/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6047171]

Do you think there's such a thing as a cook's intuition?

This is probably going to make me sound like a fag, but whenever I cook, I never use recipes. Ever. I make everything up on the fly. I add in whatever ingredients I feel like. Not on a whim, but I just pick it up, look at what I'm cooking and think "This would go nicely," even though I've never tasted it before. When I'm cooking, I'll get a spark of inspiration and quickly grab some random thing and throw it in.

And whatever comes out ends up tasting fucking great, even though I've never sat down and just tasted raw herbs, spices, etc that I cook with, and a lot of the times use new things I've never cooked with.

Is there such thing as just natural cooking talent? I feel like I have it. It's like I just know what to do, without training or anything. It feels weird.

[Anonymous No.6047178]

>>6047171
No, there's definitely an intuition. But for almost everyone, it has to be trained. If the average untrained person just sits down at a piano and starts banging on the keys, they won't be able to be as creative or express themselves as well as someone who has practiced and learned the rules and structures that others have discovered before them. Same with food. Learn the foundations, and then build on them with intuition.

[Anonymous No.6047180]

Some people have natural talent for certain things, but practice and experience beats raw untrained talent every time.

[Anonymous No.6047184]

Cooking talent is measured in the ability to produce a spontaneous organoleptic balance in your food.

I am professor emeritus of burgerology, trust me.

[Anonymous No.6047207]

>>6047178
This.
You likely have an ancestor in your DNA, that was a cook, or did lots of the cooking for their people. Your own thoughts and desires towards food, likely awakened that part of your DNA. Epigenetics, truly is a fascinating thing.

[Anonymous No.6047234]

>>6047207
lol dude
>>6047171
i dunno you might just like the only things you wind up cooking a lot coincidentally

[Anonymous No.6048405]

Do you measure cooking talent in ability to make food types you rarely make, or ability to make good taste without doing the food type before?
Because both are cooking talent, but they are a lot differnet.

[Anonymous No.6048421]

OP, you are a fucking moron, as evidenced by this thread, I am going to guess you would eat shit on a shingle and ask for seconds, thats why you think no matter how much bullshit you mix it still tastes good, you simply have a garbage palette and no taste.

you really are a fucking moron, think about how stupid what you typed is, you literally asked if there was magic you possessed that allowed you to magically know what goes good together.

[Anonymous No.6048477]

>>6048421
This,
but a little more politely.

[Anonymous No.6048499]

>>6047171
Same thing with me, things just kinda seem to... Click in my head.

Only recipe I follow for is chicken picatta. Shit's good.

[Anonymous No.6048505]

>>6048499
I used to live with someone that had your same cooking ego.
Your food isn't good.

[Anonymous No.6048507]

>>6047171
Dunning–Kruger effect

[Anonymous No.6048511]

>>6047171
Generally the least competent fundamentally lack the ability to recognize their incompetence. Simply put, people who are really terrible at something lack the ability to realize how terrible they are.

From your post this seems like it could be a possibility in your case. "I just make shit up all the time, and it always comes out amazing. Am I a fucking genius?" It's far more likely you lack the ability to recognize that you have no idea what you're doing.

But you could be someone with a particularly good sense of smell. As a kid I could usually tell what the ingredients of a dish were by smelling it as it cooked. This made it pretty easy for me to learn to cook, though I still had more than my share of fuckups until I got my technique together. If you have a good sense of smell your chances of putting good combinations together from a random set of ingredients is higher than the average person.

But my guess is you saw Ratatouille too many times, and that made you a genius.

[Anonymous No.6048514]

>>6048505
Nah, I've cooked for a couple of dinner parties and barbecues; nothing but positive feedback.

For some reason I can't make soup for shit though.

[Anonymous No.6048522]

>>6048514
>people that already like you compliment you on something that youve done for free

[Anonymous No.6048523]

>>6048522
>Implying it was for free

[Anonymous No.6048527]

>>6048523
if you charged for your shit cooking you are a bigger stupider faggot then you have already brought us to believe

[Anonymous No.6048533]

>>6048527
kek

[Anonymous No.6048841]

>>6048511
Seconded. We all know that guy who makes an awesome curry worcestershire sauce blueberry grilled cheese.

[Anonymous No.6048960]

>>6047171
I don't think that there's such a thing as cook's intuition. I think there is an ability to recognize patterns, however. So you remember that something you ate which has X in it has Y flavor, and that right now you need Y flavor so you'll put in some X, or you remember that cooking method A works really well on B, and B is very close to C, so cooking C the same way will probably work.

[Anonymous No.6048979]

>>6048533

[Anonymous No.6049001]

>>6048960
That's a really confusing way of saying "extrapolate".