And ppl wonder why the younger gens are terrified of doing anything fun or risky.
They need to bring back home ec.
Basic cooking, nutrition and finance. How taxes work, voting, credit, bills and even dealing with cops (be respectful, no sudden movements, know your rights, shut the fuck up).
How to adult for kids who don’t get taught at home.
Agreed. School focuses too much on stem. It should be there to prepare you for life. Go to Uni if you want to advance in stem.
School should also teach other basics like taxes, finance and budgeting.
To be fair to him, if you’ve never specifically cooked meat in an oven I can see how you’d think “grill -> like barbecue -> place directly on grill”.
Did this guy never watch anything being cooked ever?!?! A broiler pan is basically what he’s doing but with a pan underneath. Isn’t it just common sense to put something underneath it?!? It’s a wonder he didn’t burn his apt down. This has got to be fake …
But who knows. I know people that dumb.
The amount of photos i have seen of frozen pizzas 'melting’ through the oven racks when people cook without a tray makes me beleive 100% this is real.
In fairness, the instructions for a lot of frozen pizzas say to do exactly that.
How’s he supposed to know if nobody every taught him?
“Common sense” is rarely all that common.
I operate strange new machines all the time. There’s usually some kind of instructions or video. Never activate the device without trying to figure it out first, you won’t even know what sort of personal protective equipment to wear.
You’re not wrong. But dang some things seem kinda obvious.
You guys got home ec? 😞
“I wonder what this flat sheet of metal that fits perfectly into my oven is for”
That’s a cookie sheet. It’s for cookies. Duh.
I had to do a double take at ‘blood’. I thought, my god, what manner of cooking is he doing? Does he pick doves out of the air and cook them without bleeding them?
No. He just thinks what comes out when you cook meat is blood. He would think that though… given the rest of the conversation.
My sister once had a roommate who asked her what goes into a grilled cheese sandwich. She said just two pieces of bread and a slice of cheese. A few minutes later she found the roommate in the kitchen staring at a plain cheese sandwich on a plate. “Something wrong?” she asked. Roommate replied (I shit you not), “How is this supposed to melt the cheese?”
Also forgot the mayo
I just put cheese in it and then fry it in butter. But I’ve ween people butter the outsides.
This comment broke me
Ew
Mayo has eggs, oil, and vinegar in it. As it breaks down while cooking the vinegar cooks off, the eggs french-ify the bread, and the oil fries the eggs onto the bread as it turns into toast. It works wonders for sandwiches cooking in a pan.
Lol shows what you know. Do you also cook right on the oven rack?
Did their parents always take them out to eat or order food, because, more than not taking home ec, they would have had to be completely blind to any cooking going on in the house their whole lifetime?
Mom cooks while he games in his room
I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Looking back that’s incredibly stupid but my thought at the time was, “I got to put the noodles in something, how about a bowl?”
So I’d put the noodles in a bowl (glass or porcelin or whatever they’re made out of these days), pour water in, put it on the stove
Lucky the bowl never exploded on me
Why a pot wasn’t the first thing that came to my mind I’ll never know… Weirdly, I don’t know when I realized I was being stupid. Just one day I was like, “I should put my noodles in a pot”
I use cook my ramen noodles in the bowl I would eat them out of
Seems pretty normal, just pour the kettle into the bowl…
stove
Oh, oh no…
Depending on the ramen this works in the microwave, as long as the bowl is microwave safe.
However, I’ve gotten into ramen that you drain (chopsticks work great to help drain, no colander needed!) after cooking so I’ve had to be slightly less lazy. Plus I can microwave the frozen veggies on a paper plate while the ramen’s cooking on the stove. Then eat it from the saucepan!
EDIT: had intended to reply to the parent post, sorry about that!
I also like draining them and scatter-frying with an egg and veggies, cheese, or whatever
I would eat out of the pot instead. Now Im refined and I microwave the bowl of water to heat it up, once its close to boiling, drop the noodles in and put a lid on it to lock in the steam. Wait 5 minutes and were good to go.
Even a pot shouldn’t be the first thing that comes to your mind. It should be an electric kettle. Or are you from the US where you can’t use electric kettles (efficiently) cos ur shitty electrical grid runs only on 120V and therefore it takes ages to boil the water lol
Good lord, that’s terrible advice. Absolutely a pot should be the first thing that comes to mind. Electric kettle? I guess your idea of “ramen” is just pot noodles?
A kettle? What’s that?
I did try shooting my gun a whole bunch and cooking them with the heated up barrel
In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.
I’ve always been told the water from the hot water tap isn’t safe to drink due to bacterial and mineral buildup in the water heater. Not that I can drink my tap water where I live anyway (America!) but even when I lived with delicous well water I never drank the hot tap water.
That’s crazy, I’ve never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can’t grow, and every source I’ve found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don’t have any lead pipes in our house, so I’m going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it’s being boiled again anyway.
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That’s great! I am impressed the bowls survived.
My sister once decided to make chocolate mousse by melting several bars of chocolate in the microwave and then putting all the molten chocolate in the fridge. Thus creating one gigantic piece of bowl-shaped chocolate block. Apparently recipes have more than one ingredient, who knew?
If you whip it up as it’s cooling, I can see how that would turn into something mousse-like.
I baked most things on a baking sheet or just a sheet of aluminum foil.
Except pizza. Pizza I just put right on the rack because that’s the only way to get the crust crispy. But even this horrified my wife.
I don’t know if homemade pizza is any different, but I get very nice crispy crusts with a tray. Store-bought frozen pizza goes directly on the rack here only because they don’t fit on my trays.
If youre talking about frozen pizzas, many of them to tell you to put it right in the rack.
That’s how you’re supposed to cook pizza if you don’t have a perforated pizza pan or a pizza stone. No one wants a soggybottompizza. Well some people might and they are psychopaths
There are pizza trays you can use for the oven. They’re pretty cheap too.
At least he recognized that he should clean the blood and grease every time. I’ve seen plenty of ovens that suggest that their owner would not be as diligent.
I am constantly cleaning my oven of blood and grease because damn German kids keep walking into my oven and the oven “accidentally” slamming shut and turning on.
Now, if you excuse me. Some fat German kid is trying to eat my wall.
Don’t make him run, he’s full of chocolate!
If it’s carbonized then is sterile!!!
If you don’t, it’s going to smell really bad in a few days. I suspect that’s what led him to start cleaning it regularly. That’s not something a 20 year old is prone to do without motivation. A nasty smell is good motivation.
Advantage of being a vegetarian I guess. I don’t have to clean blood out of my oven.
I stayed with vegetarians a while ago. I’ve never seen an oven so vile and rancid. Turns out veggies are perfectly capable of turning an oven into a carbonized cesspool, no blood required.🤢
I think we’ve all been there when it comes to doing something or other at home in a way which turns out to be obvious stupid when pointed out, especially at the beginning.
Many of us were taught how to be a functional human being by our parents and/or guardians.
Parents never cover everything down to the smallest of details and even when they do the children themselves don’t remember everything.
For example, have you been taught how to remove, say, blood stains from clothing?
It’s the same effect as how one is taught something in a professional domain at School yet still has to learn quite a lot more when working at it professionally.
Mind you, this specific case can be “not remember a crucial detail of something you were taught”, but it can also be not at all being properly prepare by one’s parents and/or guardians to, as you say, be a functional human being.
have you been taught how to remove, say, blood stains from clothing?
Yes. Hydrogen peroxide works great but soaking fresh stains in cold water is a good way to start for delicate dyes. And I don’t even have a vagina.
More to the point, it’s not necessary to remember everything down the smallest detail if you have a foundational understanding of how things work. This isn’t rocket science, this is “squares have four sides”. Fat melts when it gets hot, contain it in something.
Yeah, I do admit this one specific case does fall into the “no real notion of how it works in general” level.
Surely after the first couple of times they should have figured out the whole dripping thing that “there must be an easier solution for this than cleaning the oven each time”
I can see how they’d get to the conclusion that they did, at least. I’m sure they saw the grills in the oven and thought that it was like an outdoor grill, and then never thought about it beyond that conclusion and assumed that everyone just had to deal with cleaning the gross oven mess every time.
