@heartny Its what the capable, self reliant types do to prepare their own meals properly and confirm there’s no hair, rat droppings, or preparer’s bodily fluids in or on the finished product.
Dunno about @communist but I’ve heard enough stories about new yawkers in a bad storm or power outage who ony have a three year old bottle of ketchup and a couple beers in the fridge because they normally go out for the food lottery for the chance to eat food prepared with hair, rat droppings, and bodily fluids all the time.
In my answer I interpreted “cook” as actually cooking, not reheating. So most of that happens on the stovetop. Though occasionally I get all grandma-on-the-prairie and reheat something in the oven, most reheating happens in front of a 7-foot-square fresnel lens I had the groundskeeping crew install on the southern lawns, atop the bluff overlooking the sturgeon run.
I mean…the microwave. (seriously though, reheating in the oven is fun and nostalgic. and fresnel lenses are terrifying.)
@mehcuda67@UncleVinny It’s not the lens you should be afraid of, it’s that scary glowing ball of fire in the sky. The lens merely concentrates its rays of death and destruction, revealing its true nature.
I have had my Air Fryer for 3 days. I’m basically Mr Stewart now. This must be what early adopters of the microwave felt like. Life before air fryer was basically the stone age.
@duodec Oh, when I have to do proper searing for a steak or something, I bust out the cast iron. But for daily cooking of something like a chicken breast or a pork chop, unless I have a specific application in mind, I throw it on the ol’ Foreman Gril.
Although the cultlike following that’s sprung up around the Instant Pot weirds me out a little, I gotta say it’s pretty sweet to be able to make a week’s worth of dinner in like 20 minutes. 45 if I do Mississippi pot roast.
The ability to make a single serving of chocolate lava cake from scratch any time I want it is kind of dangerous though…
I use a combination of instant pots, sous vide, standard stove top, nuwave oven, and Delonghi “Multicooker” air fryer thing. The Delonghi is nice because it has a paddle that stirs things for me and a burner on the bottom, so I can cook some things in there that I’d normally cook on the stove top.
We really love our Panasonic Flash Xpress radiant oven - like a supercharged toaster oven
It’s probably best for reheating, but works great for fries, pizza, chicken tenders & wings, etc.
Breville convection oven.
@cinoclav I lovelovelove my Breville convection oven.
@therealjrn Seriously one of my top 3 purchases.
@cinoclav @therealjrn I agree. Mine is a nice apple red.
In my kitchen, we call that square thing an oven.
What is this word “cook” you speak of?
@heartny its what normies who cant afford to eat out do at home to not die of starvation
@communist @heartny
/giphy cheers norm
@communist @heartny for the record, all of the giphy clips of Norm from Cheers are terrible.
@communist Eat a salad. No cooking required.
@heartny Its what the capable, self reliant types do to prepare their own meals properly and confirm there’s no hair, rat droppings, or preparer’s bodily fluids in or on the finished product.
Dunno about @communist but I’ve heard enough stories about new yawkers in a bad storm or power outage who ony have a three year old bottle of ketchup and a couple beers in the fridge because they normally go out for the food lottery for the chance to eat food prepared with hair, rat droppings, and bodily fluids all the time.
Over the sink, by holding them until they thaw.
…in a convention toaster oven, or the stovetop, depending on the dish.
I eat at professional kitchens, otherwise know as restaurants. They do not allow my cook on or in any surface, for good reason.
In my answer I interpreted “cook” as actually cooking, not reheating. So most of that happens on the stovetop. Though occasionally I get all grandma-on-the-prairie and reheat something in the oven, most reheating happens in front of a 7-foot-square fresnel lens I had the groundskeeping crew install on the southern lawns, atop the bluff overlooking the sturgeon run.
I mean…the microwave. (seriously though, reheating in the oven is fun and nostalgic. and fresnel lenses are terrifying.)
@UncleVinny Mmmm. That’s good Fresnel lens!
@UncleVinny But seriously, I have a “little” 4 foot wide Fresnel lens, repurposed from an ancient rear-projection TV. And it is terrifying.
@mehcuda67 @UncleVinny It’s not the lens you should be afraid of, it’s that scary glowing ball of fire in the sky. The lens merely concentrates its rays of death and destruction, revealing its true nature.
@awk @mehcuda67 you raise a deep philosophical issue, friend, one that I’ll have a position paper drawn up on shortly.
In a chem lab
Is ‘my wife’ an inappropriate answer?
I have had my Air Fryer for 3 days. I’m basically Mr Stewart now. This must be what early adopters of the microwave felt like. Life before air fryer was basically the stone age.
@dalekjoe I have been told I have to get one of these.
@PocketBrain Yes, you are living in the stone age.
I’m about 2/3rds stovetop, 1/3rd toaster oven.
@moondrake Ditto
@moondrake You are a very strange looking person.
Oh, wait! You meant that your cooking is done mostly on a stovetop, some in a toaster oven! That really changes the picture in my head.
Cave man style, with fire…
and beer (cave men had beer, right?)
@2many2no Totally. But the growlers were harder to deal with.
On the grill.
like many, possibly even most people in my area, i eat mostly food provided by the office.
… in the kitchen.
Have you not heard of the cooking device aka as “to go?”
Ranked:
On the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Free Grilling Machine
@sanspoint We had and used one for years. Gave it up only because it just could not reach good searing temps.
@duodec Oh, when I have to do proper searing for a steak or something, I bust out the cast iron. But for daily cooking of something like a chicken breast or a pork chop, unless I have a specific application in mind, I throw it on the ol’ Foreman Gril.
In the shower!
Kramer cooking
SMOKER! SMOKER! SMOKER! SMOKER!
@Al_Coholic HOA says no. HOA sucks. Smokers rule.
@duodec Wow, I didn’t know an HOA could restrict something like that. That’s really lame.
On the phone.
Although the cultlike following that’s sprung up around the Instant Pot weirds me out a little, I gotta say it’s pretty sweet to be able to make a week’s worth of dinner in like 20 minutes. 45 if I do Mississippi pot roast.
The ability to make a single serving of chocolate lava cake from scratch any time I want it is kind of dangerous though…
@AlexBeefgnaw wait what? Chocolate lava cake atany hour? Go on…
I use a combination of instant pots, sous vide, standard stove top, nuwave oven, and Delonghi “Multicooker” air fryer thing. The Delonghi is nice because it has a paddle that stirs things for me and a burner on the bottom, so I can cook some things in there that I’d normally cook on the stove top.
We really love our Panasonic Flash Xpress radiant oven - like a supercharged toaster oven
It’s probably best for reheating, but works great for fries, pizza, chicken tenders & wings, etc.