All my food tastes awful :(
>>21100843the number one mistake that home cooks make is not seasoning their food enough, and by seasoning I am not talking about old bay or some shit like that, I literally just mean adding salt and some form of acidity (lemon, vinegar) to your dishes
>>21100843You can't. It's an inborn skill that cannot be taught.
>>21100843I just lie. Try microwaving fast food and bringing it out on a dish unwrapped.
>>21100843Closely follow recipes that show you what it should look like each step of the way, don’t improv anything until you have a baseline of what works
>>21100843Yeah seasoning mainly. Start using stuff like cayenne pepper, mustard, garlic salt, Parmesan/cheese, wine, butter, flour, etc as much as you can. Will make your food way better.
>>21100843The secret ingredient is love
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>>21100843you should quit, you're obviously bad and cooking is cringe anyway
>>21100843Try watching some youtube video, that really helped me when I was starting to cook.
>>21100919never quit
>>21100843follow the instructions to the letterdont substitute anythingcongrats, you now make every recipe perfectly
>>21100843Literally just follow the recipe retard
>>21100917she was right
>>21100976yepalso would
>>21100926quit
>>21100917>>21100976who is this?
>>21101028My wife!
>>21101028https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzzlGcpll0
>>21101031I love her
>>21101031she is completely right. As somebody who really likes food from cultures with spicy foods (indian, mexican, north african), I am infuriated by moronic tiktok-brain zoomers who think that every dish ever made needs to be drowned in processed powderised versions of european ingrediants like garlic, onion, herbs, etc. If you are making a traditional Italian dish, I do not want to see a single powder touch the pan. If you are making a traditional Indian dish, I do not want to see a SINGLE bottle of onion powder, garlic powder, or otherwise.
>>21101052>I am infuriated by moronic tiktok-brain zoomersMaaan.., my gf thinks learning a recipe is watching a 15 sec tik-tok video and then when it doesn't come out right and I tell her to stop watching retarded videos she gets mad. I wish she would stop cooking or actually get into a real recipe, It drives me insane. Only in the last couple of months she started asking me how to make things and is gradually becoming better and actually curious about techniques.
>>21101052Also they both have different applications you are right.
>>21101052I'm going to make spaghetti and meatballs with onion powder just because you're a faggot
To make good food, the most important thing is heat control. High enough heat = delicious browning. Long and low heat = tender. Next step is combining ingredients that are good. If you want to get better, copy recipes like a robot until you get a feel for why the recipes are designed the way they are.
>>21100843> Better quality ingredients. Are you eating a lot of shit out of cans, packets etc? Use fresh seasonal ingredients. Use real butter. Use uniodinised salt. Full fat milk etc. certain ingredients you can skimp on, others are worth paying a little more for the quality. > Correct cooking times and temperatures. Take one ingredient, say a chicken thigh, and experiment with how different a result you get when you blast it at a high temperature, vs cook it at a low temp for a longer time. Different ingredients need different amounts of time to cook and cant be thrown in at the same time, some need to go in right at the end as they need almost no time at all. > Flavour combinations and ratiosEverything doesnt go with everything. Certain flavours play together nicely and others do not. Some things are so flsvourful they should be used sparingly. > Tasting and seasoningThe window between too little salt, and too much salt is quite slim and neither is good. You get it right by following a recipe to a tee or tasting as you cook. You can always add more seasoning but it is hard to go back once youve overdone it. A little sugar, citrus/vinegar can really make a dish pop. > AI coaching and youtubeI use facebooks meta ai and find it pretty good for cooking. Dont just ask it for recipes, ask it questions about WHY the recipe is a certain way. Ask it what are the steps youre most likely to get wrong and should oay special attention to are. If your dish comes out wrong, explain what the result is and ask it to explain what you did wrong. Between this and Youtube you can get some amazing information these days although be wary that anything on video (especially short form like reels etc) can sometimes just look good. Good luck. Start with something with reasonably few ingredients, perhaps a steak with some mash and greens. Practise the three dishes seperately and then work on juggling the three together.
you cook some more
People say I'm a good cook, but by this board's standards I am shit. Anytime I post food or recipes here it gets shit on but my friends and family love it.I could definitely improve a LOT. I just learned how to cook from working in a diner for 5 years.So really, sloppa is my specialty.
>>21100843Check out the “Good Eats” program or work a beginners cookbook like Julia Child’s “The Way to Cook” (she also has video recipes available on YouTube so you can actually see what she does)That’s how I learned. When you start learning why certain combinations work, you get much better with new recipes
>>21100843Describe a simple recipe you make step by step. Including all ingredients with accurate measurements and the process of making it in great detail.You're probably doing something wrong like adding too little salt like the other anon said.
>>211008431. Be a woman2. Get married3. Cook for your mother in lawYou'll git gud really fast or end up murdering her.
>>21100843Garlic, rosemary and salt
>>21100947>recipe sucks cause the faggot that made it was a faggotWhat now, fag?
>>21100859Delightfully devilish, Seymour.
>>21100926NEVVVAAAA SURRREENNDDAAAA ASSUWEMAYMABOB
>>21101052You sound like a huge faggot.
>>21100843Starve yourself to death, useless frogfaggot.
>>21102158thats on you for willingly using a bad recipe
>>21100843Read cookbooks and follow recipes.
>>21101052indians love that powdered shit tho
>>21105689that's why I specified powder garlic/onion, real spices don' count
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>>21100843anon, pick a soup. doesn't have to be a complicated one, you can even pick a stew. when i was starting off, i picked loaded potato soup, and clam chowder. follow a recipe that looks good and sounds good, and every now and then, taste it. does it need salt? does it need something else? don't worry about getting any of the other spices involved yet outside of the recipe, take it slow.do the instructions say to pour out the fat? try not doing so, it might make the flavor a little better. give yourself plenty of time, like an hour or an hour and a half to work with, if you end up cooking a soup or stew for 'too long', you shouldn't even burn the bottom so long as you're stirring it well and making sure the bottom doesn't settle. some dishes will change flavor at the last step, so make sure you check it then too. you'll get the soups down after a couple of tries. from there, stew-adjacent things like coq a vin are great. it sounds fancy, it looks fancy, but some quality ingredients(and frozen pearl onions to cheat) and you can make it look easy, because it actually is.there's almost always a soup you can use to learn something new, and it's easy to hide mistakes while making it. that way, when you try something harder, you already know all the smaller steps along the way.
>>21101223Iodine is good for you. How does iodizing salt effect its flavor?
>>21103046Keep seething anon, one day someone will care and you'll change the world
>>21100843Take wee little bites during the cooking and when it starts to taste bad stop doing whatever made it bad
>>21100843>>21100852FPBP.OP I highly recommend you try this salt-tasting exercise to train your palette:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEao0BS4HQo
>>21100843Read books and learn from your mistakes Understand why things happens and not just what happens.
>>21107213ive got a buddy who claims he can taste metal in it. not like iron or copper but something else, so usually i cut the iodized stuff with unenriched stuff if they're over for dinner.
follow recipes until you can freestylealso, please taste your food. adjust the seasoning to your tastes as you cook, its a big game changer. you are using seasoning.... right ?
