/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18894358]

is this true? do people know how to cook now?

[Anonymous No.18894362]

no guy fieri sucks donkey penis

[Anonymous No.18894377]

>>18894358
fuck no. I'm 27 and everyone within a +-10 year age gap to me has no fucking idea how to cook.

I am so thankful my parents both cooked together every night and we all ate our meals together. They instilled the importance of food and cooking into me, most peers ate frozen garbage and junk food. It's insanely sad.

[Anonymous No.18895334]

>>18894358
He just thinks this because the people surrounding him have changed.

[Anonymous No.18895342]

>>18894358
Nothing is true in OP's pic or post plus Guy Fieri, who is actually a badass motherfucker and culinary saint, looks like 20 years older than that in real life.

[Anonymous No.18895346]

>>18894358
It's not that people learned how to cook but rather you can find any recipe or tutorial online making cooking shows pointless

[Anonymous No.18895466]

From my experience in uni, 70% of adults still don't know how to cook. In a communal house where one of my mates was staying, one girl burnt pasta, and their fridges was mostly stocked with just store bought frozen meals or frozen food their parents sent them

[Anonymous No.18895475]

>on TV
Only old people watch TV. The rest of us watch ONLINE programming.

[Anonymous No.18895478]

>>18894358
it's the opposite, less people are even willing to attempt to cook something than ever
watching someone cooking is basically esoteric specialist knowledge akin to watching the ornate assembly lines that produce toblerone

[Anonymous No.18895486]

>>18894377
Lying. You don't know people and have a limited knowledge of people, which is why you came to this board.

[Anonymous No.18895603]

why would you wait one week to see an episode of some unfunny boomers cooking something you wouldn't even be interested in eating when you could search for recipes you actually like online?

[Anonymous No.18895622]

>>18894377
Wow anon, you're so superior to everyone around you! Impressive!

[Anonymous No.18896958]

>>18894362
ill kick your dumb stupid ass. loser

[Anonymous No.18896979]

>>18895622
What he's saying should be plain and normal. If anything it should've become more normal over the past 2 decades, instead it became way worse. Almost non-existing.
>>18894358
Plain false. People simply stopped caring about food altogether. They settle for garbage tier as long as it's fast and cheap.

[Anonymous No.18897086]

>>18894377
I'm the same age and this is pretty much my experience as well. The only other person my age I know who can cook is my fiancé. The rest just order GrubHub every night and then bitch about how they need Bernie to save them from their bills.

The Zoomers are even worse. Two of my roommates are Zoomers and the furthest extent of their cooking skill is boiling some noodles and dumping a jar of Prego on it.

[Anonymous No.18897143]

We have at least 5 cooking programme and two or three other tv shows about restaurants here in italy.
People don't want to learn how to cook, primarly. The novelty of amusing cooking shows has faded and sadly, as >>18895475 said, tv is not for youngsters.

Also, op should be reported since Guy never said that

[Anonymous No.18897366]

>>18894358
Cooking education/entertainment has largely moved online from TV, because TV gatekeepers suck ass. Now you have both professional chefs and home cooks turned personalities on youtube posting shit. Tictok has similar stuff from the zoomers.

Here's the latest on what people do:
>As of November 2021, 44% of Americans have tried making a social media food trend.
>36% of Americans say social media has changed how they approach cooking at home.
>40% of adults ate lunch at home during the pandemic, compared to 26% pre-pandemic.
> A March 2022 survey found that 38% of all grill owners purchased a new grill in the past two years. Of those who purchased in the last year, 27% did so because “they were cooking at home more due to the pandemic.”
>As of October 6, 2022, the average weekly household grocery spending is $148 per week. This is less than the $161 per week grocery spending at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
>In 2020, women cooked 9.2 total meals per week compared to men who cooked 4.5 meals per week
>60% of women and 33% of men engage in food preparation on an average day.
>In 2022, 44% of Americans say they meal prep regularly.

[Anonymous No.18897370]

>>18897366
(Source)
https://www.instacart.com/company/ideas/cooking-statistics/#generational

[Anonymous No.18897562]

>>18897366
>only 44% of Americans say they meal prep regularly.

[Anonymous No.18897568]

No. People watch recipes on YouTube now.

[Anonymous No.18897580]

>>18894358
dont know why it took so long but >>18897568
both for entertainment and actual cooking its just more convenient to watch a 6 to 15 minute video instead of a 1/2 hour of 30% commercials.

[Anonymous No.18897612]

>>18897086
I didn't do much cooking when I was 22 either. Nobody did. You're focused on your formal education at that age. People who deride zoomers for lacking cooking ability have the memory of a goldfish.

[Anonymous No.18897619]

>>18897612
Neither one of them is in formal education. They have normal jobs just like everyone else.

[Anonymous No.18897647]

>>18894358
Was at my parents place last week while they were on vacation and they still have cable. I haven't watched TV in years so checked it out. The food network was just reruns of guys grocery games and DDD. and the amount of commercials is fucking insane. I don't get how people still watch this filth

[Anonymous No.18897654]

>>18897366
>As of November 2021, 44% of Americans have tried making a social media food trend.
Americans make me sick

[Anonymous No.18897702]

>>18897654
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T COOK SOMETHING THAT BECAME POPULAR THROUGH THE INTERNET BECAUSE... YOU JUST CAN'T

[Anonymous No.18897711]

>>18897612
I'm 23, been studying for 5 years. Cook almost every day. It is 100% a measure of basic competency once you pass age 20. You were a loser dude.

[Anonymous No.18897723]

>>18897711
No I wasn't. Having to cook every day at your age makes you a loser.

[Anonymous No.18897740]

>>18897723
Aren't you supposed to be in jail in Romania right now Tate?

[Anonymous No.18897768]

Cooking videos are the #1 most popular category of content shared and viewed on social media sites. Source is my ass but I'm a professional digital advertiser so take my word for it

[Anonymous No.18897875]

>>18897370
this is why people who use data describe the method of the survey before the results
instacart users are a highly selective (i.e., biased) sample of the population
users of instacart also use social media so the % of insta using social is high
rubbish stats

[Anonymous No.18897968]

>>18894358
If anything people know even less about cooking, but the people that do cook (like restaurants chefs that he's interacting with) have gotten a lot better. This is reflected in the restaurant market, it's either a few very good high quality restaurants or a huge amount of fast food tier. Normies don't go to mid tier stuff anymore like olive garden or denny's or whatever boomers went to.

>>18897612
We didn't have youtube in my day, you can learn to cook a good dinner and fix your car in a single day. Video sharing is a huge resource for trades with high levels of technique involved.

[Anonymous No.18898191]

>>18897968
>you can learn to cook a good dinner and fix your car in a single day
thats what im doing today, though I know how to do them from priorly learning on youtube and google. changed my oil and smoking some ribs right now

[Anonymous No.18898250]

why would I watch a cooking show on TV with 18 minutes of cooking and 12 minutes of ads when I could just go watch chef john make something better and without having to sit through the 200th interracial gay couple buying a car commercial

[Anonymous No.18898289]

>>18897366
>>18897370
>>18897768
>Cooking videos are the #1 most popular category of content shared and viewed on social media sites. Source is my ass but I'm a professional digital advertiser so take my word for it

cooking in general seems to have become way more popular even before covid. Youtube and other sites have shown people that it's actually really easy to make delicious food at home. Following a recipe video is as close to real life learning as you can get.

Before youtube, people would have to rely on cooking shows or recipe books. Most people were never autistic enough to tape/dvr a cooking show. And cooking a recipe from a book when you have no real idea what it's supposed to look like is much more difficult than one would think.

I've literally made recipes from video content creators where they don't even mention measurements or cooking times, you can just tell from the video what it's supposed to look like when it's done. So much better than old tv cooking shows or recipe books

[Anonymous No.18898685]

>>18897366
>TV gatekeepers
wtf does this mean?

[Anonymous No.18898694]

>>18894377
My parents cooked together and always fed me home cooked meals, but would NEVER allow me to get the junk food or frozen garbage. Now I eat like a pig all the delicious cheap junk I never could as a child.

[Anonymous No.18898718]

>>18894358
One generation did and now they're automating it for the next and making them fucking morons, so cooking shows will probably come back sooner or later on Youtube.

[Anonymous No.18898852]

>>18894358
I don't think he's right in general, but it does make me realize that most of my friends can cook. One did a year of culinary school and worked a few restaurants before deciding he preferred it as a hobby. Another has liked to cook casually since college. My brother-in-law is capable in the kitchen and is currently obsessed with using his smoker. We're all men around 30. Maybe it's more socially normal for the younger generations of men to enjoy home cooking as a hobby than in the past.

[Anonymous No.18899005]

>>18895486
Some can be weird enough to come here but not repulsive enough to not have loved ones.

[Anonymous No.18899011]

>>18898852
I'm 28 and literally all of my friends know how to cook way better than the women in their families

[Anonymous No.18899100]

Actually yeah. I mog the boomers in my family due to learning how to execute the basics correctly from youtube.

[Anonymous No.18899105]

>>18894358
People moved on to Youtube cooking videos which are way better for watching and learning than TV cooking shows.

[Anonymous No.18899113]

>>18896979
>People simply stopped caring about food altogether
People ate all kinds of horrible garbage 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 60 years ago, 80 years ago, etc.

[Anonymous No.18899153]

>>18898852
In the same vein, it seems like the average millennial man knows how to cook much better than the average millennial female, who mostly subsists off of pasta dishes with jarred sauce and microwaved food.

[Anonymous No.18899221]

>>18894358
I'd need to know how old this quote is to say if it was true at the time or not. Most millennials, from my own personal experience, have learned to cook while most zoomzooms haven't yet. They haven't yet hit the hardest of times yet, so they can still afford to eat out and order delivery, if they don't just heat up frozen food or whatever.
I myself, nearly 30, learned to cook at the ages of 4-5 unfortunately since my parents were always too stoned to take care of me. Cooking eggs, boiling water, all that jazz. I had fun with it enough to watch almost nothing but the food channel, and stuck with it mostly because someone needed to feed my little sister.
Having reflected on the daily "i dont know how to cook, what are some cheap and easy meals?" threads that have been popping up far more than usual these past few years, I think zoomzooms are beginning to start wanting to learn. And good on them honestly, I'm happy to teach.

[Anonymous No.18899239]

>>18897562
They probably count any form of consuming leftovers or involving prior prep as meal prep. Like broths/stocks, etc. 'Meal prep sunday' shit is dystopian and masochistic imo, but I do things like make big batches of gyozas so when I make ramen I can just fry some up easily. I want to start making my own frozen dinners too, for those super lazy, late or drunk nights.

[Anonymous No.18899463]

>>18897768
Very believable. Cooking is also one of the least possibly offensive categories, and obviously has broad appeal.

[Anonymous No.18899484]

>>18894358
My uni experience says that this is definitely not the case
>Deliveroo/Uber Eats deliveries happening 24/7 around student accommodations (bikers everywhere)
>Roomates can't cook for shit, always order stuff to eat
>Never clean their dishes, expect mom to clean up after them
>Fuckers will eat my shit if they don't have anything/can't order
>Constant fire evacuations because some Indian girl doesn't know how to use the stove because her maid always cooked for her
It's honestly disappointing

[Anonymous No.18899510]

>always cook for myself
>decide to cook for faggot roommate for once
>make a wicked bolognese, took forever
>offer him a bowl, jar a couple servings for after the gym
>"its good i guess"
>come back, he made more pasta and fucking ate the whole jar of sauce
Why oh WHY is everyone I get stuck living with a complete piece of shit? What the fuck are parents teaching their children nowadays? Someone offers you a meal so that gives you a pass to raid everything they made and not even clean up after? Fuck's sake. Ted was right.

[Anonymous No.18899552]

>>18899510
Ted was right about a lot of stuff really.