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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.
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?”
Also forgot the mayo
A little mayo on the bread, a little butter melted in the skillet
Just put mayo on the outside of the bread and use that to fry it up instead of the butter. Plenty enough oil in the mayo
I do put it on the outside. I like the crisp mayo makes but prefer the taste of butter so I meet myself in the middle and use both. A bothersomely fast metabolism makes up for the extra fat
Ew
Lol shows what you know. Do you also cook right on the oven rack?
Mayo has eggs, oil, and vinegar in it. As it breaks down while cooking the vinegar cooks off, the eggs french-ify the bread, and the oil fries the eggs onto the bread as it turns into toast. It works wonders for sandwiches cooking in a pan.
I just put cheese in it and then fry it in butter. But I’ve ween people butter the outsides.
This comment broke me
It wouldn’t be bad, just please put a small tray under the meat. Also there’s those contact grill thingies, that are a lot better for grilling.
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?
I once shared an apartment with a guy who just moved out of home and had literally zero life skills. One day he almost burnt down the kitchen by heating about 500ml of oil in a frypan till it was smoking and then proceeded to drop in a kilo of fully frozen chicken pieces.
I lived with a depressed Polish Master’s student for some time who was also a sad alcoholic. Besides some other stuff he also did what you described - and my dude was in his early 30s. Only he made an entire Chicken and fries in that oil bath.
AND HE NEVER CLEANED IT UP. The fries and the oils literally sat in the oven for weeks over the summer and we ultimately had to just throw the tray out and buy a new one.
Wild times.
Definitely an idiot. The word is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote.
I vote you an idiot.
Yea
That was 6 yrs ago. Wonder how lil bro is doing 😂
Probs fucked up a bunch of other things, being scared to ask again!
If someone can’t find humor in their errors, life is going to be a lot harder for them. It’s not just about people learning and practicing being nice. You and I, the error making people, need to also do our part. K love you. Good bye.
Depends on the person :)
Doesn’t seem scared to ask, just to ask his mom, which could be valid, lol
Yeah, but after his dad tweeted his question to make fun of it publicly, he’s probably scared to ask him, too.
It’s his cousin, he probably went to him because he knew he’d just get roasted instead of getting yelled at
He’s probably drinking
Yep. Dad’s first reaction was grabbing a beer, and that shit runs in the family.
Hopefully got a pack of baking sheets from the supply house or Costco. Baking sheets, cutting boards, mixing bowls take up so much room but are universally useful.
I assume he’s doing great.
My mans was cooking his own food; realized (own his own) that his way of cooking was suboptimal; and then asked for help.
That approach is to life is going take him far.
To shreds you say…
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 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.
That’s great! I am impressed the bowls survived.
My younger one learned this lesson very dramatically when a glass measuring cup full of ramen blew up on the stovetop! No one got hurt, so it was a good lesson
I have to admit that no one ever said not to do that: it seems so fundamental. But even stuff that seems obvious have to be learned somehow
Even a pot shouldn’t be the first thing that comes to your mind. It should be an electric kettle. Or are you from the US where you can’t use electric kettles (efficiently) cos ur shitty electrical grid runs only on 120V and therefore it takes ages to boil the water lol
Good lord, that’s terrible advice. Absolutely a pot should be the first thing that comes to mind. Electric kettle? I guess your idea of “ramen” is just pot noodles?
Dude how much Ramen do u eat in go that requires a pot? Just put the ramen in a bowl, boil some water with the kettle (since it is much faster than boiling it in a pot, unless u live in the backward country named the US) and pour the boiling water into the bowl. Jeez, do I really have to tell u how to make ramen lol. Also, boiling water with the kettle means one less thing to clean afterwards.
Some of us have kettles , even in the benighted medieval dystopia of the US, but we think of ramen as food, not something where you just add hot water.
A kettle? What’s that?
I did try shooting my gun a whole bunch and cooking them with the heated up barrel
In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.
I’ve always been told the water from the hot water tap isn’t safe to drink due to bacterial and mineral buildup in the water heater. Not that I can drink my tap water where I live anyway (America!) but even when I lived with delicous well water I never drank the hot tap water.
I thinks it’s more lead )and other metal) accumulation but yeah ……
The first time I remember hearing a specific , not generic, concern was when legionnaires became A thing several decades ago. People were turning down their water temperature to save money. But legionnaires is more tolerant of heat than most other germs, so there’s a window of opportunity where the water is hot enough to kill off most diseases but cool enough to let legionnaires flourish.
Even today, you’re supposed to keep hot water at 120°F at the tap to prevent scalding but your water heater at 140°F to kill off legionnaires. Most people dont
Well yeah, but if u put it into a kettle and boil it, it should be fine, cos boiling kills the bacteria.
Do me a favor, fill 2 cups, one with tap hot water, one with cold. Let them go to room temperature and taste them. Hot has a taste, and it’s not great.
That’s crazy, I’ve never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can’t grow, and every source I’ve found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don’t have any lead pipes in our house, so I’m going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it’s being boiled again anyway.
Even without lead pipes, it may be worth testing ….
- what about all the pipes bringing water to your house?
- copper pipes used lead-based solder for many years, so can still leach lead into hot water
My reason for not putting hot water into the kettle is that I need to run the water for a bit to get it hot, and that takes longer than the few seconds I’d save
1: all the pipes leading to my house are out of my control and will be sending the same temperature and purity of water regardless of what temperature I set the tap to? The water goes into my house, to the hot water heater, to the tap. Or just into my house to the tap. Either way whatever is outside of that is outside of my control and the hot water heater can’t cause the water to retroactively absorb lead from pipes outside of my house.
And as for your second point. Running the kettle from cold takes like 4-5mins. Running the hot water to max temp takes 30 secs. Running the kettle with max temp water takes 1:30-2 mins. That’s still like a 50% time savings, for a 500ml load. I haven’t tried with larger amounts than that because I don’t need more than that, but I assume that the greater the volume of water, the more time it would take from cold.
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!
EDIT: had intended to reply to the parent post, sorry about that!
I also like draining them and scatter-frying with an egg and veggies, cheese, or whatever
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.
I am constantly cleaning my oven of blood and grease because damn German kids keep walking into my oven and the oven “accidentally” slamming shut and turning on.
Now, if you excuse me. Some fat German kid is trying to eat my wall.
If you don’t, it’s going to smell really bad in a few days. I suspect that’s what led him to start cleaning it regularly. That’s not something a 29 year old is prone to do without motivation. A nasty smell is good motivation.
If it’s carbonized then is sterile!!!
as someone who’s used to working with sterile machinery, let me tell you: a mass of carbonized organic matter can still harbor bacteria deep inside when it’s not FULLY carbonized, and release them when it breaks.
Well, not mentioning everything else it can release.
Advantage of being a vegetarian I guess. I don’t have to clean blood out of my oven.
I stayed with vegetarians a while ago. I’ve never seen an oven so vile and rancid. Turns out veggies are perfectly capable of turning an oven into a carbonized cesspool, no blood required.🤢
I think we’ve all been there when it comes to doing something or other at home in a way which turns out to be obvious stupid when pointed out, especially at the beginning.
Many of us were taught how to be a functional human being by our parents and/or guardians.
Parents never cover everything down to the smallest of details and even when they do the children themselves don’t remember everything.
For example, have you been taught how to remove, say, blood stains from clothing?
It’s the same effect as how one is taught something in a professional domain at School yet still has to learn quite a lot more when working at it professionally.
Mind you, this specific case can be “not remember a crucial detail of something you were taught”, but it can also be not at all being properly prepare by one’s parents and/or guardians to, as you say, be a functional human being.
have you been taught how to remove, say, blood stains from clothing?
Yes. Hydrogen peroxide works great but soaking fresh stains in cold water is a good way to start for delicate dyes. And I don’t even have a vagina.
More to the point, it’s not necessary to remember everything down the smallest detail if you have a foundational understanding of how things work. This isn’t rocket science, this is “squares have four sides”. Fat melts when it gets hot, contain it in something.
Yeah, I do admit this one specific case does fall into the “no real notion of how it works in general” level.
Surely after the first couple of times they should have figured out the whole dripping thing that “there must be an easier solution for this than cleaning the oven each time”
I can see how they’d get to the conclusion that they did, at least. I’m sure they saw the grills in the oven and thought that it was like an outdoor grill, and then never thought about it beyond that conclusion and assumed that everyone just had to deal with cleaning the gross oven mess every time.
Such an odd juxtaposition between recognizing the oven needed to be cleaned and not thinking of a way to prevent the mess lol.
Hope the young chef is still in the kitchen and better than ever.
Hope that one day he develops problem solving skills.
Every oven I think I’ve ever opened has always had like 8 mismatched trays in it, I think I assumed they just came with the oven.
Maybe the oven didn’t have a baking sheet so he didn’t think of it. Like for BBQ you cook directly on the grill
Yeah but even with barbecue you very often wrap it in something. I guess it’s possible to get to that point without learning about aluminum foil, but unlikely. In any case, a valuable lesson for him and we’ve all done dumb stuff and only realized after stopping to think about it for ten minutes so it’s not really that big a deal. Very funny though!
Yeah uh idk where you think these things are taught
I tried wrapping did in foil. The foil melted and then set fire.
Uh… Bro? I’ve used Tin Foil in 650 degree BBQs. I doubt you used foil.
Are you sure you didn’t confuse wax paper for parchment paper? Because it sounds like you tried to bake with wax paper.
The minimum ignition temperature of aluminum DUST is 750°C. That means your grill was at almost 1400°F. That’s enough to literally forge titanium.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957582019302769
https://www.weforging.com/forging-temperature-of-steel/
Sorry, but I do not believe you.
Aluminum has a melting point of 1,220°F (660°C). What brand oven were you using to achieve these temperatures?
A grill. Dynaglow 4 Burner
Rooster is full of cockamamie, or it was parchment paper.
Maybe they were those foil-coated sandwich wrapping papers?
Uhhh, pretty sure that aluminum isn’t flammable
Everything is flammable if you put enough heat in it.
Maybe they were baking in a fusion reactor and accidentally made plasma brownies
The foil melted and then set fire.
The fuck?
You wrap your food before putting on the BBQ?
Vegetables, baked potatoes, sometimes entire meals like chicken and shrimp you want to steam rather than fully cook on the grill
I wrap vegetables when I grill them.
It completely depends on the food, my point was that foil exists.
For example if you’re smoking a brisket you wrap it half way through.
Edit: to be clear I’m usually wrapping brisket in peach paper, but the knowledge still applies
wtf is peach paper?
peach paper
You’d probably call it “butcher paper”.
Special kind of butcher paper.
Kinda like that guy on Reddit who hated showers all his life until he moved in with his partner & observed them waiting for the water to get hot before getting in
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We had the option for home ec. Never took it. Took sex ed instead.
Sex ed was an elective? Huh, and here I thought schools either made it mandatory or outright forbid it. My school had us take it as a portion of phys ed class, just like we did for health class and preparing for the written driver’s test.
I could definitely be misremembering. I just remember not taking home ec while others were. But we had a non-optional sex ed class when I was younger, so it might have just been the year of school.
Back in middle school, 1hr a day for a semester. But you had to choose between home ec. and wood shop. Most people, even the girls, picked wood shop since it wasn’t much more than how to microwave & sew.
every year at my middle school. I think they had it split up like home ec for the first two semesters and health for the last two, or vice versa. It’s been a while, but I know we had a different main subject each year. like sixth grade was sewing and learning basic nutrition, seventh grade was basic cooking/cleaning/laundry, eighth grade a little more advanced cooking as we were trusted with more tools and techniques.
i also took another home ec style class as a senior in high school because… easy A and free food lol
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My school had a “multi-cultural day” every year where the kids taking foreign languages would bring in food from cultures that spoke them. We’d spend the period wandering through the language hallway, going classroom to classroom, eating all the free food we could handle.
I took it a step further my senior year. I took both French and Spanish for three years, so I knew most of the language teachers by then. They’re the only classes I actually gave a damn about, so my reputation was very good among them. When the multi-cultural day was coming up, I decided to ask my language teachers if they needed help with the event.
In exchange for helping set up and clean up each period, I got to spend the entire day out of class, trying food that every class period brought. I was even able to pull some strings and get my brother in on it, so we both got to enjoy an easy day of free food. It was amazing.
Sounds woke to me
I think we had it for about 3 months of a single grade in middle school, maybe once a week. We rolled out a ton of cookie dough in the shape of a pizza, put candy on top and called it cookie dough pizza, then said “To hell with learning how to cook” and spent the reminder of our time back in the classroom, sewing and stuffing fuzzy little American footballs. With all of two things done, one of which just required opening packaging and squishing the dough a bit, we had nothing else lined up for the rest of the year, and never did home ec again once we left for summer vacation. At peak boredom, towards the end of the school year, it became something of a game for the boys in the class to see how much of their fuzzy football they could sew to their hands before the teacher noticed and made them undo it.
In 10th grade, I was put into home ec for some reason. I think i need a credit or something. I was the only boy in the class and the teacher was also the sex ed teacher. I spent 1.5 hours 3 days a week listening to things like how to insert tampons, or makeup tips and hair care, or The Pill, or whatever things the teacher felt like that day. It was an awful class that almost always devolved into an extremely loud chatty room with all the girls just girl talking. We never cooked anything. Though to be fair, the teacher did talk about things like balancing checkbooks, healthy relationship dynamics and other normal things on occasion, but very rarely.
That sounds like an actually helpful class, albeit billed in an inauthentic way. On the plus side, you got to see a window into the world girls and women have. Some of us are never taught about any of those things, but we’re expected to just figure it out somehow.
Yeah, don’t get me wrong, the class itself was ok. It just wasn’t a home ec class. It should have been called something else.
I didn’t get home ec, but I had a life skills class. It was about half budgeting and half cooking. And it was actually shockingly in depth, I remember we made donuts and stromboli from scratch. But, each recipe you only got one of a few roles in so the person frying the donuts didn’t learn to make the dough, etc. While the recipes were good and cheap, they weren’t really the sort of everyday meals that would have been better.
Uni halls with international students who have zero real world skills, and are used to the staff/maid cooking for them. They started 3 fires and ruined so much food before giving up on using the kitchen altogether.
I had to go to the student housing council or whatever when I had an international student take the room in my on campus apartment mid year while I was in college. Dude didn’t speak English and my roommate and I were NOT paying for the damage some rich kid did because he couldn’t clean up the water from the toilet and sink. Also, who the fuck wants to constantly deal with standing water in your bathroom??
When I was at university one of my flatmates actually started a fire serious enough to require the emergency services to come and put it out. Somehow she managed to set a towel on fire because for some ungodly reason she put it in the microwave. Apparently the solution to a burning towel is to throw it out of a sixth floor window, where it landed in an apparently extremely flammable bush.
How does someone who can’t speak English, get a college degree that is as good as what a regular student gets?
Oh, yeah, they pay their tuition in cash.
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
Yeah this is a nice line of thinking but I disagree. Why would a kid pay attention before the food was ready. Even before the internet, we always found better things to do.
The bigger question is did the parents not involve their kids in the food preparation at any point? They should be part of it from a young age, helping to the extent they’re able, to start developing this knowledge.
I wrote above about my younger kid exploding a glass measuring cup on the stovetop, but that was because it was the first time we let him do it unsupervised after he had succeeded repeatedly with our help … I don’t remember how little he was at the time, whether that was middle school or before. The point was we involved him, he learned a few things, and still needed a dramatic lesson
Yeah we find better things to do, but 18 years is a long time to have never ever seen any part of the cooking process.
