/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5135453

>makes 6
>3 pockets

go get your money back

>>5135462
Let's see m8

I guess you could call arranging prepackaged portions of food in a kit as serving suggests "cooking". You have to start somewhere,

>>5135462
The pockets are meant to be broken in half.

>>5135463

*slightly interested*

b.but only 8oz of meat that's like 1.333333333333333333oz per half pita; which is pretty much just a salad with pita croûtons

>>5135469


MOTHER OF GOD....OP please seek immediate medical attention, your hand is burnt.

>>5135471
This is what's inside, tfw no Review Brah here.

>>5135453
Nigger.

>>5135479
I'd share a pita with you m8.

>>5135474

>exactly 18 strips of meat
>3 pitas
>cut in half

WTF, three paltry strips

>>5135490

well, you do have exceptionally manicured nails....

>>5135497
This shit broke off like chocolate.

>>5135503
It smells fucking rancid too.

>>5135500
Thanks I guess, I don't really do anything to my nails

>>5135503
What's wrong with your thumb? It's all dark-coloured and weird-looking.

>>5135511
>>>/pol/

>>5135490

I don't understand OP, are you completely impervious to pain...you have 3rd degree burns across 100% of your body that I can see?

I love gyros. This kit is edible but incredibly disappointing. Barely any meat and mediocre flavor, at least not enough to stand up to a pita.

What I would suggest is frying the meat and incorporating it into an omelette with feta.

>>5135519
I hope the meat actually becomes meat like

>>5135503

wait...chocolate?

aren't you supposed to defrost da shit?

>>5135511
>>5135516
I got into a lab accident.

>>5135525
tossing it in a frying pan to crisp it a bit usually improves it.

>>5135525

*waiting*

fucking deliver

>>5135527
>defrosting something that's meant or the microwave.

>>5135519
>>5135533
Sounds pretty good.

>>5135534
Here we go, it's malleable now, but very thin.

>>5135535

just because you "can" microwave something, doesn't mean it's the best way.

>>5135543

f.f.fuck me

My mother used to be these all the time.

Doesn't come with nearly enough cucumber sauce. And the meat isn't the best, but isn't terrible.

>>5135543
Wat in the fak is that shit? I'm eating here.

OP are you from Chicago?

This one place opened up like 2 years ago and has a set up like Subway where you can put basically anything on it.

I would not be adverse toward it becoming a chain.

>>5135549

It's a good thing I bought my own separate sauce, it might be the only good decision I've made regarding this whole ordeal.

>>5135555
Name of said place?

>>5135549
>used to be these
My condolences.

>>5135549

who the fuck learned you to spoke English?

>>5135564
gyros mena

pretty good quality as well

>>5135551
I think they are gyros. The key word here is "think"

>>5135559

DUDE...is that merican' jello salad?

>>5135570
>>5135578
That looks fucking disgusting..

>>5135570
those things just make you want an actual gyro

>>5135555

chitownfag here, never heard of this shit...pls explain.

>>5135549
>My mother used to be these all the time

>>5135579

what the fuck am I looking at?

>>5135580
Yeah, this thing tastes like it's giving me cancer or something...

>>5135555
We have many places like that in South Florida.

Gyroville is the closest one to me.
It's not bad, but the local Jewish Pita place is much better.

>>5135591
It's fucking gross don't ask.

>>5135549
I'm sorry to hear that man, I wish you nothing but the best.

>>5135593
is it all on skewers like this?

>>5135585

I think you're talking to a lamb/cow hybrid who's mother got spit roasted.

Wow, you actual nigger. You're supposed to add onions, tomatoes, and lettuce to your gyro as well.

>>5135614
>lettuce
>calling others niggers

>>5135608
Are you asking me about Gyros Mena? If so, I've never been, sorry.

>>5135614
meh they don't really add much. I usually put feta and onion on mine.

>>5135614
I have never eaten it with lettuce and it sounds pretty bad, depending on my mood I'll remove the tomato.

>>5135614
Your edginess is showing, bro.

And
>no cabbage
Complete fucking pleb

It actually reminds me of this and it's making me cringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvSPQ7megQ

>>5135623
Tomatoes are weird in that they can really elevate or ruin something. If they're greying and out of season or something they're horrible.

>tfw place near you has a 2 gyros for $6 deal on sundays

>>5135625

>>5135614

as much as I hate to agree with your bigoted ass in part...onion is a must but I could do without the other shit.

>>5135654
If I had an adequate amount of money I wouldn't have even considered buying this, I work with what I have.

can one of you gap toothed archipelago dwelling isolationists tell me how is gyro is a doner?

>>5135659

an onion would have cost you five pents...how poor are you?

>>5135669
pretty poor

>>5135669
>pents
Ya mean 'pence,' m8.

OP, this is soooooooo easy to make yourself.
It's the same process as a meatloaf. Mince some onion and garlic, combine with ground meat mixture and spices, bake like a meatloaf or in patties to freeze separately. Slice/grill. You can even make it ahead. I do the whole thing in my food processor. I ask the butcher for only like a 1/4lb of lamb, and then add pork or beef, or both to the processor to blend them. I use dried mint, oregano, paprika, salt, pepper.

To make the yogurt sauce, a tub of Cabot greek 10% fat, grate a clove of garlic, shred some cucumber (squeeze it out). There ya go. Kick it up how you wish, with mint or lemon zest.

On the sandwich itself, I like slivered onions, cucumber, tomato, not so much lettuce, nah. And a TON of sauce, mmm.

Everything freezes well, even the sauce which just needs a stir.

>>5135675

whatever, garbage currency you call dollars.

>>5135680
Man dude that sounds really great, I'll save that in a notepad document and do it layer.

>>5135453

please take a look at this and know that it's supposed to be real fucking meat and good

>>5135702
Fuck I wish I had that right now

>>5135702
i would destroy that hummus

That's the saddest kebab I've seen in my entire life.

>>5135516
SO funny.

>>5135832
This thread is still alive?

>>5135760
It ain't kebab.

>>5135760
who are doner?

>>5136023
It's simply the Turkic Deutschbags' gift to the world.

It's more than a thing, it's an idea.

Döner is kebab gone right.

>>5135680

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the fucking phone.

The meat on gyros is GROUND meat? I thought it was slices from a specific cut or something.

gyro is from the word gyroscope, ie rotating thingie. It was a GREEK thing, first, not Turkish.

One single turkish guy went to Germany, and using this rotating vertical spit, made some pork-free halal friendly version of the pita sandwich as he wished. His cheaper sauce without fresh dairy, and so forth. It caught on, he sold franchises.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, vertical meat spits went into restaurants with greek recipe and local recipes both. Tacos al pastor in Mexico City is one incarnation. In the US, which has zero problem with pork, the original gyro was the pork/lamb mixture that was sliced off the loaf, as it crisped up.

Meanwhile, back in Europe, people who had never been to greece or had no problem with pork themselves, were eating that lamb and porkfree doner kebab and mistakenly think it's somehow the original or the best of anything whatsoever. It's just one guy's recipe for his sandwich shop. Carry on now.

>>5136112
Those stacks of meat are ground and mixed with liquid, then re-formed into the shape you usually see. You can't possibly believe that a hunk of meat that big comes from any animal that's not at least as big as a large horse

>>5136112

>>5136191

I do feel really stupid, it's just one of those things I never really thought about.

>>5135555
>No plain tahini as a sauce

That's a shame.

>>5136247
I think originally, it was whole meat stacked onto the spit, and then sliced against the grain. A blend of meat. In the tacos al pastor example, it's pork, slices of pineapple, and lots of chili paste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tacos-al-Pastor.jpg

Originally, before the "loaf" a gyro was lamb and other meats stacked like that. It's even possible where you eat, it's still done like that, all dripping and cross marinating like that.

>>5136275
>Originally, before the "loaf" a gyro was lamb and other meats stacked like that. It's even possible where you eat, it's still done like that, all dripping and cross marinating like that

This how it still is at the Kosher Jewish place down the street.
Needless to say, it's the best gyro I've had.

>>5136275

Where might one go about procuring this "gyro loaf"?

>>5136289
It's sold frozen, usually, if you want premade.

It's easily made at home, same as meatloaf. Find a recipe, bake it, slice it. The key flavor is about 1/4th lamb.

>>5136305
how do you get it to be really dense? do you weigh down your loaf in the pan? how do you deal with the pooling fat? i tried a homemade gyro recipe and it came out fluffy.

>mfw Mediterranean place opens up near me
>it has the lamb tornado
>tried doner kebab for the first time

OH MY GOOOOOOD.

>>5136191

>>5136191
Some of them consist of stacked meat (e.g.: chicken, lamb).

Bump

>>5136460
fuck you op

>>5138430
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA