Were these people just eating fast food constantly and have just discovered how to cook for themselves for the first time in their lives? - ThreadSky

caseyexplosion.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Were these people just eating fast food constantly and have just discovered how to cook for themselves for the first time in their lives?

Reposted from Elle

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

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fluffy-snake.bsky.social•1 day ago

happens more often that you'd think

catgirlthyme.indieanthro.com•1 day ago

Uniquely american problem and solution

poparena.bsky.social•1 day ago

*shrug* Whatever gets them there, I guess.

vehkposting.bsky.social•1 day ago

My Maryland born n' raised ass just like "Yeah it's water based cooking" as I crack a natty boh and start picking crabs.

greggangreggan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probably, or if they're american it's probably deep-fried.

stygiansk0nk.bsky.social•1 day ago

More likely than you think!

kaitave.bsky.social•1 day ago

Short answer: a lot of them probably, yes
Longer answer: beyond food deserts, a big impediment to learning to cook in the US is a mix of "no home ec in school" but also "both parents have to work full time now" which means one parent isn't being the homemaker anymore, which also cuts off an avenue

kaitave.bsky.social•1 day ago

I had a longer thread on this back on twitter before it went to shit, but a really big part of what's up with the US and cooking really is just "nobody has time to do this, teach it, or learn how to do it," and nobody wants to do trial-and-error learning when food costs so much

kaitave.bsky.social•1 day ago

There is nothing more discouraging than spending a bunch of money on groceries and whoops, it turned out bad, so now you have to eat botched food. All the tricks that you could have been taught to salvage it? The people who used to teach that are busy with work, sorry

rowyourbot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are boiled hot dogs ‘water based’?

spikeghost.bsky.social•1 day ago

I could go for a nice vegetables soup right now

casualanarchist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probably. Like unironically. Is this one of the pros of inflation?

sufficientowls.bsky.social•1 day ago

All signs point to yes

anticivbayarea.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is what happens when people are completely removed from a food supply chain.

tcrowley.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sweet merciful Raptor Christ... the influencer normies are so broke that they're turning to soup?

Tik-Tok boot leather recipes are prolly en route. Lotsa dandelion tea and roasted acorns.

Everybody buckle-up 🥴

kennedytcooper.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, 100%

fauxmorian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I... What?!

Even if you've boiled ramen noodles before this shouldn't be a surprise

gachapantv.bsky.social•1 day ago

personally viewing this as an intentional troll on social media, like the people who were mixing cocktails in toilets on tiktok. They're going Mac mode and playing both sides so they come out on top - wellness rubes will fall for the messaging while everyone else engages with the bait

sirfox.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mmmmmmmmaybe?

captainnopaints.bsky.social•1 day ago

Water based cooking is a pathway to many abilities, some consider to be.. unnatural (coddle).

yellowmothvt.vtubers.social•1 day ago

Honestly, probably. We don't really teach any actual life skills in schools anymore so you have to learn all of that on your own.

ctrlaltcookie.com•1 day ago

i'm pretty sure yeah that's how a lot of people have been living

tubazef.com•1 day ago

It's actually very likely that this is the case

pyrosshade.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looks like that's exactly it.

p0ph3r3t1c.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly? It's entirely possible...

There're places in the US that are such vast food deserts that it wouldn't be surprising to have individuals or families who live almost entirely off fast food, microwave meals, or whatever is sold at the local convenience store.

sudenveri.bsky.social•1 day ago

Even among higher SES bands, Home Ec classes were gone by the early 2000s, and Zoomers were raised by X'ers, a.k.a. the Latchkey Kid Generation. Boomers just straight up failing multiple generations of knowledge transmission.

p0ph3r3t1c.bsky.social•1 day ago

The bitter selfishness and entitlement of the "Greatest Generation" certainly didn't help, given most Boomers seemed to inherit it tenfold.

gotherinefoxx.bsky.social•1 day ago

..... I hate it here

zoroark.ca•1 day ago

"if it works for paint, maybe it works for vegetables, too?"

emilylorange.bsky.social•1 day ago

if someone says "water based cooking" i'm going to assume they mean this horrific thing

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/43IQDUuguVk

pyrosshade.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love dylan, hate the pie.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here. Get an oven tray, drizzle some olive oil on it. Now get some carrots, celery, red pepper, onion, garlic, all chopped up into nice chunks, season with salt and pepper, and roast them until they pick up a little bit of colour and some char on the bottom of the tray. Now get a stock pot out.

londonflowergirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Me sending this post to my food chat so I can try to make it later even tho I'm sus of all veg

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Transfer your roasted vegetables to the pot, but here's the trick. Pour a little water onto the still hot tray, and with a wooden spoon very gentle scrape any char or stuck burned bits, that's all flavour baybee, and I'll go into the pot with the rest of your veg, then fill it up with more water.

mpjohnson.bsky.social•1 day ago

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now you're gonna boil your vegetables until they're soft and at this point you're gonna add some parsley and thyme, dried is fine don't worry about it, and a little pinch of MSG (this is something you should always have in your kitchen, it's not bad for you and is a great and versatile seasoning)

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

When everything's nice and well cooked, get an immersion blender and blend until as smooth or chunky as you like, and there you go. You have made a very simple and inexpensive, but very tasty roasted vegetable soup.

The hardest part of this is peeling the carrots. 👍

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

In fact, just looking through my old photos, here's some I made before. It's very easy and will taste good.

pirate-steve.bsky.social•1 day ago

Masterful water-based cooking 👍

andylunique.bsky.social•1 day ago

I stand by this method and note it also makes killer sauce in a pinch

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

I used tomato paste in that recipe, really helps deepening those roasty flavours

alicehuzar.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder if they think it'll stop being water cooking if you puree it.

"On the left: healthy water cooking. On the right: unhealthy soup."

zoestorm.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hot take: you don't even need to peel the carrots, as long as you wash the outside carefully and make sure to remove all the dirt. (Which you should be doing anyway.)

Soup is super easy. I love soup. I'm a soup fan.

Soup.

nuggettebunbun.bsky.social•1 day ago

If your feeling naughty a good drizzle of honey at the roasting stage goes a long way >3>

melcodriggs.bsky.social•1 day ago

"I'll go into the pot with the rest of your veg"

gee thats nice of you to make sure peoples cookin is goin right

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for this, I didn't even notice it until you pointing it out.

stryc9fuego.bsky.social•1 day ago

now *that's* how you point out a typo! friggin' adorable li'l casey in a cook pot.

mxwinifred.bsky.social•1 day ago

YES! This is the way

stryc9fuego.bsky.social•1 day ago

C'mon, Casey. These people just discovered "boiling". It's gonna be a while before they're ready for the concept of "fond".

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Look, if it helps anyone learn to cook? I'm happy

sapphicscythe.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people might actually perish if you told them to add the charred bits in

greyganado.bsky.social•1 day ago

I usually stop right here and eat that.

eerookah.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah but I guarantee the people who just 'discovered' 'water-based' cooking are going to see Oil and be like 'you CANNNNN'T'

saturn0000.bsky.social•1 day ago

those "seed oils bad" weirdos often dont consider olive oil one for...some reason (you throw the whole olive including the pit in the machine )

eerookah.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was thinking more the more generic health nut who thinks putting any fats into your food is unnecessary and unhealthy

felixbloodaxe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hmu if you ever open a restaurant

liesandxander.bsky.social•1 day ago

Roast carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, red onion, white onion, garlic, red yellow and orange peppers, tomatoes, some mixed herbs, a butt-load of paprika, blend that up and serve with brown soda bread and a healthy smear of butter or cream cheese.

theotherspeakman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think these are magical thinkers promoting the alternative medicine of "clean eating" which, when pressed about it, they will say it cures cancer.

possiblecabbage.bsky.social•1 day ago

Next they're going to discover air based cooking where they put things in the oven.

lilactransform.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the case for some of the guys.

shoehead.itch.io•1 day ago

These lads need a good stew in them

u-n-i-t.bsky.social•1 day ago

Home cooking and normal recipes is truly becoming a lost art. I say this as someone who didn't learn to cook while younger and am now learning how to as an adult.

lilachysteria.bsky.social•1 day ago

i hate this kind of wellness wank because there is physically no way vegetable soup would be a cure-all for you unless you were literally eating like a garbage disposal before. like zero vegetables LMAO.

gaminesquegambit.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm just hoping they stopped trying to say you can *fry* things with water instead of oil because I cannot imagine how many frying pans got destroyed from that

gaminesquegambit.bsky.social•1 day ago

that said yeah I'm terrified at the implications of someone somehow not knowing how Soup Works

daknifecrow.bsky.social•1 day ago

could've shopped here & saved time https://youtu.be/BTQcvDQb6LQ?si=8UW_0EqMD4km3koe

drlous.bsky.social•1 day ago

And they've 'discovered' soup? Amazing....

dartzirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Too damned tired to do anything but slamm frozen thing into oven and weight 20 minutes.

dragcrab.bsky.social•1 day ago

...I would not be surprised Casey. Then again im fresh off a Daily Show Maga Youngsters video. "We dont agree with what Andrew Tate has done...buuuuut...." America is fucked.

gojirra.bsky.social•1 day ago

How much do you want to bet this shit leads into some right wing radicalization pipeline... They are going to create more incels by re-labeling soup aren't they...

twinscales.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sadly doesn't surprise me. I teach and the number of people, young may they be, that literally don't know how to cook even the simplest of things is shocking.

And yes actually, their families literally eat mostly fast food

schmuckers.bsky.social•1 day ago

if theyre using the water instead of oil....i bet theyre straining it afterwords to get rid of all the cooking water

pyrosshade.bsky.social•1 day ago

This hurts to imagine. Not just for what it is, but for the knowledge that it likely would happen.

hooliet.bsky.social•1 day ago

As someone who only learned to cook properly in the last few years, yes. It's really easy to live on frozen and canned foods, especially if you're just cooking for yourself. You don't know the difference in taste and cost if nobody ever taught you.

squeakmoans.bsky.social•1 day ago

recreating soup from first principles

exiledviolet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Going back to boiling everything because food safety regulations were gutted and you can't fry anything without getting sick from E.coli or listeria.

coffeenoodles.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are severely overestimating the average person's ability to cook 🥲 (at least in the US).

alopexdog.bsky.social•1 day ago

POV you started breathing in an infusion of pure organic nitrogen and oxygen and now you're no longer rapidly losing colour in your face, you don't feel like you're going to pass out all the time and your brain is no longer oxygen starved. Feeling blessed xx 😌

arachnovolt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly, that's probably the truth. Like, unless it's taught in school or your family teaches you, a lot of people never learn how to cook unless they choose to learn themselves out of necessity or casual interest.

arachnovolt.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will say one thing about cooking. To anyone who struggles with cooking (be it due to time, money, or not having the spoons to do it), invest in a slow cooker. I've got one and it's the single most used appliance in my house. You can get meals for days with little effort and low cost.

de-snoot.bsky.social•1 day ago

soup moment

leeham.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very possibly, although I don't blame them for not being taught. It's rough out there

screwedjoan.bsky.social•1 day ago

it really sounds like i am exaggerating but i am not when i am saying yes that is how a staggering amount of people live their lives in america. they’ll live entirely on tv dinners and mcdonalds and then have one homecooked meal and act like they have discovered true alchemy

jwodesigns.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people are also finding out that eating vegetables will make your poops not come out painfully.

xonlic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think so...
I mean, yay?

jainusvt.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm begging that the people saying "water based" are joking.

jainusvt.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know I'm asking "influencers" *shudders* to be ironic.

That's what this world has come to

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