Thousands of young people living alone have studied the essence of "eating and fooling around"

Recently, many people have probably seen videos about "fooling around" on the Internet, where people try their best to simplify the cooking process and end the video with a CD. So, what kind of emotions do young people have behind these "fooling around" videos? Let's take a look at the author's analysis and interpretation.

Earlier, the "life-muddling science" caused a wave of enthusiasm and was called the way of life for the new generation of young people.

This kind of "muddling" is broken down into social phobia, i-type personality traits, aversion to mental stress, and a perfunctory or even lame attitude towards life. Hundreds of thousands of "muddling" people would rather write tens of thousands of words on Douban to share muddling methods than say one more word at a party or even on WeChat to waste their mental energy.

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Recently, a new kind of fooling science has gained a place on the Internet, and this is the new cuisine - the fooling science of eating.

In this field, the necessary conditions for food bloggers that used to be very popular have been completely wiped out. The leaders of the Hunong School focus on "comparison" and simplicity. The tableware and kitchen utensils are all unrefined, and they are not even willing to add a food filter from the original camera of the mobile phone.

They strive to keep the basic tools consistent from operation to finishing the meal.

Not using a kitchen knife or a spatula and eating from a pot are the basic requirements. If the process can be further streamlined, it will definitely stand out from its peers. If the quantity is large and the price is affordable, it will be even better.

Their comment section is much more tolerant than previous food bloggers. Common comments such as "too much oil", "too little quantity", "not authentic", and "the production process is too fake" are almost non-existent. Picky eaters have long been filtered out by the cooking process.

This type of bloggers who have emerged in the food section are also redefining the definition of "the art of fooling people".

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To fool around with studying while eating can be said to be the true meaning of fooling around in life.

Just open a video on how to learn how to eat. The process is simple, but it generally includes a standard beginning and ending: cooking and leaving the plate.

Cooking is the focus of the whole article, but their stoves are as simple as possible. A pot and a spoon are all the basic tools, and the background is also white tile cement floor, with three words squeezed out between the gaps: "down to earth".

The blogger "Everyone's Nutrition" at Bilibili is a typical example. Her cooking tools are an induction cooker and a tin basin. She also has a spare basin, which she replaces if one sticks to the pot.

Chopping boards, kitchen knives and other essential kitchen tools in my country do not exist in the world of these bloggers. The bloggers who fool around with vegetables basically tear the chopped green onions by hand, and if it is really inconvenient, they use scissors and iron spoons. During this period, some of the work of separating ingredients can be done in the pot.

In terms of ingredients, the main focus is to use whatever is available, but there should be a variety of dishes in one pot. Fresh vegetables should be available at almost every meal, but the amount should be small because it is troublesome to wash them. It is enough to supplement the nutrition psychologically. As for dishes that require more processing, they are directly crossed out from the recipe. For example, another UP host "Banana, Persimmon and Pear" always puts tofu, tomatoes and the like into the pot whole.

In the puzzled eyes of the audience, the bloggers picked up the spoons and either fried or boiled to complete the cooking process. As for eating, they naturally used the utensils that were cleaned up after the meal. It was very common to use a pot as a bowl. Although it was limited to one person, it was also very comfortable.

After the whole operation, the netizens who saw this scene for the first time were speechless. And you can't seem to find any flaws in their operation. The most interesting thing is that the blogger will use a clean plate to tell you that the meal tastes good.

At this point, the food-making technique has already gathered the elements of saving money and convenience. Usually, there is no difficulty in making such dishes, but it is difficult to assert that the bloggers are bad at cooking - after all, they very accurately and roughly omit the most time-consuming and labor-intensive part of cooking, and even criticize the consumerism of major home e-commerce companies, making the cooking machine that attempts to become a must-have home appliance seem very embarrassing.

Of course, in this case, don't be too demanding about the appearance.

Of course, Hunongcai is not responsible for teaching others anything. It often takes the premise of making use of leftovers and treats cooking in a seemingly frivolous way. However, even though it is far from the word "exquisite", it can really inspire people. It is not difficult to imagine that industrial semi-finished ingredients are used very frequently in them, but if you look at them more, you will find that these bloggers have an understanding of them beyond ordinary people.

For example, if you want to eat Northeastern rice dumplings, you can directly replace the hard-to-handle potatoes with ready-made French fries; or you can crush luncheon meat or sausage instead of minced meat for cooking; putting the whole tomato in the pot will make it easier to peel it...

At the same time, any so-called necessity can be substituted. Using fried chicken instead of beef in Korean spicy cabbage and beef soup, or using taro balls instead of rice cakes in Shanghai rice cake soup, sounds frowned upon, but it seems reasonable.

It is difficult to classify bloggers who seem to be cooking confusing dishes as "food bloggers", but it cannot be said that they really teach nothing - they are practicing what they preach and simply telling novices that it is that simple to prepare something edible for themselves to eat, and there is no need to follow a script.

Hunong cuisine is not really a sloppy dish. It is about being sloppy when necessary and serious when necessary. Therefore, the cooking process and ingredients of each meal of Hunong bloggers are hard to describe. Then you will be surprised to find that they even add a homemade dessert - as for how to make something as complicated as a dessert, don't worry, there is nothing that Jay Chou's endorsed hand-pulled pancake can't solve.

The famous red bean paste buns, purple potato pies and cheese pies are actually not difficult to make. Just put the ready-made fillings in, pinch the two ends, and put them in the air fryer. Facts have proved that without considering the calories, no matter how rough the mixture of sugar and oil is, it will always be above the bottom line of human taste.

As the saying goes, you can fool anything in life. No one sees how many socks you have collected before putting them in the washing machine. But it is easy to fool others. Only when it comes to eating, if you fool your taste buds, your taste buds will fool you.

Learning to eat by fooling around is not really fooling around, and it is not really not knowing how to cook. For example, people who know the business can see at a glance that the pot that some bloggers use for cooking and eating is a large iron pot that is convenient for flipping the spoon and is very exquisite. Under the requirement of rejecting the convenience of eating fine food and fine meat, the goal can be achieved by simplifying the process with the lowest cost, and a certain sense of ritual in life can be gained. This is the underlying logic and ultimate mystery.

The most eye-catching stroke of genius was definitely the way he threw the spoon into the empty pot to finish the meal after sweeping away all the food. All the criticisms were overshadowed, and those who criticized him for "wasting food" were blocked on the spot. Many people were happy to "learn from it".

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It is difficult to find the exact source of the inspiration for "learning by eating". On the one hand, it is a result of the scattered lives of today's workers. On the other hand, it is also a continuation of the life portraits of several generations of overseas students.

Lao Gan Ma and Coke chicken wings are common for them. Many people cannot adapt to the difference in diet, which leads to a sharp decline in their eating ability, so making foolish meals is considered a basic skill. YE-NONO, the up master of B station, has updated dozens of "Foolish Learning" videos. Her cooking style is based on the theme of "eating enough". Frozen vegetables, chicken breast, pasta, and corn chips are all common ingredients. Mix a few edible things together and you're basically done - although because she is not very good at cooking, netizens often get angry about some of her actions.

There are quite a few overseas video bloggers in similar situations. Most of them make a living on various advanced industrial semi-finished products supplemented with frozen or a small amount of fresh vegetables. Another similarity to the recently popular eating-food-fooding school in China is that everyone likes to use AI dialect dubbing, which, combined with their behavior of being able to make do with anything, makes people feel that they deserve a beating.

The price of eating out and the unreliable delivery of food have made many people seriously manage their own diet with the mentality of "anything is good to eat". They are quite common on the domestic Internet and often exchange experiences with each other.

Later, "Eating to Hunongxue" came out with a domestic special version, which was slightly different in taste, method, and even nutrition. After all, the domestic logistics industry is well-developed and there are many kinds of fresh vegetables. It has also become the most lifelike and sophisticated existence among the hunong dishes, and it must have a place.

The racial talent engraved in the DNA of the Chinese is not only reflected in growing vegetables, but also in eating vegetables. In addition to the solid data that the consumption of vegetables ranks first in the world, it may also be reflected in the envy of many people towards pigs.

There is a type of video blogger on social media who specializes in one type of content: making pig food.

You may have seen pig food in the pigsty. The appearance and color are very touching, but I really can’t see any ornamental value in making such things.

But that is not the case. According to the video, the piglets eat the same food as humans: every meal is seasonal vegetables from the farm, and the bamboo shoots that you haven't eaten yet have already become fat on their bodies. Pig food bloggers have discovered people's love for pig food cooking and have seized the new market.

Netizens were initially interested in the bloggers' skill. These vegetables were extremely easy to prepare. They washed off the mud, and then chopped them with a machete at double speed beside the stove. Then they were thrown into the pot and cooked until they were soft.

At first, watching people cutting vegetables was just a way to relieve stress, but over time, people got lost in the bright colors of vegetables, leaving only their appetite. In this type of video, the envy and jealousy of workers reached an unprecedented level, because piglets only need to do the simplest processing of food (not even peeling the skin) to harvest such rich dietary fiber and vitamins.

Even fantasies

It may seem rough, but it is actually both delicious and healthy. This may be the "ambition" of the School of Eating. Young workers who are unwilling to be completely tamed by industrialized diets are trying to gain deliciousness and health in the simplest way.

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It is undeniable that when eating and fooling around becomes a popular video category, the direction of pursuit will undergo strange changes. Some people seem to have the tendency to deviate from the original track and develop into a more chaotic and evil direction.

For example, using leftover takeout food as ingredients is not considered excessive in slapdash dishes, but the hygiene issues exposed under the camera are a bit frightening.

However, if you do not follow the rules acceptable to humans on the road of fooling around, you will probably lose yourself first - rice, noodles, dumplings, salad, and leftover soup can all be put into the same pot, which is fine in theory, but you will already have the sense of being on the "wrong path".

A chaotic stew

It may not be worth learning the cuisine of fools, but you can learn the essence from it, for example, you don't have to be trapped by the word "appropriate amount". Or maybe you can open up your cooking ideas, every food has another side, and every ingredient is not irreplaceable. You can also let go of the shackles of being a worker: in fact, many people in the world eat like this.

"Learning by fooling around with food" is the same as learning by fooling around with life. It can be called laziness, but when the pressure of life comes to every worker, fooling around can also become a kind of resistance - simplifying things, but never compromising.

Author: Platinum Isiah

Source public account: Game Research Society (ID: yysaag), studying games and everything else, looking at the world from an interesting perspective.