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[lmaonade]

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

[lmaonade]

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

[eroticcannibal]

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

[loumandliker]

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille's basics but especially:

making rice

making scrambled eggs

making oatmeal

levels of cooking meat

using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

cooking techniques playlist

how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

freezer meals,

weeknight meals,

kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &

kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

j. kenji lopez-alt (various)

marion's kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)

maangchi (korean)

future neighbor (mostly korean)

the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have "specialty" ingredients)

family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)

not another cooking show (various)

cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)

you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)

how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)

internet shaquille (various)

babish culinary universe (various)

i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

[what-even-is-thiss]

You suck at cooking got me started with learning how to cook for one. I already knew how to cook but most of the stuff I knew related to cooking for three or more people. He’s got a lot on there about snacks and sandwiches and stuff. Even after you already know how to cook there’s always more to learn.

[pocketss]

I went through a mimic phase a while back :D

[achillesinhighheels]

[analog-delight]

*in the fantasy rpg character creator making a tired, middle-aged woman* yeah i'll add a scar across her eye, i'm not driving

[soberscientistlife]

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

[headspace-hotel]

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

[headspace-hotel]

People hardly ever change their minds in front of you...the conversation becomes one of a series of slow drips that builds up to a realization

[chaaistheanswer]

On duty 🫡

[mon3trs]

stop calling my loyal second in command a mid boss already. she has raised an army of the dead in my name to defend this tower there’s nothing mid about her

[dakeus-art]

I've always loved drawing swamps and water lillies

And ladies covered in blood

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[mysticalblizzardcolor]

70s Sci-Fi Art

Extended Edition: Sea Life out of Water

Here's the last entry that failed to make it into my art book Worlds Beyond Time. I hoped to get four images in this spread, but I couldn't

[70sscifiart]

If you liked my art book, you should sign up for my weekly art blog newsletter! You get stuff like this old post where I include a two-page spread that I cut out of the book.

[dndmultiverse]

they think everything they do is for the greater good so everything is justified except they often do unjustifiable things completely irrelevant to the greater good

[mysharona1987]

[moniquill]

Hot take: we should also not be torturing incarcerated people with disgusting-on-purpose food, because they are human beings.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Online superhero communities would have RANCID discourse.

"Is dating non-supers without disclosing your secret identity allowed?"

"Monetizing superhero activity is sellout shit, work a day job"

"If you prioritize flipping burgers over stopping a crisis for RENT you don't get to claim the hero label"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Guy who has been superheroing for three weeks and does not have enhanced senses: "I do not give a SHIT if you're 'burned out' or 'suffering panic attacks daily', if you CHOOSE to wear noise cancelling headphones just to avoid hearing about crises you could stop with your powers, you're no better than the villains. You hear about a fire, you fly over and stop it, no ifs or buts, I don't care what your therapist says."

[tpwrtrmnky]

Hero who's got PTSD from losing one of her closest friends: Please, please, PLEASE, if you're unpowered and trying to do hero work, be careful! Do NOT take unnecessary risks, do NOT expect to survive hits your empowered friends do, wear ALL the safety equipment you can.

Teenager who's literally invulnerable: Erm, gatekeeping much?

[kaiju-kueen]

There's a YouTuber named Lidnsay Nikole that I love, and she has a short little series where she goes and gets a tattoo of a prehistoric animal she likes. During the session, she'll talk about the animal she's getting a tattoo of.

This has made me wanna get a tattoo of an Acrocanthosaurus skull on my thigh.

Look at him...perfection.

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

[aquilegiaformosa]

it’s becoming clearer that “being fat makes you diabetic” is actually misapplied observation and like, backwards cause and effect. insulin resistance is the main factor in type 2 diabetes. it was thought being fat made you insulin resistant. turns out it’s the other way round; insulin resistance causes the body to store fat at a greater rate. like yes, once the weight is gained it can then contribute more to resistance and things can snowball, but the initiating factor is not being fat.

[x-i-l-verify]

#type 1 is caused by no insulin production type 2 is caused by insulin resistance #and what causes the resistance or pancreatic damage is often uncertain #absolutely poor diet and lack of exercise can EXACERBATE EXISTING TYPE 2 DIABETES #but eating carbs and eating sugar will not give you diabetes; neither t1 or t2 #also keto is a fucking scam and a lie and puts people in the hospital on a regular basis

[the-perks-of-neurodivergency]

Also worth mentioning how hard it is to find good advice around healthy eating or exercise because almost all of the information available assumes your goal is to lose weight. So you'll find a hundred articles for how you can reduce calories, but nothing about how you can eat more vegetables while managing a budget and still feeling satiated. Because professionals assume your goal is to lose weight, not to feel better in your body. It's so incredibly frustrating.

[hemipelagicdredger]

repeating just because people need to hear this:

You don't GET Type 2 diabetes from being fat. Type 2 diabetes MAKES YOU put on fat. We had the causality backward

[jabberwockypie]

Also the lack of exercise equipment rated for larger people to use it safely, as well as how much harder it is to find adaptive information on how to do some exercises as a larger person.

[bathroomcube]

this guy is smoking an evil blood cart

[xx-emowarz-xx]

I think the marketing failure around Jennifer's Body is an enormous part of what makes it such a brilliant master class film. You market this film with these male gazey shots of the current Hollywood sex symbol, you make it seem like a pseudo lesbian soft core porno, you then bring all these men who just want to goon to Megan Fox into the theatre. You sit them down. They're ready to watch the extended cut of her scene in bad boys. And instead you subject them to what rape feels like for women. You force these misogynistic straight men who came to the theater to get their rocks off to watch Megan Fox get shoved into the back of a van, taken to a remote location, and ritualistically sacrificed in a way where any idiot can tell it's a metaphor for sexual assault but which no one would find sexy, and then you make them watch her go to her best friend's house and throw up black bile all over the place. You make her gross and unsexy and in pain. And then you make it gay for real in a way that straight men have a hard time comprehending let alone fetishizing.

If you're a capitalist it's a terrible marketing decision but if you're a feminist and a troll it's the most brilliant move anyone has ever made.

[igottatho]

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