@lizisamused @nightlightra1n @Brien_Jackson Indian food uses the same spices. Wanna cheat? Get some decent curry powder and some garam masala.... both of which are great in non-Indian food.
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@Graculus01
atheist. skeptic. geek. feminist. sometimes sweary. Eppur si muove
Katılım Ekim 2014
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Nah, meatloaf is hardly the healthiest (or tastiest) food. With beef prices it's often not even cheap anymore.
Pick 2-3 healthy cuisines you like & stick to them. Most people have access to a variety now & that's a good thing, but don't randomly decide to make an Indian dish with a bunch of those spices if it's gonna be a one-off. I love Mediterranean & Mexican spices & use those frequently, Midwestern dishes are way too fatty & meat-heavy for daily meals!
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I can stop you right at the first one: This idea that you just HAVE to have completely different cuisines every single meal is in fact a sign that you have a serious problem with dopamine addiction and social media induced psychosis
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many: -To cook each cuisine requires different base set of spices, staples, etc -Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients -Purchasing exact item amts often not possible -Utilizing rest of perishable food challenging
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@BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh I think a part of the issue is that they don't have the resources many people of previous generations had, eg a fucking Home Ec class.
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@Graculus01 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh Yeah. Are you familiar with the phrase “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink?” At some point, they just have to take the initiative and do it.
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Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many:
-They're lazy
-They're too stupid to learn how to cook
-They prefer to moan instead of trying
-They want someone else to do it for them
-They're lazy AND stupid AND whiny AND want someone else to do it for them
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many: -To cook each cuisine requires different base set of spices, staples, etc -Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients -Purchasing exact item amts often not possible -Utilizing rest of perishable food challenging
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@ltw1996 @BradfemlyWalsh Which is why you should just get a copy of the Canadian Living Cookbook.
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@Graculus01 @BradfemlyWalsh You know I’m in the same fucking country right lmfao
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I do find the angry insistence of Gen Z that they cannot possibly learn to cook very baffling. Like, do they think all the older generations were born with some miracle innate set of cooking skills that they've missed out on? Does it not occur to them that we had to learn too?
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@ltw1996 @BradfemlyWalsh Sweetheart, I ran an industrial kitchen.
I have answered "how to cook hard boiled eggs" TWICE in the last week. Not because those people "can't cook", but because the instructions on "food network" are for people who are sitting over the pot.
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@Graculus01 @BradfemlyWalsh Plenty and step by step videos online. Majority of what I know about cooking came from foodnetwork. I can cook pretty much anything confidently. It’s not some impossible fucking journey lol
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@ltw1996 @BradfemlyWalsh How would anyone without USian cable service know what a "food network" was?
I mean it sounds good, but so does "5 minute crafts"
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@Graculus01 @BradfemlyWalsh I said GOOGLE which you clearly have lol
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@BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh They'll make decent ramen.....
This is what I mean by "falls apart", they still don't have the skills to translate to, say, egg fried rice.
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@Graculus01 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh Ramen is great for that. Make basic packaged ramen and then start adding veggies to it, mix in other seasonings, etc.
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@NAllison89 @DingoleD I live in a house that's over 100 years old.
Going to need to do the soffits, soon. Plumbing hasn't shifted in the 30 years I've lived here. Or anything else.
Oh, yeah... it's brick, not frame.
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I have a question, if the younger generation are claiming they can't find the time and energy to cook their own meals, how do they expect to find the time to run the house they claim to want so badly? Houses take a lot of work to maintain and these people can't boil an egg.
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@ltw1996 @BradfemlyWalsh oh, hi.... many people are not USian, and/or don't have cable service.
How many of their recipes are "how to hard boil eggs", and not "PAN-ASIAN HOT DOG FLAVORTOWN!"
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@Graculus01 @BradfemlyWalsh You cannot figure out how to google food network?
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@OrganisedPauper @Lindsay04555896 @botzarelli @BradfemlyWalsh The difference being that cooks actually clean up their own crap.
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@ltw1996 @BradfemlyWalsh ... and half of them are slop.
That's fine IF you know what you are looking for, but a nightmare for actual beginners.
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@BradfemlyWalsh There are more tutorials THAN EVER BEFORE.
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@BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh Again, a great start, but it kind of falls apart in the middle.
Oh, I have friends that live entirely on boxed meals and "pilaf". They don't have the tools/impetus to go further.
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@Graculus01 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh That’s true, but I’d argue that if you’re starting from zero, then the best thing to do is take one step at a time. Buy boxed meals and follow the directions. There’s nothing wrong with practicing with Kraft Mac and Cheese and Ramen.
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@BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh Ideally, yeah... but the idea that cooking is either "hard" or "easy" really rests on what your background is.
Someone who never went into a kitchen in their youth is going to struggle with some basic concepts, and there's more of that now than ever. Plus all the drivel....
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@Graculus01 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh Honestly, like any skill, the best thing is to practice. Watch of bunch of videos. Learn basic concepts, try basic recipes out, adjust and make them again until you feel like you’ve got them where you want them to be.
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@BradfemlyWalsh @BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 Which is great if the person giving the book actually knows what's what.
My mother taught kids that would never read past grade 3 how to look after themselves, it SHOULDN'T be this hard. But somehow it is.... mostly due to slop factories.
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@BobStanley66078 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh OK... and, as a beginner, which one do you chose? Especially as half of them are slop.
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@Graculus01 @EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh If you search for cooking for beginners, you will get hundreds of videos that do exactly that.
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@BradfemlyWalsh Deva is a fucking hothouse petal.
1) no, it doesn't
2) no, they don't
3) you have a freezer
4) you have a freezer
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@EmmaElizaCrouc1 @BradfemlyWalsh It's hard.. if you try to dive in on fricassee instead of starting at the beginning.
Ye average cooking video is rarely beginner level, unfortunately.
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@BradfemlyWalsh Anybody can cook, it's not that hard.
I expect a lot of people who come out with this "oh noes cooking is too haaaard" crap just don't want to.
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@thefempire50 @MsBin117 Mens toilets are dangerous by the sounds of it so he wants out of there!
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@KalishJr @simonmaechling I'm referencing science as a set of procedures, not a belief system.
It doesn't matter which gods/goddesses/spirits/cryptids/etc you care to believe in outside of science, because we don't explain, say, the Vendian organisms, by invoking theology.
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That said, dismissing all scientific references outright would be equally flawed. When someone points to well-corroborated, replicated findings (e.g. thermodynamics, or genomic sequencing), that’s shorthand for mountains of specific evidence. The test is always: can you show the work, or is it just credential waving.
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Science is always open to new evidence.
But science does not throw away strong conclusions every time someone has a suspicion, anecdote, or viral post.
A well-established scientific result only changes when there is stronger evidence against it.
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