this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
335 points (95.9% liked)

Asklemmy

44978 readers
1321 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 115 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

Learn to cook the base of meals in different cultures. Like a Sofrito.

Most of the best classic dishes in the world really start with three or four ingredients and are just variations. You shouldn’t overthink it or buy rare ingredients. You’re better off picking one and mastering the basic steps. Learning to cook isn’t about learning to recreate a chef-cooked meal. It’s about learning to cook simple, cheap ingredients.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it even a life hack, or an essential life skill. Most us didn't formally learned, but have seen/helped our parents from an early age and one day, we ended up in a student room meaning it was time to cook

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 20 points 7 months ago

When the pandemic happened, there were people who didn’t know how to make the easiest meals. I was shocked. So, my rule on recipes is that nothing is too basic.

load more comments (11 replies)