/ck/ - Food & Cooking

its the shnitzel for the most part man

>>5594489
Love it, its my 2nd or 3rd favorite cuisine. Especially Baden or Bavarian

>>5594490
half of our dinner orders are schnitzels. we have 11 different kinds. we pound, bread, and fry each to order, and most of them come with a different sauce that we make by scratch for each order. that was the most time-consuming and difficult part of learning my job

Fried, starchy, bland. Probably one of the low tier cuisines of the world. Sausages are the only saving grace, but other cuisines do sausage more justice. Not even trolling.

>>5594522
I thought this at first too. I've previously worked at french and "new american" restaurants, and always thought german food was really crude, a bit too teutonic for my tastes. Making it for a living though has changed my opinion. It is quite rich, but when everything is made fresh from scratch it can be quite good too

>>5594522
maybe youre eating from the wrong region, try some food from Baden

>>5594489
that's because "young hip people" are generally stupid. Or at the least, not worldly wise. German food is delicious.. Of course, it depends on how god of a German restaurant it is. There's great, good, mediocre and horrible here in the US. (Pro-tip, I've worked in several German restaurants here in the US, and I'm half German, half American.)

>>5594489
Austrian food is 9/10. German food is 2/10.

>>5594522

probably a fucking frenchman.

There is a schnitzel food truck in my city and it does amazing business.

Most people here in the US know exactly three German foods: sauerkraut, beer and sausage. There's nothing there that really screams "meal" to them. I think there's totally room to grow outside those narrow expectations.

The only problem I can see is that America typically sees bitter and sour flavors as something wrong instead of just another flavor.

>>5594564
you know nothing

Pic related is in Manchester, NH.

It's bretty good; no frills, homestyle, pastries are decent, and dirt cheap, but it's pretty renowned in the area

sometimes an ancient hungarian women will be at one of the tables sewing that looks like she should be in a black & white photo on the wall

A German place finally opened up in my city about a week ago. I've been there twice and I'm leaving in a little while to eat there again tonight. Goddamn I love German food. I live about 45 minutes away from a little German town called New braunfels, but it's just too far of a drive for me.

>>5594633
So....Do you live north of San Marcos, or in San Antonio? :)
Ever been to Fredericksburg?

>>5594645
I live in the northern outskirts of San Antonio. I don't know much about Fredericksberg to be honest. Maybe I'll go check it out on my next day off. Any restaurant suggestions?

German here, our cuisine sucks. All we have is greasy meat with potato shit, and all meals only work with a liter of beer as a side dish.

>>5594658
Yep. If you want the most realistic German food, go to Der Lindenbaum. The owner is a professional chef from Germany, she's lived here for like, 30 years now, and of course she has staff working the kitchen, but her recipes are legit, at least, more so than other places. I grew up there, so I can at least tell you where to avoid. Auslander has good live music, but their german food is a joke. I went to high school with the owner, and he's about as german as my dog (in other words, not at all). There's so many places to avoid, it's hard for me to name them all, lol. But I'll mention some more good stuff. Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn has pretty good food, but it's expensive as fuck, and their schintzels aren't as good as Der Linenbaum's. If you like a german-style chicken fried steak, though, Friedhelm's is good. For breakfast, bakery stuff, and a good burger, I recommend George's Old German Bakery. I love that place. Great breakfasts, and the only place in town that you can get actual brotchen. Their burgers are really good, too. They bake the buns themselves. And if you like meringues or sweet pretzels, that's the place. Their breads are good too, get some to take home. IF YOU LIKE SAUSAGE, go to Opa's. It's going to be on the same road where you come into town from San Antonio, on 16, about 4 blocks from Main St. Go in there, and get their original Beef sausage, their Country style (beef and pork), Bratwurst (best I've had anywhere in the US) and their Jalapeno sausauge. OH GOD, and get their beef tenderloin jerky. You will come buckets. I'm having a fart attack just thinking about it. (I live about 2000 miles away now, and I miss it all so much). The thing to keep in mind about Fredericksburg is that so many people from other states have moved there now (I've seen it called "the Aspen of Texas", even where I live), that you have to be careful not to get sucked into a touristy piece of shit, because there's a lot.

>>5594682
are Germans overweight on average? I'm not that familiar with the food but it seems like lots of cured meats, fried meats, potatoes and beer.

>>5594706
germany is not one of the fattest countries in europe, but you see the occasional beer belly in older people.

>>5594489
If there was a German restaurant that did varied, traditional, seasonal (as much as possible) food that wasn't afraid of offal and "nasty bits", I'd want to go there frequently.

I wouldn't touch a schnitzel that wasn't veal.

>>5594489
Love it OP. I am lucky there are two German restaurants near me, and a Deli. Fuck YEAH!

>>5594705
OH and, if you want to go to New Braunfels, there's some good German food there, too. Alpine Haus, Oma's Haus, and Theis German bakery, oh and Friesenhaus are all good place for German food and baked good there, too. So don't neglect New Braunfels, either, because it's a lot less "touristy" than Fredericksburg.

>>5594489
Are those potatoes and fried chicken? Whats on top of the other fillet, a fig?

>>5594732
That's a very bad version of a Holstein schnitzel. It should look at least somewhat like pic related.

>>5594740
looks the same to me except it stacked

>>5594731
>>5594705
Thanks anon. I saved a screen shot of your suggestions for later.

>>5594740
>german food
>presentation

pick one

my people are not so good at art

>>5594852
Yeah, but that's still way more presentable than >>5594489
Plus, OPs pic isn't even a real Holstien schnitzel. There's more involved there than just "presentation".

>>5594489
Help me, anon. I tried making chicken schnitzel and it was tender and cooked perfectly, but lacked seasoning.

How should I season my schnitzel?

>>5594558
>I'm half German, half American.
Cool, which tribe are you from?

>>5594489
I think that it's fucking god tier, and there's a lot more diversity to it than what people get at German restaurants. As stated a few times in this thread, people have a lot of misconceptions about what "German Food" is.

Although Ive not really given it a fair shake, the German food I had was mediocre at best. Nothing special about, certainly not something I seek out.

>>5594989
>people have a lot of misconceptions about what _______ food is.
That applies to nearly every food. Though the biggest I think in America is probably Chinese food. All Americans know about Chinese food is Americanised Chinese food. Shit is hilarious when I hear people saying shit like "_________ at panda express is really authentic!”

>>5594963
>which tribe
don't be a faggot. Americans are american. the worst is when someone who grew up in Ohio claims to be Irish.

>>5594489
There's a German restaurant in Johnson City, TN. Heard it's great, not been there yet.
>i live an hour away
>neither young nor hip

reminder that hunter sauce is best sauce

>>5595407
hour which way? Chattanooga here

biergarten in cincinnati fuck yeah

My brother, who lives in Manhattan, was just telling me schnitzel is a recent hot microtrend there among young hipstery types. He and some friends looked at one of the restaurants the other day, but it was packed and they didn't want to wait. It seems like most restaurant fads that he tells me about don't spread outside the city.

>>5595452
>most restaurant fads that he tells me about don't spread outside the city
like what?

>>5594489

Went here a few years back and the food was good but the portions were kinda small.

>>5595889
>rathskeller
i just died a little inside

>>5594489
Dunno about restaurants, but the German families I lived in while in Germany couldn't cook for shit. My grandma ended up cooking for them for the most part while we were there... I don't know how they eat what they cook. On the streets though there's been some fun stuff like those grilled wurst things.

Britain also has shit cooking from my experience. Generic european meals are fine and tasty everywhere though.

Then again, I'm from Russia with weird eating habits. Most Russians can't cook well either, though, except for grandmas and pro chefs. Grandma cooking is god tier.

>>5594867
just salt and pepper

Pretty good and underrated imo.

>>5594705
>OH GOD, and get their beef tenderloin jerky. You will come buckets. I'm having a fart attack just thinking about it

>>5595423
>no gravel
>no trees
>plastic cups

>>5595889
>rathskeller

Way to fuck up everything, America.

>>5594489

Food is my favorite dish. You damn right I'll be having some german on my plate

>>5595067
Whats wrong with embracing ones heritage?

>>5596068
You're American. Not German, not Dutch, not Irish.

>>5596056
isn't the correct spelling "ratskeller"? therr is a bar inside an inn about 30 minutes from me that has the name ratskeller.

stop talking about german food like such a thing even exists. there's no german food, just regional food.

bavarian master race here.

>>5596074
Fuck.

>>5596071
So just because someone was born somewhere their forefathers weren't, that means they can't enjoy the things their forefathers enjoyed?

>>5596078
>my forefathers came to the US 2 centuries ago
>I'm from their nation.

>>5596081
My forefathers actually came straight from germany during ww2. I don't claim to be from germany, I just claim to have german blood running through my veins.

>>5596088
>I just claim to have german blood running through my veins.

Now you're trolling.

>>5596092
So your telling me that there is no way to tell if someone is from certain parts of europe by the way they look and act?

There are dna tests that can tell you what parts of europe you are from.

I realize that my current culture is mostly american, but one cannot deny where they come from. It would be a disgrace IMO.

>>5596100
>being this obsessed

Just say you're American and that you enjoy foreign food. Not like anybody would take you any more seriously if you showed them a "DNA test".

>>5596100
>where they come from

I mean to say where their ancestors originated.

You should try Rheinischer Sauerbraten, german sour pot roast, especially the version from the rhein area (the british sector). It's amazing, believe me. Especially with red cabbage (sweetened with apple) and potato dumplings.

>>5596107
africa

>>5595421
Other way--in Virginia.

>>5594489
>but we don't get the "young, hip" crowd
I'd pay extra for that.

>>5594489

I like German food. But at least where I've lived and traveled in the USA it's usually of poor quality, if it's available at all. I wish it was better represented here--the majority of what I had was not very tasty nor was it very authentic. It reminded me of the time I went to a Mexican restaurant in Denmark....it just wasn't executed right at all.

>>5595942
>>5596056

"The Dakota Inn Rathskeller was opened in Detroit on August 1, 1933 by Karl Kurz and is owned and operated by the Kurz family to this day and is the city's only authentic German beer garden, complete with oompah bands and polka contests."

>>5596176
extra for what? a bunch of old geezers?
better show up around 4:30pm for that bluetop dinner special of liver and onions

>>5596237
Yeah. I know those feel. I live on the west coast, and it's impossible to find good German food here. So much so, that I'm planning on opening my own little German food stand in a few years.

>>5594489
I love it. Born and raised in Central Illinois, so I've been eating it all my life. There's a little German bar with decent food that my family has been going to for as long as I can remember, and there are German cultural/food festivals every summer and fall. The best German food I ever had was in San Francisco, though, at a German gastropub called Leopold's. Their special that night was braised pork cheeks - fucking divine.

>>5594489
I hate it. It's tastes awful.

>>5596071
It's sad that the mongrels will never accept this, they cling desperately for some validation. There like bastards that come crawling to their fathers for recognition, rather than making some of their own

>>5596595
LOL. I'm >>5596589, and I just looked at Leopold's yelp page and website. The food looks just like what I make on a regular basis at home. I'll have to go try it next time I'm in the city. But, their success tells me there's a market for it, so that gives me more encouragement to open my own place. (I do have restaurant experience, I'm not just dicking around here.)

>>5594489
>I'm a cook at a german restaurant in america. We are mostly popular with older people, who often drive from over an hour away to visit, but we don't get the "young, hip" crowd
Miami has a hugely hip crowd at Fritz and Franz, but it's predecessor Mozart Stube had issues, and the best one in Miami closed "Heidi's" after 3 incarnations.
German this or that is only cool in the soccer-watching subset, those football fans, beer hall kind of fans who pour in for Oktoberfest to the various local festivals but seem to dry up after that. North Miami, South Beach, hollywood has good restaurants with either tourists or old people. The cuisine is only popular with expats, tourists and the well traveled who have been all over Europe. There's a little grocery near my house, Mainzer's Deli, which seems to have brisk business when I pop in for lebanese food nearby, and been open for decades, which is a great source of traditional breads to take home, chocolates, licorice, but not much else. Since Aldi's came to town, I have to admit, I can find some of the things I might want there, especially gingerbread and liquor cakes near Christmas.
I dunno man. I have some german great great grandparents, so my parents like the food, but if you aren't a beer snob and well traveled in Miami, you probably think of it like a novelty, a bratwurst thing at festivals. I truly love a jaeger schnitzel, leberknudel soup, and I probably make red cabbage or sauerkraut once a month in my house, and always have rye onhand. I couldn't eat it every day, though. Potatoes, sour food, fried food, sausages? Doesn't seem healthy, and is one step above bland if it weren't for yummy hot mustard.

>>5596579
>better show up around 4:30pm for that bluetop dinner special of liver and onions

I love liver & onions, you untermensch!

German food? You mean sausage and beer? Yeah it's alright

>>5596621
>I love liver & onions, you untermensch!
Me too.

And it was a staple in early America.

>>5595023
americanized chinese food is so good though, it might even be the most american food there is. I mean think about it, some chinese people found themselves here and needed to cook food to make a living. they caught on that we like steak and fried chicken and broccoli, didn't like weird shit like dog meat but were open to things like bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. they used the meats we like, mixed veggies we like with some things more traditional in china, seasoned and cooked it like they did back home, and then thrived because it was delicious.

what I'm saying is that general tso's chicken with broccoli and fried rice is about as america as you can get.