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[–]Impossible-asset 1 points 4 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Enjoyed the video. I heartily support men learning to cook for themselves. Maybe I'll post one too. Weekend project :)
[–]GlobalAsshat 1 points 4 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Being able to bake a proper pan of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, where you use real butter and not shortening, and only bake until they are soft and moist, and not hard crackers... it's so easy, yet one of life's simple pleasures.
Same with being able to smoke meats on the grill.
[–]WildChad 1 points 4 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Cooking is a great skill-set to have indeed.
I started living on my own at age 16 and I still remember I used to know almost nothing about cooking, burning neglected pasta into the kettle and not knowing how to boil eggs...
A decade and a half later I can cook like a beast even if it's something I've never cooked before. Now I can just smell a new ingredient and know instantly all about how to use it with anything else based on the aroma alone - Much of cooking is about developing your palette of understanding of these aromas blend in, how they mix together and how they compliment or interfere with one another. Then a whole another lot of it is all about texture, how to cook something to blend it well with the other stuff so that the textures compliment each other into a satisfying dish.
One tip to learn about all this stuff is to try something different every single time. If you cook something completely novel, sure go and follow a recipe at first, but the next time you do the dish, try change one or a couple things a little and start experimenting. If you do something different each time and pay attention, you'll learn in no time and will have a lot of fun doing it.
Cooking itself, especially when you love it all the way to cooking fundamentals (the cutting, keeping the process together, having a good flow, even the cleaning after) is a great form of art and is also great form of meditation.
When you cook fully present, fully in the process it is one of the most satisfactory experiences in life. And when you become good at it, you'll do it 100% in the flow mode where you'll cook every stage and clean in between and when you are done, everything is done at the exact same moment while you have no waiting time in between. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
Tip for meat lovers:
I buy organic beef chunks from a local producer, craft it into nice steaks, the fattier bits go into slow cooking stews with veggies with a lot of butter (at least 3 hours in the oven, preferably 4+). Bone and the stringiest fatty tissue goes into bone broths which are great in and of themselves or as soup bases. Great to get some of those gelatin proteins for optimal joint, skin and cell membrane health! Broth needs to be boiled in low temperature setting for 24-48 hours, you can add things like carrots, onion and pepper to give additional flavor.
This is very affordable practice compared to buying ready cut steaks. You can utilize much cheaper cuts and get better results.
Remember that you need to take your steaks out of the fridge for at least an hour to set into the room temperature, fry in high temperature (insert steaks just when the oil is about to give a hint of little smoke) 1 minute each side and rotate them until you have the degree of how cooked you want it.
It's best to use some high temperature smoke point oil (like olive oil) for this so that you don't end up burning it in the process.
In the final stage (last 1-2 minutes) you can add butter, garlic and rosemary to give you that final touch into your soon to come tongasm.
Additionally, it's great to combine cooking with something like Paleo diet principles which rely on you to actually cook your food yourself since it's mostly centered on the idea of buying real ingredients instead of manufactured BS that our grandparents wouldn't have recognized as food.
These two combined will make you "old school" where you no longer buy unhealthy crap that only makes you develop health conditions in the long run. You'll also become potentially less dependent on the food industry as a whole.
Great video! - I love the style in editing and your voice and attitude is perfect. I hope you keep up making videos and people discover you more.
Super big thanks to carne apache too brother! I've been looking into ways to consume meat raw after watching a lot of videos from Youtuber by the name of sv3rige and this is perfect for me since I buy high quality ground beef every now and then, but am sad how boring it tends to become when cooked.
Going to buy some limes today!!!
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