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

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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.

[quote JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat]@EuroTrashed it is indeed her receipt.

Send us a photo of your brunch OP

"They do know how to cook rice properly, but, being teens, they're probably not going to cook it the day before"

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....[/quote]
I cook rice on a Sunday, I eat said rice everyday until it runs out on Saturday.

Maybe you would be happier living in Italy OP.

Simon what are turtle beans? Your shopping list sounds very healthy

JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat
"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.... "

Fried rice is best made with old rice, not a problem if the fresh rice is quickly cooled and safely stored. If you must use fresh rice, mix in a raw egg to coat the rice (in addition to eggs used during the frying).

And I second the suggestion for getting a rice cooker, it'll change your life for the better.

I cannot cook.

JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat

"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 think fried rice is typically a use specifically for left-over boiled rice.
It's cooked in a wok the next day over a high heat (to kill off bacteria) and egg added to make it into a "proper" meal. Not much used as an accompaniment as we often see it.

A Malaysian relative compared it to people in the UK making bubble and squeak out of left over potatoes and vegetables.
Generally, you wouldn't specifically make mashed potatoes and other vegetables just to be able to make bubble and squeak.

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

Have you seen this? m.youtube.com/watch?v=53me-ICi_f8

JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat some people live a completely different 'online life' to their reality though.

I'm not saying this is definitely the case for the OP, but I've seen some longstanding posters on other forums trip themselves up.

One was apparently living in a huge, sprawling mansion in the countryside. Posted like an utter snob/twat on every thread. Turned out to be living in a council flat in Barking

Honestly guys, no rice cooking device will improve my life - unless you are talking to the OP.

I can't abide the stuff. Obviously I was wrong about not cooking it the day before, not a skill I've ever needed. Only one person in our whole household likes rice so it is never on the menu. Vile.

@JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat

Simon what are turtle beans? Your shopping list sounds very healthy

They’re a south american black beans, I use them to make a brazilian bean stew, or I have them with scrambled egg for breakfast. I usually get the dry ones, much cheaper and they don’t take too long to cook from dry.

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

That's because her idea of cooking better is just to replace the ingredients of very basic cooking that most of us can do, with fancy produce even if it's terribly planned out. Bacon, sausage, duck egg, black pudding, pheasant in one day all rich and/or greasy and not a green vegetable in sight. I'm amazed the OP and her family aren't suffering from gout!

And as for why she's wondering and replying about this at that time of night - I suspect the alcohol content of her Waitrose order explains that!

im an awful cook,

i make not the healthiest of dinners and try and eat fruit abd veg when i can , im so bad that i got a cook book for christmas and i woudlnt know where to start to start making the food, i can make basics like roast chikens and pastas and stuff, but i get wher you are coming from about teaching people healthy good cooking, i would welcome that into my life but lack the confidence to try new things and my kid never eats things when i try new stuff, tbh mostly cos it turns out horrible, no i dont think you are being unreasonable, but i understand why its hard for some to break the bad habits and that a real barrier.

"One was apparently living in a huge, sprawling mansion in the countryside. Posted like an utter snob/twat on every thread. Turned out to be living in a council flat in Barking"

Wow 🤩

TottiePlantagenet imagine his reaction to microwave rice 😅😅

[quote JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat]@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[/quote]
😁 we all have weaknesses and strenghts

I used to think a bit like you OP, so I get where you're coming from. For example, I massively judged you for incorrectly spelling 'ragù' in your earlier post while trying to appear sophisticated, and assumed you were shit at making Italian food.

No one else cares, and I realised I was behaving like an utter cunt in my early 20s. I changed my ways, so it's nuggets all the way for me now. Plus it's impossible to have the best version of everything unless you can burn money and time. Maybe you're a bit sheltered?

@WorraLiberty

TottiePlantagenet imagine his reaction to microwave rice 😅😅

😆😆

But seriously, don't rinse your rice after it's cooked - fried rice is better when the rice is dry.

Thanks @SimonJT I have never heard of those.

@JerichosPenisInADeadChickHat

Thanks *@SimonJT* I have never heard of those.

They’re nice, not as powdery as some beans.

Uncle Roger is fucking epic!

I think your % is a bit high, BUT if you watch any of those programmes on tv where people spend too much on their shopping or are overweight it generally boils down to the fact that they either do not or cannot cook.
It is nearly 45 years since I left school, so I am not up-to-date on what is taught in schools today, but in our time (girls' selective and very academic school) we had 2 years' needlework and 1 year of compulsory cookery lessons plus human nutrition in biology, so all the basics were covered.

Just throwing as many veg as possible into something and calling it a pasta sauce or curry or chillie [sic].

Well if it's a sauce and I put it on pasta, it's pasta sauce. I'm aware that, by buying curry powder, I'm not doing justice to authentic Asian cookery. Nonetheless I make edible, enjoyable food. I can even get my partner's very picky teenage daughter to eat stuff she generally refuses. But my cooking could be seen as just bunging vegetables together, because I like to shop locally and seasonally and so I get what is available, and try to adapt recipes according to that.

Still, to misquote Elizabeth Bennet, “I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished cooks. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”

I did have an interesting experience with my GP last year though when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure.

I'm not overweight, don't smoke, drink socially, exercise regularly - walking, running, weight training etc so pretty fit. My GP suggested I could reduce my BP by cutting down the salt in my diet. I told him my diet contained much less than the maximum recommended 6g of salt a day. He said that although I may think that I'm probably not aware of the amount of salt in processed food! When I told him we don't eat any processed food, we cook everything from scratch, I could tell he didn't believe me. He kept going on about jars of sauce, packets of mixes, tins etc and I kept insisting that we don't ever eat any of that kind of thing but he continued to give me the impression he thought I was lying to him!

My OH has an allotment and we eat a lot of vegetables (although we're not vegetarian) and we don't eat processed meat. I think people are very sceptical when you claim that you 'cook from scratch'

I can cook, I really make lovely food (dinner/tea) I love good home cooked food, I do look at recipes but just use them as a rough guide!!

But I can’t bake Im a terrible baker!!