It’s funny that smelling the spices and the food as I cook it to see if they’ll go well together is my main method of figuring out which spices to use.
“Measure carefully, friends!” - Chef Jean Pierre on YouTube as he yeets in approximately random eyeballed quantities of everything.
Black bunny gang
Why yes, I do put a little cayenne pepper in my chicken soup. Why do you ask?
If it doesn’t clear my sinuses completely how is it supposed to cure me? Of course it needs cayenne.
Cayenne goes on everything
That’s Frank’s
Powdered spices specially, by the time you open the lid, you have already smelled it.
Don’t even need to try.
Isn’t this normal?
Only for advanced pros
Is this an adhd meme?
Not really it’s a “able to cook” meme
“Can you share the recipe?”
“Nope!”
“Seriously?”
“Seriously, I don’t remember.”
for me it’s easy because i mostly remember what i just made. but that’s also because i pay special attention to what i do and what comes out afterwards, kinda to do semi-structured research.
Some people would definitely not remember all the details, but yeah, this might not be an issue for others.
…that’s pretty much my improvisational style, everything eyeballed, nothing measured: sometimes things turn out amazing but of course the cost of those happy surprises is that i’ll never make it the same way again; couldn’t if i tried…
…i dated a girl who dogmatically followed published recipes, considered any deviations anathema to the authors’ labor developing them, and she was horrified to watch me cook…
Can anyone explain what’s going on in the picture for me?
I cook by vibe mostly because I don’t have the items the recipe calls for. So I typically substitute whatever I have that I think fits or smells right. Works well 9/10, just when someone asks me what I used to make something, I have no fucking clue.
I just grab whatever random spices I have that sound good and add a few shakes
me sniffing the spice of the coca plant
You guys don’t cook by smell?
My chef yells at me because I do this all the time.
Though he’s mainly mad because I didn’t measure a single fuckin thing and can’t recreate it
If your chef has a nose and taste buds he should be able to figure it out by remaking it a few times.
It’s not that he can’t recreate it, it’s that my coworkers can’t.
That sounds like you are making yourself indispensable.
can’t recreate it
This is the main downside IMO
also, if you do write down the recipe and try to recreate it on another day, it doesn’t work because your mood has changed and now the flavor doesn’t match anymore.
has happened to me many times now.
