/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5317591]

remind me again why you waste 30+ minutes making/drinking a cup of coffee again

[Anonymous No.5317607]

Because coffee works and doesn't taste like cow urine.

[Anonymous No.5317606]

I drink coffee til noon, homie.

Your shit thread has no salt on my jam.

[gordon ramsay !E/kAmOO7UE No.5317613]

remind me again why you even eat food :P

[Anonymous No.5317629]

>>5317613

i only eat about once a day and do so while watching something, otherwise i feel like im wasting 30+ minutes of my time going "out to eat" or sitting at a table

[Anonymous No.5317637]

>>5317606

how are those kidneys?

[Anonymous No.5317647]

>>5317637
Great. I drink a ton of water the rest of the day.

Thanks for asking.

[Anonymous No.5317660]

>Not paying $11 for the equivalent of 500 8oz cups of coffee

http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Nutrition-Solution-Caffeine-240-Count/dp/B0056LVLP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396201913&sr=8-1&keywords=sns+caffeine

[gordon ramsay !E/kAmOO7UE No.5317664]

coffee also has hepatoprotective qualities.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17590492

Apparently it can also block the bulk of alchol-related liver damage.

[Anonymous No.5317680]

>>5317664

i dont drink alcohol tho, but thanks for the tip Big Beer Biz employee

[gordon ramsay !E/kAmOO7UE No.5317709]

>>5317680

Nope, just an alcoholic.

:DDD

[Anonymous No.5317714]

>>5317660

the extra strength 5HE's are 12oz cup equivalents and you can easily specify the amount by merely sipping or downing the entire thing if you want, rather than fucking around with a pill splitter

also theres no indication of how long a single pill lasts so listing the number of pills vs price gives me no proper way to pair it to 5HE

[/ck/ No.5317727]

>>5317591
i love those fucking things 56685325 4705

[Anonymous No.5317738]

>>5317727

>regular strength

[Anonymous No.5317753]

Fuck these inconsistent, overpriced pieces of shit. It worked for me one overnight. Now I get violently ill if I take one of these. They suck ass

[Anonymous No.5317828]

>>5317613

Looked this up because I'd love to be able to condense my eating into a couple drinks a day but rice/oat flour and canola oil with multivitamins really isn't an ideal long term diet.

[Anonymous No.5317830]

>>5317753
Your mum sucks ass.

[Anonymous No.5317896]

Enjoy your kidney stones

[Anonymous No.5317936]

>>5317828
This guy I was talking to does this before he goes on long bike rides:

1 cup olive oil
2 cups skim milk
1 scoop (however much that is, idk) of whey powder

[Anonymous No.5317938]

>>5317591
coffee tastes better.

I love those things though, something about saccharine, fake berry flavor, and knowing that I'm drinking EDTA just gets me off

[Anonymous No.5317943]

>>5317938
meant these things
>>5317727
caffeine is a nuisance, I just want my diet candy drink

[Anonymous No.5317951]

>>5317936

>1 cup olive oil

I really hope you mistyped that. A cup of olive oil is something like 2k calories / 200g fat.

[Anonymous No.5317953]

>>5317828
It actually works pretty well, main issue is the lack of certain beneficial substances will prevent you from having optimal health. Like the antioxidants in blueberries, for example. That said, most people have shit diets to begin with, so it's quite a bit more functional than the average first-world diet unless you live in some badass asian country with a lot of pickled vegetables and what not. Honestly, in some kind of strange communist future in which we were all forced to use these instead of actual food, we'd probably be healthier as a populace.
>>OP
Because I keep better, cheaper products in my house.
>caffeine tablets at 100mg each
>Ephedrine at 8mg each
>Yohimbine at 2.5mg each
If I'm not gonna make coffee I'm sure as fuck not going to take some shit, overpriced energy drink.

[Anonymous No.5317970]

>>5317951
Hah, yeah, whoops, 1/4 cup. But it's not something he consumes very often, and by "long bike ride" I mean like 100+ miles.

[Anonymous No.5317990]

>>5317953

I could see it working better if you were to supplement with something like this:

>http://www.amazon.com/Vibrant-Health-Green-Vibrance-Family/dp/B000NDME6C/

but food science is still sketchy enough that I'd worry about having such a restricted diet.

[Anonymous No.5318002]

I recently discovered caffeinated water. L1quid is actually cheaper than most ordinary water in the shops nearby (29p for a 500ml bottle in Home Bargains).

[Anonymous No.5318012]

>>5317664
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17590492
>Apparently it can also block the bulk of alchol-related liver damage.
>pubmed

[Anonymous No.5318038]

>>5317990
>food science is still sketchy enough
Dietetics is actually fairly sturdy. There's some questions with some things, but for example if you want to ask about a certain vitamin or mineral you can be informed what it does and roughly how much you need. The science is out there and it's pretty sturdy.

What we don't actually know much about is how substances HELP the body, rather than what the body NEEDS. Try to ask the scientific community how something like Rhodiola Rosea works and you'll get some (very well informed) guesses and heresay, but no guarantees. The benefits of various phytochemicals have only recently come under examination, but something that helps us is very different from something we need. A good example is the weird fucker that's survived off of nothing but pizza for the last 25 years. His health certainly isn't optimal, but it's actually better than a lot of people by virtue of the fact that (iirc) he isn't a total fatass. The only real issue with something like Soylent is that individual needs do vary and this isn't necessarily perfect, but that doesn't make the idea of "oil, flour, vitamins" any worse. Even then, suboptimal intake is often still very much functional. It's just not optimal.

That said, that product is absolute garbage and nothing inside of it has a high enough dosage to be bioactive. It's like trying to fix up your kitchen with only $20 to spend. It's nowhere near enough. Ironically, you can get most of the good stuff in there (Gingko Biloba, for example) at a combined cost significantly lower than the product, at least relative to the dosage.
>20mg in a serving
>need 120+ a day for it to do anything detectable

[Anonymous No.5318042]

>>5318038
Oh, though I should add that most dieticians are fucking idiots. Lots of doctors are too, but dieticians are especially bad. This is especially true because a lot of them are actually "Nutritionists", which isn't a legally protected title in a lot of areas. Anyone can call themselves a Nutritionist, with or without any kind of degree of education. A lot of Dieticians are also old fucks working on old knowledge because nobody in any medical field ever bothers to keep up with the new information. Only reason it hits Dietetics so hard is the fairly recent advancements.

[Anonymous No.5318084]

>>5318012
Pubmed is still peer-reviewed. Also tends to feature papers from elsevir and nature (although that requires paid access if you don't have ties to a good uni)

It's better than most sources

[Anonymous No.5318092]

>>5318084
It was the pun I was trying to point out.
>alcohol
>pubmed

[Anonymous No.5318102]

>>5317714
And how much do you pay for them?

Probably more than 10 cents per serving.

[Anonymous No.5318198]

Those 5 hour energy shots make me feel sick. Also, it takes me less than a minute to put a pot of coffee on and I can do other things while it's brewing/cooling so it's not like it wastes time.

[Anonymous No.5318212]

>>5318092
That's kind of forced but I laughed like an idiot anyway.

[Anonymous No.5318214]

>>5318198
>Also, it takes me less than a minute to put a pot of coffee on and I can do other things while it's brewing/cooling so it's not like it wastes time.

This. It's not an active process. So it's like downloading something in the background. Who cares how long it takes?