/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Right now it's mostly food. I'll spend hours reading up on cooking techniques, recipes, various cuisines or spend hours riding someplace that has tasty or interesting food. Sometimes after I've made something it'll be acceptable, but there's always one thing that I get hung up on that makes the whole experience less enjoyable for me. For instance, I'll be disappointed if my fried food turned out oily or soggy, or my gravy isn't the right consistency, or my biscuits aren't layering properly, or my steaks don't have a nice amount of sear on them, ect. These are all things that are easily remedied by proper technique, so I try to aim for doing things properly in the kitchen. There are other times that I'll just cook because I want to practice. I mostly always make soups and breads because they can be cheap and I like the skills involved in preparing those two things in particular.

In the past I've also been into cameras and while that interest was less intensive than my food interest, I still got into the technical aspects of things like lens design, film and emulsions, sensors, chemicals, ect. I touched lightly on the actual picture taking thing, but my interests were always the cameras themselves and the things that made the photographs.

I'm also a certified loli otaku.