/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10319683]

How do i get into cooking?

[Anonymous No.10319691]

stop watching animay

[Anonymous No.10319694]

>>10319683
but a pan, get a plan, cook that chicken with your hand

[Anonymous No.10319697]

>>10319694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrqW3nx5HM

[Anonymous No.10319699]

>>10319683
what do you like to eat? cook stuff you enjoy eating and it makes extra delicious because you made it. eventually you will more adventurous and better and most importantly broaden your palate. cooking is a wonderful hobby.

[Anonymous No.10319710]

>>10319697
now where mah hoawt sauwce, i dun want no keatschup, just one big juicy ********

[Anonymous No.10319728]

>>10319691
No!
>>10319699
The last time i try baking a cake, i got a piece of raw dough.
I will try cooking fish next because that seem easier.

[Anonymous No.10319739]

>>10319728
baking is very nice, try small stuff first like cup cakes.

[Anonymous No.10319741]

>>10319683
Start with something easy like pasta. You literally throw it in water and wait. Then from there you can start to explore what you actually enjoy in a pasta and stop using jarred sauce.

Beyond that, you can start branching out into meats- what meats are good in a sauce. What does a meat taste like on its own, what does it add to a mixture (like a sauce). Compare your results and see what you like best and most importantly figure out WHY you like or don't like something.

If you dislike it, can you mask it? If you like it, can it be complimented with other flavors? Just be experimental with food and don't be afraid to fuck up.

Sometimes something sounded like a great idea, like putting barbeque sauce on a meatloaf, but if you add cheese to that mess you're literally going to vomit.

TL;DR - Try new shit, learn how things taste, learn why you like things and how you like them. Then try to replicate it and experiment in your own kitchen.

[Anonymous No.10319749]

>>10319683
can you even fry an egg, kohai?

[Anonymous No.10319764]

>>10319741
Thanks, i guess i should start with cheap ingredients first in case i fucked shits up?
>>10319749
I can make instant noodle with egg and minced meat perfectly but i don't think that count as cooking these days.

[Anonymous No.10319769]

>>10319764
baby steps is good, but if you fuck it up who cares unless you are in 3rd world country or too poor to buy more food.

[Anonymous No.10319774]

>>10319769
what about if your husband beats you for cooking the eggs wrong?

[Anonymous No.10319779]

>>10319774
You gay friend beat you up anon?

[Anonymous No.10319891]

>>10319764
If you don't wanna waste money, don't cook for anyone but yourself. This is the hardest part, honestly, because you trade off convenience/make a pain in the ass for yourself and possibly a botched meal.

I'd say just start slow. Like I said, make pasta, make your own sauce. Make a dish from prepared goods until you can slowly phase out all of them.

A pasta dish is a great and easy start because it's pretty tough to fuck up.

Pasta comes packaged but you can make it at home with a pasta mill or even without one. Pasta sauce comes jarred but can be made with canned raw tomatoes. And then from there, can also be made with raw tomatoes and processed by hand. Then you add meat; What kind of meat? Meatballs? Bracciole? Sausage? You can get those pre-packed, as well, but making meatballs is easy as hell. Making a sausage is definitely a challenge but not impossible. I'd put making a bracciole on-par with sausage making, though Sausage requires a lot more equipment.

Just work at one dish until you can make the whole thing from scratch, and it'll give you a wide breadth of kitchen experience you can take into any dish.

My recommendations are just;
Spaghetti + Memeballs
Cinnamon Buns (Or just fresh bread If you have confidence)
Stew

Each of these has mass market, easily available 'prepared' versions and components, so focus on stripping them down, one by one. Keep in mind this is the BASICS of cooking. Easy stuff that's relatively hard to mess up unless you ignore it and burn it.

[Anonymous No.10319900]

>>10319683
check out pic related. This helped me when I didn't know wtf I was doing, new revised edition is supposed to be good from what I hear.

[Anonymous No.10319905]

Yeah also cookbooks are good.

[Anonymous No.10320135]

>tfw you can never leave nam behind you
Lots of cayenne.

[Anonymous No.10320451]

japanfoodaddict.com has some easy recipes that compliment anime very well.

[Anonymous No.10322163]

>>10319699
Everything I cook tastes bad because I never have the right ingredients so I just throw in what I have

[Anonymous No.10322218]

>>10319683
Watch the right anime.

[Anonymous No.10322735]

>>10322218
Take your own advice