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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's the only way to season food. If you're good enough, you can just imagine the flavors, but I still have to rummage the spice cabinet and sniff to get the dish to taste just right.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Critical is that HOW you learn this is trial and error.

Most people can imagine the result of combining two images, say a frog riding a turtle. We can imagine what a handful of wet spaghetti might sound like being dropped onto the hood of a car. We can imagine what a fluffy bunny that's been rolling in sand might feel like.

But that isn't just because those senses are somehow intrinsically better for synthesis and prediction. We just got a ton more practice with them. As kids we got to draw, we got to play with toys, we touched everything, we bashed all kinds of stuff together.

But most of us, we just got the food prepared for us with no awareness of the properties of the constituent ingredients.

You gotta act like a toddler in the kitchen to grow that part of your brain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I binge watched a lot of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares (the UK) one

The best tip ever given on those shows is Gordon Ramsay yelling “taste taste taste!” at everyone.

Tasting as you go is what improved my cooking the most. I also vigorously smell everything too.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I cook by vibe mostly because I don't have the items the recipe calls for. So I typically substitute whatever I have that I think fits or smells right. Works well 9/10, just when someone asks me what I used to make something, I have no fucking clue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You guys don't cook by smell?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I just follow my family’s habit , add reasonable amount

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Either of the “as directed” users are just cowards with no taste buds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

According to the label? I just checked most of it (GV, McCormick) has no info whatsoever.

The exceptions are spice mixes (rotisserie chicken, old bay) and a single expired bottle of Durkee celery seed (maybe their other spices are like this, but afaik this is the only one we have).

Best I can do is try different spices when sautéing vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

🔥🔥 people who don't use spice 🔥🔥

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i think that's called Britain

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which is insane, how do you pillage most of the planet looking for spices to sell people and then have the blandest food in the world...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Don't get high on your own supply

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

me sniffing the spice of the coca plant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Powdered spices specially, by the time you open the lid, you have already smelled it.

Don't even need to try.

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