/ck/ - Food & Cooking

What sort of kitchen you got, what kinda cookware and stuff?

>>6273833

So yeah. Basically cooking isn't that hard.

It more depends on what you're hungry for and what you have. If I were you I'd try to find some pizza recipes, pizza is hard to fuck up and a tasty place to start.

I wouldn't worry about making your dough this time, takes a while to rise.

#NormalFagsProblems

>>6273837
small oven, basic gas hob, all the usual pots and pans, nothing particularly specialist but it's not 'missing' anything

I would want you to order something and pick it up on your way over. That way the kitchen isn't too mucked up for the night with dishes and pots and you put more effort into it than heating up a frozen dinner or whatever a ready meal is taken to mean. She wants you to make the decision, so she doesn't want to be bugged about it.
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Can you cook spaghetti?
Can you fry bacon?
Can you crack eggs?
Can you sprinkle cheese?

Congrats, you have made an alright Carbonara.

Don't be a fool, man, if you can't cook practice on your spare time. Just order something if that's what she wants. Learning to cook, even learning to cook one single thing isn't just reading the recipe. There are careful nuances that take experience to master.

Learning to cook (or learning anything really) shouldn't be something you do on the fly, pressed for time, and worried about it.

>>6273851
I hate cheese in 99% of things, she hates bacon

>>6273850
doesn't it seem like a copout though if I turn up with some chinese or something?

>>6273843
I thought /ck/ was a relatively normal board, was I wrong?

>>6273855
So there's no easy go-to recipes for times like this?

>>6273833
chick dig eating healthy. your bitchll prolly dig a tasty side salad right? leave it out of your togo order, and make that shit yourself.
>one trip to grocery store
>get some dried fruit
>get soem greens
>get some viniagrette
>salt
>pepper

toss that shit together. add whatever spice you want. add anything you want. toss it up, shake it up, put it in a bowl, not too saucy
>servie it up alongside your half ass to-go order
>winning

as for to-go, figure out what shes in the mood for so far as tatstes and what type of food shes feeling.
then just order base don that

it aint that hard dawgs

>>6273849
If I was you I'd just go simple, nice rib fillet with a salad and steamed veggies. Maybe get some some pre made chicken Kiev's if you're that bad at cooking. Buy some chocolate and red wine.

>>6273866
>I hate cheese in 99% of things, she hates bacon
Shit taste.
You niggers deserve eachother.

>>6273876
>rib fillet
>salads
>chocolate
>red wine
I-I'm just a student bro, don't trigger me with expensive stuff

Why don't you make chicken tenders together?

>>6273887
because I don't have enough GBP

>>6273885
see pic

>>6273833
Depends on your relationship with her.

Don't bring ready made meals, which I assume mean microwaveable food. If you order out, make sure you order from somewhere safe, something you both like. If it's still early in the relationship then I would try to cook a meal with her and just have fun. If it tastes like shit, you can still order out.

Just make sure that you have something else planned, like a movie to watch together or a game that youboth like. You could also turn regular board games int sex games and girls like that sort of shit. They want guys that take initiative.

>>6273866
>easy go-to recipes
There's tons man, but my point is that this isn't the time to START. If you already had something simple you knew how to do well, I would say do it, whatever it is, but this last minute shit is a common pitfall. I don't understand why people are so try hard when all signs point to learning the right way.

You're trying to impress someone with a skill you don't have!! It shouldn't be hard to see where you are going wrong. Just order something and pick it up on the way. I am a decent cook and even then I would opt to order out since it sounds like you are doing this at HER house.

tl:dr Don't try to impress someone with a skill you don't have.

>>6273866
>So there's no easy go-to recipes for times like this?

Sure, there is. But we have no idea what your skills are, what your budget is, what equipment you have at your disposal, what you or your GF like. Fuck we don't even know what style of food you want. Even if we give you a recipe we don't know if you're understanding it or not. If I tell you to saute the mushrooms do you know what that means? I can't be arsed to spell out every little detail.

It's too much work to help you.

>>6273886
tbh, rib filets are cheap as fuck (#3). salads are cheap as fuck(3), chocolate is cheap as fuck(2) and wine is cheap as fuck(4).

prolly the fuckin same as your entire to-go order

>>6273886
>salad
>expensive
My first reaction was to burst out in laughter, but then I thought that you might be serious, and I laughed some more.

>>6273897
>implying sautéing is difficult

>>6273907
I'm essentially scraping by on my student loan. Pretty much all I buy is giant boxes of bran flakes at like 30p/kg for breakfast, giant tubs of beans and bread to toast for lunch, then whatever meal is on offer at Iceland for dinner

Salads are like £3-something each.

>doesn't it seem like a copout though if I turn up with some chinese or something?

no, you are reading WAY to much into this. The point is to eat something relatively hassle free and that you both like, you are not being graded on this portion. Don't forget to remember the drinks and whatever sauces she and you like with your take out. Pick up some flowers if you feel like you are not doing enough, but the Chinese food should be fine.

>>6273914
omfg, you really dont know how to cook o.o

you dotn have to buy those fucking pre-packaged shits dawg

fucking buy a $2 bag of greens. a $1 bag of dried fruit, a 1$ dressing bottle and bing bong boom

walala
you have like 6 or 7 salads.
for a dollar less than your 2 salads at $3/piece

welcome to cooking dawg g homey enjoy yuh stay

If you don't know how to cook, what makes you think your GF is a good guinea pig for you?

Haven't you seen like all the hundreds of animes where this is one of the most cliche scenarios? someone who doesn't know how to cook and decides to try to make something for someone they want to impress and in the end they are all sitting around with a pained look, forcing themselves to eat it so as to not hurt their feelings about how bad it turned out?

>>6273922
There's no way I'm finding stuff that cheap, I know food is cheaper in general in the US, but all the same that's just not happening. Sounds good though.

>>6273928
Admittedly I haven't watched anime in fucking ages, but from what I remember is every single girl can cook like a gourmet chef and does so everyday for her senpai~

That and the japs seem to overly love curry for some reason

>>6273913
It's not to me, but if you just tell some kid that has never cooked before to throw some onions on the pan until they are caramelized, You'll probably come back to a kitchen full of smoke and the smoke detector going off. I've sauteed all kinds of shit, but I know enough that I don't even think about the details like most people. This guy would need his hand held on temperature, smell, look, taste, everything.

This just isn't the time to start. I really don't get why he wants to impress someone with a skill he doesn't have. Doesn't that seem retarded?

>>6273833
>I'm an abysmal cook
If this is the case I would not cook for the gf. You'd just be setting up the awkward situation where you're both choking down a shitty meal you made, and she has to be polite about it. If the relationship lasts for years she will always remember what a shit cook you used to be.

Of course you want to get to the point where you can cook for her, so it's obviously time to learn. You just don't want to feed her your earliest experiments. You want to replicate your early successes for her.

>>6273937
from an american to a european...

youre giving up to easily.

also how the fuck are you allowing them to charge you anything mroe than that?
youre getting rape dup the ass with prices.

im 100% positive you can still save money just making a quick salad yourself, and get mroe out of it.

fess up, you just dont want to put any work in

She also hates whenever I eat meals without meat so that's probably a prerequisite as well. She seems obsessed that I don't eat enough.

>>6273942
>also how the fuck are you allowing them to charge you anything more than that?
because we have to import a LOT of our food, prices go up to compensate

>fess up, you just dont want to put any work in
ehh, not really, I don't mind putting in work but I need something realistic, though reading this thread has made me realise I probably need to get my shit together, culinarily speaking

i made pizza yesterday. i almost never cook fucking anything, like seriously i eat toast and eggs and that's pretty much it.

it was easy.

> flour + yeast, water, sugar, oil. mix, knead, let it rest of an hour.
> form a pizza somehow. i just pounded that dough into submission till it was pizza-formed.
> top it with cheese and tomato sauce
> add whatever you enjoy
> season it. done.

for toppings i used feta, olives, a just a little salad, sliced cucumber, tomatoes; all of that cut into little bite sized pieces. it's a fucking pizza though so there's not much you can do wrong.

it turned out really nice. the dough was a little bit more "al dente" and less perfectly rounded than what you get at a pizzeria, but that gave the homemade feeling. tasted amazing. i am not shitting you, this is pretty failsafe. plus everyone loves pizza

actually have another one in the oven right now cus i had leftover ingridients

> dough recipe with more detailed instructions:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/recipe/pizza-dough/#CCTsg57ugHr6bVc1.97

You know op, I bet you are probably good at different things. If you are an abysmal cook, why not impress her with something you are good at instead of grasping at straws at the last minute? I know a couple of guys that don't know anything about cooking, but make enough money that they don't have to, and nobody seems to mind.

lol. If you want to make an impression then write her a poem or something, you know? If you say, "But I'm not a poet" Then I would say, you aren't a cook either, are you?

Unless you want to make her a cup of ramen or something, don't expect to just suddenly become master chef because you want your gf to think you can cook. There's tons of easy shit, but you probably wont' get it right the first time.

I mean, Spaghetti is just boiled noodles, drain, and add sauce, but I wouldn't recommend even that unless you've done it before, or you and your gf don't mind learning together, but that won't accomplish your apparent goal of being impressive alpha cook or whatever it is you are trying to do.

>>6273957
where are you from in the EU?

doesnt your region have some simple dishes that can be put together and suffice as a meal to satisfy your particular palette?
uk? surely not southern europe. more to the north?

if you are as bad of a cook and as cash poor as you claim then you could probably handle a recipe from this site: http://www.budgetbytes.com/

Just pick something out, buy the ingredients and bring it over. Pick a recipe that will only take an hour or less to make. Or better yet, cook something first and bring it over to be reheated.

>>6273942
>also how the fuck are you allowing them to charge you anything mroe than that?
>youre getting rape dup the ass with prices.
EU has stricter food regulations. a lot of stuff that's allowed in the US (GMOs, pesticides, antibiotics, etc) is more heavily regulated here. that's what drives the prices up, plus EU is much more densely populated, farm land is probably a lot more expensive + petrol is cheaper in the US (about half) so transport is cheaper, too. mean wages are crapper in the US as well, makes the food cheaper too.

>>6273994
so like, wtf do europeans eat? do they eat out all the time? whats the average cost of a meal, say a dish, a salad and a drink?

is all the food pre-prepared? is it more processed? do you just buy salads from anyone? how does that reflect on your health?

>>6273886

If ordering in is an option then expensive ingredients are not a fucking problem.

I'd say get some frozen pizzas and learn to cook one thing well for next time.

>>6274001
>so like, wtf do europeans eat?
whatever they want, you can still buy all the food you could in america and then some probably
>do they eat out all the time?
nope, eating out is rather expensive, I heard that it was an american thing to eat out all the time, is that right or a load of rubbish?
>whats the average cost of a meal, say a dish, a salad and a drink?
entirely depends on where you are, what you eat, what place you're eating out at etc. generalising is hard when there's so much potential variation
>is all the food pre-prepared?
all? like literally all food? because no
>is it more processed? do you just buy salads from anyone?
no idea about 'more' processing, you can buy completely organic stuff or heavily processed stuff if you want
>how does that reflect on your health?
again, depends on the individual person, though overall europeans have slightly better health than americans

>>6274001
How are you this dumb man.

Europeans eat basically the same stuff as Americans do. It costs more but they are paid more.

Also, raw produce is almost just as cheap in the EU. OP is just one of those fag students who is too lazy to learn to cook on the cheap and hides behind being a student to justify accruing zero life skills.

>>6274035
>can't cook
>zero life skills
projecting much?

>>6274038
>claiming someone is projecting

projecting much?

>>6274040
>getting mad because someone accuses you of projecting
projecting much?

>>6274001
i've been to the US (mosty east coast, NY, boston, DC). i'm from mid-EU (austria). people's eating habits are pretty similar. prices aren't that bad, they're similar to the prices in the US for the most part except we don't really have the WALMART type stuff where you can get things extremely cheap. i'd say food is 25% more expensive on average, but that's just a guess based on some personal experience.

>>6274001
>whats the average cost of a meal
i bought ingridients for 20 €yesterday and from that I mad a huge bowl of greek salad, three pizzas, some vague bread-y thing, and i still have about 1kg of flour, a mango, half a cucumber, some whole grain bread and a red bull.

it's not like we're starving over here, it's just a tad more expensive.

>>6273866
> I hate cheese in 99% of things, she hates bacon

Just get shitty Chinese takeout next time and ask them to put extra msg on it so the placebo effect kills you.

>>6274063
>ask them to put extra msg on it so the placebo effect kills you.
might want to reread that and try again

>>6274015
> I heard that it was an american thing to eat out all the time, is that right or a load of rubbish
depends on where you are and how much money you have. ive noticed more people are starting to eat out less, and i dont think ive had a sit down ina restaurant for a couple weeks at least.
>no idea about 'more' processing, you can buy completely organic stuff or heavily processed stuff if you want
as in "hi, this is hick brand shlop soup, just add watr, the spice packet, cook for 10 minutes and wea ron your head for best enjoyment"

>>6273833
Pick up some packet cake or brownie mix that you can make quickly when you get there. You may need eggs, milk and/or some kind of oil depending on the type.

>order food for delivery
>make packet brownies
>food arrives
>eat food
>eat delicious brownies still warm

>>6274079
i'd say things are definitely more heavily processed in the US; even if you cook for yourself, you won't really find pizza dough or pancake powder (that really surprised me when i first saw it, like wtf) here. and the FDA isn't as strict as it's european counterparts

that being said, the difference is not that big

>>6273833
stop being whipped, tell that bitch to go into the kitchen and make you a sandwich

>>6273833
sea food cream pasta.

all you need is linguini noodles.
pesto.
Scallops, shrimp and Muscles (for the fishy taste)

cook noodles.

for sauce, take 35% cream, big scoop of pesto and some garlic (you can eye ball this)
throw that in a pan, throw fishy shit in.

throw noodles and parmasan in, cook it on high until it thickens up, serve.

bonus mode you can fry the garlic with onions and mushrooms.

easy, and fancy - fucking terrible for you health wise fyi though.

>>6274068
>missed the joke
>as if the joke was good in the first place

Did your parents not teach you any basic meals?
You must have one special thing, when i am stuck i go for my mums pasta bake, it tastes fucking good and i can say it's my mothers recipe so it feels like i went out of my way to make something special when in reality i just made a shitty pasta bake which my mum showed me how to cook when i was a kid.


You could just buy take away food, or go to a decent place and ask if they will do take away just this one time? tell your girlfriend you burnt what you was making or some shit so went plan B.

If you really are a shit cook and NEED to make something, stick to something basic that is hard to fuck up that bad. If you do use frozen foods, you can make a salad as a side, also add shit to the frozen foods, my father would add salt to frozen chips before cooking them, they would always come out sort of like macdonalds fries and seem like he had done a great job when really he just through salt on frozen food so it would cook into it over time.