Food truck season is here for me. I'll be working on a Greek food truck slinging gyros and souvlaki for hours.
Who else works on a food truck?
Who likes food trucks?
What's your favorite food truck?
Have any memorable food truck experiences?
>>8881249
What city are you in? Does the guy who owns it work on the truck as well?
All my city got is burrito/taco trucks. A rare food truck in town is a papaya truck. That's about it.
>>8881318
Denver. Sometimes. He's got a lot of other stuff going on in his life so he's usually only on the line when we're understaffed.
Need to gain weight.
>be me
>63 kilos, approximately
>work out 5 times a week
>around 6 feet tall
I need some diet tips for a fattening diet that isn't too unhealthy. You guys got any tips for me? I appreciate it!
Pic related, it's my dinner -- pasta with tomato sauce
>>8880795
get some protein
>>8880802
Yes, I eat yogurt and eggs, mostly every day. I bought some peanuts at the store, apparently they're high in protein. I also drink milk.
Anything else?
>>8880795
>poisoned wheat with GMO sauce
Well that would be why you're a sickly stick.
While people often use this board to give and receive suggestions for cooking ideas, it's obvious there is a singificant divide in skill amongst people on this board. I never see people talking about actually cooking practices or /r/ing food books in order for people to improve their skill.
Like probably the majority of people that browse this board I came in as a complete cooking noob, commenting my terrible opinions because I once watched the PAN NICE AND HOT. Turns out i basically knew nothing about anything.
I picked up this book trying to get an insight into some cooking skills as a way to improve my overall QOL. This book isn't about complex recipes or flavor theory, it's just what properties you want in your food, how to chemically achieve these properties, and how to cook everything to the highest quality without wasting any of your time. This book won't do much for the actual gourmet chefs that broswe /ck/ (arguably any), but for someone who wants to learn more about all the cooking techniques professionals use, this has been an amazing start for me.
Anyone else heard or pick up this book? What are your thoughts? How did you pick up your cooking skills?
Also general food book thread for people trying to into cooking.
>>8880704
>How did you pick up your cooking skills?
Trial and error.
>>8880704
Meme book for dumb millennials.
Get that shit out of here now.
>>8880708
This mostly. Also help from my family, since I didn't grow up in a whitetrash household, my parents both had interest in food. Also books like JoC, MTAOFC, and stuff like that.
Back in the day, if you wanted to learn how to cook you actually had to read, there weren't dancing monkey entertainer clowns like Alton Brown to trick you into thinking you liked cooking. So you could generally trust cooking advice because it came from people who genuinely appreciated food and cooking, instead of today's youth who mistook it for a video game and won't try anything where there's even a small risk of failure because they're coddled by 'save points' and 'respawns' and will have a total psychotic breakdown if they have to eat their mistakes
What's the best way to cook corned beef? I've always just submerged it in water in a crock pot and let it sit a few hours on low heat. Is there a better way?
>>8880580
My dad boils it. Then replaces the water halfway through cooking it. Then cook it in the oven to get a crust.
Parents like making an OJ/Syrup mixture/glaze to put on it. I like it plain. It comes out well this way.
>>8880580
Set that heat to 170 in the pot with kenji's recipe and I let that shit cook for basically 24 hours, checking the crock pots water level.
Why would you cook it...
>>8880403
Literally no one eats hops.
We drink them.
>>8880414
That's clearly an armadillo apple
>American education
>>8880414
It's artichoke dude
I have a glass bottle of ranch dressing
It has sat unopened, with the protective seal intact, in a dark cupboard, for at least a year
The bottle says that it was "Best By 08-05-16"
Is it still good?
is there mold growing on it? does it smell bad? does it taste strange? there probably isn't much that can go wrong with it, but the fat may have turned
>>8879807
I haven't opened it yet, but through the glass it looks perfectly normal
m8 pay the $3 and get another one
I started to eat those instead of bread thinking that they are less caloric, but is there something better for my health/losing weight ?
What can I use to replace those with a less caloric equivalent if such a thing exists ?
Suggest everything that is cake, bread, toast or whatever.
Go for whole grain rye bread
>>8879740
I checked the nutritional values of it, seems like a good idea indeed, thanks !
Eat bread you gay faggot.
My Dad brought up a good point once where he said there was no fat people when he was young and back then the average person ate 7 slices of bread a day.
What's ck's opinion on meal delivery services like Blue Apron, Hello Fresh, Plated, etc.?
I work for Blue Apron as well, so AMA I guess.
Don't you feel at least some level of guilt scamming rich people out of their money, knowing they could save so much money by buying the ingredients themselves, or get better quality food for the same price by going to a restaurant?
Sage
>>8879722
For lazy people who 'don't have time' in their 'busy' working lives to shop and prepare basic produce.
Economically unfriendly due to all the petrol/gas consumed to deliver these packages to people at the door when they could walk to the shops instead.
Prices are marked-up (obviously) beyond what any sensible, financially savvy person would pay.
Most people I find that subscribe to such services tend to be people looking to be healthy whilst putting minimum effort into achieving such goals. For them the mere visage of 'healthy' is enough for them.
Encourages culinary degeneracy as people lose the ability (and willingness) to cook and create and pass down family recipes which are a strong basis of happy families through the generations as something which binds and keeps people across generations and allows them to gather.
They are nothing more than 'posh' marked up TV dinners delivered to the door for the middle class.
I think they're absolutely ridiculous and serve no purpose, but idiots will buy them cause they want to pretend they're chefs but are too afraid to fuck up so they have to have everything preportioned and shit.
I can't really talk, I buy shit from schwans, but damn, at least I occasionally make my own food.
Redpill me on sugar
Okay brace yourself mothafucka cuz imma bout to lay down a big ass bomb on yo shieet
ready my nigga?
it makes things sweet.
fuck you, just exercise it off you idiot
>>8879673
>he thinks sugar is only about gaining weigh
>calls someone idiot
Sugar is mandatory for our well being.
In excess it cause induce diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular problems and many other things.
It's better to use "natural" sugar (brown sugar, maple syrup) than refined one.
WA-LA.
WOOP DA DOO.
What is the best material for a skillet and why is it plain un-coated aluminium?
I bought this last week and proceeded to throw out all my old pans. Absolutely nothing sticks to it, cleaning takes like ten seconds, and medium heat is all you need for anything. Love it.
>>8879601
Non stick is literally the best type of skillet for the home cook. Prove me wrong
>Pro tip: you can't
>>8880122
>Prove me wrong
Can't sear. That was easy.
>he drinks sweetened beverages
>he eats fast food
>he eats anything that leaves colored dust on the fingertips
refusing to drink sweetened beverages is mannish petulance, not culture
>>8879582
>he consumes any sort of solid or liquid form of sustenance
>>8879612
what the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah I dip delicious Checkers/Rallys hamburgers into a nice thick shake, what of it?
i prefer dunking some nice hot chips into a vanilla hungry jacks thick shake.
>>8879569
Blog about it, fag.
Just the right amount of cream cheese
I hate it when I order bagels at a shop and they give me that huge tub of cream cheese. Thanks, now I have to figure out what to do with all this cream cheese once I finish my bagels.
At least it's better than when they put it on for you. Holy fuck, how can you taste the bread under all that dairy mush?
>>8879416
The bagel is just a vehicle for the cheese, anon...
>>8879455
But not even putting any smoked salmon, onions, or capers on? Sad!
what is your perfect pizza /ck/?
>hot salami (peperoni)
>green capsicun
>chili flakes
>diced ham
>cheese
>tomato base
>>8879359
Pan, nice and hot
Pepperoni
Banana peppers
Feta cheese
Bacon
>>8879359
Pepperoni
Anchovy
Jalapeno
Cilantro
Fucking incredible!
>>8879099
>>8879117
why does he keep doing this
>>8879117
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!