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everyone has a favorite food item they splurge a little more on

whats your favorite?

I recently switched to buying more expensive brands of rice for jasmine, balsmati, and Japanese medium grain rice and damn does it make a big difference. I pay maybe 2-3x more than the regular shitty bulk stuff, but the texture and flavor are so much better. I still buy the cheap stuff occasionally but its tough to go back.

Also dairy. Be it butter be it milk I always spend more on dairy, Ronnybrook milk and butter has been such good shit to use as base for desserts.

If I had to pick one to keep expensive it would be the rice, cant live without it.

>> No.12900687

>>12900648
>tfw the runescape memories hit

>> No.12900815

>>12900687
I was bed ridden for a week so I fired up an account for old times sake.
OSRS has so much soul, but god damn is it repetitive.

>> No.12900842

Steak. I live near an amazing butcher shop with USDA choice and prime meats. Even the choice is amazing. The USDA choice from the supermarket doesn't compare. They even carry hanger steak, which I haven't seen anywhere else. When I want a proper steak dinner, I get the good stuff. For my birthday, I like to go even fancier and get dry-aged steak. Last year I got myself a massive ribeye and ate it with pieces of Parmigiano Reggiano and gorgonzola. It was absolute steak perfection.

The difference between supermarket steak and steak from a proper butcher shop is definitely worth the price difference.

>> No.12900854

>>12900648
Can you say a little more about the "better" rice?
Given that ordinary long grain white rice is ~$0.59/pound pretty much anyone can afford to upgrade. But honestly, I dont even know how. Its all a mystery to me, what should I get, and how does the cooking method change when I get something "better"?

>> No.12900917

>>12900648
interesting. I stepped up my rice game by doing the opposite. I used to buy the more expensive 1kg rice from the supermarket and now i buy 10kg sacks from the chinese grocer, which are generally better (although it's a bit of a gamble) and around 2-3 times cheaper

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12900928

>>12900648
Butter, because I like to bake.
Sometimes I like to buy the expensive milk. Fairlife is pretty good.

>> No.12901000

>>12900928
Ultra Filtered milk is god tier for cooking.
Also really good if you don't like the pungent after taster too just by itself.

>> No.12901045

>>12900648
for anyone that splurges on tea or is well-versed, i want to make iced-tea but i hate how it tastes will like the regular store-bought packets; is there any type that tastes well iced? or is there no use in trying to get it to taste good on itself?

>> No.12901234

>>12900648
rice obviously, local normies recently discovered rice is more than just their too lazy to make a salad food and it pains me to see the bags get marked up each time i visit the asian market
also fruit, i eat so much fruit, i cant stand to live off apples, oranges and bananas. I eat pineapple, mango, melon, papaya, passion fruit and all sorth of off season stuff, you have no idea how much i have paid for cherries and strawberries.

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>>12900648
>pic
I miss playing runescape with frens in a time before responsibilities and obligations and work and school. Country roads, take me home.