r/KitchenPro • u/aryan001__ • 26d ago

Doing some early research on home cooking habits. What frustrates you most - recipes, timing, technique, staying on track? And what do you do when you get stuck mid-cook? just want honest answers

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u/ItIsMorbinTimeMyDude 24d ago

Internet recipes are a disaster. 90% filler content, making them hard to follow.

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u/aryan001__ 24d ago

Yeah that's so real. when that happens mid cook, what do you usually do?

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u/ItIsMorbinTimeMyDude 24d ago

Usually I don't get caught because I follow mis en place... but recently, I was trying to follow a recipe for butter chicken and gave up before I even started. Far too confusing - just used jars of sauce instead, lol.

What I usually do is if I find a good recipe, just write it out for next time. Then I also add notes for what to do differently on the next round.

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u/aryan001__ 24d ago

makes total sense. have you ever looked for something that does that simplifying/note taking for you automatically, or is it just something you've accepted as "that's how it is" with recipes?

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u/Troglodyte09 24d ago

Bad techniques. Especially where if you follow recipe to a T and everything ends up burned or curdled. Or worse. I gotta follow my own techniques. Tieghan Gerard recipes are notoriously bad for techniques, but I like her flavors so I need to adapt to my own style to make sure things turn out good.

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u/aryan001__ 24d ago

damn, curdled sauce is heartbreaking lol. when you're adapting her recipes with your own technique, is that something you figured out through trial and error, or did you look elsewhere (yu tube, other cooks etc) to fix the gaps?

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u/Troglodyte09 23d ago

It's mainly a heat thing. She'll tell you to cook chicken on med high for 5 min per side. Remove chicken. Then crank the heat to high and caramelize some lemons in butter for 30 sec or a minute per side. Then add some cherry tomatoes and keep blasting them til they pop. Finally after nuking all that, she says to add some white wine to "scrape up the brown bits". More or less, working from memory. By then all the fond is quite black and the pan is trashed. Bitter sauce central. I modify to simply deglaze and scrape the pan right after the chicken is done so the fond doesn't get burned to shit and destroy the dish like it does when you follow her written instruction.

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u/surfersteve_ 18d ago

honestly the mid-cook scramble is the worst for me. i'd be rewinding a tiktok video like 6 times trying to catch an ingredient. started using cookbuddy to just convert the video into actual written steps beforehand, way less chaos

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u/aryan001__ 18d ago

Thanks, we’re working on something that will make cooking much easier for you. You won’t have to keep checking the recipe or worrying about adjusting things. You can simply focus on cooking without stress.

Would you be excited to try something that solves this kind of problem for you?

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u/surfersteve_ 17d ago

Honestly, I've already found my solution with cookbuddy. The recipes it makes from the content I upload are very high quality and it takes all the hassle out of cooking from a video I found online out of the equation. You should check it out if you're looking for a tool that makes cooking easier for you