Newfag here, want to learn cooking. What are some recommended books/guides/sites that I should use? Any tips?
>>8492033
>Read the stic-
Shit! OK, Google Chef John, and Alton Brown, start watching videos. I like The Joy of Cooking for an all around basic book. Last, go on Allrecipes.com and start experimenting, eat your mistakes and learn.
>>8492033
stock up on olive oil and watch Gordon Ramsay's channel on YouTube
>go to taco bell
>get shot
What Taco Bell item would you take a bullet for? Personally, I'd have to go with the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.
>>8491969
>Go to America
>Get shot
For me it is the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich.
>>8492001
Ffs I was gone for months
New to fine dinner. Went to a two Michelin star restaurant last night and tried everything. What's the nicest dinner you've ever had?
Wine:
>La Rue de Vergy Morey-Saint-Denis 2013
>Riesling Alsace Grand Cru Schlossberg Cuvée Sainte Catherine 2006
>Blanc de Noir champagne. Can't remember vintage or name
>>8491810
>What's the nicest dinner you've ever had?
Probably a "romantic dinner" I had in a rural hotel a year ago or so. I remember I had soup, venison goulash with spaetzle, salad with goat cheese, and chocolate mousse with fruit. It was good, but I felt very very full in the end and I can usually eat a lot.
>tfw never been to a nice restaurant
>>8491810
I saved up and went to subway once...pretty good...
ITT we take an established fast food item and fix it
Arby's Beef n Cheddar....ditch the cheez-wiz style sauce, melt a slice of swiss cheese instead
Take the McChicken and remove it from the menu.
>>8491644
You should be banned for this.
>>8491641
That cheese sauce makes it tho. Of you want "quality" ingredients for a premier sandwich go elsewhere
Leave the beef n cheddar alone you dumb opposum.
Tell me about good olives /ck/.
What type and brand do you use?
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/guide-to-olive-varieties.html
Does it matter if I buy them canned or jarred, whole or sliced, and pitted or not if I'm using them in a salad or on pizza?
For your trouble, also have this video of Julia Child's Niçoise Salad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnwORE68dgc
and SeriousEats Basically-Do-Whatever-You-Want version:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/09/how-to-make-the-best-nicoise-salad.html
I like these, the ones with cheese or garlic.
>>8491446
I don't buy them in those (pictured) bins in the grocery. They are preserved by the liquid they are submerged in, and should stay jarred in that vacuum until use, ideally. I prefer glass to tinned, but if you notice the tin is ideally lined in that white film that prevents metal contact with acids.
They are the best texture whole, not pitted. But, for convenience sake, you can buy them how you wish, with minimal differences for use in prepared salads.
My favorites are oil cured black olives most of all. They're very easy to pit if you wish to use them in recipes too. For plain eating, I like colossal/queen sized whole or pimento-stuffed olives... the larger the more fun. I love the Castelvetranos for tasting so different not quite briny, and they take your own seasonings really well. I think their flavor is somewhere between a greek kalamata and a green olive plus a little grassiness. Picks up citrus and herbs nicely.
what encourages people to make undrinkable soda flavors and what masochists are buying these? what is going on here?
>>8491425
There's always a niche group of consumers for the most bizarre items you may think of
For some it's more than a hobby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbh6Ru7VVM
The same reason people make shitty games for JewTubers to overreact to
Who else White Castle here? Their burgers are so damn delicious and greasy and oniony
>>8491386
T-theyre not burgers.
>>8491389
What? Bun, yeah, patty, yeah, toppings, yeah....it's the burger
>>8491392
They're sliders.
Kitchens of /ck/.
Rate, hate, etc.
Bong saturday morning mess
Why is Pajeet curry so superior to Japanese curry? All Japanese curries are nasty, sugary garbage full of ketchup and peas. They're overly salted yet bland and tasteless at the same time.
Jap curry is pretty much Keen's and gravy powder. why is it so popular hear? Weabs and autism go hand in hand, and Jap curry fulfils the fixation as well as being homogenised, sweet and fairly plain.
>>8491174
THEYRE REALLY NOT. MOST CURRIES ARE VERY SIMILAR IN FLAVOR. THE DIVIDE IS MOST OFTEN ETHNIC SND CULTURAL. REST ASSURED, MOST CURRIES ARE EQUALLY BANAL.
>>8491177
>hear
haha
oops
Cheap foods thread. I've been living on my own with some roommates for a few weeks now, I've asked /ck/ before and have gotten some good recommendations.
I dont have a big income at the moment but I'm looking for stuff that'll taste good, will fill me up and I can make in bulk for cheap. I've been making cheap curry and I found some sausage for cheap that I made with eggs, potatoes, and peppers, but I can't just eat that stuff all the time.
All ideas are welcome, I'm really in the mood for a cheap pasta dish though.
>>8491073
queue the angry autists who will heckle you and tell you you're not really broke for being able to afford meat while trying to shop cheaply
I'm a fan of the one pot meals, for a pasta dish I'd mince 5 or 6 cloves of garlic and throw that in a pan with sliced mushrooms, balsamic vinegar, chicken broth, herbs to your liking, a pat of butter, and some noodles and cook until the liquids reduce and become saucy.
>>8491073
Add in cabbage, cheap and good for you bro, tastes good sauted with red wine vinegar. And soy sauce
My friends, it doesn't get any better than this.
>>8490878
That's ketchup on top, isn't it?
>>8490885
Yeah
>>8490836
Kill yourself.
Literally the only way to cook a burger. Anything less is blue pilled numale beta garbage.
>so overcooked even your camera is throwing up
>>8490876
You could save a few bucks by eating cardboard. You wouldn't even know the difference...
>>8491069
Everything must taste like cardboard to you
/ck/ I'm going here tomorrow. Usually my staples are the frozen atlantic salmon, frozen chicken breasts, and getting some of the new york strip steaks
What stuff do you guys usually get? I also have a vacuum sealer
>>8490855
Chicken bakes. Oh my god the chicken bakes.
>>8490855
Went tonight and got grapes, pineapple, apples, bananas, eggs, water, cereal, tuna, lunch meat, and pizza rolls. Stocked up on chicken breasts, pork chops amd ground beef from costco a couple weeks ago.
>>8490911
i stopped getting those a while back because of how much freezer space they take up but yeah i think i gonna start again. i miss them s lot
>>8490914
i cant do fresh fruit because it goes bad way too quickly.
what kind of lunch meat do you get? ive been getting the oven roasted turkey and the roast beef in the black packages. not columbus but the kirkland brand and i tired of it pretty quick
Thoughts?
>>8490836
Definitely not worth posting
Is this malechef?
>>8490836
Wow it's a frozen pizza with some pepper on it, fuckin a Gordon you've really outdone yourself this time.
trying for the third time to make peking duck
does anyone have a recipe they would stand by?
I'm also struggling to find an accompaniment that isn't pancakes/cucumber
also any sugetions for cooking chinese wheat noodles
I mainly use them for japenese
leaning towards some kind of soup
>pic related, attempt number two at Peking duck
it was OK, but the skin just didn't crisp even after all the fucking around
plated it with sichuan fried yardlong beans(which fry particularly well)
not sure about plating, it's not my strong point
toying with the idea of a orange dressing, kind of like a chinese duck a'lorange sauce
to serve I'm in two minds, go really chic with pickled radish and white beets
or do something with friend wheat noodle nests, not really sure
>>8490749
>at a restaurant
>this is home made
>try harder
Best recipe is to buy from store dedicated to preparing duck. cost ~$20 in my city.
Serve inside mantou with slice cucumber, green onion, and hoisin are common. North and northeast China eat with crepe instead of mantou.
After slice for customer, restaurant will stir fry odd pieces of duck that are not used for above. Very complicated pieces of duck that are bone and skin are used for simple soup (e.g. white pepper, ginger, cilantro).