Fake: man, how do you even eat a pumpkin?
Gay: me, and also I’m a lesbian that can’t cook so I don’t fucking know
I’m a chef so I have professional knowledge on this subject. Gordon is powerful enough to convert any red blooded lesbian into a pumpkin eater.
Fake and gay: pumpkin
The only pumpkin eating I know about is from the US and a lot of the stuff they eat should be illegal to consume.
I find it soooo weird that people say cooking is a womans job (it should just be who ever likes cooking job), but in most parts of the world, men are dominantly the people who do the cooking in professional and home environments. I love cooking and my partner loves the chemistry of baking, else we would just have a cabinet of craft dinners and ramen (not that we dont have those on hand).
Just about all prejudice is just manufactured cultural pressure. There’s no base in reality or rationality, it’s just “people told me this often enough that now I believe it.” It easily shifts from culture to culture because different people said different baseless things that became “common knowledge” in that region.
the idea of gendered jobs is just some old ass shit. You wanna cook clean and be the one who get drunk at the bar and starts fights, do it, I mean not around me because you sound like a mess, but you dont need tits or a dick to preform most things in life.
or it’s just something you have encountered your entire life.
other than professional cooking classes I’ve taken for my own interest, I’ve never known a guy who cooks other than grilling outside. Women like it when I grill outside for them too.
But if I cook inside? It’s all very bizarre and suspicious and uncomfortable. It’s not ‘natural’.
We’re saying the same thing. People say the kitchen is for women, so people think it’s weird for a man to be in the kitchen, so men stay out of the kitchen. Doesn’t make it any more logical, it’s just an old tradition based on bad takes from people long dead.
i’ve never dated a woman my entire life who didn’t look down on me for cooking. even if she herself couldn’t cook.
cultural beliefs are everything to many folks.
to them cooking and cleaning is for lower class people, if it’s not women it should be hired help who are immigrants.
That’s fascinating! I’m in America and most women seem to like that I (male) do the cooking. Do you mind me asking what culture you’re a part of here?
progressive liberal democratic voting boston. Boston is political liberal but socially conservative.
women here are 2025 in the streets, but 1955 in the sheets.
What the heck? I cook because I’m better at it (like, much better) and my husband cleans; but my mom & dad cooked about equally when I was growing up (and they were literally from the 1950s) my ex-brother outlaw was a chef, actually taught his wife to cook well, now they are about equal; my ex went from below zero to good cook while we were together (and back again according to my kids) I can’t even begin to imagine thinking it unmanly to know how to feed yourself. It is to me unmanly to be like a kid and expect your lady partner to take care of everything at home, yuck.
that is super fucked up, like no matter the amount of money I have made even when I had people in the house that could cook for me, I was still like no let me cook for me and my partner.
It’s just another epic sexism moment. Cooking lame garden-variety “food to not die” crap at home to feed the family? That’s a woman’s job. Doing good, skillful cooking that has intrinsic merit of its own, cooking that deserves money? Oh okay, now men should be doing it. 🙃
This even happens with home cooking, at least it did in my town. The moms cook every night, but when a DAD is grilling some STEAK (ironically a much simpler dish to make), suddenly that’s a special event.
I have seen a lot of that too, where its he grills and she does the inside cooking.
My mom didn’t start to learn how to cook till she was in her 40s and that was like a hobby.
I prefer Gordon Ramsey’s content outside of the US better because he is often less angry for angriness sake, and often because someone is doing something that will get someone sick or hurt. To me, that is what healthy anger looks like. An alert system that drives you to make changes and demand changes of others for the benefit and safety of everyone.
That probably isn’t worded the best, and I am no philosopher or psychiatrist, but it is a worldview that has been healthy and helpful for me.
100%. The kitchen nightmares UK version was way way way better because it wasn’t overproduced and dramaed up, it was focused on the food and the restaurant which is way more interesting to me than a bunch of idiots yelling at each other.
Nah that’s spot on. He gets angry to see stupid shit and he isn’t afraid to let people know because it does have consequences. Don’t be a donkey and he’s sound as fuck, I reckon.
But of course good TV means they’ll put quite the muppets on his path, for drama.
Nah, he’s often in for the drama, knowing drama sells. Often over the top, not authentic.
I make my scrambled eggs the way he does
I, too, yell, “Fuck off, you donkey” at the egg carton until the eggs come out.
The secret trick is to scramble them.
His voice demonstrating that on TV is always on my mind when making scrambled eggs.
Never stop stirring. Never stop! NEVER STOP!
Angry?
If you’re not getting your knickers in a twist, are you really cooking?
And how is that?
Good amount of butter in a warm pan, crack in 3 eggs, don’t bother to whisk them. Just fuck them about with the spatula directly in the pan to scramble them. Keep them moving, keep stirring and scraping, moderate the heat by taking the pan off the burner. When they start to come together, add 1/4 cup of cream or sour cream, continue bothering the eggs until the consistency is how you like it. I like them fairly moist, but firm enough to stand up in a pile. Season, put over toast.
I like Worcestershire sauce and Apricot jam on my scramble eggs, I know that sounds treasonous but it’s good
I mean generally the secret to making anything good is to make it 20-60% butter and then add heavy cream.
the things you can get away with when you have socialized healthcare
Just avoid sugar and you’re fine
That’s a dessert, not a meal.
Don’t tell me how to live my life
My mom is from North England, so that’s just how all our meals are. Auntie Elizabeth always said “butter makes everything better”
“butter makes everything better”
I originally read this as “butter makes everything butter”
Including margarine
The whole thing sounds treasonous.
Eh, I make eggs following Ramsay’s general directions. His recipe is more for creamy scrambled. I just use a little less butter and cream. The eggs still come out fluffy, light and more creamy than normal. Like greentext, I have received several complements on how they turn out. Except I don’t put jam on them.
I dump them in a measuring beaker with melted butter and microwave for two 60 second stretches, whisking in between with a fork 😁 So fancy
I like Worcestershire sauce and Apricot jam on my scramble eggs, I know that sounds treasonous but it’s good
I can see that working out. Worcester sauce has a lot of salt, which helps with enhancing the flavor of other ingredients. I personally pre-scramble my eggs with cream, salt, & pepper and they turn out best when I have a good amount of salt included
I always make my grilled cheese sandwich the way he does
+1
I saw that video at least 10 years ago and can’t bring myself to do it any other way.
Fake: eggs you eat where you can’t identify the yolk.
Gay: adding creme fraiche to anything, or even having it in your fridge
Look, it might be fake, but these stories annoy me because the way people are treated by their family influences their behaviour. “For once my family isn’t angry with me” - the same story everywhere. NEETs idn’t stand a chance
fake - annon’s family is definitely still disappointed in them
gay - doing things for other people
Gay: anon likes Gordon Ramsay
Double Gay: anon cooks
Fake: anon’s family isn’t angry or disappointed
It’s a cycle that both sides contribute to. This system is shit, some people step up anyways, some avoid it, most people do some combination of the two, but the ones that choose 100% escapism burden those around them because someone still needs to finance their basic needs, which takes an emotional toll. And any excuse about how hard it is is even more frustrating because it’s not like it’s easy for the ones they complain about it to, yet they are doing it for themselves and the NEET, but they (often) don’t even want to keep trying for themselves.
Or even if it is incompetence and they aren’t capable, a) it’s impossible to know if that’s even true or if it’s malicious compliance and b) still frustrating when a lot of it is still pretty basic, since there’s jobs at all levels where the main thing you need to do to succeed is just show up on time (or even just close for some of them).
Not to mention that it’s often combined with an aggressively entitled attitude and/or lying about what they are doing in ways that can blow up in the face of whoever ends up being financially responsible for them.
And ultimately, between someone who has earned the NEET label and their family supporting them, the only one that can really fix the situation is the NEET. All the therapy and support in the world won’t matter if they don’t want to improve, but if they decide to truly try to get their shit together and not just excuse their way out of even attempting or sticking with it the moment it gets hard, they can also make progress on their own.
Not saying it’s easy, but that’s the whole point and the reason why families can get so frustrated with NEETs, as well as knowing that the rest of the world isn’t going to care about them like they do and if anything happens to the caregivers, the NEET could end up homeless or dead but they sit around like mommy or daddy will take care of them forever.
aaw. I hope that this greentext in particular was real.
Pumpkin soup fucking slaps!
I found the recipe! Might try my hand at it, it’s Autumn here and the recipe looks good. (I might end using butternut squash instead though.)
When I try my hand I always end with nut on my squash too.
Plausible green text 👍
I remember when Jamie Oliver first started his Naked Chef series in the UK. He was getting a load of hate from guys because their girlfriends/wives expected them to do their share of cooking. They used to shout at him in the street.
There was an entire Jamie Oliver hate site and forum. Good times.
Studio Ramsay bots astroturfing 4chan is the 21st century we wanted.
