/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16834612]

>you can make them at home for much cheaper
Still not as good as McDonald's.
What other things are just better at the drive through?

[Anonymous No.16834630]

ive got a real high-class gas station that i always end up at before work in the morning, and they have these sausage egg and cheese jobs that shit on anything

[Anonymous No.16834658]

It's a fucking crime against humanity that this item is not available around the clock everywhere.
Fucking nobody eats breakfast at mcdonalds in finland and they stop selling this at 10am.
Most people don't even seem to know this is a thing.

[Anonymous No.16834672]

>>16834612
Fries and hashbrowns are hard to imitate if you don't have a fryer

[Anonymous No.16834676]

>>16834612
I can never get milkshakes right at home

[Anonymous No.16834682]

Oh yeah not to mention they don't even have the hashbrown on the breakfast menu in finland.
The mcdonalds here really makes some strange choices sometimes.

[Anonymous No.16834693]

>>16834612
I made these myself and they were in fact much better
mainly from the meat and eggs not being grossly overcooked

[Anonymous No.16834702]

>>16834658
>It's a fucking crime against humanity that this item is not available around the clock everywhere.
They are here in Australia, along with egg and bacon mcmuffins, sausage mcmuffins, hash browns and hotcakes.
For some reason the mighty mcmuffin is only during breakfast hours though despite using the same fucking ingredients as the other mcmuffins.

[Anonymous No.16834710]

>>16834658
The fact that you actually eat this garbage is a crime. I'd rather eat a piece of bread with some cheese on it than this filth.

[Anonymous No.16835172]

Thw steak, egg, and cheese begal was the best breakfast item ever

[Anonymous No.16835215]

>>16834612

[Anonymous No.16835227]

>>16834702
omg how have they not served in the usa yet? i would be even fatter

[Anonymous No.16835232]

More salt
More sugar
More vinegar
More MSG

Stop making these retarded threads.

[Anonymous No.16835244]

>>16834710
what's wrong with it, it's just a piece of bread with cheese, but also a bit of sausage and egg, the whole thing is like 400 calories and a perfectly reasonable breakfast

[Anonymous No.16835247]

>>16835232
do you just sprinkle it on the egg?

[Anonymous No.16835260]

>>16835232
>vinegar

???????

[Anonymous No.16835318]

>>16835172
yeah I worked there, and the steak patties were like a chopped steak consistency. not ground beef

[Anonymous No.16835345]

>>16835318
Id take one with a burger patty at this point

[Anonymous No.16835346]

>>16834612
It's better than McDonald's, you just have become so accustomed to the taste of all the chemical preservatives and low quality ingredients that your brain has been tricked into desiring that unnatural, low-quality, factory processed taste even though it's objectively worse.

[Anonymous No.16835394]

I make them at home all the time, probably 3 times a week and they are MUCH better than McDonalds. The problem is you're used to the grease and fat taste.

[Anonymous No.16835540]

>>16835346
>>16835394
>you don't like it because it's bland compared to mcdonalds
no shit.

[Anonymous No.16835556]

>>16835540
no. you don't like it because you've abused your palette with garbage.

[Anonymous No.16835561]

>>16834672
>hashbrowns
>fryer

you what lad. hashbrowns are cooked on a flat top.

[Anonymous No.16835573]

>>16835556
>Just eat food that doesn't taste as good for years until you get sour grapes and claim that it tastes better

[Anonymous No.16835637]

>>16835573

It takes literally a week or so to stop having the palate of a child. I bet you still drink soda and Monster too.

[Anonymous No.16835645]

>>16835573
damn imagine nuking your palette with so much salt, fat, sugar, and preservatives that you cant appreciate fresh food.

[Anonymous No.16835650]

>>16835637
>>16835645
Imagine being so retarded to think worse is better.

[Anonymous No.16835661]

gross. mcdonalds is fucking gross and if you think it's not it's because you have a child's or a fat fuck's palate. their food is disgusting, it tastes like chemicals, and it makes you feel horrible afterward. begone mcfaggots.

[Anonymous No.16835671]

>>16835650

Except it only tastes worse if you actually enjoy fatty, grease, artificially flavored fast food. If you know how to cook food (which its clear you don't) then you realize the benefits of making the sandwich at home.

[Anonymous No.16835675]

>>16835671
lets see your mcmuffin shitforbrains.

[Anonymous No.16835701]

>>16834612
1. Buy cheapo english muffins, Thomas taste wrong for this
2. Use a silicone mold to make the round egg. You also need to steam it in a covered dish
3. Use cheapo sausage patties like Aldi’s, Tesco’s, or Great Value.

[Anonymous No.16835718]

>>16835671
post recipe

[Anonymous No.16835719]

>>16835650
the irony of this post.

[Anonymous No.16835737]

>>16834612
As a non american who lived in the US for a few years, not being able to order actual burgers during certain hours at McDonalds of all places was very weird.

[Anonymous No.16835765]

>>16835650
anon...

[Anonymous No.16835822]

>>16835718
>go to store
>buy biggest english muffins they have, fresh from the bakery preffered
>buy jumbo eggs
>buy thick cut bacon (from the deli, they'll cut it way thicker than the bullshit sittin on the aisle)
>buy cream cheese
>buy pepper jack cheese
>go home
>cut english muffins in half, put in freezer
>all other food goes in refridgerator
>sleep
>wake
>pull english muffins out of freezer, put in toaster, but don't cook them yet
>put other muffins back in freezer
>get cast iron pan, put on stove, medium heat
>remove purchased items above from fridge
>place bacon in pan, cook
>remove one egg from carton, set aside
>put unused bacon and eggs back into fridge
>toast muffin
>grab a plate, cover it with a papertowl, set next to pan
>remove bacon when cooked and place on papertowl, pat dry
>remove excess bacon grease, put pan back on range
>remove the paper towel, and set muffins on plate open side up
>crack egg, drop in pan
>cut slice of cheese, put cheese back in fridge
>turn off range
>flip egg, place cheese slice on top
>spread cream cheese on muffin insides
>break the bacon strips in half, place on cream cheese sides
>remove egg, place on bacon
>profit

[Anonymous No.16835851]

>>16835822
And when do you make the sausage egg McMuffin?

[Anonymous No.16835854]

>>16835851
You fucking drive to McDonalds afterward mong.

[Anonymous No.16836145]

>>16834658
In France you can buy them all day long.

[Anonymous No.16836153]

>>16836145
is it really called a royale with cheese?

[Anonymous No.16836163]

>>16834612
You’re just addicted to that awful taste the put on all their products l. Even the sweet items have this “yup that’s Mac Donald’s” flavor.

[Anonymous No.16836295]

>>16834612
Mate you can do as good as McDonalds with a microwaved egg, untoasted muffin, presliced sandwich ham, and presliced real cheese before you could finish ordering a McMuffin.

[Anonymous No.16836303]

>>16834672
You can buy them frozen just like they do.

[Anonymous No.16836311]

>>16835227
They're not popular outside of breakfast hours.
Turns out people are more concerned about value and don't want to pay burger prices for a tiny breakfast item.

[Anonymous No.16836347]

god the salt from the "you must cook everything at home" crowd is palpable. do you people even have jobs or anything? or is it just unlimited time because you're neets?

[Anonymous No.16836356]

>>16836347
I work from home and tend to cook almost every meal. Went out for pho like three weeks ago because that shit takes forever to make and I was craving it and didn't have any broth left in the freezer.

[Anonymous No.16836371]

>>16834612
I miss the McMuffin triple stack

[Anonymous No.16836400]

>>16836347
how does having proper time managing skills and not being lazy make someone neet?

[Anonymous No.16836415]

>>16836400
Mate wasting time instead on something you can delegate to someone cheaper is not a time management skill.

[Anonymous No.16836455]

>>16836415
cooking is wasting time but running off to get fast food isnt. ok got it youre just shitposting. kys.

[Anonymous No.16836478]

>>16836455
Obviously it is. But why would I run off? it's on the way to and from work.
Besides, I do live close enough to fast food that I could buy something and come back faster than cooking, especially If I order online while walking.

[Anonymous No.16836487]

My gf used to wage cuck at Mc dicks. She makes a better breakfast sandwich and can make home made McGriddles.

Fucken fire

[Anonymous No.16836489]

>>16836400
I dunno. I work a high paying job and don't want to stress myself out with extra time making a meal most nights. It's not "not being lazy," it's that I spent a bunch of time busting my ass managing millions and millions of dollars during the day, and I'd like to maximize the free time I have just relaxing.

I know this is a McMuffin thread, but the principle still stands. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a simple and convenient food item instead of autistically shrieking you can make it at home.

>>16836356
I work from home too, and I can't imagine home cooking every meal. Fast food is pretty uncommon for me, but I can't deny a McMuffin or Del Taco or whatever is occasionally tasty.

[Anonymous No.16836509]

>>16836455
Fast food requires no shopping in advance or clean up. Getting to my local McDonalds for this sandwich would take about a quarter of the (prorated) time of getting to the grocery store and getting eggs, muffins, ham, cheese, then cooking and cleaning it all up.

Not to mention, if I only want one McMuffin, I'll save the money on not having bought a carton of eggs, package of American cheese, slices of ham, and a bunch of muffins I won't be using unless I want to eat a McMuffin every single day for a week.

[Anonymous No.16836512]

>>16835215
these shits don't fucking work. the egg sticks or leaks out the bottom. waste of fucking money. FUCK

[Anonymous No.16836517]

>>16836489
I personally don't cook every meal, but I do usually cook breakfast. Using the method I posted above for cooking these things, you're basically not waiting on any one thing as you're doing multiple things in a specific order so that everything cooks in the most efficient way possible resulting in everything being warm when you're done. I use the same method and cook for four people.
Someone else will cook dinner. Lunch is usually left overs or something simple to snack on. I have my day structured out around my work calendar, so if I don't have shit to do one day, I sleep in and end up cooking breakfast at lunch time.
>>16836509
People typically buy a lot of other things when at the market. Also, these ingredients don't expire very fast. Clean up is one pan and however many dishes you served. If you like the sandwich as much as you say, you would relish in the idea of cooking it just the way you want it every morning. Also, chicks dig a guy that can cook.

[Anonymous No.16836533]

>>16834612
Wanks

[Anonymous No.16836565]

>>16836517
>I do usually cook breakfast
>I use the same method and cook for four people.
Someone else will cook dinner. Lunch is usually left overs or something simple to snack on.
I rarely eat breakfast, and I don't have anyone else to cook for, so different worlds. Breakfast is a weekend/vacation treat to me, like having dessert.

>People typically buy a lot of other things when at the market.
For a single guy, not really. I buy some staples, but if I wanted the ingredients for a McMuffin, I'd need to go on a bit of a search.
>Clean up is one pan and however many dishes you served.
That's more than 0.
>If you like the sandwich as much as you say, you would relish in the idea of cooking it just the way you want it every morning
I'm not OP or anything, so I don't love the sandwich or anything, but the way I'd want it every morning is how McDonald's makes it... and fast.

[Anonymous No.16836589]

I just about never get to flirt with teenage boys at home

[Anonymous No.16836595]

>>16836589
Halloween is coming up so at least you have something to look forward to.

[Anonymous No.16836601]

>>16836595
18yos don't go trick or treating anon if that's what you're imblyin

[Anonymous No.16836615]

>>16836489
it is most definitely a matter of being lazy. back when i was working 60 hrs a week as a mover i still found the time and energy to cook for myself. you "bust your ass" sitting around all day and youre too stressed to feed yourself. lol what the actual fuck anon.

[Anonymous No.16836625]

>>16836615
>mover
Well when you're too poor to eat out then you don't have much of a choice.

[Anonymous No.16836631]

>>16836615
Not the guy you're replying to but I work a really stressful job in healthcare and it destroys me so much more than hauling shit in a warehouse overnight ever did.

stressful jobs are hard to recover from, physically exhausting jobs just require rest. i get home from work sometimes at 6pm and i'm panicking that i won't be mentally fit for work by 8am the next day. sometimes for that reason i stop all mental load whatsoever for the next 12 hours and just order delivery.

now most days i do cook but i know exactly what anon is talking about.

[Anonymous No.16836638]

>>16836625
>when i was

hurr durr.

[Anonymous No.16836791]

>>16834612
>Can't eat these anymore because the egg fucks up my stomach
Did I develop some kind of food intolerance or does every McDonald's I go to not cook the egg properly?

[Anonymous No.16836803]

>>16836625
>Cubicle drone thinks he's Warren Buffett because he makes median wage
Yeah you're really living large with those mcmuffins.

[Anonymous No.16836814]

>>16836791
nah you prob just a bitch
just kidding hope you get better broh

[Anonymous No.16837584]

>>16836509
That's even less honest than the other guy claiming I have to waste time driving all the time.
You don't shop for every meal, you should be dividing the time spent on a shopping trip by a weeks worth of meals.

I understand spending money to reclaim time lost to your career. And that this becomes more important the more money you make and the more hours you work. But there's no need to lie about shopping.

Shopping itself isn't an issue. Buying a freezer and a freezer worth of microwave meals is more time efficient than ordering take away. And you will shop for other things anyway.

[Anonymous No.16837595]

>>16834612
My homemade sandwiches are always better than McDonald's wtf are you on? Get better at cooking.

The only thing that isn't easy to make at home is the mcgriddle.

[Anonymous No.16837604]

>>16837595
>My homemade sandwiches are always better than McDonald's
Mommy coddled you too much and gave you delusions of grandeur.

[Anonymous No.16837610]

>>16836615
>working 60 hrs a week
If those are weekdays worked, plus commute, I'd be at one hour of not working per day. And you'd spend it cooking? retarded.
You're working weekends? retarded.

Work to live my man. The other way around is the short path to suicide.

[Anonymous No.16837616]

>>16836512
Get the metal ones

[Anonymous No.16837623]

>>16836631
More time for tik tok dance choreography got it.

[Anonymous No.16837800]

>>16835215
>>16836512
Here's the real move

[Anonymous No.16837815]

>>16834612
>McDonald's is good
Get a load of this Amerilard turbopleb

[Anonymous No.16837832]

>>16837815
Mcmuffins and cars aren't even a thing where you live. Fuckoff.

[Anonymous No.16837893]

I love sausage mcmuffins bros. I rarely get fast food anymore so it's a real treat when I get one

[Anonymous No.16837898]

>>16836615
Anon, I don't know what to tell you... it seems like you were probably "cooking" because you couldn't afford anything, despite putting in tons of backbreaking labor. Cheap ingredients, just to get fuel for the day, are totally fine.

I "sit around," I guess, but I have to be mentally prepared to present numbers that are well beyond my salary, structure the organization, retain the clients that pay us... it's a lot better than "grug move rock to other grug rock. we produce two rock."

I'm not really trying to be an asshole, but lots of people work hard to make enough money to not have to sit in front of a stove waiting for the 3 day old meat they bought on sale to be ready to warm up.

>>16836631
Yeah, I worked a physical job as a kid, and at the end of the day, I could just shut off my phone and play vidya. It'd cost the company $10 if I didn't show up for my shift on time because I slept in late making some food. 10 years later, I have a whole department to run, millions of dollars on the line, and so I'll eat my goddamned McMuffin on the run instead of panicking about the cents I could have saved making it at home.

>>16837584
I wrote "prorated" in my reply to hopefully make you understand that there's some marginal time to going and getting a breakfast sandwich vs. just rolling up to a fast food joint.
>Buying a freezer
I own a freezer that sits in my garage. I stopped using it because it's 120 degrees here in summer. I'm not saving money over the energy costs. Not everyone has the space for this shit either, and maybe has a fridge to work out of. Such a shit take.

>>16837610
Amen.

[Anonymous No.16837952]

>>16837898
>dude you only cooked because you were poor and had no other choice and it was probably shitty yucky stuff too ;)

jesus fucking christ what is wrong with you you passive aggressive faggot. if you have to go through that many mental gymnastics to justify your laziness then that's your prerogative. like literally why are you even on the food and cooking board.

>>16837610
>when i worked
>worked
>'ed'
>past tense

[Anonymous No.16837991]

>>16836153
No in france they call it رويال بالجبن

[Anonymous No.16838012]

Those are shit, buy some English muffins

[Anonymous No.16838032]

>>16837952
>like literally why are you even on the food and cooking board.
BECAUSE HE GETS 60 (YOU)S IN A SINGLE THREAD

[Anonymous No.16838074]

>>16835822
>takes more time
>costs more
>probably doesn't even taste better in the end

[Anonymous No.16838087]

>>16837952
I don't care if it's past tense, you're calling people lazy for wanting to increase leisure time. It's not about laziness it's about your seeming desire to work for work itself.
The same still applies even if you're working 40 hours, or if you're wealthy and unemployed.
Cooking is work, I want to do less work. I will pay to do less work.

Hell, I'm 20% over the median household income. I'd happily take an extra day off a week to bring me down to par if I didn't think it'd impede further career progression (and I wasn't trapped by lockdowns).

[Anonymous No.16838103]

>>16834612
Kneel.

[Anonymous No.16838108]

>>16834658
breakfast is 24 hours here in leafland

[Anonymous No.16838111]

>>16838012
OP did buy english muffins and agrees with you that they are shit.

[Anonymous No.16838117]

>>16838108
Can you ride your moose through the drive through too? And do you have maple syrup fountains for refilling your flasks?

[Anonymous No.16838132]

>>16838117
No, you must have a car.
We had some areas where fast food became drive through only, and mad classism emerged. From Maccas FFS.

Not that they weren't classist to start with, favoring drive through and delivery over walk ins by a substantial margin anyway.

[Anonymous No.16838143]

>>16838103
>biscuit
found the subhuman

[Anonymous No.16838154]

>>16835172
why did it disappear though, also what the hell was that sauce that was on it

I'm 31 and that shit haunts my memories as the most delicious fastfood item to have ever existed... last I had it was when I was like... 11

[Anonymous No.16838157]

>>16835346
Not really. People tend to assume that McDonald's is full of scary chemicals but if you look up the ingredients on their website they really don't use anything that isn't also found in average stuff from the grocery store. Artisanal or homemade bread and cured meats might be healthier but the typical stuff you get at most grocery stores isn't.

McDonalds doesn't make people fat because it has chemicals. It makes people fat because cheeseburgers & fries are really high calorie.

[Anonymous No.16838177]

>>16834672
I mean, after learning how potatoes work Hashbrowns are easy as piss. Grate potato in water and wash until starches are negligible/gone. Dry them off, put oil in pan/skillet/griddle with a good amount of oil and fry. The potato cakes you eat from FF have to be fried because they're frozen into pucks with much more volume than traditional hashbrowns.

[Anonymous No.16838185]

>>16837604
And your momo took you to Mcd's whenever she remembered she couldn't cook to actually feed her child because breakfast food was too much for her.

[Anonymous No.16838187]

>>16838157
It's not so clear cut as that. There's no reason for bread, salad and beef to be unhealthy.
The bun is full of oil (which is a preservative for bread) and sugar. The beef isn't full of preservatives as you'd expect, it's just the patties are so thin that all the moisture has evaporated off increasing shelf life at the cost of dryness; which is compensated for with high calorie sauces.

The fries are so bad because they're so thin. The higher the surface area the higher the oil content.

You could cook burgers at home with beef mince, a wholemeal roll, salad, and a low calorie sauce like siracha. And Air fried thick cut chips / wedges. It'd taste better and be healthy.

[Anonymous No.16838212]

>>16837952
>justify your laziness
I don't know what the fuck the government/media did to everyone, but "I MUST PRODUCE AT ALL TIMES" is a pretty unhealthy mindset, anon.

>>16838032
FOOD and cooking.

[Anonymous No.16838213]

>>16838187
I was talking about a normal burger. Obviously you could make a lean burger with whole grain bread and low fat sauce but a normal backyard barbeque style burger with white bread, 80/20 ground beef, cheese, and mayonnaise isn't much healthier homemade vs restaurant.

[Anonymous No.16838219]

>>16835215
literally just use a jar top you sperg

[Anonymous No.16838223]

>>16837800
>put them in the pan
>they explode
Great input... NOT!

[Anonymous No.16838229]

>>16838087
im calling people lazy for not spending 20-30 minutes to whip up something in the kitchen. in the time you spent here you could have made something but i guess youre time is that precious or w.e.

>>16838212
>"I MUST PRODUCE AT ALL TIMES"


you know some people work to escape their economic situations, right? im just baffled how spending just a few minutes to partake in a fulfilling activity is considered a complete waste of time by the """adults""" here.

[Anonymous No.16838239]

>>16838087
Anon, are you me? This Puritanical shit is ridiculous. Sure, I could be on my hands and knees all Saturday to clean the house, but no, I make enough money to pay someone to do it more efficiently. A Groupon for a whole house clean costs like, $100. They send three people, and what I'd do in 12 hours is done in two, better than if I'd done it.

Kinda like food, they have practice.

The reason money even exists is to standardize units of work for labor.

[Anonymous No.16838263]

>>16838229
>im calling people lazy for not spending 20-30 minutes to whip up something in the kitchen. in the time you spent here you could have made something but i guess youre time is that precious or w.e.
I'm not always shitposting on teh4channelz, but I'd rather do it than dishes, or leaving shit for my roommate to clean. My time is pretty precious. I want to have fun.

>you know some people work to escape their economic situations, right?
Sure, and more power to them. Screeching over someone getting a sandwich from the dollar menu has nothing to do with people escaping poverty.
>spending just a few minutes to partake in a fulfilling activity
It's more time than you give it credit for, and it's not necessarily "fulfilling." I don't think you give enough credit to how much time it takes to wander the store just to get the ingredients together, cook, and clean, for a breakfast sandwich I think most people would have once a month. For larger people, maybe four times a month.

[Anonymous No.16838417]

>>16834702
I used to work at maccas and never understood why they weren't on the all-day-breakfast menu

[Anonymous No.16838428]

>>16834612
McDonalds has a way of producing dry eggs, home eggs are always too wet and sweaty and give your sandwich a gross moist texture, McDonalds has a way of producing perfect sandwich dry eggs

[Anonymous No.16838584]

>>16838428
The folded eggs come prepackaged. The Rounded eggs are made fresh and are basically steamed and grilled at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSs9lALeUPQ

You can accomplish the same effect at home by using an egg mold, pouring some water in the pan, and then covering it.

[Anonymous No.16838611]

>>16834702
I contend that the Mighty McMuffin is the finest breakfast fast food product in Western Australia

[Anonymous No.16839068]

>>16838154
It was around till covid, the sauce was supposed to be a hollandaise. It was so good

[Anonymous No.16839081]

>>16838074
>takes more time
It takes like 10 minutes to cook bacon, and that's the longest part of the bit. You can cheat and cook it in the microwave with the egg if you're soulless.

[Anonymous No.16839364]

>>16839081
that's still longer

do you even know how fast mcdonalds is fucking is? one time they handed me my order before I was done paying get that through your thick skull you're NOT always right you dumb piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.16839656]

>>16835215
grease up the top from a mason and then cook the egg in that. works every time.

[Anonymous No.16839913]

>>16839364
You work there or something? Takes me more than 10 minutes just to get to one.

[Anonymous No.16840634]

>Still not as good as McDonald's
You made it wrong.
I'd say learn to cook, but you fucked up an egg.

[Anonymous No.16840652]

>>16840634
>you fucked up an egg.
How so?

[Anonymous No.16841061]

>>16836489
Why is everybody on 4chan (supposedly) extremely rich?

[Anonymous No.16841231]

>>16841061
I never said I was extremely rich. I have a high paying job, but I'm not rolling around in a lambo to my mansion.