Discussion Cooking outside of Comfort Zone

Have you ever cooked something that was wildly outside of the range of foods that you'd cooked before?

I do this occasionally. I had a couple months during lockdown in which I cooked 1-3 new things every week, even. Ethiopian peanut curry, Rabokki, Causa Rellena, Mochi, Janssen's Delight...

 

Yes, cooking is outside my comfort zone

 

I've only really started to cook properly over the last 2 years and it's a bit basic but I'm still not that comfortable with frying food still

 

imagine risking a kitchen to cook

 

I do and I do also wasted it in the end, no one ate it.

 

Deep-frying or pan-frying?

 

well i'm still young and i don't cook(if that's what you would call it) things other than instant noodles, coffee,tea , eggs(omlete and sandwich)
and most of the time i would just put two snack together like simply eating plain cake with milk or just drinking milk cold straight out of the fridge
and if i were to be lazy on a day then i would probably eat anything at home or just drink something like water or some orange(pulpy) juice

 

There's something to be said for cooking a good Omelette.

 

Deep-frying. Pan is

 

Interesting. Pan-frying requires much more attention to do well. (Maybe you're thinking of saute when I say pan-frying?)

Deep-frying is mostly timing and using all your senses.

 

making mongol milk tea was a big challenge for me
it requires meat and salt, but man is it good tea
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Meat in tea?!? That's a new one even for me.

 

Might sound ridiculous but i felt like that when i for the first time cooked with wine as well when i was cutting my first broccoli-kinda vegetable. And i gotta say both times turned out super well and i am glad i tried

 

I highly recommend it though, as strange as it might be
it's a bit like soup, but they'll assure you: "IT IS TEA!"
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Reminds me of mushroom teas, actually. I could see it working. Depends on the meat.

 

the meat is usually a form of beef that's been freeze dried
also there's some millet, which in sheep's fat has been fried​

 

That just sounds like soup.

 

that's what i said, but it didn't go down very well
soup culture is very broad in mongol, so they tell
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I mean... people drink broths and consomme too... They're just not usually called tea. Because they're not tea.

 

I'm not sure cz I cooked what suit my taste buds. I've tried something like korean food but it doesn't suit my taste buds altho the recipe was rather simpler.

Altho the outcome of my experiment was not that good and sometimes taste weird haha