And ppl wonder why the younger gens are terrified of doing anything fun or risky.
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They need to bring back home ec.
Basic cooking, nutrition and finance. How taxes work, voting, credit, bills and even dealing with cops (be respectful, no sudden movements, know your rights, shut the fuck up).
How to adult for kids who don't get taught at home.
Agreed. School focuses too much on stem. It should be there to prepare you for life. Go to Uni if you want to advance in stem.
School should also teach other basics like taxes, finance and budgeting.
How's he supposed to know if nobody every taught him?
"Common sense" is rarely all that common.
I operate strange new machines all the time. There's usually some kind of instructions or video. Never activate the device without trying to figure it out first, you won't even know what sort of personal protective equipment to wear.
You’re not wrong. But dang some things seem kinda obvious.
To be fair to him, if you've never specifically cooked meat in an oven I can see how you'd think "grill -> like barbecue -> place directly on grill".
I had to do a double take at 'blood'. I thought, my god, what manner of cooking is he doing? Does he pick doves out of the air and cook them without bleeding them?
No. He just thinks what comes out when you cook meat is blood. He would think that though.. given the rest of the conversation.
My sister once had a roommate who asked her what goes into a grilled cheese sandwich. She said just two pieces of bread and a slice of cheese. A few minutes later she found the roommate in the kitchen staring at a plain cheese sandwich on a plate. "Something wrong?" she asked. Roommate replied (I shit you not), "How is this supposed to melt the cheese?"
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You guys got home ec? 😞
I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Looking back that's incredibly stupid but my thought at the time was, "I got to put the noodles in something, how about a bowl?"
So I'd put the noodles in a bowl (glass or porcelin or whatever they're made out of these days), pour water in, put it on the stove
Lucky the bowl never exploded on me
Why a pot wasn't the first thing that came to my mind I'll never know... Weirdly, I don't know when I realized I was being stupid. Just one day I was like, "I should put my noodles in a pot"
I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Seems pretty normal, just pour the kettle into the bowl…
stove
Oh, oh no…
Depending on the ramen this works in the microwave, as long as the bowl is microwave safe.
However, I've gotten into ramen that you drain (chopsticks work great to help drain, no colander needed!) after cooking so I've had to be slightly less lazy. Plus I can microwave the frozen veggies on a paper plate while the ramen's cooking on the stove. Then eat it from the saucepan!
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I would eat out of the pot instead. Now Im refined and I microwave the bowl of water to heat it up, once its close to boiling, drop the noodles in and put a lid on it to lock in the steam. Wait 5 minutes and were good to go.
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"I wonder what this flat sheet of metal that fits perfectly into my oven is for"
That's a cookie sheet. It's for cookies. Duh.
Did this guy never watch anything being cooked ever?!?! A broiler pan is basically what he’s doing but with a pan underneath. Isn’t it just common sense to put something underneath it?!? It’s a wonder he didn’t burn his apt down. This has got to be fake …
But who knows. I know people that dumb.
The amount of photos i have seen of frozen pizzas 'melting’ through the oven racks when people cook without a tray makes me beleive 100% this is real.
In fairness, the instructions for a lot of frozen pizzas say to do exactly that.
I completely forget about that but you’re totally right it sure does. Ok maybe it isn’t that dumb after all.
At least he recognized that he should clean the blood and grease every time. I’ve seen plenty of ovens that suggest that their owner would not be as diligent.
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I baked most things on a baking sheet or just a sheet of aluminum foil.
Except pizza. Pizza I just put right on the rack because that's the only way to get the crust crispy. But even this horrified my wife.
If youre talking about frozen pizzas, many of them to tell you to put it right in the rack.
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My sister once decided to make chocolate mousse by melting several bars of chocolate in the microwave and then putting all the molten chocolate in the fridge. Thus creating one gigantic piece of bowl-shaped chocolate block. Apparently recipes have more than one ingredient, who knew?
Let's put a positive spin on this, since people in the comments are dogging on him enough.
Guy's 20, living on his own, clearly inexperienced in the ways of living on his own, and he had the courage to do what so many fail to: ask for help. If he keeps that going, he'll be fine.
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Did their parents always take them out to eat or order food, because, more than not taking home ec, they would have had to be completely blind to any cooking going on in the house their whole lifetime?
Mom cooks while he games in his room
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