Home cooking thread

[Nyvis]

Do you like to cook? Are you experimenting? Learning? Time to share.

The quarantine motivated me to learn sourdough, and I think it's a success.

 

[I Just Write]

Interestingly, baking is one of the only types of cooking I still haven't gotten the hang of. I can do stir-fry, soups, grillage, pretty much everything else except baking. Most days I actually make myself a noodle soup from scratch for lunch.

 

[Nyvis]

Pastry baking is mostly an exercise in following the recipe to the letter, it's mostly meticulous work.

Breadmaking is a bit more fuzzy and very dependent on a bunch of small factors you don't control.

 

[Rody 1/2]

I hate cooking. Hate everything about it from the bottom of my heart. Because every time I set a temperature, mix something, or whatever, I feel like I'm right back in the kitchens that I slaved in for crap for years.

Unfortunately my new roommate insisted on buying pots and knives and ingredients and whatnot and now I feel obligated to make things on occasion, even if the limited tool set available (two burners and fuckall else) and the struggle of buying ingredients in a place where I can't read anything and have to either recognize something purely by sight when I'm out in the market (I'm never out in the market) or just know what to search/Google translate when ordering delivered groceries. So I've been pretty restricted to poor man's food like omelettes and stir-fry.

I can make a pretty mean omelette, but then, who can't?

Fortunately as China just largely reopened and my regular paycheck is going to be restored I'll be able to go back to just ordering takeout.

 

[Nyvis]

I hate cooking. Hate everything about it from the bottom of my heart. Because every time I set a temperature, mix something, or whatever, I feel like I'm right back in the kitchens that I slaved in for crap for years.

Unfortunately my new roommate insisted on buying pots and knives and ingredients and whatnot and now I feel obligated to make things on occasion, even if the limited tool set available (two burners and fuckall else) and the struggle of buying ingredients in a place where I can't read anything and have to either recognize something purely by sight when I'm out in the market (I'm never out in the market) or just know what to search/Google translate when ordering delivered groceries. So I've been pretty restricted to poor man's food like omelettes and stir-fry.

I can make a pretty mean omelette, but then, who can't?

Fortunately as China just largely reopened and my regular paycheck is going to be restored I'll be able to go back to just ordering takeout.

I've subsisted on making exclusively stir fry for my whole time as a student, you can do it

 

[Rody 1/2]

Thankfully I won't have to.

Cooking is a task I am capable of but loathe and will be happy to be rid of again.