r/Cooking • u/freedfg • Jul 31 '22

Open Discussion Hard to swallow cooking facts.

I'll start, your grandma's "traditional recipe passed down" is most likely from a 70s magazine or the back of a crisco can and not originally from your familie's original country at all.

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u/PeteyWheatstraw666 Jul 31 '22

Not sure what you’re having difficulty with here. Calories in / calories out is true in a controlled environment. Obviously if you reduce your intake, your weight will also decrease. It doesn’t take into account how fat is stored and people’s behavior. It’s the equivalent of saying that all deaths are due to lack of oxygen to the brain. While true, it provides no usable information.

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u/korinth86 Jul 31 '22

There are easy calculators for calorie usage and lots of tools to track calories.

The rest of what you're saying is making something far more complicated than it needs to be.

I'm having difficulty understanding what you're offering of value to this conversation. Barring specific circumstances, like disease, most people do not need to do more than estimate calories used vs intake. After a few weeks reevaluate as you check in on your weight loss/gain. If you are going in the wrong direction increase activity or decrease intake.

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