/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16891833]

Can you craft a spaghetti recipe that costs thirty nine dollars to make?

[Anonymous No.16891850]

>>16891833
Artisan tomatoes (local farmer's market)
Weird spices I don't already have
Hand-cranked spaghetti noodles (from the local italian import shop and pasta sloppery)
Artisan parmesan (1 full wheel)
There ya go

[Anonymous No.16891852]

hard mode: no goldleaf or truffles

[Anonymous No.16891886]

Ground a5 wagyu bolognaise. Boom way over $39.

[Anonymous No.16891888]

>>16891833
Yes, if i wanted to waste money while becoming even more of a piece of shit douchebag than i am now. After i make it, I would of course go on Twitter using my new Iphone to complain about how I can barely afford to feed myself and that socialism is the only true solution.

[Anonymous No.16891902]

>>16891888
>the affordability of garbage Chinesium technology means cabidalism is le epic good and for sure works

[Anonymous No.16891945]

Why would I pay so much for what is essentially peasant food? Anyway... Roa is the best store-bought stuff I've had, so dried pasta is about $4, jarred sauce is $6, and garlic knots are $3 a bag at Walmart. So $13 for much more food than ordering out and it'll taste the same as whatever restaurant. Add $4-6 depending on the quality of parmesan cheese, if you want it. From the look of the woman in the tweet, she isn't making anything from scratch, so she must be feeding about 8 children and 3 baby daddy's to spend that much.

[Anonymous No.16891967]

>>16891902
The only good communist is a dead communist.

[Anonymous No.16891977]

>>16891833
Make a huge pot of bolognese ragu
Also a big chunk of italian parmeggiano

[Anonymous No.16891983]

>>16891967

[Anonymous No.16891985]

>>16891977
I was just thinking I've definitely spent over $40 making lasagna but that was because I was making like 15 lbs of it

[Anonymous No.16891988]

>>16891833
>jar of sauce: $1
>package of noodles: $2

[Anonymous No.16891990]

>>16891833
Spaghetti with what? Spaghetti and meatballs?

[Anonymous No.16892011]

>>16891945
>Jarred sauce and walmart garlic knots
>Taste the same as whatever restaurant

I can get making fun of the bitch for spending 40 bucks on spaghetti, but you're a complete tastelet if you think jarred sauce is even remotely palatable. It's fucking half sugar you fatass.

[Anonymous No.16892022]

>>16892011
He's talking about Rao's which is definitely palatable. I know how to make good sauce myself but I keep Rao's on hand for when I'm too lazy.

[Anonymous No.16892027]

>>16892011
>half sugar
You guys are fucking retards lmao

[Anonymous No.16892031]

>>16891833
Sunday gravy, bolognese, scallop fra diavolo,whole veal shank parmesan with fresh mozzarella, squid ink sauce with octopus, wild mushroom lasagna with hunter's sauce. It really doesn't take that much to spend more than ten dollars on a meal unless your only objective is to binge eat carbs smothered in bottled sauce from walmart.

[Anonymous No.16892039]

>>16891833
Canadian premium soup prices:
1lb spaghetti - $1.50 so $0.50
3lb hamburger meat - $15 so $2.50
Jar of sauce $4

Looking at $7 for about 2 days of food.

[Anonymous No.16892049]

>All these disgusting goblino poorfags encouraging the use of jarred sauce

None of you have ever had real pasta.

[Anonymous No.16892055]

>>16891850
>Artisan tomatoes
>Artisan
Wat?

[Anonymous No.16892060]

>>16892049
Just buy a can of tomatoes and add some spices to taste.
WOW SO HARD!

[Anonymous No.16892064]

>>16892049
Let me guess, you make your sauce from a can of tomato sauce?

If not, please do a cookalong from tomatoes to pasta sauce

[Anonymous No.16892072]

>>16892055
I'm guessing it is just normal "organic" tomatoes but more expensive.

[Anonymous No.16892081]

Does it still count as jarred sauce if I grew the tomatoes, roasted them with garlic, salt, pepper, blended and cooked them down with some other veggies, oregano, basil and a bay leaf then canned the sauce myself?

[Anonymous No.16892097]

>>16892049
I've made sauce from tomatoes and it certainly jacks up the price, though $39 still seems unreachable. I normally just throw in the half of a remaining one I used for burgers.
Canned tomatoes were fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.16892099]

>>16892081
Only if you added HFCS.

[Anonymous No.16892102]

>>16892072
It'll be fancy heirloom varietals that aren't grown industrially.

[Anonymous No.16892110]

>>16892099
I dont even add sugar.

[Anonymous No.16892112]

>>16892022
Tell me truthfully, how much better is homemade sauce? Is it really worth all the effort for a random weeknight?

[Anonymous No.16892133]

>>16892112
I get tomatoes on sale or grow them, then make a huge pot and put them into freezer bags. So I would say yes.

But if you go to the store and buy a handful of roma tomatoes, for one night, probably not.

[Anonymous No.16892198]

Ok, I cheated slightly with the olive oil but it's well within the realm of possibilities

[Anonymous No.16892207]

>>16892112
If you're used to shit like Ragu or whatever other cheap jarred sauce, your homemade stuff will be leagues better assuming you buy decent tomatoes.

But if you can afford the good shit like Rao's, it's only worth it if you want to flex that you made it yourself.

[Anonymous No.16892209]

dumb expensive premade sauce jars I guess.

[Anonymous No.16892224]

>>16891967
communist or capitalist, humans suck balls and so do their systems. burn it all down, blow it all up anarchy forever baby

[Anonymous No.16892227]

>>16892011
See: >>16892022
Roa's shit is actually top-notch premade stuff. And, by the look of the tweet(er?)... She's ordering spaghetti from Olive Garden, not a place that sell $30 spaghetti that is obviously actually good; Roa's competes with or beats Olive Garden in taste quite easily. Anyway I don't know, I feel indifferent towards spaghetti. I'd rather just buy decent jarred stuff than bother using up my time making sauce for a meal that I don't care much about. If I'm making a lasagna or something else then it would be a different story.

[Anonymous No.16892232]

>>16892198
>$16 bottle of olive oil
>3 packs of organic herbs
>great value grated parmesan

[Anonymous No.16892412]

A lot of you twats have been watching way too much rachel ray and youtube shit, we all know that it doesn't cost any dollars to make a good sauce, this is the most basic shit. Crush up a good sardine or anchovy in there and you're good to go.
What the fuck are you people thinking?

[Anonymous No.16892417]

>>16891833
im guessing they spent $20 on spices they didnt have.

[Anonymous No.16892426]

You idiots are thinking "AS SEEN ON TV" IF IT'S EXPENSIVE IT MUST BE GOOD.

[Anonymous No.16892440]

I've never tried Rao's. How much better is it than my go-to, Classico?

[Anonymous No.16892462]

>>16892440
Classico is good enough if you don't want to spend the $4 extra on Roa's. If you have the money definitely try it and decide whether or not the price is worth it to you. Their dried pasta is also quite a bit better than the other 3ish big brands in stores.

[Anonymous No.16892535]

It's always those people that see X and say 'I'm gonna go make X'.
They have none of the prerequisite ingredients and have to buy everything from scratch, then balk at the cost. They fly to the keyboard and bitch that the healthy train is a scam, etc, when they still have 3 meals worth of noodles left, they could have a whole fucking liter of sauce left and still have 5lbs of beef left in the freezer.

[Anonymous No.16892569]

>>16892412
>Crush up a good sardine

Anchovies (cured) are not interchangeable with sardines. That's really not what sardines are for. You wouldn't like the flavor of sardine bits in your tomato sauce.

[Anonymous No.16892608]

>>16892049
I've almost never been satisfied by a basic tomato sauce I've made myself. By basic I mean a sauce with no animal products of any kind (no parmesan rinds, anchovies or butter, either), no wine, and no added sugar. Just tomatoes, oil, aromatics, herbs and spices.

Making something as good or better than the expensive jars is really not easy, at least for me. You need to get the seasoning and sweet/acid balance exactly right, and you need flavorful high quality tomatoes. You also need to be willing to add a shitload of salt.

Look at this jar's label >>16892022 and try to make something as good with only those listed ingredients.

[Anonymous No.16892775]

>>16891833
her profile photo shows that she is a nasty whore :)

[Anonymous No.16892902]

>>16892112
If you just use jarred passata and flavor it as you like, you get something better than jarred sauce for very little effort.

[Anonymous No.16892954]

>>16891833
>39
how

[Anonymous No.16892963]

>>16891833
It's one thing for costs, if you're single only that is.

[Anonymous No.16892988]

>>16892112
If you know how to make it, and can get good tomatoes, it's significantly better. Store-bought sauces are made of tomatoes unsuitable for direct sale and the cheap ones are thoroughly watered down (then thickened using some thickener) so the threshold to "do better" isn't high, but you can always botch the preparation or get scammed into buying completely flavorless tomatoes.

[Anonymous No.16893010]

Walmart has some new jarred sauces and ive been trying them every few weeks

Yo mama's is not worth the price tag. Not good or bad for like $7
Botticelli's is 60% salt. Disgusting
Victoria is decent but im not in love with it

Has anyone tried the Lucini? The packaging is pretty but I try not to buy based on packaging

[Anonymous No.16893031]

>>16892569
No shit sherlock, it took a whole post for you to come up with that? The point is that you crush either one up into some tomato sauce and it makes it better, it doesn't matter all that much if if it's an anchovy or a sardine.
What does matter is that you're a pathetic homosexual.

[Anonymous No.16893050]

>>16891833

Ya think that's bad? I tried to make spaghetti at home once... but I didn't have a home, and the stupid realtor tried to stick me with a $200,000 mortgage. And that was even buying the noodles! What a scam, I'm going back to living on the street and turning tricks for Doordash.

[Anonymous No.16893052]

>>16891833

[Anonymous No.16893067]

they probably had to buy all the ingredients, and were probably using a blog website
1kg tomatoes
bottle of olive oil
a bulb of garlic
1 lb beef and/or pork
1/2 bundle of celery
bag of carrots
bag of onion
200g pack of diced pancetta
500ml-1L carton of beef bone broth
500g of egg pasta
and theyd likely not cook again until the next weekend so the ingredients would have gone limp or dry

[Anonymous No.16893085]

>>16893050
200k? What is that a crack den?

[Anonymous No.16893091]

>>16893085

Correct. It would have been even more expensive, but it supposedly came with a lot of free crack lying around.

[Anonymous No.16893098]

>>16893091
Gottab check out the demographics of whats around, also if a grandma can get there unmolested. That's kind of an acid test so to speak.

[Anonymous No.16893105]

>>16893091
Be careful. it could be "salted."

[Anonymous No.16893114]

>>16893031
No, you don't do that.

[Anonymous No.16893121]

>>16893098
>Gottab check out the demographics of whats around, also if a grandma can get there unmolested. That's kind of an acid test so to speak.

Yeah. Grandma needs her fix too, right?

>Be careful. it could be "salted."

We prefer our crack with cajun seasoning.

[Anonymous No.16893140]

>>16892039
>1 jar sauce
>1 lb spaghetti and 3lbs meat
Driest fucking meals on the planet. Also, fatass. 1.5 lbs meat/.5 lbs of pasta. Wtf. This is meat with noodle and tomato seasoning.

[Anonymous No.16893179]

>>16892224
>Anarchy forever baby
>By the way I'm too scared to make phone calls and I panic every time my doorbell rings

[Anonymous No.16893287]

It is basic/stable here.

500g basic mince - £1.99
1 or 2 each onion, pepper, carrot, stick celery, some garlic, few mushrooms - 60p pro rata
tin chopped tomato - 29p
half a tube tomato puree - 15p
500g of budget pasta - 30p
salt, pepper, sugar, bay leaf, oregano, basil - basically free, but call it 5p
grate half a block of chedder like a fat cunt - £1.50

You'll struggle to break £5 even with a few other add in items, dash of red wine, some balsamic etc. You'll be up at 6-7lb of food £1.2/lb or about $1.50 per extremely (large) serving.

You can go much further to pimp it up, fresh mozzarella, grana padano or parmesan, cooking bacon/lardons etc 40-50 cents a serving on top.

Italian sloppa is top tier student budget food and it can be made even fucking cheaper. Everywhere will do 500g of pasta for as little as 20p. A cheap jar of pasta sauce can be as low as 39p. Your broke ass can be serving pasta and sauce for 5 for 98p / $1.27

[Anonymous No.16893300]

>>16891833
I hate poorfags so much it's insane. These fucking retards order delivery every day and then wonder why they don't have any money. Even if you are single you can still buy with your head and plan ahead. Literally using your freezer for just meat would solve any problem you could have from over buying food.

[Anonymous No.16893317]

>>16893300
I think you hate stupid people, who are generally poor or perpetually broke.

[Anonymous No.16893338]

>>16891833
I made brased pork ribs 3 days ago and it cost me $80
It was 3kg of meat $65 though and it had a $8 bottle of red wine in it then other bits a pieces.
Still I ended up with 4 giant bowls of stew that could last me all week easy if I didn't give half of it away to family.
I could easily spend 40 on pasta it would just be full of meat.

[Anonymous No.16893340]

>>16892112
Not in the slightest.

[Anonymous No.16893346]

>>16891902
iphones aren't even affordable they're like 600 dollars or something right? if you're complaining about the cost of living and how broken capitalism is, you shouldn't be owning the latest iphone otherwise you're just a vapid subhuman and part of the problem so you can take pic related comic and shove it up your ass

[Anonymous No.16893350]

>>16891902
iphones aren't even affordable they're like 600 dollars or something right? if you're complaining about the cost of living and how broken capitalism is, you shouldn't be owning the latest iphone otherwise you're just a vapid subhuman and part of the problem so you can take pic related comic and shove it up your ass

[Anonymous No.16893358]

>>16891833
I made spaghetti and meatballs, with san marzano tomato sauce once, the local Italian Market charged $8 per can and I used 4 cans. Including the meatballs that was well over $39, but I also got like 7 servings.
Also stopped being a retard and started going to Costco, flat of 6 cans of san marzano costs $10

[Anonymous No.16893383]

>>16893350
Iphone 600 dollarydoos once. Cost of living: huge amounts every month. You stupid fuck.

[Anonymous No.16893389]

>>16893383
if you're struggling to live but buying luxury/prestige/fashion items at those prices, you're just the equivalent of a 300 lb fatass giving dietary advice
you're a joke and you don't deserve to be taken seriously.

[Anonymous No.16893403]

>>16893031
You're really stupid.

[Anonymous No.16893416]

>>16892440
rao's is good, and the main appeal is that you can understand all the ingredients without needing a dictionary, if that sort of thing matters to you. no additives.

from kroger: Italian Whole Peeled Tomatoes (Peeled Tomatoes, Tomato Puree, Salt, Basil Leaf), Olive Oil, Onions, Salt, Garlic, Basil, Black Pepper, Oregano

personally, i eat what tastes best and/or what is nostalgic. ragu super chunky mushroom is really sweet, but damn if it doesn't hit the spot sometimes.

[Anonymous No.16893418]

>>16891833
Yeah, if I was making a week's worth of sauce at once. Which would bring the cost per meal from $39 down to $5.57.

[Anonymous No.16893420]

>>16893350
You can buy an iphone for $150, and good luck doing basic life tasks like job hunting, banking, etc without a phone you disingenuous larping boomer

[Anonymous No.16893430]

>>16893420
speaking of disingenuous, i think both me and the original post were talking about the latest iphone which is a luxury item and not a cheap second hand option and you know it. why, you even started off defending the 600 dollar price point. and i refuse to believe that you thought anyone here was saying you can't own a smartphone. so would you like to go back to the drawing board and come up with some different damage control?

[Anonymous No.16893431]

>>16892011
Could you be serious for once instead of being an elitist culture snob? We’d really appreciate it. Btw, your homemade recipe is just scaled up to industrial numbers for production. I bet you scream and shit your pants about your local restaurant opening a second store because it’s a “chain” now and that means it’s shit

[Anonymous No.16893441]

>>16892112
No. I mean honestly, how much more special do you think 100 dollar spaghetti is compared to 5 dollar spaghetti? Food is just fuel and as long as you like it, there shouldn’t be a problem. BUT, this is /ck/ and if it isn’t homegrown handmade organic whatever buzzword, it isn’t good.

[Anonymous No.16893453]

>>16893140
Just because he can afford what he wants doesn’t make him fat, anon. Leave the poverty hellhole you grew up in and get a nice job. You’ll find out you don’t have to eat rat turds to survive.

[Anonymous No.16893462]

>>16893383
Most iFags buy a new one at least every 2 years, this isn't something exclusive to iphones the entire phone market is built around coming up with stupid new gimmicks nobody needs but the audience is too uninformed to know they don't need them so they constantly buy new ones but itoddlers are among the worst for it.

[Anonymous No.16893515]

>>16891886
that'd be horrible

[Anonymous No.16893517]

>>16893430
>everyone I disagree with is the same person
forgot your meds?

[Anonymous No.16893528]

>>16892011
>can't read ingredients before buying food
how are people like you even alive?

[Anonymous No.16893529]

>>16891833
>$5 on expensive fresh pasta
>$16 for two jars of high end tomato sauce
>a $15 steak to grind
No, I cannot.

[Anonymous No.16893532]

If you don't have any of the ingredients on hand, buying high end produce can get expensive, throw some seafood in there, and $40 is definitely doable.

If you're spending that much though, you probably aren't buying it retail for $16.

[Anonymous No.16893534]

>>16893416
The main appeal is the taste
>>16892440
Try a jar and see what you think, it goes on sale at whole foods for like $5/jar sometimes.

[Anonymous No.16893536]

just import the spaghetti from mars

[Anonymous No.16893580]

>>16891833
Most likely they are buying more items than needed and will make multiple portions i can see them getting $12 a meal out of each portion or less.

[Anonymous No.16893584]

>>16893532
Smallest commonly available amount of parmigiano reggiano sold at a normal shop: $15

Bottle of white wine good enough to drink the leftovers: $25

Beef and veal blend: $10

Carrots: $2
Celery: $2
Onion: $1
Butter: $6
Pancetta: $14
Tomato paste: $4
Milk: $4

That's what, $83 I think? I'm not great at doing arithmetic in my head. And we haven't even bought ingredients for the pasta

[Anonymous No.16893606]

>>16892198
Add the salt and pepper

[Anonymous No.16893620]

>>16892198
>great value parmesan
kys

[Anonymous No.16893643]

>>16892440
>>16893416
The main appeal is the italian tomatos, tard. Don't discount Rao's by lumping people who buy it into the "muh dihydrogen monoxide chemical" group.
Rao's is basically the only sauce I buy

[Anonymous No.16893646]

>>16891833
>box of angel hair
>jar of prego
>some Great Value walmart meatballs
>charge my usual hourly rate
>18% tip because my service was excellent
boom, $40 easy

[Anonymous No.16893653]

>>16893643
>Don't discount Rao's by lumping people who buy it into the "muh dihydrogen monoxide chemical" group.
What are you even trying to argue retard

[Anonymous No.16893655]

>>16891833
Checked skin color, yep.

[Anonymous No.16893666]

>>16893643
Is this a marketing firm?

[Anonymous No.16893702]

I think the most I’ve ever spent was like 25 dollarydoos on one of those pasta dishes that is really heavy on a good cheese, and I bought a massive bottle of olive oil because I was out.

That being said, I probably have spent 39
dollarydoos (29USD) making chilli before, because of the extra meat I’d have to buy to substitute for having no beans.

[Anonymous No.16893778]

>>16892227
Do Americans just eat spaghetti with tomato puree slathered on top? My God, it's worse than any of us ever expected it to be.

[Anonymous No.16893816]

>>16893778
Cooking anything properly in america is considered gay and if you're gay you get matt sheparded and it's considered standing your ground, ergo nothing gets cooked properly in the untied snaKes of ameriKKKa

[Anonymous No.16893828]

>>16891833
Maybe if I made the ragù from ground sirloin and top quality pork shoulder? Even then I'd have to make a lot of it.

[Anonymous No.16893852]

>>16893653
that
>Oh I can read everything, it doesn't have all those harmful chemicals
is retarded.
>>16893666
Are you offering, satan?

[Anonymous No.16893871]

>>16893852
So it could still have harmful chemicals (for example pesticides), is that it?

[Anonymous No.16893876]

>>16893871
>pesticides are listed on the ingredients if they're used

[Anonymous No.16893888]

>>16893876
That isn't how greentext works, redditoid. Can you just state your position instead of trying to out-meta everyone?

[Anonymous No.16893940]

Jarred sauce is based

[Anonymous No.16893944]

>>16891833
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-bolognese

[Anonymous No.16893971]

>>16893383
Chinese phones are $100
sorry anon but petit bourgeois are bigger hoarders of wealth than the billionaires. your class is the greatest obstacle to equality

[Anonymous No.16893988]

>>16891988
>Make
As in made the dough and the spaghetti themselves.
Even then it costs like $7 max for the dough and maybe a few for the sauce

[Anonymous No.16893992]

>>16892112
use a slow cooker
>dice onions + garlic
>brown meat
>sweat onions
>toss everything into the slow cooker
>set it for 8 hours
>taste after 5 hours to see if you need to change the seasoning
it cooks itself while you're out and about. Freeze it and you can reheat it on the stovetop whenever you want.

[Anonymous No.16894017]

Wtf is this "Raos" shit why would I buy canned pasta sauce if its going to be expensive? Also the ingredients are so basic that you could probably make it yourself at like half the price

[Anonymous No.16894040]

>>16892049
It's fucking pasta sauce, the textbook recipe is literally just tomatoes butter and half an onion. I've made plenty of home made sauces and they never tasted different enough for canned or not to matter.

[Anonymous No.16894062]

>>16893420
Is this a real post? Surely someone can’t be this stupid, right?

[Anonymous No.16894112]

>>16893778
It depends on how you want to eat you spaghetti, champ. Some people don't like to swallow exorbitant amounts of meat like you.

[Anonymous No.16894137]

>>16893988
>$7 max for the dough
What are you doing? Using organic duck eggs and imported Italian flour? Even then...

>and maybe a few for the sauce
...what are you doing? Just boiling some tinned tomatoes?

[Anonymous No.16894141]

>>16894040
>I've made plenty of home made sauces and they never tasted different enough for canned or not to matter.
Way to tell on yourself.

[Anonymous No.16894148]

>>16892112
I find bought pasta sauces too oily. I either use while tomatoes or a passata

[Anonymous No.16894171]

>>16891833
Holy FUCK women are stupid, how in the hell can you mess up SPAGHETTI? As a poor college student with half asked cooking skills, it was so cheap and easy to buy 1 lb of turkey meat, a jar of spaghetti sauce for like $5. Pair with a canned vegetable and its dinner or lunch in like 30 minutes. What the actual FUCK is wrong with women, Holy shit can they not even function in kitchens anymore???

[Anonymous No.16894225]

>>16893515
You've clearly never tried that. It's delicious.

[Anonymous No.16894243]

>>16892112
It's super easy to make it yourself and you get to experiment with the flavor. I don't know why anyone would use jarred if they have the time to make from scratch.

[Anonymous No.16894258]

>>16894243
convenience you autist, most people are lazy fucks or too drained from working all day so they just want some warm sloppa instead of having to learn new things when they're not getting paid for it

[Anonymous No.16894269]

>>16891990
crack cocaine

[Anonymous No.16894277]

>>16894017
Pretty sure that's a social media shill campaign. I've seen Rao's pop up in a few threads this past month.

[Anonymous No.16894290]

>>16894112
It ain't about the meat ffs. Just smothering something in puree is plain disgusting when you can make a normal, tastier sauce yourself in 15 minutes for half the price.
Try this:
fry up a bit of bacon bits till they're crisp
add some 3 garlic cloves and fry for 30 secs
add 2 chopped tomatos fry for a bit
add in 500ml tomato puree
add like 100ml water and deglaze
add dried oregano
salt/pepper to taste
wait till the tomatos soften and add water as needed

add 1 spoon breadcrumbs to your pasta (which you didn't rinse in hot water) and a bit of shredded gouda (like 30gs will be enough for 400g of pasta), mix it in the plate with the sauce and you have good restaurant tier food on your table in 15 - 25 mins depends how fast you are.

When you make this recipe I expect a post on ck that starts with "I am an American and I used to eat pasta slathered in tomato puree".

[Anonymous No.16894291]

>>16891833
a package of premium pasta can cost 39 dollars alone

[Anonymous No.16894304]

>>16891833
I could. But I'd be eating it for a week. Volume baby.

[Anonymous No.16894326]

>>16894290
>I am an American and I used to eat pasta slathered in tomato puree
>500ml tomato puree
???

[Anonymous No.16894338]

>>16891833
18 lbs of Kroger Spaghetti
18 jars of Kroger Pasta Sauce

[Anonymous No.16894339]

>>16894326
Pure tomato puree and store both bullshit with a million additives vs. home cooked meal with healthy ingredients?
Ofc an American would be confused.

[Anonymous No.16894349]

You autists are being way too literal in your thinking.
Bitch in OP pic is probably saying it cost her $39 to make spaghetti because she’s a dumb bitch who has never made spaghetti or much of anything else before.

My bet is that she spent $10 on a box of pasta and jar of sauce from Trader Joe’s or something, and $29.99 on one of those “spaghetti pot” things with the inner strainer.

[Anonymous No.16894357]

i can def see it comming up to that price if you have literally none of the ingredients and wanna make bolognese. unless you're gonna be like a fag youtuber and say "this bolognese is only 2.65$ because thats what the total amount of ingredients used cost" like you're gonna have shit left over you can do stuff with but it will cost a bit to stock up on base goods

[Anonymous No.16894366]

>>16894339
500ml of puree?

I'm going to assume you meant passata and are just retarded.

[Anonymous No.16894378]

>>16894339
I don't think you've actually looked at the ingredients of jarred sauces. Not even Ragu uses preservatives, and none of them have "a million additives". Stop sucking so much cock. You aren't an elite because you bother cooking up sloppa for yourself.

[Anonymous No.16894399]

>>16891886
Imagine living in whatever shithole you are from.
Simply doesn't cost that much unless you are being assraped by your government on import duties.
Speaking of which I hope this twitter whore cops a rough night or two and thinks about learning how to actually be a decent woman.

[Anonymous No.16894415]

>>16894378
>cooklet detected
You know what those industrial pasta sauces are?
It’s puréed tomatoes that come from industrial farms, where the tomatoes are grown under inhumane conditions, often in tiny cages.
And then those industrial sauce companies take that purée and throw in “spices” and “garlic” and “herbs” and mystery chemicals like sugar/salt and put that poison into jars.
When *I* make my superior homemade sauce, I start with a lovely jar of tomato purée. The label has a picture of a rustic farm on it, so I know the tomatoes lived a natural free-range life.
Then I add herbs and garlic and some seasonings, a bit of pink Himalayan salt, and maybe a dash of sugar if the tomato purée was a bit on the acidic side (like my Sicilian aunt taught me).

You literally can’t compare the two.

[Anonymous No.16894418]

>>16891833
veal pork and beef for meatballs
san marzano tomatoes
the rest of the ingredients are negligible in price
dont think it will be 34 bucks maybe 25ish at most and it would feed a family.

[Anonymous No.16894427]

>>16891833
If you make a sauce with wine, it can be as expensive as you want.

[Anonymous No.16894432]

>>16894415
That was really good Anon. Take my updoot and have a happy rest of your Spooktober!

[Anonymous No.16894440]

>>16894378
15oz Rao's marinara mentioned in this thread is $6. I checked the ingredients and yes, there don't seem to be preservatives. Which is kinda weird for a production line but whatever.
You can make my recipe for $2 and feed four and I guarantee it's gonna be better than Rao's because it's fresh.
>>16894366
I am, yes, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.16894443]

>>16891833
pasta is literally like 2-3 dollars even at the most fancy rich people grocery store

[Anonymous No.16894464]

>>16894415
>>16894378
Leave it to the fat lazy Americans to be offended when someone tells them they can make a superior dish in 15 mins, for $4 less.

I understand frozen lasagna, that shit takes hours, but spaghetti sauce takes literally 15 minutes you lazy fucks

[Anonymous No.16894478]

>>16894440
Anon your recipe includes bacon. Even if you go to a butcher and buy a single thick slice, or two, that's already $2 or more; a pound of even Walmart bacon is $5. A can of good tomatoes will run you $4, or a few quality tomatoes are still like $0.80 each. I would really like to live in your world where you can make fresh sauce for $2.

>>16894464
Anon it's sauce for a lame meal. If you're presenting for a party make your own sauce, if you're making food for yourself why even bother if good jarred sauce is like $6. Who cares.

[Anonymous No.16894498]

>>16894464
>I can understand frozen lasagna, which barely registers as food
>but not the hecking jarred sauce oh noooo im going insaaaane

[Anonymous No.16894507]

>>16894478
I don't think we mean the same bacon. Pancetta? You need like 1 slice of pancetta. Which can be bought for significantly cheaper. It's for the taste you fat fuck, a seasoning.
You know what man, I give up, my tomatoes are $1 a kilo and my pancetta is $5 a kilo, while the sauce is the same price if you want the same quality.

>Who cares
I guess you just don't give a fuck about your food. Why even bother hanging on ck?

[Anonymous No.16894512]

>>16894498
Fresh lasagna -> 3h prep time
Pasta sauce -> 15mins prep time
>Ohhh noes bois, this redditor hurt my feefees by calling me lazyyy, I better wine for updoots

[Anonymous No.16894525]

>>16894512
the fact that you would eat frozen lasagna over jarred pasta sauce tells me enough about the type of person I’m talking to.

[Anonymous No.16894562]

>>16894507
Why did you say bacon then if you meant a different product? And then you call me a fat fuck for pointing out the price of bacon? I purposefully said "a slice or two from a butcher" first because you can basically only buy bacon by the pound or more; and you said bacon. And yeah no tomatoes aren't that cheap here and they certainly aren't quality either. It's better and cheaper to buy canned peeled tomatoes.

And no I do, which is why I rarely eat spaghetti because it's not a great food. When I do eat it I'm not wasting my time (even 15 minutes) to make a sauce when jarred sauces exist that taste perfectly fine. You're still being an elitist prick.

[Anonymous No.16894571]

>>16891886
Grinding wagyu is such a stupid meme

[Anonymous No.16894581]

Are all your 'Merican niggers are horrible managing money?

[Anonymous No.16894599]

>>16894581
si

[Anonymous No.16894611]

>>16894040
>butter
please for the love of god kill yourself

[Anonymous No.16894646]

>>16893988
They are almost certainly counting the total cost, and they didn't have any spices or ingredients. So they probably bought a bunch of staples and spices and used only a small portion for the meal, but are counting the one time coat rather than amortized.

[Anonymous No.16894653]

>>16894562
>canned peeled tomatoes
Nowhere near the same taste as fresh. Don't you guys have hillbilly farmer's markets? Or can't you just visit a farmer yourself to make sure if/what pesticides he uses?
Also expecting canned peeled tomatoes to be grown without chemicals is kinda the same as expecting supermarket tomatoes to be chem free.
Yes, English is not my first language, feel free to call me a retard, you're helping my vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.16894661]

>>16894525
Look dude, sauce from a jar will never ever be served in my house 'cause it's just vile and I'm vastly overpaying for sth I can do myself in 15 mins.

Lasagna on the other hand feeds the family a normal meal I'm not overpaying for when I have too much on my hands and don't have the time to even make the 15 min pasta sauce.

[Anonymous No.16894668]

>>16894581
>Are all your 'Merican niggers are horrible managing money?
They buy the most ridiculous overpriced junk food with on EBT, so yes.

[Anonymous No.16894695]

>>16891833
Easily, just shop for all the ingredients at Whole Foods.

[Anonymous No.16894696]

>>16891886
Absolutely repulsive. You and your abomination of a spaghetti dish appall me.

[Anonymous No.16894702]

>>16892022
Can confirm, Rao's is breddy gud.

[Anonymous No.16894716]

>>16892049
>retarded plebbit fag thinks pasta = sauce
Also, there is literally nothing wrong with sauce made by a company that comes in a glass jar, you're just being a contrarian faggot acting like your taste and cooking skills are somehow ascended above everyone else.

[Anonymous No.16894727]

>>16892608
>another retard ITT unable to differentiate between things
Tomato sauce =/= Pasta sauce
For a cooking board there is a painful number of posters here who lack even the most basic culinary skills and English language competency.

[Anonymous No.16894730]

>>16894653
The nearest farmer's market to me is about 20 miles away; the closest Walmart is 1 mile. Can you honestly say driving 38 extra miles is worth it for (maybe) fresh tomatoes that (might) taste better than canned? Or just buying Roa's and being done? That's nearly 2 gallons of gas which is $6+ alone for the "fresh" ingredients.

And it's fine for English to not be your first language but pancetta and bacon are entirely different flavor profiles and conflating the two won't go over so well. Besides the price of pancetta is also quite high. I don't know if you've actually had Roa's sauce but it's made in and imported from Italy, and is really fucking good.

[Anonymous No.16895283]

>>16894661
You should be simmering your sauces for way more anon, but I appreciate your commitment to fresh

[Anonymous No.16895326]

>>16894730
Canned tomatoes are one of the only good canned items. As an Italian, don’t listen to homos who say you have to get it fresh. Fresh tomatoes are not possible year long since winter tomatoes are universally recognized as tasteless, so you should be using jarred/canned summer tomatoes in the winter anyway

[Anonymous No.16895352]

I've never spent that much on a home cooked meal before.

[Anonymous No.16895358]

>>16894727
Always remember you're still on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.16895367]

>>16895352
Honestly, what she’s defining under he $39 likely includes a whole bottle of evoo that she didn’t have. She likely didn’t use the whole bottle so it shouldn’t have been counted in her pea brain that next time would be cheaper

[Anonymous No.16895384]

>>16892022
Is Raos really worth it? Raos is $13.75/jar, Newmans own is $4.90 (syrupbux)

[Anonymous No.16895395]

>>16895384
Hell no. Just make your own sauce, in a big quantity and jar your own.

[Anonymous No.16895425]

>>16895384
$13.75 a jar for marinara sauce? Jumping jesus on a pogo stick. I plant about 15 tomato plants each year and can sauce most weekends through summer into late autumn, usually around 100lbs a year. Olive oil, tomatoes and salt reduced down over a few hours, citric acid powder and fresh basil in the jar, fill hot and stand in a pan of simmering water for a couple of hours. I usually add herbs and garlic etc depending on what I'm doing with it when actually cooking. I might use sugar etc to balance if needed, but not in the initial sauce. Some garlic, onion, herbs and stuff would make my sauce cheaper and stretch it further anyway increasing the burden of canning and storing it. $13.75 a jar, nobody told me I was producing $1,375 of sauce a year, damn I am clearly balling.

[Anonymous No.16895537]

>>16891850
>(1 full wheel)
Bro look up what a wheel of good parm costs. Also tomatoes from your farmers market are a lot cheaper than the supermarket.

[Anonymous No.16895575]

>>16892569
Actually... I... I like to mash sardines into my food...

[Anonymous No.16896009]

>>16895384
If Classico is available and cheaper in your maple syrup tokens, go with it. I've never liked Newman's pasta/tomato sauces; their sauce is golden though. Unless you do enjoy Newmans, stick with it.

>>16895326
Yeah every major Chef I've seen uses canned tomatoes when the good fresh ones aren't available. I'm really not sure why people (especially Italians and French) like to be so goddamned elitist about food and ingredient choices. Like, damn bro it's food and usually ends up tasting good anyway.

[Anonymous No.16896025]

>>16891833
Easy - gourmet crab linguine, done.

>Prime blue softshell crabs, 4.5 inches, or 3.3 ounces have an average wholesale price of
$29.11 per dozen
http://extension.msstate.edu/newsletters/mississippi-marketmaker/2020/vol-10-no-4-commercial-blue-crab-dockside-and-wholesale
Price is therefore 39.6oz of crab / $29.11 = $1.36 oz = $21.76 per pound, assuming you're willing to process the crabs yourself into crabmeat to keep costs down.

>Crab linguine recipes for for servings call for about 1/2 lb of crab
>https://www.mygourmetconnection.com/linguine-with-crab/
People expect two servings of food when they purchase restaurant food out at an Italian place because they want to take stuff home; since the above is 4 servings meaning each helping of the above pasta at wholesale price will cost $10.88/2 = $5.44 for crab

I'm not going to do the work to price out the other ingredients (homemade pasta, good oil, homegrown herbs, heirloom tomatoes) but suffice it to be a flat 2.56 to round to an even 8 bucks.

>Typical restaurant markups are 300%
>https://www.fundingcircle.com/us/resources/price-restaurant-menu/
That gets us to 24 bucks. Serve with paid-for house bread (5 bucks) and a cocktail (12 bucks) and we're easily at 41 bucks

>hurrrrrrrrrr but OP meant at home, not a restaurant!
OP's not getting wholesale prices on gourmet ingredients and has to pay startup costs for the gear. Even the grab will push you over as a home chef, those kinds of deals above are what you get when you buy 10-20 lbs of crab at a time. You still wanna go gourmet? Hope you own like 20 pieces of equipment and have 4-6 hours to shop, buy everything, make homemade pasta from scratch, process cheese. If you don't own any of the basics (garlic presses, pots and pans, pasta machine, crab processing tools, etc.) you're easily hitting 39-300 bucks before you buy a single food ingredient.

People underestimate how expensive it is to build out a fully equipped kitchen if you're an eat-outoor

[Anonymous No.16896074]

>>16893140
That was 1/3lb pasta, 1/2lb ground beef.
For 2 days.

[Anonymous No.16896357]

even if you have ran of oil salt and other basic appliances and have to buy everything again
i can't understand how you spend 40 dollars for a portion of spaghetti

[Anonymous No.16896409]

Is there a trick to reducing sauces? I tried reducing a couple jars of pasta sauce but once it got up to heat, a jet of sauce exploded out of the pan and covered the nearby wall.
Do I just need to stir it more so pressure cant build up, or did I just have too much heat?

[Anonymous No.16896675]

>>16893052
>7

[Anonymous No.16897315]

>>16892011
Oh look somebody's uppity about sugar
inb4 somebody screams about something's salt-content next.

[Anonymous No.16897369]

>>16891833
Most likely from buying a block of cheese, beef for meatballs, etc. Not necessarily that $39 went into the dish, but $39 was spent on obtaining the ingredients to make the dish, that will last for more than that dish of spaghetti

[Anonymous No.16897396]

>EAT THE JARRED SAUCE
>QUALITY INGREDIENTS ARE FOR THE INNER PARTY ONLY

[Anonymous No.16897414]

>>16892049
The time investment isn't worth it unless it's a special occasion and I'm using special ingredients. I have the same opinion about bread and pizza.

[Anonymous No.16897444]

>>16891833
>$1 for a pack of spaghetti noodles
>$4 for jar sauce
sure, it'd piss of pic related but for $5 you've made enough to feed you for a week.
>inb4 Americans dont know who this based cunt is

[Anonymous No.16897506]

>>16897396
>BUY THE FLAVO(UMM, THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH???)RLESS TOMAHTOES, YOU CHUD
>YOU BETTER MASH THEM WITH YOUR LOICENSED HAND DIGITS
>THE CULTURAL MINISTRY WILL BE BY WITH THE DAILY RATION OF SPICE TO PROVOID THOSE TOMAhTOES WITH A BIT O KICK INNIT?

[Anonymous No.16897613]

>>16897444
uncle roger knows https://youtu.be/m-E9Ol4tMcI

[Anonymous No.16897649]

>>16897613
>roger cant insult his good cooking
>spend the video slamming him for swearing instead
what a fag lmao
he's fucking aussie you dumb cunt, of course he's gunna fucking swear every 3 words.

[Anonymous No.16898415]

>>16897444
Why are you all just covering spaghetti in marinara sauce?

[Anonymous No.16898495]

>>16896025

[Anonymous No.16898500]

>>16891850
Tomatoes from the farmers market are dirt cheap

[Anonymous No.16898564]

>>16893383
Which it shouldn't be. If your cost of living exceeds $1000 a month when you're struggling, you're a fucktard. I lived like a monk during college on $500 a month, until a year ago when I graduated. This was despite having a campus job that paid 1.5k a month. Now I'm debt free. Why aren't you? You don't need tech, you don't need subscriptions and you don't need luxuries.

[Anonymous No.16898568]

>>16898564
>being able to get housing for less than 1k a month
Where the fuck do you live.

[Anonymous No.16898578]

>>16893052

[Anonymous No.16898581]

>>16898568
Yo not that guy and I'm in the UK but I sat down and reworked our household budget this morning and as a family of three, all in with childcare 3 days a week we are running £1,070 a month. This is with a £300 a month food bill too though doesn't include cars which we pay for individually. I'm at about £130 a month all in on my car. So I need £665 a month if we split it which is 22% of my income.

If your cost of living exceeds 30% of your income consider moving and doing things over. You don't have to stay stuck in a rut.

[Anonymous No.16898582]

>>16893052
what's the problem here?

[Anonymous No.16898629]

>>16891967
Socialism isn't communism, goy.

[Anonymous No.16898773]

>>16898568
Philly. Get roommates my dude, don't splurge.

[Anonymous No.16898884]

>>16894040
>butter
why would you use butter instead of olive oil?

[Anonymous No.16898968]

>>16891833
Maybe they had to buy a pot to cook the spaghetti in?

[Anonymous No.16899006]

dumb bitch probably included the price of the saucepan and bottle of oil she didnt have

[Anonymous No.16899023]

you stupid fucks arguing about sauce forget this bitch probably is thinking of some chain restaurant cheapass spaghetti, no way in hell its going to be noticeably better than le heckin jarred sauce.

[Anonymous No.16899029]

Why has everyone ignored the fact that if you order pasta, you get one serving of pasta, but if you cook it you get ~4?

[Anonymous No.16899042]

>>16891833
>Can you craft a spaghetti recipe that costs thirty nine dollars to make?
I have A Modest Proposal

[Anonymous No.16899065]

>>16891833
>2 lbs ground meat and entire jar of minced garlic for one meal a week
>steak and chicken
>what's spaghetti no wine
Holy shit this bitch is retarded lmao

[Anonymous No.16899106]

>>16891833
okay, for an entire portion?

[Anonymous No.16899113]

>>16899065
zoomers will find literally any reason to not cook

[Anonymous No.16899116]

>>16891850
the restaurant where i used to work we'd get a quarter wheel that was around $200

[Anonymous No.16899132]

>>16899023
No no I brought up how it was likely Olive Garden she was referring to.

[Anonymous No.16899136]

>>16899065
so if you shop online you can manage to pay $3.69 for 3 ounces of garlic? could the problem lie there maybe?

[Anonymous No.16899161]

>>16899136
im betting this retard has never cooked spaghetti in her life. people this stupid and coddled should die imo

[Anonymous No.16899204]

>>16899042
>supposed to make an expensive pasta sauce
>suggests a meat that costs 11 shilling for 7 kg

[Anonymous No.16899272]

>>16899161
Maybe he's famous and doesn't wan't to be recocognized, that can be a real pain in the ass if you just want to get a couple things from a store.

[Anonymous No.16899336]

>>16892039
Even cheaper if you make your own sauce, though not by much and unless you have a blender you'll have chunks of carrot and celery floating around in it. Which I don't mind, but could see bothering someone else.

[Anonymous No.16899345]

>>16899136
That would certainly explain it here.
$5/lb for potatoes online. That you have to go pick up as well. And they only offer about 10% of the store's products, the person picking the items from walks around.

[Anonymous No.16899347]

Easy. Bolognese
>8$ meat
>2$ parmesan
>2$ pasta
>4$ onions, celery, carrots, garlic
>1$ tomatoe paste
>22$ red wine
wala

[Anonymous No.16899349]

>>16899065
>$12.99 for a bottle of red wine
Man, the only difference I have ever noticed between $5 and $20 wine is that the former has a thinner texture (like it's been filtered).

[Anonymous No.16899351]

>>16891850
https://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature-Aged-24-Months-Whole-Wheel-Parmigiano-Reggiano.product.100096211.html

[Anonymous No.16899423]

>>16893944
This isn't some basic bitch spagetthi it is a Bolognese. Not getting that for $12 anywhere. Also, last time I made this recipe, I fed my whole family. 5 people. Meaning even if it costs $50 it is still only $10 a person.
People like in the OP probably cook only for themselves, then don't finish using the ingredients they buy, let them spoil, and probably also throw out the 4 meals left of leftovers because leftovers are icky or something.

[Anonymous No.16899481]

>>16899349
For beer batter it's actually better to get cheaper beer because it tends to be lighter, no idea if it's the same for red wine in tomato sauce

[Anonymous No.16899491]

>>16899481
I know that based on some taste testing experiments I've read about the cost of the wine doesn't really matter because the "intricacy" or character of expensive wines gets lost when you cook with it.

[Anonymous No.16899531]

>>16899491
Yeah but I guess $13 isn't really expensive for a bottle of red. If you're trying to save money but still want a proper tomato sauce the wine would be the first thing you'd cheap out on other than Parmesan, fuck I'd rather use no Parmesan at all than cheap sawdust

[Anonymous No.16899534]

>Buy a jar of tasty pasta sauce for $1.50
>Get a mason jar worth like $2 out of it
>Use it in my pickling
its only a win for me

[Anonymous No.16899541]

>>16893620
KYS?
Kiss your sister?

[Anonymous No.16899569]

>>16899531
No it's not expensive, but for what it's worth I've used $5 wine and $20 wines in red sauces and pot roasts without really noticing much of a difference between the two so I just buy the cheapest stuff that tastes good on its own.

[Anonymous No.16899629]

Anybody else prefer Neapolitan to Bolognese? It's so much better when you cook the meats in the sauce at a simmer for hours.

[Anonymous No.16899636]

>>16899541
yes