/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10794598]

Has anyone ever criticized your cooking? What did they say? Was it justified?

[Anonymous No.10794604]

There's nothing wrong with my cooking that I don't realize before anyone can say anything.
>make something for potluck
>fuck up
>throw it all out
>start over

[Anonymous No.10794657]

>>10794598
>friends are over
>one gets hungry
>make a quick curry with chicken, mushrooms, carrots, and onions on rice
>eats around the mushrooms, carrots, and onions
>"I don't like onions in anything."
>"I think cooked carrots are gross."
>"Do you know how they grow mushrooms? Not eating that."
Feels bad

[Anonymous No.10794664]

>>10794657
>quick curry
That doesn't sound like a curry. More like a curry inspired pan fry.

[Anonymous No.10794672]

>>10794598
>Make Mediterranean styled dish that had some zucchinis in them
>they avoid them
>ask what's wrong
>"they look like pickles so I don't even want to try them LOL"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.10794688]

>>10794664
Yes actually. sauteed ingredients, add spices and yogurt and stir while adding some water until it's in a nice sauce. I just top it over rice. It tastes good and most people who's had it don't disagree, but the issue were just the specific ingredients this guy apparently was real picky about that I wasn't aware of. Mushrooms might have been something I should have asked about

[Anonymous No.10794698]

>>10794657
>>10794672
your friends are ungrateful and shit
they should be happy for having a friend who cooks
when I go to my friends they just give me peanuts, and if we are hungry we always share pizza, the maximum they can cook is tuna salad or guacamole

[Anonymous No.10794699]

When my friends pull spoiled child bullshit like "I dont like vegetables" I usually tell them they are going to die of a massive stroke at 34 years old.
That'll teach em.

[Anonymous No.10794725]

>>10794698
It's hard to adjust. I grew up in a multi-cultural family, so I've always been real open to food. My closest friends are real awesome, but when it comes to food they are absolute plebeians. One is real picky about real specific ingredients, one's favorite restaurant is a chicken wing place and cannot eat anything "Asian" (am still unsure what's within these boundaries), another is the type to eat burgers with nothing but meat and buns, and another is adventurous as long as it's made of European origins. Half won't eat anything from the water, and most can't eat anything fatty. My gf is willing to try things, which is nice, but she sadly can't eat any more than maybe 1000 calories a day.
It's hard trying to get better at cooking when the only consistent critic is yourself.

[Anonymous No.10794736]

>>10794725
I'm on board with almost everything you say.
>but sadly she can't eat any more than maybe 1000 calories a day.
Whats up with that?
>my suspicion is you are the gf, and the anorexic poster visiting lately.

[Anonymous No.10794766]

>>10794736
don't know anything about an anorexic poster, but she's like 2.5ft tall and weighs 20lbs, small girl who's never learned to eat. She's been doing better since moving in with me, though.
Back on OP's topic, I'll post another instance:
>we see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJg0LgMH9Y being posted
>friend has the great idea of making spaghettio jello shots
>we all think would be hilarious
>I do extensive amount of planning to try and make this as palatable as possible
>make many spaghetti-o jello shots with added tomato sauce, using a half flavorless and lemon jello powder for a bit of zest, basil and parsley rim, and Everclear as the choice of alcohol.
>came out being not half bad, or at least as good as something using spaghetti-o can get
>the night to try it out
>"I'm too sober to do this just yet."
>later
>"I'm too drunk to do this now"
Was it justified? Probably, it was just a joke, but it was a joke I thought we all agreed on partaking in.

[Anonymous No.10794781]

>>10794657
what a giant fag

[Anonymous No.10794852]

>>10794598
Yeah, I haven't always been a competent cook and my parents didn't sugarcoat what I served them.
Not in a mean-spirited way mind you, just constructive criticism and complete honesty about quality.
I did have a roommate's friend who hates spicy food (ironically half black) who asked me for some of the leftover chili in my fridge then bitched about it being too spicy after I told him he probably wouldn't like it.
I'm never stingy with my food as I always make more than I can eat on my own, I don't know if he thought I was just trying to be selfish with my chili or what. Still laugh about it to this day.

[Anonymous No.10794945]

No and i hate it. I want critisim not praise. Im a good cook yes but i only care about getting better

[Anonymous No.10795193]

>>10794598
My wife will tell me if she doesnt like something in a dish. And Ill do the same. How else will we improve when we are trying to cook food the other likes? I will cook differently for her than If Id Cook for myself.

[Anonymous No.10795203]

I made brownies with black beans and whey in them and dialed down on the sugar and fat. They said it was chocolate flavoured dirt.
>Was it justified?
Uuh.. yeah.

>>10794766
>gf is 2.5ft tall and weighs 20lbs
Mate those are the stats of a 1 year old baby.

[Anonymous No.10795252]

No real criticism unless it's something that wasn't meant for them.
Usually they find anything I make delicious. They run back for seconds, tell me to make more or run to the store for ingredients the next day.
I cook something for myself and they eat it when I step out for a moment.
Nothing but nonstop bitching about it being too spicy.
Worst I heard was it was nasty because it was too spicy.
Justified? Nah, It wasn't for them.

[Anonymous No.10795281]

>>10794766
>2.5' tall
>20lbs

m8 im gonna need to see a picture

[Anonymous No.10795297]

>>10794598
>looks/sounds weird
came from my brothers. that's about it. but they both have really weird palettes and food preferences. don't really cook for people too often and when i do i make sure to make things agreeable.

[Anonymous No.10795308]

>>10794598
>have they criticized your cooking
Yes. Mostly when I ask for it. Once wasn't solicited but I was working on the food in question and they didn't tell me that they think horseradish was too harsh
>what did they say
Can't remember the specifics, but it was helpful
>justified
Eh..yes? I would've preferred them saying so before I put it on

[Anonymous No.10795866]

>>10794598
Hey, you're the guy who made that thread on /a/. Please don't bring worst girl to /ck/, thanks.

[Anonymous No.10795885]

>>10794598
Friends wife wanted her pasta overcooked
i forgot to do it, i was just doing my normal thing and strained all of it at the same time
she mentioned it more than once at the same meal

[Anonymous No.10795911]

>>10794598
STOP CRITICIZING MY COOKING!!!!

[Anonymous No.10795918]

>>10795911
Anime was a mistake

[Anonymous No.10795929]

My dad is a chef for 25 years, and does it all the time.
He purely does so to pressure me to improve on my cooking. Every now and then he does like what I make, however.

[Anonymous No.10795933]

>>10794598
>Live in shithole country
>Spend a lot on one single recipe for familiy
>"It was... different"
>"Why don't you do something like pizza?"
>Repeat recipe for frens
>It's the most delicious thing they've had, they say
I won't cook for my family anymore.

[Anonymous No.10795946]

>>10794598
My roommate. He thinks I use too much seasoning. But he also thinks that dry unseasoned scrambled eggs are good and puts Tabasco on everything, so I disregard most of his criticisms. He makes some damn good fried rice though.

[Anonymous No.10795959]

>>10794598
I've literally never gotten anything but good feedback from my cooking and it's been years and years. I oversalted a dish once or twice that I was cooking alone and for myself though.

[Anonymous No.10796902]

Yes, my family doesn't like my cooking unless I make stuff with their tastes in mind.
Idgaf, I cook for myself mostly and don't like spending time with them. I come over once a week for volunteer work in the home area. Once I start full-time school again in the fall I won't be seeing them regularly.

[Anonymous No.10796916]

>>10795911
I don't understand, why does she leap over to the counter like that?

[Anonymous No.10797010]

>>10796916
That character is known for violent physical outbursts. It's part of the trope.

Plus it's a great excuse for a little fanservice.

[Anonymous No.10797023]

>>10797010
Sure, but what caused her to want to jump over there? My first understanding was the black-haired person said "hey look your food is burning/boiling over/on fire" and she jumped to go save it.
But she jumped over to a stationary fucking cutting board. Was she trying to hide it from the black-haired person?
Sorry for getting bothered about this, but it's unsettling.

[Anonymous No.10797025]

>>10797010
I never actually watched the show. Is it just an excuse to show the hot redhead almost naked constantly?

[Anonymous No.10797042]

>>10794598
my family is a bunch of plebs that cant eat anything not overly oiled or drenched in some sugary sauce. so naturally everything i make doesnt live up to their standards because theyd rather taste bbq sauce than the thing they put it on

[Anonymous No.10797051]

>>10796916
the other character said something shocking to her that caught her off guard. have you never watched any kind of movie or tv show in your life?

[Anonymous No.10797074]

>>10797051
Maybe he watches real movies where the characters and their emotions aren't extremely exaggerated so even autists will know what's going on.
There was some stuff being passed around about how autists like Sonic because of that, but it seems to me it's pretty common in a lot of popular anime as well.
Maybe it's just because the Japanese are inherently autistic and incapable of reading subtle emotional cues. The characters can't just lightly gasp and widen their eyes when they're surprised, they have to go "WHAAAAAAT???!!!" and piss the damn floor.

[Anonymous No.10797088]

>>10797051
>hear something shocking
>jump over to nearest hard elevated surface to throw your arms down on

>animefags think this should be an immediately recognizable human response

Fuck you, maybe after 10'000 hours of japanese animated television I'll appreciate it and just expect people to fling themselves onto tables as a regular emotional response

[Anonymous No.10797096]

>>10797023
The camera is showing the perspective of a 3rd character not visible in that specific gif. That character is the one getting bitched at.

>>10797025
It literally just explained it to you. Fanservice is part of it, so is the trope.

[Anonymous No.10797111]

>>10797074
>>10797088
What do you expect for a character whose whole point is excessive, over-the-top emotional behavior?

Next you brilliant genisues will be watching an action movie and asking why people are fighting and stuff is blowing up all the time.

[Anonymous No.10797112]

>>10797111
You failed to address the fact that this is common in anime. It's not just Asuka.

[Anonymous No.10797119]

>>10797112
I did mention the trope, didn't I? Isn't that enough?

Or do I need to go full retard and point out that her specific character trope appears in a lot of anime....just like any other trope, really.

[Anonymous No.10797120]

>>10794598
>"It looks like shit"
Which it obviously did, except it was delicious nonetheless and I got more for myself.

[Anonymous No.10797126]

>>10797119
I want you to admit that the "trope" is only appreciated by manchildren and autists.
But I won't lose any sleep if you don't.

[Anonymous No.10797127]

>>10796916
There’s a boy that she doesn’t like that started showing interest to a girl that she also dislikes and think is superior to, so she started to cook for him to win him over, thus beginning actual positive feelings towards the boy. The other woman in the gif teases her about it, causing her to get embarassed and try to hide the evidence in a futile manner.
It’s to show cleavage.

[Anonymous No.10797137]

>>10797126
I wouldn't know who appreciates it. I certainly don't.

[Anonymous No.10797144]

>>10797137
We're agreed on that at least then.

[Anonymous No.10798304]

>>10794598

I'm married and have multiple small children so virtually every dish I've cooked in the past 10+ years has been criticized in some fashion.

Studies show that individuals obtain the most satisfaction or "buy-in" to a product if they are offered a choice between readily-apparent alternatives at the initial outset. In the spirit of that insight into the human psyche I always make sure to offer my kids two choices when they are less-than-enthralled about my cooking:

>you can have this
>or you can have nothing at all, which do you want?

My wife gets the luxury of a third option:

>you can have this
>or you can have nothing at all
>or you can go fix something yourself, which do you want?

The dog, as a being incapable of utilizing logic and reason to make decisions, only gets one option:

>go fuck yourself and eat your kibbles n' bits you piece of shit

As to whether it's justified, no one has yet starved to death in my house, so there's that.

[Anonymous No.10798534]

>>10794657
Get new friends

[Anonymous No.10799120]

once i put too much tumeric on something
and they told me there was too much
there was probably too much tumeric

[Anonymous No.10799455]

>>10794598
>be me a month ago
>grandma asked me to make mayo because she needed it for a club meeting
>"we are making sandwiches tonight I need mayo"
>make mayo with a hand blender
>the most smooth, perfect and delicious mayo
>she sees it
>"I don't like it this way"
>"what?"
>"let me FIX IT"
>LET ME FUCKING FIX IT
>mfw she started to add oil and stirring like a retarded monkey
>she ended with a liquid white shit
>it looked like newborn
>mfw again

[Anonymous No.10799533]

>>10799455
please stop typing "be me" at the beginning of every greentext you do. It's literally pointless. All you needed to type was
>a month ago

[Anonymous No.10799720]

I have never cooked for another human being and never will.

[Anonymous No.10799825]

>>10794598
My cooking? No. However, I've got a relevant greentext.
>be like 11
>at a dinner party at parent's bosses place, dad's a really good friend of the husband
>sitting in the computer room playing shitty flash games because the only other kids at the place are all girls younger than me doing girly shit and fuck that
>can hear the wife and some of her guests in the kitchen
>"Oh, this? Anon's mom made it, she's an EXCELLENT cook, she makes a leg of lamb that's to die for"
>Kid me is super happy hearing this
>Someone comments on it, can't even remember what it was
>"...oh, yeah, everything she makes tends to be really heavy"
>Kid me is now FUCKING PISSED
>I didn't even really know what that means, just that on the shows on Food Network I watched that was sometimes a kind of thing they tried to "fix" so they must be dissing my mom's cooking, the fucking bitch whore
>Treat the wife like a fucking prick for the rest of the night
>"Anon, you want some tiramisu for dessert?"
>"YEAH, WHATEVER," without even looking in her general direction
>She's notably confused, somewhat saddened, and stops trying to figure out what made me act like this and left me alone for the rest of the night
The wife did turn out to be a huge bitch whore years down the line when mom and dad had completely different jobs and an assload of skeletons burst out of her closet (there was fallout, dad had to stop seeing the husband but my folks were otherwise unscathed, something that probably wouldn't have turned out that way if they still worked under them)... but she was actually right. My mom's cooking does tend to be quite heavy, if not fucking delicious according to just about everyone who's eaten her food.

[Anonymous No.10799901]

>make french onion soup for at the time gf
>"why is there onion in this anon?"
How do people like that eat

[Anonymous No.10799995]

>>10795193
Dude, this is all I want. My girlfriend is too autistic to actually say she doesn't like something, and will instead say that she just doesn't like the dish.

I made chili one time where she said she didn't like it, I start asking why and eventually she lets it spill that she hates the beans, but was some of the best chili she'd ever eaten, and i'm willing to believe that because a 3rd party person who also ate the chili said the same thing.

[Anonymous No.10800073]

>>10794766
couple pic

[Anonymous No.10800147]

>friend cooks for everyone a lot
>nothing wrong with his dishes but nothing amazing
>always feel like shit for having nothing to say about it

[Anonymous No.10800150]

>>10794657
I fucking hate people that say this shit
Onions are the flavor base for a ton of sauces

[Anonymous No.10800182]

My little brother was staying with me and the little shit REFUSES to eat his vegetables. Everything I make he pokes and prodes at then throws away. Sometimes he complains about onions or greenbits inside dishes. He is 14 years old. How common is this?

[Anonymous No.10800222]

>>10800182

I'm 26 now and only just getting into cooking and daring to use flavour.

I hated veg because my gran and my mum would overcook any remaining shred of flavour and texture out of the food. Ergo, growing up not liking veg.
Hate pork chops for the same reason, eating a plastic-substitute isn't appealing to anyone.

Get him cooking the meal with you, get him smelling and tasting the ingredients, tasting as it's cooking.

[Anonymous No.10800225]

>>10800073
this is just not right

[Anonymous No.10800423]

>steak is too well done
>it's literally medium rare

[Anonymous No.10800431]

>>10798534
That's not possible with the high autism

[Anonymous No.10800438]

>>10800182
Chain lock the fridge and keep him out of the cupboards. He eats what you serve him or his ass can get a part time job and buy his own food.

[Anonymous No.10800441]

I've had people dismiss my sardine rice just because le icky sardine meme. Besides that I've been criticized for putting buffalo sauce on too many things

[Anonymous No.10800835]

>>10800222
Same dude, my mother cooks asparagus until it is mush

[Anonymous No.10801017]

>>10794598
All the time
>make food for myself and my friend all the time
>he gives constructive criticism on flavor, what he thinks could have been done better with a given dish, if he thinks something doesn't pair well with the rest of the meal
>use this information to grow and become a better cook instead of rebuking him like a fragile manchild and stagnating

[Anonymous No.10801026]

>>10797111
Action for action's sake is shit though, if a scene or action doesn't have any importance for the plot, setting or character development then it shouldn't exist at all.

[Anonymous No.10801034]

>>10794657
>feemales

[Anonymous No.10801045]

>>10794598
My wife criticizes some of my cooking.

It's usually justified. I almost never cook with a recipe so some things really don't turn out the best. I don't feel bad because it's balanced with compliments on things that turn out really good. When it's not that good, even I know it.

I don't make rookie mistakes like badly over/undercooking things, but the flavour profiles I use aren't always the best.

One recent thing I did was put whole annato into some braised beef. The flavour was fine, but the annato was like having small rocks in your food. Lesson learned, next time I will grind the annato first.

[Anonymous No.10801050]

>>10800182
Not uncommon but if he doesn't get over it he may not grow out of it. Maybe have him cook with you or stock only veggies and such (like no cookies or snacks) for a month until he starts eating more fruits and vegetables. That's what parents do sometimes but that's a bit easier as well (parents essentially having the final say for young kid's protests).
I am sure there are tons of resources on how to introduce vegetables into someone's diet as really all you need is a start, I used to spit up whenever I had most fruit until I actively broke that myself now I love them but I was definitely overcoming myself.

[Anonymous No.10801065]

>>10801045
Honestly though that is apart of the process of learning flavors and flabor profiles once you have the basics down. Listening to the criticism helps massively though especially like your wife since you will probably cook for her more than anyone but yourself so knowing her tastes is smart.

[Anonymous No.10801161]

If you only cook for yourself no one can criticize you

[Anonymous No.10801163]

>>10794664
curry doesnt take that long to make senpai

[Anonymous No.10802647]

>>10794598
Asuka>Rei

[Anonymous No.10803484]

>>10794598
I had a girl over a while back, she asked for a gin and tonic, then complained that there wasn’t enough line in it. I’m a bartender, I made her a perfect G&T. Turns out, she usually puts a shot of line cordial in hers when she makes them.

Bitch, I made it right! Don’t criticize me because you do some weird shit with your drinks.

[Anonymous No.10803531]

I usually know what's bad with what I make. I've only made a couple meals that I would say came out perfect. I never usually get good praise just nodding and them eating everything I made them. I think its because they are family and don't want to give me too good of praise. My roommate is a cooking retard that sucks at cooking. Couldn't even make cookies from the box. Still consider myself a novice though

[Anonymous No.10804163]

>why is it so orange
Bitch have you EVER eaten Indian food, ever?
Same thing happens when I make paprikash.

[Anonymous No.10804497]

>>10794598
My sister is just a bitch and said she didnt like my hong shao rou because it had ginger in it even though I have seen her eat and enjoy many things with ginger and ginger flavoured stuff before