We all start from zero; help them; don’t make them feel embarrassed about trying.
No, some people are too stupid. This dude never paid a single damn attention at home, clearly, and there’s a decent chance he thinks his mom will talk forever with nothing important to say even though this kid needs weeks of intensive training on how to be a sorta functioning adult.
Some people need to be shamed.
Assuming this is even real, we don’t know their home life. They appear to be asking for help.
I would still help them, yes, but at that point the price they pay is getting made fun of, too.
I’ve lived with three roommates now, all friends first and after. The first is very neat, no issues there. The second is non-binary but raised as a dude and it shows up in being a bit of a mess and lost on a lot of things, and the current is also the same but is cis and straight. At our ages, it’s just not my responsibility to constantly be delicately training men, especially as I, myself, am a privileged straight man who is at least baseline functional.
Well, that was an info dump I didn’t necessarily need. Anyway, if a friend or family said they were going to publicly shame me for asking a question, I wouldn’t be the cook I am today. Fortunately I was allowed to make mistakes and given opportunities to learn.
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.
I was hanging out with a couple at their rent house they’d just gotten and was sitting with the girl in the living room after dinner and the guy came and sat down after finishing up cleaning in the kitchen. He said it was the first place he’d lived with a dishwasher and how nice it was going to be.
I ended up telling a story about how my Mom had used regular Pamolive dish soap in the dishwasher on 2 separate occasions, and the girl laughed. The guy was like “I don’t get it.”
I explained how regular dish soap will fill the entire kitchen with suds, and he was like “I’ll be right back” and dashed out of the room.
We went in there and the bubbles were just starting to escape the dishwasher.
Damn dude… Why go blasting that shit on the internet.
The funny thing is: The boomers, the silent generation and everyone before and after… they made mostly the same mistakes, but there was no internet around to chronicle their mishaps
And ppl wonder why the younger gens are terrified of doing anything fun or risky.
“Hey guys! I have a CRAZY idea! Let’s put meat on the grates in the oven!” - Fun loving people millennial and older
Right? You do stupid once and get publicly shamed.
My life is ruined! Everyone knows I’m the cousin of Henpecked Hal!
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.
What is the EC part?
Pretty sure we still do cooking and “how to operate a kitchen” classes here in northern Europe. In Denmark it’s “hjemkundskab” - basically “skills for homekeeping”
Finances not so much though, that should be a class on its own
Short for “home economics”
Is it just food stamp tactics?
Not sure what that means—but back in the day, girls took home ec (cooking, sewing, cleaning, etc.) while boys took shop (carpentry, machine repair).
It was just a hostile joke towards Americans, sorry.
Yea we have both for everyone, probably the most relevant skills to learn. Build a bird house, learn to cook, and patching up clothes. Real world skills
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.
And the S part of STEM is pretty important for actually understanding the issues facing voters (and our world)
And the T part of STEM is pretty important for actually functioning in the modern world of computing.
The M part of STEM is pretty important for taxes, finance and budgeting.
I’m not saying totally ignore STEM. But do 12th graders really need to know logarithms? Maybe take a few weeks to calculate your taxes instead and understand how tax brackets work.
Logarithms and exponentials were pretty important for understanding the pandemic. Understanding logarithms and exponentials is important for getting the behaviour of interest (which, if you want to use credit cards, is pretty key).
More generally, learning maths gives you the skill to be able to learn how to do all these key life things like budget etc… — it gets you numerically literate. Means when something comes up like (for example) scaremongering over vaccines, you know enough about maths and stats to interrogate the statement made and determine whether you believe the study. Just teaching the skills without their basis is flawed imo.
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.
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”.
Honestly, if you did this with the broiler, and put a pan on another oven rack under the meat to catch the drippings, it might work okay?
“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.
You guys got home ec? 😞
How’s he supposed to know if nobody every taught him?
“Common sense” is rarely all that common.
‘Common sense’ usually means ‘I was taught this young enough that i don’t remember learning it, and therefore treat the knowledge as instrinsic’
Like the only reason it’s Common Sense not to put metal in a toaster is because of warnings from others about it. It’s not like our species evolved al9ngside toasters.
A lot of kids out there are neglected and taught to obey instructions, but not why those instructions matter, what they do, or the comprehension needed to optimise them.
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.
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?
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.
Mom cooks while he games in his room
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?”
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
I just put cheese in it and then fry it in butter. But I’ve ween people butter the outsides.
This comment broke me
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.
