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ITT: Time savers you use in the kitchen that you don't give a shit about if a a chef tells you it's shit to use

>> No.14776083

>>14776040
I'm emotionally stunted and easily manipulated, so whenever anyone on youtube, reddit, or 4chan tells me to stop doing something and gives a half-assed explanation based purely on opinions, I usually stop doing that particular thing.

>> No.14776086

>>14776040
but its just as easy to make brown gravy without a packet? i guess for me its frozen vegetables, do chefs hate that? i bet they do.

>> No.14776097

>>14776040
I regularly use the McCormick pork gravy when I make pork loin or pork tenderloin via sous vide. I just make the gravy and then add the juice from the bag. It makes a very tasty but simple gravy. I also recently started using the au jus gravy when I do eye of round/top round/tenderloin and add the juice into that.

>> No.14776101

>>14776040
>make meat
>get gravy out of a package instead of just make it in the grease
This actively wastes time

>> No.14776104

>>14776086
>frozen vegetables
Literally just get a mandoline if you don't want to learn to chop. Frozen veg is always soggy and disgusting. I hate this thread

>> No.14776105

>>14776097
The au jus gravy is excellent. Just had it a standing rib roast last weekend.

>> No.14776109

>>14776104
You can't get cubed veggies for fried rice with a mandaline tho anon

>> No.14776111

I never bread my own chicken. I just use frozen tendies. I also use chikky patties as katsu and cut them up and pour kikkoman katsu sauce on them. Fuck breading chicken.

>> No.14776116

>>14776105
I was pleasantly surprised with that. I've made an eye of round and a tenderloin roast and made French dip sandwiches using their au jus. Tasty shit.

>> No.14776119

>>14776104
never had that problem. i also prep veg all the time and worked in a kitchen for years, its just a matter of not having fresh shit on hand when i want/need it.

>> No.14776125

>>14776111
it isnt just chefs that would say that is terribly wrong. i mean i'd still eat it but whatever.

>> No.14776127
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>>14776109
Yeah, you can. Mine has a perfectly tinycube slap chop lid. Stop being a mandolet. I literally have instant fried rice tinybois in two seconds while you are slurping down sick soggy mush like a fucking baby retard

>> No.14776129

>>14776119
Your customers notice and talk about how much they hate you when you aren't around

>> No.14776131

>>14776125
You'd eat it and love it, little lady

>> No.14776132

>>14776127
Have fun washing all that shit while I crash on the couch after dinner

I bet it doesn't even cube veggies properly and becomes a dull piece of shit over time

>> No.14776134

>>14776111
Honestly that's a meal I'd eat if I didn't have to cook for the rest of the family as well

>> No.14776135

>>14776104
Are you fucking retarded?
1. Bring water to boil
2. Put frozen veggies in
3. As soon as the water returns to a slight boil, remove and drain. Do not wait until a medium or full boil.
You're welcome.

>> No.14776138

>>14776040
Microwave for quick reheating. It has its usefulness as long as you dont abuse it or use it as a crutch
Also frozen pouches of mash potato that you can just reheat, because they're consistent and fuck peeling 20-50 pounds of potatoes a day

>> No.14776141

>>14776132
Had mine 5 years and it still chops perfectly, washes clean, and performs female genital mutilation cleanly and with minimal pain.

>> No.14776144

>>14776135
>boiling frozen veggies
>not soggy
how are you alive

>> No.14776153

>>14776135
>boiling reheat for fried rice
uh what

>> No.14776157

>>14776138
These arent that bad

>> No.14776161

>>14776144
He's literally blanching them

Flash frozen veggies are fresher than the shit sitting in your fridge

>>14776153
I agree what the fuck don't boil them for fried rice

>> No.14776173

Jarred mayonnaise (miracle whip).

>> No.14776178

>>14776173
me too, in a squirt plastic squeezer

>> No.14776214

>>14776083
This but unironically

>> No.14776225

>>14776040
The 50 packs of dimsum from asian market frozen sections are damn good. Making those by hand is a hassle to say the least.

>> No.14776246
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>>14776178
Have a squirt, it goes really good with vodka or gin.

>> No.14776276

>>14776104
All you need is a hot wok or frying pan. A little fat and then the vegetables. They aren't perfect but much better than boiling or steaming.

>> No.14776284

>>14776276
I can agree that bachelor frying them is the best thing you can do, but its still sad

>> No.14776289

>>14776040
I have used kitchen bouquet on occasion.

>> No.14776297

>>14776040
Msg

>> No.14776399

>>14776129
mf'er i don't use the frozen shit at work. smdh

>> No.14776484

>>14776040
Podravka products
Better than bouillon chicken paste
knorr beef cubes
Trader Joe's prepared meals
Milk and sugar in my coffee
Slow cooked skirt steak

>> No.14776511

>>14776484
>Milk and sugar in my coffee
Had to finally take this pill recently. Felt really bad and didn't tell anyone I know

>> No.14776520

>>14776086
frozen veggies for me also

>> No.14776557
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14776557

those dry "mashed potatoes" mixes that you just need to add boiled water to to get something reminiscent to mashed potatoes

>> No.14776561
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This is way better than it has any right to be

>> No.14776589

>>14776557
For home usage, I absolutely endorse some of those products. The ones that require milk to be added are usually a bit better but I've had some that just need water that were perfectly acceptable. My biggest problem with dried mashed potatoes is the very strong and very fake butter flavor that some of them use. I ran a kitchen for a few years and we had a banquet room above our kitchen/dining room that was used for private parties. Whenever it was a large group that requested mashed potatoes, I'd always use 50-60 percent real mashed potatoes with the rest being dry filler. Sysco used to have these very generic tasting dry mashed potatoes that blended perfectly with real mashed potatoes. No fake ass butter flavor, no massive amounts of salt. You'd be surprised how many times we were complimented on our mashed/smashed potatoes. Throwing in some freshly roasted garlic goes a LONG way when you're using dried stuff as filler.

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>>14776284
I've never heard the term "bachelor-frying" before but my mind flashes immediately to a particular divorcee I once lived with. I'd be very entertained to hear you describe the phenomenon and its stereotypes in more detail.
>>14776484
>Podravka products
I've only ever seen them in one grocery store in my life, but now I live just down the street from there. I got a big bag of Vegeta out of curiosity and it is THE thing to use for my vegetable soups, I don't bother with using stock or bouillon, this is the way to go. The website is an absolute trip, this man captures my stereotypes of the Croats in the neighborhood, well-put-together but in a way I find bewildering and not at all to my taste.

>> No.14776644

>>14776086
>ending a statement with a question mark
What did he mean by this?

>> No.14776646

>>14776086
Frozen veggies are fine. They usually flash freeze them close to harvest.
>>14776104
be a try hard somewhere else

>> No.14776674

I've only really ever used the microwaveable steam-in-bag frozen veg but I consider them a breakthrough, immense timesaver and far far far more palatable than the mom-style obligatory-have-a-scoop frozen stuff I grew up on. Whoever here said "It's fresher than what's in your fridge" is right, and I'd never boil them in a pot.

>> No.14776698

>>14776086
Brown gravy without cooking any meat?

>> No.14776784

I never cook beans myself, i just open canned ones. Yes, dry beans are cheaper.

>> No.14776822

Those gravy mix sachets are good if you want gravy for something and you haven't roasted any meat.

>> No.14776872

>>14776040
I use the mushroom gravy packets. I make it with my meatloaf balls since It doesn't leave me a good base to make gravy and I like the flavor of the mushroom kind.

>> No.14776936

>>14776620
Bachelor fry is a double-oil, highest-heat-your-range-can-handle, often seasoning-in-oil fry method that is used by cooks either using low quality, usually frozen, ingredients or by those who are in a hurry and have no one to impress (or both). It's a method used by dudes mostly, me included sometimes.

>> No.14776940

>>14776646
>be a try hard somewhere else
Mandolines are lazy mode lmao

>> No.14777098

>>14776784
And better. Get an instantpot and dry beans are a breenze

>> No.14777105
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>> No.14777115
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>> No.14777123

>>14777105
>>14777115
No chef is going to tell me that these aren't good unless he's a pathetic hypocrite.

>> No.14777143

>>14777105
>>14777115
It can take a long time to source all the ingredients for these and sometimes for the four to five times per year that I'll put them all together the rest will to to waste so these packets or satches come in handy.

>> No.14777198

>>14776083
same, here's a list of things I don't do anymore because 4chan told me:
>consume any seed oil products or anything cooked in seed oils
>drink or eat from heated plastic containers
>wear normal shoes
>use shampoo or conditioner
>sleep with my phone nearby
>eat breakfast
>wear glasses
>breathe through my mouth
>visit dentists
>interact with niggers

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popeyes gives you a bowl of really soupy potatoes that tastes nothing like real mashed potatoes, but the gravy is legit, although likely from a package as well

a packet of instant mash and instant gravy is a great way to get like 75% of the way there

i pour it out onto a plate and make peaks and valleys in the surface and then pour the gravy on top, shit is DOPE

>> No.14777268

I've literally never baked or fried bacon ever since I found out how easy it is to cook in a microwave, how much of a heathen am I?

>> No.14777322

>>14777105
>>14777115
those are good because the ingredient list is basically just the spices. no chemical bullshit like >>14776040

>> No.14777355

>>14777198
based

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>>14776040
absolute game changer for me, I'm not even bad with my knife, but for finely minced/chopped stuff this thing is perfect. Although, it struggles with herbs and such.

>> No.14777594

>>14776040
yes

>> No.14777607
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Brown rice: 40 seconds in the microwave.
Vegetables: 2m30s in the microwave.