I just grab whatever random spices I have that sound good and add a few shakes
All cooking is vibes based.
It’s baking where you’ve got to plan it out like d-day.
Considering the majority of flavours we experience are in fact smells, if you can cook by your nose you’re usually pretty safe on how the end result will come out.
I’m not a foodie nor a chef but I’ve been able to break apart and reproduce restaurant dishes just by smelling.
Either of the “as directed” users are just cowards with no taste buds.
“Measure carefully, friends!” - Chef Jean Pierre on YouTube as he yeets in approximately random eyeballed quantities of everything.
I don’t even measure my spices. Pure vibe. Mostly because recipes almost always feel like they don’t use enough of anything but salt.
Why yes, I do put a little cayenne pepper in my chicken soup. Why do you ask?
If it doesn’t clear my sinuses completely how is it supposed to cure me? Of course it needs cayenne.
Cayenne goes on everything
That’s Frank’s
Isn’t this normal?
Only for advanced pros
It’s funny that smelling the spices and the food as I cook it to see if they’ll go well together is my main method of figuring out which spices to use.
Powdered spices specially, by the time you open the lid, you have already smelled it.
Don’t even need to try.
“Can you share the recipe?”
“Nope!”
“Seriously?”
“Seriously, I don’t remember.”
for me it’s easy because i mostly remember what i just made. but that’s also because i pay special attention to what i do and what comes out afterwards, kinda to do semi-structured research.
Some people would definitely not remember all the details, but yeah, this might not be an issue for others.
…that’s pretty much my improvisational style, everything eyeballed, nothing measured: sometimes things turn out amazing but of course the cost of those happy surprises is that i’ll never make it the same way again; couldn’t if i tried…
…i dated a girl who dogmatically followed published recipes, considered any deviations anathema to the authors’ labor developing them, and she was horrified to watch me cook…
🔥🔥 people who don’t use spice 🔥🔥
I use salt and pepper, how could you say my food is bland?
Maybe you just have good and fresh ingredients. Don’t want to cover up the flavour of those, you want to just enhance them
i think that’s called Britain
You should come over and try my vibes based Cottage Pie. It’s subtlety spicy, meaty (or veggie depending on dietary preferences), full of flavour. Every time I have cooked it for people I have always gotten back compliments, clean plates and guests in a glorious food coma.
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…
Don’t get high on your own supply
Rationing
People who use the same spice for every dish.
I probably put herbes de Provence in too many things, but I like how it tastes.
Black bunny gang
If you aren’t cooking by vibe, are you really living?
Baking on the other hand…
Baking by vibe takes some work, and you should practice recipes by the letter before trying it, but it can be fun. It’s more so knowing the impact of what you’re adding.
Spices, for instance, can be added by vibe to some recipes. Flour, on the other hand, should be weighed out and a firm knowledge of ratio to fat rather then vibes.
My wife says that everything I cook smells the same. Yeah baby I know what I like.
So like cooking, if you are making a recipe of something new it’s important to follow the recipe to know how it tastes then next time you know what to tweak to make it taste more like what you like
I had to bake by vibes one time because I started a recipe then realized I didn’t have eggs and the friend the cake was for is lactose intolerant. Used a can of coconut milk. Turned into brownies instead of chocolate cake, but they were good enough that I’ve been intentionally making them since.
With a deep enough knowledge of how baking works, it can be done. My sister improvises baked goods very well. The sad thing is that when one turns out amazing instead of just good, she can’t replicate it because she doesn’t know the recipe. I’m particularly sad I’ll never again have the amazing butter rum pound cake she made for her daughter’s birthday last year. She tried to make it again later, but it just wasn’t the same. :(
Powerful eldritch knowledge tends to come at a terrible price.
It requires more precision, sure, but there are absolutely bakers who can taste a dough and tweak the water/flour/oil etc. ratios to get the perfect bread.
It’s only different from other kinds of cooking because most people haven’t developed those senses. If you knew what you were doing, you could bake from scratch without a recipe easily and go by “vibes” (i.e. based on sensory input).
Baking is chemistry, cooking is jazz.
I have a Master’s Degree in chemistry, I can’t bake for shit. Cooking, on the other hand, I excel.
Baking is actually ranching.
Yeast is closer to the animal kingdom than the plant kingdom. It’s a living organism you need to feed so it will grow your food. You need to make it comfortable and give it an environment to thrive and then kill it when it’s the yummiest.
Man, now I love making bread even more.
It’s biochemistry
You can still get jazzy with it tho once you understand tha chemistry well enough.
Jazzy Chemistry sounds like the title of a textbook that is attempting to be more attractive to students.
Saxophone with little molecules floating up out of the horn end like notes, lol
Is this an adhd meme?
Not really it’s a “able to cook” meme
