/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5367827
How's your privileged life?

That's okay, though, since the only sector of our economy that is growing is food service.

>>5367829
Not OP but actually preparing and knowing how to prepare food isn't exactly something I would call "privileged".

>>5367850
Says the privileged cis scum.

>>5367850
I assumed OP was talking about families who don't have enough time to make food.

>>5367866
This is something I don't understand, how can someone not have enough time to prepare a 14minute meal? The only people I can think of is Americans in Detroit that have to catch those buses at 3a.m. to go to their jobs, in which case I think that's an exception.

>>5367881
You know how people say "I don't have time for video games anymore" when logistically that's obviously bullshit? It's not that they don't literally have the time it's that they're so tired from working and raising a household that it's just easier to make those quick meals.

>>5367881

>Detroit
>jobs
>people who are even interested in employment

>>5367920
Legit, I saw it in a documentry where these people catch this bus hell early and work like 3 joba at below minimum wage.

>>5367827
>mfw my roommate is one of those people
>mfw he makes fun of me for eating some variation of rice and beans every day
>mfw I eat rice and beans even with access to pizza and pizza accessories at work
>mfw all he does is buy fast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner

>>5367935
>pizza and pizza accessories
How many variations of rice and beans are their? I hope your not using basmati rice.

>>5367960
Well, uhhh.

>beans with diced pork tenderloin
>beans with diced skirt steak
>beans with bacon
>beans with various sorts of sausage
>plain beans

Then mix those with Mexican style rice.

Usually fairly liberal with the cayenne and black pepper.

Just curious, but what's wrong with basmati rice?

I never realized this before I started coming to 4chan.

>>5367967
Ah with mean as well, I thought you meant like rice + navy beans, rice + green beans, etc.

I can never eat basmati, the texture is so off putting.

>fridge and cabinets have plenty of space for everyone's food
>kitchen is well stocked with any cooking supplies one could need
>me and one roommate always cook our meals
>two other roommates, one microwaves everything, one eats fast food for literally every meal
>fast food roommate alternates between wingstop, panda express, burger king, and pizza hut LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE DAY
>fast food roommate complains "i cant make food because the dishes are dirty and i wont wash someone elses dishes"
>fast food roommate (and his girlfriend, who is always over and eats the same) have gained at least 30 pounds in ONE SEMESTER

dude was on the verge of fat before, now he's fucking huge
also doesn't take out the trash or clean up anything because "its not his mess", even when it is. He also eats most of his meals in bed, has left pizza boxes and stuff IN HIS BED for days

>>5367967
You implied it was -only- beans and rice, you seem to be adding quite a bit of animal proteins in there.

>>5367967
isn't basmati rice a pain in the ass?

>>5367970
Most of the time it's pinto beans, will do black beans every now and then.

I really, really like basmati rice. Been going to the same Indian grocery store and getting 10lb sacks for quite a few years now.

Apparently it's difficult for people to understand how I can eat rice and beans so much. I've got them to the point where they're perfect in the spice department, so they're never dull.

I'm also Mexican and grew up having rice and beans as an entire meal, so I don't really see them as a side dish.

>>5367977
Right... which makes it a variation.

To confirm, I'm throwing that meat in with the beans.

Sometimes I'll make arroz con pollo. Pan fry some diced chicken breasts and thinly sliced potatoes - again liberal use of spices - then mix beans in for the most ultimately satisfying meal.

>>5367981
It's never been difficult for me. If anything it's particular about the amount of water/liquid and cooking time before it jumps from being cooked to being soggy and sticky.

>>5367991
Try making something else

>>5367827
I saw a commercial for fucking microwave waffles in plastic.

How hard is it to toast a waffle.

>>5367999
Either way, they are both prepacked food. I also saw something awful, pre packed grilled cheese sandwiches

>>5367994
I do from time to time.

For 'special' occasions I'll make a brisket and go the whole nine yards on the spread: dank as hell mashed potatoes, corn pan fried in butter salt and pepper, corn bread and of course beans.

I make a mean corned beef hash. It turns out better when I have leftover brisket, but if I'm just working with corned beef it's still great. With some cheddar cheese and Whataburger spicy ketchup mixed in it's orgasmic.

Rice and beans is purely my dietary staple. I cannot get tired of them and it's a reasonably healthy meal.

>>5367902
It's food though, not fucking video games. It's one of the most important things in your lives.

Immigrant families who have a tradition of cooking and know how almost always find a way to cook even though they work 2-3 jobs.

The only people who aren't cooking are doing so because they are fucking stupid, not because they are under privileged. The only exception is if you live in the deep, deep inner city where there are no grocery stores and only bodegas and gas stations.

>>5367827
but I don't have to cook, my breakfast doesn't involve any cooking.

Get fucked, nigger.

I tried boiling beans once, even soaked them overnight. They came out nasty. I dowon't have a microwave for a few months so I live off Subway, ramen + sardines now.

>>5368067
>They came out nasty
Then know you've fucked up making food that illiterate Mexican laborers are capable of making in their sleep.

One of the first times I made beans I accidentally added way too much black pepper because I have a metric fuckton of it from work because it was too finely ground.

They came out awesomely spicy.

>soak for 6-8 hours
>rinse, put in pot with lid
>add enough water to cover them and then some
>add salt, pepper and things that taste good
>let them simmer, covered for 2-2.5 hours
>check them every 30 minutes or so to make sure they have enough water

They're so easy to make and you can make a fuckton of them, throw them in the fridge and they last a hella long time.

>>5367829
>How's your privileged life?
>being able to prepare food is a privilege
How's your pleb life?

>>5367827
I know an a reasonably affluent Middle-American family that lives entirely on frozen prepared meals, salad from bags and bottled dressing. I visited them for dinner one night and was served frozen pizza and salad from a bag. I asked if they has any vinegar and oil so I could make a vinaigrette (because I hooped to avoid ranch dressing). The wife produced some white vinegar that she said she used for cleaning. I made a rudimentary vinaigrette with it as she looked on. Her comment? "Wow, I didn't know you could do that!"

my housemate is remarkably shit at cooking considering he's in his mid twenties. he got tubby recently so he started trying to cook for himself but most of the time he takes fresh ingredients and turns them into something that is probably nutritionally worse than a blowout at maccas.

the worst is the stir fries. he does it completely ass backwards. takes a cold pan, pours like a cup of vegetable oil into it, puts diced stewing beef in and lets it slowly heat up until it starts to sizzle after like 20 minutes. then he puts one of those packs of stir fry veg in along with one of those sachets of sweet chilli sauce, leaves it for another ten minutes and throws the noodles in. you can imagine how it comes out. usually does it while he's downloading all kinds of malware to our media centre PC looking for emulator roms or whatever.

doesn't drain tuna before he mixes it with mayo. tries to make banoffee pie repeatedly, each attempt suffering from its own unique catastrophic flaw - either it's sweeter than sugar itself, or he churns the cream into butter, or he uses evaporated milk instead of condensed milk and forgets to boil it. one time i caught him trying to make the dulce de leche with a can of sweetcorn. i should have let him do it, his face would've been priceless.

and the washing up afterwards is diabolical, there's always enough ketchup oozing down plates into the drying rack to lubricate several servings of chips. which sucks because he has a tendency to passive aggressively do a massive clean up every once in a while as a way of securing leverage for future domestic favours.

i love him though. he makes 55k but his domestic life is a farce.

>>5367827
instead of being so judgmental maybe you can think about why that may be like they dont know how to cook and you could try to help or mom and dad have to work a lot and dont have time.

>>5367827
Actually cooking your own shit can be more expensive that buy packaged. Which is why I rarely cook for myself

>>5370186
Only if you're a post-spiritual-hippie-soulsearching-gaiachild who only buys "organic" from ultra expensive niche supermarkets.

If you stick to your local ingredients (inb4 buying tropical fruits in cold european countries) it will be MUCH cheaper, unless you eat from dollar menu at fast food joints every single day.

Cokking your own food is not only cheaper, but also healthier and much tastier if you know your spices and herbs.

>be upper class european living in South America
>live with senile mother (she asked me to stay), adult NEET brother and teen sister
>have maid who is also a cook
>despite having owned a small restaurant, she only cooks 5 different dishes, in random order, forever
>mother doesn't care
>teen sister eats at boyfriend's house, mostly
>NEET brother complains if he has to peel a fucking orange

I mean it when I say, do not ever spoil your kids when it comes to food. My brother is full-on chubbynerd mode, claims he's /fit/ and just big-boned (despite having a blubber gut) and REFUSES to make anything above microwaving a hotpocket for himself.

When I get bored of the cook's food, I wait until she's asleep (she's like Consuelo from family guy, she hates when I mess with "her" work stuff) and I cook full meals with multiple sides. The sole reason I learned how to cook was because I was fucking TERRIFIED of becoming a junkdumpster like my brother.

>>5370146
Disgusting. (the people, not you)

>>5367960
whats wrong with basmati rice?

>>5370215
Sure thing hippie

>>5370236

It's the rice for plebs who think they're not plebs.

>>5370323
what about sona mojya rice or something like that?

I only have an indian store in walking distance of me :(

>>5370323
Basmati is awesome.

>>5367829
Raw ingredients, or frozen ingredients are way cheaper than pre-cooked food. What are you talking about?

>>5367829
>not being lazy
>not spending your money like a dumbass

Is that what constitutes privilege now?

Anyone have those image macro's that show you can buy large amounts of healthy food cheaper than fast food?

>>5370379
>Is that what constitutes privilege now?

Check your not being a dumbass privilege.

>>5367827
My roommates are always amazed at how little I spend on food every month. I buy grains, meats and vegetables in bulk and just make whatever comes to mind off the ingredients every day. My meals come out to maybe 4 dollars per, and that beats the hell out of the taco bell one of the plebs I live with buys.

I don't understand how people can't cook, though I helped my mother in the kitchen from the moment I could peel a potato and grew up poor as shit, so maybe that helped me.

>>5370323
>everyone knows about it so it's not co-oool, waah waah i want to be special!

>>5370389
>you can buy large amounts of healthy food cheaper than fast food

Yeah but not if you live in the ghetto.

>there are people who can't even imagine how to cook a meal without meat or dairy

hey /ck/, I am one of those plebs. except today I cooked my first item that wasn't throwing something in a microwave or boiling pasta/hotdogs. I made some mexican/spanish rice. :3

now I just need to learn how to cook beans and maybe get some meat in there.

>>5367866
How many hours of tv do they watch a day.

>>5370389
Maybe Canada is different (I'm assuming those are made by an american) but those images are a load of shit. I'm not saying it's more expensive to buy and make your own food, but there is no fucking way in hell I could get one of those's amount of groceries for the price.

Are they a joke and I'm actually dumb or is food in america this much cheaper than in canada?

>>5367866
>don't have enough time
anytime anyone uses this for excuse for anything they are full of shit

it's as if saying, "I don't want to, no" is fucking impossible for 99% of people

>>5367827

OP, I consider myself extremely lucky to have parents who cook for a living.

A few years ago I was friends with a guy who gave me shit for knowing how to and liking cooking. It was a woman's task according to him. Even when I argued that being able to cook for yourself was a life skill he still called me a little bitch.

Joke's on him though. He moved out of home and got ultra fat on instant noodles.

>>5370904
Why are other people's fridges so interesting?

>>5370916
For the same reason the chicks you bang look through your medicine cabinet.

>>5370866
All prices in the US vary quite a bit from region to region. But yeah, I expect our produce in particular would be a lot cheaper here. Our taxes are substantially lower and we're closer to all the the best places to grow shit.

>>5370916

same anon here

Its just always interesting to see how other people are living. When I visit my parents I'll just fucking stare in amazement. Crazy thing is that fridge is only a fraction of the food in the house. In their garage is a double wide fridge, a double wide freezer and a freezer the size of a regular fridge.

Its no wonder that I lost 30 lbs after moving out.