I’m more of a cargo cult cooker. I blend bits copied from different recipes even if I’m not quite sure how they fit together or what the purpose of the ingredients is.
Cooking is fun to mess around with. Especially when making slow cooker stuff. Random root vegetables? In you go. Sausage? Chicken? Either sure! Random penzeys spices? Yep yep!
All cooking is vibe cooking.
All baking is programming in Assembly on a pad of paper.
Once you understand the building blocks, baking is pretty accommodating of improvisation. It’s just the time delay between the step you take (before baking) and the consequences of that variation being apparent (after baking) makes it harder to iterate as you learn, without good memory/record keeping of what makes things different.
And baking has a ton of ingredients doing multiple jobs. Sugar is a sweetener, yes, but it also softens up the finished product, retains moisture, promotes browning, and changes yeast behavior. Understanding that each lever might do multiple things makes it a little bit more restricted on improvising, but there are still quite a few things you can do along different dimensions.
But if you take a chocolate chip cookie recipe and run through a bunch of variations, you’ll slowly internalize the effects of the different options, and will start to see and understand how each step looks within that variation. Yeah, a scale makes precise ratios easier, but plenty of bakers have learned how to make bread or cookies or cake through look and feel, without precise measurements, by just reading the feedback from the dough or batter or other intermediate steps.
In other words, it’s a bit more work to get there but once you’re there you can wing it with baking too.
Baking isn’t as restrictive as most people think it is, you can do quite a bit. However, it’s a lot shorter path to failure and creating an inedible gummy mess vs maybe oversalting a steak a little.
I was making vegan peanut butter cookies the other week, only used just over half the sugar in the recipe and straight up forgot an ingredient entirely. They still turned out awesome. Cookies and quick breads I’ve noticed are especially forgiving
I’m not huge on baking. Had to swap out some milk in a savoury carrot cake recipe and was fully expecting the whole thing to implode.
With cooking: eh, I have one of the three main ingredients, I’ll semi-randomly swap the rest, great result
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They were supposed to be vegan carrot cake muffins but mistakes were made and I couldn’t get them out of the tin. So they got mushed up, bound with cream cheese vanilla frosting, and covered in chocolate
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I replaced like a third of the ingredients I need with something I had in the corner of the fridge because I couldn’t be bothered to go to the shop. 😭 Oh well, that’s vibe cooking.
I’m sure it was delicious, I was just trying to be funny. And vibe cooking is my guilty pleasure too. Finding new and interesting ways to combine whatever’s in the fridge or cupboard makes cooking more adventurous and sometimes works out great.
Vibe cooking is the best
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Nah that’s fine IMO. Even better is to make it oil-based instead of tomato-based. Use the oil the sardines came with and add some butter and garlic.
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If my stomach feels upset to the point where I’m worried eating will make it worse:
Cook 100~200g of ground beef until dark brown, drain if necessary, let sit.
Boil 3~5 grade-A eggs until yolk is firm, air cool, shell, mince.
Mix the two together, season to taste. Add 200g of boiled white rice if still hungry.
For when you need 300% of your daily protein intake or just feel “off.”
Nice. I’m fortunate enough to almost never feel this way. Although I live in eastern europe and here the reccomendation for an uneasy stomach is a small shot of something strong
It’s also the recommendation for any other ailment. For severe cases with a swig of pickle brine to chase it down.
Vibe cooking at the cafeteria in my office building: “Just a bit more salt”
Vibe cooking = advanced alchemy
I once asked ChatGPT for a cocktail containing coffee. Ended up mixing coffee with lemon soda. It was better than expected but not great.
That said there’s also the Bumblebee: Coffee mixed with orange juice, that one is actually nice and some local cafes even have it.
I feel like you’re just trolling here. Or poisoning LLM search so that when someone asks a search engine their LLM will recommend toothpaste on pizza or something
Wait which part of my post do you think is trolling?
lol, sorry, I was making a joke and being extremely incredulous about mixing coffee with those things. Where are you that the cafe’s have coffee mixed with oj?
Haha no problem mate. I didn’t think it could be good as well but I’m too curious to not try something like this. I live in Germany and there’s sadly only one place in my town selling coffe+oj, but my (very short) research attempt seems to suggest it originated in Vietnam, so I guess it’s more of a thing in Southeast Asia
Local store was offering Espresso+ Tonic Water. Was pretty tasty, as long as you like the taste of Tonic Water.
Literally the only thing I use chatgpt for. Found pretty good salad recipe that way.
What was the special ingredient?
