Thread by @jfruh

ok i'm a huge dummy about cooking and i have a hyperspecific cooking question that maybe a smart person here can help me with so i'm gonna tweet it out!!!

so BECAUSE i am a huge cooking dummy i ordered some meals last month from In Good Company, where local chefs make frozen versions of restaurant meals that you can heat up at home at your leisure. they've been great so far! eatigc.com

they come in washable, reusable metal containers, and in most cases you just stick these right in the oven to bake 'em

the ones i've made so far have had fairly specific instructions about the lid, and when/if you should take it off

but, the one i was planning on making today does not! it just says to "place dish into oven". obviously at stage 5 you've got to take the lid off, if it's on, but it doesn't say to take it off so does that mean it shouldn't be on in the first place?

i guess the other ones say to cover with foil. none of the recipies is really telling you to leave the metal lid on while cooking. is that for a good reason? would leaving it on be insane?

does it matter? am i gonna fuck this up???? i just want my duck w/biscuits to come out right damn it

lotsa people have strong opinions on this which would be more helpful if they were the SAME strong opinion

https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1382020378847895554

the sauce part is described on the label as a "rich broth," for maximum ambiguity. also i have contacted customer service, which for a food startup obviously means sending them an instagram message

anyhoo i do not want this to be interpreted as negative talk about in good company, which has so far provided me with multiple amazing meals that i can warm up at my leisure. i suspect if i do this "wrong" it's not going to make it inedible or anything

mostly feeling relieved that there isn't an obvious answer i'm too dumb to have recognized

i'm gonna split the difference and do it this way, which me luck y'all

https://twitter.com/monkeydavid/status/1382022986757074946

UPDATE: on a whim i called the restaurant, thinking "surely i will not be able to get ahold of the person who created this dish," and apparenatly the phone was answered by exactly that person, who told me: no lid!!!!

final update: good shit imo