Intro Post Because I Never Made One

▹Yo, my name’s Bawka and this is my long overdue intro post because I realized I should make a guide to my bullshit blog

▹Currently fixated on the QSMP, Generation Loss, DSMP Lore, and mp100, but other fandoms pop up, too, considering this is my main blog and I’m majorly unorganized lmao

▹Pronouns are he/yip/caw/quack, and I’m nonbinary & ace

Tagging and other info under the cut because I talk too much

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lmaonade

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

lmaonade

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

eroticcannibal

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

transjon

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille's basics but especially:

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

  • freezer meals,
  • weeknight meals,
  • kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &
  • kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

  • j. kenji lopez-alt (various)
  • marion's kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)
  • maangchi (korean)
  • future neighbor (mostly korean)
  • the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have "specialty" ingredients)
  • family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)
  • not another cooking show (various)
  • cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)
  • you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)
  • how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)
  • internet shaquille (various)
  • babish culinary universe (various)
  • i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part
  • also disclaimer: these are channels i watch and cuisines i most often cook with (save for YSAC and boris which i just find funny) - there are tons of cuisines that are missing completely but i don’t cook with them much so i don’t really know who to rec

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

ooppo

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Karkai and Dove!

Head canons for Dove is that she has a big "not like other girls" problem from being raised as a girl by bro. She gets very competitive and tries to make herself unfeminine as possible and finds most "girl things" to be automatically lame and not worth her time. Plus the internalized misogyny and homophobia. She also doesn't know how to take care of her hair because no one ever taught her how to so she just grows it out until it gets long enough and she'll cut it down with scissors.

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royalarchivist

Donation: [Telling Quackity it was really nice to see Rubius on QSMP again and thanking him]

Quackity: I was really excited to give [Rubius] a tour because he's missed a lot of things on the server. It was really cool to catch him up on everything. It's good that he had a good time!

He said he didn't like the Eggs [the fans of the Eggs], and he wouldn't enter [until they were gone], but you entered man, you logged on, you logged on!

But yeah, it's very good- it's great.