/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14311596]

Is there a more expensive habit than beef jerky? I usually go through a pound a day and even the cheap stuff like pic related is usually 15 dollars.

[Anonymous No.14311600]

>>14311596
>a pou>>14311596
nd a day
seem more like an addiction and those tend to be expensive

[Anonymous No.14311601]

>>14311596

[Anonymous No.14311607]

>>14311601
Cigarettes are piss cheap compared to jerky, and a pound of jerky goes fast unlike pack a day smokers

[Anonymous No.14311614]

>>14311601
Nice beard

[Anonymous No.14311660]

>>14311600
Addiction, habit, whatever. I need my jerky

[Anonymous No.14311811]

>>14311596
I just bought a dehydrator so I can make my own. This is a photo of my first batch I finished yesterday. Used a three pound eye of round but the spices I bought were pre measured for 5 pounds so it is saltier than it should be. Good though.

[Anonymous No.14311824]

>>14311596
>>14311811

I've made my own a few times. The quality is worlds above any commercial jerky, but price ends up approximately the same.

Also, Jack Links is weird vulcanised trash.

[Anonymous No.14311851]

>>14311824
The cost does feel comparable. The eye of round was about 15 dollars roughly but the grocery store I go to is a bit more expensive than others. Unless you make the jerky with ground beef or hunted game it's not a huge savings over store bought but it does taste better and it's fun to make.

[Anonymous No.14311857]

>>14311851
Out of curiosity, are you from the states? I'm Australian and our beef is expensive as hell, even the cuts reported to be cheap. Curious if it's the same over there.

[Anonymous No.14311891]

>>14311857
Yes I'm in the states. Beef is extremely cheap but so is most meat. I live near texas which I'm sure helps with beef and pork prices.
If you are willing to tolerate a bit of meat glue you can get a pound or two of small steaks for five-ish dollars. They will suck of course but it's still beef.
Most regular roasts you buy will be between 14-20 dollars. My nearest grocery store is this higher end anomaly in a lousy neighborhood and they charge more for the luxury of it existing there.
Chicken is generally very cheap but that place almost exclusively carries the free range no antibiotic etc etc chicken and it can cost over 8 dollars a pound. Which sucks and is silly considering in nearly the same section I can get a pre cooked entire rotisserie chicken for like 7 dollars.

[Anonymous No.14311892]

>>14311891
Man I don't think meat glue is legal here, or at least, it's not on the shelves. Chicken is cheap everywhere.

[Anonymous No.14311900]

>>14311892
Got curious and found this old article.
I do buy the meat glue steaks now and then when I'm not thinking about it and get annoyed by it every time. One half the steak is usually delicious and then other half is this soft crappy mess of low quality meat.

[Anonymous No.14311904]

>>14311900
Nice research, unfortunately I can vouch that Today Tonight is a trash program, basically Fox.

Australians didn't buy the product and it fell by the wayside.

[Anonymous No.14311906]

>pound of jerky a day

Do Americans really?

[Anonymous No.14311911]

>>14311906
So much sodium

[Anonymous No.14311985]

>>14311596
it's cuz Jack Links are actually a NZ brand so it's all imported from halfway across the world.
There's no other brands so widespread that make good jerky, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.14311987]

>>14311607
>$50 a pack
>Cheap as piss
yeah nah

[Anonymous No.14311992]

>>14311987
How did this ever happen?

[Anonymous No.14312017]

>>14311992
Taxes upon taxes upon taxes.
And no one willing to fight to reduce or remove them because they would get torn apart by righteous whiners.

[Anonymous No.14312020]

>>14311992

Cigarette taxes increase 12.5% a year, forever

[Anonymous No.14312026]

>>14312017
I bet there's a lot of organized crime tobacco smuggling there. You can't just tax things so ridiculously high and expect it won't attract that.

[Anonymous No.14312066]

>>14312026
I just got a million hits on it. Brings all kinds of nasty crime into the country. Jesus, what a dipshit tax policy. I bet enforcement ends up costing more than the taxes. Another lesson in the stupidity of prohibition.

[Anonymous No.14312165]

>>14312026

There absolutely is, most people who know where to go (and it isn't hard) are smoking Chinese cigarettes at $12/pack or imported Marlboro at $18/pack. The absolutely bottom of the barrel legal cigarettes are about $30 for a 20 pack and they are absolute poison.

[Anonymous No.14312184]

>>14312165
>Chinese cigarettes
And that's more of a health risk than before, so there goes that argument. Fucking retarded government.

[Anonymous No.14312186]

>>14311596
>450g
>$15
Meanwhile in Europoor landia
>30g
>$3
>equals to $45 for 454g
Not bad amerimutts, but does your money give free everything to billions of brown and black people all over the world?! I thought not, check mate amerifats hahaha

[Anonymous No.14312269]

>>14312186
your numbers are way off, also we don't have beef jerky here, also you're crazy if you think america doesn't give billions of dollars to third world monkeys
all in all, 6/10, both obvious bait and yet too retarded to pass up

[Anonymous No.14312290]

>>14312269
>Müller literally sells 30g beef jerky pouches for ~3€ a pop
>it doesn’t exist
Yeah sure you outrageous fucking jizz stain

[Anonymous No.14312301]

>>14312290
oh you mean imported brands of american beef jerky are more expensive here than they are in america? ok yes, i concede, that is definitely true.
damn you got us good there. europoor landia on suicide watch.

[Anonymous No.14312325]

>>14312301
I sense a really bad tone in your voice. You should pay 90% taxes instead of 75% for next year so Mohammed Abdullah al Ali can have 26th child with his 7th wife and not have to work anywhere, while you wagecuck and only dream of ever having one child.

[Anonymous No.14312329]

>>14312325
>tone in your voice
This is text.

[Anonymous No.14312343]

>>14312325
why do you /int/sects come here with this inane drivel when we've had dozens of videos of americans kissing nigger feet over the past few weeks
go back to /int/ and post this shit in your epic banter threads

[Anonymous No.14312373]

>>14312343
>just pay for the entire world to leech off of you, what are you, a bigot?!
Okay mr. nosebergstein

[Anonymous No.14312411]

Jerky is my go to snack because
* it's cheap
& high brotein
# electrolytes
" it got da flavanols
$ high melanin
@ did I mention that brotein?

[Anonymous No.14312428]

>>14312165
im canadian and a pack of cigarettes can be between $13-20. contraband smokes from native reserves are very common

[Anonymous No.14313397]

I guess if you live in a third world state or country more expensive habits than jerky exists but everywhere that matters jerky is still the most expensive

[Anonymous No.14314255]

>>14312017
This.
Anyone that actually fights to lower cigarette/alcohol taxes is just ousted by the Murdoch media as being an addict or an alcoholic.
Same reason why weed hasn't been legalised in more countries, cuz anyone who tries to push for it just gets labelled a drug addict who only wants to get high.

[Anonymous No.14314269]

>>14312026
Def. Watch the Australian series of Border Patrol and 80% of the time it's the same Chinese lady trying to smuggle in $5k worth of cigarettes or rotten fish.

Pretty much everyone I know who travels overseas usually fills their suitcase to the legal limit with cheap foreign cigarettes to sell onto mates back home for a profit.
$80 return flight to Japan
Stay in a hostel for cheap
Spend a few nights eating/drinking out for cheap.
Fill suitcase with 3 cartons of $4/pack cigarette and $9 bottles of scotch.
Sell them for 5x the price to friends back home.
Pays for most of the trip in itself.

[Anonymous No.14315497]

>>14314269
What are the legal limits for carrying back cigarettes and booze?

[Anonymous No.14316321]

Is there any foreign country I can buy cheap jerky in to smuggle it over the border?

[Anonymous No.14316628]

>>14315497
depends where you go

[Anonymous No.14317634]

>>14311900
isn't that basically chiken nuggets or BK 's Chicken Broiler, except made with beef?

[Anonymous No.14317656]

>>14314269
>Pretty much everyone I know who travels overseas usually fills their suitcase to the legal limit with cheap foreign cigarettes to sell onto mates back home for a profit.
that sends you straight to jail and a 10 000 dorrar fine in singapoor, unless you declare it and pay tax(about 8 bucks a pack).
https://www.customs.gov.sg/businesses/valuation-duties-taxes-and-fees/duties-and-dutiable-goods

[Anonymous No.14317664]

>>14312411
>* it's cheap
no its not. did you even read thread. it's not even cheap in murika BLM land.

[Anonymous No.14317855]

>>14311824
If you eat enough Jack Link's, you'll be able to spot the good bags from the bad ones, and you won't end up with any uber-tough pieces

[Anonymous No.14318048]

>>14317634
It's more like this. They take two smaller meat scraps and glue them together.
I just got back from the store grabbing more eye of round of jerky and they had trays of little meat glued steaks selling 4 for $4.32. They are about the size of your palm, maybe a little bigger, and if you don't know about the glue and that half of the meat is garbage you might buy them thinking it's a great deal for four little steaks.

[Anonymous No.14318057]

Another image of a larger steak that has been glued.

[Anonymous No.14319428]

the last ingredient in beef jerky is sodium nitrate, and it's a dangerous preservative that's 100% linked to cancer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrate#Health_concerns

you better watch it bud

[Anonymous No.14320683]

>>14311596
Gambling, prostitutes, and heavy binge drinking come to mind.

[Anonymous No.14320767]

>>14316628
I went to the shitty aussie customs site and waited about 30 minutes for it to load a plain text page. It appears the legal, duty-free tobacco import limit for a normal person is one unopened pack of cigarettes (up to 25 per pack), and one opened pack (I guess up to 25 cigarettes as long as the package is opened). No easily available info on duty fees applied to more. Also: vaping is banned without an MD prescription. Lol? It really is about milking taxes there. They don't want people to stop smoking. They just want money. Shithole country.

[Anonymous No.14320859]

>>14311596
Jack Link's is overpriced shit.

Just get Old Trapper.

[Anonymous No.14320932]

>>14318057
Do you really not know what gristle is?

[Anonymous No.14321019]

>>14311596
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[Anonymous No.14321235]

>>14321019
That's pretty good jerky right there. Never understood why the damn stuff is so expensive.

[Anonymous No.14321319]

>>14311596
OP if you really eat that much jerk' then get your self a subscription service. You'll get much better stuff than Jack Links for cheaper.

JerkyGent is a good starter one.

[Anonymous No.14321484]

>>14319428
Water causes cancer.
Everything causes cancer.

[Anonymous No.14321489]

>>14321235
>Never understood why the damn stuff is so expensive.
Take the mass of meat, and multiply it by 2 or 3, that's the basic cost of meat. Add in a large energy cost and a smaller one for spices and you have your answer.

[Anonymous No.14321617]

>>14320767
I mean it definitely stops people from getting into cigarettes in the first place.

[Anonymous No.14321634]

>>14321484
>why are you scared of being stabbed to death?
>don't you know everything causes death?

[Anonymous No.14322320]

>>14315497
Cigarettes are usually multiple boxes, something like 1000 depending on where you are. Booze like spirits is typically between 1 and 2 litres

[Anonymous No.14323009]

>>14321634
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6MQUaXFfLY