/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15447460]

Processed food is, by definition, the absolute pinnacle of cuisine. The additives are all specifically designed to trigger all of the right taste and olfactory receptors in a way that naturally made foods are incapable of. The home cooking industry is is therefore a scam designed to sell pointless cookware and recipe books, and it has the consequences of perpetuating world hunger via an unfounded food elitism that prevents people from consuming food that is cheap and readily available.

By all objective measures, a storebought chicken nugget or a bag of Doritos outshine a steak, each and every time.

[Anonymous No.15447469]

>>15447460
>The additives are all specifically designed to trigger all of the right taste and olfactory receptors in a way that naturally made foods are incapable of.
So is homemade food, which happens to be better than processed garbage.

[Anonymous No.15447474]

I wouldn't go as far as saying that it's the best food ever and home cooking is pointless and steak is bad, but you are right on some level that fast food and processed food are literally engineered to physically taste good, and anyone who insists they're disgusting has psychological hangups

[Anonymous No.15447486]

>>15447474
We just have standards instead of being content with whatever garbage they peddle to the lowest common denominator. By your logic, pop music is good.

[Anonymous No.15447490]

>>15447486

Good is what the market says is good.

[Anonymous No.15447567]

>>15447460
Nah it's manufactured to hit enough notes to make you buy it again at a production cost lower than real food

[Anonymous No.15447580]

>>15447567
>production cost lower than real food
this doesn't make sense. It costs more than raw food, it's marketed toward convenience and time savings.

[Anonymous No.15447587]

>>15447580
No it literally does not, it is cheaper to produce than real food

[Anonymous No.15447593]

>>15447587
give me an example.

[Anonymous No.15447606]

>>15447593
Literally any fruit flavoured beverage

[Anonymous No.15447612]

>>15447593
Hot dogs are made with reconstituted meat which is just the waste from meat processing

[Anonymous No.15447614]

>>15447460
enjoy your preservatives and fillers bro.
t.ex food production QA and R&D

[Anonymous No.15447623]

>>15447593
>>15447612
Chicken nuggets are usually reconstituted meat too

[Anonymous No.15447637]

>>15447612
>>15447623
But what is this cheaper than?

[Anonymous No.15447640]

In terms of taste I agree, in terms of utrition, no

[Anonymous No.15447701]

>>15447460
>The additives are all specifically designed to trigger all of the right taste and olfactory receptors in a way that naturally made foods are incapable of
The problem is that all processed food has to be dried/frozen/preserved to sit on shelves for months. For most foods this ruins the taste much more than any food science can make up for, and it obviously limits what they can make.
If you want to argue processed potato chips are better than a home cook's potato chips, then sure, that's why nobody cooks potato chips at home. If you want to argue that your frozen bag of Banquet nuggies are better than what a cook can do with fresh chicken, you are delusional.
And it's not cheaper, either. I won't waste time comparing calories and dollars to illustrate this. Whenever I do the maniacs who think processing raw food costs negative money go on a schizophrenic trapeze act of mental gymnastics that gives me a fucking headache.

[Anonymous No.15447880]

>needing to base your opinion on what tastes good off what a souless corporate testing lab says tastes good AND is shelf-stable

[Anonymous No.15447887]

>>15447880
I feel the same way about restaurants.

[Anonymous No.15448189]

>>15447460
From a purely economic perspective, devoid of all humanity, processed food is the perfect product. Sustanance for the masses so they may produce with minimal downtime.
From an actual human perspective, it's a soulless product propped up on suffering and exploitation.

[Anonymous No.15448249]

>>15447474
>literally engineered to physically taste good
engineered to be efficient, so willing to sacrifice taste for cheaper ingredients and health for sugar

[Anonymous No.15448271]

>>15448249
people are willing to sacrifice taste for convenience. get over it.

[Anonymous No.15448322]

>>15447460
This might be true, if the processed food were formulated with an eye toward quality and nutrition, instead of overall cheapness and profit. If the corporations could make sawdust extremely palatable, they would sell as much of it as they could. Using skill and knowlege in search of quality and nutrition is far superior to the corporate approach.

A quality restaurant or a skilled home cook does focus on quality and nutrition, and thereby makes a superior product.

[Anonymous No.15449158]

>>15447460
>American cope

[Anonymous No.15449185]

>>15447460
>The additives are all specifically designed to trigger all of the right taste and olfactory receptors in a way that naturally made foods are incapable of.
but they aren't, they're designed to make the food more easily preserved or to come to a close approximation of the correct taste while allowing the manufacturer to cut corners and save money. Your thesis falls apart in a functioning market.

[Anonymous No.15449192]

>>15448322
>If the corporations could make sawdust extremely palatable, they would sell as much of it as they could
awkward cough

[Anonymous No.15449531]

>>15447460
>vegetable oil
>HFCS
>Sugar
>processed flower
yeah, no

[Anonymous No.15450941]

>>15449192
Ok. You win.

[Anonymous No.15450948]

>>15447460
ebin trole :D:DD