/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16988892]

What's your least favorite part about cooking? For me it's dishes and storing leftovers.

[Anonymous No.16988896]

>>16988892
Eating it. I want to die. I am a prediabetic geriatric and a total fall risk. I Might as well jump off a bridge.

[Anonymous No.16988899]

prep

[Anonymous No.16988913]

>>16988892
i hate leftovers to a point that i won't cook anything i can't finish in one meal

[Anonymous No.16988917]

>>16988892
Trying to decide what I’m going to make with the ingredients I picked out .

[Anonymous No.16988936]

Having to clean the stovetop and vents on the rangehood.

[Anonymous No.16988945]

>>16988936
Cooks have become such whiners companies have to hire outside cleaning companies to do shit like this.

[Anonymous No.16988946]

>>16988936
The first time isn't so bad. Next thing you know you are waking up screaming.

[Anonymous No.16988949]

Doing stuff with leftover ingredients: like you needed cilantro for a recipe, but fresh cilantro is sold only in a big bundle that's way too much for one recipe if you're not cooking for 20 people.
So now you have to find way to use this cilantro in the next few days or it will spoil.

[Anonymous No.16988971]

>>16988913
The unfortunate part for me is none of my roommates want to eat my cooking (they love fast food too much, not their fault tho) so I always have way too much leftover.

[Anonymous No.16988992]

>>16988971
i'm jelly of mexican immigrants that pool their resources together on food
THAT'S how you do capitalism
best we have are the occasional random potluck

[Anonymous No.16989026]

>>16988896
Die boomer DIE

[Anonymous No.16989032]

>>16989026
I’m a warpig not a boomer

[Anonymous No.16989038]

>>16989032
>Made up boomercope words

DIEEE BOOMER DIIIIEEEEE DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE DIIIIIIIEEEEEE

>Day of the pillow, when???

[Anonymous No.16989054]

>>16989038
What does boomer mean now? Willing to kill a foreigner for a paycheck?

[Anonymous No.16989058]

>>16989054
What does "geriatric" mean to you you spasticated mutt boomer scum?

[Anonymous No.16989127]

The worst part about cooking is the cooking. So I don't bother and buy fast food instead.

[Anonymous No.16989131]

expenses

[Anonymous No.16989134]

remembering what else i ate this week so i can get a varied diet

[Anonymous No.16989164]

>>16988892
the loneliness

[Anonymous No.16989176]

>>16988949
I make a pico de Gallo for left over cilantro. Tomato, red onion, jalopeno, half a lime, some scallions if you got em.
Red onion, and jalopeno in, diced
Zest of lime, and juice it
I guess scallions and. Cilantro now? I kinda wing it
Lastly tomatos

[Anonymous No.16989203]

>>16988892

Eating.

[Anonymous No.16989232]

>>16988949

you can ferment cilantro. i usually just ferment or pickle leftover ingredients because you get cooler ingredients and then youre not tossing out ur purchase

[Anonymous No.16989247]

>>16989232
Yeah, I need to start fermenting stuff, plus it seems quite easy

[Anonymous No.16989260]

>>16988949
Keep generic thin crust frozen pizzas in your freezer. They are great for using up leftovers. I had a fair amount of left over Italian Parsley so I did a rough chop on it mixed it in a bowl with a teaspoon of olive oil and some salt and pepper then just spread it on top of the frozen pizza and baked that like normal. Came out great. Also add nutmeg to your pizza it is a nice addition.

[Anonymous No.16989451]

>>16988949
One thing I like with Japanese food is that a lot of the special ingredients are quite stable, even opened (miso paste, soy sauce, nori, etc.)

[Anonymous No.16990823]

>>16988892
I hate the back pain from leaning over and prepping ingredients
>t. 6'6 fag in tiny 100 year old apartment

[Anonymous No.16990868]

Oils and fats are a necessary and essential part of cooking, but I hate the splatter and smell. The clean-up is never straight forward and I feel like sometimes you're just smearing it around even with a good technique and de-greaser. It takes multiple passes for me to feel good again.

I have a covered back porch so I bought an electric hot plate and take my prep outside on a tray. Much easier to just hose everything down afterwards.

[Anonymous No.16990903]

>>16988949
I have found if you take the left over bunch of cilantro, and stick it in a glass with the bottom ends in water, and cover the top with a plastic bag, like the one you often put it in at the grocery store when you're shopping, then stick it in the fridge, it will keep a much longer time. Basically treat the cilantro like a plant in a vase but put the plastic bag over the top and put it in the fridge.

[Anonymous No.16990929]

>>16988892
fuck ups

[Anonymous No.16990953]

>need X amount of Y thing
>need equal amount of Z thing
>Y and Z do not have the same amount in the packages

[Anonymous No.16990962]

>>16988892
Eating. Hard to eat something you spent some time making.

[Anonymous No.16990969]

>>16988892
The aftermath of my attempt at cooking

[Anonymous No.16991008]

I can understand dishes because cleaning up sucks but what's the issue with storing leftovers? Use plastic wrap or tupperware and you're good to go. Alternatively get a vacuum sealer and freeze things without worrying about freezer burn.

[Anonymous No.16991066]

>>16988892
Prep. My cutting board is tiny, i don't have much counter space, and every surface is too short for my height so i end up hunching over and getting back pains. I HATE prepwork

[Anonymous No.16991111]

>>16990953
Even worse
>recipe is based around specific amount of ingredient
>ingredient is clearly standardized in your area to a specific amount and the recipe cannot easily be adjusted
>waste unused portion of ingredient
Worst offender is cream cheese

[Anonymous No.16991119]

>>16988896
>>16989203
>>16990962
This is a joke right

[Anonymous No.16991144]

The niggers

[Anonymous No.16991197]

>Having to wait for the oven to cool down and stop smoking to clean it to then wait to use it again
>cleaning the dishrack itself and the towels which are near molding halting all kitchen productivity
>smelling something burning burning on the stovetop under the pan somehow
>having to unclog drain with hand sometimes
It's good the benefits of cooking outweigh these bullshit side effects.

[Anonymous No.16991207]

>>16988892
Doing butt stuff with my twink lover while waiting

[Anonymous No.16991208]

>>16988892
When fuckers keep entering the kitchen for food or some shit and won't get out of your way. Maybe I'm an autist but that drives me crazy.

[Anonymous No.16991349]

>cooking for visiting family and/or friends
>nobody offers to help as I'm getting everything set up
>start chopping
>someone enters kitchen and stands behind me without me noticing
>"HEY ANON YOU WANT SOME HELP? OH WOW YOU CUT YOUSELF!"

[Anonymous No.16991355]

>>16991008
>I can understand dishes because cleaning up sucks but what's the issue with storing leftovers? Use plastic wrap or tupperware and you're good to go. Alternatively get a vacuum sealer and freeze things without worrying about freezer burn.
Not OP but I understand. Many people, myself included, have several cabinets' worth of various tupperware, each piece it's own snowflake of a different shape and size, and you have to Indiana Jones that shit to just discover the right combination of pieces that will hold all of the leftovers while still being compact enough to all fit in the fridge. And even then, it's still a pain to perform this hellish Container Jenga Tetris stacking to make it all work. If I can, I just stick the entire cooking pots I used with the leftovers in the fridge and avoid it when possible.

[Anonymous No.16991369]

>>16988892
Trying to organize and prep before cooking
Constantly looking at a recipe
Waiting for things to cook
Juggling multiple things at once when cooking

Yeah I hate cooking, it's too complicated for my retarded ADHD mind.

[Anonymous No.16991640]

>>16989032
>>16989054
>i-I was in the army guys. I didn't really do well in high school. Now I have PTSD. please pay attention to me? Thank me?
Frick off imperialist shitlord

[Anonymous No.16991652]

>>16989247
It is friend, when you want into it post here and fermentanons can guide you.

[Anonymous No.16992973]

>>16991208
Agreed

[Anonymous No.16992978]

>>16991355
OP here and this was exactly my issue. Somewhat alleviated once I forced my roommates to ditch all the lopsided crap and just buy two complete sets at Sam's club.

[Anonymous No.16992984]

>>16991652
My one adventure in fermenting was attempting to make a ginger bug and noticing it mold after just a few days. Maybe it's not for me or I just got very unlucky.

[Anonymous No.16993002]

I essentially eat once a day, so cooking is a guarantee I eat the same shit for days, or throw something away. It's such a waste of money, and I don't even want to eat my leftovers.

[Anonymous No.16994099]

>>16988945
That shit surprised the hell out of me.
I hadn't worked in kitchens in a long time, and I get back and what are these absolute fucking pussies doing up in here?
Maybe I'm just an old fuck now but back in the day it was just like, yea, it's your kitchen, you're the one that's gotta clean the fucker.

[Anonymous No.16994102]

>>16991208
>>16992973
Same.
THESE STATIONS ARE FUCKING IN USE GET OUT THE GOD DAMN WAY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

[Anonymous No.16994185]

>>16989054
No, that just makes you a piece of shit. "boomer" means "relatively old, with an outdated value system", which describes your dumb boomer ass pretty well.

[Anonymous No.16994387]

Collecting the ingredients / shopping (esp. if the dish requires this not-quite-common ingredient and it's nowhere to be found), and the whole preparatory fuckery, like cleaning, peeling, chopping, washing, digging up all the vessels and utensils... It's literally half an hour of cooking, 15 minutes of eating and 2-3 hours of getting ready to cook, including a ride to the shop, finding the stuff, waiting at checkout, unpacking, all that fucking around just to get started.

[Anonymous No.16994577]

>>16990823
ywn be a small fry

[Anonymous No.16994724]

>>16988892
Definitely trying to put shit away and just space management in general. Small ass fridge and countertops make cooking a lot more stressful than it should be. My least favorite part used to be balancing things in the kitchen, but I've gotten a much better sense of how long things take to cook, residual cooking, when to sear vs finish cooking, and dish heating/shit like that as time has went on. I have ADHD, so this stuff sucks to deal with for me, but when I take my medication, I'm never hungry.

[Anonymous No.16995230]

>>16991111
Based cream cheese toast hater

[Anonymous No.16995247]

Wow so many people here hate putting away leftovers. I thought I was alone. I honestly prefer to do the dishes and let my roommate pack the leftovers and dry/put away the dishes.

[Anonymous No.16995559]

>>16991066
Put everything in bowls, and put something under your cutting board to make it higher.

[Anonymous No.16995565]

>>16992978
>>16991355
Just use a plate you autists.

[Anonymous No.16995570]

>>16995565
Plates break too easily during transport.

[Anonymous No.16995869]

>>16995565
Yeah bro let me just store this stew on a plate