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>>7941534
As much as it goes against my policy of cooking as much as possible from scratch and avoiding buying pre-made things, I must admit that it does make a pretty good marinade.

Marinades do work well, if you keep a few things in mind:
1) it takes time. Marinading for 20 minutes (for most applications, anyway) is useless. Leave it overnight. You can speed up the process by using a syringe as well. These are sold as "flavor injectors".

2) it takes the right chemistry. A marinade should include either an acid and/or alcohol, as well as a fat (oil). That way it carries both water-soluble and fat-soluble flavors. That bottled dressing contains both of those (vinegar for the acid, and oil for the fat). It should also contain salt, so it affects the moisture of the meat the same way that a brine does.

Whether you need a marinade or not is totally up to your preference. Most marinades add flavor, so just like any other source of flavor it's up to your preference if you like it not.

You can also tenderize meats with marinades including certain ingredients. Commercial mixes often contain a tenderizing agent added. You can also do that by including certain RAW fruits like papaya, kiwi, or pineapple. Those contain enzymes which break down meat. Canned or otherwise cooked versions of the fruits don't work though--heat deactivates the enzymes.

>>7941552
lol what a fag

>>7941552
What did he mean by this?

>>7941474
On mobile so no link, search roasted garlic(its nice as a spread and to season meats), cut the tops, wrap in foil and oven them till soft, discard the skins and mash the cloves

garlic can't go bad.

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>>7941474
Do this OP, or make a shitload of pesto and do pasta bakes/brushetta whatever it's called.

>>7941441
we had this thread already yesterday

I know this gymrat health freak who has nervous breakdowns if he takes even a small drink of tap water

He'll start bitching all day about how he "feels sick" and thinks he did irreversible damage to his body

That being said, I pretty much only drink bottled water simply because I do think it tastes different than tap and you have to wait forever for it to get super cold. It's not my choice though, I live at home and my mom buys bottled water...I've told her a hundred times it'd be cheaper to just invest in a brita or some shit

The water here is hard as fuck. I don't want kidney stones.

...eg....

did you fry the egg first or just crack it on top and break the yolk around a bit?

As an aussie, it's pretty common for us to put egg on pizza, but it's only really good if you crack it on and cook the egg with the rest of the pizza. Adds great texture.

>>7941389
Yeah, those pizzas are pretty based.
>first time I tried it
>didn't know I had to make a pit where the egg would go
>the egg expanded off the pizza and cooked on the grill and base of my oven
>months before I dare to try again

I don't know what that is because do not own a television

Kinda wanna go see it but idk.

>>7941327
...accurate to what?

>>7941303
Good on you m8. Cooking w/o a recipe should be your goal, it's what makes it creative and fun. And yes, there will be utter failures, but as you develop your skills those will become less and less. I'm a competent -not great- home cook and I'll look at a recipe for a dish I'm unfamiliar with for an idea of what ingredients I need and to get a sense of what prep technique is required, but rarely follow it. Home cooking should relaxing, creative act of love IMHO. & ive got a bag of apricots, you've inspired me to do something with them. :^)

It entirely depends on how complicated the thing I'm making is

>>7941303
depends

if I'm doing anything delicate like cake or japanese food I'll use premeasured amounts. otherwise I eyeball/taste things.

put it in a bun

>>7941293
Bacon

Meat. Bacon, ham, or a hamburger patty are good places to start. Some leafy greens. Tomatoes.

>>7941289
Fuck i really wanna try these american pancakes. I have dreamt of putting it in my mouth since i saw it on tv.

so? i eat fruit for breakfast. is that dessert too?

>>7941289
Meh, I don't eat sugar for breakfast and the few people I know that do, are fat. Surprise.

>>7941282
>10 hour no help or fucks given

Kek

If you use a chamber vacuum sealer to seal a bag of soda will it seal in the carbonation or extract the CO2 making it go instantly flat?

>>7942813
why are you keeping soda in bags

>>7941278
Tell your mom to enjoy her boiled goose.

>>7941454
Bruh please.

>>7941278
>No oil
>No citrus
>No sugar
>No spice

Might as well just shoot herself desu

Or eat some Oatmeal idk

>>7941241
I buy coffee online because my LCS only sells coffee that was roasted in Brooklyn and I kinda refuse to ingest anything from or associated with that borough

Otherwise, no not really. Sometimes Vega One but that's not really food

>>7941241
Olive oil and general Spanish food stuffs (mostly meat) from https://m.tienda.com/index.html?gclid=CMvd8Y3eos4CFQkpaQodMg0EPQ because I can't get that kind of quality here in rural redkneckistan USA. IT'S FERRRIN'!!1!!!

No
The store

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>>7941076
>effort of driving

Sometimes you don't have enough salad makings and you don't want to go grocery shopping right this instant.

Sometimes you're on the road or at work and need a quick meal that isn't too shitty for you.

I mean, shit... a burger, fried rice, or a simple pasta dish are usually much less effort than a salad, and people go out for those all the goddamn time.

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I sometimes *walk* to a restaurant to get a salad, because salads taste good. I'll probably get one for lunch today, in fact. Probably the one with quinoa, farro, arugula, chicken, tomatoes, and various other stuff. I get that about once every week or two.

I don't eat flyover salads like the one in your picture, because I do not eat at MacDonalds.

I don't drive to a restaurant to order salad, or any restaurant to order anything, because assuming I owned a murderbox (which I haven't since 1998), it would take me about 4x as long to pick up the murderbox, drive it to the restaurant, realize the nearest place to park it was where I picked it up in the first place, drive it back, park it again, and then walk to the restaurant that I just drove past about 4x before realizing the error of my ways (note: this is logically inconsistent because if I was a cager I would be incapable of recognizing the error of my ways).

Needless to say that would be completely insane, but then, cagers are completely insane, which is why they lobby for subsidies to subsidize their ridiculous cager lifestyle. I recommend you burn your entire poorly thought out subdivision to the ground and rebuild sane mixed-use development where the sidewalks are something other than a buffer between the lawn mower and the vehicle traffic.

Also food and cooking.

Put a noodle in the pee hole and take a photo for us

>>7941042
Huh?

>>7941042
That's not how you cook pasta, anon...

i work at papi juans, why is your pizza $15 each? You do know Dominos is $8 with three toppings?

How do you not kill yourself yet?

was assistant manager for a fucking KFC/Taco bell and I could barely cope with it with all those shitty fucking half ass lazy teenagers, its literally hell

do you get paid more than 14 dollars an hour champ?

if they do a diet one i'm sold

Crystal Pepsi doesn't give me stomach burns unlike the original for some reasons

>>7940985
You mean water?