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Yeah, I always assumed this was basic common sense but I was shocked how many of my friends didn't have a clue
A surprising number of people have an aversion to even trying if they’re not completely sure what to do. This applies to much more than cooking, I’d say
Yeah definitely, if something seems like too much hassle they can't be bothered
I often hear people say they’re afraid to mess something up too
But what's the worst that can happen, it's not programming a computer lol, but yeah they seem terrified like something terrible will happen lol
The worse thing that can happen is you completely fuck up the meal and waste money…
If you taste while you’re cooking that also shouldn’t be possible. — that said I know someone who was making a big batch of pasta dough and it didn’t come out right so they threw out the whole dough into the garbage and they were yelling and furious about how much food and money they wasted.
Meanwhile I’m like, I literally would not have wasted that much food and money. Like I guarantee I can figure out a way to bake or boil most of that dough into something edible and maybe even delicious
Knowing to taste your food is a skill. There are professional chefs on game shows who don’t taste there food as they cook.
Fire. Lol
True but not if you're careful lol
Takes time and effort and the result is not guaranteed.
Once I have that knowledge? Sure, I'd do it more, and I'd have less qualms about just buying ingredients and figuring meals out later. And in the long run it'd take me less time than what I do currently, eg. plan out my meals for the week or half-week.
But I can't necessarily afford right now to experiment and maybe fuck up and waste food or end up needing one more hour to get it done semi-properly, over having something I know I'll prepare, and just do that.
Instead I allocate cooking time each week and if I've got the energy I'll figure out what new recipe to try, if not I'll practice one of those I know.
It's also easier/faster to look up (on the Internet) what ingredients are in season or typical dishes associated with it, than to throw in a list of ingredients you have in the fridge right now and figure out what can be made from that, through search engines or cooking websites.
Sometimes, i wish my girlfriend was like this, lol.
She has the opposite problem. She has no sense in the kitchen but seems to think all food is equivalent, and will just throw whatever she can find into meals if she doesn't have enough regular ingredients to make a full meal.
We've had some... Truly interesting pastas and curries over the years. She gets defensive when i try to point out certain things really shouldn't go together, so these days i mostly just try to steer her away from the kitchen entirely when i know our pantry is getting low. 🙄
"common sense" almost always means "knowledge I take for granted". Where did you learn it? Parents? Was it something you enjoyed and took an active interest in?
By eating food and seeing what goes well together?
I realized it's probably actually a tricky skill to pick up when I realized I was going through a whole bunch of remembered flavors.
Granted, a lot of it is still "starch+protein+seasonings+vegetable=meal," but I still use a fair bit of background knowledge to make sure I'm getting something I'd like.