/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8600305]

>tfw can't use chop sticks

[Anonymous No.8600333]

Hold them like a pencil then cram your middle finger between them

[Anonymous No.8600336]

>>8600333
Don't do this.

[Anonymous No.8600337]

>>8600305
Practice with little balls of paper and work your way up to cheetos

[Anonymous No.8600394]

Practice when youre really hungry. Necessity breeds a sharp learning curve.

Also, noodles and stir fry are easy for beginners.

[Anonymous No.8600401]

>TFW all the nips hand you a fork and spoon instead of chopsticks

[Anonymous No.8600610]

I want to someday be able to use chopsticks in both my right and left hands simultaneously. I will study very hard sensei!

[Anonymous No.8600677]

Here this might help

[Anonymous No.8600726]

>>8600305

it's not worth learning - it's like trying to learn how to use an abacus or a curta. it's a failed technology.

[Anonymous No.8600729]

>>8600726

Your mom's a failed technology.

[Anonymous No.8600740]

>>8600729
He's right though.

What benefit do they offer that a fork or spoon doesn't provide.

[Anonymous No.8600743]

>>8600740

Precision.

[Anonymous No.8600753]

>>8600401
thats as dumb as using 2 forks to eat a meal

[Anonymous No.8600762]

>be like 9 or something
>first learn of chopsticks
>look over at another person using them
>pick them up and do what they do
>it works

Master of tools up in this shit.

[Anonymous No.8600774]

>>8600743
this is completely wrong.

the only advantage they have is that they make it a lot slower to eat a meal, so you probably wind up eating less food.

chop sticks are garbage and any worthwhile culture would embrace the fork. it's like watching mac fags trying to defend the 1 button mouse.

[Anonymous No.8600786]

>>8600774
I can eat with chopsticks just as quickly as I can with a fork.

Faster if I am eating things that break easily.

[Anonymous No.8600796]

>>8600305

[Anonymous No.8601375]

>>8600774
>it's like watching mac fags trying to defend the 1 button mouse

They don't still do this do they?

[Anonymous No.8601385]

>>8600305
I'm assuming you can look at a picture on how to properly hold them. What helped me get better at eating with chopsticks is to not use a downward stabbing motion like a fork when you try and grab things. Hold them closer to the horizontal when picking food up.

[Anonymous No.8601390]

No one actually uses chopsticks for practical uses. It's an experience thing. I COULD eat sushi or dim sum with a spoon and fork, but it just doesn't feel or taste the same.

It's like eating pizza or fries with your hands. You look like a fucking melvin if you eat them with a knife and fork.

Also, it'll probably prevent yourself from stuffing your fat face too quickly and eat at a moderate pace

[Anonymous No.8601395]

>>8600740
Being able to pick up food without mashing it into paste or jabbing it full of goddamn holes?

Come back to me when you can eat these without a fork and not make a goddamn mess.

[Anonymous No.8601403]

>>8600774
*shrug*

I use fork 80% of the time. I don't diss chopsticks though. When eating chinese food, they really help bring out the taste as you pick separate morsels instead of loading a forkful of the mix - but it would be fucking stupid to use them for eating grilled sausages or mashed potatoes.

Just another utensil, adding to variety, good for some stuff, bad for other. Neither worthy of worship nor hate.

[Anonymous No.8601419]

>>8600743
If you think this, you do not know how to use cutlery.

>>8601390
They do have practical uses. Chopsticks are actually pretty useful in the kitchen, and there are a couple of dishes they're useful to eat with.

[Anonymous No.8601441]

>>8601419

Thinking about it, you're right. Scratch everything I said about it not being practical.

[Anonymous No.8601445]

>>8600677
Got it on first try, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.8601458]

>>8601419
Yep.

Stick a chopstick into baking goods like gingerbread or cake when baking, if it goes in and out easily, it's done. If you feel a gooey friction, it's still raw inside. Great for that.

Use as sticks for shishkebab.

Tie with rubber bands to keep a bag with some foodstuffs tightly closed.

Stir stuff in non-stick pan if you misplaced your spatula.

Light the top on fire to light up the gas oven in case you have an old model without ignitor.

Cut an end off and use as stopper on tiny flasks.

Move that clump clogging the drain.


Chopsticks are very versatile kitchen utensils. And you can use them as eating utensils in a pinch too!

[Anonymous No.8601465]

>>8600774
stupid analogy. chopsticks are trackballs

[Anonymous No.8601750]

>>8600774
Basically this, a fork is just simpler and generally more versatile.

[Anonymous No.8601759]

>>8601395
>without mashing it into paste or jabbing it full of goddamn holes
Who gives a shit, are you trying to eat a raw egg with a fork?

If I was gonna eat those things in your pictures I could probably use a spoon, or just lift them with the fork outright.
It's like you have no finesse and feel the pressing need to stab with a fork just because it can.

[Anonymous No.8601794]

A much more interesting question about the fork compared to chopsticks is whether the food prep was more conducive to the development of chopstick or knife, or whether the the food prep developed to match the utensil.

[Anonymous No.8602133]

>>8601395
Why not just use mini tongs

[Anonymous No.8602293]

>>8601759
>doesn't know what soup dumplings are
Let me expand your horizons flyover. They are held with chopsticks over a spoon. You take a small bite of the dumpling and drink the molten lava hot pork broth out of it. A fork wouldn't be very well suited.

[Anonymous No.8602307]

>>8602293
explain to me how this couldn't be accomplished with a fork and a spoon instead

[Anonymous No.8602321]

>>8600726
Abacus doesn't require training.. only idiots can't imagine how it works

[Anonymous No.8602660]

>>8602293
>muh special gookfood
For that matter, I'm a Euro, you smug coastal American.

[Anonymous No.8602811]

>>8602660
Lol even worse.

[Anonymous No.8603637]

>tfw can't use knife and fork
>tfw eat with hands

[Anonymous No.8603663]

>>8602660
aren't you the retards who call any food that looks remotely asian "wok", as if that is not the word for a piece of an iron? yeah, thought so, enjoy having an existential crisis because you see someone with a different skin color every couple of days now and you don't know if europe will ever be able to cope

[Anonymous No.8603973]

>>8602293
Please make a video of yourself eating dumplings this way

Chopsticks are good though. They're for eating the type of thing an American would generally eat with their fingers but that you wouldn't actually want to touch because too hot/greasy/sticky and it turns out that a lot of Asian food is in this category.

[Anonymous No.8604017]

I bet you try to eat fried rice with chopsticks too

[Anonymous No.8604022]

>>8604017
When you eat stuff like that you just hold the chopsticks parallel to one another and flat then scoop like a spood. As Anon said, the main point of it is that it makes you eat slower.

[Anonymous No.8604032]

>>8604022
Except you're not supposed to use chopsticks to eat it, which was my point. Even the Japs just use spoons. (Source: google "チャーハン" and tell me how many chopsticks you see in comparison to spoons)

[Anonymous No.8604036]

>>8600305
are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.8604506]

>>8601794
I was under the impression use of chopsticks in China first developed along with a need for cooking fuel scarcity and conservation. Smaller pieces of food cook faster, and chopsticks are really good at manipulating small pieces of raw food during cooking.

[Anonymous No.8604534]

ITT: faggot weebs defending a retarded culture that they'll never be a part of.

Time to neck yourselves lads

[Anonymous No.8604538]

how the fuck are you supposed to eat ramen with chopsticks

[Anonymous No.8604614]

>>8603663

Calling out people for eating like a retard doesn't have anything to do with being racist you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.8604729]

I eat salads with chopsticks

[Anonymous No.8604731]

>>8603973
>https://youtu.be/SenvN3SjVbo
Not me obviously. Unless you want to believe I'm Anthony Bourdain, and shitpost on /ck/ regularly.

[Anonymous No.8604743]

>>8604538

You use a spoon too.

[Anonymous No.8604986]

>tfw to intelligent to use chopsticks or cutlery in general

[Anonymous No.8605032]

>>8600305
>tfw you only know how to use chopsticks because your dad is a huge weeb

[Anonymous No.8605045]

>>8605032
If you can't use a fork you'll look like a retarded manchild.