/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18549614]

This is sort of a stupid boomers thread, but anyone can post with this experience. I grew up with parents who had no knowledge of cooking. Common dinners included: Whole chicken breast (frozen) thrown into crockpot without seasoning and a jar of salsa on top, meatloaf - which was a pack of ground beef shaped with an egg and no seasoning, then lastly, just basic shit like kraft mac, hamburger helper etc.

So I had to make all my food when I was as young as 12, and started making omlets and stuff like that. What are the worst meals your parents made? Are you like me and have no comfort food memories because your parents couldnt cook, so they just ate out all the time? It's very weird being 31 now and being the best cook in my entire family. I still get shit from 80+ year olds who dont know how to make their own spaghetti sauce and complain at me for using tomatoes from my garden to supplement canned plums etc.

[Anonymous No.18549625]

>>18549614
>Whole chicken breast (frozen) thrown into crockpot without seasoning
My boomer father and stepmom did this but in an oven instead, and used shitty Pace salsa. It was horrific. We spent one summer when my parents were one of their diet kicks rotating between the chicken salsa dish and sliced chicken breast with onions and peppers served on the cheapest flour tortillas and again Pace salsa. It doesnt sound that bad but somehow they made it bad. Their cooking was all that kind of stuff except the random times we would get spaghetti or frozen stauffers lasagna, which they couldnt screw up too much because it was all premade.

[Anonymous No.18549626]

>>18549614
My parents owned a restaurant for 15 years and I worked in it for 10. The only time I had shitty food was eating out.

[Anonymous No.18549636]

>>18549614
Mom improved her cooking over the years but when I was in school she often cooked her version of fried chicken.
>throw chicken breasts, bell peppers, onions and zucchini in pan
>chicken boils in vegeable juices instead of being actually fried
>overcooked to hell

[Anonymous No.18549644]

>>18549614
>no seasoning
why? I mean seriously, why would they put no seasoning in it at all. ask them right now what their deal is

[Anonymous No.18549696]

>>18549614
For years I thought I didn't like rice because the only way my mother cooked it was baked in the oven where it mostly comes out very hard and crunchy. She was also pretty boring in that it would commonly be just baked potatoes with no seasoning or just boiled broccoli. Her rule was always she's made one thing for supper and isn't cooking more. If any of us didn't want to eat what she'd made we're free to go make a sandwich or whatever.

So in the end it worked out because between that motivation and old cooking shows then like wok with yan I taught myself cooking quite young and ended up very good at it.

[Anonymous No.18549860]

>>18549625
No, anon, it does sound bad. Really bad.

[Anonymous No.18549880]

>>18549644
I don't season stuff if I'm going to be putting a sauce on it, either.

[Anonymous No.18549914]

>>18549614
Thankfully my mom was a really good cook and loved doing it. she was always cooking some tomato sauce for hours and making fresh pasta.
But I had a roommate who had parents that had no idea how to cook and neither did he. when he didn’t get fast food or frozen shit he would make nachos with a pack of ground beef and no seasoning, not even fucking salt. I had a pantry full of spices and grew herbs in the backyard and begged him to use some and he wouldn’t use any of it. it drove me fucking insane

[Anonymous No.18549917]

>>18549614
My mom microwaved overly salted dollar store tortilla chips with craft singles to make "nachos" forgot about them in the microwave they got cold so she reheated them for to long burning the fake plastic cheese and partially melting the BPA plastic plate She microwave them on.

After that I couldn't eat cheese for 2 years I still can't get that taste or texture out of my mind.
As an unsuspecting kid, I knew something wasn't right but the nachos but ate them anyway because "mom would not serve me anything bad"

[Anonymous No.18549929]

>>18549917
>because "mom would not serve me anything bad"
All of us born after 1950 are fucked, aren't we?

[Anonymous No.18549937]

>>18549929
Yea, I took this hit too. I used to eat so much toxic shit. I grew up on country crock and storebought whitebread. Not evne talking about sneed oil memes, but everyone knows tub of oil and sugary white bread is bad news.

[Anonymous No.18549990]

My dad just boils the shit out of ever vegetable it's horrific. At this point it's racist. He also cooks steak in an oven ngmi

[Anonymous No.18550012]

>>18549644
Not necessary. It's a crutch.

[Anonymous No.18550171]

ITT: people whose parents should have been arrested by child protection services

[Anonymous No.18550198]

My mom could bake circles around most people but her foods were bland as shit. . Remember the average "taco night" was just ground beef without the seasoning packet because it was "too salty", and instead she added a tablespoon of salt to some frozen ground beef, some oregano from a 12 year old shaker and if she was feeling generous, some pre-ground pepper.

Hard to blame that entire generation, though. Boomers were actively eschewing everything they could have learned from their parents about everything in general, and unlike millennials onwards, didn't have access to the internet to learn how to cook. Gen-X had a chance since when they were moving out on their own, they had cooking TV available, but that shit was still not always about technique and alot more about flair. I do weep for whatever comes after zoomers though, because they're only learning about cooking from THE BUGER KING WHOPPER BUT I COOKED IT and tiktok cheese ejaculation people.

[Anonymous No.18550205]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVB6tPFawM

imagine cooking

[Anonymous No.18550290]

>>18549626
Thats great faggot, not what the OP asked is it? You attention whoring nigger

[Anonymous No.18550396]

I feel sorry for all of you

Everyone in my family knew how to cook.

[Anonymous No.18550401]

>>18550396
Another attention whore.

[Anonymous No.18550407]

>>18550401
Cope and seethe, faggot. I ate better than you.

[Anonymous No.18550440]

>>18549614
Lucy's in service you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.18550442]

>>18549614
My mother would essentially boil supermarket steaks that were on sale, so you'd get a piece of well-done grey meat with chewy white gristle. Other atrocities were
>saltine crackers with ketchup
>Kraft cheese slice and mayo sandwiches - heavy on the mayo
>fried breaded pork, but the oil was too cold so they came out totally saturated
>turkey sandwiches with ice cream and Lays potato chips in it
>no seasonings in the cupboard

Most of the time it was just frozen dinners, take-out, and pre-made grocery items, but those steaks really stuck out to me because they were so bad, you wouldn't even feed it to an animal. I can't imagine giving that to my kids. And yes, she was/is obese.

[Anonymous No.18550455]

>>18550442
Lucy from >>18550440...
Pull out the violins.
What the fuck was your mom's excuse for not being a mom?

[Anonymous No.18550514]

>>18550442
I had to walk to school with no shoes on hot rocks in the snow uphill both ways.

[Anonymous No.18550588]

>>18550514
LUXURY!!
We lived in a SHOEBOX in a lake...
https://youtu.be/VAdlkunflRs

[Anonymous No.18550607]

>>18549614
>kraft mac, hamburger helper

I always passed by that goyfeed in the aisles and wondered what kind of tormented subhuman class of people consumed this....

[Anonymous No.18550647]

>>18549614
My uncle adopted me after my parents died and he made me do sexual stuff with him if I wanted anything more than dry cornflakes

[Anonymous No.18550747]

>>18550647
Well, was the food worth it?

[Anonymous No.18550770]

Closest my parents got to cooking was frozen chicken breaded patties on a george foreman and adding water to potato flakes. They died when I was a kid though so maybe with more years they would have given a fuck?

[Anonymous No.18550826]

>>18550747
no he was a horrible cook

[Anonymous No.18550917]

>>18550455
She married up and never worked a day in her life then chose a divorce out of pure spite, so she was basically an emotionally rekt and regretful child raising a kid.

My grandma also lived with us (inventor of the ice cream potato chip turkey sandwich) and she was another divorced fatty. Poor choices everywhere. I forgot to mention we would have like 6 cats at once and they'd eat off of the plates in the living room with us when Chinese food was ordered
>tfw their favorite food was the boneless spare ribs

[Anonymous No.18551362]

my parents are from the Middle East so most of the food they made was delicious except for steak. They like it well done. I grew up hating steak, it was always tough and chewy.

Was so fucking mad when I discovered medium rare

[Anonymous No.18551560]

>>18549626
Based.
Congrats on having hard working parents, a lot of other anons wont relate. Child labor = good for character development.

[Anonymous No.18551638]

>>18549625
No, no that is horrible, and it sounds like hell. That is fucking terrible. Being forced to eat the same shit dish every day for over a month, having to pretend it isn't shit because you don't want to deal with their butthurt, dreading when it's time to eat every fucking day, hoping that it's going to be something different and then it turns out it's just the same exact fucking terrible food again and having your soul die a bit each day. No it's fucking horrible. I lived this, don't discount your experience. It was wrong and they should be ashamed. It's fucking torture. My mother did this to us, she made that same shit grey, soggy "sweet and sour" pork with canned pineapple and overcooked bell peppers for a month but this bitch thought she was "perfecting" the recipe. Dealing with that level of laziness is not okay, especially as a kid, because it seems endless and there is nothing you can do about it. I put it on the same level as torture.

[Anonymous No.18551668]

>>18550442
>turkey sandwiches with ice cream and Lays potato chips in it

[Anonymous No.18552048]

>>18551362
Do Middle Easterners not eat rare meat in general or is the Boomer allergy for red meat common there too?

[Anonymous No.18552088]

>>18549614
my father cannot cook plus he's british
at best he bakes everything in the oven til over cooked and steams every single veg item to mush

my mother cannot cook anything with our a jar sauce
no joke the pantry is just jar sauces and canned shit


i cook literally anything and get called a Chef, fucking boomers

[Anonymous No.18552120]

>>18549614
Both of my parents are good cooks, however my father would rarely cook because he was usually busy, and my mother had various dietary limitations and was health-obsessed, so normally food would be healthy rather than tasty

[Anonymous No.18552563]

>>18552088
same except both my parents are vegetarian bongs
there was a period of about 2 months when i was young where my dad was happy to cook bacon and eggs for me but then that stopped
now i rarely trust people to cook for me until ive seen what they can do
i know kids are hungry very often while they are growing up but somehow i felt hungrier

[Anonymous No.18552626]

My mom was/is a great cook... my dad on the other hand is a stubborn boomer that can't grill or cook for shit and gets mad when we give him feedback.

[Anonymous No.18552670]

>>18552088
damn, wish i could spend hundreds of bongs to make one mediorcre recipe
fucking boomers and their affordable alternatives

[Anonymous No.18552701]

>>18552563
>starved vegetarian child
Literally neglect. That's just sad. There's no excuse for that they could have had the house filled with healthy options

[Anonymous No.18553937]

It was the same 3 meals in constant rotation; frozen fish and mash, shepards pie, sausage and mash with beans, pasta bake. That was pretty much it. When my mom would go back home to see the senpai my dad literally bought us bk every day for dinner. Taught myself how to cook when I got into my teens so I didn’t have to eat that crap all the time

[Anonymous No.18554285]

>>18552563
anon you really did just make me feel better.

thanks

>>18552670
>no spice
>literally no spice
>not even salt or pepper
so white it hurts anon

>>18553937
>bk
you poor bastard, i feel bad for you.

[Anonymous No.18554753]

>>18549614

>be me at home with mom
>mother asks for help making steak
>never liked her cooking but i might aswell help out
>"sure"

>watch as she puts two whole sticks of "buttery spead" in an iron skillet

[Anonymous No.18554765]

>>18554753
pic rel

[Anonymous No.18555168]

>>18554753
butter fried steak is good but a half a stick is more then enough for 4 strip steaks

[Anonymous No.18555197]

>>18550171
How is this fat retard a "mukbanger"

He has fucking disgusting table manners, how can anyone watch this without throwing up.

[Anonymous No.18555218]

>>18555197
he's more of a feedee

[Anonymous No.18555907]

>>18550407
Nobody cares pussy boy

[Anonymous No.18555937]

You sound like a ungrateful cunt nugget. If you were my kid saying such things on the internet I’d knock your puny ass out. Show some goddamn respect, numbnuts.

[Anonymous No.18555959]

I was a very picky eater as a kid and my family would cook for my extended family who liked their cooking, so I don't really have an objective opinion. I do remember chicken breasts being dry, stringy, and underseasoned and pork chops being boiled in their own thawed juices as being gross at the time. Nothing in particular was bafflingly awful in hindsight.

[Anonymous No.18555968]

>>18555937
and you sound like a fat alcoholic piece of shit who can't even fulfil the most basic duties of a parent. such a pathetic excuse of a man you have to hit smaller children to feel like a human.

Don't reproduce and rot in a nursing home you miserable cunt

[Anonymous No.18556273]

>>18555968
I already have 4 great children and another on the way while your sitting here on a Chinese image board acting like an uppity queer. You are just a sad little child who can’t appreciate what’s good in life. Maybe when you finally grow up and put your big boy pants on you can thank your old man for sacrificing so much in spite of your impotent autistic ravings.

[Anonymous No.18556322]

>>18556273
>future resident of a minority-staffed nursing home for dementia

[Anonymous No.18556356]

>>18555937
It is good to have standards and to know when you should be grateful and when you shouldn't be.

[Anonymous No.18556976]

>>18556273
I also have 4 lovely children. So I have to say l, as an experienced parent, I think you are disgusting and pathetic as you think feeding growing children this type of slop is acceptable, or that beating children will somehow make them into successful adults. I would never feed my kids the way anons have described here, or the way I was fed as a child. I have, in the past during the tough early days, went without food to make sure they have not just enough, but the best, and I would do it again gladly if I had to. Having experienced being beaten until I left home by the one person who is supposed to protect and care for you, and how horrifying that experience is, I will never hit my children, and anyone who does this is just guaranteed to have kids that want nothing to do with them when they are able to get away.

You mentality puts you firmly in the category of subhuman filth and I pity your children until the day they realize they can just cut you loose and be free of the burden that it is to have you as a parent. I hope they all move far away from you to states without filial piety laws and you're left to rot in some room alone for the cruelty you think is acceptable to inflict on them.