The Cooking Thread
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Only two dishes I'm good at making are sweet and sour chicken, and Korean BBQ lettuce wraps. Stir fry is easy as well as all you you do is add meat and veggies to a oiled pan.
Grumpy old chef (me) : I can't cook from a video, I need a written recipe for it ! 
Besides , "chef" means in German language usually "boss".
Besides , "chef" means in German language usually "boss".
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Well, for some things, like cooking, or how to make or repair various things, I find videos far superior. If I'm fixing a washing machine, I'd much rather view a video instructional, so I can see what they're doing matches what I'm seeing. Much preferable for me than written instructions: "Do what with the what, now?"
I only learned to cook from online videos. I had a few recipe books, but never great results. The amount of learning resources available on Youtube is incredible, and I could see what they're doing, what they're looking for, why they're doing it, and so on. It made all the difference for me, and now I can cook things that people look quite pleased about.
I only learned to cook from online videos. I had a few recipe books, but never great results. The amount of learning resources available on Youtube is incredible, and I could see what they're doing, what they're looking for, why they're doing it, and so on. It made all the difference for me, and now I can cook things that people look quite pleased about.
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Man, that looks like an excellent dish, Ripper. I type this as my stomach growls. -p
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Yeah, it has to be done.
One other thing I meant to suggest is to make large batches of these time consuming sauces, and freeze them. I freeze things flat, which I've found super helpful - otherwise you end up with icebergs that require pre-planning to defrost, and waste space. So, I often like to have a cook up (and clean up) of several things on Sundays, and then serving it up during the week is quick and clean.
Also, I used to find that I would get a bunch of specialist ingredients for things like Mexican and Thai, but then the rest would go bad before I needed them again. So the idea of freezing 'flavour bombs' works really well. You can do this for almost any dish - it's essentially just the first stage of cooking up the aromatics, herbs, and spices, which you then use as the base when you come to make the dish. So I use up all the surplus herbs and pastes, and keep it in frozen form until needed.
One other thing I meant to suggest is to make large batches of these time consuming sauces, and freeze them. I freeze things flat, which I've found super helpful - otherwise you end up with icebergs that require pre-planning to defrost, and waste space. So, I often like to have a cook up (and clean up) of several things on Sundays, and then serving it up during the week is quick and clean.
Also, I used to find that I would get a bunch of specialist ingredients for things like Mexican and Thai, but then the rest would go bad before I needed them again. So the idea of freezing 'flavour bombs' works really well. You can do this for almost any dish - it's essentially just the first stage of cooking up the aromatics, herbs, and spices, which you then use as the base when you come to make the dish. So I use up all the surplus herbs and pastes, and keep it in frozen form until needed.
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I found a very nice Turkish cuisine channel, with really good videos. I made these two dishes together with some lavash bread, and I thought it was a winner.
View: https://youtu.be/_Vy-ikjiu6U
View: https://youtu.be/WU9rUBN2cKY
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Turkish cuisine is really good, I've not had enough of that in my life as of yet.
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I had a bit of time to do some cooking, and had a go at this one. If I have time, I don't mind doing these high-effort dishes, as I like to see if it's possible to get really chef-y results. It's high-effort, but not high-difficulty - follow along with the steps, and there's not much skill involved. But wowsers - this was tasty.
View: https://youtu.be/ScuKHb0izH8
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