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Someone didnt take home ec hahaha
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I was excited to take home ec, but little did I realize it was basically for people who had never been in a kitchen before. If you were a kid who had parents/grandparents who cooked and let you help out, you were miles ahead of the game.
We made brownies. From a box. Taco salad. Forget what else but it was all box food type stuff. If you're a kid in the US who doesn't have a home cooking tradition Home Ec isn't going to teach you shit.
I helped out in the kitchen a lot, but the home ec classes I took were things that I wasn't (yet) doing at home.
My mom made scrambled eggs, but the way they taught me to do it in home ec resulted in much better eggs. They taught me how to make tacos, my mom didn't know about tacos at all.
I think the issue is that my mom really learned very little from her own mother because her own mother wasn't much of a cook. My mom cooked every day. She had cook books. She had a few recipes handed down from relatives. But, she didn't know what she didn't know, which was a lot. Almost everything was overcooked and dry. She didn't know how to taste what she was cooking and adjust things. She didn't understand the purpose of the ingredients in the recipes she made, so she'd substitute things that completely ruined it.
I think my home ec classes were much better than the ones you had. But, also, my mom wasn't very good at cooking. So, home ec was really useful for me.
Now we have the internet: an entire world of inspiration, variation, coming with strips and perhaps a video! No more excuses
One of the things still on my list. I grew up learning to make tacos from my mom: buy a kit with crunchy shells, a spice pack to brown ground meat with, preshredded lettuce and cheese.
But I’ve had some amazing tacos that look nothing like those and are so much better. I’ve started exploring making real tacos with actual ingredients and with tortillas l, but there’s so much more to try and to learn even for such a simple food.
Currently I really like the Costco family taco kit. Real ingredients, So good, so convenient, inexpensive for prepared food, and better than anything I make.
I recommend a trip to Mexico. The street tacos there are nothing like the hard shell tacos that are common in grocery stores.
Just the variety of meat fillings is huge: Suadero, Barbacoa, Chorizo, Carnitas, Carne Asada...
The tacos are also small and cheap. That means you can try a variety of different ones without filling up, and obviously without worrying about the cost. Even places in the US and Canada that sell pretty authentic tacos typically make them fairly big and fairly expensive, so you have to choose one flavour per sitting. You may get 3 tacos in an order. That same amount of filling would be spread among 10 tacos in Mexico so you can either have a small snack, or have a variety of different tacos for a full meal.
That would be excellent! It’s on my list
One of my teachers took us out hunting once. Shot a hare. We were there for every part of that journey from the hunt to it being on the plate and eaten. I definitely learned a lot from that.
Did you learn metallurgy to make the gun tho?
I knew I missed one class!
That's what shop class was for
Also chemistry to make the gunpowder
Like with any class it really depends on your teacher.
Also depends on whether you live in a regressive borderline fascist state that views education as either propaganda for them or propaganda for us.
When I had it, we learned much more than just cooking...
I remember they taught us how to do laundry, how to iron clothes, how to sew, how to balance a checkbook (yeah I'm old shut up), among other things.
Very useful actually, and despite it being over 2 decades ago, I still know how to do all of it.
Makes me really sad when people can't make a cake without a box or can't make a basic roux or something. Really take for granted my privellege to have been exposed to basic stuff like that.
My first boyfriend in college taught me how to make a roux. It's such a useful building block for all sorts of foods. We'd make leek and potato stew, generally using the fat from bacon for the roux. Highly recommend as a filling meal for college students.
We learned about food safety ("don't leave stuff on the counter forever", "raw chicken is bad for you"), how to properly hand wash dishes, how to budget for a household, and a bit about the various non-nuclear family shapes. (Yes, I learned about divorce in 6th grade. It just hadn't come up in my life before. No mention of non-hetero couples or non-married couples because, you know, Kentucky in the 90s.) It was a broad life skills class with an emphasis on cooking. Not a clue what we cooked, but we got to use a flour sifter and that was fun.
The most homemade thing I made in home ec in the 90s was pancakes.
I already made pancakes at home lol