Do You Listen To Music While Cooking?

[black]

If so, what is your style?

[Jor el]

Big Band Standards Lounge type dealio

[RAGER]

I like to listen to something kinda chill like some Bill Evans Trio or Com Truise.

[black]

I usually go for Be-Bop Jazz or some Lounge stuff as well. But the last few evenings I've been on a Gangsta Rap mix while preparing supper. Something about the relentless beat seems to help me focus on timing/priorities. It all made me curious as to what others listen to.

[Adam]

When I remember to.

I have noticed Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii is frequently the music of choice. Though I did mix it up by going for some Nirvana Live at Reading the other week.

[khoomeizhi]

sometimes, and it could be anything. reggae, filthy sludge, ali farka toure...etc. if the lady's cooking, she'll frequently get me to read to her instead.

i definitely listen to music if i'm doing dishes.

[black]

Reading to someone is cool.
Reading to someone you are pair-bonded to is romantic.

[deleted account]

either music or sports talk or sports

[black]

In particular genre of music?

[deleted account]

whatever the bong tells me to play

[black]

The Bong Is Never Wrong.

[johnny problem]

I like it heavy, or hip hop.

[mortlock]

jazz/classical/sports/coast to coast am..

[MadJohnShaft]

Random iTunes or iPhone collections, I have 4 to chose from.

I found LPs not so good - you have to keep flipping the LP every 20 minutes. Pain in ass.

[RAGER]

Hire a dj. Duh.

[MadJohnShaft]

That's really more of a general discussion type of response

[peoplething]

When I read this thread last week I realized I never have music on when I'm cooking. A couple reasons are my main rig is in the basement, and the kid or wife is usually watching TV 8 feet away. Plus with my compound discs packed away in boxes, the only thing I can transport music on is an ancient iProd nano in a bad need of software fixing and organizing... and I never seem to have the motivation to futz around with it.

I've got like three docks for it though.

I need to change this 'no cooking music' thing....

[black]

Do it!
Everything tastes better when music is part of the recipe.

[RAGER]

Another thing I often do since the door to my synth/guitar/jam lair is in the kitchen, I will go downstairs and get some random lfo swells with massive delays going and just let that play and morph into whatever it wants and leave the door open.

[black]

Cool.
I was actually wondering if you did that!

[MadJohnShaft]

One day this last summer I realized how important it is for me to shut the windows. I have music on random play and later I went to throw out the garbage and realized how loud It was outside.

I had Julia walk way to the other side of the alley just to try it out and she's like yeah it's just like you're sitting inside our house -  incredibly loud, concert volume.

They're probably giving me a pass cause I was shoveling out the alley.

[RAGER]

If any neighbors ever complain to me, I would tell them to shovel it out their alley

[peoplething]

Update:

I am retarded.

Update 2:

A few months ago I "re-purposed" an old work computer for my TV. For christmas I got a bluetooth fob & speaker dealeo. It's far from top quality HI-FI sound, but it works well enough and I can stream pretty much anything I want.

Last night was heavy psyche whole wheat biscuits and gravy. My wife and I both agreed those were some of the best biscuits we ever had.

[black]

Nice!

I'm finding that music while cooking beats listening to the news or whatever is on TV by a mile.