Learning curve of cooking

[Anonymous No.14132743]

Why is cooking hard as fuck? Literally every single time I try to make something, it comes out like total shit. I will find a recipe, do everything verbatim, exact measurements, everything. Comes out nothing like it. Trying to make bourbon chicken? Get dry ass chicken that looks like it was slathered with ketchup, I just made the worst pork roast after following a Cuban pork recipe. I want to save money by not eating out but what the fuck? Do I seriously need to make $500 in horrible pork roast before making a decent one? It makes literally no sense.

[Anonymous No.14132750]

>>14132743
Recipes don't tell you how to cook
You need to learn how to cook, not how to follow recipes

[Anonymous No.14132756]

If you desperately need to be cooking giant chunks of meat as a complete novice, use a meat thermometer

[Anonymous No.14132758]

i miss runescape and being young

[Anonymous No.14132815]

Great job OP
You finally learned why so many people dont really bother to cook for themselves and just order food.
Yes you're gonna have to waste a lot of money before it comes out as good as restaurant or better. These places that have got it down to a science and have been doing it longer than you, and do it far more often than you. It's going to take a while for you to catch up.
Food is food though so just stuff the slop down your throat, you wont go hungry, and try to cook something else tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.14132821]

>>14132758
Good mmos are still out there anon

[Anonymous No.14132840]

>>14132743
I'll be brutally honest with you. The truth is that you just don't care, and/or, you lack the interest in cooking good food that you enjoy with yourself or others. Feeding food that tastes good to others is very fun. I feed my girlfriend food all day and she hasn't really gained much weight. But soon.

[Anonymous No.14132846]

>>14132815
It's not hard to not render food completely inedible dude
But not spending all your money on stuff that's hard to cook certainly helps

[Anonymous No.14132859]

>>14132743
Just simply buy pizzas and add pineapple rings or sardines for easy xp without burning

[Anonymous No.14132910]

>>14132743
What's your stove, pots, and pans like?

[Anonymous No.14133319]

>>14132743
It's chemistry. Get a thermometer and a scale, it will help you be more precise. Also tenderize your chicken.

[Anonymous No.14135186]

>>14132743
It's obvious right, you're doing recipe that are too hard.
Make a single chicken recipe, out of the oven. It's simple as shit but if you do it half a dozen times you'll realise when you need to take out the chicken OS it doesn't become dry
then try the bourbon chicken again
>>14132815
No. Shut up. There's this one corporate food shill going around and claiming the corporate cancer is cheaper and better tasting. Ignore him, the nanobots have managed to get through the blood/brain barrier and are gnawing away at his frontal lobe. The killer cells take them out but he keeps eating s o y and bug meat

[Anonymous No.14135194]

>>14132821
name one

[Anonymous No.14135199]

by the way, whenever someone says something has a steep learning curve, remind them that means it's very easy to pick up

if the curve is steep that means you acquired a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time
a shallow learning curve means something takes more time to become proficient at

anyway you just get a feel for ingredients, if you use something enough times you can tell by how it looks or how it feels to touch how far along it is

[Anonymous No.14135207]

>>14132758
I miss lazy days of farming cowhides for cash as a low level, where the game felt like a real adventure. Nowadays if I jump into an mmo it feels like a chore, and I have no friends to play with.

[Anonymous No.14135291]

>>14132743
it's because you're of europoid extraction

[Anonymous No.14135316]

>>14132743
are 9to5ers like this? Unfortunatly I work in hospo so I can cook, but I've seen literal 85iq retards who can make a few dishes nicely after a week of training. I always assumed the reason chefs are paid fuck all is because any cunt can do it.

[Anonymous No.14135322]

>>14132743
Try to pan fry easy shit. Beef and seafood are very easy and pretty safe, just remember to season your fucking food. Very rarely can a dish not be improved by additional salt and pepper, in addition to a lot of other spices that you can try with various dishes.
Also, taste your food to make sure it's properly seasoned/done.

[Anonymous No.14135330]

>>14132840
Pierce?

[Anonymous No.14135373]

>>14132743
Cooking is easy as shit, particularly following recipes. Nowadays you can even see videos of people preparing this food so all you have to do is the same as them. I don't think you're actually following the recipes to the letter if you're fucking them up that badly.

[Anonymous No.14135407]

>>14132743
Like anything else it takes practice and don’t skimp on cookware. I figure it takes at least 3 times of doing something before you get an understanding of it. In Jiro Dreams Of Sushi his apprentice made tamago 200 times before Jiro said it was good enough to serve to customers. Obviously that’s a little extreme but you get my point. Make your chicken recipe again and if you fuck it up, make it again but learn from the previous attempts. By the 6th time you make it you’ll be ready to invite someone over to cook it for them.

[Anonymous No.14135430]

>>14132743
Cooking lvl?

[Anonymous No.14135450]

>>14132815
>have got it down to a science
Kek. For what end though?

Protip: your health isn't one of them

[Anonymous No.14135731]

>>14132743
Lvl 15 cooking trying to cook some sharks. Go cook some shrimp first.

[Anonymous No.14135751]

>>14135194
eve online

[Anonymous No.14135790]

>>14132743
Try easy stuff first, moron.

>>14132815
Now this is one lazy bastard.

[Anonymous No.14135837]

>>14132743
You have to love food to be good at cooking. Like anything else.

You sound like a Jew that is only really interested in saving money. And Jews are no talent hacks with no soul who have to leech off of other people who actually have passion and talent.

Sorry about that bruh. Shalom.

[Anonymous No.14136372]

>>14132815
>Yes you're gonna have to waste a lot of money before it comes out as good as restaurant or better
Maybe if you’re retarded. I’ve barely started cooking and I’ve already made a couple of things that are as good as I’ve had at restaurants. A good recipe is one thing, but you just need to learn proper techniques and the science behind what you’re cooking. Study a lot. Watch shit like Good Eats, Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course, anything where someone who knows what they’re doing offers a lot of information that you can absorb.
For example, you overcooked your chicken. You probably left it on too long. Use a meat thermometer for cooking chicken every time, and make sure you’re using the proper amount of heat. Also using dark meat like thighs makes chicken much harder to overcook because it doesn’t dry out as easily. Seriously, just study study study. Learn from others.

[Anonymous No.14136379]

>>14132743
Cooking is a skill and skills need to be learned. Man up or fuck off, fag. Whine elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.14136402]

>>14132743
start with eggs
cheap and versatile

[Anonymous No.14136408]

>I will find a recipe, do everything verbatim, exact measurements, everything. Comes out nothing like it.
there are a lot of recipes online that are complete garbage. you should start with simple stuff, like cooking plain meat to a specific temperature. make sure you have the right equipment and that it's working properly, i.e. your oven is actually heating to the temperature you set. find actually good cooks who are able to write recipes in a way you can understand for more complicated recipes.

[Anonymous No.14136421]

>>14135186
Haha fuck off mate restaurant food is better than your shitty cooking.

I bet you're one of the ones who had a complete mental breakdown in that thread the other day about home cooked food not being better or cheaper than restaurant food.

[Anonymous No.14136444]

>>14132743
I just dropped by to say that this is a great pic.

[Anonymous No.14136460]

>>14136421
Just wondering, what are your favorite restaurants?

[Anonymous No.14136469]

don't learn recipes, learn technique. i know that sounds gay as fuck but you really do need to know what parts of the meat you should skim(not sure if thats the english word for it), how to, unironically, stir stuff etc. at least that's what i think when i consider how my friends act about cooking. if you cba doing trial and error and you at least got a bit of money, consider taking a cooking class

[Anonymous No.14136559]

>>14136460
Mostly local stuff that's kinda pointless to name. I'm being an ass to that other dude but in all honesty I make a conscious effort to watch calories and eat better than fast food or Applebee's-tier food.

[Anonymous No.14137601]

>>14132743
You should hang out for when Alice posts.
She does some awesome shit and it looks and tastes great. Every thread, I make her stuff and it's ALWAYS good even if pretty simple.

Here, she has a few videos still up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyjoMb04tM&list=PLyT82Ckr2Mb74Pw8ZJZ61o57Ax5sg3vZw

[Anonymous No.14137612]

>>14132840
Based architect

[Anonymous No.14138433]

>@14137601
consider suicide baito kun

[Anonymous No.14138438]

>>14135751
my wizard level isnt high enough to play that