/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12353153]

Are these worth the money? I'm having a hard time justifying it to myself, but I want one very much.

[Anonymous No.12353222]

generic ones can be depending on what you cook.

[Anonymous No.12353257]

>>12353153
Absolutely you dont have to get the most expensive one

[Anonymous No.12353260]

>>12353222
The Lodge ones are only like $80 as opposed to almost $400 for the staub of 7.5qt

[Anonymous No.12353488]

>>12353153
Yes but cast iron and much larger is only 60 bucks. Makes stews and chilis far superior to a regular pot. Makes crock pot and instapot completely useless. And you can deep fry in it.

[Anonymous No.12353495]

>>12353488
nothing makes instant pot useless that isn't another pressure cooker.

[Anonymous No.12353503]

bake bread once in them and you'll know.

[Anonymous No.12353508]

>>12353495
It already is useless. Hunks of meat like pulled pork taste better smoked. Stews taste better in a dutch oven because you actually saute, deglaze, sweat vegetables, and add wine and brown sauce at the proper times.

[Anonymous No.12353511]

>>12353503
shit nigga that bread looks dank

[Anonymous No.12353512]

If you get a dutch oven, make sure it's enameled.

[Anonymous No.12353516]

>>12353508
>Stews taste better in a dutch oven because you actually saute, deglaze, sweat vegetables, and add wine and brown sauce at the proper times.

and you can't do that in a dutch oven why?

[Anonymous No.12353534]

>>12353516
i mean, a french oven*

[Anonymous No.12353542]

>>12353516
You can't do it in a pressure cooker because there is a pressurized lid on it. Literally nothing tastes better in an instapot than in a different mode of cooking. It's basically a second microwave.

[Anonymous No.12353548]

>>12353542
oh, you have no idea how the instant pot works btw

it literally has a saute mode

[Anonymous No.12353563]

>>12353548
So you're saying you hit saute mode, which only heats up yhe bottom of the thin nonstick pot, then after you put in your bacon, shallots, and onions fo a while you then put in your cubed root vegetables which are meant to sweat in even heat which it isn't. Then you deglaze a nonstick surface with red wine and add some broth. At what point in the stew are you to pressure cook it? Because after this you still have to add cream (which burns in an instapot) and brown sauce (which is later in the process). There is no time in a stew where it is completely unattended or in need of the next ingredient. Start to finish is 40 minutes and THEN you can just let it stew if you want. And don't even get me started on fresh made broth.

[Anonymous No.12353566]

>>12353563
bruh go crusade elsewhere pressure cooker has its uses

cooking shit fast is useful, cooking meat that infuses itself with flavor is useful

you are brigading bc you dont have one simple as that, its only $70 bro jesus just get one

[Anonymous No.12353577]

>>12353566
>crusade
>brigading
Reddit, you have to go back.

[Anonymous No.12353615]

>>12353566
I have one and it's completely useless now that I have my dutch oven. It burned rice on the rice setting when I used stock. It burns anything with cream or dairy. The most it can do is steam vegetables and if you actually put them in a liquid it disolves them. If you try to make a roast it it, it does cook it faster. But if it's pulled pork it tastes like shit compared to a smoker and if it is a beef roast I'd rather have just used it in a stew to have more vegetables.

[Anonymous No.12353678]

>>12353615
>not having a zojirushi

certain things are for certain things. i have no idea why you guys are concerned about vegetables in the pressure cooker. i can make 2 pounds of honey garlic chicken thighs that shred effortlessly in 45 minutes start to finish in the instant pot including cleanup.

[Anonymous No.12353821]

They are not worth it. You can get something of equal quality for a 10th of the cost

[Anonymous No.12353989]

>>12353678
I would just grill chicken thighs

[Anonymous No.12354075]

>>12353503
I just use a $20 enameled cast iron I got new from the grocery store for my bread.

[Anonymous No.12354342]

>>12353989
grilling is carcinogenic and requires a setup that apartment goers do not have for niche food prep

[Anonymous No.12354370]

>>12354342
All cooked meats are carcinogenic. Enjoy acryamide carnist loser.

[Anonymous No.12354385]

>>12354342
Then rent a house. It's cheaper for what you get anyway.

[Anonymous No.12354403]

>>12354385
you can't really rent houses in cities

>>12354370
grilling is particularly carcinogenic. smoked food is highly carcinogenic

doesn't stop me from eating some good wood smoked pork bbq every now and then but i'm not going to bother with shit like chicken thighs that is just as good or better out of instant pot

[Anonymous No.12354414]

>>12354342
Top rack and the broiler work pretty well.

[Anonymous No.12354422]

>>12353153
how big is that? I'm using the lettering to scale and that metal knob makes it look like a tiny jar. But it could be huge and needing 2 hands to lift.

[Anonymous No.12354442]

>>12354422
thats a 7.3qt. the lettering is beefy.

[Anonymous No.12354449]

I've a Le Creuset pan like the one in OP. No regrets. I use it to make stew, bread, soup, anything. Shit's easy to clean and dishwasher resistant. I spent about $170 on mine and have had it for almost 9 years.

[Anonymous No.12354659]

>>12354403
Why would you ever want to live in a dense city?

[Anonymous No.12354663]

>>12354659
oh look it's the /pol/ transplants

adopt a tripcode please it'll be just like reddit for you and then i can filter you

[Anonymous No.12354676]

>>12354663
No seriously. I'm from the west where everyone gets a car at age 15 and lives in outskirt towns. Here in the phoenix area you'd be retarded to live in an apartment over at least a townhouse. You overpay so much and don't even have your own trash can. Plus most hoas have a pool and spa just like an apartment on top of biking and running trails.

[Anonymous No.12354679]

>>12354676
Plus you have a yard and a garage to yourself. I lived in an apartment when I was 20-22 and it blew ass compared to houses.

[Anonymous No.12354688]

>>12354676
>phoenix

you have no idea what an actual city is like. you live in a desert abomination where literally everyone will die in one fell swoop when there's a huge heat wave one day.

[Anonymous No.12354896]

>>12354688
It's the 5th largest city and is basically like a less congested LA. It's a lot like Las Vegas as well as Albuquerque but bigger. Here in the west things are far more spread out and planned because we aren't built on top of shitty infrastructure. Then again, even in places like Chicago you can get outskirt city living. Living in New York or Jersey is pants on head retarded and why so many people flee west from there.

[Anonymous No.12354922]

>>12354676
Are there lots of latinas teens working fast food there and do they look good in the uniforms?

[Anonymous No.12355040]

>>12354075

nice!

[Anonymous No.12355372]

>>12354896
it's not a large city. it's a concentric circle of boomers. the population number is meaningless because it is a "settlement" for old people, not a "city" with any natural/organic growth over years

[Anonymous No.12357157]

>>12355372
Old people live in Sun City, Gold Canyon, and Peoria near golf courses in trailerparks or condos. That's like saying Flordia is all old people just because it's where jews flock in the winter of their lives.

[Anonymous No.12357186]

>>12353563
Listen, you fucking weirdo. You are the ONLY-I repeat-THE ONLY weirdo who puts cream in their stew. Now, shut the fuck up and stop preaching about your creamy slop o' shit whenever real stew-makers are talking about real stew. Dumb creamy faggot. I cream your mother, bitchmonkey.

[Anonymous No.12357213]

>>12357186
Keep making dinty more woth your shitty roux as your thickener and your canned broth retard

You've probably never even tasted celary root.

[Anonymous No.12358690]

>>12353503
Good Lord that looks good.

[Anonymous No.12358705]

>>12353153
America's Test Kitchen / Cook's Country just did a testing of like a dozen or more dutch ovens.
Of course the $400 one won, but even they realize this is a bullshit price. They had a best buy recommendation for like $80, I forget what it was, Cuisinart I think.
You have to be retarded to spend $400 for a goddamn pot. The materials are worth like ten bucks max, some iron and porcelain glaze. Only faggots buy into that branding bullshit.

[Anonymous No.12358708]

>>12353153
get a crock pot, not the electric ones made specifically for housewives and utter cooklets.

>pic related is dirt cheap and at Staples, of all places.
its 70 at bed bath and beyond, and with your 20% off coupon it should be ~56

[Anonymous No.12358712]

>>12357213
>brown sauce
>no roux
what?

[Anonymous No.12358723]

>>12354663
nice /pol/ meme, many people who dont visit 4chan find issues with living in cities. if you want to sit in your housefire while the walls burn down and tell yourself youre morally superior to everyone else youre just a fuckin retard and deserve to burn.
burn much like your meal prep, reddit loser.

[Anonymous No.12358759]

>>12354663
>Disliking high cost of living, rampant crime, and piss stinking streets makes me a pol transplant
Wtf I love pol now

[Anonymous No.12358802]

>>12358712
Roux is for use when you don't use actual stock with enough fucking gelatin from the bones. It is a corner cutting, shitty way to make a stew thicker. You may as well just throw some fucking starch in at that point. And use some fucking celary root in it the next time you fucking peasant.

[Anonymous No.12358909]

>>12353566
Instapot is the minivan of cooking devices, does a lot of things, none of them well.
Better off with trad pressure cooker.
>>12353821
This
>>12354414
Using the broiler is a lost art. I use it for searing, melting cheese, all kinds of stuff. Look how often Salamanders are used for cool dishes like french onion soup. You have to be familiar with your broiler, literally the only redeeming quality of an electric range.
>>12354449
You're making it pay, more power to you, you got every dime out of it and more. Literally showing why some things being more expensive is good oftimes.
>>12354688
>you have no idea what an actual city is like. you live in a desert abomination where literally everyone will die in one fell swoop when there's a huge heat wave one day.
There is a reason all the major cities that AREN'T in the west and being flooded with illegal aliens are losing population, even NYC.
Remember this when it dawns on you that living in a city fucking sucks.
>>12354922
Latinas age like eggs benedict.
>>12358705
I generally agree anon but there is such a thing as QC. And more expensive brands tend to use more QC to protect the name. $80 Cuisinart sounds like a brand that would do that.
>>12358708
Slow Cookers are useful as fuck, even if you're not one-potting things or doing stews.
>>12358802
I tend to agree, but there is a reason why I use starch or roux in things, and that is speed.
There is a balance between quality and convenience, most of you agelets haven't learned it yet.
>pic related was $5

[Anonymous No.12358945]

>>12358909
>Slow Cookers are useful as fuck, even if you're not one-potting things or doing stews.
i dont use one as they are plebian. anything a flyover can make in an electric crock pot i can make 100x better in the oven or on the stove. sorry pallo

[Anonymous No.12359066]

>>12353153
Yeah they're great. If you buy one of the cheaper enameled dutch ovens make sure it's one that is actually usable in an oven. Some of them have shit finishes that can't withstand temps higher than 400F.

[Anonymous No.12359083]

>>12358723
>eating oxidized avocados is bad
w-what?

[Anonymous No.12359086]

>>12357213
>celary
>>12358802
>celary
Please kill self.

[Anonymous No.12359087]

>>12358945
>plebian
Is that the same as plebeian?
Retard.

[Anonymous No.12359100]

>>12359066
correct, thats why i specifically mentioned the crock pot. its inexpensive and high quality.

[Anonymous No.12359712]

>>12358945
>I like to use an entire oven to keep things at 210F for 6 hours.
Ho-ookay, anon. You do it your way.

[Anonymous No.12359716]

>>12359087
>>12359086
Based bean counter

[Anonymous No.12359759]

>>12359716
"Plebian" is an acceptable alternate spelling. "Celary" is unforgivable spelling, you mutant.

[Anonymous No.12359767]

I have a Staub one like in the OP and love it. If you're going to buy a high-end one I think it's the best of the lot, above Le Crueset and the rest. Not really worth it above a Lodge one unless you have the cash to blow though.

They're great for bread, stews, braised meats, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

[Anonymous No.12359814]

>>12359712
seethe more poorfag, enjoy your slop ok?

[Anonymous No.12360128]

>>12358909
thats funny my major city is growing hugely in population every year

[Anonymous No.12360135]

>>12359767
>matte absorbent lining
>above le creuset
Nigger.

[Anonymous No.12360251]

>>12353153
I got a food network one as a gift and idk how much it cost but within a year a piece of the enamel chipped off so take that as you will

[Anonymous No.12360398]

>>12353678
are you really pressure cooking chicken thighs for 20 odd minutes what the fuck

[Anonymous No.12360524]

>>12360128
>bankrupt RE investor
sorry about your falling rents and empty lots anon

[Anonymous No.12360621]

>>12353153
>Are these worth the money? I'm having a hard time justifying it to myself, but I want one very much.
If you think there will be more than a few times you'll use it, sure, buy one... it'll last a lifetime. A heavy pot is not just useful for making a slow stew from stovetop to oven, but braising roasts, to baking one pot crusty breads. They're non-reactive because they are lined in a ceramic-like enamel, so okay for acidic tomato braises and stews, and can be infrequently used, so miles between than unlined cast iron and enameled.
No rusting between use, or sticky gummy oil slick. They are annoyingly heavy to clean, oh well. They need gentle cleaning and use, wooden spoons, silicone, deglazing, no harsh scrubber. If you use the slick surface, it gets a bit porous and less nonstick.

If you are patient, you'll find single pot deals at TJMaxx, Marshalls, and even closeouts at Macys. Free shipping online purchases are nice, because heavy as shit $$$ by weight. I've even seen these at Ollies and other closeout stores. Odd colors. Bad celebrity chef versions. Odd sizes. It can be an inexpensive start, however. Are you making food for 1? For 2? You might actually want something under a 4qt, little 2-3qt. There might be a reason, a family recipe you make just at the holidays, to get that orange color,, or pumpkin shape, or something specific for your hot spinach dip, or your favorite soup. They can the ones on sale.

[Anonymous No.12361139]

if it's not a staub, le crueset, or lodge, it's probably made in a chinese factory. I have a cheapo one I use just for bread, and it's held up ok for only $20.

Le Crueset and Staub are much more durable, but they still require special care. if I was in the market for a dutch oven, I'd probably go for a lodge, because if the seasoning gets fucked, you can always strip it and reseason.

[Anonymous No.12361341]

>>12361139
lodge are made in china.

this thread is specifically about enameled dutch ovens, aka french ovens/cocettes

[Anonymous No.12361462]

>>12353488
>Makes stews and chilis far superior to a regular pot
explain further

[Anonymous No.12361521]

>>12361341
>lodge are made in china.

didn't know that, thanks friend.