I knew my short phase of collecting cookbooks would pay off one-day!
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I tried making roasted plantains the other week after getting a ridiculous deal on 40 pounds of them. ($6!) I’ve only ever made chips before, so I looked up a video recipe with a great looking finished product. By the time they had finished baking, they were still basically raw, and I had to up the temp to something reasonable. If a recipe came out on or after 2023, I’m ignoring it forever.
Plantains are a fickle plant. Ripeness is a huge factor, and that aside, some are just fibery/less sweet and don’t cook as fast.
The recipe was bunk from the get go, but I wasn’t certain until after trying it. 90c for 1 hour, and then 120c for 15 minutes with very ripe plantains. I thought they knew something I didn’t. I’ve learned to be intensely skeptical of online recipes.
Cooking at 200c for 15 minutes flipping, and cooking for another 15-25 minutes was universally decent
enjoy your dinner with glue, rocks and rat poison!
Slop it up!
I'm so glad i nabbed my families cook books. I'll be needing them in the near future.
Maybe controversial, but if I ask AI for a recipe I get one. If I search for something and go to a website there’s a fucking novel to trawl through before I find the actual recipe. Even then it’s in weird units half the time.
90% of the time I'm only looking for advice on a single aspect. How long to cook X at Y? Can I put X in Y? List required ingredients. etc.
Just makes sense to add gemini to the search and get the answer I'm looking for immediately.
Yeah I hear you there. Quick recipes are the singular reason I find AI useful.