May '24 • 🗣️ Discussion
Cooking shouldn't be hard
I have been cooking (most of) my food for about 1 year now and I can confidently saw that it's easy.
But only if you allow yourself let it be easy.
When I started cooking eggs (years ago) I wanted them to be perfect.
I wanted the whites the be fully cooked through and the yellow to not leak and remain perfectly liquid-like. Because of this I wouldn't flip the egg and I just waited for the white to become fully cooked (so the top side as well). How did that work out? I burned every egg I made. I thought I sucked at cooking and felt stupid. Than I realized I can cook scramble egg as well. I could just stir the eggs in the pan so every part would cook (very) equally and there was no more worrying about the yellow leaking.
I still preferred the taste of normal cooked eggs but who cares, I saved my self so much effort and time by making eggs that way.
I was than that I realized that cooking can be easy. I won't be as fancy, but It can be easy.
I used to cook chicken as well sometimes. I'd go to the store and by myself 2 chicken legs with 2 chicken thighs attached (both bone in of course). I'd cook them when I came home and they would taste amazing (and it's carnivore), but there was only one problem. It take so fucking long to cook and it would unevenly because it didn't lay on the pan with all it's area (because of the shape of a chicken leg). So I'd take it out of the pan because it looked like the outside was going to burn, but whilst I ate it I always noticed the inside was still raw. I don't want to get sick and stuff so I put it back in the pan each time to still make sure it was fully cooked. The whole progress always took at least 1 hour and for me, that was waaaay to long. Eventually, I got pissed off at the fact that the way I cooked sucked and decide to do something about it. I would go to the store and just buy the boneless chicken thighs.
---------------[ Pro tip: buy chicken tights instead of breast, it's waaay juicier and cheap as well. ]--------------
It was a bit more expensive than the bone in chicken, but it was waaaay easier to cook (since it layed flat in the pan) saving me so much time. I felt like a real businessman, spending money to save time:)
But that create another problem, I didn't know how long to cook the chicken thighs. So what did I do? I just cut them in half to see if it was still raw. I started to notice that the chicken tights were often still raw on the inside when they were almost burned of the outside. That when I started to implement the, way I call, *scramble-egg-method*.
I would just cut the thighs in half and cook them from there on. Tossing the pan around like it was stir-fry. It might not be the prettiest way to cook chicken but who cares, you're the only one who looks at it. And besides that, it's gone in a few minutes after cooking so why even bother to make it look pretty.
As long as it was cooked enough and tasted actually good, I was happy.
I don't scramble my eggs anymore but I do flip them. It's almost as easy and it leaves less egg stain on the pan.
And till this day, I still cook my chicken but just chopping it up and acting like it's stir-fry.
It saves my so much time and it makes cooking a hundred times easier.
Moral of the story: Just make sure you cook your food all the way through (unless you don't want to because you're eating steak or sum). If the easiest way to do that is by chopping the thing in this piece or might that entire thing around, so be it.
No-one cares how it looks, only that it tastes decent and you don't get sick from your food not being cooked as the way through.
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Cooking shouldn't be hard
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