• Rooster326@programming.dev
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    23 hours ago

    Because to make a proper cheese sauce you need to make a proper roux, and idk who you think is teaching the average person to do that.

    That is certainly not common knowledge today, and I doubt it has ever been common knowledge your everyday person would know. Nor is it easy to do for the inexperienced cook.

    Though I think most Americans would be happy with Sodium Citrate if they knew about it

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      22 hours ago

      Used to be that parents and grandparents would teach the kids how to cook something a bit fancier for a holiday.

      But we’re all too atomized and busy and politically polarized these days for that.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah and many have.

        I can make Chicken Parmesan with our family recipe sauce, and a proper lasagna. With coffee cake for dessert.

        I sill was never taught how to make a roux. And I come from a family that home cooked meals every night.

        I learned how via YouTube, and I still can’t do it without fucking up 50% of the time.