/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8717781]

How did you guys learn to cook?
>watched food network all the time as a child
>probably had something to do with pic related
>by the time i was like 13 i knew basically all the standard cooking techniques and how to use most ingredients

[Anonymous No.8717789]

>>8717781
>183x275
stop making threads

[Anonymous No.8717795]

>>8717789
Lol if you wanna see pics of Racheal Ray google it fucktard

[Anonymous No.8717813]

>>8717795
i don't know who that is and i don't care

[Anonymous No.8717817]

>>8717781
A combination of horrible trial and error and learning about things through old /ck/ then taking the time to research stuff further.

Could never have done that nowadays

[Anonymous No.8717822]

>>8717781
>>by the time i was like 13 i knew basically all the standard cooking techniques and how to use most ingredients

>watch cooking show
>learn how to jackoff

[Anonymous No.8717832]

when i was 18 my mum bought me the fat duck cookbook, a fucking giant tome with a biography of heston blumenthal, arty pictures, scientific essays and the complete set of recipes for the tasting and a la carte menus of the fat duck up to that point. she just got it for me cause i was kinda interested in science. the recipes all had like 10 different elements combined into a dish and were for massive quantities as well. i picked the first one i could see myself doing, which was the cauliflower risotto, and produced like a 40 portion vat of the stuff. lived off it for weeks.

i thought it was fucking awesome and then when i went to uni i blew literally all my disposable income on cooking shit i found on blogs and experimenting. that's basically all i spent my money on apart from train tickets back and forth between my long distance gf and uni (wish i hadn't wasted the money on that bullshit). didn't go see shows, didn't wash my clothes, didn't buy new clothes, didn't drink, didn't leave campus.

when i left uni i volunteered at a fancy restaurant, after a month they started paying me, but i quit after a couple more because i hated it.

tl;dr: the internet

[Anonymous No.8717833]

>>8717822
Man if they had giada on food network when i was 11 i wouldve never changed the channel
>inb4 this becomes a giada thread

[Anonymous No.8717846]

>>8717795

I don't want to see her. I just don't see the point in posting retardedly small images.

Anyway, to answer OP's question:
I learned during college. I was doing my budget and found that I was spending a fuckload of money on fast food & chain places. I couldn't believe that I was spending that much money on food that was honestly pretty crappy. So I started cooking for myself to improve the quality of my meals and also to save money. I started with basic shit like buying pasta sauce in a jar and boiling spaghetti, seasoning packets, box mixes, etc. I found that I enjoyed cooking so I grew from there. I watched cooking programs on TV/Youtube. I bought and read cookbooks. I watched a fuckload of the original Iron Chef. That got me started making my own stocks, cooking everything from scratch, etc.

[Anonymous No.8717860]

I used to watch Rachael and Giada a lot too, but didn't start cooking until I joined the Army as a cook, would try a lot of things and they always got mad at me for "jungle cooking" but my food tastes good and mostly everyone liked it so I didn't care.
Pic related.

[Anonymous No.8717871]

>>8717813
sure you don't big fella

[Anonymous No.8717939]

>>8717871
i know the concept is hard to get for 'muricans, but not everybody grows up watching television all day every day and not everybody cares what sort of tv crap your country produces

[Anonymous No.8718029]

My mother is a good cook. She taught me how to make pasta when I was 10 and then I figured out most everything from there. I asked her for advice occasionally, but she doesn't like to leave her comfort zone with cooking so there was little she could show me after a point.

[Anonymous No.8718039]

>>8717781
>...i knew basically all the standard cooking techniques and how to use most ingredients
I remember when I thought I knew everything.

[Anonymous No.8718064]

>>8717939

>trying to take the high ground on relationship with electronic media
>in a post on 4chan

[Anonymous No.8718094]

>>8717781
Watched a lot of Iron Chef as a kid (the Japanese one). Went to allrecipes.com and some other shitty websites to get recipes for things I wanted to make.

I also learned some basic cooking methods from this old cooking manual I found in my school library. I think it was from the 70s or 80s.

[Anonymous No.8718098]

>>8717860
>jungle cooking

I'm an idiot. Please explain

[Anonymous No.8718105]

When i understood that my mom cooking for me as a 26 years old grown man wasn't acceptable anymore and that, as much as i love her, she isn't remotely good with cooking.

So i decided to take the affair in my own hands and now i'm learning.

[Anonymous No.8718109]

>>8717822
Giada nude leaks when

[Anonymous No.8718118]

>>8718105

cool but when are you going to move out

[Anonymous No.8718129]

>>8717781
I hated her. She represented everything I hate about American food - using convenience products to create mediocre meals in as little time as possible. I'm old enough to remember the early days of the Food Network when fucking Batali was showing you the secrets of regional Italian cooking in the lowest production value setting imaginable. That was great TV.

[Anonymous No.8718172]

>>8718118
When i find something that i can afford lad. Geneva #4 most expensive city in the world.

[Anonymous No.8718300]

>>8718098
Army cooks have to follow recipes no matter what they're making. Jungle cooking is cooking the dish your way.

[Anonymous No.8718357]

I would be hungry and my parents wouldnt cook for me until dinner, so i cooked my own dinner a few hours before dinner a lot. Later, in highschool, I cooked my own dinner after dinner at like 3am. Now, living alone, I only have 1 dinner, and I starve.

[Anonymous No.8718360]

I like to imagine I'm cooking a meal for my waifu so I put extra effort and care into it.

[Anonymous No.8718365]

I help my parents in the kitchen since Im basically a neet because I take my college classes at nigth

They aren't chefs, but they their mothers were good cooks so is like a parents-son thing, nothing fancy though

[Anonymous No.8718370]

>>8717781
A combination of helping my mother cook, her teaching me as we worked, watching cooking shows on TV and the Internet, and just some experimentation I do in my free time.

[Anonymous No.8718519]

Cooks Illustrated books + Serious Eats for recipes, lots and lots of trial and error. Becoming critical about the food I both make and eat. But mostly just a good cookbook and practice.

[Anonymous No.8718585]

>>8718039
>basically
>most
Pay attention to adjectives and adverbs, they affect the meaning of statements

[Anonymous No.8718630]

>>8717781
I used to watch Rachael Ray just to see her booty... but rarely saw it

[Anonymous No.8719342]

>>8717781
Just google how to make stuff and follow the directions. Eventually you get a general idea of what goes together and how to make it.

[Anonymous No.8719425]

>>8719342
Are those some Kay's Good Cookin motor oil eggs?

[Anonymous No.8719457]

>>8717781
>watched lots of food network as a child
>as an adult have spent a lot of time researching recipes, traditional fare, and cooking techniques
>cooked something new for almost every meal I could, would find recipes and change them to be more my style, meshing together the strong points of two different recipes
>lots of trial and error, emphasis on the error, I've made some grave miscalculations but it's a learning experience every time
>posting with questions on a welsh frog-tattooing forum

[Anonymous No.8719467]

>>8717781
It's like 10% from my mom (mostly stews and casseroles - my mom fucking loves casseroles), 20% from my dad (pretty much all the simple, basic stuff), 20% from TV cooking shows and 50% from looking up recipes on the internet and messing with them until I get something edible.

[Anonymous No.8719483]

>>8719342

Didja want any egg to go with that pepper?

[Anonymous No.8719536]

>>8719425
>>8719483

it's almost certainly burnt butter

[Anonymous No.8719607]

>>8718172
Looks like a game of the sims

[Anonymous No.8721187]

>>8717781
I didn't.

[Anonymous No.8721560]

>>8717781
shit ton of food network, and my dad would have me help him make dinners.