I can only barely remember homemade doughtnuts and I have never really longed to deep-fry anything else in the food world, but I would eat homemade doughnuts until I felt sick.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
There's some good, easy bread recipes in the tassajara bread book -- I think it was recommended to me from ilx in the first place. I like baking and it isn't something I have had many problems with. It's omelets that I'll never get right.
― Ulna (Nicole), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'm very, very good at bread but pretty shit at anything else. We almost never buy bread anymore. I just made two loaves of a great honey oatmeal bread last night! (Having a KitchenAid mixer w/a dough hook is key here btw.)
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
YES. I was lucky enough to get the industrial grade motor KitcheAid mixer and it does a lot of the work for you. I don't think I'd really enjoy baking much if I didn't have it, because my arthritis makes it painful to do all of that mixing and kneading by hand.
― Ulna (Nicole), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a good enough cook and love baking. Have given up on grains though so I only bake two or three times a year, usually scratch cakes and fruit crisps/cobblers. I was baking all our bread until a few years ago, and made some really nice loaves.
― Jaq, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Misread this as 'barking'.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Friday, 8 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
I am a good cook, because I have practiced it almost daily over many decades, and the process of cooking interests me. I hesitate to say I stink at baking, but I have never pursued it and can claim no more than a very basic proficiency. I'm pretty sure I could raise my baking a couple of notches, if I were to put in the required effort.
― Aimless, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Misread this as "banking". I am an ok cook/ok baker, though I bake only occasionally and have never tried making bread.
― brogue element (seandalai), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
i am a terrible banker, however
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
TS: baking vs. banking vs. barking vs. braking
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
barking comes really easily to me, that's an easy yes
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
really feeling the people itt talking about not liking to follow recipes. i made pistachio muffins yesterday, they were maybe the most successful thing i've ever baked, but my friend really had to rein me in, put measuring cups in my hands. who doesn't love the cavalier oil drizzle, the impulsive transfer of ingredients from their container to the bowl. i feel spoiled by cooking, too; when you cook you mainly cook with things you understand, whereas it's hard to attribute the same kinds of value to things like flour that you wouldn't eat independently. they are more like numbers than ingredients. i always thought it was like the difference between drawing & painting; drawing is so immediate, from your eye to the page, but painting involves a lot of counterintuitive moves, wanting red but knowing you need to paint brown first. baking is really confusing. i know there are comforting dimensions, cool techniques you get to get into like pestle & mortaring, kneading, &c, but i think some of the satisfaction i get from cooking is from feeling like all of the things i did worked out, & that's toned down when you have to obediently follow a recipe so it doesn't screw up.
― schlump, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
see I get the opposite comfort from following a good baking recipe, for me it's like having a reassuring, confident voice to get you through the weird parts, so you don't second guess yourself. i'm kinda particular about who I bake with now - ie america's test kitchen can gtfo with their needlessly complicated baking shenanigans.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
who doesn't love the cavalier oil drizzle, the impulsive transfer of ingredients from their container to the bowl.
hah, i don't
― steaklife (donna rouge), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i love baking and i guess at this point it comes fairly easy/naturally to me, i used to pester my grandma and mom into helping them bake stuff when i was a kid. but yeah i like having a recipe to follow because i like checking stuff off of lists, what can i say. i'm a bit freer in cooking admittedly.
― steaklife (donna rouge), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
me flamboyantly catapulting hastily grasped fistfuls of ingredients into pans against the ambient noise backdrop of sizzling onions is one of my real Joys Of Cooking, i am really insistent on this sensation existing at the heart of any kitchen experience i go out of my way for
― schlump, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
donna otm: lists! <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
on the contrary, schlump quite otm *plays bridge*
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
in our house, in general I'm the cook and my wife is the baker. it works out pretty well.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
im a virgo btw
― steaklife (donna rouge), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
but yeah schlump also otm about freewheeling cooking, that is a fun thing too! I guess i like both worlds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a virgo too! different moon signs, apparently.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol so is my wife, the list thing is so true
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
what does it mean if i am an aries who likes lists
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
that you will be a most excellent baker :)
― Jaq, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Virgos are prone to believing in astrology iirc
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
iirc the more you believe in astrology the likelier you are to stay one
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
i'm awesome at cooking but i don't like to bake. i don't enjoy measuring and i can eat so many cookies that it's better for my health if i don't bake.
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
i am a sagittarius (but really an "ophiuchus" if nu-astrology is anything to go by) so i don't like following rules.
― johnny hit and run paul lynde (get bent), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
i am a vegetarius, i think it makes cooking less complicated
― schlump, Friday, 8 February 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
I don't bake. I love cooking, but I rarely eat bread, cakes &c., and baking is much more boring than cooking, like mail order vs browsing in a shop.
― ogmor, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
who doesn't love the cavalier oil drizzle, the impulsive transfer of ingredients from their container to the bowl
noooooo
chills down spine thinking about being made to do this. HOW MUCH IS A "DRIZZLE"? if you don't tell me exactly how much, how am i meant to know when to stop?
impulse has no place in cooking because everything will assuredly go disastrous if it does.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoy both cooking and baking.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
haha. i mean no offense to you or my sis but you sound exactly like my sister (i.e. must follow recipe to the "t" and offer no creativity or common sense.was making the dough for some vegan sweet potato pecan breakfast rolls for her and niece the other week and when she saw how i was doing it she kinda started to flip. i asked her how they came out and she said "awesome". i'm not impulsive with baking but i've done it enough so i know what a tsp or tbslp of something looks like w/out always measuring. and it's a science but not rocket science. and just 'cuz something is in print somewhere as a recipe doesn't mean that it will always make sense.
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
oh, sorry, xpost to lex
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
lex's difficulties with cooking are well-documented on ilx and no further amount of posting is like to make him warm up to the concept
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's like coaxing dame barbara cartland into a pair of levi's
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
I must confess I get stressed out by a pinch of anything
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
i think i find cups more troublesome. some cups are twice the size of other cups.
― schlump, Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, tbf when I was a kid mum always talked in dashes and dabs and dollops, drove me barmy.
Pinches are fine. Trying figuring out if a dash and a bit and a shake are 3 diff measurements or the same thing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
I like "a knob of butter" and would measure everything in knobs if possible
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
i have measured out my life in knobs
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
a murder of butter
― schlump, Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
a gaggle of eggs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
lex, do you watch your bf when he cooks, does he talk about what he's doing or why?
― just1n3, Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
re: drizzling, my food improved when I filled a spray bottle with olive oil. Spritzy spritz, kale chips
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
I think I like baking better than cooking
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 February 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
probably the hardest thing about baking is getting to know your oven
gonna invent a camera that you can install in your oven and it routes to your TV
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 February 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link