/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9507516
>prepared food is more expensive than unprepared food
hnggghhhh...OP...my almonds...ARE ACTIVATING

>>9507521
stop the shtick.
they are a ripoff man. a dollar for a tiny mini drumstick, but you can get 8 actual drumsticks for $3

>$5 for 30 wings
I should take a picture of the chicken at the grocery store. It's $1 for an entire chicken, about $2 for a massive bag of wings. Last time I grabbed two of the bags, it had more than enough for a party of 5.

OP is right about the wings. But eggs are worse. Then again I'm not much for going out for breakfast or brunch.

>>9507516
then make your own, you cheap ass faggot.

>>9507538
shit yes man $3 for 2 eggs lol like nigga what??
>>9507557
i do sweetie.

>>9507538
Where I am, eggs are dirt cheap. I could go to a restaurant and get a three egg meal any style with toast and homefries or hash for no more than $4. It's terrific.

My cousin has chickens and they sell me eggs for $2 a carton. Fresh as fuck, and I get about 12 eggs.

>>9507560
Waffle House menu

>>9507516
wings are $2.69/lb in boston and 10 wings at a restaurant is $10, so that's probably a 3.5x markup sold at the restaurant which is pretty normal actually

>>9507571

Eggs are normally a dollar for 12 at the grocery store here.

>>9507577
How the fuck does the calorie count not go up the way it seems like it should? I mean how is 3 eggs not triple the calories of 1?

>>9507577

Something about those calories doesn't seem to add up...

>>9507571
>My cousin has chickens and they sell me eggs for $2 a carton. Fresh as fuck, and I get about 12 eggs.
No offense my man but $2 for 12 eggs is literally super market prices, if not more expensive. You're getting ripped off by family, that shit's untoward

>>9507586
>>9507589
They probably kill the yolk after the first egg.

>>9507593
>>9507583
They actually need the income though. I could easily grab eggs at the store for less, but I have disposable income and they definitely do not.

>>9507589
Eggs are about 80 cals each so that first 300 cals is oil or fat

>>9507528
>$1 for an entire chicken
You mean per pound right? Whole chickens around here are like 99c a pound, so they come out to like $5-$7 depending on size.

>>9507578
bulk price would be $1.25/lb (8-12 pieces), thats probably store price which is high imo for wings.

>>9507577
Fake, has to be.. The calories make no sense, and is just genuinely illogical as a whole.

>>9507610
Nope. They are pre-gutted, necked, and halved. Definitely "whole". I'll nab the weight next time I glance.

>>9507617

>>9507617
>>9507589
>>9507586
70 calories per egg, 370 calories in butter/oil/lard/whatever the fuck.

>>9507628

This is the one it was actually from

>>9507637
>raisin toast and apple butter
my childhood....nigga where is this WH??

>>9507646
AZ but I assume others should have the same thing...

>>9507516
If I bought a Phillips air cooker, I would eat nothing but wings and potato wedges.

How do you boys cook your wangz? I prefer to marinate them in hot sauce then liberally season and roast at 400. Crispy skin, juicy meat, plenty of heat.

>>9507653
ill grill them unless i have my fryer up and running. then i
>coat with seasoned flour
>let sit 5 min
>recoat
>deep fry
the flour creates more sauce-holding crust.
>toss in franks with a few drops ghost chili sauce

>>9507653
I followed some recipe that works well. Basically you dust the wings with baking powder, then cook at like 250 for 30 minutes on a little raised baking rack so fat can drip off.
Then I just gently shift them around so they don't settle in too much and get stuck to the rack. Turn oven up to 400 and cook until golden brown and crispy.
The recipe doesn't say this, but after 1 side is done, the other is still a bit soggy and sometimes there's a pocket of fatty liquid building up under the skin. So I flip them over, drain the liquid and bake for another 5-7 minutes.
After they're done, toss them in sauce and eat.

>>9507516
>Is there a bigger ripoff than buffalo wangz? i say no, no fucking way.
I'd say pasta is a bigger ripoff. No way are most restaurants making fresh yolk-based pasta in-house from scratch or using a lot of good cheeses and butter-based roux in their sauces either.

you aren't supposed to make meals of that shit, it's a poverty candy.

>>9507527
>mfw every Monday at a local restaurant is wing night and they do $0.25/piece wings and I go get stuffed on $5

>>9507702
You go to some really shitty restaurants then.

>>9507653
Deep fry, toss in sauce, broiler.

>>9507711
Mfw you're a fat wad of dogshit

>>9507711
Even if the wings are shit I can't imagine they're selling at anything but a loss.

>>9507711
>getting stuffed on 20 wings

are you a little girl?

>>9507521
this is a case where it's beyond ridiculous though
OP is right
they are literally a dollar from garbage places like pizza hut and more from "wing places"

>>9507987
Probably have to buy a beer to get the deal

>>9507577
since an egg is 70 calories and t he calorie count goes up by 70 calories each time,
>>9507586
>>9507589
>>9507617
are retarded.
the fat used for cooking and whatever the place is including as a side or filler or whatever in the eggs will equal 370 calories.
i felt the need to type this because of how dumb those people were and i wanted to make them feel bad about their inadequate thinking skills.

>>9507710
>he doesn't know

>>9507989
i've3 never eaten more than twelve and i'm a big guy

>>9508068
UUUU!

>>9508068
This. I am like 22 stone and I can barely finish 12 wings.

To eat 20 or more, you have to be some whale.

>>9508068
>>9508082
>thinks the quantity of food someone can eat is dependant on their weight
That's why a majority of competition eaters are tiny ass Asian boys? Dipshits.

>>9508089
some whale or a bulimic twat*

>>9507516
>Is there a bigger ripoff than buffalo wangz?

Yes. "Bone-out wings" ... they're basically chicken nuggets for the price of wings. 6 fo $6. wow. such dealz. amazing.

>>9507989
>doesn't get stuffed on 20 wings
you must be a disgusting fat pig jesus.

>>9508105
At places like BWW, the boneless """wings""" are actually more expensive.

>>9508105
>>9508110
Getting boneless anything is dry redneck-tier garbage.

>>9507516
Make your own fucking wings you fag they're really easy. Make buttermilk with Lemon Juice and Milk, leave some wings in there for half an hour, then put some salt pepper hot chilli powder in some flour (i put shitloads of chilli powder and paprika).

Fry in about an inch of oil until it's cooked on the inside. Sick wangz and cheap af.

>>9508119
>boneless anything is dry redneck-tier garbage.

I'm not arguing, but I am curious how rednecks fit into that. I never made that connection. I would think the over-refined quality of "bone-out wings" would be more of a city/yuppie thing.

And I am posting this webm because I never get to post it.

>>9508150
Its neither redneck nor city thing. Its a children vs adult thing

>go to BWW and get boneless wings
>they're just glorified tendies
>go to BWW and get bone-in wings
>not cooked right, skin is soggy, the fucking bone is still cold

Why do people like this overrated meme garbage place?

>>9508068
>>9508082
140 lbs and I'd consider 15-18 wings with a beer to be a full meal.

>>9507571
>Fresh as fuck
is your cousin joe rogan by chance?

>>9508194
same reason flyovers go to olive garden for pasta.

>>9508304
>mfw seeing how busy the Olive Garden in times square is

>>9508068
for you

>>9508304
>only flyovers go to olive garden
Are you trying to be retarded? Flyovers go to fazolis. Olive garden is like a fine dining establishment around here

>>9508336
>Olive garden is like a fine dining establishment around here
Fuckin this
>get one of those shitty gift cards that apply to a bunch of restaurants that are all owned by the same company for christmas one year
>me and wife decide on olive garden since it seems the least shitty choice out of all of them
>the interior looks like they tried to make it "fancy", but all the decorations are just plastic painted to look like other materials(stained wood/metallic etc)
>almost everyone eating there are dressed up to some degree, some guys even wearing full suits like they're at a wedding or something
>then there's one table with a bunch of white trash looking redneck types, all of them wearing dumb shit like sweat pants with sandals and those tank tops with the sides split open
Olive Garden is a polarizing place, some seem to think it's a fine dining place, and some just use it as an all you can eat pasta buffet or whatever and show up in their finest sweat pants.

bonless "wings" are merely chicken nuggets, which consists of chemically separated chicken

>>9507629
Jesus, that's like half a stick of butter. Fine for the three eggs, but the single egg must be swimming.

>>9508359
The only thing made fresh is the soups, and they're actually pretty good. The rest is all overpriced boil in a bag meals. I like going for the soup salad and breadstick lunch.

>>9508360
>chemically separated chicken
I will assume you mean mechanically separated, but if not, what the fuck chemical would you use to separate meat?

>>9508360
i like chemically separated chicken
t.stomach

>>9507516
Welcome to the world of retail restaurants.

That $1 per pound is the RETAIL price, not wholesale, which is what the food industry gets, and it's much cheaper.

Pasta is worse, as it's about .30 cents a pound retail, probably half that price wholesale, and a quarter pound serving of pasta is huge and filling, so the average price for a serving of pasta is about maybe .10 cents per plate.

When you go out to eat, most of your cash goes into paying for everything BUT the food itself in something like this kind of order:
1. Rent for the location
2. Equipment purchase or lease costs and maintenance
3. Personnel payroll
4. Utilities
5. Taxes
6. Cost of the actual food and beverages.

Restaurants are for people that don't have kitchens, or are too stupid or lazy to cook for themselves.

>>9507629
theres obviously fucking toast or something with the eggs

did i just get trolled

>>9508503
This is mostly true. I was the head chef of two restaurants before I became a biochemist, and it is a real ripoff. However, if you can afford it, some restaurants truly are worth it.

>>9507516
You are paying for convenience. You are paying for time.
Not saying that you're wrong but that's what it's all about.

>>9508360
No it isn't retard.
Wyngz are mechanically seperated rib meat
Anything marketed as boneless "wings" have to contain wing meat.

>>9508576
How the fuck toast gonna be 370cal ?

>>9508591
>some restaurants truly are worth it.

Most aren't, and use the same Sysco products everybody else uses.

fuckin love wings bros
blanch in oil or fat at literally like 225,
fry till barely crispy, toss that bitch in something nice she's a good girl

>>9507646
All waffle.houses have rasin toast and apple butter, just ask for it. Comes standard with the Cheese n Eggs plate

>>9508368
Sarin

>>9508648
Maybe in flyover country

>>9507516
>Tyson chicken
Bha! It's worse than that. US FOODS/SYSCO industrial monsanto-fed GMO cheapest-wings-shekels-can-buy chicken.

You're paying for their rent of the building, their water and power bill, the cook, the dishwasher, the shift manager, the General Manager, the regional manager, the sexy receptionist at corperate, the Yum!-conglomerate yacht, etc etc.

AND everytime money changes hands in America, Jamal and Tyrone get a cut.

How does this situation not explain itself?

>>9509187
The best restaurants tend to be the small, privately owned places that survive because they can afford to buy and use good ingredients, and that's easier to do outside the urbanite coastal hell zones because the tax rates and real estate costs aren't constantly being manipulated by corrupt urban (((politicians))).

>>9509233
But there's also no incentive to buy good ingredients in rural areas because the people there usually don't have any idea of what makes a restaurant good and anything even remotely mediocre passes as a 4-5 star Yelp review whereas in the city there is enormous competition and coasties really care about farm to table/organic/locally sourced/etc so there's more incentive to be better. Plus you're demanding higher prices since everything costs more.

>>9509244
>this dumb post

>>9509244
>I grew up in a coastal hellhole and have literally never been anywhere else: the post

>>9509233
That literally doesn't happen in most of flyover country. Compare Pa & Ma's Gol'darned Homecook'in in Jeebusworshipville, AR to the northern CA wine country local restaurants. Sorry, your corn pone, farm raised, corn battered fried catfish with an appetizer of Tyson corn battered tenders and HFCS condiments with a side of Sysco iceberg lettuce and cardboard tomato won't make it past the first round. You live in HFCS corn, soybean and cotton country child, and unless you grow your own vegetables and meat you are severely limited.

>>9509362
I grew up on the coast my gf grew up in farmland, we've both been to each others' hometowns a number of times, I think I know what I'm talking about. Sorry I insulted your idea of fine dining, Meemaw's boiled meat and potato shack.

>>9508503
I remember back when I didn't cook for myself, I went to Olive Garden for their Endless Pasta for $10. I was happy about it too.
After I started cooking, I realize how much of a moron I was, lol.

>>9509486
>If I hurl more baseless insults I win the argument!
Doesn't work that way, coastie.

>>9508059
Yoor ai stewpid cuont.

Home cooking FTW

the best thing donald trump could do as president is make it so restaurants no longer have to put calories on menus

I miss my fucking outback cheese fries back when they were 25,000 calories a plate!

>>9508150
WTF my wife caught me watching that webm and laughing now she wants a divorce

A large soda cost about $.18 cents to pour into a cup

Sells upwards of $3

>>9510866
>chicken flies across the bathroom

lost.

>>9507516
>>9507527
>what is overhead cost of electricity, heat, tool, equipment, etc
>what is labour cost, which includes competency of doing a task so people don't get food poisoning
>what is advertising for the establishment so people come to the establishment to acquire the product you are selling

>>9507560
If you already make your own then why complain? Make your wings how you want to and let someone else be entrepreneurial and serve others who can't be bother to make their own food.

>>9511201
shut up.

>>9510877
so get a water

OP is a faggot of course, wings cost $$2.50-$3 a pound at Albertsons or WinCo.

What really confused me is how eggs can be 60 cents a dozen. How the fuck can that be profitable for anyone?

>Wangz
kill yourself

Its not a ripoff, you hobo.

Now that i think of it, if wings were any closer to that price, businesses would be flooded with hobo patronage.

Because people are willing to pay up when they eat out, you dumpster diving outcast.

>>9508359
Olive Garden is where poor people go to feel fancy. The food sucks but they don't know any better.

>>9511369

they dont pay the chickens dickhole

>>9507516
>Wangz are $1/lb
They're $2.50/lb where I live

i buy humane organic wings and they're just a little under $10/lb

>>9508150
Dude. I haven't laughed this fucking hard on chan in so long. I literally cried.

I laughed. I lost. Bless you based anon.

>>9511542
Same for chili's, TGI fridays, and other similar restaurants where they just heat up most of the food in a microwave.

Buy thighs, debone and skin them, cut across grain into 1in strips, coat with flour, spices, and panko, deep fry, cover with preferred sauce.
Fuck tenders, breasts, and wings.

>>9508082
>>9508068


Wtf. I'm like 230lbs and 12 wings isn't even an appetizer.

20 is the starting line.

>>9512946
>>9508068
>>9508082
>>9507989
>>9507711
If you're not some amerilard with no tastebuds who lathers his wings in dressing/blue cheese, 20 wings isn't that much.

>>9512953
Amerilard here that drenches his wings in ranch and always gets a side of fries and celery/carrots to drench in ranch.

20 wings still isn't that much.

Personally, I like to shove each individual hotwing into my urethra.

>>9512946
>>9512953
>>9512961
Oh look, the morbidly obese are here to tell us that 2,000 calories worth of hot wings are barely a snack. Loving every laugh, fatties.

>>9513055
Found the manlet.

>>9513097
t. Wal-mart cart user

>>9513097
Found the land whale

>>9508068
>>9508068
>>9508068
>>9508068

>>9511331

>>9507516
Yeah, that restaurant was built in your town for free. Everyone working there is doing it for free.
The electric company is giving them free electric while you sit there...

>so yeah, they are totally pocketing your $50!

>>9513055
I'm 115 pounds at 5'10, nice projection.

>>9508068
Yeah, a dozen is about where I sit, too.

>>9507516
>>9507516
Sounds like someone doesn't know how to make quality wings to me.

>>9511369
>60 cents a dozen

theyre fucking 40 cents a dozen here

>>9515785
TYHS

>>9510866
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