/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14128781]

>"just make it yourself anon, it will be cheaper and it will taste better"
>make it myself
>its not cheaper and it doesn't taste better

[Anonymous No.14128801]

What dish are we talking about here

[Anonymous No.14128805]

>>14128801
all of them

[Anonymous No.14128808]

git gud

[Anonymous No.14128813]

>>14128808
/thread

[Anonymous No.14128850]

>>14128781
>just be yourself anon, people will like you just the way you are
>be myself
>people hate me

[Anonymous No.14129014]

>>14128781
eh lasagna is more expensive to make, its more fun for senpai activity.. but, just buying the frozen stuff is cheaper 8 bucks vs 15 for handmade.

[Anonymous No.14129026]

>>14128850
Maybe you stink.

[Anonymous No.14129028]

>>14129014
Come to think of it, this price difference kind of makes sense if you consider that perhaps the store-bought lasagnas also use cheap ass ingredients.

[Anonymous No.14129034]

Niggas always be like "it's cheaper bro" but then never tell you you have to buy 60 dollars of ingredients and supplies and shit.

sure I get it, you make it yourself and if you did it all by the pound you could bring the cost down to say like 5 bucks. but you aren't spending just 5 dollars for that burger, you're spending all the other money too. where as you can just go to like maccas or whatever and spend 3 bucks on a burger and be done with it.

and yes, I also understand it allows you to make more than one, but who's sitting there and gonna make 10 burgers and eat them all? no one, and you'd sick of them by the 3rd day. if I want to just eat one burger, I just go and buy one because it is cheaper. and also does typically taste better and at worst just as good as something home made

[Anonymous No.14129035]

>>14129014
store bought lasagne is awful though

[Anonymous No.14129042]

>>14129034
>make 10 burgers and eat them all?
Me.
>but it's BOOOOORING
Faggot.

[Anonymous No.14129046]

>>14129028
yeah, most of them will skimp on the cheese and meat too, so you're mostly just getting pasta and sauce. a lot of frozen foods do that, you can tell with frozen pizzas especially that a lot of them use a really thick crust and hardly any cheese.

[Anonymous No.14129064]

>>14129034
I get ur point, but I mean that's what dressings, toppings, sauces, and other quick foods are for. Keep a small rotation of a few dishes at any one time. Freeze stuff if you have to. Being frugal doesn't have to be boring, you just gotta get a little creative with it so ur not eating the same dish for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for a week at a time lol

[Anonymous No.14129072]

>>14128781
If you decide to fix your car by yourself it's cheaper and better, but only if you know what you're doing

[Anonymous No.14129082]

>>14129034
Yep. Exactly this. You've either gotta be autistically obsessed at the store about putting together a menu for the week that you WILL NOT deviate from, or it becomes cost ineffective. It completely disregards having a craving that day, your friends inviting you out to watch the game, etc. And these people assume you know how to cook all of these dishes and aren't going to get some bungled shit facsimile of whatever you tried to make.

I can only respect the "eat in for every meal" people if they're true poorfags with no other choice or in a family/relationship scenario where it's a guarantee they will not only be stuck in at home but have other people to eat with so they're not eating the same slop for a week straight to save a buck.

Doesn't work for single people or those with lives.

[Anonymous No.14129181]

>>14129082

I dunno worked for me maybe your food sucked :^)

[Anonymous No.14129198]

>>14129181
I'll admit I'm not a great cook. But that's why being told eating at home is always better is complete bullshit and mostly seems to serve people's egos. I'd say 70%+ of the time that someone tells me they're a really good cook, they're not, and I have to smile and tell them it's wonderful as not to offend.

I pretty much firmly believe that unless you work in cooking or have at some point, you're probably not a good cook, just used to making the same shit you've always made.

[Anonymous No.14129223]

>>14128781
You just have to accept that you have downs. Gets some help with everyday tasks and dont worry about condoms because that extra chromosome makes you sterile.

[Anonymous No.14129230]

>buy a steak
>cook it
$10

>Go to restaurant
>order steak
$30 + tip

[Anonymous No.14129232]

>>14129198
Uneducated peasants cant cook good food and manage a pantry. Youre jus a failure.

[Anonymous No.14129237]

>>14129034
>buy a pound of ground chuck
>use bread you have at home
wow I just made a burger and I have some leftover ground chuck for other dishes

[Anonymous No.14129241]

>>14129232
I'm good at plenty of other shit in my life which is why I make enough money to not need to have autism about saving a few dollars on food.

[Anonymous No.14129254]

>>14129241
You miss understand. Its so easy to manage that you dont have to put much thought or effort into it. You know this deep down. Which is why your here in a thread trying to justify your incompetence to strangers.

[Anonymous No.14129259]

>>14129237
>go to the bakery section
>get a bun for 60 cents

[Anonymous No.14129262]

>>14128805
such as

[Anonymous No.14129267]

>>14129082
I see what you're saying dude but it works fine once you get good at cooking and can improvise ways to use stuff up.

[Anonymous No.14129308]

>>14129254
I didn't make this thread. I just agree with OP and the dude talking about making 10 burgers. It's not as easy as you think, especially when pressed for time having a real adult job and other responsibilities. I wasn't raised in a cooking household either.

>>14129267
That's all well and good, don't tell people it's automatically better when it's not true unless you become an expert at it. It's like showing someone with a passive interest in video games that your favorite game is the absolute best but only if they invest 120 hours of practice even to scratch the surface of tournament play. It's not a fit for everyone.

[Anonymous No.14129315]

>>14129241
Like what? Computers doesn't count cause you can make good money without being competent there.

[Anonymous No.14129327]

>>14129308
More like if your friend tells you a game is good but you have to pass the tutorial to play and you go on /v/ to cry about having to read the tutorial text

[Anonymous No.14129332]

>>14129308
I have a job and I watch a child all day. Making a steak with veggies on monday, then making pasta on tuesday, then making a stirfry with the leftover ingredients from monday does not take much time to learn. I still go out to eat or change things on the fly if I feel like it. I have a refrigerator food doesnt go bad that fast.

[Anonymous No.14129338]

>>14129308
I agree with you there. It would be more accurate to say its cheaper in the long run, because in the short term it usually isn't. People often neglect the amount of time and money you need to invest in order to see a return.

[Anonymous No.14129340]

>>14129230
Also wine is way cheaper at home and if you have a nice french style bistro on your well kept garden/balcony you aint missing out on anything.

[Anonymous No.14129341]

>>14129315
Uh, I don't see why computers don't count. I work in advertising technology.

>>14129327
Listen, I know the simple basics of cooking. But unless I commit to learning a bunch of dishes by heart, always stocking a pantry, not going out any night of my life, it's just not that economical to cook at home. And it's certainly not tastier. Insist all you want, but it's clear you're just mad someone on the internet doesn't want to call you a master chef or heap praise on you for saving a few dollars a day. No one cares/

[Anonymous No.14129346]

>>14129014

[Anonymous No.14129349]

>>14129332
That isn't an issue for you because you can improvise while cooking but for somebody who can't cook, usually they are following very strict recipes and shopping specifically for those, so it complicates things somewhat.

[Anonymous No.14129370]

>>14128781
it IS cheaper and you suck at cooking

[Anonymous No.14129372]

>>14129349
You can get to that point in something like a month if youre capable in any sort of critical thinking and try a few dishes a week.

[Anonymous No.14129382]

>>14129034
You cannot think of a single other use for bread , onions, ground beef, lettuce , and condiments besides a burger? Seriously? These are core ingredients that make dozens of dishes not just burgers

[Anonymous No.14129392]

>>14129341
I'm a different guy. I just don't see what's so hard about "learning a bunch of dishes by heart". It's not, and you're talking bullshit. It's okay if you don't want to learn that skill. But don't act like you're above it or whatever you're trying to say here. It's lame.

[Anonymous No.14129410]

>>14129341
I already said why they don't count, if you want you can read again what I posted. Your field probably doesn't fall in what i meant tho

[Anonymous No.14129426]

>>14128781
>>its not cheaper
>uses entire supply of ingredients to make one meal
>probably throws away the leftovers
That's literally the only way it can't be cheaper. If a restaurant (or any business) can sell something to you, their margins must be pretty good, and there's no excuse for you to not be able to make it yourself for cheaper.

[Anonymous No.14129433]

>>14129392
It's hard for someone who wasn't trained to cook by family. And especially harder when you're used to having whatever you want whenever you want, instead of accepting you have a bunch of ingredients in the fridge that are going to go bad if you don't force yourself to make a medley of them. I don't want to eat the same shit just slightly rearranged each night.

I'm not saying I'm above it. I'm sticking with the premise of the thread, which is basically that retards come into every fucking thread on /ck/ and reeeeeee about how eating out or ordering in is the devil. This is the food and cooking board, not just the cooking board. If I want a pizza, I am going to order it. I'm not going to go buy the ingredients to make 10 pizzas and pat myself on the back for how much money I saved when pizza is something I only treat myself to once or twice a month.

[Anonymous No.14129448]

>>14129433
watch some youtube videos and stop whining

[Anonymous No.14129449]

>>14128781
It is cheaper if you know what you're doing, but I always prefer someone make food for me because my food never tastes good.

[Anonymous No.14129454]

>>14129433
I see where you're coming from but I can't agree. Cooking for yourself is more than just saving a few dollars.

[Anonymous No.14129463]

>>14129082
>friends

I'm gonna stop you right there, pal

[Anonymous No.14129465]

it truly is a dumb poorfag coping mechanism

>just repair your own car, it'll be cheaper and the car will run better ;)

[Anonymous No.14129466]

>>14128781
So what you subsist on only the mcdonald's dollar menu?

[Anonymous No.14129470]

>>14129465
That's true, though.

[Anonymous No.14129483]

>>14129454
I can't imagine not cooking for myself. I don't even cook elaborate meals, or change it up every day. It's just cheaper and better. I can take the best ingredients and prepare them exactly how I like them.

[Anonymous No.14129502]

Itt: Lazy fucks

[Anonymous No.14129515]

>>14129448
Again, not worth my time. Even this isn't worth my time but I'm struggling with insomnia.

>>14129465
Exactly. Great for you if you can do it. But if you barely know your way around a car, you're probably going to fuck it up and do more damage than the problem you wanted to fix.

[Anonymous No.14129536]

>>14128850
>anon, you're so quiet, say something
>say something
>what the hell, anon, you can't say that

[Anonymous No.14129554]

>>14129465
All of these things are true if you're good at them

[Anonymous No.14129557]

>>14129433
>I'm not going to go buy the ingredients to make 10 pizzas

I...i legitimately cannot wrap my head around this idea that keeps getting repeated here . There is nothing pizza specific about the ingredients for pizza . You bought. flour, salt,yeast, tomatoes/tomato paste, cheese, garlic/dried herbs and maybe some salami or whatever. These are building blocks for making an infinite number pf things . Why the fuck are they condemned to being "10 pizzas"?

[Anonymous No.14129560]

>>14129262
omlette du fromage

[Anonymous No.14129568]

today I leave it to the professionals at McDonald's

[Anonymous No.14129594]

>>14129557
All of these things go bad. Gotta go buy a bunch of other ingredients too and make sure they don't go bad in sync with these other ingredients so I can make the other dishes you're talking about. I don't think you understand that trying to cobble these into a bunch of different meals for someone inexperienced is wholly overwhelming and likely to just end up with a bunch of waste.

[Anonymous No.14129617]

>>14129594
Why ever learn any basic life skill with that philosophy.

[Anonymous No.14129620]

>>14129560
dexter lied to you its omelette au fromage
>>14129594
>dried herbs , flour, and canned tomatoes are some ticking time bomb that have to be used right away

...please rub the two braincells you have together as hard as possible before replying next time

[Anonymous No.14129629]

>"Just make it yourself anon"
>alrighty, i want some fried chicken
>look up a dish, go to the store, buy the ingredients
>13 bucks
>fucking delicious
>have enough ingredients that i can make it again some other day in the week too

Huh, funny how that works

[Anonymous No.14129638]

>>14129034
>extra meat
freezer
>extra buns
They last a few weeks on their own and freezer
>cheese
Lasts like a month+
>condiments (mayo mustard ketchup pickles)
These fucks don't even go bad
>Onion
Again, through it in the fridge in a sealed container and they last seemingly forever. There's no one out bitching about the freshness of a fucking onion now is there?
>Lettuce and tomato
Okay maybe you got me there, but these ingredients aren't expensive, and you can easily turn the extra into a fucking salad

[Anonymous No.14129654]

>>14129617
I have the basic life skill of being able to go out with a recipe in hand, acquire the ingredients, and make the food. That's the "basic" part. But it's not economical and might not taste better. Not having 40 back of mind recipes and an inherent knowledge of how to squeeze the best cost of every ingredient doesn't mean I lack a basic life skill.

Plus there's opportunity cost. The time I spend learning how to make all of these dishes to save $3 a week is not as useful as getting my certification on a new item in my field, where I'll make an extra $10 an hour in a raise. This is how people stay poor. Focusing on low-value savings.

[Anonymous No.14129656]

>>14128781
>want a food
>can make it yourself or go to a restaurant and pay $15 for it
>decide to make it yourself
>all costs $30 more than a single meal at a restaurant an enough ingredients to make 3 more meals
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU LIED TO ME IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE I'M GOING TO APPLEBEES INSTEAD

[Anonymous No.14129664]

>>14129629
Or $8 at Popeye's, don't waste the time cooking, and don't get fat because you're not eating fried chicken multiple times a week.

>>14129638
>freezer freezer freezer
There's only so much freezer space to go around.

[Anonymous No.14129678]

>>14129664
>$8+gas=>$8.00
>$13/2=$7.50 assuming you can literally only use these ingredients for two meals
You're not a clever man, are you?

>b-but MUH TIME
You're going to waste more time driving out to fucking Popeyes, sending back your order after Dequavius gets it wrong, and then driving back home than it does to cook your own fucking food.

[Anonymous No.14129679]

>>14129654
I'm sorry you are too retarded to understand how things fit together in the fifteen minutes the rest of the world seemed to do it in. Also before you ree about everyone who isnt like you being poor I'm independently wealthy

[Anonymous No.14129684]

>>14129654
>But it's not economical and might not taste better.
That's your fault
>Plus there's opportunity cost.
A weak cope
>The time I spend learning how to make all of these dishes to save $3 a week is not as useful as getting my certification on a new item in my field
Hyperbole to make your excuses sound more substantial
>This is how people stay poor. Focusing on low-value savings.
As opposed to what? Blowing their paycheck on eating out? You honest to god believe it's somehow more expensive to make your own meals?
You're a fucking joke, m8. You just suck at cooking and can't admit it

[Anonymous No.14129690]

>>14129664
this is a shocking revelation I'm sure but if you buy chicken wait for it ... YOU DONT HAVE TO FRY IT

[Anonymous No.14129704]

>>14129654
>certification on a new item in my field, where I'll make an extra $10 an hour in a raise.

You can only do that so many times. Eventually you can spend the 10ish hours over a month to learn how to cook a large subset of foods. Which can segway into others when in a couple of months you have to time to add more skills on.

[Anonymous No.14129728]

>>14129198
I've never said this unironically, but good goyim. You think exactly like corporations want you to. Home made=bad and expensive. Corporate made=good and affordable

[Anonymous No.14129729]

>make a big fuckoff pot of chili with tons of vegetables and meat and spices
>can eat it for a week straight without getting tired of it and still have more leftover
>freeze the rest when i get tired of it so i can have it easy access when i get a hankering later
>whole production costs $40 tops and anywhere between 3-12 hours of idle time

[Anonymous No.14129741]

>>14129678
Bro, the grocery store takes 10x time the drive through does. Or are you just such an amazing wonderous cook that you always have the ingredients for anything you want magically already on hand?

>>14129684
>You honest to god believe it's somehow more expensive to make your own meals?
Of course it's cheaper to make your own meals if you autistically plan everything out like half of this thread suggests. But it's not really that dramatically cheaper. Spending $15 to eat out vs. $8 + time & planning isn't all that worth it.

>You just suck at cooking and can't admit it
I never said I was a good cook. In fact I said I'm not great. Which is why I know my food won't be better. Which is why it's dumb for people to barge in to every thread about eating out or ordering in and demanding you cook it yourself, like everyone is a great cook.

[Anonymous No.14129748]

>>14129729
The fact that you can eat the same slop for a week straight without getting tired of it is the fucking problem. If that's the case, why don't you just replace all of your calories with soylent? If I had to each chili for 7 days straight I'd just stop eating.

[Anonymous No.14129766]

>>14129741
> if you autistically plan everything out like half of this thread suggests
having baseline ability to plan and prepare meals is autistic now?
well then I guess that makes your mother an autist, and her mother an autist, and just through the power of deduction, you're likely an autist as well
>I never said I was a good cook. In fact I said I'm not great. Which is why I know my food won't be better.
Literally just excuses from you. There are people working harder than you that can also cook better than you.

[Anonymous No.14129784]

>>14129748
You type like a woman. Are you a woman? No man would have problem eating chili for a week

[Anonymous No.14129793]

>>14128850
Learn and be a better person, then that person will become "yourself"
Or just hang around different people.
Don't be a prick and take a shower.

[Anonymous No.14129795]

>>14129766
My parents didn't cook. So, no. My grandmother only cooked for her cats.

>>14129784
No, I just don't have zero palate.

[Anonymous No.14129801]

>>14129748
I can eat my "slop" for a week because it tastes great, on account of the fact i made it especially to my own tastes. I fail to see how you deem something that is my own business and my own creation a "problem". Perhaps if you weren't so inept maybe you too could make food you're happy to eat yourself.
>If that's the case, why don't you just replace all of your calories with soylent?
Not to imply you had any credibility to start with, but flinging out the soy card in a huff like a rabid middle aged women kind of defeats your entire argument.
>If I had to each chili for 7 days straight I'd just stop eating.
Please do stop eating. Spare us

[Anonymous No.14129806]

>>14129795
>My parents didn't cook
>I just don't have zero palate.
you literally can't make this shit up

[Anonymous No.14129849]

>>14129795
Faggots who admit that they grew up eating garbage shouldn't be allowed to post here whatsoever. Your opinions mean nothing to me. How can you have anything of value to say when you simply have not developed a normal palate for food/tasting.
Corporations that sell people artificial meat fillers, chemicals, and other bullshit including MSG is not the peak of diet anon.

[Anonymous No.14129944]

>>14129795
>My parents didn't cook

not an excuse. My mother only had two options burnt or boiled to death . You know what happened? I got good out of a sense of self preservation.

[Anonymous No.14129965]

>>14128781
they said, make it yourself, not ruin it yourself.

[Anonymous No.14130006]

>>14129515
i said stop whining

[Anonymous No.14130037]

>>14129664
>8$ at popeyes, one time
you can eat this more than once lol
>waste time cooking
cooking is a hobby just as much as a source of nutrition
>dont get fat from eating it multiple times/wk
literally just dont be a sedentary fatty and youre fine

stop trying

[Anonymous No.14130062]

>>14128781
awww, you tried something for the first time and it didnt come out absolutely perfect? FUCK YOU!! PRACTICE!!

[Anonymous No.14130071]

>>14129741
I don't plan shit but I have a stocked pantry and spice rack that lets me make something delicious out of whatever is in my fridge.

Literally just learn your way around curries, soups, and stir fries. You'll be 70% there.

[Anonymous No.14130097]

>>14130071
Oh and being able to do this definitely has a cost but you acquire spices and tools over a long time.

You're going to be eating food every day so it's not like a waste to be able to make it healthily. The additions you make multiply your cooking value. Each new ingredient or technique you add to your arsenal has the potential to increase the value of the others massively.

[Anonymous No.14130153]

>>14129349
It doesn't help that most recipes are shit and you can skip/replace half of the ingredients. Simple recipes are not 'popular' because they're old and known.
Of course if you're a good cook it's easy to realize this. The only way to get better at cooking is to change recipes and find out what the difference is.

[Anonymous No.14130163]

get your pantry staples, by some meat to freeze and a few veggies in the crisper
know what your eating ever the next 24-48 hours, or at least the main component, like the meat to defrost
build your spice collection over time and you wont notice the extra cost
pay attention to what your cooking and how you cook it
add shit that tastes good to you
once you've found something you like, make a giant fuck off batch of it and freeze it so you can eat it for $1.50 a portion once or twice a week
avoid takeaway as much as possible so you can recalibrate yourself to not relying n salt, sugar and msg for your flavour

why is this such a foreign fucking concept to some people

[Anonymous No.14130180]

>>14128781
>I fucked up so I must be wrong.

Even a basic one dollar burger is cheaper to make yourself than buy from McDonalds. Come on.

[Anonymous No.14130186]

>>14129082
>>14129034
Have you two literally never cooked for yourselves?

[Anonymous No.14130197]

>>14129349
No it doesn't, become a functioning human being already.

[Anonymous No.14130203]

>>14129338
>Amount of time and money.

Do you work every hour of the day? You can't take 20 minutes to chop shit up, throw it in a pot and let it simmer then later on have food for a few days?

[Anonymous No.14130218]

>>14129594
None of those things go bad quickly. Cheese lasts for ages. Tomatoes can last for a fair while especially in the fridge and if they're tinned/canned or paste, indefinitely. Literally everything listed will last you ages and can be used for tons of different things.

[Anonymous No.14130233]

>>14129795
>My family didn't cook for multiple generations and I legitimately believe going to fast food drive thrus is cheaper, quicker and better than cooking for myself.
>Also I have a palate.

Like fuck you do.

[Anonymous No.14130238]

>>14129748
Says someone who literally lives on fast food and eats the same shit every time he goes out.

[Anonymous No.14130247]

>>14129748
>Make big batch of chili
>eat maybe 2-3 meals worth
>Put the rest in heavy duty freezer bags and freeze flat
>repeat with whatever other soupy/stewy you make next
>Have icy file cabinet of delicious meals

[Anonymous No.14130249]

>>14129035
Stouffer's ain't bad

[Anonymous No.14130303]

>>14130249
Yes it is. You have low standards

[Anonymous No.14130354]

>>14128850
Just shut yourself off from normies until you find a group of people that will accept you. It's hard but you have to take it very slowly and avoid showing your powerlevel all at once. If something bad happens when you reveal something about yourself, move on to another group.

[Anonymous No.14130365]

>>14129082
Actual NPC post

[Anonymous No.14130489]

>>14129741
>Bro, the grocery store takes 10x time the drive through does.
>grocery store once a week vs drive thru 3 times a day
lmao...this guy

Before you say it, planning ahead doesn't take autistic amounts of thinking. It's intuitive.

[Anonymous No.14130512]

>>14130303
Not really. Your standards are probably a bit to high for a poverty dish

[Anonymous No.14130661]

>>14128781
You sound extraordinarily retarded or live near really cheap restaurants. Either way, fuck off with your life story.

[Anonymous No.14131212]

>>14129034
he's right and you didn't even factor into it your time value. I make 50-80 dollars an hour, if it takes me more than 5 minutes to prep cook and clean I'm losing money.

[Anonymous No.14131257]

I can cook myself, I just don't put any effort into it.

[Anonymous No.14131371]

>>14128781

>Yeah anon you can totally make food at home that is better and cheaper than food that was literally designed in a lab to have an optimal taste to price ratio

if anything the only way to make food better at home is to use better ingredients i.e. make it more expensive

[Anonymous No.14131472]

>>14131371
But you dont pay for the labor. Hence cheaper.

[Anonymous No.14131477]

>>14131472
you can make more money but you can't get more time

[Anonymous No.14131488]

>>14128781
obviously you're doing it wrong, then. cooking isn't magic. It's a taught skill. get gud noob.

[Anonymous No.14131502]

>>14131472

Well that is technically true
The real price of a big mac is just a fraction of what you pay for it but in a way that just makes it even more incredibly impressive just how tasty they can make something using so little money
But that just proves even further that the average person just can't compete with that

[Anonymous No.14131758]

>>14131477
not being able to afford time is a problem with your society

[Anonymous No.14131820]

>>14129028
>store-bought lasagnas also use cheap ass ingredients
Gee, you think? Fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.14131824]

>>14129034
Pretty much all I make is pizza, and all I have to do for it is spend 10 minutes kneading dough a week, and then pull it out of the fridge and stretch it out while my oven is pre-heating.

All the ingredients last aside from the dough, and I can even freeze that.

[Anonymous No.14131868]

>>14128781
Fuck off just because you made some nu-gourmé youtube recipe doesnt mean you're instantly "good at life"

[Anonymous No.14131869]

>>14131488
>cooking isn't magic.
Clearly you're not a wizard.

[Anonymous No.14131887]

>>14129654
>Not having 40 back of mind recipes and an inherent knowledge of how to squeeze the best cost of every ingredient doesn't mean I lack a basic life skill.
Yes it does you simpleton

[Anonymous No.14131918]

>>14129308
>I wasn't raised in a cooking household either.
Dios mio

[Anonymous No.14131939]

>>14131758
no it's a problem with entropy. you will die anon your moments alive are precious and draining away faster and faster and there's not a damn thing you can do about it so value the time you have like it's gold

[Anonymous No.14131967]

>>14131939
yeah okay, plato. but also if you're an american citizen you're likely working too many hours for too little pay for no other reason than the people that get to decide your fate want to make an extra buck

[Anonymous No.14131983]

>>14129308
People with real adult jobs have freezers

[Anonymous No.14131991]

>>14131371
Or just make it unhealthier.

[Anonymous No.14131998]

>>14128808
>waste money on food that doesn't get eaten because it ends up being full of mistakes

[Anonymous No.14132005]

>>14129793
>doesn't understand how normies and non normies work

[Anonymous No.14132096]

>>14131477
Im not going to be making money at 6 pm on a tuesday. I enjoy my job well enough but variety is the spice of life.

>>14131502
They do that by sacrificing most of its nutrition outside of raw calories.

[Anonymous No.14132116]

As someone who rarely cooks outside of throwing a pizza in the oven and works way more hours than I really want to, growing up in pretty much a freezer and fast food household, even buying a bag of chicken tendies and throwing them on hamburger buns for 7 bucks is cheaper than buying out all of the time. A bag of chicken and fish planks can last me at least 2 weeks if I don't gorge myself. I also bring shit in from home that I make every once in a while. Even if you buy a lot of store bought shit, it is much more cheap than eating out every day and you'd have to be retarded or trolling to think otherwise. The only reason it's more expensive is because you had to buy a bunch of ingredients that you didn't have before and you don't cook often enough so they go to waste or you buy way too big of proportions and instead of making a meal for a day or two, you make enough to last a week and then throw it all out because you're bored of it after 2 days. I know because I do both of these lmao. But at least I make a delicious fucking meal and if I had time or cared more I'd only buy and cook shit homemade. It tastes better. Anything that isn't professional level cooking is literally just following directions. Stop being a faggot and cook something.

[Anonymous No.14132133]

>>14132005
Yep. Its called learning. Unless you are worthless youll make more successful meals than failures over your lifetime after the learning period is over.

[Anonymous No.14132141]

>>14132116
Holy run on paragraph batman.

[Anonymous No.14132157]

>>14132141
Yeah. I was mad.

[Anonymous No.14132192]

>>14129082
Maybe I'm not a cultureless poorfag and I can afford to buy whatever quality ingredients I need for whatever dish I want to prepare on a given day.

[Anonymous No.14132281]

>>14132157
He mad.

[Anonymous No.14132342]

>>14128781
> A man not being being good at whatever he wants to

The absolute state of virgin smoothbrains

[Anonymous No.14132352]

>>14129433
>It's hard for someone who wasn't trained to cook by family
Bitch, you really can't do anything but whine huh?
My parents don't know how to cook for shit and never have attempted a meal since I was 8 (Im 20) and while I've barely scratched the surface for meals I can cook, its better than what they do, which is order fast food or eat frozen meals.
Tell me, what do YOU usually eat?

[Anonymous No.14132360]

>>14132281
Yeah. Hence why I said pic related

[Anonymous No.14132361]

>>14132157
why u mad tho?

[Anonymous No.14132378]

>>14128781
I agree with op fuck cooking it's for faggots

[Anonymous No.14132380]

>>14132361
I entered a thread of a thing that enraged me. But it mostly just reminds me of an ex that got fucking fat as fuck when she moved in with me and wouldn't cook anything. Just ordered out all of the time and never exercised. She always used the line it takes too long or it's too expensive to cook at home.

[Anonymous No.14132385]

>>14132380
Kek you mad af.

[Anonymous No.14132401]

>>14132385
Yeah I was when I posted Pic related. Not so much anymore.

[Anonymous No.14132412]

Loving the rage this thread has caused among cookfags. I can't remember anything that's made /ck/ so mad. Bravo, OP.

[Anonymous No.14132415]

>>14132401
Mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132422]

>>14130512
Not that anon but I grew up in poverty and never liked frozen lasagna. It's absolutely disgusting, have better standards.

[Anonymous No.14132432]

>>14132415
Yeah. I was when I posted Pic related. I'm not mad anymore.

[Anonymous No.14132433]

>>14131212
>if it takes me more than 5 minutes to prep cook and clean I'm losing money.
I don't care how much money you make, you're just a lazy shithead. Try harder.

[Anonymous No.14132441]

>>14132432
Yeah no shit it's obvious how mad you were, mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132453]

>>14132441
Yeah. It's okay to be mad anon just like I was in Pic related. But it's alright. I'm not mad anymore.

[Anonymous No.14132454]

>>14132453
You mad, bro?

[Anonymous No.14132459]

>>14132422
Probably cooked it wrong

[Anonymous No.14132460]

>>14132453
Forgot Pic related

[Anonymous No.14132466]

>>14132453
Yup it's okay to be a mad little bitch, you mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132467]

>>14132454
Yeah. I was when I posted Pic related. Not anymore though.

[Anonymous No.14132472]

>>14132467
>Yeah.
Kek mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132478]

>>14132466
>>14132467
Forgot Pic related of that time I was mad.

[Anonymous No.14132487]

>>14128781
In conclusion, you’re all afraid of failure and that’s a good enough reason to never try.

[Anonymous No.14132490]

>>14132472
Yeah. Not anymore though. When I posted Pic related I was

[Anonymous No.14132506]

>>14132478
>I was mad.
Kek found the mad faggot.

[Anonymous No.14132518]

>>14132506
Yeah. Only at the time I posted Pic related though.

[Anonymous No.14132529]

>>14132518
Well at least you admit you were a mad little bitch, mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132536]

>>14129014
WHAT ON EARTH IS FROZEN LASAGNA
I hope the virus kills me now.

[Anonymous No.14132550]

>>14132529
Yeah. I was mad at the time of posting Pic related but, it's just a fault. Not mad anymore though.

[Anonymous No.14132564]

>>14132550
>I was mad
No shit mad faggot, we can tell.

[Anonymous No.14132569]

>>14129014
If you have the freezer space to store it, home-made is probably cheaper by weight -- especially if you use just basic ingredients. Say you use a tube of cheap ground beef, a block of cheese, some canned/tube tomato-type-shit, etc. Quality-wise should still be better than frozen.

[Anonymous No.14132580]

>>14132564
Yeah. Not my proudest moment. I don't like being mad. It's all better though. I forgot to post Pic related again so heres Pic related to make up for it.

[Anonymous No.14132596]

>>14132580
>I don't like being mad
You must have been pretty mad about being mad then, you mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132619]

>>14132596
Yeah. Im not really mad about being mad. I was just mad during Pic related. That's all gone now though

[Anonymous No.14132629]

>>14132619
Mad faggot.

[Anonymous No.14132631]

>>14129034
Why not do both? Develop some staple types of food that you're good at cooking and do big batches of it. Then you've got food in the fridge/freezer when you need it, and getting a burger at a burger place or whatever is a treat or situational convenience, rather than shit you have to waste money on because you chronically have no other option.

[Anonymous No.14132647]

>>14132629
Yeah. Only during Pic related though

[Anonymous No.14132653]

>>14128781
Add butter

[Anonymous No.14132667]

>>14128781
If the ingredients are so good as to not be cheaper, then it should taste better. Otherwise you need practice.

[Anonymous No.14132670]

>>14128781
>"play this game, it will be fun"
>play game
>die
>i was unable to finish the game in my first try, this is bullshit
It must really suck to be op.

[Anonymous No.14132676]

>>14129014
Lasagna freezes so well, though. You can make a dozen portions at once if you so choose, and still have it freshly baked each time.

[Anonymous No.14132681]

>>14132647
Mad.

[Anonymous No.14132697]

>>14132681
Yeah. Only during Pic related though.

[Anonymous No.14132698]

>>14132670
Yeah, good point. There are far too many games with bullshit artificial difficulty being praised by dickheads who only play with cheat codes and walkthroughs.

[Anonymous No.14132725]

>>14132697
Yeah. Only a mad cunt though.

[Anonymous No.14132746]

>>14132725
Yeah. Don't know about cunt but at the time of Pic related I was mad. All good now though.

[Anonymous No.14132751]

>>14132746
Still seem mad desu

[Anonymous No.14132752]

>>14132746
What's it like being so mad, you mad cunt?

[Anonymous No.14132769]

>>14132670
>"play this game, it will be fun"
>basic tutorial levels take hours before you can jump in and play at all with your friends
>tired of watching
>everyone including the computer is better than you
boy do i have the game for you

[Anonymous No.14132788]

>>14132751
>>14132752
Yeah. I mean, when I posted Pic related I was mad. But at this point I'm not mad anymore

[Anonymous No.14132796]

>>14132788
Yep he mad.

[Anonymous No.14132805]

>>14132788
Confirmed mad, thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous No.14132808]

>>14132796
Yeah. Only at the time when I posted Pic related though

[Anonymous No.14132819]

>>14132808
Got any more pictures of you being mad? You mad little bitch.

[Anonymous No.14132831]

>>14132805
Yeah I was only mad when I posted Pic related. Can't say I'm mad anymore though

[Anonymous No.14132850]

>>14132819
Yeah. Just this one time though

[Anonymous No.14132856]

>>14132850
Jesus, how many pictures of you being mad do you have? Is it in the thousands?

[Anonymous No.14132870]

>>14132856
Yeah. Just of Pic related though.

[Anonymous No.14132879]

>>14132870
Buttblasted as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14132885]

>>14132870
Good lord. They could make a museum out of those, and call it the exhibit of the maddest little bitch in the history of mad little bitches.

[Anonymous No.14132895]

>>14132879
Yeah. Just in Pic related. I wouldn't say that I'm mad anymore though.

[Anonymous No.14132945]

>>14132536
I hope so to so I’ll never have to read another one of your posts

[Anonymous No.14133199]

>>14129014
If you know how make lasagna, won't you end up with something 9x or 16x bigger than the frozen stuff with about 2x the money?

[Anonymous No.14133261]

>>14132536
It is lasagna. But frozen. Dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.14133327]

>>14133261
Oh, I thought it would somehow have an Elsa theme.

[Anonymous No.14133346]

>>14129433
>It's hard for someone who wasn't trained to cook by family

No it fucking isn't, have you never looked at a recipe in your life? You buy the ingredients and follow the instructions. If you can't manage that, you are beyond saving. Shit looks too hard? Pick an easier one. That's how you learn when your family didn't walk you through it.

[Anonymous No.14133694]

>>14129341
You make it sound like cooking is some martial art that you need to get a black belt. Basic knowledge makes you achieve delicious stuff.

[Anonymous No.14133735]

>>14128801
Any Chinese (American) did dish. Why would any American patron any of their establishments is beyond me.

[Anonymous No.14133950]

>>14131212
>too concerned about losing money to even cook
>larping on ck

[Anonymous No.14134016]

>>14129308
You literally don't need to be an expert at it. That's the entire fucking point. It's an easy adult skill but you're a manchild who is incapable of being an adult, and you're trying to justify being a lazy retard.

[Anonymous No.14134504]

>>14129748
I sincerely hope you are trolling. The idea that being able to eat the same thing multiple times in a row without throwing a fit is a negative is unbelievable retarded. Not everything in life has to be some orgasmic novel experience.

[Anonymous No.14134561]

yea i bought some extra food from the 'lds so i can freeze it and have leftovers. does anyone actually do this?

[Anonymous No.14134727]

>>14129034
>want to make burgers
>buy ground beef, buns, toppings, etc.
>oil splashes all over stovetop and counter from frying burgers
>utensils, cutting board, pan are all now dirty
>pile of dirty dishes in sink
>dont use all the beef, put rest in fridge
>have to use it all within a week before it goes bad
>all the vegetables go bad
>i paid $20+ to make a couple shitty burgers
im not saying the experience of cooking is bad, because its enjoyable, but from a cost/time perspective fast food is unbeatable

[Anonymous No.14134742]

there are some cases where eating at home is cheaper, mainly low ingredient foods like steak, rice, beans, etc.
anything that requires many ingredients, spices, deep frying, is a waste of time and money and you should never make at home unless you want to do it for the experience

[Anonymous No.14134797]

>>14134742
>there are some cases where eating at home is cheaper, mainly low ingredient foods like steak, rice, beans, etc.
> anything that requires many ingredients, spices, deep frying, is a waste of time and money and you should never make at home unless you want to do it for the experience

[Anonymous No.14135022]

>>14132698
The implication being that recipes are cheats or...??

[Anonymous No.14135093]

usually it turns out cheaper and better, it just might be a lot of work. thinking home made biscuits from flour. getting into advanced levels of cooking fuckery for me.

[Anonymous No.14135102]

>>14134742
basically this, it's also why I never really go to white restaurants anymore.

I'm not into the whole "durr white food bad" meme, but objectively speaking 99% of the dishes are very simple and easy to make. Only exception is desserts really

[Anonymous No.14135127]

>>14129433
Wow. Is this how spoiled Americans are? No wonder you all have diabetes and get cancer all the time when you like the taste of the feet of your corporate food masters more than your own made food. Seriously there is something seriously wrong with your taste palate.

[Anonymous No.14135139]

i had to buy a lot of seasonings and learn how to use them, but they are good. i found this bomb ass sauce from a blooming onion recipe. it's like got Cayenne pepper and cumin and a bunch of shit i don't understand. oregano.

[Anonymous No.14135148]

>>14135127
american food culture is practically non-existent

[Anonymous No.14135741]

>>14134727
>what ever can i use this ground beef for?
>how am i expected to eat lettuce, tomato and cheese again this week?
>i wasted so much money because i dont keep simple ingredient on hand in a regular shopping list

[Anonymous No.14135792]

>>14135148
And that's exactly why it exists. By not being defined by any one style, it can be everything. That's why america has the deepest food culture of all.

[Anonymous No.14135876]

>>14129341

This is where you're fuckin up bud. You lack creativity and forethought. You dont need to learn recipes by heart you just need to learn basic cooking techniques. You dont have to be autistic to look in your fridge, see tomatos, onion, and garlic thats about to go bad and say "oh i can make a red sauce out of this". Literally just use your sense of taste and smell and throw whatever together. If youre following recipes/memorizing recipes youre a shit cook. You utilize what you have on hand and leftovers. Having basic cooking skills/understanding cooking techniques allows you to cook freely without having to "memorize a bunch of dishes".

[Anonymous No.14136605]

>>14134727
>>oil splashes all over stovetop and counter from frying burgers
your own fault for using too much oil, cooking at too high a temp, and/or throwing around your patties like a neanderthal
>>utensils, cutting board, pan are all now dirty
literally takes less than 10 minutes to clean after you're done eating
>>pile of dirty dishes in sink
yes retard that's what they made sinks for
>>dont use all the beef, put rest in fridge
>>have to use it all within a week before it goes bad
your own fault for thinking burgers are the extent to which you can use ground beef. make a
>>all the vegetables go bad
assuming standard burger vegetables, lettuce and tomato, make a fucking salad for once in your life.
as for onions,you have NO EXCUSE for not using them before they go bad. they hold for weeks and go in virtually anything. you can even cook and eat them by themselves.
>>i paid $20+ to make a couple shitty burgers
no, you paid $20 for ingredients you either misused or let go to waste. from which you ONLY made a couple shitty burgers
i'll bet you didn't even season your meat

[Anonymous No.14136620]

>>14132676
glasslock is a godsend I do lots of individual portions in them. my grandmother didn't have a lot of tupperware and her trick to frozen stuff was to line a small baking dish with foil and assemble whatever in it and then freeze it and pop it out and then store that in a freezer bag. when you want to cook it just put it back in the baking dish.

[Anonymous No.14136649]

>>14129082
>putting together a menu for the week that you WILL NOT deviate from
I don't know how many times I've seen a recipe on /ck/ and decided to cook it right then and there because I already had all of the ingredients. my spice cabinet is loaded and I've got all of the baking ingredients I could need, so other than that I just need a handful of things. Try keeping the following $13 of ingredients in stock in your fridge:
>celery
>carrots
>potatoes
>onions
>tomatoes
>fresh cilantro or basil (depending on cuisine. I have a both and one is basil plant, but prefer to buy cilantro since it will flower and ruin itself)
>butter

once you've got that all you really need is meat and eggs and you've got hundreds of dishes. If you keep dry stuff like rice, lentils and beans around and some canned stuff, you won't run out of recipes. Who cares if you don't go through all of your potatoes or whatever, they're fucking cheap, and you can make stock or sauces out of leftover shit if you really cared about not wasting.

[Anonymous No.14136659]

>>14136649
All of this shit goes bad unless I cook every meal of the week at home. So, no. Also wow that this thread keeps getting bumped.

[Anonymous No.14136674]

>>14136659
butter carrots onions and potatoes aren't exactly known for going bad quickly. celery lasts a decent while too but sometimes it does go a bit rubbery. cilantro is the one thing I always throw out but it's like $0.50 per bundle at kroger and I never go through the whole bundle very often. you can eat carrots and celery raw and they're both ingredients in stock/broth along with onions and any leftover chicken bones you might have. I was just pointing out that you could cover most of your bases for like $13 and then after that you're only short a couple of ingredients for literally thousands of recipes. if you don't need meat, then you can rely on dry ingredients which last a long time so you don't need to worry about buying or eating nearly as frequently

[Anonymous No.14136678]

>>14129241
it isn't about saving a little bit of money, it's about having control of your life and being able to provide for yourself

[Anonymous No.14136682]

The ingredients are cheaper by weight if you buy them in bulk, just cook the same dish every day for a week to use them up before they go bad! What do you mean you don't want to eat the same thing every day?

[Anonymous No.14136686]

>>14134016
>Instructions
>step 1: boil water
what do they think I am, some sort of chemist?

[Anonymous No.14136689]

>>14136678
I provide for myself with a job. Just because I don't like cooking doesn't mean I couldn't if shit hit the fan. It might not be great but whatever.

[Anonymous No.14136714]

>>14136689
it actually sounds like you couldn't really cook if shit hit the fan. you'd be completely miserable

[Anonymous No.14136730]

>>14136714
I can make a pot of pasta, I can grill a steak, whatever. It's all I really need. But yes, I would avoid cooking as much as possible.

[Anonymous No.14136772]

>>14136730
if you can make a pot of pasta why are you complaining about stocking ingredients like tomatoes, carrots and onions?

[Anonymous No.14136789]

>>14136772
The entire thread is about whether or not it's better food and cheaper. I might be capable of doing it, it doesn't mean I'm going to refuse to go to a restaurant to order pasta, because I know their shit is going to be tastier than mine and not require any effort.

My pasta will turn out mediocre in comparison. I made pasta on Wednesday at 3 AM. It was okay.

I'm not making the argument to never cook, I'm just annoyed with the fags who come into every thread and screech about making whatever they see at home instead.

[Anonymous No.14136806]

>>14129034

So you DIVERISFY you mutt. Make a burger with lettuce, tomato, cheese in a bun. Next day make oregano and lemon seasoned beef kebobs and serve with the same salad in pita with some tzatziki. Use the leftover beef mince with canned tomatoes and make a bolognaise.

You don't buy 2lbs of beef to make burgers, you shop around that mince and make other dishes. Then instead of 60 bucks to make 10 burgers, you are spending 30-40 bucks to make 4-5 meals. Shop smart, cook hard. Make your money and ingredients work for you.

[Anonymous No.14136822]

>>14136806
Buns come in packages though so anon needs to eat at least 6 burgers or throw away the buns.

[Anonymous No.14136834]

>>14133735
>tfw accidentally some of their establishments

[Anonymous No.14136835]

>>14136789
it absolutely is better and cheaper. I've worked in food service at multiple places and cooked food for hundreds and hundreds of people in a day. cooking is damn easy any idiot could do it. you should see the idiots that work in most kitchens. you sound like you're pretty fucking useless in a kitchen though

[Anonymous No.14136847]

>>14136822
or just make sandwiches with the buns

[Anonymous No.14136854]

>>14136835
Stay angry. It's not. You can keep being furious though. My home cooking isn't very good and neither is a lot of people's. That's okay to admit. Relax.

Here, have a cute girl holding a kittten.

[Anonymous No.14136859]

>>14128801
Every time I have tried to make any kind of asian street noodle dish, it's always disappointing. Pad thai, yakisoba, etc. It's just missing that dirty street flavor that I crave.

[Anonymous No.14136860]

It's only cheaper if you do not value your time.

[Anonymous No.14136871]

>>14130249
I like the vegetable lasagna with the white sauce. The meat lasagnas are gross though.

[Anonymous No.14136877]

>>14136847
Nobody wants fucking sandwiches in a bun are you a fucking terrorist or something?

[Anonymous No.14136901]

>>14136835

>its better and cheaper
>I worked in food service

That is like me telling you to create your own program sis better and cheaper than scouring the net for a specific computer program.

[Anonymous No.14136910]

>>14132133
That wastes money and food though.

[Anonymous No.14136918]

>>14136901
I don't see how that analogy works. I've cooked for hours and hours on end for work. I've done lots of prep work. I clean up as I'm working. It's not difficult to make good food and I can buy the same fresh ingredients at the grocery store. cooking for one or two at home is really easy and does not take long at all. if I wanted waffle house I could make it at home and have it faster than if I had gone to waffle house and ordered it, and there's a waffle house within walking distance

[Anonymous No.14136956]

>>14136918
>I've cooked for hours and hours on end for work.
>cooking for one or two at home is really easy and does not take long at all.
Wow it's almost like someone paid you and trained you to learn how to cook, as opposed to s normal person who has to waste their own time and money learning! What a concept.

This is why you people don't get it. I don't have years of experience cooking so my food is going to be laborious, come out bad, and I'll inefficiently use ingredients to make more bad dishes therefore driving up cost.

This goes back to the car analogy earlier in the thread. If you're a trained mechanic, of course fixing your car is easy. If you are a white collar office worker and someone hands you a carburetor and toolkit, odds are it's gonna suck or take forever as you have to watch the basics on YouTube or something.

[Anonymous No.14136996]

>>14136956
it's not difficult to learn. I only learned a fairly limited set of recipes and did them over and over and over. I am a white collar office worker now. cooking at home is much easier because you don't have to juggle nearly as much. my point was it really doesn't take long to cook just build up some confidence with your chosen recipe and learn to clean up as you go and you'll find it takes surprisingly little time to cook a meal and have a clean kitchen. once you're used to the tasks with preparing a meal you'll figure out when you can utilize downtime to do other shit you'll do at home anyways. cooking breakfast takes very little active time actually working with the food. if I'm entertaining guests while I'm cooking, it's really easy to do part of a recipe, rinse and put away whatever, then go back to chatting/drinking/whatever while I devote rather minimal attention to the stove. often it's the first part of a recipe that requires the most attention anyways

[Anonymous No.14137023]

>>14136918

Only people who have a lot of experience cooking can do all of that without any effort. To gain that experience you either have to be a neet or housewife who devotes most of his time to cooking or a professional.

>clean up as I'm working
Gotta learn how to multitask while cooking otherwise you will fuck it up. This can't happen without experience.

>It's not difficult to make good food
Maybe not difficult but time consuming if you are new to it.

>I can buy the same fresh ingredients at the grocery store

and how are you going to know what to buy without experience? Printing out ingredient lists from recipies is annoying as all fuck and you will end up with stuff you are never going to use again because the layman doesn't have enough experience to know what the hell to buy.

I mean, yeah, you can put in the effort to learn but the point is that you really have to if you don't want to.

[Anonymous No.14137046]

>>14128781
The only cuisines I personally can argue this point are italian and cajun cuisines. I can make a lasagna for less than $20 and eat on it for 5 days. Same with gumbo and red beans.

If you're just having a craving for asian food or some shit, it's better to just get it from somewhere that makes it well.

[Anonymous No.14137061]

>>14137023
just make the same recipe once a week for 2 months you'll figure it out. people have been doing this for all of human history. in the past they had scarcity and seasonal ingredients and had to deal with bullshit like soaking salted meats and they still managed. hell, most people couldn't even read and they figured it out. you have your whole life to learn this skill

[Anonymous No.14137073]

>>14129638
also onions are used in tons of different recipes, you just need to pop whats left in the fridge and use it for something completely different the next day.

similarly, lettuce and tomatoes are great on all sorts of sandwiches

[Anonymous No.14137074]

>>14137061
All to save a few dollars.

Or use your "whole life" to learn a much more valuable skill that actually pays.

[Anonymous No.14137094]

>>14137074
cooking is a valuable life skill and it always will be until we have replicators and even then it will still have its uses. I understand you want to emphasize your career. plenty of execs and generals out there need help checking their email and probably have trouble doing anything more complicated than boiling an egg. don't say cooking is hard though, you're just retarded

[Anonymous No.14137112]

>>14137061

>people have been doing this for all of human history

By people, you mean specialists. Just because one dude in the village was autistic enough about his meat to salt and season it and shit all day doesn't mean everyone else was. The average person made some homemade slop, or just enjoyed a bunch of raw ingredients.

Same happens today. The only people making dishes from scratch are the ones who have the time and motivation to learn. The concept of a housewife who spends all day cooking is going away so there are going to be a lot more people who will never learn to cook because they don't have to.

[Anonymous No.14137113]

>>14129028
Negro, I can make four servings of lasagne for $5.15. Fuck outta here.

[Anonymous No.14137123]

>>14137113
No you cant, and if you can it's with the same quality of ingredients as a frozen lasagna

[Anonymous No.14137124]

>>14137112
you would buy salted meat and then you had to soak it to remove the salt before you could even cook with it. they didn't have refrigeration. same goes with stuff like dried fish you'd soak in a lye solution. most houses had herb gardens in medieval times. this wasn't shit specialists did, most households cooked their own food. eating out is for every meal is completely retarded

[Anonymous No.14137138]

>>14129594
>d-dry g-goods g-go bad
Holy shit read a book

[Anonymous No.14137176]

>>14137112
>housewives are the only people that can cook at home
Tell that to all the single guys that cook for themselves, please. Oh, and all the husbands that cook for their wives.

[Anonymous No.14137180]

>>14128781
It's way better making it yourself if you can cook and cheaper too.

It took a few years to learn how to cook but now i rather cook it myself :D

Made Italian style spagetthi and minced meat, some cooking whine, basil and let it simmer for 20 minutes made the trick :D

[Anonymous No.14137194]

>>14137176

I knew some shithead was going to say something like this.

[Anonymous No.14137280]

>>14137180
I put canned tomatoes, basil, oregano, and garlic in a food processor and can guarantee it tastes better than whatever slop is in that picture. Takes a lot less time and is probably much cheaper too.

[Anonymous No.14137297]

I made a butter basted steak with mushroom gravy and a side of potatoes for two that only cost me 15 if you include the potatoes. It was good as fuck and the same kind of meal would have cost way more at a restaurant.

[Anonymous No.14137309]

>>14129035
Most, yes... But in my (not so local) Lidl there's this amazing lasagne, it's absolutely wonderful and I can eat a 4 person server for myself... I promise I'm not fat...

[Anonymous No.14137332]

>>14132141
Well there are a bunch of fags on here who will ree about redditspacing if you space out your sentences at all.

[Anonymous No.14137387]

>make lasagna noodles
>make cheese with milk and lemon juice
>make sauce from canned tomatoes
>couple sausages
homemade lasagna is super cheap it doesn't even have ingredients that you shouldn't already have on hand

[Anonymous No.14137401]

>>14136910
But it waste less money over your lifetime than not learning it in the first place.

[Anonymous No.14137415]

>>14137123
Just admit you can neither cook nor shop cost-efficiently and call it a fucking day, faggot.

[Anonymous No.14137416]

>>14129594
>I don't think you understand that trying to cobble these into a bunch of different meals for someone inexperienced is wholly overwhelming

Yeah you're inexperienced and overwhelmed. Maybe instead of making pizza 10 days in a row start small by just making eggs for breakfast a couple times a week.

When you get good at it and are experienced you'll know what to do with simple ingredients.

[Anonymous No.14137482]

https://youtu.be/ImX7vcqL0pg
https://youtu.be/QIIuTiq3ehE
https://youtu.be/ag8hypYXs14

[Re No.14138583]

>>14129664
you sound like a lazy nigger

[Anonymous No.14138608]

>>14136847
I just use English muffins as buns for this very reason

[Anonymous No.14138616]

>>14137332
Yea, but fuck them.

[Anonymous No.14138640]

well a lot of this stuff they got priced at the bottom. like busicuits 8 a dollar, your not gonna beat that. and soda dollar for 2 litters your not gonna beat that by much

[Anonymous No.14138652]

>>14138640
restaurant stuff you can beat because it's all priced high.

[Anonymous No.14138656]

>>14136859
Yeah, that's the gutter oil you're talking about. I guess the hidden flavor of shit and piss within the oil really brings out the taste in chink food.

[Anonymous No.14138662]

>>14138656

You know, the best bread I ever had was cooked by a dirty afghan dude in the middle of the desert. He placed the dough on a dirt floor, kneaded it with his feet, and slapped it to the side of a dirt oven he made himself.

Dirt and toe jam really brings out the flavor, I guess.

[Anonymous No.14138695]

Fuck you chef john! That homemade creme fraiche tasted like cream. Like wtf, i bought an entier carton of asked me to only add like 1 tabelspoon? I't didn't taste like anything and I had to throw the rest away cuz it expired, thanks alot.

[Anonymous No.14139131]

>>14129259
Many bakeries will sell you individual rolls, yes. Or you can freeze buns. Doesn't reduce their quality really.

[Anonymous No.14139146]

>>14138656
Yep, that's what makes it good, anon

[Anonymous No.14139151]

Yall know you dont have to buy the whole package of ground beef right? Unless its like Walmart then you can ask them to just section you out a pound of any meat product.

[Anonymous No.14139173]

>>14139151
Ah, yes, let me go to my local deli 10 miles away. Saving tons of time and money.

[Anonymous No.14139194]

>>14139173
didn't you know, you go to the butcher for meat, the bakery for bread, the cheesmonger for cheese. this is common knowledge anon. you don't go to one of those stores that has everything do you?

[Anonymous No.14139263]

>>14139151
Well idk about Walmart but I have first hand witnessed little old ladies (plural) ask the meat guys at the supermarket to portion off a smaller amount of it for them and they do it. I've never asked myself. I just get the largest pack at the cheapest price by weight and portion off what I'm not going to use immediately and into the freezer goes the rest.

[Anonymous No.14139473]

>>14139194
>the bakery for bread
>the cheesmonger for cheese
Uhhh, no sweetie, if I wanted bread or cheese I would make them at home. It's cheaper and better.

[Anonymous No.14139557]

>>14139473
I hate my homemade cheese. It tastes okay, but it just. Doesn't. Fucking. Melt. So I buy cheese. I bake bread, though, but that's mostly cuz I can't get decent bread here. I even used to work at a bakery and, honestly, our bread was shit, too, because the bakery is in business to make money and the best way to make money is to offer things people want and the people here want weird, mushy bread, not good, crusty bread.

[Anonymous No.14139713]

>>14128781
>Posting on the /ck/ board that you hate cooking

never fucking change OP

[Anonymous No.14139719]

>279 replies

jesus fucking christ people go home

[Anonymous No.14139736]

>>14137415
Oh I can. You're blatantly wrong though. On sale lasagna noodles are 1$. Now you get the sauce, let's say 1.50 for a large can of tomato sauce. Add in your herbs and what not there's another let's say dollar. We're at 3.50 before meat and cheese. Italian sausage or hamburger probably 3 to 4$ on sale, ricotta cheese 3$ for a tub, mozzarella, 3 or 4 dollars for decent quality mozz. You do the math. Wa la.

[Anonymous No.14139765]

>>14139736
>a dollar for a teaspoon of oregano and some black pepper
if youre that concerned about price, you can make your own pasta with flour and water, ricotta for whatever milk costs in your area+white vinegar that you should already have

[Anonymous No.14139806]

>>14139765
Ah yes the ol grocery store that will sell you a teaspoon of oregano and 3 single cloves of garlic. Maybe I can get one sprig of basil too

[Anonymous No.14139842]

So I'm no cook, but reading this thread I'm noticing 2 points of discussion that haven't really been addressed except for >>14139173:
1) OP started the thread defensively because he's tired of being crapped on in threads about fast food etc. You guys have done great at telling him why he's wrong but dang y'all could stand to comfort the lad
2) Do most of you just walk down the street to the fresh ingredient place because it's right there? I'm curious how much of /ck/ has the luxury to get your ingredients daily fresh because I imagine that requires far less planning than OP is complaining about. Again I'm a total s/ck/rub who's crowning cooking achievement is working the grill, frying some eggs, or whipping up some instant ramen with some veggies etc. so I'm shooting from the hip here

[Anonymous No.14139845]

>>14139713
It's food AND cooking, anon. I go to /co/ and I don't watch cartoons. I go to /tv/ and I don't expect everyone to be auteurs.

>>14139765
>if youre that concerned about price
Thread is about home cooking being cheaper, so yes, that anon is proving why there's a point to it.
>white vinegar that you should already have
You remind me of people who buy shit on sale because they're "saving so much money" spending more money.

[Anonymous No.14139856]

>pasta at a restaurant - 15$
>pasta with homemade sauce - 6$

[Anonymous No.14139871]

>>14139842
Thank you. I'm actually the one who posted that. My local grocery store is crowded, shitty, and even at a block away takes me 30 minutes to drive, park, grab a 12 pack of beer, get in line, pay, and get home. I have three grocery stores in the range of five miles, and one is a Whole Foods, which sure as fuck isn't saving me any money. I have maybe 30 restaurants in that range. It saves me a big fucking hassle.

[Anonymous No.14139919]

>>14128781
i make around 200k a year and never cook

anyone who cooks is literally wasting time and money

[Anonymous No.14139971]

>>14129346
lol, thats specific.
>>14132569
Cool thank you for the imput. I have a small pan for just my family sized portions, maybe ill do that in future, make a huge portion and freeze. Prob right cheaper that way. Also need to make my own pasta, that would cut a few bucks off.

[Anonymous No.14140079]

>>14129230
A good steak from the butcher is not $10, more like at least $15. Also, sometimes I fuck up a steak. But a good restaurant NEVER fucks up a steak — and rare chance it happened you can send it back. Even filthy rich Adam Corolla constantly brags about craving a steak and martini from a steakhouse. That’s a millionaire that can buy any cut he wants and has a housekeeper who makes meals. He still prefers the restaurant

[Anonymous No.14140090]

>>14129340
Well sure wine bottles are cheaper at Costco. But most people aren’t crushing a bottle of wine if they’re bachelors on a Tuesday. Good restaurants let you order by the glass

[Anonymous No.14140099]

>>14140079
Well, don't expect to stop fucking up steaks without meaking enough steaks to stop fucking them up.

[Anonymous No.14140121]

>>14139856
I like Raos sauce. I can make a baked pasta with jar of Raos, good pasta, and fresh mozzarella on top for like $15. Lasts 3 or so meals

[Anonymous No.14140136]

>>14134727
Are you serious? For the price of a quarter pounder from McDonalds I got enough minced beef the bread, the cheese and the veg to make six big burgers and it took me about five minutes to cook.

[Anonymous No.14140137]

>>14128781
Assuming this isn't bait if you're wondering why your food doesn't taste as good as the restaurants just add pic

[Anonymous No.14140164]

>>14128781
20 lbs bag of rice, spiral pasta noodles, lots of boneless chicken breast with canned sauces and condiments can make at least 10 different meals for the low price of 50 bucks a week.

[Anonymous No.14140175]

It's cheaper if you buy in bulk and cook everyday. It's expensive if it's a one time occasion.

[Anonymous No.14140182]

>>14140136
You make six burgers for under $5? What fantasy land do you live in?

>>14140164
That sounds DELICIOUS. Oh, wait, no, it sounds like poverty cooking.

[Anonymous No.14140186]

>>14140079
How do you fuck up a steak? There are literal guides and timers out there to tell you how long to cook a steak for each "doneness" get some crushed garlic, shalots, olive oil, and salt/pepper and boom a fucking perfect steak. God I hate faggots that think cooking is rocket science.

[Anonymous No.14140201]

>>14140186
>get some crushed garlic, shalots, olive oil, and salt/pepper
Apparently this is not factored into the cost of the steak for idiots like you. But wait, I'm sure he's supposed to "have this on hand."

[Anonymous No.14140205]

>>14140182
Chinese fried rice?
Chicken parmesan?
Alfredo?
Cheesy Chicken rice?
Shake and bake chicken?
Chicken soup?
Yeah definitely poverty tier. Keep eating 3 dollar hamburgers and frozen lasagna. That's high dining right there.

[Anonymous No.14140209]

>>14140201
So, he has a steak on hand, but not oil, onions, salt and pepper?

[Anonymous No.14140224]

>>14140209
He went and bought the steak. Like I would, along with the oil, onions (?), and maybe not salt and pepper, but sure as fuck I don't have shallots hanging around. All things I pick up at once if I'm cooking for myself or others that night.

>>14140205
I read
>chicken
>chicken
>chicken
>rice
>rice
>rice
>more rice
>slightly different starch

Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.14140230]

>>14140224
That's some bad reading skills right there.

[Anonymous No.14140242]

>>14140230
Or it's you just being buttblasted, either that you think someone should be able to whip up a perfect steak with things on hand, or that two/three primary ingredients and a bunch of sauce makes a good dish.

I don't know which poster you are.

[Anonymous No.14140253]

>>14140224
Shallots are just sweeter combo of onions and garlic. It's not a necessity just a taste preference. Who just buys a steak and thinks "yeah, this is all I'll need." And then bitch online when its not the same as a steak made in a professional kitchen.
Also, pretty sure the chicken guy gave you more variety for home meals that don't require a bunch of obscure ingredients that you bitches about earlier. So you want variety but you also don't want to recognize most dishes with Chicken as the main ingredient have starches to go along with it? Switch out the starches for veggies and you'll still be getting the same mix and match that most restaurants would serve you because it's not economical to give you high end shit for the price you're paying for the meal.

[Anonymous No.14140314]

>>14140253
>Who just buys a steak and thinks "yeah, this is all I'll need."
Honestly, I'd imagine most people feel that way. You throw on some salt & pepper, maybe some butter, throw them on the grill, heat them as long as it takes for someone to feel like they're too pink or not pink, boom, done. That's how a normal person cooks a steak.

You don't get it because you're so used to investing a bunch of time in your cooking or have practiced it down to your own personal perfection, but this is why steak houses exist - because it's 100x better than you or your neighbor throwing a ribeye from Kroger on the grill until you say "welp it's done."

>Also, pretty sure the chicken guy gave you more variety for home meals that don't require a bunch of obscure ingredients that you bitches about earlier.
What he listed is not going to be better than going out to eat. It's not going to be tastier. It's economical, but not tasty. It's passable. I've never argued you can't buy shit in bulk and save money, but stop acting like you're an artisanal cook for chicken, rice, and sauce.

[Anonymous No.14140353]

>>14140314
>I'd imagine most people
So, nothing concrete to back this claim of yours up, just a "gut feeling" that people who want a steak are retarded enough not to look up the best way to cook a steak. I invest like 10 minutes total to cook my entire steak meal. It's not some fucking ritual that takes hours of prep time. Take it out of the freezer the night before, let it thaw overnight, marinate in onions and sometimes Worcestershire sauce. Come home slap it on heated skillet and cook veggies with it.
Listen anon it's okay to admit you're just a dumb nigger that refuses to take responsibility for your own life, but don't assume everyone else is like your sorry ass. And the Mexican in the kitchen cooking your steak also doesn't use gourmet ingredients or superior culinary skills to create your food. It's an investment of time learning the fastest technique that will deliver subpar satisfaction for as many guests as possible.

[Anonymous No.14140365]

>>14140353
Bro, all it is, is a decent price for a better meal than I'm gonna make. That's all I've been saying. Motherfuckers insist every home cooked meal has this innate wonderful quality and cheapness, when it doesn't. I don't know what I'm doing. You do. I don't want to waste the time to save a few bucks.

Thread's on bump limit, so see you in another thread if you read this. Have a good night.

[Anonymous No.14140403]

>>14140365
Buddy if you can't cook you're a brainlet
>b-but most people can't cook
Yeah and most people are idiots like you who fear new experiences because you don't like looking dumb

[Anonymous No.14140427]

>>14140403
I can cook. It's not better than someone who is trained to cook, and rarely cheaper to cook. Point of the thread. Stop being mad.

[Anonymous No.14140452]

>>14140427
If you can't make good tasting food then you can't cook. All it takes is practice and a brain to figure out what tastes good, yet you act like you need a degree to be a line cook. If chronic alcoholics and drug addicts can cook better than you then you have double digit IQ

[Anonymous No.14140496]

>>14140452
It won't be better than a nice restaurant meal by a trained person. I can slop together something perfectly catered to my tastes, but keep spending all day telling people they can't possibly order a pizza because they need to make their own at home.

[Anonymous No.14140513]

>>14140496
Just keep making those excuses, I wonder if you act the same way with laundry? Did you figure out that bit of being an adult? While we're at it do you need a trained professional to wash your ass?

[Anonymous No.14140564]

>>14140201
Do you seriously not have olive oil, salt, or fucking pepper in your kitchen? If you're lazy you can keep garlic indefinitely too. There's a reason no one factors the cost in. All of those things can be bought in bulk and the price for the small amount you use in a given meal is negligible.

[Anonymous No.14140566]

>>14140224
>He went and bought the steak. Like I would, along with the oil
How the FUCK do you not have olive oil?

[Anonymous No.14140618]

>>14128781
Your dad was right. You’re a failure.

[Anonymous No.14140655]

please never post this fucking thread again

[Anonymous No.14140726]

>>14139842
>I'm curious how much of /ck/ has the luxury to get your ingredients daily fresh

I go to the store somewhere between once a month and every other month. No preplanned set menus I make something different for every meal. Also costs less for a whole month than a week of eating out.

[Anonymous No.14140781]

>>14131998
It's a long term investment
(You)

[Anonymous No.14140810]

>>14128781
This is only true if you cook once a time and eat out a lot.

[Anonymous No.14141266]

>>14139736
See >>14137415

[Anonymous No.14141273]

>>14139736
>she claims she can cook
>calls lasagne "noodles"
>buys factory-made tomato sauce
lol no you can't, peggy

[Anonymous No.14141610]

>>14140566
Olive oil on a steak? That shit burns way too easily. Too low of a smoke point.

I think a lot of anons hate cooking because they live in shitty apt with electric stoves

Then there are people like my disgusting sister in law who THINK they can cook but they just mix unhealthy processed garbage together 7 nights a week for their family

[Anonymous No.14141629]

>>14140182
The UK. Pack of 20% fat mince, £1.50. Veg about £1 for a tomato, cucumber and lettuce (I also had gherkisn but that would have added about 50p to the cost for a jar). Burger buns, about 40p. American Cheese slices, 70p or so. Already had mayo and ketchup.

[Anonymous No.14141956]

>>14141629
How much does a £1.50 pack of mince weigh in le UK, on average?
In the US, six, 100g (precooked weight) cheeseburgers would cost me:
$3.40 for the mince (1⅔ lbs at $1.99/lb)
75¢ for the buns ($1 for a pack of 8 from the dollar store, using six; alternately, 60¢ as a pack of 8 from Lidl costs 79¢)
60¢ for the cheese ($1.99 for a pack of 20 from Lidl)
Total cost: $4.75

With fixings (LTO, ketchup, mayo, mustard, etc) it'd cost a bit more, but not by much. Maybe a dollar or so more.

[Anonymous No.14142116]

>>14141629
>bongland
>american cheese