Vibes based cooking

Captain Aggravated

For a hot minute there near the end of the Obama administration, craft beer was a thing in this country and we had some excellent beers. Then Trump got elected and I haven't seen a craft beer that wasn't an IPA or a token jet black "oatmeal stout" since.

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One of the weirdest takes I’ve ever seen. Bravo and well done for somehow working politics into this!

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...that's pretty much my improvisational style: sometimes things turn out amazing but of course the problem is that i'll never make it the same way again; couldn't if i tried...

Captain Aggravated

It's a thing that happened and I'm not sure by what mechanism. 2018, lots of microbreweries and brewpubs most offering a wide variety, by 2021 you've got seven IPAs and one token stout on the menu.

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Check this it's funnier

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Oh I don’t disagree with you. I’ve looked for decent non-IPA microbrews and have been puzzled at the lack of selection! I just wasn’t aware of the timing.

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I just follow my family’s habit , add reasonable amount

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Blindly following recipes I will never get. How can you be comfortable with depending on a stranger's whims for what you eat ?

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We've moved on to sours or IPA/sour combos. I drink them because they are delicious to my palate. Always drank my coffee black even as a kid. I like bitter.

Honestly I fucking hate the term hipster. I'm not hip, I'm a laborer in my 40s. It's just another way for people to divide each other.

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Might even be famous for it.

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I'm the rabbit. I also do a lot of tasting.

You may scream now.

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My wife says that everything I cook smells the same. Yeah baby I know what I like.

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You better get the hell out of my house immediately and never come back.

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And the taste changes with salt, with heat, with boiling, with cold extraction (like an overnight marinade). You really just have to experiment.

Captain Aggravated

Good for you I guess, but why'd the variety have to disappear? I want my ESBs and barleywines back. I haven't seen a locally made wheat beer since before the pandemic.

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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).

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I'm pretty sure most cooks use spices according to their internal feelings on what contexts the spices work well in. Basically the smell test except they have enough experience with the spice already to just do it in their head. Pretty sure this isn't that unusual.

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Because sweet beers are fucking disgusting? Really though you like what you like. I live in a tiny state population-wise in the US. I can drive five minutes to several shops that have 30 different sweet wheat options.

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Ever been to a restaurant, ate a meal cooked by somebody other than yourself? Pre-made frozen meal? Fast food?

Dont want to sound mean or anything but most people are comfortable with having somebody else prepare a meal, so why is it different when you prepare it but somebody else tells you how to do it?

Bob

I think that's why some people "can't cook". They treat a dish like a magic potion, where you'll destroy the house if you add 2g too much chilli or something.