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I've been alive for over 30 years and never cooked a single food item in my life. I don't remember the last time I ate a "home cooked" meal, like 3-4 years maybe. Usually my diet consists of fast food and food that is cooked via microwave or instant. I do mix it up though. I get italian with chef boyardee, ramen, lots of TV dinner, hot pockets, and chicken wings!

I learned a long time ago that there are foods I hate, and the good part about being an adult is that if you don't like something, don't eat it! So I don't! Haven't eaten a fruit or veggie in forever lol. I drink juices tho, with lots of caffeine drinks and of course booze!
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I love cooking.
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QwelzaarKane posted...

I love cooking.

Don't you have to train a long time to be good? I know one of my friends said to be a good cook requires 2 years of schooling.
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knuxnole posted...

QwelzaarKane posted...

I love cooking.

Don't you have to train a long time to be good? I know one of my friends said to be a good cook requires 2 years of schooling.

I watch Youtube videos to learn the fundamentals and experiment from there.
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knuxnole posted...

QwelzaarKane posted...

I love cooking.

Don't you have to train a long time to be good? I know one of my friends said to be a good cook requires 2 years of schooling.

Maybe to be a gourmet chef, but normal cooking is easy. It is literally mix ingredients together, heat them up, eat it.

Just Google recipes for what you want to make, a monkey could follow most of them.
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No. My mom worked a lot and was a pretty shitty cook to begin with, so I've been cooking since I was like ten or eleven.

Captain_CE posted...

knuxnole posted...

QwelzaarKane posted...

I love cooking.

Don't you have to train a long time to be good? I know one of my friends said to be a good cook requires 2 years of schooling.

Maybe to be a gourmet chef, but normal cooking is easy. It is literally mix ingredients together, heat them up, eat it.

Just Google recipes for what you want to make, a monkey could follow most of them.

That's the problem, I'm terrible at direction, especially when they tell me terms I wouldn't know in cooking language.

Unless they have recipes and videos showing step by step, and how to actually do the function. How MUCH to put, and what everything means. And also where to buy everything
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knuxnole posted...

Unless they have recipes and videos showing step by step, and how to actually do the function. How MUCH to put, and what everything means. And also where to buy everything

They do. You buy everything at the grocery store.
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It's a lot of work for 1 or 2 people for a modest cost savings and big time commitment. Makes sense for a family tho which used to be the default. Plus there's way more food options in general than 10+ yrs ago... it's just a way that our society has "advanced" in that more of us don't have to prepare our own food now (which could be a good thing if fast food workers made livable wages imo)
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QwelzaarKane posted...

knuxnole posted...

Unless they have recipes and videos showing step by step, and how to actually do the function. How MUCH to put, and what everything means. And also where to buy everything

They do. You buy everything at the grocery store.

Some groceries stores don't have things and some are hard to find, which is why I ask, because I WILL have a hard time finding things.

Which is good, cause a written recipe might be challenging for someone who doesn't cook or know what the lingo is. So seeing a video where I can pause and watch to the T helps.
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

I know this is a troll topic, but I despise cooking. It takes way too much time, expensive as shit, and you have to go out and get the ingredients, and prepare shit, and the result from hours of work is one meal of food. I'd love for a cheap alternative that's healthy, I'm sick of eating trash all the time, once a day which is also bad, but no matter how bad it gets I'd rather not eat than do all of the above because of how much it makes my life worse. It's like exercise, I fucking hate everything about it, the end results years later will never make up the time lost, the boredom, the pain, etc.

People love to say the journey matters, except when it's food or some other common shit. Somehow it becomes the end result and the journey is completely forgotten.

I agree, it is WAY easier to heat up a TV dinner for 5 minutes

Pluses:
- No effort
- Quick fixes
- Tastes better
- No skill

I don't like to put effort or work hard so I take the "casual" way. It's like a video game, I always pick easy mode.
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Tc is an odd gimmick troll
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....huh? I'm just telling the truth. Is that not true?

Do you not like cooking either?
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I almost never cook, either mom cooks or I microwave shit and eat cereal. I'm too lazy to make ramen anymore I just eat it dry.
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Drpooplol posted...

Tc is an odd gimmick troll

CE attracts some of the worst and dumbest gimmicks

knuxnole posted...

Tastes better

That's a lie if I've ever seen one.

knuxnole posted...

Some groceries stores don't have things and some are hard to find, which is why I ask, because I WILL have a hard time finding things.

You won't be cooking anything needing specialty ingredients for a long time. Your normal grocery store will have more than you need.
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It's true tho. Chef boyardee spaghetti tastes better than other peoples. And their beefaroni is 5 star goodness. High quality dinner. I served canned beefaroni to a group of friends for my dinner party.
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Well youre going to die young

chitown82 posted...

Well youre going to die young

How?
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TC is right. Cooking sucks. Even cooking normal stuff. And no amount of effort will make you better at it. You NEED to know the recipe and godforbid you look for one. People who do know never want to share. "Directions" online or in books deliberately misguide you and in-person they tell you to fuck off like it's some sacred art bullshit.
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I love food and cooking. I've has some tough times in my life but food has always been the one thing I haven't scrimped on and it helped pull me through. Eating crap just seems like an utterly miserable existence, both intrinsically and extrinsically.

MelzezDoor posted...

TC is right. Cooking sucks. Even cooking normal stuff. And no amount of effort will make you better at it. You NEED to know the recipe and godforbid you look for one. People who do know never want to share. "Directions" online or in books deliberately misguide you and in-person they tell you to fuck off like it's some sacred art bullshit.

True, there aren't any easy recipes I can find. The ones online talk about "preheating this", or "chop x food in a precise way", or "use this much seasoning but NOT this much seasoning".

So much work and effort.

That's why for dinner I just ate Boston Market's Salisbury steak. Good stuff! It has steak and Mac and Cheese. Also drinking it down with a Red Bull. That took like 6 minutes to cook.
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knutjob posted...

I love food and cooking. I've has some tough times in my life but food has always been the one thing I haven't scrimped on and it helped pull me through. Eating crap just seems like an utterly miserable existence, both intrinsically and extrinsically.

To be honest, the foods I eat don't define me. It's a great existence.

Plus it's not crap

Chef Boyardee, Tyson chicken nuggets >>>>>> Rice, and vegetables, and steamed chicken, or other "healthy" food
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I love to cook. I started off pretty shitty, and could even burn bowls of cereal, but all it really takes is just some practice and experimentation and you can get pretty good at it. There's a lot of resources out there that can help you get better. Pretty much every single thing that you could be curious about has hundreds of videos and articles that break it down for you.
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For the past ten years I have been cooking at least one large meal for myself a week to cover several days. I do the cooking on Mondays after work while I still have the energy and then store the leftovers in the fridge and reheat it for the rest of the work week. This way I eat home-cooked meals nearly every night but only spend one night doing any cooking.

It was difficult at first because I had to learn proper cutting, peeling, and preparation techniques, but like anything else you just learn and get better at it.

Now I can't have fast food because it all tastes nasty after eating real food for so long.

knuxnole posted...

chitown82 posted...

Well youre going to die young

How?

Your internal organs wouldn't function for a long time, if you eat only fast food and processed food

I don't mind cooking regularly because it's not as annoying once you know what to do. The real work lies in figuring out the recipe then perfecting it to your liking and schedule. So much trial&error which = more money&time wasted.
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mullettron posted...

For the past ten years I have been cooking at least one large meal for myself a week to cover several days. I do the cooking on Mondays after work while I still have the energy and then store the leftovers in the fridge and reheat it for the rest of the work week. This way I eat home-cooked meals nearly every night but only spend one night doing any cooking.

It was difficult at first because I had to learn proper cutting, peeling, and preparation techniques, but like anything else you just learn and get better at it.

Now I can't have fast food because it all tastes nasty after eating real food for so long.

This is the most efficient way to do it assuming you have the storage.
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Its really not difficult at all, unless you trying to follow recipes and making actual complex dishes. Most important thing is that you use fresh produce, without all the shit they add to processed food

vocedelmorte posted...

knuxnole posted...

chitown82 posted...

Well youre going to die young

How?

Your internal organs wouldn't function for a long time, if you eat only fast food and processed food

Are you sure? That doesn't make sense. There are LOADS of people who do that and live till their 70s.

What other foods then? Cause I haven't eaten fruits and veggies in over 5 years, and I'm like 35 years old, and feeling happy.
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vocedelmorte posted...

Its really not difficult at all, unless you trying to follow recipes and making actual complex dishes. Most important thing is that you use fresh produce, without all the shit they add to processed food

What if I don't like fresh foods or "organic" stuff.

I like processed foods. I LIVE off of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, etc, such good authentic meat.

Also, isn't following recipes the only way? I can't just pick random food and "cook" it if I don't know how. I don't know how to operate a pot and pan, or oven. I don't even know if my oven even works, I had it in my apartment for years and never turned the dials on the top nor put anything in the bottom.
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I eat a lot of take out and microwavable stuff but also stuff I can cook in the oven. I don't really use the stove top for anything other than pasta and soup... and occasionally stuff I can cook in a pan with a little bit of oil and/or butter. I rarely eat fast food though. I like things to be convenient. I don't have a car and there are no fast food places that aren't out of the way... well except Subway if you count that as fast food. I have that about once a week on average (sometimes I'll skip a week but other times I'll get 2 meals from a footlong so it evens out).
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

I eat a lot of take out and microwavable stuff but also stuff I can cook in the oven. I don't really use the stove top for anything other than pasta and soup... and occasionally stuff I can cook in a pan with a little bit of oil and/or butter. I rarely eat fast food though. I like things to be convenient. I don't have a car and there are no fast food places that aren't out of the way... well except Subway if you count that as fast food. I have that about once a week on average (sometimes I'll skip a week but other times I'll get 2 meals from a footlong so it evens out).

Nice! Yeah, convenience is the key. I like take out, I love me some Hot and Ready and chinese take out, mm-MMM!

I feel ya with the no car. A lot of guys here can relate.
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knuxnole posted...

I like processed foods. I LIVE off of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, etc, such good authentic meat.

Have you ever tried making those foods on your own? You can always try learning how to make the foods that you're buying from a can/frozen food section. You might even discover that you prefer the way you cook those foods more than the processed stuff.
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

knuxnole posted...

I like processed foods. I LIVE off of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, etc, such good authentic meat.

Have you ever tried making those foods on your own? You can always try learning how to make the foods that you're buying from a can/frozen food section. You might even discover that you prefer the way you cook those foods more than the processed stuff.

You know TC is a gimmick right? He's been doing this stuff for a while now, and his stories change from topic to topic.

I know. I'm just curious what he's gonna come up with.
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

knuxnole posted...

I like processed foods. I LIVE off of hot dogs, chicken nuggets, etc, such good authentic meat.

Have you ever tried making those foods on your own? You can always try learning how to make the foods that you're buying from a can/frozen food section. You might even discover that you prefer the way you cook those foods more than the processed stuff.

You know TC is a gimmick right? He's been doing this stuff for a while now, and his stories change from topic to topic.

Welcome to the internet? Thousands of people post in anonymous forums that change. Even you! No one will know you.

I mean, you're acting like everyone posts real stories and becomes themselves. There are THOUSANDS of people here daily. You never see the same people twice.

For example, I've never seen you before. The next day there are 50,000 other people browsing this board. So much anonymity
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