So like I know certain things can’t be cooked on electric, but like I watch YouTube cooking videos and the guys with electric stoves just use like a small propane burner thing that goes on the kitchen counter to use like a wok or Moka Pot. I don’t know when people need 4 gas burners specifically, and I don’t think gas/electric matters for oven…. So shouldn’t that just be the end of the debate.

Like just buy one of the little gas stove things for those specific recipes, and then you won’t get cancer…..

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It literally is not cooking. Are you heating food? Sure. Is it edible? Yeah. Are you cooking? Fuck no, there is nothing about this process that resembles cooking and anybody mistaken enough to think that it counts should probably get the fuck out of a debate centered around cooking. All of the properties of cooking on a gas stove are lost on someone who thinks a microwave "is cooking"

        • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          The only kind of real cooking is in an oven filled with burning bog peat. Yes there are other ways to “heat” your “food”, but if it doesn’t have the pungent smoked taste of bog peat it isn’t real cooking.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            putting a bag of raw peanuts in my pocket and then an hour later asking people if they want some roasted peanuts

            • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              this is not a joke

              please try microwaving thin potato slices into potato chips

              it seems like there's no way to make a good chip in a radiation box but if you spritz them with oil and microwave them until they get a little color, then move them to a room temp plate and dust them with salt, baby you got some nice chips

        • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Are you cooking? Fuck no, there is nothing about this process that resembles cooking and anybody mistaken enough to think that it counts should probably get the fuck out of a debate centered around cooking.

          I beg to differ

    • cosecantphi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Isn't that highly dependent on what you're cooking? I've found it works great for baked sweet potatoes, much faster than an oven and nearly indistinguishable.

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        You're not going to get any sort of browning or crisping action, idk how you're cooking your potatoes in the oven but there should be noticeable differences unless you're basically steaming them in the oven