I'm going to say about 97% of people can't cook.

[ShrikeAttack]

I read threads on here about food all the time & even people who claim 'to 'cook', as in 'make stuff hot and eat it', have no idea about food. How to make delicious things, how to treat ingredients, what goes together.

It honestly makes me a bit sad.

The majority of people probably eat really rubbish food.

I really want people to understand food and eat better, not because I'm a dick, but because it would make their lives more pleasurable.

"I'm not advocating complicated recipes using niche ingredients. I do that because I enjoy it"

You haven't showed us a "niche" ingredient yet! 😂😂😂

But why aren’t they eating the best rice possible?? Doesn’t that make you saddd?

Also get a rice cooker dumb dumb

@ShrikeAttack

I will say, before I go, I do think I'm being wilfully misinterpreted. I'm not advocating complicated recipes using niche ingredients. I do that because I enjoy it. I just think, whatever you like to eat, and whatever you can afford to eat, you may as well eat the best version possible. Because you're worth it!

Unless you gave birth to them of course.

The millions of people with Asian and Middle Eastern descent would disagree with you.

The majority of us are taught to cook from scratch from an early age as there is a very different taste and texture to home cooked meals in comparison to takeaways or packaged meals.

And we breed like rabbits so your figure is wrong.

But I do agree with you that in an ideal world life would be that little bit better if everyone cooked from scratch and had home made meals.

But we all live in a place called reality.

@ShrikeAttack

And I honestly don't care what people eat, or how much they spend. My point is, and has always been, cook it properly! I have no concerns if someone chooses to eat sandwiches for every single meal forbthe rest of their life, but why not eat the best bloody sandwich you can?

But you can’t even be bothered to cook rice, instead you buy poor quality microwave rice.

Thats a bit like eating a rustlers burger.

WHY are you cooking rice the day before? 🤮 that is not recommended at all. In fact it's basic cookery, one of the first things you learn....

Oh dear.

OP will see that as a bit of an open goal, I fear.

But you are saying 97% of people can’t cook, then buy ready meals yourself, and didn’t even cook Christmas dinner

Those poor bloody kids.

Facon and micro rice and a shop bought pud for afters. Mind you, tis better than nowt when mums half cut and spends all night starting threads to tell plebs on the internet they can't cook based on absolutely nothing at all.

Cooking rice the day before is only a problem if you don't cool it quickly. But yes, letting it take hours to get down to room temperature is a recipe for a nice spot of food poisoning.

"Oh dear.

OP will see that as a bit of an open goal, I fear."

Why am I wrong? Fully accept if I am but thought we aren't meant to reheat rice?

I don't eat the maggoty stuff anyway - can't stand the texture"

Following on from heinous earlier comments about roast potatoes, can I just say that not everyone wants their roast potatoes to be crispy? I like crispy roast potatoes, but when having them with chicken, I prefer them to be roasted around the chicken, soaking in the juices that come out of said chicken, and not actually particularly crispy as a result.

And if you are cooking a beautifully seasoned lamb or chicken with cinnamon and cumin in a clay oven for example, the roast potatoes and carrots join the meat and come out melting smooth just like the meat. A standard roast chicken I like with crispy roasts and al dente veg but meat cooked in that way is complemented perfectly by the slow cooked veg that have soaked up all the flavour and juices (for those without clay ovens you can replicate this in a standard one )

Yeah Jericho, but she makes her own guacamole so, you know, she’s a real chef

Give us some of your favourite recipes then OP 😳

(Bonkers thread 😂😂😂)

[grin]@JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat

I just want people to eat decent food. Because it's a pleasure.

For you it's a pleasure. Others gain greater pleasure eating 'chuck it all in a pan' and spending the saved time reading a book/watching Netflix/going on a family hike/knitting a jumper/visiting an elderly relative.

Here's the thing OP - people have different priorities to you. Everyone's different! Great huh!

Ah ok - well there you go. I've finally learnt some new culinary skills (no thanks to the OP who has yet to share any).

Not that I'll use them. Rice is not for me!

@ShrikeAttack

Eh? I've never bought a premade tiramisu in my life!

But M & S ready made tiramisu is fabulous. Tesco too. 🤪😎

I pulled that percentage from

A) Stuff I have been fed.

B) Things I read.

C) Shit I have eaten in restaurants

I’m going to guess that op is probably a dreadful cook and in fact her cooking is so bad she doesn’t recognise ‘good’ food well prepared and presented when she does have it, because it’s so far removed from the swill she is used to she thinks it’s poor and her usual fare is superior only in her opinion.

WHY are you cooking rice the day before? 🤮 that is not recommended at all. In fact it's basic cookery, one of the first things you learn....

You can absolutely cook a rice the day before👀 That's a basic cookery. Do you think all restaurants just throw it away each evening?

Walkaround

can I just say that not everyone wants their roast potatoes to be crispy? I like crispy roast potatoes, but when having them with chicken, I prefer them to be roasted around the chicken, soaking in the juices that come out of said chicken

Good point.
I remember reading in a novel a description of someone eating roast chicken accompanied by "potatoes sticky with thyme-scented juices".
Made me so hungry I cooked exactly the same as soon as I could.

@SchrodingersImmigrant no, I don't anymore. As I already said. I don't cook rice but I've always thought until today it was not to be reheated.

I'm fucking awesome at guacamole though

33 posts from the OP and not one offering a tip as to how to cook better. What an obvious troll!

I’m not a food snob, I like cooking, there are also two allergies in our home so most premade things are a no no.

This is what I have bought this week

Bananas
Oranges
Apples (pink lady of course)
Blueberries
Cherries
Mango
Cauliflower
Carrots
Cavolo nero
Okra
Brocolli
Savoy cabbage
Leeks
Squash
Sweet potatoes
White potatoes
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Raddishes
Peppers
Pak choi
Courgettes
Frozen green beans
Frozen spinach
Tofu
Eggs (sadly inferior hens eggs)
Coconut milk
Tinned tomatoes
Risotto rice
Saffron
Idon noodles
Chickpeas
Turtle beans
Adzuki beans
Peanut butter
Marmite
Honey
Chia seeds
Frozen berry selection (great in porridge)

Note mine doesn’t include microwave rice or a £1.50 tiramisu, I have no issue with ready made food, if I thought there was something wrong with ready meals then I wouldn’t buy them and then complain about other people buying them.

@ReeseWitherfork I don't think the OP is a troll - do trolls post shopping lists and photos of their garden?

Fingers crossed the OP will share a photo of her brunch and we can discuss culinary skills based on that.

She said it was for her teens to do a fried rice.

I just boil my rice and rinse it in cold water before I fry it.

No need for microwave crap.