/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Because you chose your wife poorly.

Why do men tend to put ketchup on their steak?

>>6515853

Because women only know fear and avarice.
Avarice has little to do with cooking meat, so it's fear by default.

>caring about the most overrated meat besides bacon and lobster

Steak is great and all, but holy fuck is it overrated.

>>6515853
why do men think its okay to complain about the cooking if they didn't do it themselves?

neither of you know how to cook a steak properly

>>6515896
Like women don't complain about the lawnmowing and painting and plumbing. The very essence of a relationship is reciprocal whinging.

>"Blue rare please."

>>6515896

Because there is no improvement without criticism.

>>6515901
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>>6515853
Funny thing, this is exactly the opposite for my parents.

Mom: better still be moo-ing
Dad: any color = undercooked

Why is the stereotype that women cook better than men so present? While I will agree that the average middle aged woman can cook better than the average middle aged man, I've personally noted - as have many of my friends - that among the youths and young adults, men are on average stronger cooks.

>>6515853
>Why do women tend to overcook meat?

Because they want to live longer.

And they do. Check m8.

>>6515937
Because progressive young men are busy fighting for women's right to swap traditional roles with men.

>>6515937
>Why is the stereotype that women cook better than men so present?

It's not. In fact, it's at least 10 years PAST.

>>6515937
>that among the youths and young adults, men are on average stronger cooks.
that's not true among people i know.

>>6515937
you gotta flatter em to get any fucking work out of them.

>>6515937
Men try to impress in the kitchen. They only take up cooking if they like it. Women are expected to cook and as such don't try to excel and only be satisfactory. There are of course also women who love to cook and cook well but the average is brought down by those who cook because it's expected of them.

>>6515853
My dad has an immune disease and tends to overcook meat because of his compromised immune system. At least it's not AIDS.

>>6515896
Amen..

If I cook for my wife, I cook to my preferences, and damned if I've ever heard a complaint. When she cooks, same goes.. We can both cook the same recipe and end up with a different tasting meals..

The point is, a dish that somebody else cooks for you is a lot nicer than eating nothing, and they both require the same amount of effort!

As a whole, most women can cook better than I can, despite that I always cook for myself. It's not that I don't care about flavor, but I consider eating and food as a thing of utility, ie, it's a proxy to change one's state.

It just needs to taste decent and be edible. So I tend to branch out very much, I just iterate on what I already know works and how to do it better. I still don't know how to make fluffy scrambled eggs, etc.

I don't mind how women make food as a whole. I'm not too picky. In my experience (as someone in their early twenties), women are largely the only one's who care or are interested in half learning to cook. Males just do whatever works and is fastest, or whine to their girlfriend until she cooks them something while they sit around drinking a beer.

>>6515853
>Blue
>Perfect

Nah b. You undercook your meat and your wife overcooks it.

girl here, i like my steaks blue. shit's good. texture is different too.

>>6515937
Women were never better cooks. It's just that in a traditional marriage the chore of family meals would fall on them. Burned meals for newlyweds was a common occurrence. For the elderly, women would be better cooks than men on average due to experience.

Since everyone stays single for longer, the natural culinary aptitude of men shines through. Most women continue to live off of boxed macaroni and cheese well into the 30s, and I really think it's partially due to a rebellion against perceived notions of societal expectations (even though none of them are married and 'serving' a man), but it's mostly due to simply not caring. Sure, plenty of men subsist on frozen pizzas, but I think there is a male instinct to cook more complex dishes. It's why there are more male fine dining chefs.

>>6516009
This comment comes from a narrow perspective. Traditionally, girls were getting cooking experience from a much younger age than most boys were. Mothers and grandmothers were indoctrinating them to be wives, because that was their role. This still happens in cultures that continue to maintain family values. It has been lost in societies that favour independence against tradition, such as all English speaking ones.

It's simply confusion.

Of ground meat vs. whole cuts, and of beef vs. chicken and pork.

People can't comprehend that the rules for cooking mass-produced ground beef and a steak (or most any other cut) are different. Thanks to our wonderful education system, people think that steak juices are blood. They don't understand that germs cannot 'penetrate' the outer layer of meat, and that the extremely high temperatures that a steak should be cooked at will kill any surface bacteria. This also leads to revulsion at the thought of dishes like steak tartare. They don't understand the risks involved with large-scale grinding compared to small-scale.

People don't understand that there are different rules for cooking beef 'through' compared to chicken and pork. They think that, due to the risk of salmonella in chicken and trichinosis in pork (although the latter has been largely curbed thanks to modern farming practices) and the logic behind cooking it through, there must be a similar risk of consuming beef products too raw.

Some people see a hunk of bloody germ carcass where others see flavor and it's a shame for them and for the poor cow that gets turned into grey trash.