/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6119564]

>2015
>measuring ingredients

I eyeball everything when I cook. I haven't used a measuring cup or spoon for years. How about you?

[Anonymous No.6119567]

I do the same with nyquil. One time I overdosed and some dog started talking to me.

[Anonymous No.6119572]

>>6119564
I haven't been cooking long enough to have a good intuition for how much of an ingredient is needed and how wide the error tolerances are, and I'm pretty damn shit at eyeballing volume estimates, so I still use measuring cups. I am OK with this.

[Anonymous No.6119594]

>>6119564
I compare anything im trying to measure to my dick.

Is this about the size of my head? And half the shaft?

Its a good starting point, as my dick is about a pint of dick-meat

[Anonymous No.6119596]

>>6119567
Don't blame nyquil for you living in a shitty neighborhood where people can't control their shitty talking dogs

[Anonymous No.6119609]

People who measure are people who have a dish washer. It's no big deal for them to just put a measuring cup in their fancy ass machine that does everything for them.

>don't measure
>fuck up dinner
>it's not very good
>you won't admit the issue is that you are poor and slovenly

[Anonymous No.6119611]

>>6119594
>my dick is about a pint of dick-meat
giggled a little bit which ain't bad because i got the blues this morning
>oh shit it's 1:47 in the afternoon

[Anonymous No.6119614]

>>6119564
Only when baking

[Anonymous No.6119645]

>gf starts cooking at my place
>eyeballs ingredients
>but honey you shouldn't do that, please try to measure them
>you won't tell me what to do
>break up with her

[Anonymous No.6119702]

>>6119564
When I cook from most recipes, I measure precisely, and also every time when I bake.

When I'm winging a recipe or something I eyeball.

[Anonymous No.6119773]

>>6119609
sick jay peg

[Anonymous No.6119778]

Depends on what I'm making.

If it's normal cooking I start by eyeballing and most importantly taste the food and adjust accordingly. Blindly trusting a recipe for exactness is silly because even the the recipe is from a trusted source the flavors of the ingredients will vary, so there's no point in being precise anyway. Taste is king.

On the other hand if I am baking then I measure by weight using an electronic scale.

[Anonymous No.6119793]

its an experience thing
i know butchers that cut meat with an eery precision without weighing
if you know what youre doing you can get away with it, having a gut feel for consistency, color, weight etc.

[Anonymous No.6119813]

the only thing i ever measure is rice. and then it's just a rough measurement to make sure im not putting in way too much water. i dont use recipes either, but thats just because you can be way more creative than reading from some dickheads recipe

[Anonymous No.6120321]

>>6119564
I dont when I cook, but I do when I bake.

[Anonymous No.6120798]

>>6119564
Yeah man I use measuring spoons. Like if the spice or flour is in a jar and I need to use a spoon to get out, I might as well use one that also let's me know how much I'm using.

[Anonymous No.6120803]

>>6120798
I am aware that that should be lets, not let's. I'm not sure why I did that.

[Anonymous No.6120805]

You haven't baked a loaf of bread

[Anonymous No.6120814]

I measure if I'm baking or am doing very large scale things at the restaurant because I'm not going to just eyeball 3 gallons. Oh I also measure rice, just by filling up some shit and then putting 2x water in.

Otherwise yes, I don't measure shit.

[Anonymous No.6120844]

Measuring:

At work for prep, since consistency is king, IMO.
Baking.

Eyeball:

Seasoning, and everything else.

[Anonymous No.6121622]

>>6119564
>eyeball everything when cooks and never mesures
I bet you always use the same cookware and cook the same number of servings. Do you also eat it on your own?

[Anonymous No.6121632]

>>6119564
>doesn't measure
>food tastes like shit

shiggy

[Anonymous No.6122442]

>>6121622
I just know the ratio. You could post a pot of uncooked rice in water and I could tell you if you need to add more or less to make it right.

[Anonymous No.6124422]

>>6122442
Anybody to confirm your saying?

[Anonymous No.6124424]

>>6122442
I'm not interesting in tricking you. You didn't answer the question, though.

[Anonymous No.6124434]

Eyeball:
>recipes that I've been using for years and know like the back of my hand
>new recipes that are very simple

Measure:
>trying out a new, complicated recipe for the first time
>attempting to replicate a very specific taste or texture

[Anonymous No.6124440]

sometimes measurement is necessary. not just baking, but pickling and hydrocolloids and shit.

it's also nice to know the proportions in which you're building the flavour of anything so it can be productive to use measurements for that, even if it's unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.6124489]

>>6119564
I hope to fuck you don't bake unless you have all the ratios of regularly made recipes memorised.

[Anonymous No.6124597]

>>6120805
This

[Anonymous No.6124601]

>>6119564

[Anonymous No.6124692]

I measure when I bake, or do anything dessertlike (aside from custards, or simple things like phyllo tarts).

Anything else, I'm lucky if I go into it knowing what I'm going to make. Why bother measuring?