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Eponine posted:People who make a big deal about "when I cook" kind of mystify me. What do you eat the nights that you don't Instagram your food? Are you the person in front of me at the grocery store with a cart full of Lean Cuisines? I will cop to having instagrammed a meal or two when I'm especially proud of something. But I also cook dinner pretty much every night. I'm pretty sure this guy's mum still cooks his meals.
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Sleeveless posted:The US military shares all of the food technology they develop for MREs with the private sector so that if we ever go to war they'll already be equipped to start churning them out for the war effort, and as a result a lot of processed food is now made with military technology; if you've ever made macaroni and cheese with a powdered cheese mix or put freeze-dried coffee in a mug of hot water then you're basically one step removed from actual military rations. FetusSlapper posted:Is that being cooked in a subwoofer?  Pie pans are a pretty normal home for cornbread after all.
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Nov 4, 2015 14:24
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Eponine posted:People who make a big deal about "when I cook" kind of mystify me. What do you eat the nights that you don't Instagram your food? Are you the person in front of me at the grocery store with a cart full of Lean Cuisines? I will cop to having instagrammed a meal or two when I'm especially proud of something. But I also cook dinner pretty much every night. Yeah to me, "when I cook" is every night I'm not at a restaurant. I even make pizza and wings instead of ordering. Cooking is anything from getting a chicken thigh and some veggies hot in a pan to making a fancy multi-course ethnic mealstravaganza.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:43
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chitoryu12 posted:I've got a record this year of eating international military rations. So far I've eaten every American ration available (including the freeze dried MCW and LRP rations that you never see anywhere), British, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and currently Russian. Just about all of them turn out looking like anti-food porn, but they vary widely in taste and amenities. As much as soldiers make fun of American MREs, they're easily some of the best in terms of taste and texture. Lithuanian MRE clones are likewise pretty nice and even have some quality Lithuanian chocolate. Just thinking about the Chili Con Carne LRPR (Long Range Patrol Ration) gives me cold sweats (and memories of acute gastric distress). The rest of the LRPRs are really really good though. I lived on those things for weeks at a time when on MTTs.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:56
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Just thinking about the Chili Con Carne LRPR (Long Range Patrol Ration) gives me cold sweats (and memories of acute gastric distress). The rest of the LRPRs are really really good though. I lived on those things for weeks at a time when on MTTs. The MCW and LRP ration entrees are basically Mountain House stuff as far as I can see, just like how the normal MRE rations are basically normal American canned food in a flexible pouch instead of a can.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:20
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Eponine posted:People who make a big deal about "when I cook" kind of mystify me. What do you eat the nights that you don't Instagram your food? Are you the person in front of me at the grocery store with a cart full of Lean Cuisines? I will cop to having instagrammed a meal or two when I'm especially proud of something. But I also cook dinner pretty much every night. Also there's no loving way they bother to cut and "fan" out avocado because its not a restaurant where then need to justify the 500% mark-up with cheap visual tricks. A "bitches better get at my level" meal for me is fresh chicken baked or diced up and pan fried, fresh veg diced up and cooked in a bit of oil, and rice (spices and sauces too in whatever ratio I want). It's at most $4/a massive portion size and 20 minutes of effort at most. The most complex skill involved is being able to quickly dice bell peppers or crush up raw garlic.
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Nov 4, 2015 18:27
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Eponine posted:People who make a big deal about "when I cook" kind of mystify me. What do you eat the nights that you don't Instagram your food? Are you the person in front of me at the grocery store with a cart full of Lean Cuisines? I will cop to having instagrammed a meal or two when I'm especially proud of something. But I also cook dinner pretty much every night. some people get way up their own asses when they start learning to cook. like they become so arrogant and condescending its loving unreal. its hilarious when the person doing it doesnt even know how to cook, and really sad when they do because they should know better
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Nov 4, 2015 19:19
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pentyne posted:Also there's no loving way they bother to cut and "fan" out avocado because its not a restaurant where then need to justify the 500% mark-up with cheap visual tricks. I do that sort of thing (lines of sauce, pretty arrangement of things, etc.) when I cook for my daughter, because it's fun. 
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Nov 4, 2015 19:21
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Cooking is surprisingly not a common skill. I think people get excited because they'll go most of their adult lives, confounded by the process. I was common-law married pretty much right after moving out with my dad (who was a good cook), to in with my spouse (who was an AMAZING cook), so I found myself later, at 26, unable to boil an egg. You better believe I took some ugly rear end pictures and showed them to people. I don't think I got too arrogant about it though as I am aware that all my meals look like vomit. Colourful vomit, though.
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Nov 4, 2015 19:34
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Okay, I've made an overly saucy Beef Panang before and used some peanut butter in it, and I kinda know what they're going for here...but good lord you need some curry paste at the very least 
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Nov 4, 2015 20:00
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Minarchist posted:Okay, I've made an overly saucy Beef Panang before and used some peanut butter in it, and I kinda know what they're going for here...but good lord you need some curry paste at the very least Nah just use the flavour packet from the ramen bag. Totally would. Like I think I know what I want for lunch now.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:07
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Cooking difficulty also varies depending on exactly what you're doing. It's really easy to brown hamburger or some inexpensive steaks in a frying pan (many a day in high school I just browned some beef, chopped it up, and put it over rice with soy sauce). Then I tried to cook mako and it cooks through totally differently and requires much more care.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:11
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chitoryu12 posted:The MCW and LRP ration entrees are basically Mountain House stuff as far as I can see, just like how the normal MRE rations are basically normal American canned food in a flexible pouch instead of a can. MRE's are not normal US canned food. The MRE is actually dietetically balanced a lot differently in terms of protein and fat than your typical canned spaghetti for example. A LRPR runs between 2500 and 3000 calories. The way you were supposed to eat them (or at least the way we ate them) was boil the water in the morning, rehydrate the main course, eat a third of it, seal the rest in the polybag with a bungie, and tuck it in your cargo pocket. During the rest of the day you'd chow on it as you marched or did whatever.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:MRE's are not normal US canned food. The MRE is actually dietetically balanced a lot differently in terms of protein and fat than your typical canned spaghetti for example. A LRPR runs between 2500 and 3000 calories. The way you were supposed to eat them (or at least the way we ate them) was boil the water in the morning, rehydrate the main course, eat a third of it, seal the rest in the polybag with a bungie, and tuck it in your cargo pocket. During the rest of the day you'd chow on it as you marched or did whatever. Which seems like way, way more science behind it than a lot of the other military food I know about. In fact, MREs are unique among the selection I've eaten by using fairly minimal commercial items (even the stuff that's identical to commercial products generally has unique MRE packaging and is made on contract for the military). Ukrainian and Russian rations appear to almost exclusively use commercial canned food, and Ukrainian rations in particular don't really have "menus"; they just hurl whatever's in stock and matches the requirements into the bag. Other people who have bought and eaten them have found totally different components in virtually identical packaging with no numbered menus or anything like that.
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chitoryu12 posted:Which seems like way, way more science behind it than a lot of the other military food I know about. In fact, MREs are unique among the selection I've eaten by using fairly minimal commercial items (even the stuff that's identical to commercial products generally has unique MRE packaging and is made on contract for the military). Ukrainian and Russian rations appear to almost exclusively use commercial canned food, and Ukrainian rations in particular don't really have "menus"; they just hurl whatever's in stock and matches the requirements into the bag. Other people who have bought and eaten them have found totally different components in virtually identical packaging with no numbered menus or anything like that. Russian rations are some of the foulest stuff I've ever eaten.
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cash crab posted:Cooking is surprisingly not a common skill. I think people get excited because they'll go most of their adult lives, confounded by the process. I was common-law married pretty much right after moving out with my dad (who was a good cook), to in with my spouse (who was an AMAZING cook), so I found myself later, at 26, unable to boil an egg. You better believe I took some ugly rear end pictures and showed them to people. I don't think I got too arrogant about it though as I am aware that all my meals look like vomit. Colourful vomit, though. Cooking for me is so just perfunctory. So story: I made like a totally not "authentic" but still delicious curry dish for my friend and her boyfriend a few years ago when I stayed at their place for a few nights. Her boyfriend does the big meal, fancy cooking. She makes pasta sometimes and puts sauce on it. They eat a lot at the local tacqueria. Anyways, I made this meal in probably about 40 minutes all told. They were both at work/class so they came home to a hot meal and asked me for the recipe. A few weeks later I get a text from my friend expressing how she totally didn't realize how much effort I had put into that curry. Her boyfriend was making it and he'd been in the kitchen for 3 hours. I literally don't know how it takes that long, but I think he was chopping up each individual vegetable and cooking it separately. I can't imagine being in the kitchen for three hours. I would want to shove my own head inside the oven. I like cooking, but I like eating it more.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Russian rations are some of the foulest stuff I've ever eaten. I'm currently on a Russian one (very hard to get for a reasonable price due to shipping) and I've eaten both variations of the Ukrainian. Ukrainian rations are basically identical to the Russian in terms of food quality, but with even fewer items and amenities in them. The plastic spoons packaged with them are so flimsy that they're liable to break trying to dig into your can of kasha.
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Interesting. I'm considering adding Ukraine rations into the latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod and having it hurt your health pool or something.
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Eponine posted:A few weeks later I get a text from my friend expressing how she totally didn't realize how much effort I had put into that curry. Her boyfriend was making it and he'd been in the kitchen for 3 hours. I literally don't know how it takes that long, but I think he was chopping up each individual vegetable and cooking it separately. I can't imagine being in the kitchen for three hours. I would want to shove my own head inside the oven. I like cooking, but I like eating it more. I have friends like this. I go to their place for dinner and it takes them hours to make something reasonably simple that would probably take me 20-30 minutes. I appreciate them cooking for me but most of the time it's so frustrating watching them bumble around I just want to take over and get it done. Content: "Tried to copy a recipe I saw on reddit but I think I converted the amounts wrong" 
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I can't stop laughing at this for some reason. edit: figured it out. It's because they still put the powdered sugar on it.
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Going to someone's house for dinner and they start doing prep when you arrive. My wife and I used to have a friend that would do this. We'd go to her house and she'd start cutting vegetables, cutting meat, making dough etc. Was she just sitting there waiting for us to arrive before that? I like to have everything as close to done as possible when people show up. Cook as many parts as can be pre-cooked, pre-cut everything. And for the love of god, don't make dough right before you make a pizza, it'll probably just taste like flour.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:14
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cyberia posted:
It looks like a sea sponge on a bed of frozen strawberries.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:19
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MariusLecter posted:Interesting. "You're positive it's a meatloaf made with flesh eyes" "It bulges ominously" "Mfg Date: 1992"
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For those interested in the MRE experience, this guy's youtube channel is pretty nice: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUTBxBxmMMY2bUJqYITJxw I've watched a lot of his installments, and they're weirdly mesmerizing.
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Eponine posted:Cooking for me is so just perfunctory. So story: Now I'm curious what the recipe was.
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MariusLecter posted:Interesting. I think I actually will make a military ration tasting thread in GWS to try and consolidate all of the information I've acquired over my time buying them.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Now I'm curious what the recipe was.
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chitoryu12 posted:I think I actually will make a military ration tasting thread in GWS to try and consolidate all of the information I've acquired over my time buying them. PM a link to it if you do, plz 
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cash crab posted:
GENTLEMEN...BEHOLD!! 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Now I'm curious what the recipe was. Marinated chickpeas, sweet potato, cauliflower, lentils/chicken, with yogurt curry sauce over basmati. From what it sounded like, he whited the chicken, removed the chicken from the pan and started cutting up the onions. Cooked the onions, turned off the stove and started cutting up the sweet potato. Cooked the sweet potato and the onions, turned off the stove and started cutting the cauliflower up. Then he looked up how much of the stalk of cauliflower you actually use for eating. Then he remembered that it was supposed to be roasted cauliflower, so he cut it up and started the oven, decided that was unnecessary and browned it in a separate pan. Then took the (thankfully already cooked because I specified that in the recipe) marinated chickpeas and put them in the pan with the rest of the pre-cooked ingredients and started to make the curry sauce, but didn't turn on the stove because he knew that the spices needed to be heated with the vegetables. At this point he also realized that he needed to cook the rice, so without anything actually cooking, he started on the rice. Luckily that was in a rice cooker, so he could individually add the precooked bowls of everything while the stove was on to then let it cook for another 45 some minutes because he didn't want to break the yogurt/cream on the curry sauce. This was all conveyed to me via text and I was cracking up about it. I'm glad I wasn't there because I would have screamed at the inefficiency of it. I pace the kitchen when my girlfriend cooks though so I'm not exactly a joy to have in the kitchen.
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MariusLecter posted:PM a link to it if you do, plz I'll probably post the link in this thread so everyone can check it out. Military rations vary in taste, but all of them look like anti-food porn.
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cash crab posted:
Ahhh, good 'ol Northern. It seems no matter how much time I spend up north food prices still make me wince. I will never forget the first time I picked up lunch in Inuvik and paid more for an apple than a can of Coke. Wrapping gifts in store flyers for family south is always fun, when I ask about the gift they always want to talk about the $20 cheese on sale. Anyway, this stupid stuffed burger dog has be all over my Facebook, and every one seems to agree that it looks "amaze-balls" but I'm not so certain. 
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Way too much cheese going on there. Also ketchup on hot dogs, even burger ones 
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pentyne posted:Also there's no loving way they bother to cut and "fan" out avocado because its not a restaurant where then need to justify the 500% mark-up with cheap visual tricks. Yeah when I cook at home it might taste like restaurant fare but it sure as hell ain't gonna look like it. I will admit to taking plated and properly garnished pictures of things I make to send to hungry friends. Then I dump it back into my pot and eat it with a spoon AnonSpore has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Minarchist posted:Way too much cheese going on there. Also  That said though, that stuffed burger dog sounds good, but the cheese in that picture looks disturbingly like speedway nacho cheese. Which is unappetizing in the best of circumstances.
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A Collection of Ideal Combinations Sushi Parfait  Poutine Bacon Pie  Ramen Fries
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diabeetz posted:A Collection of Ideal Combinations I am 100% certain that you have the wrong thread.
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Animated Nerd posted:Ahhh, good 'ol Northern. It seems no matter how much time I spend up north food prices still make me wince. I will never forget the first time I picked up lunch in Inuvik and paid more for an apple than a can of Coke. Wrapping gifts in store flyers for family south is always fun, when I ask about the gift they always want to talk about the $20 cheese on sale. To be fair, I would also want to discuss $20 cheese. And yes, that looks like 7-11 nacho cheese in that. Subjunctive posted:I am 100% certain that you have the wrong thread. 
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That bacon crust looks really unappetizing. If whoever had baked that pie had made an actual crust (or covered the bacon with it) I'd eat the hell out of it.
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