• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    don’t trust recipes that use terrible measurements like ‘a can’

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      3 hours ago

      I have a recipe that’s cans cream of mushroom, with equal parts rice and milk. The can size does not matter because it is about the ratio.

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      3 hours ago

      Hell that’s how most of my recipes are. I don’t measure like 80% of my cooking. When you’re baking yeah of course. But just cooking normally? Measuring is for losers. How many ounces of onions? How many you fucking ? Garlic? There’s no measurement of garlic it’s as much as you can. That’s how I cook. Eyeball that shit and have a spoon for tasting.

      Also cans are usually you know measured pretty well themselves actually. 8 oz can hold 8 oz. Not like it’s any more holy to use an 8 oz measuring cup than an 8 oz can.

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      6 hours ago

      Sometimes you want to make grandma’s recipe and she wrote one can and isn’t around anymore to ask questions about the size of the can.

      But if you head over to c/cooking you will see you can’t even use cans as a unit of measurement in most of the things I cook.

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          3 hours ago

          I have one recipe in my collection that calls for Rotel. It’s extremely unhealthy but so tasty and it wouldn’t be too impacted by a change in can size. I make this do infrequently that every time I pick up a can I wonder if it’s gotten smaller because it’s already so small.

          Highly recommend for anyone that is trying to gain weight.

          Cheesy Noodle Mix
          Servings 3.
          1 lb pork sausage.
          2 cups pasta (shells).
          1 can Rotel.
          2 cups shredded cheese.
          1/2 cup sour cream.

          • Boil water.
          • Cook pasta.
          • Brown the sausage.
          • Add sausage to drained pasta.
          • Stir in cheese.
          • Stir in everything else.