/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>23809723
If generation after generation the quality of the home cooking keeps going down it's their own fault. You grandmother's recipes were not cost effective or good enough to warrant the extra effort needed to prepare them, your mothers recipes are not good enough to warrant remembering and using, and yours probably won't be either. Food must evolve with the times, there is an entire subsection of middle american cuisine that was built on and contextualized by WWII food rationing, leading to an over reliance on prepackaged foods and things in cans and jars. This is also when things like terrible slow cooker recipes and putting random shit in random dishes, grape nuts went in meatsauce, oats went in hamburgers, and sauces for pasta were super thickened to stretch them more. In the food rationing world of WWII america where only a certain amount of meat was even possible to purchase and so much food ended up being sent overseas that they basically took over korean comfort food, it all makes sense. But the people who grew up in that era passed down those recipes, those intentionally low effort, cheap, often terrible recipes. They grew up cooking with them but when that era of food conservation ended they didn't readapt the recipes to the modern era. This problem exists for many countries outside america too but comparatively they still haven't advanced to 4th wave cuisine so the differences are less noticeable.

As recently as the 1990s it was rare to even find garlic in the pantry of someone living in the breadbasket region, food had been set back nearly 50 years by WWII and the generations of cooks that came out of it. What started as wartime efforts became their own recipes passed down, not uncommon but before then those recipes didn't specifically rely on major companies to stock and use the same recipe for their prepackaged ingredients.

Campbells soup and Kraft arguably did more to destroy the advancement of american culture than the burning of the library of alexandria did to the Egyptians. The people themselves are not blameless though, the breadbasket region is stubborn and homogenous, for decades the population had basically no exposure to anything other than moderately changed recipes passed down from their immigrant ancestors who were often poor European peasantry who had never tasted a pepper and only really knew how to use butter and flour. This culture still largely persists because it has been commercialized in certain regions as "homestyle" and "comfort food" by people who realize that without trying to make it sound better than it is, that style of cooking that they provide the ingredients for would die out as it is objectively bad in the modern era.

It's reductive to say that a huge portions of people learned to cook from the Cathy Mitchell generation but it's not inaccurate. Food adapts past the need for shit like biscuits and gravy, or dump cakes, or pouring coke on a pork roast in a slow cooker. "homestyle cooking" is not a stagnant thing as so many companies seem to want people to think, 300 years ago bread was usually homemade but now you can easily acquire it at any grocery store, leaving more time for other preparations. If it's all tied to memory than logically the best way to honor that would be to modernize the recipes so that they actually do survive. There are better ways to do things in 2022 than what existed in 1859. Too many people blame the lazyness of the current generation but the actual reason is the lack of perceived convenience in home cooking. You can go to some generic supermarkets and get stuff from the deli that tastes better than what your grandma could make, and has probably comparable nutritional value.

No reasonable person wants to waste 6 hours making a mole sauce that tastes worse than the stuff you could get from a jar at Whole Foods, but that's the way you were taught so that's the right way right? Absolutely not, Mole sauce is one of the biggest perpetuators of meaningless garbage technique for the sake of tradition so I'll use that as an example. In order to make traditional Mole Poblano you would need to first prepare all of the chilis, fry them, soak them, drain the liquid, then blend them with a ton of other ingredients which all need to be prepped and parcooked separately. Then you need to blend those in batches to mix them then reduce in order to get a sauce with a reasonable consistency. The whole process takes hours and there are so many inane poorly documented steps that could independently lead to major fuckups. Burning the chilis during a fry can make the whole thing insanely bitter, draining the steeped chilis wrong floods it with tannins, not removing enough seeds overpowers every other ingredient with spicy. It's 2022, you can make Mole in a pressure cooker and just blend it when it's done and it not only tastes better but only takes about 20 minutes of effort. Tradition is a cage, break free.

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>>22166408
If it's any consolation the /ag/ people are fine with pregnancy going there.

>>21998652
IRL meeting with me, Mr. Twitch. I am going to hire Nyanners as a babysitter for my children, they like her and want her to teach them how to bake cookies while I'm at work at Twitch.

Just lost all my money, now Pink Cat will kiss me.

>>21838817
As a californian I like it here and I wish more of my internet friends lived here. I go to the deli and I get a sandwich, it is good. Nice state.

>>21809898
correct my friend

>>21361887
soon