Current Events > subtle signs someone is a bad cook

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Their kitchen looks brand new

Doesn't know which ingredients pair well together and is pretty confident in making weird ass dishes

Their food is covered with cheese, oil, sauce, and etc to compensate

Their medicine cabinet is more full than their spice cabinet

Is the first person to volunteer to cook literally anything

Bonus: cooks a burger by making it fat af and adds too much **** to basically make it meatloaf


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Adds some sauted onions and garlic to store bought pasta sauce and says they made their own sauce.

ThePurrrfectMan posted...

Adds some sauted onions and garlic to store bought pasta sauce and says they made their own sauce.

what's wrong with this if it enhances the sauce? Not everyone has 7 hours to cook spaghetti sauce.

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If someone offers to make you pasta. That's some easy shit.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

what's wrong with this if it enhances the sauce? Not everyone has 7 hours to cook spaghetti sauce.

It doesnt count as making your own sauce and its basic.

if the food comes out censored

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• Someone starts a topic about bad cooks on CE.

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• adds BBQ sauce to every
• Uses olive oil to fry shit
• over / under cooks pasta - al dente mother fucker
• adds salt before tasting

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He does the Salt bae thing.
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KILBOTz posted...

adds BBQ sauce to every

i'm guilty of this. but only to a chicken sandwich or a burger.
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Buys Hunt's ketchup

If you take a bite of their dish and your clothes don't immediately shred into pieces while you orgasm

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KILBOTz posted...

Uses olive oil to fry shit

W-what do you use instead? >_>

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

W-what do you use instead? >_>

Probably vegetable oil lmao

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

W-what do you use instead? >_>

lol

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

W-what do you use instead? >_>

Vegetable oil

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Bad cooks typically tend to be either timid or waaaaaaaay too confident
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Puts oil on the water when cooking pasta or cuts the noodles before putting them in.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

W-what do you use instead? >_>

peanut oil, light olive oil (not virgin / extra virgin), avocado oil, beef tallow.

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KILBOTz posted...

peanut oil, light olive oil (not virgin / extra virgin), avocado oil, beef tallow.

Whats olive oil for then?

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

KILBOTz posted...

peanut oil, light olive oil (not virgin / extra virgin), avocado oil, beef tallow.

Whats olive oil for then?

Extra virgin olive oil is usually used for dressing salad or dipping bread.
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stuff you don't burn. sauces, sides, marinades, salads and pastas.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

W-what do you use instead? >_>

You're going to start a fire.

St0rmFury posted...

Extra virgin olive oil is usually used for dressing salad or dipping bread.

I add Olive Oil to the pan when I grill chicken sometimes.

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Olive oil is fine, its extra virgin olive oil that you don't typically use for cooking.
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Im a bad cook and I will be the first person to admit it.

Im not bragging about it, but at least I never volunteer to cook and other people know not to ask me to do it. Ive given myself food poisoning before. Im surprisingly good at buying cuts of meat, though.

if they don't know basic food safety and kitchen sanitation practices.

InhumaneRaider posted...

You're going to start a fire.

my roommate didn't pay attention to the stove when cooking an egg. i told him to cook it at medium or medium high. almost started a fire last night and the pan is totaled.

it's not one of those things you can leave unattended (pasta or rice you can).
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They own 1 set of salt and pepper shakers/grinders and they're on the table.
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All their recipies consist of random veggies+chicken served over rice.

Only know how to use a certain set of spices

Has an obsession with sauces, amd has one for every situation.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Not everyone has 7 hours to cook spaghetti sauce.

Subtle signs someone is a bad cook: They think it takes 7 hours to make a good marinara.

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They use table salt for everything.

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Their food tastes bad

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dbf50 posted...

Their food tastes bad

Hot take

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They can't cook a good vegan dish.

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southcoast09 posted...

Im a bad cook and I will be the first person to admit it.

Im not bragging about it, but at least I never volunteer to cook and other people know not to ask me to do it. Ive given myself food poisoning before. Im surprisingly good at buying cuts of meat, though.

dude you would be shocked how many bad cooks think having a pot luck is a good idea


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kingdrake2 posted...

my roommate didn't pay attention to the stove when cooking an egg. i told him to cook it at medium or medium high. almost started a fire last night and the pan is totaled.

it's not one of those things you can leave unattended (pasta or rice you can).

I once lived with a guy who burned pasta. He left it unattended for so long the water evaporated.

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TC: subtle signs youre a bad cook.

also TC: What do you mean adding onions and garlic to store bought sauce isnt cooking?!


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Phynaster posted...

Subtle signs someone is a bad cook: They think it takes 7 hours to make a good marinara.

You can take 4-7 hours to make a good slow simmered marinara. But if you arent slow cooking it, you can throw one together in like 15-20 minutes.

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If you arent carefully cultivating your own garden of tomatoes, garlic, onions, and herbs to make your marinara, then youre really doing the sauce a disservice.

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I'm a terrible cook, but I do dimple my burgers (which are just beef, nothing added).

I make a lot of pasta. Sometimes I make my own sauce, but jarred is so much easier.

I think I'm a bad cook because I'm really picky. I don't like most spices, so I don't like cooking with them, either.

Also, I'm terrified of underdone meat, so my chicken tends to be dry and/or chewy.

It's ironic because I eat raw dough with eggs in it.

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they use a meal delivery kit service

source: use a meal delivery kit service and am a mediocre at best cook. but at least i'm eating less frozen food

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* Their fridge has 3 empty pizza boxes in it.

I got one

When the food tastes bad

Shit someone already did that

K well.. When there are toenail clippings in the potatoes

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Smackems posted...

K well.. When there are toenail clippings in the potatoes

How else do you season them??

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Rikiaz posted...

You can take 4-7 hours to make a good slow simmered marinara. But if you arent slow cooking it, you can throw one together in like 15-20 minutes.

Exactly. I like to let mine go as long as possible but its by no means a requirement

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Rikiaz posted...

You can take 4-7 hours to make a good slow simmered marinara. But if you arent slow cooking it, you can throw one together in like 15-20 minutes.

yeah some people actually work for living lol

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dragonsmasher posted...

I once lived with a guy who burned pasta. He left it unattended for so long the water evaporated.

i have once in this apartment fucked up. it was due to not adding enough water :(.
the pot was totaled.
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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Puts oil on the water when cooking pasta or cuts the noodles before putting them in.

I put a small dab of olive oil in the water so the pasta doesnt stick to the pot

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Lordgold666 posted...

I put a small dab of olive oil in the water so the pasta doesnt stick to the pot

That's really not needed.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

That's really not needed.

it's helpful. takes minutes to get the pasta out of the pot into the strainer if it sticks.
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