When is it okay to use generic brand goods?
I bought cheap imitationo vanilla (not even real vanilla) because it's like $5 cheaper and comes in bigger bottles. What about seasonings? Are the cheap ones good?
>>7169718
not if it's rounded or estimated
>>7169697
>are generics good?
Really varies from product to product:
Things like canned tomatoes for instance, there's going to be variations between brands, but there's no real connection between quality/flavor and price, you just have to sample them all and find what works best for given applications.
Very simple things (white sugar, salt, baking powder, milk with a given fat percentage), they're chemically identical regards of the name on the package, so there's no reason to buy anything but the cheapest brand.
Spices, there's no real difference but if you're buying pre-ground spices in a little jar at the grocery store you're getting a shitty product regardless - buy whole spices and grind them yourself.
The one place where there's usually a real difference between generics and major brand names are in pre/partially-prepared foodstuffs, things like breakfast cereals and frozen pizzas, because those contain multiple ingredients and use legally trademarked recipes.
>>7169697
don't ever buy generic powdered sugar, it's always stale and if you make a frosting out of it your shit tastes worse than boxed
This was some chicken in the taco I got from chipotle today, am I going to die?
>>7169601
I'd be more worried about the produce than the chicken anon.
>>7169604
That made me laugh a real laugh. Thanks, Anon.
>>7169604
The lettuce did seem a little old too
Got pic related. Not sure which of the oils I have on hand work best.
Grapeseed - current favorite for general cooking.
Sesame - delicious but I only have a small amount
Avocado - only tried it once (on fish) before
Olive - smell makes me feel ill so I limit using this.
>>7169563
>Not sure which of the oils I have on hand work best.
Work best for what purpose?
>>7169563
Butter
>>7169563
what do you mean work best? just use the grapeseed then
What would you do to these onions rings, ck?
>>7169556
throw them away.
who wants breaded onion rings when you could have battered?
put them inside a burger. gives the burger some nice crunch.
>>7169556
save it my pocket
Can you pan fry any kind of meat?
For example, I bought a nice big turkey breast and cut it into slices and then fried that shit on the stove top. It was amazing.
>>7169442
You basically can. I dont know how you will fry a pair of baby back ribs, but ye
>>7169445
It's mostly because I have no idea how to use an oven and really don't even want to learn.
>>7169448
What?
You turn it on, stick food in it and then take it out when it's done. Arguably easier than stovetop cooking since you don't need to stand around stirring things or keeping that close of an eye on them, depending on what you're making.
I want that fluffiness/softness of the rice I get at Chinese/Korean restaurants, but when I try cooking my own rice in my rice cooker, I can't get to that point.
I'm using Jasmine rice right now and I'm either cooking it wrong or using the wrong type of rice.
I really like Rice Krispy treats
>>7169247
Chinesefag here. 2 tips for cooking nice rice.
Buy the best quality jasmine rice you can get. Price usually is a good indicator of quality, and try to get it at an Asian market. Best if the rice was recently harvested.
Invest in a good rice cooker. Yes you can cook rice on a stove but it is much easier and more consistent with a rice cooker. Buy one with a thick base so it will cook evenly.
They use short grain rice and if you want it sticky for chopsticks you add rice vinegar and sugar.
I want chicken, rice, and broccoli with some kind of sauce. What would /ck/ do?
No funny business please. This is a serious matter. XD kthxbye
I'd go back to /fit/ and stay there.
Holland Day's sauce
>>7169230
Wasn't aware this was a meme. TIL
ITT: foods you couldn't stand as a kid, but love now.
>>7169227
Fuck is that shit in the pic?
fried waterbugs
>>7169227
ice cream and chocolate
Finnish school food
>>7168792
Finns are richer than you are.
>>7168786
>tells people to finnish school food
>doesn't finnish it himself
>>7168812
underrated post
If I eat this...will I die?
You're going to die no matter what.
>>7168546
yes
Everything does eventually
they all float down here
>>7168546
It would be very painful
Whatcha having tonight? Me? Pic related.
You're not supposed to take a shit on the bananas.
do americans really eat this?
What the fuck is that shit?
Today we'll be making a simple sausage paella, live from my kitchen. For this you'll need some sausage, onion, garlic, paprika, pepper, carrots, bell pepper, chicken broth, rice, peas and parsley. I'm going with spicy sausage but you can use whatever you like.
Let's try this a second time
instead of spicy sausage I'm going to use poop
Did you buy that red clip from dollarama?
Anyone else notice that when you put pizza rolls in the microwave, the more you add the more time you need to cook them?
But when I put it in the toaster oven its the same time no matter how many pizza rolls I stuff in there.
Any other quick tips/ideas for college students?
>>7167135
are you actually retarded or just making yourself look stupid in an attempt to troll
>Le ebin merely pretending
Ice.
Have you ever stolen food before?
Yeah, i buy all my veg, herbs and spices for the month use self checkout and ring them up as bananas
In a way, I use to get free food from supermarkets by buying a cheap bottle of wine, going home and carefully removing the barcode, laminating it, and bringing it back to the supermarket where I would buy more expensive bottles that weighed the exact same, scanning the cheap bottles code. I then would return them for credit and buy groceries that way.
When I was about 18 we were emulating the street punk life with friends. We'd usually steel a big box of recyclables cans and get them to the super market to get money to get booze because we were broke.
Then one friday with a friend, we get to shool early and decide to ditch early morning course.
We got to the liquor store as soon as it opened, stole cheap brandy, but bought beer to look innocent.
Then we went to the supermarket and stole a baguette, some brie, egg nog and salami, but bought some gum to look legit in our loot filled winter jackets.
We then went to a park to feast and get drunk on brandy laced egg nog.
What a morning. I have mixed feelings about it, it tasted like freedom.
>In my late teens we used to rob food and booze mostly for the thrill than by need.
Is there such a thing as "post-modern," "post-structuralist" or "avante-garde" cookery, like there is in the visual arts and music?
Is it possible to go to a restaurant where the food is all about understanding social issues, rather than tasting good? Like you know how artists around the turn of the 20th century decided that making beautiful art was bourgeois and that the new art had to reflect class struggle or patriarchy or whatever and therefore had to be ugly, was there ever a comparable movement in food? Like can you go to a restaurant and eat something that is deliberately intended to taste bad so as to prime you for the communist revolution?
Is there a food equivalent of pic related?
I think you don't understand what postmodern means
>>7166733
In the 1910-1920's Marinetti and his Futurist friends wrote the Futurist Cookbook, a very funny, very strange art project.
In it they decided that their food needed to match their Futurist ethics, thereby destroying the old art to make way for the new art. Marinetti proposed abolishing pasta, because
>It may be that a diet of cod, roast beef and steamed pudding is beneficial to the English, cold cuts and cheese to the Dutch and sauerkraut, smoked [salt] pork and sausage to the Germans, but pasta is not beneficial to the Italians. For example it is completely hostile to the vivacious spirit and passionate, generous, intuitive soul of the Neapolitans. If these people have been heroic fighters, inspired artists, awe-inspiring orators, shrewd lawyers, tenacious farmers it was in spite of their voluminous daily plate of pasta. When they eat it they develop that typical ironic and sentimental scepticism which can often cut short their enthusiasm.
Some Futurist recipes:
>Intuitive Antipasto
"Hollow out an orange to form a little basket in which are placed different kinds of salami, some butter, some pickled mushrooms, anchovies and green peppers. The basket perfumes the various elements with orange. Inside the peppers are hidden little cards printed with a Futurist phrase or a surprising saying. (For example: 'Futurism is an anti-historical movement,' 'Live dangerously,' 'With Futurist cooking, doctors, pharmacists and grave diggers will be out of work,' etc.)"
>Aerofood
"The diner is served from the right with a plate containing some black olives, fennel hearts and kumquats. From the left he is served with a rectangle made of sandpaper, silk and velvet. The foods must be carried directly to the mouth with the right hand while the left hand lightly and repeatedly strokes the tactile rectangle. In the meantime the waiters spray the napes of the diners’ necks with a perfume of carnations while from the kitchen comes contemporaneously a violent sound of an aeroplane motor and some music by Bach."
>Spring Paradox
"A big cylinder of plain ice cream has peeled bananas standing on top of it to look like palm trees. Hide some hard-boiled eggs, with their yolks removed and filled with plum jam, among the bananas."
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