i suck at cooking lol

The way he is so panicked throughout this video makes him sound like he’s being held at gunpoint and being forced to cook against his will 😭

Quick tip for cooking with ADHD prepare ALL the ingredients before turning on any kind of heat. Just havw everything ready and close so once the heat is on you won't be runnig around the kitchen looking for other stuff and worrying about burning your food... Sometimes I even pour the amount of different spices I want in one bowl, so I won't have to worry about that while doing 53625 other things

A few things because you appear to be concerned with food safety (I am a State Health Inspector with FDA clearance meaning I inspect your everyday grocery stores and restaurants but i also do large food manufacturing plants) 1) Food in a sealed air tight package past the "expiration" (barring any manufacturing defect) will be safe to eat long after the sell by date on the food. In fact all food (by law) is required to be usable and safe to eat after whatever date is indicated on the packaging. 2) Wash your hands after handling raw chicken, it wasnt shown whether you did or didnt. Going from raw chicken to a salt and pepper shaker or drawers or whatever can leave traces of salmonella in the environment and you can accidentally make yourself or others sick. 3) You joke about putting a cutting board on a cutting board after meat but that is a very common practice and actually totally fine.

ignore the fact that Daniel is bad at cooking, let's just appreciate the fact that Daniel somehow managed to effortlessly and skilfully spin his cat into an abyss when she walked onto the cutting board.

Tip: you shouldn't keep your cooking oils, especially olive oil, next to the stove like that. They should be stored in a cool, dark place like in a cabinet or your pantry. Also, chicken sausage that is 3 days past the expiration date would be fine to eat, particularly if the package was unopened.

We gotta give some credit to the editor for making Daniel's bad cooking actually entertaining

Says he can cook eggs, proceeds to make a restaurant style meal. 😅 Great job, you actually dovetailed tasks, you CAN cook. Timing everything to be ready at the same time is always a challenge.

i love the evergrowing price of those salt and pepper dispensers

I got a twelve-egg hard-boiler. It’s has been sitting in my cabinet unused for a year. Also, Simple Green makes a “Simple Green D” disinfectant concentrate that you can mix 1:50 in a spray bottle. It is ammonia based, but way more effective than vinegar. If you really want effective chemical-free disinfecting, you can also use a multi-purpose steamer.

I think the hardest part about cooking is deciding what to make, everything else is just practice

As someone who's taught a decent number of people how to cook, this is a really rough way to teach yourself to cook. The high-level problem with your approach is that you're doing much more than you're ready for, which is causing a stress response that you have to manage on top of cooking. Then every time you do that, you're training yourself to associate cooking with stress, which adds to the mental overhead of cooking. Personally, I would start you off by making several batches of scrambled eggs, playing around with salt and when you take them off the pan. I generally like to normalize the idea that when you're learning, it's okay to waste food and botch dishes so that you don't carry so much performance anxiety. Simple eggs are great for developing that mindset because they're relatively cheap, so you don't feel bad experimenting. Scrambled eggs are also good for developing a sense of taking food off the pan early, because food continues to cook off the flame. And for developing a sense of seasoning (a lot of amateur cooks underseason their food because they don't have a good sense of what's too much seasoning). Commenting on what you did, it's best to have all your ingredients prepared and in place before you start cooking. You should also have a plan on the order you want to put things on the stove so that everything finishes at the same time. If you're prepared and mentally visualized what you will do, cooking will feel less stressful. As you noted, you set the pan heat too high. Eggs do better on medium-low heat. You also moved the chicken more than you needed to. Flipping chicken prematurely actually makes it more likely to stick. Finally, I do want to compliment your knife handling technique and your attention to cross-contamination. I really like your content, and hope all of that was at least a little helpful.

You should watch "You Suck At Cooking", it's a great channel/series for people who struggle figuring out how to make good food, while at the same time it's pretty f*cking funny.

Cooking notes: (because you asked) Expiration dates are not strictly accurate. They're just slapped on estimates, so the best way to check if food is still okay is just through sight, touch, and smell. Like how you knew the onion was going bad. Of course, being careful with meat is super important so if you don't feel comfortable with a food that you've had for some time, it's better to throw out than get sick. For food safety, you ought to cut raw meat on a separate board, preferably not a wood one since the raw meat juices can soak into the wood. Cutting into a piece of chicken to make sure it's cooked is the pro move. You don't need to have high heat to ensure it cooks, just let it cook for longer and it will cook through evenly. Breakfast looks delicious! Can never have too much onion.

Number one bit of advice for Daniel: Watch Sorted Food. The recipes they do aren't hard, they get good results, and above all, the way it's presented, it's great at giving you the confidence to give it a try. You know how many times I tried a recipe I saw on a cooking show back when I was a kid and actually wanted to cook? Once. I made very bad meringues. Sorted Food has had me making a bunch of simple dishes, and I've only lightly dismembered myself once! (knife skills fail, took a small slice off my index finger that bled like you wouldn't believe...)

Vocabulary of the day: "Mise en place" is a French culinary phrase that basically means "put everything in it's place." That refers to completing your prep work before you start cooking. Don't even turn on the stove until you've prepared all of your ingredients. I think you'll find that you won't be as stressed during the cooking process if everything's laid on the counter within reach. Also, I usually always doubt my food as I cook, and I always brace myself for the first bite to be terrible. But my food is always significantly better than I expect it to be. Regardless, I think that looked and sounded amazing. I'm looking forward to the next time; that was a ton of fun to watch. 🙂

The expiration date isn’t the date the food becomes rotten or dangerous to eat. It’s just when it stops becoming fresh. So you can still safely cook it and eat its week or 2 after it “expires” but it would taste a bit stale. this is mostly for meat and veggies, it’s not entirely true for eggs and milk. Also onions usually take the longest to cook, so it’s best to seat them first in a pan before meat. It’s nicely roast them.

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I've got two tips for you! 1) If staying food safe stresses you out, try a meat-free Monday situation. It's really nice not having to worry about cross contaminating things as much. 2) One pot (ish) meals are so much easier on the ADHD brain. The less multitasking you can do, the better. So simple curries, stews, soups, pasta and the like, where you're cooking pretty much everything in one big pot (other than the rice or noodles) is the way to go. That, or doing all your chopping before you start like you're on a food network show. Hope that helps in some way!

As someone who's helped cook serve food to a room full of relatively important people and could probably be considered as some 'professional' seeing Daniel cook didn't immediately make me want to pull my hair out like some other people on this platform when they tried And seeing him run around panicking like he was about to serve food to the queen when all he was doing was making himself breakfast was very funny

as a person who cannot cook, the fact that you can make eggs without burning down the house is amazing to me edit: tysm for 380 likes 🥰 edit 2: holy shit 411 likes 😱