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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

In this thread are people trying to use one tool for everything.

You don't use a screwdriver for everything.

Likewise, in the kitchen, you don't use the same utensil for everything.

And I'm sorry, for the people that have one fork, one knife one knife, one pan. No. Unless you live on shit food, you can't cook with just that.

If you actually want tasty food, you'll need some hardware. There's just no way around it.

Disclaimer, I'm French, and an actual cook (non practising).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Good a non-practising French, thought I could smell you through the screen for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Ya the smug alert in that one was to high

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was giggling uncontrollably, so I knew that a US guy had to have replied to one of my posts with something hilarious. Of course I wasn't wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can use a wok for just about everything. Not great for baking, but anything else can be done in a wok, but even us chinese cooks (I am white, but learned to cook Chinese food) will look at you weird if you actually try to cook everything in a wok.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You aren't cooking many things if all you're using is a wok.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A wok is simultaneously a frying pan, a sauce pan, a soup pot, and a deep frier, when not in use. It's Schrodinger's kitchen appliance.

I'm a former chef that was trained in over 10 styles of food prep. I just don't bake much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Woks don't have buttons! How the hell do you expect to deep fry things without any buttons!? I've seen into the back of a McDonald's before, their deep fryers have buttons and beep and shit. If a wok ever beeped at me, I wouldn't think "oh, fries are done," I'd think, "am I going insane?"

Unless you're using one as a helmet, in which case it's more of a ding than a beep, but it means it just saved your life and you should tip your blacksmith. You should also probably clean the wok before you use it to sear something and set it aside or bake cookies or anything, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

You just pout oil in it, bring the oil up to temp, and set a timer when you drop the food in. Just like deep frying in a pot at home

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A wok is great for searing stuff and then putting some of it aside, so that you can cook several things at once. Nothing else has ever come close to it.

But that's the limit of the wok. It's a fucking amazing device, but it's not the ultimate cooking ninja super appliance that does it all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Ummmm wow. Wasn't aware that the 7 wok stove that I cooked on daily for a decade was just for searing things and setting them aside. I guess the chicken broth in the center wok, and all the frying of the frying wok should stop existing since a French cook is trying to tell Chinese cooks how to use their own invention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

jokes on you, i am

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes you have to use some pot as meat tenderizer...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, if it's heavy enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel bad for people who truly can not afford good kitchen stuff, granted most people in my area can. Otherwise yeah, assuming the person were discussing can afford it. There's no going around spending a little money on good kitchenware if decent results are expected. It's not like people have to drop thousands, but a few hundred is kinda normal.

Also tip for anyone who's building up their first kitchen, those gimmicky things that are always on sale are almost always crap. Buying that stuff is worse than gambling, cause at least gambling doesn't leave you with a kitchen full of worthless clutter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I feel bad for people who truly can not afford good kitchen stuff

Now there's a lot of people who can't.

Because kitchenware is actually hideously expensive. And even here, in France where we have access to the fundamental cooking industry tools - ok maybe slightly less-)

(Ok, I said I was in France, it's cool, feel free to downvote me now)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I find it amusing that as someone that actually spent years learning how to cook, and that I took the took the time to understand the chemistry and logic of cooking, I'm downvoted because:

  • I'm french (because a fair number of users are idiots, and yet I'm still here to face them)
  • or they believe they can cook with a microwave (a US affectation)
  • or maybe it's just a jest across the atlantic, since we made them a country, they hate us for some reason as a joke, haha.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Condescending and a pity party. Really a wonder why people aren't flocking to upvote.

[–] zalgotext 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well now you're getting downvoted for complaining about downvotes

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't really care. Being French here means you're being downvoted.

Just like I'm donwoting US users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm English, don't forget to downvote me!

[–] zalgotext 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol if you didn't care you wouldn't be constantly complaining about it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Oddly enough when there are fuck the mexicans or fuck the poles posts, people are vaguely interested.