Just make a fucking burger. Isn’t that what Americans are supposed to be good at? mccrucified

  • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is a whole genre of rage bait that was designed to keep you watching out of a mixture of anger and curiosity. Or maybe it’s some doomed sense of hope that the recipe might start to make sense at some point. I’ve seen dozens of videos like this.

  • some observations:

    1. she has never cooked that before. that wasn’t a recipe. its pretty obvious she’s never cooked that quantity of food before on a big grill like that, the way she used the spatulas. it was just a bunch of nonsense moves smearing it around and playing.

    2. that was enough food for probably 40+ people. and nobody else was even there. immaculate back yard, no tables or anything visible. they have no friends. all that food got tossed, because more than likely it tasted like shit with all that condiment b.s. sauce mix and the literal pound of grease from beef and the half thawed frozen veg mixed with greasy beef and condiments.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Just make a fucking burger. Isn’t that what Americans are supposed to be good at?

    Seriously she’s got like a thousand dollar griddle there, I’d whip up some burgers, or some chicken or beef fajitas and I SUCK at cooking! stalin-stressed

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      There’s a way to do something like this, in a serious manner, but it would require

      • Browning your beef first

      • adding your aromatics (onions, garlic, peppers) and actually letting them cook in the fat for a few minutes

      • then adding some sort of liquid, like a chicken stock,

      • then adding your veggies, and seasoning it with uh…ketchup? Mustard? Whatever the fuck Manwich is???

      • Then idk what the hell the cheddar biscuits are about.

      yknow what? Maybe this isn’t a salvageable bit of rage bait. Doing that shit on a grill is wild! She can’t even get anything off of there because it’s stuck and burned so bad

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    great recipe for people craving a bit of raw beef, undercooked peppers and onions, and overcooked beans and corn.

    completely mad technique to just heap it all on at the same time on a uniform temp grill. i know she’s paying someone else to clean that flattop with all that sugar shes sticking to it

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      those poor vegetables were sitting there unstirred for at least five minutes while she was dumping on more ingredients and splooging ketchup and mustard over everything, they’re gonna be burned on one side and frozen on the other

      also what’s the deal with with americans and frozen veg? you have a huge country with twenty different climates, you should be able to get fresh vegetables everywhere year round. in china you can always get fresh corn and beans and tomatoes because it’s always growing season for those things somewhere in the country. do americans (mayoamericans at least) just love the wateriness and blandness of frozen veg? are fresh veg considered “woke” or “foreign”?

      also what’s the deal with using ketchup and mustard as seasoning, but no actual seasonings? are spice powders considered “an iranian fifth-columinist threat to the stability of the U, S and A”?

        • GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          It’s really something how this country has transitioned even over the last decade.

          I used to spend a lot of time in the Dakotas, where there was at least a small amount of crop diversity: small grains like wheat and rye, sunflowers andremovedseed, forage millet and sorghum, alfalfa, peas, whatever — corn and soybeans were a rare sight.

          Now it’s all center pivots with corn and beans as far as the eye can see. The only remaining sunflowers are in the ditches and yards of long abandoned homesteads. Fuck, the Dakotas are humid now on account of all the irrigation and corn sweat. Used to be dry out there. Now they’ve got massive fungal issues to contend with that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for corn and beans. Southern rust, northern rust, tar spot, sudden death — all shit that didn’t exist in that neighborhood not too long ago.

          Anyways I’m gonna shut up now.

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        also what’s the deal with with americans and frozen veg?

        the yankkkees invented it and invested more into it i imagine. frozen vegg is preprocessed (+lazy points) and not usually much worse if you drain off excess water when preparing them. for heaps of folks frozen is actually fancy compared to canned.

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          canned veg

          disgost wtf, bomb shelter level food

          which reminds me, in europe they have canned “asian vegetables” which is an unholy mix of baby corn (wtf) bamboo shoots, water chestnuts somehow, and bean sprouts (come on now) and they are all mushy and taste like brine.

          mushy, stale beansprouts. agony-wholesome

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        what’s the deal with with americans and frozen veg?

        Frozen veggies are significantly less expensive than fresh. In part because capitalism places a premium price on perishable foods. Grocers take the hit on food that goes bad before being sold, and consumers don’t want to buy something they have to use right away.

        Further, because of economies of scale, you can sometimes buy a pound of frozen veggies cheaper than you can buy seed to grow an equivalent pound. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but because giant corporate vertically integrated and run the food system nearly top to bottom, their costs are way low. During sweet corn season it might be $8 to $10 for a dozen ears at a roadside stand in my “neighborhood” for home grown, hand picked, organic sweet corn. The equivalent at a conventional grocer would be $6-8. The frozen equivalent would be… maybe $3-4 from the cheapest grocers.

        Also Amerikkkans just generally hate and/or suck at cooking and also don’t know how to cook with fresh ingredients. Way easier to just steam frozen garbage.

        People could grow their own food, but the entire system is set up in such a way that discourages doing so. Even if you own your property, many municipalities and associations prevent you from growing anything other than a pre-approved list of ornamental vegetation outside of your home (so much freedom).

        Basically, good, fresh food has become a luxury item and it’s heartbreaking.

      • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I have perfected the Sandra Lee (not the pimple popper one) art of Semi-Homemade cooking. 70 percent packaged products and 30 percent fresh ingredients, AKA the Maoist ratio.

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    glasses-off

    This seems like the worst attempt at advertising I have ever seen. The makings of a decent recipe are there, the veggie to meat ratio would make some Americans accuse her of vegetarianism. Fajita veggies on a grill with corn and pearl onions is a solid base for a good recipe. The only conclusion I can come to is that this woman has no idea how to cook and wanted to fancy herself a food influencer.

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      She burnt tomato sauce onto what looked like a cast iron griddle. One of the twitter responses was “who has that sort of outdoor griddle anyways?” and I’m way more concerned about that.

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        Even worse it was sloppy Joe sauce which iirc is largely ketchup, actual ketchup, and mustard. All three are vinegar heavy so about the worst thing she could do to that poor griddle.