/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18909302]

Fuck measuring, I just eyeball that shit. Measuring is for cooklets that don't taste their food and have no gut instincts.

[Anonymous No.18909311]

I fucking love pyrex measuring cups
of course a digital scale is far superior but pyrex shit is so nice

[Anonymous No.18909330]

>>18909311
For me it's the Fire King. Bonus points if it's a Chinese knockoff with the measuring marks printed at an angle.

[Anonymous No.18909334]

>>18909302
Ok, tell us how you taste raw dough for amount if yeast.

[Anonymous No.18909337]

>>18909302
Measuring is for baking. Only cooklets don't use a scale for baked goods.

[Anonymous No.18909338]

>>18909334
Lol I don't bake, I'm not a woman.

[Anonymous No.18909342]

>>18909338
>He doesn't understand the historical position of power and importance a baker holds.
Get wrekt

[Anonymous No.18909345]

>>18909302
>Measuring is for cooklets
no, saying that measuring is for cooklets and feeling a bizarre sense of superiority because you eyeball shit, is for cooklets

[Anonymous No.18909452]

>>18909302
just do whatever works
>>18909311
pyrex measurements are wrong lol

[Anonymous No.18909454]

>>18909302
wow so brave

[Anonymous No.18909462]

>baking without measuring anything
based retard

[Anonymous No.18909472]

I measure for baking.
Did just this morning. Baked biscuits/scones with cranberries in them, which we had split and spread with mascarpone.

[Anonymous No.18909480]

>>18909338
Nigga, I worked as a bread baker all throughout school. Between the 100lb sacks of flour and kneading dough in a goddamn tub using literal boat oars (bakery owner wanted everything done by hand cuz muh artisanal), there was not a single woman there with us.

[Anonymous No.18909786]

When I don't measure it's because I'm feeling too lazy to wash all the extra measuring spoons and cups, not because I'm just that good. Stop coping.

[Anonymous No.18909800]

>>18909338
Imagine getting filtered by baking.

[Anonymous No.18909802]

>>18909302
yeah I said that to myself, too. right before making ALL the rice.

[Anonymous No.18910206]

>>18909338
Men bake, women sell. Looks like you're not equipped to be either.

[Anonymous No.18910290]

>>18909302
I am doing that right now. I made a peanut butter bake cake like thing by mixing whatever cakeish stuff together. No measuring, not even sure the oven is on the right temp, bless my peanut butter cake.

[Anonymous No.18910389]

>>18910290
Blog update:
My peanut butter bake cake like thing turned out nicely. Medium density with a fluffy but solid top and a soft but consistent center. Not goopy, but warm and soft. Success.

[Anonymous No.18912218]

>>18909302
Baking requires precision. If you're not measuring when you bake anything more complicated than a mediocre loaf of bread, you're baking shit.

[Anonymous No.18912415]

>>18909338
based

[Anonymous No.18912606]

>>18909480
Did you use wooden oars or aluminum? Also you can post the hard R, you've earned it.

[Anonymous No.18912615]

Where does this meme of claiming masculinity over not doing things the proper way come from?

[Anonymous No.18912666]

Precision is the glass ceiling, if you don't use recipies, write notes and measure ingredients you will never improve. You will never survive in a commercial environment, you will never achieve greatness.

it's true that metric won't solve all your problems, but that's an excuse not an argument. There's a lot of things metric won't tell you (like the strength of cumin, how spicy a chilli is, what colour a sauce is) but that's like saying a hammer won't remove a screw- it's not what metric is for.

Without metric you hit this glass ceiling and can't work out why you're not progressing. you measure cumin by taste so can't work out how much you have or need in the pantry, you judge how much chilli to use by taste and can't portion it, you gaugue the colour of sauce by eye and are forever trapped starting will less and adding more last minute.
There are two kinds of family recipes, ones in metric that record how each generation made something; and "grandma showed me" recipes that are lost or destroyed in a single generation.

Home chefs also hit the glass ceiling when cooking becomes technical, when preserving they can't work out sugar syrup by weight/volume/ratio. When pickling they can't work out PH, when making cheese and custard they can't work out the temperature drop required to set the mix.
They hit the glass ceiling, adding double the sugar which is required as a buffer, adding double the acid, freezing things "overnight" or cooking them for an unreasonable period of time. Then they hit a big red barrier "do not attempt this unless you actually understand the science involved" and they angrily poison themselves.

[Anonymous No.18912680]

>>18912218
Or more accurately you're just taking a crap shoot, and when something goes wrong you're then unable to backtrack and work out WHAT went wrong. many home cooks just do things over and over until they work, then take the method that worked as gospel, with the result being they make something badly for decades because they couldn't work out where their initial error was. Like this nigger right here >>18909452

[Anonymous No.18912689]

>>18909330
>slave-manufacturing angled-printing wrong measurements
Soul

[Anonymous No.18912721]

>>18912666
>You will never survive in a commercial environment, you will never achieve greatness.
Blow it out your ass. I don't cook for anyone but friends, family, guests.

[Anonymous No.18912733]

when you think about it, following recipes is really like letting another man fuck your mouth

[Anonymous No.18912758]

I don't get the big deal about needing to always measure when baking. Once you've made something three or four times you should know when it looks and feels right.

[Anonymous No.18913227]

>>18909302
the only good thing measuring cups are good for is baking, everything else i measure with eye. because why wouldn't i.

[Anonymous No.18914478]

>>18912680
measure it yourself, Pyrex is off

[Anonymous No.18914497]

>>18909338
Robert Heinlein would be disappointed with you.

[Anonymous No.18914498]

>>18912666
Why would I care about not being to enter one of the shittiest careers out there?

[Anonymous No.18914501]

>>18909337
I use a scale for both, since I like consistency between varying ingredient grades and substitutes

[Anonymous No.18914502]

>>18909338
What a pathetic cope for lack of knowledge. I bet you drink light beer, you dumbass

[Anonymous No.18914503]

>Measuring.
>Cooking.
>Being a slave when you can get food from the store.

[Anonymous No.18914510]

>>18912666
Babe, new copypasta dropped, come get some before it's gone.

[Anonymous No.18914895]

>>18909338
>he won’t become a patty-cake baker’s man

NGMI

[Anonymous No.18915624]

>>18912415

[Anonymous No.18915692]

>>18909337
>>18909462