MH FEATURED POLL #5: Do you like to cook?

[Biopanda 2675]

Just made a bitchin' biryani. There should be a foodporn photo thread.

There was one, but it died after a few days when I ended up being the only one posting in it XD

[CAT5 9075]

Just made a bitchin' biryani. There should be a foodporn photo thread.

By all means, feel free to make one or revive the old one (if u can find it XD)

[Flame-X 441]

If I wanna save a few bucks, then I don't have much of a choice.

[ghost 2686]

Yaaaaaaas.

My favorite thing to cook is salmon.

Put on some miso, orange, garlic, onion, soy sauce, and rice wine vinegar marinade, pan fry the sucker, mmm.

Serve with a side of miso soup and rice with some orange slices for dessert.

[keyinjpop 89]

I can cook a couple of things, but I don't want to deal with the clean up so microwave food or someone else treats.

[YuyoDrift 1540]

I never used to.

Hell, the best I could do before was microwave a hot dog lol.

Then I met someone,  who encouraged me to cook, and it was cooking together with them that helped me ease into that cooking hobby.

 

Now I cook at least 4 times a week, sometimes for 8+ people, since we have a potluck at my job a lot.

It's very rewarding.

 

I am hoping to tackle cooking an entire turkey by the book this thanksgiving.

I kinda wanna butterfly the 'sumbitch lol, but I'll stick to tradition.

 

 

[Atreides 454]

I was a cook for many many years in various restraunts, ended my last cooking gig roughly 2 years ago.  I used to love cooking for myself and for others, but I'm burnt out.  The most I cook for myself anymore is ramen noodles on the stove, or maybe a hotpocket or some eggs or some easy crap.  Never again.

[wildjokerleia 24]

I like cooking, but only when I'm in the mood for it. It's when others ask me to cook that I get kind of surly about it. But I can pretty much almost make everything my mom taught me, from her fruit salad to black beans off the pressure cooker (something I'm not interested in trying completely all by myself, simply because using a pressure cooker scares me) to cooking rice straight off a stove when the rice cooker's broken.

Though, these days, the most I cook are ham, egg, and cheese sandwiches, with the eggs over-easy so that the yolk gets all over the inside and edges of the sandwich. xD

[YuyoDrift 1540]

10 hours ago, Atreides said:

I was a cook for many many years in various restraunts, ended my last cooking gig roughly 2 years ago.  I used to love cooking for myself and for others, but I'm burnt out.  The most I cook for myself anymore is ramen noodles on the stove, or maybe a hotpocket or some eggs or some easy crap.  Never again.

LOL HOLY FUCK

 

1 hour ago, wildjokerleia said:

to cooking rice straight off a stove when the rice cooker's broken.

 

You'd be hard-pressed to hear that A LOT of at home cookers cannot do this lol

[wildjokerleia 24]

1 minute ago, YuyoDrift said:

You'd be hard-pressed to hear that A LOT of at home cookers cannot do this lol

 

Yeah, I think I learned how to do that when the rice cooker crapped out on us a few years ago. I haven't had to do that in a while, though, but I still remember how to do it in case it ever happens again. xD

[platy 3018]

I cook for myself everyday now,  I've developed some kind of intolerance to ready made food and I much prefer the taste of stuff I make.  It's time consuming  but I enjoy it.  It's a nice break from whatever I've been doing all day. 

[platy 3018]

2 hours ago, wildjokerleia said:

to black beans off the pressure cooker (something I'm not interested in trying completely all by myself, simply because using a pressure cooker scares me) to cooking rice straight off a stove when the rice cooker's broken.

I don't have the courage to try the pressure cooker. I've heard of people dying because it exploded. So for now I've been trying to cook my beans on the stove, I fail every time. It's the only thing I just can't seem to get right. :'(

I've mastered cooking rice on  the stove, but the beans... 

[YuyoDrift 1540]

9 minutes ago, Platy said:

So for now I've been trying to cook my beans on the stove, I fail every time. It's the only thing I just can't seem to get right. :'(

 

lol wat

 

Are you talking about canned or dried?

 

In all honestly, I'd rather pay the extra price for canned lol.

[wildjokerleia 24]

37 minutes ago, Platy said:

I don't have the courage to try the pressure cooker. I've heard of people dying because it exploded. So for now I've been trying to cook my beans on the stove, I fail every time. It's the only thing I just can't seem to get right. :'(

I've mastered cooking rice on  the stove, but the beans... 

 

 

I've seen photos of mass destruction concerning pressure cookers and I don't know how both my mom and grandma manage it. Admittedly, my mom's also the kind of person that likes stuff done quickly, so she'll get the canned Conchita black beans most of the time, just because doing the beans from scratch requires them soaking overnight before cooking them the next day without a pressure cooker. With it, the soaking isn't required.

EDIT: Needed to correct myself on the cooking methods. ^^;;;

Edited September 22, 2016 by wildjokerleia

[platy 3018]

2 hours ago, wildjokerleia said:

I've seen photos of mass destruction concerning pressure cookers and I don't know how both my mom and grandma manage it. Admittedly, my mom's also the kind of person that likes stuff done quickly, so she'll get the canned Conchita black beans most of the time, just because doing the beans from scratch requires them soaking overnight before cooking them the next day without a pressure cooker. With it, the soaking isn't required.

EDIT: Needed to correct myself on the cooking methods. ^^;;;

I usually do the soaking method, I love pinto beans but haven't come across canned pinto beans.  

 

3 hours ago, YuyoDrift said:

 

lol wat

 

Are you talking about canned or dried?

 

In all honestly, I'd rather pay the extra price for canned lol.

Dry beans that you gotta soak overnight, I don't know many brazilians that eat canned beans? Most of us are born with a pressure cooker and a bag of beans. Not burning them in a normal pan is an ancient art that takes years to master. Maybe I should give canned ones a try more often.

[wildjokerleia 24]

29 minutes ago, Platy said:

I usually do the soaking method, I love pinto beans but haven't come across canned pinto beans.  

 

Dry beans that you gotta soak overnight, I don't know many brazilians that eat canned beans? Most of us are born with a pressure cooker and a bag of beans. Not burning them in a normal pan is an ancient art that takes years to master. Maybe I should give canned ones a try more often.

 

LOL! I feel the same way about my fellow Cubans, where I feel that not having a pressure cooker in the house is just asking for trouble. Well, a different kind of trouble than using a pressure cooker in the first place. XD

Canned black beans are fine, especially if seasoned with sugar, vinegar, and olive oil to give it the flavor it needs. The other beans I tend to run into are either red beans or garbanzo beans, but I'm picky about the last two (because they like to throw in veggie pieces, especially onions, and I hate veggies in my beans).

[Komorebi 2193]

Even though I always say I can't cook/don't cook I'm actually a pretty decent cook. Just lazy af because when I cook I must cook for 14 people.

 

But there's a few stuff I can make that are really good. Basic, but good.

 

I'm more of a stove coocker though. Once I put shit in the oven I forget it's there and it burns to death. RIP endless batches of christmas cookies...