/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14526409]

Are indian restaurants ripping off stupid white people? Theres not way it costs $20 for a pot of butter chicken, nevermind only a plate of it.

Isnt indian food the cheapest kind of food to make? They're charging 20 dollars in Canada for 1 order of butter chicken, and sometimes the dont even come with rice. I've decided to just make it at home.

[Anonymous No.14526451]

>>14526409
A lot of them feel like a ripoff. Even a basic lentil dish is like $15 minimum at a lot of Indian restaurants in my area. Guess it's because it seems more exotic they can get away with it. Buffets usually seem like a better option though a lot of them have closed down or switched to take-out only which is too expensive.

[Anonymous No.14526452]

>>14526409
Wow Indians are doing what every restraunt is doing?
Yeah make it at home you dumb faggot
You think it costs them 30 bucks to make the pizza you order?

[Anonymous No.14526488]

>>14526452
Where do you live that pizzas cost $30?

[Anonymous No.14526502]

>>14526452
If every restaurant is doing it why do only indian restaurants do it?

[Anonymous No.14526505]

>>14526409
Are white people ripping off other white people?? Theres no way it costs $13.95 for two slices of bread and some avocado??

[Anonymous No.14526513]

>>14526409
You're paying for labor and overhead, so essentially for the privilege of having someone else cook it for you. If you can make it home, you certainly should.

[Anonymous No.14526517]

>>14526409
Yeah, also don't forget the continuing cost of paying for facilities, equipment repair and replacement, etc. etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.14526522]

>>14526488
anywhere in australia

[Anonymous No.14526543]

>>14526505
Yeah, (((white))) people are ripping off other white people

[Anonymous No.14526552]

>>14526505
The average white owned business has reasonable prices. The average indian restaurant has exorbitant prices. Its actually a clever tactic, overpricing shitty food to make it seem more elite.

[Anonymous No.14526568]

To be fair, indian food uses a lot of spices and some of them are expensive. Some dishes are rather involved to make

[Anonymous No.14526575]

>>14526568
Spices aren't even expensive bro lmao

[Anonymous No.14526582]

Cost is no object anyway. If you really like indian food, you'd pay whatever you pay for other cuisines. Any and all dal dishes for me are orgasmic. Yes it's "just" lentils, but the way it tastes the way they make it can't be beat.

[Anonymous No.14526583]

>>14526452
In Japan, a pizza under 10 inches in diameter costs $25.....

[Anonymous No.14526588]

>>14526522
dollarydoos =/= USD
You mean about $20 USD

[Anonymous No.14526638]

>>14526409
>I, enlightened westerner will gladly pay $45 for >coq au vin, a dish a toddler could make
>shitty pizza with watery sauce and blowtorched crust to achieve leoparding
>bouef au bourginon, which involves putting a bunch of shit in a pot for 12 hours
>beef wellington, with storebought pastry and doesn't even good
>sushi made from 1 oz of shitty fish with shitty short-grained rice

But god forbid any of those colored people try to make a profit off of a labor-intensive dish involving a complex balance of expensive spices that has to be chosen to appeal to all of their customers. Ever heard of rent retard?

[Anonymous No.14526682]

>>14526638
You sound like a dickhead indian, btw

[Anonymous No.14526685]

Fuck these comments are ridiculous
> I could just make it at home
No you couldn't or wouldn't, the ingredients and preparation needed are basically as complicated as it gets, you'd use a jar of curry like the lazy fucks you are and it won't taste the same as fresh.
On top of that I'd bet everything I own you don't have access to a tandoor oven.
The reality is you can make high quality Italian dishes at home with little effort. You can't be assed to make actual Indian food or get proper temps for naan and the poos know this.
>>14526575
Saffron alone costs $10 a gram retard, now add 12 other spices and you've got a single curry.

[Anonymous No.14526702]

>>14526682
I actually agree that this price is too expensive, accounting for ingredients, labor, and profit, but the issue has more to do with rent and corrupt city councils that refuse to change zoning laws to make more affordable construction or charge vacancy taxes for unoccupied storefronts. You're better off just making stuff at home no matter what it is, except for stuff like ramen or pho

>>14526685
No one really uses saffron

[Anonymous No.14526707]

>>14526502
I live in a rust-belt city, and most restaurants that serve specialty cuisine charge ~$15-25 for a main dish (which may or may not contain a cheap side) and $10-15 for appetizers/standalone sides.
The two Indian restaurants which I live near do not operate differently.

[Anonymous No.14526708]

>>14526685
Bro "Indian Food" is literally poor people food. Stop pretending that its hard to make. Buy the spices and slow cook, its poverty street food you eat with your hands and make easily. Ever wonder why indian food is spicy? It disguises the taste of spoiled meat.

[Anonymous No.14526714]

>>14526409

Where do you live where they charge that much for shit? I live in a city, lived in NYC which is expensive as shit, no run of the mill Indian place charges that much.

[Anonymous No.14526719]

>>14526409
>They're charging 20 dollars in Canada for 1 order of butter chicken
Fucking hell that's only like 8 quid over in bongy bing bong land, fucking leafs I swear to god.

[Anonymous No.14526723]

>>14526409
There's usually a zillion Indian restaurants in a city just go to one that doesn't rip you off.

[Anonymous No.14526725]

>>14526719
8 quid = 14 CAD

[Anonymous No.14526729]

Freshly made sushi for $30
A 14-inch pizza is $35-$40 a piece
(ordered five pieces and extra chicken, so about $200.)

It doesn't help that food from other countries is more expensive.

[Anonymous No.14526748]

Lol this is the cheapest indian place in my town

[Anonymous No.14526756]

>>14526729
What? The most expensive sushi you can get around here is still only 15 a roll max. I regularly eat at Japanese food because the price is so good. In favt my best friend grew up into a family business and rolls sushi. Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.14526759]

>>14526729
Why the fuck is pizza of all things that expensive

[Anonymous No.14526765]

>>14526729
$200 for 5 pizzas
I could get that for 100 pal

[Anonymous No.14526770]

>>14526725
Still cheaper m8

[Anonymous No.14526779]

>>14526409
>>14526748
where the fuck do you guys live? i live in a notoriously expensive coastal city and the average indian entree is safely under $20 and only maybe $1-2 more expensive than the average entree at a thai/vietnamese/whatever restaurant.

[Anonymous No.14526799]

>>14526756
not him, but where do YOU live? i'm in seattle, a city with no shortage of nips, and i would say japanese is probably the most expensive asian cuisine you can find here.

[Anonymous No.14526813]

Lmao bro these niggas really out here charging 18 dollars for a paneer appetizer LOL

[Anonymous No.14526815]

>>14526799
Interior BC. Its reasonable here. 12 dollars for yakisoba, 8-12 for rolls, 2 dollar for extra rice etc

[Anonymous No.14526820]

>>14526799
Oh and sometimes i get free rolls where i go

[Anonymous No.14526826]

>>14526813
>$18 CAD
>pakora
>>14526409
>$20 CAD
>butter chicken
If you dumb niggers are paying that much yeah.

[Anonymous No.14526829]

>>14526409
>why do restaurants cost more than the ingredients?
Because the building, insurance, utilities, city fees, taxes, labor, all the cleaning supplies, all the legally required contracted maintenance on shit like ventilation (as often as every 6 months were I was), all the dining equipment that gets worn down or stolen by you fuckers, all the chairs carpets etc that gets damaged and needs to get replaced.

That's not free you dumbasses. You're paying to eat at a place that is government regulated. Expect less than 30% of your bill to be food cost for independent restaurants, and the place still not making as much profit as a carpet store.

[Anonymous No.14526840]

>>14526756
Every city in Japan has these prices
Sometimes you can get a further discount.

>>14526759
The Japanese don't eat cheese and pizza every day, which is why the price is so high...

>>14526765
I understand pizza is very expensive where you live too.

>>14526815
>12 dollars for yakisoba
Why?
It's a simple dish to make and it costs $12?

[Anonymous No.14526845]

>>14526409
>Isnt indian food the cheapest kind of food to make?
>I've decided to just make it at home.
Hello fellow white American who has yet to discover they can't cook Indian food and won't be able to find authentic recipes. I wish you luck on your journey in failing to make it taste as good as those restaurants. The secret ingredient that'll help your food taste better is alcohol to numb your feelings of worthlessness.

[Anonymous No.14526852]

>>14526748
The same order is $18 where I go

[Anonymous No.14526855]

>>14526685
I've been learning how to make all the dishes I love from Indian places. The Vons next to my house makes naan too. It's really good when I toast it with garlic butter.

It is ridiculous to think that Indian restaurants can't charge a premium. It's fucking delicious and yeah it does take a lot of extensive ingredient lists. Once you get the mise en place of each dish together a few times it isn't very difficult. So it's not fair to say we can't make these dishes, either. I'll still order them especially if they're better than mine.

OP is a fucking fag though the price for shit tier food from drive through's is retarded overpriced. Indian cooking is a fucking bargain compared to pizza and all that other shit.

[Anonymous No.14526858]

>>14526845
accurate

[Anonymous No.14526859]

>>14526813
hahaha what the fuck

[Anonymous No.14526861]

>>14526845
>won't be able to find authentic recipes
I'm already making better dishes than some of the take out places around me.

[Anonymous No.14526889]

>>14526861
Do you have a source of recipes to share? Everything I've found is dumbed down for stupid white people afraid of Indian ingredients who haven't actually eaten good Indian food so they don't know any better.

[Anonymous No.14526894]

>>14526829
Okay bro pay me 100 for a pizza

[Anonymous No.14526911]

>>14526845
Now now brown cow.

[Anonymous No.14526918]

Cooking isnt hard and brown smelly people arent better at it than anybody else.

[Anonymous No.14526934]

>>14526409
This isn't even really a /ck/ question it's a question about the economy. And... newsflash businesses charge as much as they possible can. Full stop.

If mfers don't realize that more than half of India lives in what US citizens would call "poverty", but will pay $10-20 per serving of their food, any reasonable business owner would charge it. You would too if you were in their position.

[Anonymous No.14526942]

>>14526894
You're not very smart if you think there's 30 dollars of raw ingredients in your pizza.

Also fast food restaurants, chains, and independents will all run different costs. Not trying to berate you, but think things out.

[Anonymous No.14526952]

>>14526522
What a load of shit. I've eaten pizza at hundreds of places in Melbourne and I rarely pay over $15 AUD (10.81 USD).

Same with OP. You do see a lot of places charging $15 and coming without rice, which is a touch pricey for what it is, so go for some other Asian curry. You're totally being ripped off at $30.

[Anonymous No.14526954]

>>14526452
Based

[Anonymous No.14526962]

>>14526942
You're not very smart if you think there's 6 dollars worth of ingredients in 1 serving of curry

[Anonymous No.14526972]

>>14526962
Curry pizza sounds delicious. Post pics so I can estimate the price.

[Anonymous No.14526974]

>>14526934
Wow i feel so bad now here take my money poonskin

[Anonymous No.14526975]

>>14526409
LOL it costs 10 bucks here, some of the cheapest take out
Canada is collapsing

[Anonymous No.14526979]

>>14526638
>seething coastie spergs out to himself

[Anonymous No.14526982]

>>14526972
Have you actually never had indian pizza? just kys

[Anonymous No.14526988]

>>14526972
make pizza as normal
instead of normal ingredients and sauce, use curry sauce as pizza sauce, and whatever is in the curry is your pizza toppings.

[Anonymous No.14526989]

>>14526638
>labor intensive dish
Have you ever made butter chicken
The most tedious part is using an immersion blender

[Anonymous No.14526996]

>>14526982
Shit. That sounds good. Where do you live? I want to eat that.

[Anonymous No.14527023]

>>14526989
Shut your god damned mouth, you white fuck! There are hundred of chefs behind the kitchen in every indian restaurant working in shifts to fine-tune each batch of curry. One slip-up and it can't be served.

[Anonymous No.14527028]

>>14526996
Thats Red Swan Pizza

[Anonymous No.14527040]

you just described the concept of a restaurant

[Anonymous No.14527047]

>>14527028
>all locations thousands of miles from Los Angeles
Dammit

[Anonymous No.14527070]

>>14526952
I'll paypal you 100 bucks right now if you can find a pizza place in Melbourne that sells a whole pizza for $15 (not dominos/pizza hut)

[Anonymous No.14527258]

>>14527070
First 3 results ignoring big chains. Fairly decent grasp of my location oddly enough.

>frankiespizza.com.au
Large $13.90
Ascot Vale

www.crust.com.au
Medium - $15
Lonsdale St

www.roundaboutpizza.com.au
Large $13
North Melbourne

[Anonymous No.14527430]

Indian restuarants in LA are like 13-15 bucks for a shit ton of food, a chicken tikka masala with 2 garlic naan breads fills me up and I eat a lot

[Anonymous No.14527435]

>>14527047
I got you senpai

https://www.yelp.com/biz/786-degrees-los-angeles-5?osq=786+degrees
https://www.yelp.com/biz/sapori-di-786-degrees-pasadena-4?osq=786+degrees

[Anonymous No.14527436]

>>14526409
indians are scamming you. You get the same nutritional value with chicken fried rice and soy sauce at an asian buffet.

[Anonymous No.14527442]

>>14527436
Thank u sir I will arrive tomorrow to pay ur family

[Anonymous No.14527445]

>>14526409
everyone is ripping off everyone else in sales... its literally the only way you wont close shop after a year. Its basically normal and needs to happen to some degree.

[Anonymous No.14527451]

>>14527436
(((soy)))
but yes, they are. I'm Indian, and you probably know this, but it probably doesn't even cost 10¢ to make a samosa, and 5¢ for raita.

[Anonymous No.14527466]

>>14527451
>>14527442
I mean the taste of indian food is good, don't get me wrong. But they literally scam people for the same amount of nutrients that you get in other food.

[Anonymous No.14527468]

>>14527466
>muh nutrients
you don't go to restaurants for health stupid, stay at home and you can have optimal nutrients for the lowest cost

[Anonymous No.14527473]

>>14527468
But for the price, even the taste isn't worth the price, so you're still getting scammed.

[Anonymous No.14527475]

>>14527473
My favorite restaurant is an Indian one in Tarzana, CA. I can assure you it's worth every last penny and I get leftovers for the day after every time

[Anonymous No.14527478]

people see mccormick shit in the grocery aisle and think spices are expensive when in reality you can those exact same spices by the pound for cheaper from a wholesaler. consumer packaged spices are marked up like 2000%

[Anonymous No.14527479]

>>14527475
indian restaurants around me are expensive, then again I live in bumfuck nowhere.

[Anonymous No.14527502]

>>14526708
>Ever wonder why indian food is spicy? It disguises the taste of spoiled meat.
This is an urban legend and not true (that spices were used heavily to mask spoiled meat). While it is true that some spices can be used for preservation they are far, far less effective than pickling, smoking, etc.

Here is a good article about it: http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/drummond.pdf

[Anonymous No.14527511]

>>14527502
you just contradicted yourself. the spices are to mask spoilage not as a preservative.

[Anonymous No.14527514]

>>14527502
your article is about middle age europe not fucking poo loo land

[Anonymous No.14527526]

>>14527511
No I didn't. I mentioned preservation because that is a valid use for some spices like turmeric. There is no amount of spice you can add to rotten meat and have it still be edible and not get you sick later. Why don't you try it yourself and see?

>>14527514
Apparently you're too stupid to put two and two together. How would poor Indians get access to spices that were so expensive in the first place? Not to mention meat which is also expensive and most Indians are vegetarians or eat very little meat to begin with.

How about you provide a verifiable source that makes the positive claim with evidence that spices are primarily used to mask the spoilage of food?

[Anonymous No.14527528]

>>14526409
>Rent, staff, bills, VAT, business rates
They’re charging you and everyone else $20 for butter chicken and still probably sweating their nuts off trying to break even, let alone make profit. I hate seeing manchildren complain about meal prices. Just stop being a fucking neet and maybe $20 won’t seem quite so steep for a TREAT MEAL

[Anonymous No.14527546]

>>14526409
Only shitty Indian restaurants charge that much because they aren’t able to get enough orders to make a profit. A good Indian restaurant will have low prices because they are getting a lot of orders. The cheaper the Indian restaurant is, the better the food is.

[Anonymous No.14527553]

>>14527526
Spices were a valuable commidity in Europe because of shipping costs, not because of rarity.

[Anonymous No.14527555]

>>14527526

[Anonymous No.14527563]

>>14527526
ask a fucking indian they literally say this is why they use so many spices

[Anonymous No.14527572]

>>14527563
Got no source then? I thought so. Your concession of defeat is accepted.

[Anonymous No.14527574]

>>14527526
You have clearly never left your bumfucknowhere little town in comfy middle america because outside of your bubble people eat all kinds of questionable food because, like you admit, meat is expensive and nothing goes to waste. Ever hear anyone say don't drink the water or eat the street food when you travel? It's because your little soft tummy isn't used to the kind of shit everyone else consumes regularly

[Anonymous No.14527576]

>>14527572
get the fuck out of here with you reddit source baiting you underage faggot. Also my source is literally indian people

[Anonymous No.14527591]

>>14526451
>>14526409
i went to two Indian buffets it was like 5 dishes not worth 20-30 upcharge. Thank god i went to poo in loo neighborhood with all their pasanos. 20 bucks 3 rices 10dishes has samosas.

[Anonymous No.14527620]

>>14526707
My cousin is a manager at a restaurant and that's what they do.
It's a high end Italian place but they buy the cheapest lowest quality ingredients and charge an arm and a leg and people think it's high quality stuff. Most people have no taste and just want to feel like they're eating rich food.
It's funny cause non of the chefs, waiters or my cousin eat the food. They actually go to a much cheaper place but with better food.

[Anonymous No.14527623]

>>14526409
I went to an Indian restaurant like this. It cost me over 25 bucks for some bread, sauce, and water. They fucking charge for shitty tap water.
Total rip off. I almost didn't want to pay for it. I even told them that their food was terrible and everything is overpriced.

[Anonymous No.14527656]

>>14526638
Everything you just typed was incorrect

[Anonymous No.14527670]

>>14527656
>typed
Doesn't your phone even have voice recognition?

[Anonymous No.14527680]

You can only get cheap, good curry in England.

[Anonymous No.14527724]

>>14527670
>dictating on 4chan
I cant tell if this is cringe or based

[Anonymous No.14527775]

>>14527563
you are partly correct, perhaps I can be of help here, although being one Indian, I cannot possibly know of all the reasons and customs relating to the use of spices. Spices are never used to mask the taste of spoiled food, indeed, offering food that one knows to be bad or potentially past its life is a sin, however, spices are added as a preventive measure, natural preservatives. You may have misunderstood what the Indian you spoke to said, or perhaps he didn't phrase it correctly.

[Anonymous No.14527780]

>>14527775
>>14527563
sorry, I'd forgotten to mention, the problem being that spices do end up making food that may potentially have spoiled, so one may end up eating it by accident. Food that is known to be spoiled is never served though.

[Anonymous No.14527782]

>>14527670
Second worst nigger tool on earth, after voice messages. If you are too lazy to type it, I'm not gonna read your wall of text

[Anonymous No.14527786]

>>14527780
your poo loo standards for "spoiled" are not universal

[Anonymous No.14527791]

>>14527786
I'm sure your standards are golden, and followed everywhere. Perhaps you can link me to your extensive body on research determining the nature and extent of your analysis on the shelf life of foods that you know nothing about, and then show me how wrong I am about my own food through the hundreds of citations your research has spawned.

[Anonymous No.14527797]

>>14527791
this isn't about why spices are used today, it's why the spice heavy recipes were developed in the first place you fucking mushbrained child

[Anonymous No.14527801]

>>14527791
please go back with your sources and citations you absolute poo loo faggot

[Anonymous No.14527806]

>>14527801
I'm not the one challenging the definition of "spoiled", and even explicitly stated I can't speak for everyone. I don't need citations to prove a complete absence of sweeping generalisations.

[Anonymous No.14527816]

>>14527797
that's also not true. Spices were originally used in India as a means of adaption to the intense dry heat during summers, as they encourage perspiration. They aren't even great preservatives, all pickles and chutneys that need preserving use copious amounts of salt and oil for that purpose, as they are much better preservatives anyway.

[Anonymous No.14527829]

>>14527806
>our standards of food hygiene are really high we never serve bad or spoiled food
https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-beware-delhi-your-street-food-is-shit-2090415

[Anonymous No.14527836]

>>14526708
Bro, ever wonder why American BBQ is slathered in fucking sauce and spices? It disguises the fact that they can't cook for shit.

Not a poo, but do you think any spice/condiment/salt is somehow a crutch?

[Anonymous No.14527844]

>>14526409
>how do I make a /pol/ racebait thread on /ck/

[Anonymous No.14527848]

>>14526708
Spices make me angry. They disguise the flavour of proper meat which only needs a very small amount of salt. Even pepper detracts from the savouriness of meat. Americans don't understand this which is why they cover up their meats with sugar and spice. Their culinary culture is as barbaric as its people.

[Anonymous No.14527854]

>>14527258
The old "small is medium, medium is large, and large is family" trick.

Also Crust is a shitty big chain.

I'm in Vic and I've never seen a decent large pizza for under $18 (Margarita) or $20 (normal). But, I don't live in Melbourne, so if that's the benefit you get from living in that shithole, more power to you.

[Anonymous No.14527862]

>>14526845
Counterpoint: my wife and I enjoy cooking Indian food much more than ordering it because it is cheaper and does not result in digestive distress. Most Indian dishes are straightforward to make and rely on the correct balance of spices, which is easy to confirm by weight.

[Anonymous No.14527868]

>>14527829
also not what I said. This isn't reddit, you can't just strawman my every argument and expect that I'll swallow it like some cum gargling tranny.

[Anonymous No.14527870]

>>14527862
I've made curry at home for years and whilst it is good and my family enjoys it, I could never get that Indian restaurant flavour.

I only recently learnt about the Dhungar technique and it all made sense. Indian restaurants are set up for tandoor and dhungar cooking, you can't replicate that at home unless you spend a lot of time and money.

[Anonymous No.14527879]

>>14526409
>Are indian restaurants ripping off stupid white people?
Of course. But anyone who opens a restaurant is being ripped off by outrageous rent, taxes, kitchen equipment cost, minimum wage laws, cost of ingredients, etc.

So what can u do? Ppl gotta make a living. But here's a tip if you want all the cheap authentic Indian food you can eat just go to India

[Anonymous No.14527950]

>>14526409
>Indian """restaurants"""
There's your problem. Find the place where actual pajeets eat, probably some kind of canteen or mom and pop shop. Before my local one got gentrified into a fag sushi joint, I could get a curry, rice, lentil dish and salad for $5 total.

[Anonymous No.14527957]

>>14527848
This but ironically

[Anonymous No.14527961]

>>14527950
>I could get a curry, rice, lentil dish and salad for $5 total.
I would eat there every day.

[Anonymous No.14527969]

>>14527816
Ah yes, the wonderful benefit of sweating out all your body water during the summer.. invaluable, truly..

[Anonymous No.14527974]

>>14527969
You understand the purpose behind sweating?

[Anonymous No.14527977]

>>14526409
Your theory of value is based on misconceptions. Read up and think again. You're just another person weighing whether you're willing to pay that much and the product doesn't have an objective monetary value. But the servoce does have production costs, which consist in more than just the price of the ingredients. Vegeyarian Indian food is cheap as hell in India, but the question is: why the stark difference?

[Anonymous No.14527980]

>>14527974
Enough to know it sweats enough on it's own and needs constant rehydration. Are you suggestion indian food is the only way to sweat lmao

[Anonymous No.14527982]

>>14527258
Holy shit anon i live super close to you. Had a few mates work at frankie's pizza it seemed like a chill stoner job since most people there smoked.

[Anonymous No.14527983]

>>14527977
Pajeets first business lecture

[Anonymous No.14527986]

>>14527977
*service *vegetarian

[Anonymous No.14527990]

>>14527983
Jeets gotta pay the bills so their kids can get ahead down the road. It's admirable, as long as you're not outright lying to people or knowingly screwing them over otherwise.

[Anonymous No.14527994]

>>14527983
Besides, didn't you hear? "Brown people" are now a part of the oppressor class that maintain white supremacy over black people.

[Anonymous No.14528005]

>>14527961
Yeah man I miss it so bad. When covid ends I'm making it my mission to find a new cheap pajeet joint.

[Anonymous No.14528015]

>>14527994
I didnt realize they were so cool

[Anonymous No.14528025]

>>14528005
>When covid ends
I admire your optimism but it's misplaced. The world's only at the beginning, lad.

[Anonymous No.14528145]

>>14527980
not necessarily. When it's 40 degrees outside and 10% humidity, you may not even notice as it's almost 10 degrees cooler inside, but the heat exchange in such extremely dry weather can rob you of the feeling of dehydration. I myself have succumbed to this twice, having not noticed at all that I'm completely parched. Conversely, it also gets relatively cold (compared to the summers) in the winters, at or close to 0 degrees, when the same occurs, but of course, there's no risk of dehydration then.

[Anonymous No.14528155]

>>14527576
fuck off polcel trash, seriously go back to red-dit for your soyboy cringe jpgs

[Anonymous No.14528210]

>>14527526
>How would poor Indians get access to spices that were so expensive in the first place?
How would poor Congolese get access to diamonds that were so expensive in the first place?

[Anonymous No.14528392]

>>14527994
I'm glad to be of service. Actually, I'm not a /pop/tard for obvious reasons, but the kangz are destroying the west, and I won't have that, whatever the colour of my skin. And there is obviously (((someone))) responsible for instigating.

[Anonymous No.14528395]

>>14528392
*/Pol/tard
fucking phoneposting fucking sucks, wtf are these phone keyboards

[Anonymous No.14528427]

>>14526685
>bro spices are expensive
>here’s the most expensive spice IN THE WORLD in grams when the spice is used by the thread
nice meme. if you’re buying high quality organic spices, they’ll cost you an arm and a leg. otherwise you can get them real cheap. don’t believe me? just go to an indian market: a giant bag of cloves costs less than $5.
the reason indian food is so expensive is the same as any other restaurant: you’re paying for labor, maintenance, and profit. the difference is that people think indians are robbing them while not batting an eye at a $20 plate of pasta.

[Anonymous No.14528439]

Where the fuck are you people going that it costs that much for Indian? The max you should be paying for a single plate is $10. This shit is inexpensive as hell to make, and indian buffets here charge like $12 per person.

[Anonymous No.14528646]

>>14527435
Thanks Anon!

[Anonymous No.14528674]

It's not the worse thing in the world for three meals worth of food. Pic related:my local Indian restaurant in Baltimore.

[Anonymous No.14528680]

>>14528674

[Anonymous No.14528701]

>>14527478
Unsurprisingly, if you go to an Indian supermarket whole spices is super cheap.

[Anonymous No.14528752]

>>14527862
Could you help me out then? Here: >>14526889

[Anonymous No.14529052]

>>14528395
I think /pop/tard is actually pretty descriptive.

[Anonymous No.14529190]

>>14528752
not that guy but this site's recipes look good enough
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/

[Anonymous No.14529207]

>>14526568
This isn't really true. Go to any Indian market and you can buy giant 1 kilo bags of every spice they use... And they are quite cheap.

[Anonymous No.14529253]

>>14526409
You niggers are getting ripped off.

But then again, you got to know that good spices along with good ingredients is crucial for curry to taste very fucking good. Hell, you got to know how to pick proper coconut cream - cause if you picked a coconut cream that is 'freshly' made, and by that I mean is made thirty minutes ago, chances are its already sour tasting and you got to ask for him to make you a batch of coconut cream to get that incredibly good tasting sweet shit to mix in with the spices, thus elevating your curry into something oh so good.


So yes, that restaurant you're in is ripping you off but you got to know your shit before your curry taste spicy, a little salty and sweet nasty tasty rather than sour and kind of disappointing.

[Anonymous No.14529271]

>>14526409
Restaurants are a rip off, period.
A single plate of spaghetti and meatballs is around $17 at the Cheesecake Factory.
I can make that myself for my entire family of 4 for around $6.

[afatoldman No.14529277]

>>14526409
Its the spices and the labor.

[afatoldman No.14529281]

>>14526488
A pizza for delivery here in Nashville is around $30.

[Anonymous No.14529936]

>>14529190
>names of dishes I don't recognize
>ingredients I've never heard of
>references to Hindu religious stuff
>slightly broken website
>recipes take hours
Looks promising! Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.14530920]

>>14529936
no problem, i'm gonna give the masoor dal a shot tomorrow. if you need to run out to an indian supermarket, i recommend grabbing some dried methi/fenugreek leaves, dried red chilis, asafoetida/hing, amchur, various whole spices (mainly cloves, green cardamom, plus cumin seeds), and some of the more niche legumes/lentils like mung, chana, and urad dal. that should cover you on 99% of recipes for "special" stuff that you can't find at a walmart or wherever.

[Anonymous No.14531104]

They're not that expensive where I live. $20 would get me a rice plate meal as follows:

Rice.
Chapli kebab or fish curry
Aloo gobi.
Brinjal muttar.
Fresh, made-to-order naan.
Salad greens.
Chutney.
Raita.
Lassi of some kind.
Another $3.50 and I could get some gross-ass dessert, too. Why are south Asian desserts (other than rice pudding) universally shit?

[Anonymous No.14532038]

>>14529936
https://twosleevers.com/recipe-index/?fwp_cuisine=indian

[Anonymous No.14532060]

What's the point of deseeding chili peppers?

[Anonymous No.14532083]

>>14532060
Makes it less hot and less annoying to eat.

[Anonymous No.14532119]

>>14532083
I've never done it and the seeds always get soft enough during cooking so that you don't really notice them.

[Anonymous No.14532157]

>>14532119
that might be why, the chilli's are there for flavour, they are not intended to be consumed. Spice is controlled by length of simmer, it's directly proportional.

[Anonymous No.14532170]

>>14527816
street shitter talking about how they don't use spices to mask spoiled food lol

[Anonymous No.14532176]

>>14526583
It's your fault for buying Japanese pizzas in the first place.

[Anonymous No.14532198]

>>14526409
That hasn't been my experience.
The Indian place I go to on Fridays charges $13 for the lunch special which gets you curry AND rice AND bread.

The most overpriced food in my city is definitely Italian, not because it's particularly expensive but because you can get way better food for less by either doing Thai, Indian, or Mexican.

[Anonymous No.14532201]

>>14529281

Wheres good pizza in nashville? All ive had is straight up trash. Im glad five points got rekt by the tornado, that stuff is garbage.

Madelines was the worst pizza ive ever had in my life.

[Anonymous No.14532238]

>>14526409
It's because every group of white Karens just tries to share one dish, thinking they're getting one over on the stupid turban wearers.

[Anonymous No.14532239]

>>14526409
everything in Canada is expensive
take your meds

[Anonymous No.14532240]

>>14526488
Unless you're going to a chain, 30 bucks is like the minimum for a pizza.

[Anonymous No.14532262]

Come to think of it, there was a country that was about to go to war with India.
Unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of that country.

[Anonymous No.14532427]

>>14532157
>the chilli's are there for flavour, they are not intended to be consumed
That's weird, why?

[Anonymous No.14532475]

>>14526859
where the fuck do you live jesus

[Anonymous No.14532495]

>>14526409
I mean there's no way a Big Mac meal costs $13.95 to make either but here we are

[Anonymous No.14532509]

I live in the Silicon Valley which is basically a third indian and indian food here is cheap as shit and you get all the regional varieties
I lived in Idaho for a few years and the one indian place in nearby was fucking 15 bucks for a think of paneer tikka and two meager pieces of naan. which you could get for 5-6 bucks in the bay area and this is in idaho where costs are extremely low (labor, property taxes, supplies etc)

[Anonymous No.14532540]

I love the retards shitting on Indian food not knowing its a haute cuisine like French or Chinese food. I'd bet you can't name the 4th haute cuisine. Hint: It's not Italian and it's not Japanese, sorry guido and weeb friends.

[Anonymous No.14532543]

>>14532540
persian food

[Anonymous No.14534032]

>>14532540
Lebanese food

[Anonymous No.14534068]

>>14530920
update: made the masoor dal. it needed a decent amount of salt but that's the price of entry for lentils imo. good overall, maybe a bit too much lemon juice.

[Anonymous No.14534151]

>>14532540
Nordic cuisine

[Anonymous No.14534187]

>>14529271
Pravda / пpaвдa

[Anonymous No.14534226]

>>14532238
First off, stop being racist against Karen's. Second of all, I've seen Karen's go to Indian lunch specials and f***ing demolish the buffets, especially if they're alone. They ain't sharing s**t. Karen's eat like bubba. Anorexic hipsters are more prone to sharing.

[Anonymous No.14534254]

>>14534226
>ESL
>Ironic self-censorship

[Anonymous No.14534697]

>>14532540
Anon, whats the answer?

[Anonymous No.14534898]

>>14534697
Maybe a dish like this.
I ate a mixture of French and Italian techniques that were less distinctive.

[Anonymous No.14536407]

>>14526845
>>14526858
>>14526861
Are you people retarded? You can find traditional recipes on youtube? They're really fucking simple.

[Anonymous No.14536452]

>>14526685
buying saffron is like buying drugs

[Anonymous No.14536654]

>>14528680
>>14528674
This pricing is in line with Indian restaurants in Canada. $14-$17 USD for a meat entree with rice is $19-$23 CAD, which is about what our restaurants charge.
To the anons claiming to pay far less: out of curiousity, are you bongs?

[Anonymous No.14537074]

>>14527994
wtf I love indians now

[Anonymous No.14537242]

>>14526409
absolutely theyre a con
i never buy that shit as a takeaway because its so cheap and easy to do at home for a fraction of the price

[Anonymous No.14538351]

>>14526889
Not exactly authentic or technical, but Dan Coombs wrote a cookbook about the Indian restaurants in Britain. The curries are what we get in restaurants around here.

Unrelated: rolling out Naan dough and grilling over wood coals before brushing with garlic butter is the closest I've come to good naan without a tandoor oven. The biggest difference are the grill marks

[Anonymous No.14539488]

>>14526409
as an american living in malaysia before, yes, everthing asian here is overprice to hell, asian food are very cheap to make, curry powder and groceries are ridiculous, buy it at you local indian guy market for cheaper price

[Anonymous No.14539845]

>>14526638
this post caused a lot of copeposting but is completely right

[Anonymous No.14540006]

>>14526409

Your kinda right, its cheap and simple when you cook it at home.

But

On a restaurant level/quantities its a different ball game, a lot of mis en place involved in cutting/grinding the many different spices and vegetables, also most Indian food is kinda slow cooking, wich requires a lot time of time and a lot of attention especially when your gonna charge people for it.

[Anonymous No.14540027]

>>14526543
>Implying Gods chosen people will own a fucking cafe.

[Anonymous No.14540061]

>>14526409
>Go to Italian restaurant
>Seafood pasta.
>$20+ tip
Real expensive ingredients

[Anonymous No.14540086]

>>14526409

In the UK portion of Butter Chicken costs ~£8 (~$11) at most takeaways. That's with a very competitive market and an over-supply of Indian chefs.

I could see you paying that sort of premium if you're in a country where Indian restaurants are rare as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14540089]

>>14540027
Never been to New York, I take it?

[Anonymous No.14540104]

>>14540086
tfw you will never live in bongland where endless curries, meat pies, and döner kebab await for reasonable prices

[Anonymous No.14540108]

>>14526988

>not making a naan base pizza

[Anonymous No.14540130]

>>14540104

Almost every restaurant in the UK is 50% off Monday-Wednesdays at the moment. You can get a nice curry, rice, bombay potatoes and a naan for under a tenner. Only eat in though so no cheap kebabs walking back from a night out (although I'd wager a bunch of kebab shops will fiddle it to give you 50% off).

Nandos are even cheekier now.

[Anonymous No.14540149]

>>14540108
Cheese is better when stuffed inside.

[Anonymous No.14540162]

>>14527526
>There is no amount of spice you can add to rotten meat and have it still be edible and not get you sick later
There's got to be some ability for the human body to adapt to it, because I've seen some horrifying vacation pictures of stores with fly covered goat carcasses hanging in their windows. People in some countries, simply have no choice.

[Anonymous No.14540169]

>>14540149

There's a takeaway near me that did a cheese and tikka stuffed naan that was incredible.

It was £4 and they must have put 300g+ of cheese in it and a full mains worth of chicken Tikka. Fuck knows how they made money on it. The place changed hands and rebranded, they still offer it but haven't dared to try in case they ruined it.

[Anonymous No.14540172]

>>14526748
Except for whatever the fuck that last item is, my place had exact same pricing for samosa and for chicken tikka massala. The only good thing is they always give me 4 pieces of naan and 2 orders of rice for some reason.

>dumb niggers close from 230-5pm

[Anonymous No.14540386]

>>14528427
4€ the best napoli pizza in napoli

[Anonymous No.14540837]

>>14528752
>>14527870
Pretty much every indian restaurant uses one or more base gravies, also called master sauces. The Khris Dillon one is good, google it.

[Anonymous No.14541422]

>>14526409
>canada
lmao. I stopped eating poo nigger food after learning how disgusting those people are (I work with visa slaves).
They always overcook the chicken anyway.

[Anonymous No.14541432]

>>14540162
The "adaptation" is suffering an increased disease and parasite load, which subhumans do.

[Anonymous No.14541740]

>>14541422
Thank you, they overcook everything.

[Anonymous No.14541751]

although i like indian food it's the only type of restaurant i feel like im taking a gamble

[Anonymous No.14542017]

>>14532201

Pizza Perfect
Desano's
Two Boots
Sir Pizza (unironically)

[Anonymous No.14542029]

>>14542017

Oh, and if you like 'ew 'ork 'za then Manny's House of Pizza in the Arcade downtown or Joey's in Brentwood.

[Anonymous No.14542236]

>>14526488
Lol anywhere outside of chain, a medium is like 20 bucks

[Anonymous No.14542712]

>>14526638
>colored people
I love when 'anti-racists' out themselves by using racist terms.

[Anonymous No.14542802]

>>14526859

Pic is from Chicago, Illinois
The Logan Square neighborhood

[Anonymous No.14543204]

>>14526409
>Are indian restaurants ripping off stupid white people?
Yes. What costs $20 at an Indian restaurant in America would be $5 at a sit-down restaurant in India. Source: been to India.

[Anonymous No.14543239]

>>14526452
t. Rajesh

[Anonymous No.14543246]

>>14526488
pizza is £5 which is about $8 where I live