/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Why did you smear shit on the plate?

>>6611367
nice looking muffins you got there

>>6611369
Those are biscuits

anyone cares about telling me what's so wrong? Like you know. For the sake of learning.

They taste like shit.

>>6611423
Nah they ok asf

>>6611421
>what's wrong
The posters here are jealous, unattractive, lazy turds.

>>6611461
Samefag

can i fuck that bp

>>6611367
It's like a fat girlfriend

Great home alone in the sack but it's not the one you show to people.

Did you sift all of your ingredients? It turned out lumpy so you could have had lumps in your shit or you undermixed it maybe?

Fuck this thread is a mess.

>>6611656
Yep, everything got sifted properly. I was a bit scared to overmix and get flat macarons.

>>6611625
I get it.

>>6611599
You wish.

Can you give a brief synopsis of the process OP?

Another question: Did you use one of those macaron sheets with the preformed circles or did you just eyeball it?

>>6611765
>sift almond flour, cacao, and powdered sugar together
>beat egg whites, add salt, sugar, keep beating till soft peaks
>fold in the first onto the second, splash of brown coloring

Afterwards, piped the mixture onto the tray, eyeballing the size. Let the tops cure for about an hour, cooked for 20 mins.

>>6611714
Yer mum was a proper mess last night

>>6611367
There's a time and a place for presentation in restaurants but if you're at home and you try that hard to plate the food you're about to eat you're either a girl or a gigantic faggot.

>>6611898
I do this every time I cook something new

>>6611784
i need to get better at whipping egg whites and keeping peaks. my souffle didn't come out like a souffle the other night

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Maybe I'm a pleb but I don't understand the appeal of macarons. They're ok but I don't see what's special about them.

>>6612959
i love them theyre like eating bags of sand

I don't know what the everyone's deal in here is. I think they look great and I'd be very gentle with your ass.
Although I'm not one for "fancy" presentation and playing with feces.

>>6612959
it's just a traditional dessert/breakfast. cooking them is more in the hobbyist-nature, and it does feel fairly rewarding to make them well. i wouldnt really buy them, but if i'm bored on the weekend i'll try making some of these things.

if it's not your thing, it's not your thing.

>>6611367
Ok, for one, there's too many imperfections on the surfaces of the tops of the macarons. Second, the cookies should be equal size to each other. Third, your use of brown macarons, complimented by a deep red, don't meld together at all. Your presentation falls flat, you should have gone for something more like pic related if you're using a deep red filler.

oP here. Made another batch and found the first flaw. My almond flour is to coarse.

Second flaw. My whites were beaten way past the correct point last time.

>>6612967
Thanks mate. My ass thanks you too.

>>6612978
Thanks. I agree with all/most.

>>6612959
It's all in the texture. Flavor is mild, but that thing, almost wafer like bite, followed by soft meringue is glorious.

>>6611367

Did you dry them before baking?

>>6613102
Yes

op here. Second batch was shit. Had trouble with a FedEx guy, and the 30 minute rest turned into a tour dry-a-thon. On the plus side coconut shaving work well as an almond flour replacement.

>>6611367
are those raspberries in chianti?

>>6614779
If you're using coconut then it's not a macaron anymore.

>>6612959
They have a delicious and unique texture.

I think the problem is the really good ones are kind of hard to find.

Also I think they look fine to me OP, unnecessary presentation aside.

oh what a coinkidink I made macaroons too.

First time aswell.
I made em for my dad and uncles.

>>6614986
no homo amirite?

macaroons are 2014 memefood

>>6611367
look at the macarons in the pic
then look at the monstrosities you created & hang your head in shame

>>6614986
this thread is about macarons

please delete your post / esp. the pic I'm feeling sick to my stomach just by scrolling past it

OP you deserve better responses than this, holy shit /ck/ are being cunts ITT.

yes the shell is not as smooth as it could be but that's a seriously anal thing to whine about compared to the feet, which are very well developed in your pic.

just make sure your TPT is very well sifted and fold it together quickly but thoroughly. it's a very good first attempt.

asses like this >>6612978 just want to scramble together a haphazard critique with arbitrary reasoning because they want to feel like an autohrity. guy's probably never made a macaron.

>>6615363
consistency of shell & inner parts look off

if your macaron looks shit it will taste like shit.

A good macaron is hard to pull off - the outer shell should be soft and spongy with just a slight crunchiness to the "crust" the filling should be gooey (def not like some spread / marmalade more like a "softer / more malleable version of jello)

>>6615376

>if your macaron looks shit it will taste like shit.

good thing OP's doesn't look like shit then you ass.

good macarons aren't even hard they take like two goes, but most people's first are fucking trainwrecks. OP's done very well and i bet they taste good.

>>6614986
How the crap did you get that pattern going?

>boipussi

r u a cute femboy, OP?

>>6615360
sorry partner.
uploaded on a phone and it autocorrected to roons.
>>6615242
no homo
>>6616988
with a toothpick