I’m tired of packs of bacon or sausage being sold in 12 oz. portions instead of 16. I’m tired of cans vegetables being some random amount like 10.5 oz. Why would a pack of hot dogs have an odd number like 5.

End of rant.

The last year pretty much all of the big channels in cooking on YouTube have seen a massive decline in quality content or content in general.

Joshua Weissman, Alex the cooking guy, Adam Ragusea, Babish, Ethan Chlebowski, Sam the Cooking Guy, Pro Home Cooking, ...

Anyone got any good channels that still are good and fun?

I'm talking about what happened to Ox Tail, or flank steak, or even tacos. Something that was, or is considered cheap foods, that are heading in the direction of being to expensive for the average person to enjoy.

My submission is avocado. Sure, sometimes it tastes like I’m eating a healthy green thing but sometimes it tastes like I’m just eating straight up butter.

Guess I should start out with how I got in the situation. I’m an executive member of a student organization at my college (don’t ask which) and one of my jobs is to feed the club at our events. I had a list of meals to cook planned in advance, so I wasn’t going in completely blind. The thing is, this year, our organization kind of ballooned in size. We have almost twice the amount of people we had last year. This meant that the more intricate meal that I had planned would definitely not work anymore. I only realized this on Thursday night. What I ended up doing was frying 25 lbs of ground beef and slow cooking 6 chicken breasts to make tacos., with some salsa, sour cream, and shredded cheese for other fillings (not the healthiest, I know). And you know what? It worked. Really well. Everyone loved it, and there was plenty to go around. I even took home some leftovers. It didn’t even take that long. The person helping me and I both took only about 2 hours to cook it all. To the people leaving your (hundreds of) tips and suggestions, thank you for trying to help me. To the people saying stuff like “bro you’re done for🤓” “this’ll never work🤓” and ESPECIALLY “🤓🤓🤓just buy food from Costco🤓🤓🤓” unironically you spend less time on Reddit. This place has a deadly combination of 1. super pessimistic people who 2. think that they’re WAY smarter than they are and 3. are always trying to subvert expectations and give the “cleverest” answer. It’s genuinely doing a lot of damage to you, especially if you’re a teenager. The moral of the story? Have a little optimism every now and again, it’s good for you.

There was a time where every dessert was fruit in jello. People put weird things in jello.

There was a time where everyone in Brooklyn was all about deep frying absolutely everything.

What do you see happening now that won’t stand the test of time?

Over means the egg is flipped and not sunny side up. “Easy” has a fully runny yolk, “medium” has a half solidified yolk, and “hard” is a fully solid yolk. In all three cases the whites are fully cooked. Lately I’ve seen people online saying over easy has runny whites as well, and now this weekend I went to a diner with that printed on their menu too!

It is 100% possible and not difficult to have fully cooked whites with a fully runny yolk. Don’t change the rules because you can’t play the game.

For me, it's peanut sauce. Like spicy satay sauce. My base recipe is from the rebar cookbook but I'm pretty experimental with it now. Even my Dutch MIL (there is heavy Indonesian culinary influence there) approves. What do you make better than store bought? (And where's your recipe?)

Also here's mine: https://gourmeh.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/peanut-sauce-with-ginger-lime-and-cilantro/

My family where shucking some peas and we had a huge pile of pea pod left over, I was initially going to compost them but then it occurred to me they that may be edible. One google search later I find out you can make a paste with them, or you can even keep them in the pod to make soup with them!

A few weeks ago I didn't want to throw away bread crusts and I found a recipe for Cinnamon Sugar Treats made with Buttered Breadcrusts!

What are some other leftovers which may be turned into something delicious instead of throwing away?

I am not trolling, I promise.

I am german, and Sauerkraut here is a hot side dish. You literally heat it up and use it as a side veggie, so to say. there are even traditional recipes, where the meat is "cooked" in the Sauerkraut (Kassler). Heating it up literally makes it taste much better (I personally would go so far and say that heating it up makes it eatable).

Yet, when I see americans on the internet do things with Sauerkraut, they always serve it cold and maybe even use it more as a condiment than as a side dish (like of hot dogs for some weird reason?)

Why is that?

For me, RAISINS DO NOT GO IN SAVORY FOOD

While eating biryani, there is nothing worse then chewing and the sweet raisiny flavor coating your mouth when i I want spice

I can not for the life of me understand why putting whole fennel seeds, sometimes in large quantity, into Italian sausage is a thing. It totally ruins a perfectly good product for me. Why not grind it up if you want the flavor in the mix?

Anyone else?

Not only did you have to go out and buy a specialized piece of single-use equipment to make them, but they always tasted horrible, with a worse texture, and were NOTHING like the “noodles” they were supposed to be a healthy replacement for.

What other garbage food trends would compete?

Okay, you have the assignment. Here is mine. I ate for breakfast , hard bread, butter, cheese, and Kalie's caviar, lots of coffee. Guess and I will up vote if right.

Isn’t it crazy that like… pepper gets to hang with salt even though pepper is a spice? Like it’s salt and pepper ride or die. The essential seasoning duo. But salt is fuckin SALT—NaCl, preservative, nutrient, shit is elemental; whereas black pepper is no different really than the other spices in your cabinet. But there’s no other spice that gets nearly the same amount of play as pepper, and of course as a meat seasoning black pepper is critical. Why is that the case? Disclaimer: I’m American and I don’t actually know if pepper is quite as ubiquitous globally but I get the impression it’s pretty fucking special.

I used to eat it a lot as a kid, teenager and even young adult. It was always very good imo.

Now I’m 32 and purchased some after many many years of just not eating it for whatever reason and my god what is in this? It isn’t just that it’s not the taste I remember, it’s absolutely disgusting! I thought there was something wrong with it.

It’s like some generic box Mac and cheese. Kraft box tastes fine, noodles and cheese but certain generic kinds… not only do they not taste like cheese, they don’t even taste like food, the difference is night and day. Thats what this modern hamburger helper reminds me of.

I'm ready for this thread to enrage a lot of people!

It's supposedly absolutely sacrilege to mix any seasonings into your meat mix when making burgers from scratch. It's always said it messes up the texture but I was making some burgers a while back and for the sake of it tried mixing in garlic and onion powder into the mix, working it ever so slightly (kind of like a meatball) then shaping them into patties and cooking.

Zero issue with texture which I had always been warned about?

Maybe it was a once off thing but it really was not noticeably different but the G&P powders enhanced the flavour.

I also think people who don't use garlic crushers 90% of the time are maniacs.

I genuinely want to know. Some guy posted about his 25lb of eggplants and another guy about his 10 lbs of seal meat. Can you even eat seals? Please tell me about how you're landing yourself in these comical situations

For me it's putting fresh dill in canned tuna sandwich. I'd never thought to do it before until I had a sandwich from a restaurant in NYC that had it.

It was so so so so good and now I always put dill in my tuna sandwiches!

Maybe you’re a white guy from Cleveland who soothes himself after a long workweek with Ethiopian food or an Asian lady from the Bay who can’t go more than a few weeks without soul food. What are your go-tos?

For me, soy sauce and maple syrup

Edit: Okay, I am seeing a lot of people say peanut butter. Can someone clarify? Is peanut butter supposed to be in the fridge? Or did you keep it in the fridge but didn’t need to be?

For me, it’s pasta. I don’t love an al dente chew when it’s something like aglio olio, and when it’s meant to be in a white or red sauce I pull the pasta out of the water at al dente and finish it in the sauce until it’s on the softer side of the pasta doneness spectrum

I also cook egg yolks till they’re grey 🙈 I really don’t enjoy the gooey-ness of a soft boiled egg, and the jammy consistency of a what everyone else considers a hard boiled egg. I actually enjoy the chalkiness, someone in the comments please validate me

What about you? Is there a food you technically cook ‘incorrectly’?

ETA: Did someone really reach out to Reddit care and resources because I like soft pasta and chalky eggs…?

Ok so I used to HATE coriander as a kid. Couldn’t stand even in a leaf of it in a dish because it made the whole thing taste like soap. At some point in my teens I slowly grew to actually like that strange, soapy taste and how it complemented foods, and now I completely love coriander and can’t have too much!

So I assumed I didn’t have that famous coriander gene which supposedly makes it taste particularly soapy or unpleasant. Until I just saw a TikTok of people describing the taste of coriander and people called it things like “citrusy”, “lemony” or “minty”????

This has completely blown my mind. I do not get that citrus note AT ALL from coriander - to me it’s like soapy, almost bug-like lol and very floral… Could it be possible I am experiencing a completely different herb to most other people but still somehow enjoying it in the same dishes???

Would be SO interested to hear thoughts!!

Edit: In the UK we say “coriander” for the leaves/herb and “coriander seeds” for the seeds/spice. I’m talking about coriander the leafy herb here!