Parents are leaving home, from India(Nepal), never cooked till date. - Page 1
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author: shivajikobardan
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 10:04:03 am
content: How do I cook for about a week? I need to do it. I asked them for money to eat outside in hotel but they disagreed. I don't know how to cook at all. I just want simple rice, cereals and vegetable cooking skills, nth more than that. Please guide me it can be slow but longetivity lasting trick.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 10:20:06 am
content: Sink or swim.First you had questions about staying motivated, now it is cooking for yourself. Have you never watched your parents cook? When I went away to college and lived off campus, I faced the same problem. I survived without ever buying a frozen "microwave" meal.Maybe being hungry will give you motivation to learn how to cook.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 11:04:30 am
content: Learning cooking from older relatives isn't always easy, as they may not know *why* they do something the way they do, (e.g.https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grandmas-cooking-secret/) and if they are good cooks will often estimate measurements by eye when they know that the exact proportions aren't critical.Have you ever heard of Google and Youtube? There are plenty sites with recipes and videos showing you how to cook just about anything including traditional national/ethnic dishes.Why not start here:https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/videos/techniques/how-cook-rice-videoOne trap for the unwary is that North American recipes use regionally standardized volume measures that you probably wont recognize. You'll also find this in older recipes from Commonwealth countries. Any time you see 'cup' or any sort of spoon as a unit of measure, first figure out the likely nationality of the author of the recipe, then seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measuresfor how to convert their 'cup' or 'xxxspoon' measure to something you can measure out with the tools and utensils you have available.Worst case, if you don't have a suitable measuring jug, or you don't want to soil the measuring jug with a sticky ingredient, for a straight sided circular pan or other container with a reasonably flat bottom you can measure the interior diameter and calculate the depth required for the volume given in the recipe, then pencil mark a clean wooden skewer or chopstick with the required depth to fill to or for a glass or clear plastic container mark the depth with tape on the outside.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 11:14:25 am
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on February 07, 2022, 10:20:06 amA microwave meal wouldn't have helped me survive, as my accommodation didn't have a microwave! I did have the advantage of the cookbook from the home economics course of a local college my grandmother had taught at, 'borrowed' from her kitchen.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 11:23:15 am
content: Quote from: Ian.M on February 07, 2022, 11:14:25 amThat was 1961. Three of us roomed together. We each put in $5/week for food and had enough left over for an occasional party. Lots of ground beef, spaghetti, cereal, milk, and eggs.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 11:44:31 am
content: Heh! As I don't eat eggs or most dairy, I wouldn't have survived long with your housemates. However, I'd usually bus to the city center on Saturday afternoon to go round the big market's butchers stalls and see what meat I could get cheap at 4PM (the market closed at 5) which more often than not resulted in me cooking a fullSunday Roastthe next day, with leftovers to see me through much of the week. If I didn't get lucky it would be a substantial one-pot stew of some sort.

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 03:33:20 pm
content: Simplest way to survive is to buy tinned stuff that sounds like they might go together, throw 'em all in a pot and heat. Most tinned foods are pre-cooked, so you could get by with eating them cold if necessary!Generally, it is hard to cook stuff and make it inedible. I've accidentally set a combi-oven to microwave eggs and beansprouts for 45 mins when I really intended to use the oven at 180C. Still ate the remains.Measures aren't that important either. Using the 'right' measure makes something great, but using the wrong measure doesn't usually make it bad, just not as great. I once made steak & kidney pie following a recipe that used 1 teaspoon of salt in the pastry, only to find later that the '/4' part had printed into the paper margin and become invisible. No-one complained.

author: woody
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 03:40:29 pm
content: The Gen-Z solution:https://soylent.com/Not for me; I'm from the generation that saw the movie that originated the name of this

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 05:04:56 pm
content: Buy a steak,place in on an insulated surface, wire one end of the steak to live the other to neutral,plug in power on-don't touch the steak,give it a minute or 2 power off and test ,re power if it needs more cooking

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 05:09:05 pm
content: you take your notes that explain how to use an or gate and a 8051 to build a cooker. burners 1 to 10 non inclusive

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 05:25:02 pm
content: Quote from: themadhippy on February 07, 2022, 05:04:56 pmSomeone has been watching too much Big Clive!

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2022, 05:34:02 pm
content: QuoteNope,someone had a very interesting apprentice with a slightly eccentric collage tutor .

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2022, 12:26:41 am
content: get a can opener and tupperwaresI heard of a person that was left alone so they started smashing cans and destroyed a kitchen counter top (that person had a PhD no less!)Canned chili, green beans, hash browns, dak ham, corned beef (use sparingly), canned potatoes will get a novice through a week..if you wanna make 'hot' food then sausages are like the easiest thing to cook.. you can add sour kraut (from can or bag) into that.. corn chips and pre-shred cheese tooMay I recommend following Ortega food instructions? that requires ground beef though. Baked italian sausages are probobly your best bet. Salad is easy too.. get croutons in a bag, baby lettuce salad, some vinegarette dressing, cut baby tomatoes in half into it and you are done with some greensand it sounds like you would like a electric rice cooker.. zero brains required.. just get the rice in a container so you don't spill a 20lb bag of rice in the kitchen.. + it has instructions on how much water you needCut the cans open on both sides if you can using can opener so you can flatten them with your foot (wearing shoes) so they throw away nicely as flat objects and reduce trash space, I expect if your first time home alone cooking you will end up with trash problems).. if you rinse them good you don't even need to throw it out and a weeks worth of cans will fit in a shoe box.. and it also prevents small animals from being injured by cans if they are flat like paper

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2022, 01:08:11 am
content: The OP is in Nepal. This is not going to be a place with Western style supermarkets and convenience foods. There will be local grocery stores and markets. Most food will be loose by the kg, or fresh produce. Cans will be expensive and for emergencies.Staple meals are going to be rice, vegetables, pulses. Cooking will be done on the stove top in a pan, with frying, boiling and simmering. There will be hands-on preparation of ingredients, cutting, peeling, chopping.Most people will be vegetarian.A crash course is going to be hard. Cooking is a skill you learn from your mother growing up. If you failed to learn when you had the chance, it's a bit late to start asking with no time to prepare.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2022, 01:18:20 am
content: Having written that, YouTube will be the place to go. Find channels showing how to cook the style of food (from the Indian subcontinent) you are looking for.Here's an example of the kind of thing:

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2022, 01:25:03 am
content: Quote from: IanB on February 18, 2022, 01:08:11 amthis sounds like disaster week if you need to get trained in food that quickly with that kind of availabilityCan you eat nuts with rice and fruit? that is minimal prep

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2022, 03:22:15 am
content: A really really nice, easy HEAT UP, canned CORN.PLUS you want a huge dish of good butter, (if the guests use dairy products).You can offer it, a little, and watch if it's a hit...(You'll really know it's A HIT if it's requested when next days dinner comes).

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2022, 04:15:28 am
content: It's been a month. No hear from.I hope our guy made it.

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2022, 12:52:19 pm
content: Fairly sure you can last 3 weeks without food, only 3 days without water, so as long it rained a couple of days...

author: MacIntoshCZ
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2022, 08:57:41 am
content: I faced same issue. My solution was to find a girlfriend.Now she is my wife.-_GameOver_-

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2022, 11:49:49 am
content: Quote from: MacIntoshCZ on March 08, 2022, 08:57:41 amI agree.I have been cooking for myself for over 30 years and enjoy it.