you are now cooking!

>>4761030
Or put it in oven safe dish, cook till done. I find oven dishes require a lot less attention or cooking skills.

>>4761030
>meat first
>not onion

>>4759030

GIT GUD

>>4760316
Read up on it on the Internet and learn a few things that way. Just google "learning how to cook" and then follow those links. Find what you like and then and then expirament and grow upon that.

>>4761030

see>>4761104

dont know who taught you how to cook mate

its

>oil
>onion + garlic/ whatever spices (wanna get those niggas lightly toasted)
>meat
>alcohol
>stock/whatever liquid you want

>>4761141
What about everything else, like vegetables?

>>4761141
>Implying ching chongs dont wok their pork before throwing in veggies

Keep your French faggot dogma out of /co/, buddy

>>4761796
>implying they do

does anyone has some easy recipes as a comic like pic related?

healthy/non-murrican recipes preferred

>>4762374
http://ck.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list

>>4762374
I'm not going to lie, I was totally expecting for the pizza to fall through the grille and into the bacon dreamcatcher or something

>>4762374
I know le reddit XDDDD etc. etc. but check out http://www.reddit.com/r/foodhacks/
Sort by top of all time, you should get quite a few

>>4763025
>look at it
>34 Food hacks everybody should know
>Use a Thumb Tac for the Perfect Boiled Egg
Why is that even in a list of Foodhacks?
Are there really people that boil their eggs without puncturing their rear?

>>4763242
>Are there really people that boil their eggs without puncturing their rear?
Yes. Everyone.

>>4761141
you need to do meat first so you can drain all the horrible fat away

>>4763270
Oh, okay.
It's common knowledge in Germany, at least where I live. That's why I wondered.

>>4760326
This is how I got into cooking, I love that show
>Based Colonel Bob Boatwright

>>4763242
You changed my fucking life m8

protein and easy to make

>>4763326
so much better with salmon

>>4763331
the only good salmon is smoked salmon on white bread with horseradish

>>4763334
While I generally agree, salmon Patties rock.

>>4763341
do you just buy smoked salmon and cut it into little pieces to form the patties?

>>4763025
>>4762379
cool thanks, ill check it out

>>4763352
Nah, better uses for smoked: use canned.

>>4763411
I never saw canned salmon in my grovery stores, but fuck now I want to try that

>>4763424
It's usually near the tuna and/or corned beef hash.

Also, it comes in full sized cans, not the baby cans tuna/chicken/whatever comes in.

>>4763440
well I'm from germany and never heard about it

in my local store there is a corner with canned salmon, canned herrings and canned turkey

>>4760316
There are a few all-purpose cookbooks that include primers on how to cook things, not just providing recipes. For instance, I wish I had read what my Betty Crocker cookbook said about soaking dried beans before I tried making red beans and rice the first time.

>>4763445
I live in a part of the US where salmon is not readily available, so salmon patties were the only way I've had it most of my life, but now I can get smoked, so much happier.

>>4763454
yeah here its kinda opposite.all I ever saw in the stores is smoked or prepackaged slamon stuff that you have to heat up in the oven

Honestly I think I learned how to cook well enough by looking up recipes of things I wanted to learn how to cook, and applying what I learned from previous instructions and trials. Often I would experiment by slightly changing or adding ingredients and noting the effects it had on the final dish. It's a matter of interest, time, effort, gathering quality ingredients with a high degree of re-usability. A basic understanding of chemistry also goes a long way.

For example yesterday, while I was mixing ingredients for a batch of cookies I realized I was completely out of vanilla extract, but I really wanted the little extra flavor. An equivalent substitute should be flavorful and probably be alcohol-based. I had rum in the cupboard from when I made banana fosters, so I used that. Holy mother of fuck, this is the best batch so far. This recipe usually comes out so dry and crumbly, the ones with rum are perfectly chewy and moist.