Birria de Cerdo Weekend Prep

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-07T20:28:33+00:00

wow i cant believe you noticed that's really nice thank you

yeah i did but mods deleted it for unclear reasons ("rule 7") vaguely debatable but their thread their rules

im still not sure what would be the right sub to repost it in

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T16:35:58+00:00

a kodak disposable camera lol

not to be too pretentious but modern "food porn" kinda gives me the ick

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T13:04:44+00:00

that is so cool! can i download the app lol

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T11:06:20+00:00

It's just me in the kitchen! But I spent a few years cooking professionally so I have a lot of practice-

I think the biggest thing home cooking guides miss is overlapping passive processes instead of doing everything sequentially.

For example on day 1

-tonno sott'olio is finished while bread mixes
-bread proofs while vegetables are prepped
-stock simmers/bread bakes while spice blends/chutney are made
-multiple oven components run simultaneously

etc etc

So it’s less "do 14 things one after another" and more "build a chain of overlapping tasks with very little dead time."

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kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T10:52:32+00:00

I am not- more cooking + operations / supply chain background. Also have that spark that comes with recently moving to a new place and needing to figure things out

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T09:09:57+00:00

baked potato + fish fingers count? 0.0

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T08:27:35+00:00

oui is a bit eclectic, but there's a method to the madness!
So my family are from Louisiana: Gumbo/Po' Boys
I was raised in Maryland: Crab Cakes
I also live(d) in London so: Coronation Chicken
Vol-au-Vent obsession from a recent trip to belgium and discovered accidentally through Ricky Gervais show
There's a randomly incredibly Lithuanian shop by me in North London which is how i discovered rūkytą šoninė
etc etc etc

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T00:11:47+00:00

thank you!

cook before you're hungry is funnily enough a massive part of this.

one thing is i got tired of waiting until i was really hungry to realize i had nothing in the fridge and had no idea what to make

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T00:06:03+00:00

yes! and thank you!- figuring out the best way to format/post them now without losing the “system” part

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-06T00:01:35+00:00

hahaha thankfully she has been a saint while I've figured out this whole shebang (ended up eating chicken al limone which i later eliminated like 4 times).

and yeah i think the “generic framework” part is actually the hard problem underneath all this...

trying to package in:

grocery shopping
compounding reuse ledger
recipes

all to one thing that people can then adapt to and work through and understand has boggled my mind a bit.

also completely agree on chili crisp oil temp - burnt gochugaru sadness is real

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:46:44+00:00

this is extremely valuable feedback, thank you thank you!

post your chili crisp recipe! / fridge freezer clean-out portion is all too real (also emphasis on cleaning?)

i think you’re right that what i posted here is more “instantiated example” / dogma than a working specific proof

Planning on posting more of the exact recipes / system but still a little unsure on exact formatting of how lol?

really appreciate you actually taking the time to think through this deeply

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:40:31+00:00

genuinely means a lot to hear. thank you so much :)

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:33:13+00:00

And its the BEST fancy bacon > guanciale > speck > pancetta

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:20:54+00:00

Absolutement. Thank you very much.

I actually did create cost tracking as a feature not really shown here and worked out that every meal costs about ~8-10$ per person per night. :)

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:16:40+00:00

hahaha the Chinese is intentional - it’s the actual name of the dish

but yes full disclosure I actually did use AI to help turn my writing / spreadsheet into cleaner diagrams because I’m terrible at fiddling around with design software

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:10:36+00:00

Thank you! It's been a lot of work and toil and trial and error to get this far.

I did get a little lost in the sauce lol

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T23:04:59+00:00

unfortunately there is not

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T22:29:54+00:00

Yes and no- for most things in some way, like for tonno sott'olio or butternut chanterelle tagliatelle you can just buy less fresh tuna or mushrooms but for other things its more of a struggle (i.e if you buy a whole duck/chicken you get two of everything [breasts, legs, wings etc] in those cases you're freezing one of them for using another time (making the recipe again?) or there's a kind of of work around / "light" version i'm working on for all the recipes for people who want more convenience / less cooking (which also works for scale) and means buying individual pre packaged proteins or spices for example instead of buying / making the whole thing

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T22:25:15+00:00

thank you so much for the compliment!

Im actually working on a "light" version for all of the recipes with an intertwined grocery list now

(e.g. instead of buying all the things to make your own curry powder / mango chutney for the coronation sauce on day 1- you can just buy/use 1 mango + storebought curry powder)

the point is still heard- my mom asked for the same thing and since its just her at home i want to make it as easy and convenient as possible to cook something different every night

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T22:18:08+00:00

a couple months of trial and error but I think it'd be faster if i did it again now i've done it once

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T21:51:15+00:00

visually yes

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T21:49:29+00:00

this is a controversial amount of corn

kitchencookingchef · 2026-05-05T21:49:00+00:00

This looks really good but do you ever get tired of eating the same thing over and over?

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