O/T Chef Bouillabaise FAIL

Yep he went to make a recipe that says "serves 6-8" however he interpreted 9 CUPS of seafood stock as 4.5 QUARTS . I make my own stocks that are CLEARLY labeled "4 cups or 2 quarts, etc." We had plenty of homemade stock and yet he used ALL the stock, went out and bought MORE!!!

I quickly quizzed Chef on common standard measures (heaven help him if I were to give him METRIC measurements) He did not know that 8 oz is a cup, 2 cups = pint, 4 cups = quarts and so on.

Stuff that was BURNED into my brain as a child. Chef went to a questionable school district, was a feral child and dropped out of high school.

He's eight years younger than me. I didn't know the educational system collapsed quite that quickly after 1977!!!

Does anyone else have a guy who mindlessly cooks for an army?? It's ONLY the two of us during the week. And sometimes my DS and his fiancee join us for Sunday dinner; to a lesser extent my DD and her husband.

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I always make my own

I always make my own vegetable stock, I looove the way the house smells when it's cooking all day.

How do you store yours? Or

How do you store yours? Or do you just make it as you need it? It seems like it would take up so much freezer space to freeze it, I suppose I need a deep freezer.

I have a deep freezer and I

I have a deep freezer and I store them in quart canning jars up to the shoulder to allow for expansion.

I still get confused by

I still get confused by cups/quarts/pints/ounces... etc... There's no rhyme or reason to it at all. That being said, I would certainly double check on something that large!

Give me metric, and I'm good. And I'm in the good ol' USA.

OK true story... I hate to

OK true story... I hate to cook, and thus I generally don't. Well the first year that DH and I were dating, I decided I was going to make thanksgiving dinner for he and I.. turkey, taters, stuffing the works. I was a nervous wreck! Had never made a multi course dinner like that in my 36 years. So it comes time to make the stuffing and I'm reading the directions (yes it was just stove top.. don't judge!) and it says 2 cups of water... but for some reason I was thinking that the number of servings made a difference and I had myself all flustered/confused, so I called my friend and asked her if I was supposed to add 2 cups of water total or 2 cups per serving?? She was like "OMG!!!! It's like a cake mix, just do what the box says!!!!" Of course the minute she said it, I felt like a total dip shit for asking... we still laugh about it 8 years later!

some of us really just need to stay out of the kitchen!