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When you worry about the brand of the olive oil you use and the cost, (over $100 per knife), of your kitchen knives. And your stove is a $4000 induction model with 2 ovens.

Source: My one Son-in-law. But the son-of-a-bitch CAN really cook!

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SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Jokes on you, my knife cost me $40 in steel, wood, brass, and sanding belts because I make my OWN knives for my cooking.

You know, I think I might just have two hobbies and one saved me money on the other…

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- bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What about the cost of the grinder, HT furnace, drill and drill bits, and anvil and hammers? Are you really sure you saved any money? /jk
  
  Keep banging them out!
  
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  - Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Rule number 1: never talk about the cost of tools.
    
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have two Kitchenaid mixers, and all my specialty tools. Cooking and baking can definitely be a hobby. We have the meals to survive. Then we have the shit I make that tskes a list of ingredients a mile long and all day to accomplish. But goddamm they are some great food.

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- bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That brings up an interesting thought.
  
  Am I a cooking enthusiast because I spend time hunting/fishing/foraging wild ingredients? Many of my neighbors do some foraging and hunt and fish also. (I live on a lake in the middle of a very large forest). Or does the fact I made 10lbs of home smoked Canadian bacon in my own smoker this fall make me a cooking enthusiast? Maybe the breads I sometimes bake? Or the hand harvested and then parched over a wood fire wild rice I traded some of my bacon for from my one neighbor?
  
  Am I a cooking hobbyist? Or am I just cooking to survive? Where is the line drawn?
  
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  - Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Not sure depends. If you didn’t do any of that would you still survive?
    
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    bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Would I survive? Perhaps not so well. Everything I forage or hunt and fish for reduces the amount of dollars spent on buying groceries. And a good portion of what we eat you can’t buy in a store.
    
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- Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Why would you need 2 mixers? That’s an honest question, I’m really curious.
  
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  - Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    One got the second on sale, and when baking cakes easier and faster with 2. But also last time I baked a cake and was making cookies. Having 2 mixers was awesome for that.
    
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