Can one be a good cook if they don't like staples?
I mean people that go like:
>I don't like olives
>I don't like tomatos
>I don't like tempura
>I don't like fried ___
>I don't like blue cheese
>I don't like whiskey
Literally why live?
Depends on what you mean by "fried". If that's anything that's been fried, then no, you won't be a good cook. If you only mean deep fat frying, then that's normal.
But olives are objectively terrible. Only very few people like them (or pretend to like them, fucking hipsters)
>Can one be a good cook if they don't like X?
Of course, but it's rare. A better question is to ask why people don't like X and why so many chefs like everything. The reason is the same as has been shown in every study: taste is subjective and mostly about availability. The more you eat something, the more you come to enjoy it, with only the rarest of exceptions.
Chefs past a certain level understand that different people have different tastes and that all they can do is make good food to the best of their ability.
People like >>7396523 who do mental gymnastics to say that something is bad just because they don't eat it regularly and therefore don't enjoy it will always exist, c'est la vie.
Is it a PEE-can or a puh-KAHN?
puh-KAHN
A PEE-can is something you have in a boat in case you have to piss
pee-kan(piikan) in Japanese ^o^
poo poo
>make the water as salty as the sea of naples
>>7395112
naples florida here, our water is pretty salty
salt here, naples is pretty watery
>>7395112
what about a salty nipple? are we doin body shots and no one invited me? fucking skells
Do continental Europeans eat food alongside coffee, or is that mostly an American thing?
>>7388655
mostly an American thing. Europeans usually try to stay healthy unlike our plump friends across the pond.
>donuts
Americans pls. Not that I'd mind if you all died earlier but don't you ever think of yourselves and your future?
I wouldn't call it necessarily American. I know people who like to have little cakes and or biscuits with coffee or tea, and plenty of people who don't. I've lived many years in both eastern and western Europe and can say that there's a fairly equal amount of people from both categories.
But now proceed with pol/int banter
>>7388659
Said the American.
Sweet pastries are common as breakfast food in Italy, etc.
What do you guys put on your crumpets besides butter and peanut butter?
>>7380154
That's not a crumpet.
>>7380154
I like mine with cheese and tomato
>>7380162
Nevermind. I'm a retard. I was thinking scones.
How do i incorporate vegetables and meat and noodles into 1 whole when stirfrying. Usually the meat and veggies dont get incorporated into the noodles homogeneously
should i oil my noodles after cooking them and before tossing them into the wok?
like this
maybe i use too much noodles
also stir frying tips in general would be appreciated
i usually cook the carbs/meat separately and then start stirfrying with veggies first before throwing in meat and lastly the carbs but i guess that is pretty normal
It's easier to use julienned vegetables and thinly sliced meat, or just sort of mix the vegetables and noodles and have the rest of the vegetables on top.
Here's a soft chili recipe I use to do (soft because I have weak bowels for spicy food)
> Get a good piece of beef, I usually use chuck steak because it can handle mid-long cooking.
> Get dried red beans, put them in the water the day before then put them in a pan with an onion full of clove nails. Cover it so you can steam the clover into the beans.
> Take a big casserole, put olive oil and several piments in it, cook it then remove them so the oil get spicy but you don't choke on one piment.
> Put your diced (large) meat in the casserole at full heat, browning it on every side, deglaze with white wine. Put chopped onions in it.
> Now reduce the heat and put pealed tomatoes, bell pepper and your beans in it. Add your garlic and herbs mix too. Salt, pepper, origan, cumin. Cover.
> wait around 2 hours.
> remove herbs (bay leaves), taste, fix it with more spices/salt/etc...
> put your corn
> wait 10 minutes
> it's done, serve with rice.
What do you think ?
>>7396859
If it was spicy and didn't have corn in it, I'd probably enjoy it.
Had me until the pigment part..... did you mean like a dried chile or something?
Can I substitute this with cayenne and red pepper flakes? Or rather, would it be a good substitute?
Generic chili flakes.
>>7396723
Are you saying they are generic chili flakes and arent worth it? Or I should just substitute it with generic chili flakes
>>7396736
Arent those two the same thing?
How long does it take you to go through a bag of these? 3 days here
>>7396354
They're already rancid, bin them.
10 minutes here
>>7396354
isn't that the family size bag they have in costco?
shouldn't they have already seasoned my food in the kitchen?
why can't they just leave the peppermill on the table.
>>7395985
Why can't they have little shakers? It's 2015 we have ground pepper now. I don't want to exercise, I'm trying to eat.
What's the strangest local restaurant around you?
We've got Burger Baron here:
>it’s less a franchise than it is a meme
http://www.calgaryherald.com/swerve/features/Burger+Baron+food+chain/8329346/story.html
I once went to a place called Yankee Doodle's in Alpine, Wyoming. Pretty much everything had an American flag on it, and I ate a shitty burger directly underneath a sign that said "Osama: 0; Navy SEALS: 1." Then I went to the liquor store/bar across the street, where I bought a bottle of Evan Williams and sat at the bar and drank it. Pretty neat, desu. Never been back to Wyoming since though.
>>7395760
Franchises are always a meme. Broad recognition is kind of their thing.
I've got no strange local restaurants.
>>7395828
Did you read the article? The whole point is that it's a bunch of completely unaffiliated restaurants run by different Lebanese guys using the same brand name.
I see what you post and I wonder is there anything better than food? I mean rare, well done, sushi, sriracha, everything seems worth to try, at least once. Is taste the ultimate sense?
I'm almost 40 and I would skip a fuck for good food, well, sad maybe but so true :v
Makes sense really. The only real biological drives are the four Fs. Fighting and fleeing aren't fun, and until we invent holo rooms the sheer variety of food available represents the height of pure animal pleasure available to most people.
i'm poor.
i eat cheap garbage (e.g. ramen noodles) so i can afford video games.
Sex isn't that amazing when you can have it whenever you want. Even if my wife doesn't want sex I make her just lie there while I fuck her. That's why I care about food more, great food is the only thing I can't have whenever I want.
What's the best Wok To Walk combination?
I'm liking rice noodles + beef + pepper mix + saigon sauce
>black and white people making the food
>yellow people ordering it
I'm guessing they're in for a bit of disappointment.
shouldn't it be Walk to Wok?
>>7394530
That would imply I'd wok it
Renato Bialetti, who passed away two days ago, asked for his ashes to be guarded in a giant coffee stovetop.
ALPHA AS FUCK
Also coffee thread.
RIP in peace mokabro :[
Personally, I want my ashes to be in an aeropress.
>not having your ashes patted down and compacted into the filter of an espresso machine
Fellow wine lovers, how much do you usually drink in one setting? Or on a average day, if you enjoy wine daily like me.
I think around 1 bottle of wine a day is the perfect amount. It's not too much to get you too drunk if you spread it out, and it's also below the 80 grams of alcohol that is the threshold for potential long term physical damage. Of couse you can't drive or such while drinking, if you want to avoid accidents.
Some day I might even drink 2 bottles in one day. Of course, some days I might hit the gym or whatever and not drink much at all. Still, way over the limits the government recommends, but wtf do they know. Didn't they say eggs are dangerous and margarine is healthy a few years ago.
>>7393870
Probably half a bottle a day, usually with meals.
>a bottle of wine a day
>normal behavior
Typically a half a bottle per day. Sometimes if it's a low ABV wine (under 10%) I'll drink the whole bottle. Those delicate low alcohol wines just don't taste so great on the second day. But on average, I tend to drink medium-bodied, food-friendly wines between 11.5 and 13.5%. Most of those do alright for 24 hours.
As I am not a carnist, I have little use for these 15% new world trashwines made entirely of oak chips and mega purple that people without a working palate pretend to enjoy.
I don't own a murder cage so driving isn't a problem. Crashing a murder cage is almost never an "accident" and should not be described as such. Especially when alcohol is involved.
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