I’m sorry but biscuit is clearly a far better sounding word for a savory baked good you dip in gravy and have with bacon and eggs. Not for a sweet delectable baked good, for that a more cutesy sounding word like “cookie” is far fucking better.
English perverts should stop calling fucking cookies biscuits, I don’t dip Oreos in gravy you cretins.
Every take on chacha about food or cooking is terrible. This one slots neatly between “salad spinners are pointless” and “dishwashers are for the bourgeoisie.”
Both those takes are correct though 🤔
What about gas stoves being bad for you? Where does that one get placed.
That one apparently has scientific basis if you have poor ventilation, but I'm probably die in a firetornado or get executed by a Target loss prevention assassin during the water wars or exploded in a gender reveal party happening down the street well before cooking gas pollution worsens my quality of life so I'm gonna stick with gas. Cooking threads the needle between extremely satisfying and deeply frustrating for me. and electric ranges always make it the latter.
Don’t forget “cast iron pans are bourgeois”
Cast iron is prole as fuck. Relatively cheap, relatively nonstick, and if taken care of, will last longer than you will. Even if abused, they can probably be fixed up and made usable again, as long as there aren't any huge pits in it.
But those artisan machined cast iron pans marketed to hipsters that are like individually hand poured, polished to a mirror finish, and sold for hundreds of dollars: those are totally bougie.
That's not all, or even most, cast iron, though.
Thanks for writing out what I couldn’t be bothered to. I totally agree!
Someone previously argued that Teflon-flaking pans that warp in the dishwasher are the real people’s cookery.
Yeah, I remember that. In a post about how people just assume everyone can buy pricey stuff, iirc. Which I get the general point of, because I'm poor and started out even poorer. And I know how it is when others who don't share your circumstances go "It's only $__" yet all those little things add up, and if I don't have it, I don't have it.
But, like, everyone who can currently afford to stay housed can figure out how to eventually afford a single Lodge skillet that can be used to cook pretty much everything in until you die.
Thrift stores and yard sales are also good places to find them for low prices as well.
There are cast iron fetishists, who are totally among the general ranks of consumerist cooking gizmo obsessives. But at least one friggin cast iron pan is totally doable.