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The Bay Leaf confusion posting is a look into the abyss of what's wrong with cooking social media (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/food@hexbear.net

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I'm referring to both "lol lmao why am I putting this leaf in" posts and "omg I found a leaf in my chipotle" posts here because both have the same issue of broadcasting their confusion over the internet instead of just looking it up.

You could chalk this up to social media but even before that's advent you had Jamie Oliver showing you a 30 min dinner that consists of leftover ingredients that are not picked up by his show / cookbook and also assumes you're cooking on kitchen grade equipment instead of the landlord special like most of his presupposed target audience and feel free to swap him for any number of aspiritional celebrity cooks.

It's all showstuff. Which can be nice but let's be honest here, if you're cooking a lot at home you'll be eating slop (non derogatory) most of the time because between price and time investment that's what gets you tasty, manageable, affordable.

But that's not in the cookbooks, I'm pretty sure I own all of them because if you're a known home cook they just end up at your house. If you ate nothing but Jamie Olivers Healthy 30 min Dinners (all of them take about an hour or so because they presuppose you start with a 10L boiling pot of water and have the skills necessary to dice a large onion in a minute) you'd end up nutritionally deficient and poor.

But say you were to google lense your bay leaf and find out what it does, where does that leave you? I feel like there isn't a site in the world that teaches you home economics cooking where you concoct up something healthy, tasty and time saving out of like half a pantry and a capsicum you bought on sale. I speak two languages and I've never found one - where the fuck are they?

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

So much cooking stuff on social media is just a list of ingredients and instructions without any sort of explanation as to "why" this stuff happens. I've sometimes thought about making a series of videos or something about cooking and why things are done the way they are, from really basic stuff like "we put oil in the pan so the food doesn't stick" to stuff that seems to confuse a lot of people like "we rinse the starch out of these potatoes and then cover them in starch before frying because starch on the outside makes them crispy, while starch on the inside makes them soggy."

Just seems like a lot of people find cooking "intimidating" and I think it is because it is a lot of lists of sometimes very obscure ingredients and just big lists of instructions instead of explanations, so when people try to follow a recipe and it turns out wrong, it just feels like they failed, not like they get to learn something.