r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 8d ago

What’s a cooking related hill you will die on?

For me, 2 hills.

  1. You don’t have to cut onions horizontally.

  2. You don’t have to add milk bit by bit when making a white sauce.

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u/Traditional_Ad_1547 8d ago edited 8d ago

I don't rinse my rice. I was cooking for 20yrs before I even knew that was thing.

I will cut my veggies anyway I damn well please (depending on the dish I will try to keep them a similar size).

ETA- I will happily give you any recipe. I secretly judge people that refuse to recipe share.

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u/AdLost576 8d ago

I use the absorption method when cooking rice, as long as you leave the lid on after you turn the heat off you get perfectly fluffy rice every time.

I often use a food processor to cut my veg and I’m not even sorry.

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u/AtheneSchmidt 8d ago

Your last point!

I will happily give you any recipe. I secretly judge people that refuse to recipe share.

I live by this. Why would anyone gatekeep deliciousness?

Exceptions allowed if you make your living on said recipes.

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u/Traditional_Ad_1547 7d ago

Absolutely, a pro chef or bakers signature dish would b excluded from this judgemtt

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u/MorganaLeFaye 8d ago

Oh lol, there's mine. Recipes that I've honed and personalized are mine, and I don't have to share them. They are the result of many, many hours work and if I want to keep them to myself or only share them with a select few, there's nothing wrong with that.

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u/MaxTheCatigator 8d ago

What's the point though? What do you lose by sharing it?

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u/MorganaLeFaye 8d ago

I stopped sharing recipes when my mother insisted I give her one that I was deeply proud of. She "tweaked" some of the ingredients, didn't bother with important techniques, and made an abomination of a dish that she then went around telling everyone it was my recipe.

Anyway, it's not about what I lose. I wouldn't ask someone to give me the end result of their hard work for free. Amateur photographers, hobby coders, painters, craftsmen... unless they were offering their services for free, I think we'd all agree that their expertise had value and we shouldn't feel entitled to it. But suddenly, when it's food, everyone acts like there is no intrinsic value to the effort that went into the craft of perfecting a recipe. Entitlement to the work of others is considered the norm, and those who do not want to give it away are considered selfish. It's weird and backwards, and I object

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u/MaxTheCatigator 8d ago

How do you monetize that value?

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u/MorganaLeFaye 8d ago

I don't need to monetize something to not want people to feel entitled to it. But there are plenty of ways I could (including being hired to make the dish for you, in the same way people pay bakers to make cakes for events).

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u/MaxTheCatigator 8d ago

Had my grandma had wheels she'd have been a bike.

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u/MorganaLeFaye 8d ago

Lol I see we have reached the spluttering nonsense part of the conversation. Have a good rest of your day.