What got you into cooking?
>>21628489That Netflix series "Chef's Table" had old Italian ladies making amazing food and beautiful drone videos of the countryside and shit, so I was inspired to learn how to make rice and hard-boil an egg.
>>21628489I like food
Living on my own got me started, JoC keeps me interested.
Oma taught me some basic stuff, when I was a kid, I got to help her make strudel, got to learn how to stretch out and laminate dough, how to use a knife, even how to flip stuff in pans when sauteing. Later in life, my girlfriend was really into it and going to culinary school, we'd watch stuff like Chopped all the time. I got a job in a restaurant after failing at various other jobs, and I was hooked, been a chef for almost fifteen years at this point. I never went to culinary school and that ex gf wound up dropping out after she worked one shift at a pizza place while still in culinary school.
shitty food that's getting ridiculously expensive
>>21628489When I realized no one was going to do it for me
>>21628489hunger
Living alone.
My dad was a chef but shit got real in my 20s when I figured out cooking was a fun and cheap way to get laid
>>21628538What was it like, having a chef father? I ask because I'm a chef with a one year old son, I want to get an idea of what things I should avoid, what things I should do, etc. Are you still close with your dad?
>>21628489Working in a kitchen in my late teens for prep basics and being poor and a cheapskate in uni and early adulthood made me get into regional cuisines and baking to make the most of cheaper and seasonal ingredients while keeping it interesting.
>>21628538Stewart?
>>21628545He was my best and dearest friend even though work kept him away from me a lot of timesWhen I was little he'd make me box macaroni and cheese with a little extra cheese and cracked pepper mixed in every Saturday morning and we'd watch cartoons togetherI was a kid, shit like that was absolutely kinoOne of his rules growing up was that no matter what trouble I was in, drinking, drugs, gambling, sex, gangs, guns, whatever, if I needed help, he was there for me, no questions askedAlso he made me read a shitload of philosophy, like, I was in college and took a philosophy class and was like "what in the middle school tier is this shit?"He'd also cook cancayotte and emmenthaler with brussel sprouts and absolutely dutch oven the whole fucking house on his days offWhen he moved back to France he found out that his brother basically stole all his stuff and sold it for booze money and drank himself to deathIncluding all the world war trophies, guns, gold, and a steamer trunk full of grenadesMy dad was really pissed about the grenades because he wanted to take me fishingBut he reconnected with my brother and got him straightened out after years of drug/crime problemsJust be there for your kid when he's in tight or sore spots, that matters more than any of the gifts and lessonsOutside of philosophy, that shit's cash, go in hard, start with the Classics and move on from there
>>21628501spbp
>>21628489The Bear series on Hulu!
>>21628489my mom teaching me how to cook as soon as i was tall enough to use the stove.
>>21628489Motivation, Mortgage, Misery.
>>21628489The alternative was starvation
Pure unadulterated inspirational kino.
>>21628622>taught by a woman
>>21628647I never figured out who Kweesan is.
>>21628489hunger?
>>21628489Mama's cooking. Helping out in the kitchen. Then doing simple recipes on my own.
>>21628489I just started cooking stuff for myself when I got home from school before anyone else got home. First I did basic stuff like spaghetti + jarred sauce, then I gradually did more complex cooking. Some of my comfiest memories are coming home in HS, smoking some weed, and trying to cook new things. It was kino
>>21628489Spent the last decade living in small rural towns that only have a handful of places to eat and it's all bar/diner food and not great options for groceries. I got bored eating the same few meals so I started branching out, it's a fun activity to look forward to as well.At least that's what I'd like to think, truth is I got tired of /tv/ getting even shittier than before and /ck/ still has a good vibe so it's a better home board.
>>21628489I like sweets and we’d only have Chips Ahoy tier slop unless I made something.>>21628511Pretty cool, any thoughts of your own place or too many downsides to it?
>>21628489I got tired of fast food and boxed food and figured if I wanted better quality food I'd better learn to cook.
>>21628489Around 5 years old, finding out I can make myself a dinner sandwich ON MY OWN if I just get all the stuff usually on there and put it on the bread!The next big breakthrough was during Elementary school, wanting to learn how make the omelettes my parents and grandma (all in their own style) would make me on Sundays.I had several of these moments but of course they got less and less groundbreaking, the last significant boost was when I was poor as fuck during uni and learned how easy it is to make bread, like holy shit and if you want garlic or onion bread you simply kneed in that stuff before you through the dough into the oven, WTF I thought baking is hard!
The Two Fat Ladies, nigga. I love these motherfuckers like you wouldn't believe. Whenever we'd go on vacation it would be to the same shack up north, no internet, no television, just a bunch of old VHS tapes that my godmother had. Bearing in mind that, at the time, most TV chefs were either squeaky clean white-shirt types, or Nigella Lawson (which desu is fine by me because she was my first crush). But the Two Fat Ladies were different. You've got these chain-smoking, booze-chugging fatsos driving around in a motorcycle and sidecar, going to nunneries and stately homes or whatever the fuck, cooking this incredible looking food, all the while talking shit.One memory that stands out is when they went to this big estate, and spend like five full minutes talking about how peacocks rape each-other and how they'd seen it happen earlier that day. Clarissa and Jennifer were GOATs. Plus, as a really heavy kid, it was nice that they didn't give a fuck how heavy they were. They'd always make jokes about being ugly hamplanets and clearly didn't give a fuck about it. It was nice. RIP Queens.
>>21628591>My dad was really pissed about the grenades because he wanted to take me fishingAbsolutely fucking based
>>21628698Are you me?
>>21629587I still have sex dreams about Nigella
>>21628531seventh post, best post.
>>21628489a series of particularly painful shits soon after first moving out on my own, followed by torrenting the entirety of the original series of good eats.
>>21631011wholesome
>>21628489Emeril Lagasse's show. If you say "You've seen one episode you've seen them all", I agree, but in each of the episodes that were part of his show, he was clearly having a good time cooking. So, I saw that if you do it right, cooking is a good time.My grandma was also receptive and liked seeing me concoct new things and she was very much like that, too, so that was very much fostered.
>>21628497>Netflix>old Italian ladiesI bet they were black women.
>>21628489Saw my mom watching Nigella on TV when I was a kid. Started watching along to stare at her tits, but then noticed the food looked pretty good and started helping my mom cook and enjoyed it.
>>21629746He also lost an old Tokagypt he took off a smuggler in West Germany while he was doing under cover workHe said they became legit pals and he figured it was a free gun and at least one less charge pressed against a good drinking buddy
Video Game Food
>>21628528/thread. Mods lock this shit down
>>21628489first was a Bday party at BK seeing the BOH was like a spell put on methen in elementary school they gave you free lunch if you helped in the kitchen, so I use my lunch money for that whore little debbie at the cornerstore
>>21632120>/threading something about personal experiencesFucking retard
Decided to get a dishwashing job at 14, got to work on the line, went to culinary school and just kinda rolled with it for 15 years until i got burnt out
>>21628489Boredom, mostly. We had a ton of cook books and I'd look through them and make stuff that was easy and sounded good. I was really proud when I baked a cake from scratch all by myself when I was 7 years old while my parents were at work.
>>21628489Lots of males on both sides my family cooked well and were celebrated for it by others in the family, so I aspired to be like that.
>>21628489grew up with a mom that made a spread every single day. Sundays were massive meals in our house. we were poor but never went hungry and every meal was amazing. we didn't have to wait for Christmas to have a turkey of ham, that was a normal supper. we never ate around the tv, it was not aloud to be on. nowadays no phones at the table. food and family was huge growing up. I love being White.
>>21628489Poverty and loneliness
>>21628489Mom being a cheating whore. Had to learn to cook early or I'd starve.
>>21628489Take out got too expensive.
>>21628489I have been collecting knives since I was ten, but I hardly ever got to do anything with them because I work do manual labour nor am I an outdoorsy person. So I took up cooking in order to be able to cut up stuff with sharp blades. Coming from that background it is shocking to me how little so many cooks, even professional chefs, know about knives and knife sharpening.
>>21633246>the knife kid
>>21633246>because I work do manual labourbecause I dont work in a job with manual labourfor fuck's sake
>>21628489Being home alone at 10 because my parents were both working. t. Latchkey kid
>>21633250Yep... although I have gone off knives a bit lately, I just had too many of them and it kind of became overwhelming. I recently gave away like twenty of my cheapest chef knives to the culinary branch of the local trade school.
>be picky eater>around teenagerhood have rich friend>stay for dinner at his parents request>don't want to be cringe>eat everything on my plate they offered>it's really goodthanks, Travis family, especially Emily. Also Eric's mom who was the first person to show me about windowsill greens
>>21633291the concept of latchkey kids is so wild to meat least one of my annoying-ass parents was somehow always home at any given time and wouldn't leave me alone for five fucking minutes even late into my teens
>>21628489I'm not good at it. I just "cooked" an experimental tomato juice and peanut butter smoothie. It was one of the most awful things i have ever tasted. I drank all of it because i want the calories. I almost threw up.
certainly not the DISHES hahamake sure to keep that one in, Kimball.
epic meal time. Started by combining things, always adding bacon, toned it down after a little while.also liked flipping eggs at waffle house
>>21634709How many fights did you win?
>>21633371Jesus in the summers we usually weren't even allowed back in the house until the street lights came onAll the moms picked one house that we could get lunch from and it was usually peanut butter and jelly or bologna and American cheese sandwichesSometimes we'd luck out and it would be one of the dads in charge for lunch then we'd get grilled hot dogs or a completely unseasoned burger served with ketchup and a handful of chips
Well I needed to eat and my parents stopped making me food
>>21634710Only a shouting match, but the police did come in with shields when a suspect tried to hide in our bathroom and they found a gun in the ceiling
>>21634715I'm guessing the Waffle House you worked at was one more frequented by niggers than drunk college students
>>21628489poverty, shut-in neet mindset. I'm not going anywhere to get food, I have to live on whatever is cheap. Therefore it was obvious that I had to start cooking, and I had to learn a lot in order to just make it happen with whatever was on sale from that week's grocery haul. Especially those half-off about to expire meats.
>>21628489at age 10 my parents started beating me if I hadn't cooked dinner by the time they got home
>>21634903no
>>21628489unironically /ck/. i've been browsing this godforsaken website since it was a single board some time in late 2005. i came across the cooking board a long time after in like 2009 and just kinda never left. there used to be a lot of helpthul threads and follow a longs back then
>>21634931Who could forget sweet sundae ramen?
>>21628489>What got you into cooking?I have to eat to live and cannot afford a personal chef.
>>21628489Coming home from school and watching The Urban Peasant on TV before the good shows started. He used common ingredients in the recipes.
I got kicked out of high school and needed to pay for my G.E.D. so I got a job washing dishes BOH in a Thai restaurant at 15.I moved to a different dishie job after that (one where I didn’t have to do the entire lunch shift’s and kitchen’s dirty dishes when clocking in for dinner shift, that was a scam lol), and from there I worked my way up the ladder pretty quickly.Around 16 I realized that literally fucking nobody can cook for themselves, and that girls found it impressive.So I got gud and started taking things seriously. I no longer work in kitchens because it’s so fucking thankless and it sucks the joy out of one of the few things I genuinely enjoy in life, causing me to avoid cooking at home.Now I just cook for girls, friends, and family and crush ass at it, feelsgudmane.>>21634954jesus fucking christ
>>216349314chan was never a single board as far as I'm aware and certainly not in 2005
>>21628489My nan died and I realized no one knew how to make any of her recipes.
