>>21628317
Im thinkin about putting those meatballs in a sub

>>21628317
Is that braciole?

>>21628327
more like brap-shit-ole lmao

>>21628330
That was brilliant! You have a future as a professional comedian.

>>21628317
Feels like the whole site is slower, not just /ck/. But I only really post here and on /co/, /an/, /tv/, and /u/.

Extremely low-quality spam is allowed on /ck/. It doesn't leave there much to engage with.

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>>21628317
jannies killed it decades ago
i made a skribble thread with carefully curated 2000 words related to food and cooking and /ck/memes to make this cemetary more engaging but jannies killed it

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>>21628317
Younger generations don't seem to like cooking, at least where I live.

I've actually heard younger women say it's progressive to not cook. I think younger guys are annoyed with that attitude, and won't learn out of spite. Not even to cook for themselves.

Both like the idea of going to restaurants or getting takeout as much as possible. It helps them tell people they "live paycheck to paycheck".

Also grocery prices. Also more lonely, childless people limited by cooking for one. Also restaurant closures affecting food culture. Also covid damaging sense of smell, and subsequently taste. Also overstimulated population mentally unable to focus on the experience of eating and flavor.

>>21628399
I mean this board isn't about "cooking" exclusively. There's food too, and everyone has to eat. It's a universally shared thing, even if that leads to low quality dining and therefore content.

>>21628399
I'm gonna be contrarian and say that the food/cooking scene is thriving as much as it has ever been. Anyone with an interest in it can look up a recipe or Youtube video, order some equipment/ingredients off Amazon, and just go for it. It's more accessible than ever. Food videos on Youtube have millions of views. Meme foods and food trends are still making their rounds on social media. Lots of people still find cooking impressive and want to be good at it. People who say they "don't cook" are just flexing how much disposable income they have for an audience that is impressed by that kind of thing.

>>21628367
We just had a thread about /toy/ being slower than usual and we mostly think it's due to tariff and inflation (plus an influx of chinese shills due to China now producing their own toylines) so it's surprising that /ck/ would be slower, since it's not buyfag heavy board.

I think that /co/ would be slower, due to the fact that they're making fewer cartoons than ever, putting a ton of animators/writers out of work, and comics basically ruining themselves by pandering to the "modern audience" for the past decade.

I come here from time to time, so I'm not exactly sure what's actually missing from this board. All i really notice is that there's fewer fast food threads

>>21628410
>everyone has to eat
that's what soylent is for

>>21628422
>I'm not exactly sure what's actually missing from this board
People mostly, though a lot of threads in the past few years have been really terrible

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>>21628317
/ck/ has been around 20 some years. I think us old fags are just dying off from congestive heart failure

>>21628422
A lot of generals and boards have gotten absolutely FUCKED over the last few years, because mods don't stay on protocol and intentionally use mismoderation and essentially employ shitposters as privateers to destroy things they don't like. This causes people whose primary communities were illegimitely destroyed by corrupt staff members to check out of the entire website. Speaking from experience seeing it happen.

>>21628421
It is absolutely easier than ever, for the reasons you've listed. I've tried telling many people, we live in the future and that device in your pocket can tell you within seconds how to cook anything. You can watch a video of another human in slow motion, doing each and every step. You can do a quick search to clarify any detail on mixing ingredients properly or cooking meat to safe temps without overcooking.

It still baffles me that so few people I meet are into cooking, though. It's one of the best hobbies you can have at home that doesn't *require* a screen.

A lot of the oldfags who posted here moved on. The moderation became too heavy handed and you get banned for the nebulous “off topic posting” reason because a janny doesn’t like you personally. Then the hack happened and it was revealed this board had more jannies than most of the boards on the whole site. A lot of anons just said fuck it and left for good after that. I’m risking a ban just for posting this basic on topic info btw

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>>21628394
/ck/ used to be a lot more fun before trolls and over moderation ruined it

>>21628399
Cooking takes time and prep and clean up.
Coming home tired from a 9-5, might as well get take out

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>>21628445
Even twitter allows racism

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>>21628422
Oh yeah, I forgot I check in on /toy/ too sometimes. Definitely slow, but the tariffs there are probably a huge problem.

As far as /co/ goes, it seems like there's less people there engaged with comics anymore for sure, and I agree on cartoons... I'm mostly there for the comics but there's not much to talk about with cartoons either.

>>21628429
>>21628438
Yeah as an oldfag it's become more and more insufferable to post on.

>>21628438
>heavy-handed moderation
I've literally spammed the board in the recent past and they did nothing. Yeah, they randomly ban or delete posts for seemingly no reason whatsoever, but that's not heavy-handed moderation.

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>i miss him so much

Here's my dinner: peppered sirloin, white rice, garlic sautéed broccoli. Bone apple teeth

i remember in 2012 if you posted fast food you'd get shit on until the cows came home. I blame reviewbrah and other fast food reviewers for introducing the concept into the zeitgeist of society and ruining this board by incident

>>21628477
Big chains are also pushed heavily on delivery apps.

its the retards like the schizo op who responds with something negative under every single thread

>>21628317
the fag janny from tv and pol will stalk your posts and ban you for offtopic funposting on /ck/ so they can get revenge on you for saying the n word or talking about jews on the previously mentioned boards.

>>21628429
>>21628455
i just realized i havent had a little caesars or some papa murphys since the covid lockdowns. half the food places i use to go to daily/monthly havent seen me visit them since the huge price hikes that started in 2023/2024.

>>21628433
this too. ive gotten cross bans that should be warnings that turn into 3 day/10day/ect bans because someone would nitpik a post on /ck/ to bundle bans together to make a minor rule infraction into some kind of HR KAREN nightmare where the janitor tries to bring up my 'record of violating the rules' to be some kind of justification for trying to permanently ban me. Jannies are out of control.

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>>21628470

Forgot the pic somehow

A lot of threads posted here are just thinly-veiled /pol/ bait threads. If there is any thread posted on /pol/ that is vaguely related to food you will find it is simultaneously posted here also.
Same on all boards. It's mind-numbingly stupid and designed to trap attention

>>21628523
>any thread posted on /pol/ that is vaguely related to food you will find it is simultaneously posted here
The Tyson corn dog recall thread was posted here and on /pol/ at the same time.
Many such examples

>>21628508
The n word and blatant antisemitism and all kinds of racism are allowed in the /pol/bait threads though. I'm sure we can find examples of outright racism on /ck/ right now.

>>21628508
>>21628510
pro tip, he's chinese and hates the c-word

How many jannies was this board revealed to have? Wasn't it around 8 or something ludicrous like that? Why so many? It had way more jannies than the fast moving popular boards.

>>21628317
most of the time this entire site is just discordfags, schizos, bots and jeets going through the motions of baiting whatever consolewar gets the most (You)s on their particular board. the only time they get drowned out is when something big enough happens that actual people want to talk about it, which is extremely unlikely on ck but you see it all the time on other boards.

>>21628317
Seems like fewer single item fast food threads recently so less thread churn

>>21628517
Looks good, perfect use of low bowl

>>21628438
Agreed. Yes, you're risking a ban by criticizing the mods I guess, but you're totally correct. They do ban for silly reasons. Sometimes I get lucky and only get a warning. I can't imagine the people they actually choose to be janitors if my essays didn't sway them. I guess they want kissasses who don't want to improve anything and are onboard with biases and hypocrisy.

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>>21628394
i will never, ever forget or forgive the jannies on this board banning big tex threads. they were the best, most fun, engaging and good spirited food-related threads around here in a long time. they allow cigarette threads and endless sponsored fast food threads up but decide that watching people competitively eat unreasonable amounts of meat while discussing meat and other foods is not food related. absolute unmitigated nincompoopery. unfathomable stupidity. inexcusable. i would genuinely like to meet whatever mouth-breathing troglodyte misused his god given faculties of reason to make that decision. unbelievable. it's like they want this board to fail, to sink down the level of the average 4chan level of terminal brain death discourse. such a shame. incomprehensible.

>>21629204

I've been to the Big Texan. It's probably the only thing worth seeing in Amarillo. It's a shame their steaks are lackluster though

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>>21628387
i mean, technically it DOES qualify as food, but i'd say only barely

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>>21628317
I've seen variants of this thread on like 5 different boards over the past few weeks (/vr/, /lit/, /co/, /sci/, and now /ck/), and the posters in them always have the same complaints –overzealous moderation and too many shitposts.

WTF is going on with 4chan? Did the hack really push that many decent people away? It seems like every non-main board nowadays is dying a slow death, and apparently even the big boards aren't as active as they used to be. The level of shitposting and ragebait across the entire site has skyrocketed, and mods are either encouraging it or going way too far. Is the site just reaching a natural end?

>>21630862
>WTF is going on with 4chan? Did the hack really push that many decent people away? It seems like every non-main board nowadays is dying a slow death, and apparently even the big boards aren't as active as they used to be. The level of shitposting and ragebait across the entire site has skyrocketed, and mods are either encouraging it or going way too far. Is the site just reaching a natural end?
IDK, I dont think i noticed it being this slow right after it went back up. Who knows, maybe people realized they could live without it? even /v/ is slow as fuck. I agree with other anons you have to walk on eggshells due to jannies these days, against the spirit of the site. while rage baiters and Israeli/Russian bot farms are free to spam every board. did the UK ever ban this place from the ISPs due to their new law?

>>21628317
>bracciole
Excellent. Beef or pork? Filling? I haven't made bracciole in a while. I probably should.

>>21628317
Americans can’t afford food right now

>>21628317
This board isn't much slower than usual, if at all. /ck/ has always been a slower board.

Some boards like /fit/ are significantly slower, but that's more because modern /fit/ is complete trash filled with /r9k/ blackpillers, /pol/bait, and gore/scat spam.

>>21630862
4stats (before it went down for maintenance) showed that 4chan's traffic mostly recovered from the hack after a few weeks, probably because despite the complaints, there's no real alternative to 4chan.

Anyway, those sausages look delicious, OP.

>>21628557
They should send some of those to /vg/. That place is so fucking bad that it could only be fixed if every general got its own moderation.

>>21628508
That's brilliant. Stops the scum

>>21630917
You could start by learn how to properly spell the word, you imbecile.

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>>21630862
I think one thing that a lot of people may not know is that a lot of computers/browsers/OSes are being shut out of being able to use the modern internet this year.

If you've ever looked at /v/ or /g/, you may have noticed there are threads where they talk about Windows 10 no longer getting updates or whatever that is, and how Steam will no longer support it, despite something like 50% of its userbase being on Windows 10.
There were also many threads about Cloudflare no longer allowing people to post on sites that use it (like 4chan) if they use older browsers.
And there were a ton of threads when Firefox and other older browser versions suddenly stopped allowing addons to work this year too, because the certification expired.

So it seems like there's a ton of people who are using outdated hardware/software that are being blocked from using the internet in general in just the past 9 months.
Who knows how many of these people couldn't update and how many don't even bother to come back, despite them likely having smartphones (who fucking wants to use that shit to fucking post?). So there's undoubtedly some loss of quality posters from all these things happening these past 8 months.

You have to remember that people are creatures of habit and comfort. If you make them change their habit just a little bit or there's a small inconvenience, they're going to want to stop coming or posting.
Addicts will to stick around and do anything to get their fix, and addicts aren't usually the best of people.

>>21631404
Cloudflare are getting really fucking aggressive lately. Half the internet doesn't work on Brave anymore with the default "shields up" ad and tracker blocking, including this site. Specifically, they are using Canvas fingerprinting and if you block that ability, most sites won't work anymore.
They really, really want to fingerprint us and track everything we do.

>>21631377
*learning
Probably not in the best position to lecture others on the English language, fuckwit.

>>21631377
>you could start by learn
Touché.
Mong.

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>>21628422
>>21628427
>>21628455
>>21630862
>>>/toy/11573372
Happy birthday, 4chan?
>>crickets

>>21631429
>Italian word
>English language
Are your parents brother and sister? I know it's an all american tradition, but it produces mongs, be careful.

>>21628455
>>21631468
Well if you ain't hunkering and chunkering can you really even call this website a wholesome little memer anymore?

>>21628450
Just know you've no right to complain about a lack of funds if you choose to be the money burning spend-thrift that you are. The trick is to cook meals in bulk on a weekend then eat them throughout the week and to have simple meals at hand for when you don't want reheated leftovers

>>21631468
This image has some serious 2010 4chan energy.