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Let's put a positive spin on this, since people in the comments are dogging on him enough.
Guy's 20, living on his own, clearly inexperienced in the ways of living on his own, and he had the courage to do what so many fail to: ask for help. If he keeps that going, he'll be fine.
He's probably injecting his message and destination into someone elses data transmission lmao
He clearly didn't get the guidance he needed when he was younger, but he is trying and asking questions. He is on the right path.
Yeah that and honestly, its also mainly a failure of the parents to teach him.
Also for the cousin, I hate when you ask someone, specifically a family member for help, and they make you feel stupid, I mean sure, I maybe late to the party, but I am learning.
Such an odd juxtaposition between recognizing the oven needed to be cleaned and not thinking of a way to prevent the mess lol.
Hope the young chef is still in the kitchen and better than ever.
Maybe the oven didn't have a baking sheet so he didn't think of it. Like for BBQ you cook directly on the grill
Yeah but even with barbecue you very often wrap it in something. I guess it’s possible to get to that point without learning about aluminum foil, but unlikely. In any case, a valuable lesson for him and we’ve all done dumb stuff and only realized after stopping to think about it for ten minutes so it’s not really that big a deal. Very funny though!
Hope that one day he develops problem solving skills.
Not all ovens come with a proper grill. I know, i had to pay more for one that did when it was time to replace the family one.
Mistakes happen.
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.
Like with any class it really depends on your teacher.
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.
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.
I think my school only offered sewing. I have clue where they would have cooked, except for the cafeteria kitchen. I made a dope walrus, though.
Huh, it just occurred to me that when people say "Glad school taught me the Pythagorean theorem but not real life skills like how to do my taxes", they're just forgetting about home ec.
I use the pythagorean theorem a lot more than I expected tbh
to be fair, learning how to make even boxed meals is still better than nothing if you're from a home life situation where you've received zero food prep knowledge
Not to be too picky, but boxed food usually aint the best for you. Now a class called "Shit you can do with rice" would be a killer way to go.
... and beans.
That's lesson 1
Lesson 1 would be "Don't use actual shit".
Ours was just, "Here's a video unrelated to home economics," because it and choir were the classes you got stuck in if there wasn't something else you could take that period (only 150 kids k-12)
They should have just combined the two and had a singing kitchen.
I was mocked for not knowing how to cook macaroni and cheese in my class.
Blame a kid who has never had it before why don’t you.
Now I know why every recipe includes steps like, “remove from packaging”.
That was 6 yrs ago. Wonder how lil bro is doing 😂
I assume he’s doing great.
My mans was cooking his own food; realized (own his own) that his way of cooking was suboptimal; and then asked for help.
That approach is to life is going take him far.
To shreds you say...
Probs fucked up a bunch of other things, being scared to ask again!
Doesn't seem scared to ask, just to ask his mom, which could be valid, lol
Yeah, but after his dad tweeted his question to make fun of it publicly, he's probably scared to ask him, too.
If someone can't find humor in their errors, life is going to be a lot harder for them. It's not just about people learning and practicing being nice. You and I, the error making people, need to also do our part. K love you. Good bye.
Depends on the person :)
He's probably drinking
Yep. Dad's first reaction was grabbing a beer, and that shit runs in the family.
Hopefully got a pack of baking sheets from the supply house or Costco. Baking sheets, cutting boards, mixing bowls take up so much room but are universally useful.
Americans/anyone who had "home economics" class: how long did you have that class for? I only had about 1.5 hours of cookery class every 2 weeks as an 11-12 year old, and while i think it was a good idea, it wasn't where i learned abt cooking in a way that sticked. That was from my parents, and getting old enough to have autonomy over making myself food (15 yo or thereabouts).
So home ec for me was just too short and hassled to pick up meaningful knowledge.
We had the option for home ec. Never took it. Took sex ed instead.
In 10 grade, I was put into home ec for some reason. I think i need a credit or something. I was the only boy in the class and the teacher was also the sex ed teacher. I spent 1.5 hours 3 days a week listening to things like how to insert tampons, or makeup tips and hair care, or The Pill, or whatever things the teacher felt like that day. It was an awful class that almost always devolved into an extremely loud chatty room with all the girls just girl talking. We never cooked anything. Though to be fair, the teacher did talk about things like balancing checkbooks, healthy relationship dynamics and other normal things on occasion, but very rarely.
every year at my middle school. I think they had it split up like home ec for the first two semesters and health for the last two, or vice versa. It's been a while, but I know we had a different main subject each year. like sixth grade was sewing and learning basic nutrition, seventh grade was basic cooking/cleaning/laundry, eighth grade a little more advanced cooking as we were trusted with more tools and techniques.
i also took another home ec style class as a senior in high school because... easy A and free food lol
i also took another home ec style class as a senior in high school because… easy A and free food lol
Just thinking about getting free food as a teenager makes me feel good inside. A lot of people at my school chose it in High School for the same reasoning as you
Back in middle school, 1hr a day for a semester. But you had to choose between home ec. and wood shop. Most people, even the girls, picked wood shop since it wasn't much more than how to microwave & sew.
I think we had it for about 3 months of a single grade in middle school, maybe once a week. We rolled out a ton of cookie dough in the shape of a pizza, put candy on top and called it cookie dough pizza, then said "To hell with learning how to cook" and spent the reminder of our time back in the classroom, sewing and stuffing fuzzy little American footballs. With all of two things done, one of which just required opening packaging and squishing the dough a bit, we had nothing else lined up for the rest of the year, and never did home ec again once we left for summer vacation. At peak boredom, towards the end of the school year, it became something of a game for the boys in the class to see how much of their fuzzy football they could sew to their hands before the teacher noticed and made them undo it.
Oh dear.
The dopamine generation is having some pretty serious problems…
Right, older generations never made mistakes they would learn from!
Definitely an idiot. The word is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote.
I vote you an idiot.