To be fair to him, if you've never specifically cooked meat in an oven I can see how you'd think "grill -> like barbecue -> place directly on grill".
Honestly, if you did this with the broiler, and put a pan on another oven rack under the meat to catch the drippings, it might work okay?
The funny thing is: The boomers, the silent generation and everyone before and after... they made mostly the same mistakes, but there was no internet around to chronicle their mishaps
They need to bring back home ec (economics).
Basic cooking, nutrition and finance. How taxes work, voting, credit, bills and even dealing with cops (be respectful, no sudden movements, know your rights, shut the fuck up).
How to adult for kids who don't get taught at home.
Agreed. School focuses too much on stem. It should be there to prepare you for life. Go to Uni if you want to advance in stem.
School should also teach other basics like taxes, finance and budgeting.
And the S part of STEM is pretty important for actually understanding the issues facing voters (and our world)
And the T part of STEM is pretty important for actually functioning in the modern world of computing.
The M part of STEM is pretty important for taxes, finance and budgeting.
I'm not saying totally ignore STEM. But do 12th graders really need to know logarithms? Maybe take a few weeks to calculate your taxes instead and understand how tax brackets work.
Logarithms and exponentials were pretty important for understanding the pandemic. Understanding logarithms and exponentials is important for getting the behaviour of interest (which, if you want to use credit cards, is pretty key).
More generally, learning maths gives you the skill to be able to learn how to do all these key life things like budget etc.. — it gets you numerically literate. Means when something comes up like (for example) scaremongering over vaccines, you know enough about maths and stats to interrogate the statement made and determine whether you believe the study. Just teaching the skills without their basis is flawed imo.
What is the EC part?
Pretty sure we still do cooking and "how to operate a kitchen" classes here in northern Europe. In Denmark it's "hjemkundskab" - basically "skills for homekeeping"
Finances not so much though, that should be a class on its own
You guys got home ec? 😞
I was hanging out with a couple at their rent house they'd just gotten and was sitting with the girl in the living room after dinner and the guy came and sat down after finishing up cleaning in the kitchen. He said it was the first place he'd lived with a dishwasher and how nice it was going to be.
I ended up telling a story about how my Mom had used regular Pamolive dish soap in the dishwasher on 2 separate occasions, and the girl laughed. The guy was like "I don't get it."
I explained how regular dish soap will fill the entire kitchen with suds, and he was like "I'll be right back" and dashed out of the room.
We went in there and the bubbles were just starting to escape the dishwasher.
"I wonder what this flat sheet of metal that fits perfectly into my oven is for"
That's a cookie sheet. It's for cookies. Duh.
We all start from zero; help them; don’t make them feel embarrassed about trying.
No, some people are too stupid. This dude never paid a single damn attention at home, clearly, and there’s a decent chance he thinks his mom will talk forever with nothing important to say even though this kid needs weeks of intensive training on how to be a sorta functioning adult.
Some people need to be shamed.
Assuming this is even real, we don’t know their home life. They appear to be asking for help.
I would still help them, yes, but at that point the price they pay is getting made fun of, too.
I’ve lived with three roommates now, all friends first and after. The first is very neat, no issues there. The second is non-binary but raised as a dude and it shows up in being a bit of a mess and lost on a lot of things, and the current is also the same but is cis and straight. At our ages, it’s just not my responsibility to constantly be delicately training men, especially as I, myself, am a privileged straight man who is at least baseline functional.
Well, that was an info dump I didn’t necessarily need. Anyway, if a friend or family said they were going to publicly shame me for asking a question, I wouldn’t be the cook I am today. Fortunately I was allowed to make mistakes and given opportunities to learn.
It wouldn't be bad, just please put a small tray under the meat. Also there's those contact grill thingies, that are a lot better for grilling.
Damn dude.. Why go blasting that shit on the internet.
Yeah its not even a bad thing to do as long as you have a tray for the juices and you rub oil on the meat so it doesn't stick to the grill.
Some people are just assholes.
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