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>> As I got more serious about cooking I donated a lot of extra pans and doo-dads. Previously, I would just collect things and as I learned more about what made

by wiz21c 7y ago

>> As I got more serious about cooking I donated a lot of extra pans and doo-dads. Previously, I would just collect things and as I learned more about what made something good and why, I could narrow down to 1 or 2 higher quality items (knives, pans, etc). As I learned more techniques, I needed fewer specialty items. Same experience here. Conclusion : if we'd educate people better on how to cook rather than showing them hours of advertising on the latest magical tool to cook a steak, we'd make their life easier and so much more minimalist. So, in my experience, if you learn to cook and accept that cooking takes a bit more time you mainly need (for french cuisine) : - 1 or 2 frying pan (buy a large one, multi-ply, heavy stuff, it's expensive : around 150 euro each, but will outlast you) - a cast iron casserole (for long cook) - just one teflon-like pan for frying fish (frying fish without that is possible but requires a lot of fat) - a few cooking pots (buy inox) - a short knife (buy expensive, around 60€, make sure the blade goes to the end of the handle) - a chef knife (ditto) - a big wooden cutting board (it allows you to use your chef knife efficiently) - 2 or three large bowls (inox or earthenware, no plastic) - a hand blender - a whisker - learn to use your oven if you have one, it's very useful - baking paper is very useful and cheap the rest just comes from regular stuff (glasses, regular knife, spoons, etc) with that material you can go a loooooong way. (forget about KitchenAid, Cookeo, and many other things) etc.

dageshi 7y ago
Some people just don't like cooking. I guess the magical kitchen gadgets may appeal to them in the sense of "this might make me like cooking" because it looks easy.
- ses1984 7y ago
  So what if you just don't like cooking, do it anyway, ya dongus.
  - dageshi 7y ago
    No... You order takeaway. Or you buy ready meals from the store. Or you go to subway. There's plenty of alternatives to actually cooking.
    - ses1984 7y ago
      Yeah, it's funny, ordering takeaway all the time is also one of the plenty of alternatives to lighting money on fire.
      - anotheracct 7y ago
        That's absurd. If you don't like to cook or you aren't good at it, ordering food is not lighting money on fire. That's like saying that you're lighting money on fire when you play video games or watch tv. You could have just went to the library and rented a book for free. It's the same logic and could be applied to almost any aspect of entertainment or really anything that could ever be considered "extra." You're lighting money on fire by cooking all that food. Eat rice and chicken broth and take a multivitamin. You're probably getting more nutrients that way than most of America anyway. So anything extra would be lighting money on fire right? That steak cost way more than those eggs, that bread costs more than rice; light the money on fire. See what I did there? Just because there is a cheaper alternative out there does not automatically mean that the more expensive option is a waste of money...
      - dageshi 7y ago
        You can say that about literally everything you don't do yourself.
      - scbrg 7y ago
        So, I eat out and order takeaway a lot. The average cost for this is roughly $8-$14. I could cook, I suppose, spending an hour or two every day, and cut that cost to.. $3-$5? But just for the heck of it, say I save the whole damn cost, because I grow my own rice on the windowsill or whatever. So, by spending an hour every day (excluding going to the store to buy ingredients, which we all know takes no time, or browsing the specialist windowsill rice growing forums, which of course also take no time) I can save $10, give or take. If I work that hour, I will make, well, it doesn't matter, but it's more than $10. So, every time I order takeaway, I save money. I know this reasoning may not apply to everyone, but saying that it's like "lighting money on fire" is quite simplistic. (My local currency is not $, but whatever)
fpoling 7y ago
That is a very nice summary! By then I recently discovered utility of a special bag to bake potatoes in the microwave . It does work even if takes longer than promised 5 minutes, but the result is very tasty and I have no idea how I would reproduce it in an owen.
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- nitrogen 7y ago
  Wrap potatoes individually in foil, bake until you like the texture (definitely more than five minutes).

by wiz21c 7y ago

dageshi 7y ago

Some people just don't like cooking. I guess the magical kitchen gadgets may appeal to them in the sense of "this might make me like cooking" because it looks easy.

ses1984 7y ago
So what if you just don't like cooking, do it anyway, ya dongus.
- dageshi 7y ago
  No... You order takeaway. Or you buy ready meals from the store. Or you go to subway. There's plenty of alternatives to actually cooking.
  - ses1984 7y ago
    Yeah, it's funny, ordering takeaway all the time is also one of the plenty of alternatives to lighting money on fire.
    - anotheracct 7y ago
      That's absurd. If you don't like to cook or you aren't good at it, ordering food is not lighting money on fire. That's like saying that you're lighting money on fire when you play video games or watch tv. You could have just went to the library and rented a book for free. It's the same logic and could be applied to almost any aspect of entertainment or really anything that could ever be considered "extra." You're lighting money on fire by cooking all that food. Eat rice and chicken broth and take a multivitamin. You're probably getting more nutrients that way than most of America anyway. So anything extra would be lighting money on fire right? That steak cost way more than those eggs, that bread costs more than rice; light the money on fire. See what I did there? Just because there is a cheaper alternative out there does not automatically mean that the more expensive option is a waste of money...
    - dageshi 7y ago
      You can say that about literally everything you don't do yourself.
    - scbrg 7y ago
      So, I eat out and order takeaway a lot. The average cost for this is roughly $8-$14. I could cook, I suppose, spending an hour or two every day, and cut that cost to.. $3-$5? But just for the heck of it, say I save the whole damn cost, because I grow my own rice on the windowsill or whatever. So, by spending an hour every day (excluding going to the store to buy ingredients, which we all know takes no time, or browsing the specialist windowsill rice growing forums, which of course also take no time) I can save $10, give or take. If I work that hour, I will make, well, it doesn't matter, but it's more than $10. So, every time I order takeaway, I save money. I know this reasoning may not apply to everyone, but saying that it's like "lighting money on fire" is quite simplistic. (My local currency is not $, but whatever)

fpoling 7y ago

That is a very nice summary! By then I recently discovered utility of a special bag to bake potatoes in the microwave . It does work even if takes longer than promised 5 minutes, but the result is very tasty and I have no idea how I would reproduce it in an owen.

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nitrogen 7y ago
Wrap potatoes individually in foil, bake until you like the texture (definitely more than five minutes).