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rottingCheerios
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first cooking attempt 1
#27691692 - 03/11/22 08:53 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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my whole life ive been eating microwave meals. in the last couple of weeks though, I wanted to save money on food. So I tried cooking for the first time ever. Anything, literally anything.
Beans, spaghetti, hamburger helper... everything I make tastes like actual garbage. Spent so much money on ingredients that went straight to the garbage. Im done with cooking. time to just stick with microwave meals
thanks for reading my rant
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UnderNose
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Well with a name like rottingCheerios your post doesn't surprise me. Cooking is like anything else that requires practice, every time you do it you get a little better at it.
Kinda sucks you had nobody around to teach you how to make food and be more self sufficient in that way. I had a friend like that, he never took an interest in cooking while living with family. After moving out to live on his own he didn't know how to cook or eat properly. A lot of the time he would just eat junkfood like a packet of cookies or chips or cereal for dinner, the most cooking I saw was making bacon, eggs and toast... Sounds cool if your a kid but after growing up and being broke not knowing how to cook and getting diabetes from a shitty diet its not so cool.
Being able to cook does save quite a bit of money, especially when making things in bulk. And being able to make things you like and customize them more to your liking is a great thing to be able to do.
The other nice thing about knowing how to cook is being able to cook for your family or with friends and loved ones, it helps bring us together by sharing various cultures or our heritage, likes and dislikes through food and give each other nourishment. Sharing a meal is one of the most communal and binding thing in almost every place in the world.. Seeing others enjoying your food and being satisfied after a good meal is its own reward
Think of it like following a cultivation tek.
Look up easy recipes for things you like that have high ratings and follow them exactly as written.. Having no cooking experience you shouldn't get experimental with ingredients or methods so dont stray from the recipe at all. But over time of cooking various things and learning more about how different flavors or ingredients and cooking methods work for certain things and not so well others you will build an understanding of what works and what doesn't.. Then you can get creative and start mixing things up a bit, combine various recipes together, swap out ingredients you dont like and eventually start making your own recipes.
Even simple things like mac and cheese, nachos, your standard spaghetti or homemade hamburgers, omelettes and frittatas, make your own pizza using a store bought pizza base and loading it up with ingredients you like would be better than just buying one ready made for you and will help get your skills up over time.
I like making a good stir fry or currys, they're easy once you get a method down, only take one pan and a pot for rice so less clean up, and you can make enough food for family or friends or enough for yourself for days. Or soups, soups are great.. just chuck a bunch of stuff in a pot and wait a while then Booom soup for days.
And things like steaks or schnitzels with mash potato gravy and vegetables are soooo easy and super satisfying.
Shit all this talk is making me hungry
Also another thing is you may have become accustomed to all the extra salts, fats, sugars and other flavor enhancers that most of the ready type meals have in them. So when making your own food it doesn't hit the spot quite right or tasted bland and boring or.... like garbage.
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Edited by UnderNose (03/11/22 10:14 PM)
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420rydaz69me
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Re: first cooking attempt [Re: UnderNose] 2
#27694233 - 03/13/22 07:34 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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It's never going to perfect on your first try.
Also living your whole life on microwave food it's going to take some transitioning inorder to start liking real whole foods vs process shit that is pure garbage or has sugar in it which makes it "taste" better. It took me some time when i phased out of the construction worker lifestyle to actually like meals, I ate a lot of food that I didn't even enjoy purely so i was eating healthy.
It took years to really enjoy cooking but now it's one of my favorite things to do and also cook for family/friends. Being able to share food with another person is an amazing experience. Also being self sufficient is very satisfying.
Buy some seasoning, read recipes, and try the easy stuff first. Roast potatoes, pan fry veggies, buy an instapot and make rice if you can't, get a crockpot(second hand) and look up recipes for that its foolproof.
Also agree with above homie on basically everything but the stir fry/curry for sure! There is this "golden curry" box seasoning and fuck that shit is so tasty. Pan fry up some chopped veggies, meat/tofu, then read the instructions on the box.
Theres still times where i get experimental and end up throwing away an entire pot of food bcuz i messed up so bad hah, its a bummer but whatever, so I tend to stick more to recipes now and wing it if i know what to do.
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SonicTitan


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Start with simple Italian pastas and stuff. It's all fresh, minimal, simple and quick. One pan meals, just have some pasta cooked 9ff as well 
You should look into ordering those meal kits like Home Chef or Hello Fresh, they have step by step directions and all fresh ingredients pre portioned. Wouldn't hurt to look into it, also there are very healthy microwavable meals that you can order from Amazon.
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Edited by SonicTitan (03/13/22 09:09 PM)
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Gene Hackman
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My favourite thing to make at the moment is burritos; you can stuff them with anything and they taste good. I've committed all sorts of food crimes with the combinations I've made and never regretted it. The more finely you slice/grate vegetables the better they taste in my opinion; layering is essential too. How to make good burrito video
For other stuff I cook, I think less is more, if you have too many ingredients you get a blended nothingness.
Also, some things, the longer they are under heat the less flavour they have; e.g. the less you cook eggs the better they taste (in my opinion), but you want to cook them enough you don't get food-poisoning, it's a very fine line...risk vs reward Egg cooking video
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Boogieshoe
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Sometimes you can take something easy like Kraft mac n cheese and just add more cheese and hotdogs or whatever, broccoli , bacon , spices whateves and that can pass as cooking first steps
It ain't easy . an omelet seems to be the first cooking rite of passage . after that you got it whooped .
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flugelizor
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Update? I think cooking is an important part of "adulting" and I hope you are doing well!
I am old now, and I cook a lot!, But here are some of my favorite early meals: Microwave potatoes with butter & grated cheddar cheese Flour tortilla with cheese, Picante sauce, thinly sliced onions, pepperoni and/or canned refried beans. Microwave less than a minute until cheese is melty. fold Chicken breast, wrap in foil with a pad of butter, onions, favorite spice blend, bake to internal temperature of at least 170. Most veggies now come all prepared, just microwave per instructions. Ramen noodles! Add tofu or leftover barbeque meat. top with diced green onions Spaghetti and meat sauce. Grilled cheese (add pepperoni or whatever). - Excellent basic meal for learning stove temperature control. Eggs and bacon - definitely worth doing, but may take a long time to master it.
You youngsters have YouTube. You can learn anything...
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