/ck/ - Food & Cooking

yeah thats how economies of scale work. buying in bulk is advantageous

retardf

>>18185443
Lots of bulk buy meals like that freeze well. It's the difference between spending 40 up front and having 20 meals at the ready vs spending maybe 4-5 a meal for a total cost of 80-100.

I don't have a problem with that specifically because theoretically you will use the other stuff in other meals. I just think he lies about ingredient prices in general, I cook bottom of the barrel food and there is no meal you can make for $2 that's not just unseasoned rice and beans or something like that. What he has in that bowl looks to be at least 4 ounces (more likely closer to 8) of chicken, and that's around a dollar on its own being very generous.

>>18185443
Thats how cooking works. Are you going to just throw away those ingredients after making one meal? No, they still exist. God damn dude. Think for one fucking second. Is it expensive to make bread because you have to buy big bags of flour and sugar, and a whole package of yeast, and a can of salt?

>>18185443
Go back, "but better"fag

>>18185443
Yes, $40 for 20 meals is $2, are you retarded?

>>18185478
You can having a decent serving of seasoned rice and chicken for $2

>>18185499
I saw one of those "but cheap" ones for chicken fajitas earlier. not only did he try to say it "all" only costed him 4 bucks, but he also put spanish rice and beans IN the fucking fajita, what a complete retard

You know you can use that bottle of oil multiple times over the course of a month, right?

>>18185443
all the legitimate complaints you could have of this faggot and you go and you make up this completely retarded one.

>>18185519
>seasoned rice and chicken
is a far cry from chicken + sauce with heavy cream and spices and tomato + rice + fresh herbs

>>18185594
You don't get peeved by the common click bait trend of "SUPER CHEAP (x)" videos and its like alright well first off i had $250 in equipment/ingredients/whatever already but this one thing i bought was only a couple bucks !!!
it happens so often its comical

>it only costs $2 if you have $500+ of kitchen equipment and buy $100 of ingredients and make 50 servings of it before it goes bad in a week!

dunno about you guys but I have kitchen and regularly cook actual meals so I have a well stocked pantry with all the staples and spices.
I can understand you might have trouble if you subsist on take out or rely food banks and live in a dorm or a homeless shelter.

>>18186096
>What's a freezer?

>>18186096
>$500+ of kitchen equipment
Like what? a knife, board, sauce pot and stove?

>>18186096

>>18186197
Oh man, I forgot Penny Arcade used to be funny. What is it about having children that just destroys a comedian's sense of humor?

>>18186200
No longer being unhappy?

>>18185443
what is this specific $40 ingrediant?

>>18186200
Penny Arcade was never funny.

>>18185484
it would make sense if he did like a series but when he's jumping from chinese to indian to american to french and using vastly different ingredients, unless you want to drop 40 and eat the same meal 20 fucking times in a row it's pointless my dude.
I think a better idea would be to help people build a pantry and use said pantry to create a variety of meals. like what if he went to the store and spent 50 bucks and over the week he used only the ingredients from that 50, that is far more realistic than what he does.
weismann simply makes youtube videos, his videos are for watching, not for people actually cooking, the majority of people watching his videos will never make what they watch.
Unlike Chef John who you watch when you want to actually learn to make a dish

>>18185891
yea I like how in his cheap videos he will use kitchen gadgets that cost over 100$ sometimes

>>18186259
...dude, just google fucking "Recipes containing xxxx" and insert whatever the fuck ingredients you want to use up. spend at least 15 minutes trying to problem solve before going to whine to strangers about youtube videos you watch for free because you never bothered learning how to fucking cook or budget.

>>18185443
If that Serving is $2 that's one hell of a deal.

TheWolfepit is a channel one can get angry about.
>$1.20 pr. serving
>Pic related feeds an entire family
>People write under every video that they consider his "family meals" one serving and that it's wasteful to buy highly processed Walmart shit
>Goes boohoo about those evil privileged people lacking empathy, not being aware that some people can't afford to eat that much
>Never answers the question why he doesn't buy rice, dry pasta or beans in bulk

>>18186259
John uses different ingredients between videos too fucking retard.

>>18185443
Just eat the same or similar dishes for the rest of the month to use up the rest of the ingredients, retard baka

>>18186262
Anything he uses can be done with a cheaper alternative
Dont have a vacuum sealer? Use a ziploc and a straw
Dont have a pasta maker? Use a rolling pin
Don't have a stand mixer? Use a spoon or your hands
Don't want to buy a bundle of herbs for one one meal? Store them in a damp paper towel or spend $5 on a pot, seeds and some dirt and grow your own forever.
Learn to improvise. If you're trying to make cheap food you should already be buying staples in bulk

>>18185443
is orange stuff good for u

>>18185443
>$40 on ingredients
>$2 per serving
Means that the recipe, as a whole, makes 20 servings. That's a lot of fucking food.

>>18185443
that's a lot of rice

>>18185443
Curry sucks. It's just failed soup with rice trying to take the place of more heat and bread.

>>18185484
>Are you going to just throw away those ingredients after making one meal?
yes.
>need 1 stick of celery, buy entire stock and pull one off, throw the rest away
>need 1 tbsp of tomato paste, only comes in containers of 150-300mL with 2 week expiry after opening. take my tbsp and throw the rest away
>need splash of heavy cream, buy 237mL container, apply splash, throw the rest away
etc

>>18186259
>unless you want to drop 40 and eat the same meal 20 fucking times in a row
That's exactly what you do when you cook in bulk dumbass. If you don't want to eat the same thing for two weeks and you have the freezer space you can eat half as lunchboxes that coming work week and then make something new and then eat the rest of the servings after you've had a break from it eating the second set of food you made.

Like, my dude its 20 servings, at two meals a day that's just two work weeks. There are people who eat the same fucking microwave meals every single day all year round. I'm sure you can manage two weeks of the same meal if you're strapped for cash and cooking in bulk.

>>18185508
But I don't have 40 bucks, I have 2.

>>18185478
Looks like Tikka Masala. You can buy the jasmine/basmati in bulk, spend $4 on the bottled sauce and whatever price you can get chicken so $3 could be realistic, but I'm with you. I don't know if those are old episodes but I like to watch the Struggle.

>>18187202
Good time to reflect on your choices

For the sake of cheapness, I'll omit ingredients that make it better and I'll round up heartily.

4lbs of chicken breast $15
2 32oz cans of crushed tomato $5
1 block of parmesan $5
1 garlic clove 50c
1 whole onion 50c
3 eggs 50c
1lb pasta $3
Spit of flour $1
Spunk of panko breadcrumbs $1
A half gloop of oil $1
A non-white people amount of seasoning $2.5

$35 for at least a week's worth of decent chicken parm. You could easily stretch it out to two weeks with another pound of pasta. It's also pretty scalable, this is just the amount I used last time. You could find deals on all these items frequently as well.

If you have a non retardedly stocked kitchen (you don't) you'd probably only need to go out to buy the chicken and cheese. Eating cheap is easy but it does take SOME proactivity which is why half you retards struggle to do it.

>>18186516
Not for an American man.

>>18187141
I honestly can't tell if this is a shitpost because people really do this and then scoff at cooking being too expensive

>>18187141
>buying 237ml of milk
Do metricucks really?

>>18187290
no, milk and cream comes in 0.5L, 1L, 1.5L and 2L

>>18185443
OP is one of those tards who can't budget

>>18185484
>bread
>flour and sugar
do american really..........

>>18186458
i hate that guy
hash is nice though

Ultra easy, super filling 4 serving recipe
4 potato
1 firm tofu
Jar of massaman
Half red onion
Chilli
rice
If there's beef on special yeah get that.
Yeah you're using the jar but the taste is the same and doesn't cost shit loads for exotic ingredients. Total cost is like $8. For me it lasts two days and about 2 side splitting meals (so four actual filling servings). While I don't usually use jars of stuff for cooking it's legitimately cheaper unlike most other premixes.

>>18185443
You have 19 servings left over then. That is like a full week of leftovers for every meal.

>freeze the food

No I'm not gonna freeze my perfectly delicate basmati rice with Tikka masala. Anything cream / protein / fat doesn't belong in the freezer after it's cooked.

>>18187482
yes. both of my parents were very confused when I explained bread is just flour water salt and yeast. "what about the sugar?"

>>18187639
then don't over-do your portions and you won't have that problem :^)

>>18185443
Are you trying to imply you just throw away all the ingredients you haven't used?

>>18186458
>>18187484
isnt this the guy slowly dying a painful death from a degenerative nerve disease
so his wife opens the packaging for him now

>>18187482
>>18187995
NTA but wait... I thought burgers sugaring up their bread was just a meme

>>18188938
a lot of people don't know this but bread doesn't actually exist in america, you can't buy it. all bread is actually some form of white cake engineered to appear visually similar to a regular loaf of bread, a baguette, bagel, etc

>>18185443
yeah that's how it works figgit

>>18187482
Are non-Americans really this stupid and ignorant?

>>18185443
Doordash is even worse. You have to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone or computer just to use it once.

>>18189142
If you're ok with white bread then it's not too hard to find. God help you if you want while grain though. You either have to buy it frozen in specialty stores, or bake your own.

>>18185443
>Specific ingredients
lol
lmao
faggot

>>18186197
>I can't just sit there naked
Why not? Are the hookers going to complain?

>>18185453
where she goin

>>18189385
We had a thread the other day where Euros were shocked that most homemade bread recipes call for sugar to activate the yeast. For all. Their boasting about how European cuisine is superior they sure can't fucking cook.

>>18187282
what is a spunk and a gloop in metric please

A spice cabinet is an investment. Growing your own garlic, thyme, parsley etc also helps.

>>18185446
Yep, and that's how restaurants really make their money. An individual serving of that might cost you $10 plus the added "cost" of making it yourself, but if you're planning on serving a thousand of these then it could very well be $2 when dealing in bulk rates while using some of the profit to pay for those making it, maintaining the building and equipment, and then obviously profit.

>>18187482
>>18188938
>how does yeast work?

>>18186458
Looks like potentially four portions, but not an actual meal at that portion alone. You're gonna need a side or two, maybe just some cheesy scrambled eggs to throw that over, and then "family sized meal" makes more sense.

>>18189533
>spunk
4 Dale Gribble's worth of pocket sand
>gloop
Imagine pouring milk from a jug completely upside down. Half that amount.

I'm lazy to the point that I have to just eat potatoes, onions, etc on their own for a week or else they'll end up going bad before I get through the bag. Even if I have nothing else to eat, I'd rather skip a meal than spend more than 30min in complete prep time and cleanup. Stuff like guacamole is quick enough, but again I'll have to eat guac for a week or else the various ingredients will just be eaten one-off.

So yeah, OP's point applies to me, and pointing out the obvious fact that I'm kind of defective doesn't make it any less valid.

Ten pounds of very good basmati on Amazon is under $14 right now. I have a large airtight container just for this. The spices will get you but garam masala sold in bulk. Marshalls is also very good and is sold in 10oz containers for $12. Fresh split chicken breasts are 97c per pound on sale this week (Vons, San Diego, Ca.). You process one to two of them for yourself. Coconut milk ranges from $1-3 usually, I got some in bulk for $1 a can also Amazon. Then look at the ingredients in garam masala. What you do is add a little more of each and more to taste of those that you prefer. If you do not know what that is yet then just follow the recipe for now.

After you make your first butter chicken with basmati rice you have 148-149 cups of rice left. A tub of masala for a thousand Indian dishes. Pounds of frozen chicken for the next dish. Garam masala and coconut milk is what you want to start with. You can get more coriander, cumin, etc. (what's in masala) over time when it goes on sale. I don't like cumin very much so I will add more coriander and just do like half a tsp of cumin. Garam Masala already has plenty for me.

>>18189648
>Imagine pouring milk from a jug completely upside down. Half that amount.
this was a surprisingly good analogy

>>18189524
>>18189629
there sugars naturally in the flour and it can break down existing carbs into sugars to eat.
Sure some breads use added sugar but you guys don't really think that you NEED to add sugar to make bread do you?

>>18190018
You need enough for the type of bread you're making. Do you never eat rye because it has heckin' molasses/malt syrup?

>>18190035
refer back to my post and read:
>Sure some breads use added sugar

but to answer your irrelevant question - no I don't eat rye cos it tastes like shit.

Break down your shopping into protein (pb, eggs, meats, fish), carbs (pasta, bread, flour), veg, herbs/spices, and grocery (soap etc). Then bookmark the ad pages of every store within range. Every week pop open the ads and see what the sales are. Over time you will get a sense of the real price of foods and what is a deal to spend on.

Some tips:

>Buy in bulk at the lowest price then shop for smaller amounts as you go
>find the discount aisles in each store you visit, they all have at least one area
>Immigrant markets are your FRIEND. Find where they are and get their ads.
>You can buy some food and toiletries online cheaper, and at higher quality (e.g., bulk bags of good rice, paper, etc)
>If you have the room freeze your on-sale protein and get your veg fresh
>Potatoes, onions, and carrots sell dirt cheap in bulk bags. Learn to cook with these.
>Rice is a staple and there are a thousand ways to eat it
>Learn recipes that stretch out proteins with vegetables, rice, and pastas
>oatmeal and oatmeal accessories
>search for deals on herbs and spices like a thirsty simp and over a long period of time you will build a formidable spice collection
>Buddy up with the deli and butcher personnel and they will hook you up

>>18185443
>10 small chunks of chicken floating on top of an ocean of empty sauce

>>18187290
No, you dunce. He just converted it for some reason.

>>18187141
Kill yourself, your family line should have gone extinct long ago, the way your mom never taught you how to budget and shop groceries. I can't believe how terminally retarded some of you are.

>>18187141
Unironically this for ingredients I know I’m not gonna use before they expire. Granted I generally buy the smallest portion possible and stuff I can expect to keep until I can use it again I do, but I’m not gonna buy heavy cream and then spend the next week planning my meals around using up heavy cream.

>>18191653
You can easily make your own heavy cream within minutes

>>18191695
>Buy milk so you don’t have to waste heavy cream
>Now stuck with a half gallon of milk you don’t need

>>18191704
I'm pretty sure he's talking about jerking off anon

>>18191622
Woah! Watch it with the mean words! It's just a little bit of shitposting, my friend...

>>18187363
>>18191622
retards

>>18191813
KEK

>>18191653
>Yet here we are day in, day out, whining about and drooling over creamy carbonara.
>Remove meat from pan, pour off excess grease, deglaze, add cream, simmer down
>Mashed potatoes
So difficult to use a pint of cream (or butter) in the kitchen these days. I just throw it away too (not).

>>18185443
Getting started with a spice collection is expensive, there's no way around getting to know what you like and use often and what not.

>>18191813
aka 8oz (US)
Maybe some Canadian border related retardation?

>>18187141
>>18191813
a fucking LEAF