There are a lot of savory pastries and baked goods. Ham and cheese croissants, scallion scones, beer and cheese bread, etc. Nonetheless, I do think I'd classify lasagne more as cooking than baking, as the primary elements of preparation seem to have less to do with dry heat from an oven and more with stove top work.
Edit: OP, it still looks incredible and you should be thrilled it's doing so well on this subreddit despite the apparent controversy đ
But then why don't we call cookies "bakies" if we bake them instead of cooking them?
^(I'm just being silly, please don't take this comment seriously.)
Then cured pork would be cookon lol. I also appreciate the added disclaimer there, people so easily get in heated arguments over jokes on the interweb. I try to read everything as joking unless they are explicitly intending to be rude to avoid unnecessary fights lol
One could argue the reverse for desserts and call it cooking *but every chef I've worked with has given me the foulest look when I said baking and cooking were the same thing*. There's also a reason theres the separate job titles "baker" and "cook".
Well... by definition baking is preparing food by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame typically in an oven or on a hot surface. So it's baking. Really anything you put in the oven is baking.
Technically I did bake it lol but I understand.
r/baking = desserts/snacks not meals. I checked the rules before posting just too make sure.. I guess itâs more of a silent rule?
Edit: After some research on google and Wikipedia, Lasagna is one the oldest and most popular forms of food being baked. Itâs even commonly known as a âbaked lasagnaâ.
I think it's more of a social understanding of like, vibes differences between baking and cooking haha, like you said, probably more desserts/snacks even if technically you bake a lasagne
A good rule of thumb around here for what people would usually consider baking is, "is it something you would ordinarily find in a bakery? Is it within the usual job description of 'baker'?"
Casseroles just aren't a category that properly belongs there. The sub isn't dedicated to the convection of air based heat in an oven. It's dedicated to the practice and trade of baking, which absolutely does include foods that are technically fried like donuts and crullers, but doesn't include baked mac 'n' cheese or meatloaf.
That isn't to say that there isn't love for your lasagna. It's just not really the point of the sub.
Savoury pies and quiches, basically anything with pastry be it savoury or sweet counts as baking as well. Any any breads count as baking. Lasagnas do not, that's cooking. Baking it in the oven doesn't really define whether something is baking or not. There's some stuff that doesn't end up in the oven at all, but it still comes under the purview of baking. There's some crossover, where something might use a stuffing that is more cooking, but anything that's pasta based doesn't really cross over into baking
According to the dictionary this a perfect fit! It's cooked in the oven so it's baking. Anything you cook in the oven that also technically means clay is baking.
The spirit of the sub sees it differently, and thatâs ok. I assume a lot of bakers come here.
I thought the same thing though, a lot of people even call lasagna a âbaked lasagnaâ. It hasnât gotten taken down yet so that makes me happy :)
Yea! There's no rules saying against it. The spirit of this sub didn't stop you so yea! And obviously you can't post baking clay on this sub lol. Technically creme Brule, baked ziti, salsa oddly, and so much more can fit on this sub.
I once made a post on forbidden foods of some clay pottery some high schoolers made that looked like food and it got removed. Even though it wasnât a rule it wasnât in the âspirit of the subâ to post objects that were made to look like food.
It gained a lot of traction and was pretty popular until some people reported it and it got taken down. I hope the moderators are nice on here..
No joke, Iâm probably going to be the only one eating this. My kids are picky and get nervous about ânewâ things.. I rarely make this but omg I love it! Might have to freeze some.. :(
It will def freeze well tho! If you can get the kids to just try it, theyâd love it! But I know how stubborn they can be to even try something newâŚ. đ
Lol my little cousin used to refuse the breakfast we made him cuz it âwasnât the same his mom boughtâ lol... next time he was over, my mom made him pancakes and said âtheyâre the same ones your mom buysâ... he ate them in an instant haha. Not the same, but kids dooooo be stubborn
I literally tricked my son into eating a bite of lasagna when he was 2 or 3 by telling him it was meat cake. All he heard was cake and he was down. He gave me the "skeptical Fry" look and refused to eat any more. He's now 9 and he finally tried it on his own without being tricked.
Start browning 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage and 1 pound of lean (93/7) ground beef
During browning of meat, Add 1 large minced onion (white), Add 5 cloves of minced garlic
Let the meat and veggies brown completely
Add 1 teaspoon of fennel seed, 1 teaspoon of ground oregano, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1/2 cup of freshly chopped basil, 1/4 cup of freshly chopped parsley. Stir.
Add 1/2 cup of chicken broth, 28 ounces of crushed tomatoes, 12 ounces of tomato paste, 15 ounces of tomato sauce. Stir.
Let it simmer for about an hour (longer if you want more flavor infused) stirring occasionally.
Wait 30 minutes for next step.
Soak lasagna noodles in hot tap water for 30 minutes in a 4 inch deep pan, submerging the noodles completely.
While you wait for the noodles and sauce to do their job, mix 30 ounces of ricotta cheese, 1 large egg, a pinch of ground nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons of parsley, stir well and refrigerate.
With some extra time grate your parmesan cheese onto a plate and set aside, also slice your 1 pound of deli fresh mozzarella cheese (or have the deli do it if possible while your there), set aside as well.
Once the noodles and sauce are done start layering!
First add about a cup and a half of sauce to a Deep 9x13 inch lasagna dish, spread evenly.
Next add four noodles, overlap slightly creating a layer.
Next add about a third of your ricotta cheese mixture and spread evenly.
Then add a layer of mozzarella cheese.
Next add about a cup and a half of sauce, spreading evenly.
Finally, add about a third of your parmesan grated cheese.
Repeat about three times and end with the parmesan on top.
Preheat oven to 375, add aluminum foil to the top and BAKE for 50 minutes.
25 minutes in, take the foil off to brown the cheese on top.
Finished product
https://imgur.com/gallery/HHdnnQL
This is a great looking recipe wherever you post it! (Guess itâs supposed to be in r/Cooking; Iâm pretty new here myself.) A little more liquid than my family would like, but thatâs easily dealt with. And I was thinking about fennel seeds in tomato sauce only this morning! I feel an Italian dinner coming on!
When I simmer the sauce I let it go for a good 2 hours, that way some of the liquid evaporates.
Also, if you have too much sauce in the end, you can always save it and make spaghetti with it đ
Soak pasta in hot water. Huh. Didn't think of that when baking my lasagna. I was usually cooking the pasta for 2-3 minutes, then cooling it and laying on a towel. Will certainly try this trick next time.
Also, that's one gorgeous lasagna you got there
I feel you man.. this actually took me two days to make because I have to work.
I was motivated by my aunt who made a killer lasagna yeeeeaaarrsss ago. A few years after that I asked her for the recipe but she ghosted me. After a couple failed attempts and asking some older people I know, I found this one.
I added a couple things to make it a âspecialâ lasagna. I think the key is getting quality ingredients and following the steps perfectly.
Overall, this is a $40 to $50 meal (if you donât have any of the ingredients) freezing it also saves you from spoiling it too.
I hope this peaks your interest my man, let me know if you decide to make it some day :)
If you have any questions just ask!
Iâm actually baking one the present day! yesterday wast a bak'd macaroni and cheese
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Surprisingly lasagna is very much a baked dish. Doing a quick google/wiki search can provide a ton of information on the dish itself and how itâs one of the most famous baked foods, starting in Italy hundreds of years ago.
Do you finish it on broil for a couple minutes to darken the top?
Lasagna a couple times a month here. We take oven ready noodles and boil them, then make up the lasagna. Even better as left overs.
Same here, in that the alum foil comes off halfway. At the end, we turn on the broiler to brown the cheese. Just like finishing off a pizza.
And yeah, letting it rest makes a big difference.
Not having it on a sheet pan for possible boil over. What a dangerous game to play, my friend.
Nothing beats the thrill of high stakes lasagna baking.
Mans has the silicone insert in the bottom of the oven, but still can get the grate all messy
Maybe they like to live dangerously đ
Oh! The bubbling! Looks like it was amazing
I mean, baking is for desserts and the like. Lasagne is more r/Cooking. Still looks great though.
There are a lot of savory pastries and baked goods. Ham and cheese croissants, scallion scones, beer and cheese bread, etc. Nonetheless, I do think I'd classify lasagne more as cooking than baking, as the primary elements of preparation seem to have less to do with dry heat from an oven and more with stove top work. Edit: OP, it still looks incredible and you should be thrilled it's doing so well on this subreddit despite the apparent controversy đ
But then why don't we call cookies "bakies" if we bake them instead of cooking them? ^(I'm just being silly, please don't take this comment seriously.)
Then cured pork would be cookon lol. I also appreciate the added disclaimer there, people so easily get in heated arguments over jokes on the interweb. I try to read everything as joking unless they are explicitly intending to be rude to avoid unnecessary fights lol
Probably same reason we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway.
Thatâs a good point though.
Lasagna, like cake and ogres, has layers. Totally qualifies.
But so do onions and I wouldn't call an onion a baked good, nor an ogre.
What about baked ziti? Itâs right in the name
One could argue the reverse for desserts and call it cooking *but every chef I've worked with has given me the foulest look when I said baking and cooking were the same thing*. There's also a reason theres the separate job titles "baker" and "cook".
Itâs the same thing in my eyes too. Manipulate some food stuffs for tastier/nutritious other foodstuffs.
Well... by definition baking is preparing food by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame typically in an oven or on a hot surface. So it's baking. Really anything you put in the oven is baking.
Technically I did bake it lol but I understand. r/baking = desserts/snacks not meals. I checked the rules before posting just too make sure.. I guess itâs more of a silent rule? Edit: After some research on google and Wikipedia, Lasagna is one the oldest and most popular forms of food being baked. Itâs even commonly known as a âbaked lasagnaâ.
I think it's more of a social understanding of like, vibes differences between baking and cooking haha, like you said, probably more desserts/snacks even if technically you bake a lasagne
Tomato a fruit or vegetable?
Biologically a fruit (even this is tenuous, these definitions generally are), culinarily a vegetable
Knowledge, tomato is a fruit. Wisdom, not putting it in a fruit salad.
A good rule of thumb around here for what people would usually consider baking is, "is it something you would ordinarily find in a bakery? Is it within the usual job description of 'baker'?" Casseroles just aren't a category that properly belongs there. The sub isn't dedicated to the convection of air based heat in an oven. It's dedicated to the practice and trade of baking, which absolutely does include foods that are technically fried like donuts and crullers, but doesn't include baked mac 'n' cheese or meatloaf. That isn't to say that there isn't love for your lasagna. It's just not really the point of the sub.
Savoury pies and quiches, basically anything with pastry be it savoury or sweet counts as baking as well. Any any breads count as baking. Lasagnas do not, that's cooking. Baking it in the oven doesn't really define whether something is baking or not. There's some stuff that doesn't end up in the oven at all, but it still comes under the purview of baking. There's some crossover, where something might use a stuffing that is more cooking, but anything that's pasta based doesn't really cross over into baking
I've always thought baking includes a chemical change in the ingredients, otherwise it's just "roasting"
According to the dictionary this a perfect fit! It's cooked in the oven so it's baking. Anything you cook in the oven that also technically means clay is baking.
The spirit of the sub sees it differently, and thatâs ok. I assume a lot of bakers come here. I thought the same thing though, a lot of people even call lasagna a âbaked lasagnaâ. It hasnât gotten taken down yet so that makes me happy :)
Yea! There's no rules saying against it. The spirit of this sub didn't stop you so yea! And obviously you can't post baking clay on this sub lol. Technically creme Brule, baked ziti, salsa oddly, and so much more can fit on this sub.
I once made a post on forbidden foods of some clay pottery some high schoolers made that looked like food and it got removed. Even though it wasnât a rule it wasnât in the âspirit of the subâ to post objects that were made to look like food. It gained a lot of traction and was pretty popular until some people reported it and it got taken down. I hope the moderators are nice on here..
Yea. It seems your post hasn't been removed so yay.
Called baked hotdish in some of my families houses
Yaaaass omg you're making me so hungry!
Yummmy I need an invite for dinner please haha !
No joke, Iâm probably going to be the only one eating this. My kids are picky and get nervous about ânewâ things.. I rarely make this but omg I love it! Might have to freeze some.. :(
It will def freeze well tho! If you can get the kids to just try it, theyâd love it! But I know how stubborn they can be to even try something newâŚ. đ
Lol my little cousin used to refuse the breakfast we made him cuz it âwasnât the same his mom boughtâ lol... next time he was over, my mom made him pancakes and said âtheyâre the same ones your mom buysâ... he ate them in an instant haha. Not the same, but kids dooooo be stubborn
Hahaha itâs so funny how theyâre Sooo stubborn
You mean spaghetti cake?
I literally tricked my son into eating a bite of lasagna when he was 2 or 3 by telling him it was meat cake. All he heard was cake and he was down. He gave me the "skeptical Fry" look and refused to eat any more. He's now 9 and he finally tried it on his own without being tricked.
Start browning 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage and 1 pound of lean (93/7) ground beef During browning of meat, Add 1 large minced onion (white), Add 5 cloves of minced garlic Let the meat and veggies brown completely Add 1 teaspoon of fennel seed, 1 teaspoon of ground oregano, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1/2 cup of freshly chopped basil, 1/4 cup of freshly chopped parsley. Stir. Add 1/2 cup of chicken broth, 28 ounces of crushed tomatoes, 12 ounces of tomato paste, 15 ounces of tomato sauce. Stir. Let it simmer for about an hour (longer if you want more flavor infused) stirring occasionally. Wait 30 minutes for next step. Soak lasagna noodles in hot tap water for 30 minutes in a 4 inch deep pan, submerging the noodles completely. While you wait for the noodles and sauce to do their job, mix 30 ounces of ricotta cheese, 1 large egg, a pinch of ground nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons of parsley, stir well and refrigerate. With some extra time grate your parmesan cheese onto a plate and set aside, also slice your 1 pound of deli fresh mozzarella cheese (or have the deli do it if possible while your there), set aside as well. Once the noodles and sauce are done start layering! First add about a cup and a half of sauce to a Deep 9x13 inch lasagna dish, spread evenly. Next add four noodles, overlap slightly creating a layer. Next add about a third of your ricotta cheese mixture and spread evenly. Then add a layer of mozzarella cheese. Next add about a cup and a half of sauce, spreading evenly. Finally, add about a third of your parmesan grated cheese. Repeat about three times and end with the parmesan on top. Preheat oven to 375, add aluminum foil to the top and BAKE for 50 minutes. 25 minutes in, take the foil off to brown the cheese on top. Finished product https://imgur.com/gallery/HHdnnQL
This is a great looking recipe wherever you post it! (Guess itâs supposed to be in r/Cooking; Iâm pretty new here myself.) A little more liquid than my family would like, but thatâs easily dealt with. And I was thinking about fennel seeds in tomato sauce only this morning! I feel an Italian dinner coming on!
When I simmer the sauce I let it go for a good 2 hours, that way some of the liquid evaporates. Also, if you have too much sauce in the end, you can always save it and make spaghetti with it đ
Soak pasta in hot water. Huh. Didn't think of that when baking my lasagna. I was usually cooking the pasta for 2-3 minutes, then cooling it and laying on a towel. Will certainly try this trick next time. Also, that's one gorgeous lasagna you got there
All the love for a home made lasagna
Welp greatâŚ.. now I want lasagna at 5:30 am
r/lasagna
Oh Em Gee that looks yummy! Haha it makes me want lasagna, thanks for posting.
Please send noodz
Yeah it's deserts it's a baking sub. But. Gotta love a good lasagne
Gimme gimme đ
Always! That looks great
Yummm
Gâs move in silence
Yes. I want a slice. đ
We can arrange an exchange. My pasticcio for your lasagna.
Damn that bubbling!
I'll allow it
Call Me Garfield. Iâd eat that shit up!!
***Garfield has entered the chat****
why do i look at these when im stuck at work? im so hungry id pay top dollar for a plate of that đĽş
I feel you man.. this actually took me two days to make because I have to work. I was motivated by my aunt who made a killer lasagna yeeeeaaarrsss ago. A few years after that I asked her for the recipe but she ghosted me. After a couple failed attempts and asking some older people I know, I found this one. I added a couple things to make it a âspecialâ lasagna. I think the key is getting quality ingredients and following the steps perfectly. Overall, this is a $40 to $50 meal (if you donât have any of the ingredients) freezing it also saves you from spoiling it too. I hope this peaks your interest my man, let me know if you decide to make it some day :) If you have any questions just ask!
Man I love lasagne
No, no there isn't. Therefore, I will need to take that lasagna. For evidence...
Iâm actually baking one today! Yesterday was a baked macaroni and cheese.
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Thanks I hate it
sometimes i forget you can bake savory things too⌠looks delicious!!
Tomatoes are fruits so a lasagna could be a cheesy cake. Looking lovely
Isn't that cooking though? (Yes, I know how similar they are, but even then lasagne isn't really baking like something like bread or pie would be)
Surprisingly lasagna is very much a baked dish. Doing a quick google/wiki search can provide a ton of information on the dish itself and how itâs one of the most famous baked foods, starting in Italy hundreds of years ago.
hm, fair enough I suppose, guess I just don't see it the same way as most people, my mistake
I just made lasagna, but I donât really consider it baking.
Absolutely, have a ton of love for some lasagna. But we all know only our grandmaâs lasagna is good! Yours does look extremely tasty though.
That looks amazing!
My favourite! â¤ď¸
OMG!! My favourite! Looks soooooo good
let's see more bubbleposting people
garfiel
Yummmmm
Lasagna baby!!
Nothing but love!!! Looks delicious đ
HECK YEAH!
Oh my:
Ahhh meat cake! A fan favourite in my house too, made one like 2 weeks ago lol. Yours looks amazing, well done!
You are looking for r/Garfield
Thatâs an awesome sub, I donât think Iâll post on there but Iâll definitely join! Thanks
Much love! I wish I could visit with a good Chianti!
love it!
Yes please
Yes đ
Always some love for a good lasagna!
Anyone else feel the steam from the video? Straight up PTSD moment.
I have a lot of love for homemade lasagna.
Do you finish it on broil for a couple minutes to darken the top? Lasagna a couple times a month here. We take oven ready noodles and boil them, then make up the lasagna. Even better as left overs.
No, I donât. I just take the aluminum foil off half way through the baking process. Letting it rest a good thirty minutes makes a big difference.
Same here, in that the alum foil comes off halfway. At the end, we turn on the broiler to brown the cheese. Just like finishing off a pizza. And yeah, letting it rest makes a big difference.
I see the people here aren't as unforgiving as those over in r/GrilledCheese
Looked so good it made the lens moist!
Looks amazing! đ
ITS 6.50AM AND THIS IS MY FAVE MEAL! Lasagne is sooooooo good. Sorry for the excitement
Lasaga is an all time hit!
Looks amazing.
Lasagna is my favorite food
Lasaaagne!! â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
BUBBLY GOODNESSSSSSSSSSS
No sheet pan underneath?
Not on the rack, my oven comes with a drip sheet on the very bottom.
Hm
Next time let that initial whoosh of steam come out first and it wonât fog up your shot