Cooking for dummies

Have had dishes similar to this. No cheese, but same idea, sauteed cabbage with seasoning. It’s surprisingly delicious for “just cabbage”.

one of the best meals 50¢ can buy

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How To Make Cabbage Not Gross

turns out the secret to cooking basically all food is add fat and salt and … acid and… .heat fuck

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The show, it’s pretty nice! As I recall at least, I only watch Netflix when I’m cripplingly depressed though

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My roommates just got a new knife set and cookware they ordered a while ago and, god I hate what people think is good cookware because it’s not “nice” cookware is a racket and I won’t hear anything else on it

If you wanna drop money on cookware get a knife from an actual maker or buy a cast iron pan and care for it. Fuck antistick coating and all those other bullshit pans they’re worse than just a metal pan. And fuck specialty knives you just need a good all purpose kitchen knife in a shape you like working with. A bread knife and paring knife are fair but anything else it’s like, no you don’t need a fucking cheese knife

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French technique was the worst thing to happen to cooking, the laypersons art

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You’ll never get me to stop consulting Larousse Gastronomique

Modern cast irons are all too heavy for non oven use, I use a steel clad for most of my cooking because my arms are weak and I don’t need all that thermal capacity for most things I make

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Oh yeah no a steel pan also has an important place for mobility for sure! I just hate the painted pans and the nonstick pans and the plastic-handle pans of the world

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100% those are all trash

A cheap carbon steel wok with a wooden handle is better than any expensive or fancy wok

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wok evangelism is gas range privilege

(this post is brought to you by the inferiority complex of someone who has an electric stovetop)

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I also have an electric stovetop but the way it’s broken is that it gets way way too hot (The last time one of the heating elements burnt a fuse it got to at least 900 degrees F)

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i’d be jealous if i weren’t also horrified

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they’re cute, they’re cheap, I love knives that are more leaning towards being a cleaver! I’ve never used one tho

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The best thing that’s ever happened to me in my life is when Alicia bought this for me:

We mainly use steel pans and I use this to clean those, which has resulted in two things:

  1. They’re actually clean now and it doesn’t take me like 20 minutes to clean a single pan
  2. Food doesn’t stick to them nearly as badly. Compare this to using steel wool OR trying to use the dishwasher, and it’s so much better. I thought steel pans were basically unusable but it turns out I was fucking them up by cleaning them wrong. This shit actually fixed how much food stuck to them

I genuinely cannot recommend this shit enough. It’s probably just, like, baking soda or something but I don’t care. It works so well. I love it.

Don’t use it on cast iron though

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oxalic acid

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I’ve never witnessed a pan/pot that couldn’t be cleaned thoroughly without just letting it soak with soapy water for a few hours, and then a bit of elbow grease with an abrasive sponge or pad. But maybe I just don’t cook crazy things.

Don’t do this with a cast iron pan!

I mean you can, if you want to strip the seasoning and plan on scrubbing all the rust off immediately afterwards, but only if you reseason it immediately after that!

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I guess you can just throw a splash of red wine into anything and it works

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