@theorytoe I was talking to the wife in the car today about people who live by delivery apps. Like #1 how do you afford getting food delivery multiple times per day? #2 how are you alive, even good restaurant food makes you feel like a heap of shit. #3 eat a fucking plant goddamn
@sapphire@theorytoe@EdBoatConnoisseur ehhhhhh maybe. I've had good steaks, Kobe beef, prime rib, etc. Its good but its not interesting. I enjoy slopmaxxing (random meat + random starch + random veg + random sauce) a lot more
i bought a chink cleaver in china town for $5 and i use that thing all the time. no reason to buy a $150 wusthof cleaver when the chink iron for $5 does the same thing.
@theorytoe@prettygood A lot of people don't even know what cookware they need to cook with or what to do with them if they had them. FFS, just get a crock pot slow cooker and use one of the many recipes that basically come down to tossing a bunch of stuff in the slow cooker, turning on the slow cooker, and coming back in X number of hours.
@LoliHat@prettygood hell if you dont have money for a slow cooker you can just buy a pot, ladle, and spatula and basically have everything you need to make 80% of stuff
i also tend to like onepot recipes since its quicker (usually) to make
@EdBoatConnoisseur@theorytoe@prettygood the zoomies also don't know you can replicate the taste of tv dinners. There was one chicken alfredo my parents were getting that they got super hooked on and I figured out that it had cajun in the sauce and started making it at home without all the chemicles
@prettygood@theorytoe yesternight i made something stupidly mexican that turned out good, my grandma had fucked up some beef cuts on the pan earlier, she jsut threw them on a low heat pan without any oil, pepper or salt, let them dry up, and then added oil, pepper, salt and some onion slices....
needless to say that smelled and tasted like shit, so i took my time chopping some of those cuts and a pair of tortillas, sliced the beef cuts and the tortillas until they were strips about a finger in width, then began chopping across those strips into little tiny strips about a finger's width in lenght and like 1/8 inch in width, once i had the 5 beef cuts and 2 tortillas all chopped, put a pan to heat in high heat, sprinkled a tiny whiff of white pepper, some thyme powder, bayleaf powder, oregano powder, a good amount of black pepper, a good load of garlic powder and a good amount of onion powder, toasted those powders a little on the pan then added a good amount of oil so the spices would turn it into a sort of aroma oil, threw my beef and tortilla strips onto the aroma oil and stir fryed them until the tortilla strips were soft and golden, added some spoonfuls of tomato sauce (got no idea how much tbh, i just dropped the sauce right from the jar), let that fry until the sauce thickend up and changed color, then mixed in some cream cheese to get a paste consistency and some dairy fat, moved the meat, sauce, tortilla and creamcheese mix onto a plate, and heated up some tortillas on the oily residue left on the pan, filled with the mix and folded the tortillas to toast a little on the other side, stuff was unexpectedly good.
@LoliHat@prettygood@theorytoe I take solace in the fact that a lot of the people who I hate will end up getting cancer or heart conditions from the way they eat
@theorytoe@prettygood It's also easy to make a big pot of stuff and then just reheat it throughout the week. It also allows you to pick and choose which ingredients you want to add or leave out.
@sapphire@prettygood@theorytoe look at this absolute steak slop, it even mixes a fruit into the beef completely killing it, not to mention the beef is cut in too tiny pieces and not just not rare but fucking overcooked! fucking disgusting third worlder slop!
@EdBoatConnoisseur@theorytoe@Kyonko802 pressure cooking is the biggest game changer in my cookingcel life. I don't buy canned beans anymore, I can turn dried beans into perfection in less than 1h with my instant pot.
@Kyonko802@theorytoe@prettygood there is this can of red beans with chorizo that most of my family really loves, from my grandma to my aunt, turns out the secret of the flavour is just paprika and bacon, the type of chorizo makes almost no difference, just friying some bacon on it's own grease and adding paprika to the bacon grease and then adding that to the beans into the pressure cooker makes all the difference.
@sapphire@theorytoe@EdBoatConnoisseur@Kyonko802 will try next time. Heck I should try with the blackeyed peas I'm making with dinner tomorrow. They don't get mushy from soaking ahead of time?