/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15831800
It's the altitude you faggot, stop making this thread

>>15831800
I’m gonna be making in-flight meals this summer. Ask me in a couple months

>>15831800
Order kosher, unironically, or enjoy your public school lunch faggot.

>>15831803
This is my second thread on /ck/. The only other one I made was about making truffles.

its processed under superior food safety aspects which, ofc, lower the quality of the meal. just use brain.

I unironically love airplane food. Objectively it's probably bad but I associate it with going to new places. The ritual of opening up all the little packages and selecting from the 2 or 3 options they give you is like a mini game to break up the monotony of the flight.

Western airplane food is shit, the meals on good carriers like the Japanese ones are much more palatable.

>>15831844
Definitely. Chicken on rice or stir-fried udon just goes better.

Then again, the Chinese and Japanese are on some next level shit with preserving their food

>>15831803
airplane food tastes the same even on the runway you moron. Ive tried it.

>>15831844
It also depends a lot on the cuisine I'd imagine. Simple, light meals designed around rice probably keep better.

>>15831857
>Next level shit when preserving food

Go ahead and name a more important invention in food preservation besides canning in the last 5000 years you weeaboo faggot.

>>15831875
Pasteursation homosituation

>>15831875
Have you not seen the weird shit they do there?

Ignore >>15831881

>>15831888
Yes, the same nation that invented canning invented pasteurization. Suckle more anime teat though.

>>15831898
Have sex.

>>15831898
What about the thing where they cover the food in cum and then a lady eats the food?

>>15831875
why is japanese cuisine so hilariously bad?
the main staple dish of nipponland is sushi which is literally just fish on rice
their curry is just watered soup
ramen is just inferior version of authentic Chinese noodles
even instant noodles is taiwanese (Chinese) and not from japan

why could the nips not make a satisfactory cuisine?

>>15831898
Why are you so obsessed with anime? No one even mentioned that shit

>>15831910
Curry udon is actually pretty alright, but aside from that, yeah, everything you just said. The only other stuff they eat are raw fish and raw eggs mixed into plain rice. They almost forgot how to cook

This really only applies to non-first class flyers. Even at the shittiest airlines that pretend to offer a full flight experience, first class is going to get you a meal that is, at worst, comparable to a mediocre restaurant.

For economy class food in particular, the answer is simple:
Most airlines would prefer not to serve you food at all or make it a really premium addon, due to the increased weight/logistical burden for customers that earn them significantly less than first class, but are still necessary. However, on longer flights there is increasingly liability in not offering meals, both for the mental and physical health of the passengers, so you wind up with stuff in the OP pic.

Certain airlines like ANA/JAL/Singapore Airlines offer better meals for economy, but even if you're flying out the US you are going to see the difference in ticket cost compared a more economy airline like United. Not sure of the actual logistics and economics behind this, however.

t. Flown in all classes on several airlines for various business trips. Actually got approval one year to exchange my annual bonus for first-class bump up. That was nice.

>>15831907
Hot.

>>15831910
Come up with some new pastas.

>>15831875
Freeze drying shit since it makes it last way longer by eliminating the moisture and is just straight up better for preservation than canning.

>>15831858
>he’s never made it off the ground
Ngmi bro

Turkish airlines and Singapore airlines have fucking bomb ass airline food. Wtf poorfag flights are you talking

I'll never forget that one time I took a domestic Chinese flight to another province and they attempted to serve chicken burgers. Had that while watching some Chinese Avengers movie where all the actors were warping into weird shapes and powers.

>>15831844
I've has some godawful meals on japanese flights, but generally, yeah, they're slightly better than average.

>>15831800
Air France has good meals, it's just the American airlines Jewing out

>>15832077
Eh, there's always EU airlines like Easyjet to compare with cheap American flights

>>15831844
This. American carriers have all gone to shit with their service cause of 9/11, where the airlines make "muh safety" take precedence over service...except it's false security and the airline industry is just using it to save a buck. Most classy foreign carriers still offer great service, food, drinks, and lounges.

>>15832094
You had jokes about airline food in the 80s-90s though, and people egging on how bad it had gotten. More than anything it had leveled out.
It used to be that flying in general was a premium experience that the average American could not afford to do with any frequency, and this was reflected in higher ticket prices, but also better amenities/food on average.

Now flights are about as affordable as they've ever been (not sure if COVID raised or lowered prices recently), but this also means the experience has been cheapened out in many ways as well.

>>15831800
I've not gone on such a long flight that required a meal in years. Family used to go on distant holidays when I was young.

Kind of miss it now. Novelty probably wouldn't hold up still though.

>>15831800
What airline and what route?

>he doesn't bring meals bought in the terminal on board

>>15831815
I fell for this meme a few years ago. Everyone told me kosher would be good. It was a bland mess.

>>15831800
Your sense of taste gets weaker at high altitudes. Airline food tastes weird because all the flavours are stronger (albeit not necessarily better) so that you can actually taste it at altitude. Regular food would taste kinda bland and unappetising in such a situation.

>>15832383
wrong, I had potato chips mid-flight and they tasted the exact same

>>15831889
This is unironically delicious
t.Teochew

>>15832407
You post on /ck/, so there's statistically an 80% chance you're a tastelet who could be fed plain oatmeal at 36,000ft and still think it's a taste sensation

>>15832432
>underrating oatz
so you're a baby palate AND a dyel, gotcha

>>15832341
>he doesn't bring food from home to the airplane
i always make tasty sandwhiches and rolls while all you other planecucks get the sloppa.

>>15831889
What I remember as chinese food growing up as a young kid in Hong Kong

>turtle/shark fin soup
>fried chicken feet
>pig uterus noodles
>fried rice with pork knuckle gristle
>unidentifed fish balls on a stick
>boiled dog meat
>one time, monkey brains

Americans have no idea how bad it really is. No one in china knows what the fuck beef and broccoli is or sweet and sour pork. Chinese food is disgusting. Literally the worst parts to eat of any animal. Makes sense because chinks are the race of humans closest to animals. They make disgusting noises when they eat, slurp everything, men in the streets lift their fucking wife beaters over their sweaty stomachs while laughing and chewing with their mouths full of food. Like what kind of idiot decided 2 sticks is the most practical way to eat grains of fucking rice. Starving Nigerians who eat grass have a better diet than the average chinese.

>>15831844
>like the Japanese ones

>>15831800
If you get bad food the next time you take a flight ask to see the chef. that's what I always do.

Pretty sure it is just American airlines with bad food. Both major japanese airlines, a hong kong airline, and any of the arab emirates or dubai airlines have good food. European airlines can be hit or miss, but still better than American.

>>15831800
Id probably blame the airlines catering partner. its not like those flight attendants are preparing it or cooking it in flight.

>>15831844
>Western airplane food is shit, the meals on good carriers like the Japanese ones are much more palatable.

>>15832115
the golden age of flight ended in the 80s when the government deregulated the airlines, that's when they started cramming people in like sardines and serving banquet frozen dinners instead of real food.

>>15831800

Because the job of an airliner isn't to serve you the most delicious meal in the world, it's to fly you from Point A to Point B. The food is there so people don't get hungry on a 7 hour flight across the Atlantic. They give you food that is cheap to make and easy to store before being cooked.

Its like asking why the MREs are so bad when you're on a multi day patrol, or why the food in prison sucks. It's an afterthought.

Last time I was on a long enough flight for a meal they just gave me an unremarkable ham sammy.

>>15831916
he's not, you just sound like a faggot. "dude the east asians are on some next level shit. their shit is next level. the next level shit was like, their shit." besides no one has refuted what he's said, meaning he was right about you being a shit talking retard that doesn't have any idea.

>>15832661
>>15833312
Say that to my face not online and see what happens

SEE WHAT HAPPENS NIGGA

>>15833981

>>15831800
things taste different at different altitudes.

>>15831800
Altitude. Your sense of smell is altered on a plane which is like half of how you taste.

>>15832792
Did you learn this from Google?
Because any economy domestic flight sucks. Regardless of what country the “domestic” is. JAL and ANA don’t do any domestic food better than Delta.
And there’s no such thing as a domestic Homg Kong flight; international food is always better, regardless of class and airline.

>>15831800
Because the air that high up is kind of weird so it affects how the food is cooked
For example, oil will now be heavier than water, so if you boil meat, it will deep fry on the bottom, etc
And I think salad goes bad a little faster so they don't keep much of it so the portions are small