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Unless you're a poorfag and your time is literally worthless, why would you *ever* cook at home?

You're always going to get a better tasting meal from a restaurant
You'll never have to spend hours inefficiently cleaning up every dish in your kitchen and all of the countertops and appliances

You know why profit margins are so thin for restaurants? Because they're all in a race to the bottom and they can't price their food to rip you off or they'll go out of business. They're already barely pricing food above cost. They use loopholes to pay staff under minimum wage (you're expected to subsidize this through tipping, skip the tip and save). They already have way more efficient systems in place to prep, cook and clean than you'll ever have doing the same for one meal at a time.

It's a no-brainer: If you're employed, you'll *save* money by getting takeout and you'll enjoy the convenience and pleasure of getting good food to boot. Don't fall for the home cooking meme that is literally wasting your life away by inefficiently mimicking restaurant quality at best, but most likely wasting your life away to eat bland, shitty food that you're too tired to make properly anyway.

>> No.16995698

>>16995694
cooking at home is cheaper and healthier and depending on your restaurant options nearby it also tastes better to cook at home. Most people do not have the disposable income to eat out every single day and if they do their health is probably not the best.

>> No.16995705

>>16995694
I love my meat pittsburghed and most restaurants have no idea what I mean when I ask for my steak done that way and if they do half the time they don't have the tools to do it. Even fancy places like Eddie V's and Ruth's Chris are a crapshot over whether they can do it right or not

>> No.16995707

>>16995694
>Unless you're a poorfag

The majority of the world's, the first world's, your countries population is capital scarce

If you don't have money you trade time, thank you for this obvious assertion

>> No.16995728

>>16995698
>cooking at home is cheaper
Only if you're poor and your time is worthless.
>healthier
Not likely, but if it's healthy then it's bland. You can get healthy salad from a restaurant with a tasty salad dressing, good luck efficiently making tasty salad dressing at home. You'll spend hours wasting dishes/cleaning up and the batch will go bad within days.
>tastes better to cook at home
Mostly false, but if you choose to go for it, you'll spend hours. You didn't even read the post.

>>16995707
So you agree, not sure why you're so upset then.

>> No.16995732

>>16995698
>restaurants are unhealthy
Plenty of restaurant food can be healthy, just like plenty of homemade food can be unhealthy.

>> No.16995759

>>16995694
This is a cooking board, anon. I like cooking and I'm gonna continue cooking because I like it. I like going out to restaurants too but most of them are shit. I can make a lot of it myself and more to my tastes at home. I'm sorry you never learned how to cook, but you should really just go to another board to hawk your bucketcrab mentality.

>> No.16995760

>>16995698
>Most people do not have the disposable income to eat out every single day
Many people who eat out every day aren’t using their own money.
Pre-coof I spent 90% of my time traveling for work. Meals were covered.

>> No.16995761 [DELETED] 

I don't like having niggers or gooks handle my food.

>> No.16995768

>>16995728
>you'll spend hours
i know this is bait, but it takes like 10 minutes of set up to make a good simple meal, and then i fuck off to do something else while it cooks
just get a few spices of any type and your food will always be better than what some mexican in a shithole made by dumping every spice he finds on overcooked hamburger

>> No.16995769

>>16995728
I didn't know making scrambled eggs takes hours anon. I'm definitely going to listen to cooking advice from someone who clearly doesn't know how to cook and doesn't want to try. Are you that same fatass anon who started a thread a few months ago about how they couldn't help spending hundreds on GrubHub a month? You sound like him; the same pathetic tone in your post reeking of self doubt and low confidence.

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16995775

>>16995694
>You're always going to get a better tasting meal from a restaurant
Learn how to Cook and rethink

>> No.16995781

>>16995759
Nothing wrong with hobbies. You can cook on a restaurant too, btw (I would know, I own a restaurant)

>> No.16995791

>>16995768
>muh crockpot sloppa with random spices thrown in is better than restaurant food
Troll

>> No.16995804

>>16995769
By the time you've cooked and cleaned everything to literally cook 2 eggs, you're looking at 30-40 minutes of your time gone. I can't imagine spending 40 minutes on two eggs, you'd probably spend more calories than you take in doing that lmao

>> No.16995810

>>16995694
>Fuck hobbies, amirite?

>> No.16995811

>>16995775
I cook at my restaurant. I think I know a little more than some poorfag who throws knorr pasta sides in a pan and thinks himself a cook LMAO

>> No.16995812

>>16995694
Thats quite the cope. Just learn to cook dummy

>> No.16995820

>>16995810
see >>16995781
Btw, who are you quoting?

>> No.16995824

>>16995812
Typical poorfag cope. If you can't even afford delivery how do you think you'll ever make it?

>> No.16995826

>>16995820
>being this new

>> No.16995829

>>16995826
Anyone have any meds on hand? This schizo is quoting someone in his head

>> No.16995833

>>16995824
You think cooking implies poor?

>> No.16995838

>>16995833
Yeah in America at least, the poor don't cook, they just eat processed crap

>> No.16995840

>>16995833
Most of the time, yes.

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16995841

>>16995791
Yes

>> No.16995846

>>16995694
>You're always going to get a better tasting meal from a restaurant
stopped reading, thread closed

>> No.16995849

>>16995694
>le reddit time management shitpost thread
*yawn* ok so another 500 posts of "WAAAAH IT TAKES ME 12MIN TO COOK SOMETHING!?!?!?!""
at least come up with something original for a shitpost thread, this topics been done to death on multiple boards.

>> No.16995854

>>16995846
>>You're always going to get a better tasting meal from a restaurant
True.

>>16995849
>it only takes me 12 minutes to cook a box of kraft mac, my mom cleans the dishes after I'm done
spot the poorfag

>> No.16995859

>>16995846
Agreed. Most restaurants arent that great

>> No.16995864

>>16995705

the fact that when you go out to eat you order a steak tells me everything i need to know about your subpar palate

>> No.16995865

>>16995859
Poorfags generally can't afford good food

>> No.16995868

>>16995694
FR FR though. why are we tipping like 20% as the standard? I remember a few years ago 15% was the standard.

I literally gave a guy $25 tip a few days ago and I wasn't even in the restaurant for an hour. If he waits 3-4 different table at that hour its probably $100 an hour + his wage.

>> No.16995875

>>16995804

what the fuck are you talking about it takes 2 minutes for a pan to heat up and 4 minutes to cook the eggs then maybe 1 more minute to hit the pan with a sponge are you fucking retarded?

>> No.16995880

>>16995865
Its funny how this poorfag shit comes up. I live in a new house on a large property and this is first time I ever mentioned money on here

>> No.16995891
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16995891

>>16995824
>delivery food
>better than what you can make home

>> No.16995895

>>16995875
Found the person that OPs kitchen photo belongs to. He's probably got an active salmonella infection from undercooking his eggs and the layer of egg film over his unwashed stove and countertops. Disgusting poorfags and the things they cheap out on.

>> No.16995903

>>16995880
>buys a house when they're at historic highs
>has to cook rice and beans at home to save money so he can afford mortgage payments
Yeah, it is pretty funny lol

>> No.16995906

There are a few things to consider in this. It is cheaper to cook at home. Assuming you don't need to buy a stove, a kitchen, pots, pans, other tools and equipment like knives, chopping boards, strainers etc. Assuming you don't need to buy plates, knives, forks, cups, spoons. Assuming you don't need to wash it all up and buy all the shit you need to wash it all up. I mean ... once you've a regular kitchen stocked with regular things and you figure out how to shop and how to formulate some structured meal plans it is cheaper to cook at home. But if you break down the cost of all the shit in a typical kitchen and depreciate it on a per meal basis and if you travel to get groceries on a whim for one meal at a time then yeah ... it can often work out cheaper to eat low budget take out. The thing is, most people don't have to buy and equip a whole kitchen on day one. They might start cooking and purchase a small amount of equipment and then add to it over time as their needs grow. Done this way, like a $50 per year spend to replace and add to kitchen equipment it just is part of the cost of living.

I'd be wary of anybody who wants us to order in every day because the next 'improvement' will be like "millennials are choosing to live in apartments without kitchens' and they'll be no cheaper to buy and rent, but they'll be even smaller and now mohammad lives in a 1 bed studio that used to be your kitchen.

>> No.16995910

>>16995903
I actually built it 3 years ago

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16995920

>>16995694
>eating restaurant food God only knows who breathed, wheezed, coughed or spit on in the middle of a global pandemic.
All muh shiggy diggy, Opie.

>> No.16995925

>>16995906
Restaurants and convenience have been around for a very long time, it isn't some schizo fever dream of a journalist trying to manipulate you into not owning kitchen appliances.

The fact of the matter is, the restaurant/service industry is in a bubble. There's never been a better and cheaper time to have people feed you. It's so good that it outweighs cooking at home in a majority of the time (unless you're a poorfag, duh). You faggots are really going to kick yourselves when the bubble bursts and we go back to a time when going out to eat was a luxury that people could only afford once every few months.

But hey, at least you're skilled at cooking that bland poorfag food, you're gonna need it.

>> No.16995926

>>16995705
>I love my meat pittsburghed and most restaurants have no idea what I mean
Jesus Anon, NOBODY knows what the fuck that means.
Why wouldn't you tell us?

>> No.16995929

>>16995920
Good point. I like to know whose jerking off on my food.

>> No.16995931

>>16995920
If you like how restaurant workers treat your food, you're going to love how farmers, butchers and production plants handle your food.

>> No.16995934

>>16995694
>You're always going to get a better tasting meal from a restaurant
Only if you're a flyover
>You know why profit margins are so thin for restaurants?
I don't know where you got this assumption but markup is usually 10-15x ingredient cost at a restaurant unless they're moving serious quantity (McDonalds is 2-5x depending on the items).
>If you're employed, you'll *save* money by getting takeout
Le epic irony or something? Cooking at home is cheaper, period. Maybe not per calorie if you could junk food, but it's definitely cheaper by far per satiety every time. I think you don't realize that spending 25 bucks per day eating out (conservative estimate) is burning a hole in your pocket.
>he calls me a poorfag
Stupid motherfucker preaching to the middle class, then. If you're really rich, you're hopefully smart enough to know that your words make no sense. Next you're gonna give us some bullshit math telling us to buy a new car. Fuck you, retard.

>> No.16995938

>>16995934
Shit, I meant "not if you're a flyover," though to be honest, I would imagine their home cooking is also pretty shit being landlocked with stale ingredients.

>> No.16995942

>>16995934
>markup is usually 10-15x ingredient cost at a restaurant
Stopped reading right there. Don't @ me again with your asspull "info".

>> No.16995950

>>16995694
Man I gotta do my dishes....
Thanks for the reminder anon

>> No.16995951
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16995951

>>16995694
Cooking at home is obviously better if you don't eat trash 24/7.

Making chicken, potatoes, rice, beans, veggies, etc. is incredibly easy and should be done at home for everyday meals.

However, when I want to eat something nice/fatty/fried, which is usually once or twice a week, i'll go out and buy takeout rather than cook it myself. Making fancy meals at home is a massive chore and the last thing I want to do on my days off is spend hours in the kitchen cooking.

So you are halfway correct, OP. Home cooked meals for workdays. Take out on days off.

>> No.16995958

>>16995694
>why would you *ever* cook at home?
i dont like how many mexicans and other undesirables handle my food if i dont

>> No.16995966

>>16995728
>Only if you're poor and your time is worthless.
You're an idiot. You don't have to pay yourself for the time you spend cooking.

>if it's healthy then it's bland.
Wow, that's so wrong.

>good luck efficiently making tasty salad dressing at home.
a) I've done it many times.
b) "home cooking" usually doesn't involve from-scratch salad dressing.

>go for it, you'll spend hours.
No, you won't.

That's a awful lot of wrong for one post.

>> No.16995972

This is a troll thread and it's genuinely giving me an aneurism.

>> No.16995977

>>16995942
>@ me
OK retard. I think you're just salty that you made a troll thread that failed because everyone's just laughing *AT* you.

>> No.16995978

>>16995811
>I cook at my restaurant.
Not a guarantee you're a good cook.

>> No.16995980

>>16995958
Oh, you love immigrants touching your food, huh? >>16995931

>> No.16995981

>>16995977
>>16995972
see >>16995951

he agrees with me

seethe poorfag

>> No.16995986

>>16995977
>markup is usually 10-15x ingredient cost at a restaurant
>y-you're the troll
Get on my level, poorfag.

>> No.16995988

>>16995728
>good luck efficiently making tasty salad dressing at home
What are you even talking about? If you don't know how to make a salad dressing in a few minutes then you are actually retarded. Pretty much every famous dressing is made by combining ingredients in a jar and shaking until ready.

>> No.16995993

>>16995986
Poor attempt

>good luck efficiently making tasty salad dressing at home.
Wait, this guy's a cooklet. Holy shit, you can make incredible quality salad dressing at home with almost no effort.

>> No.16995995

Im convinced that anyone using the term poorfag is under age or severely insecure about their own wealth

>> No.16996000

>>16995694
culture, tradition, heritage, bonding

>> No.16996002

>>16995931
...BEFORE I cook it.
160° kills anything. Get your shit together, Anon.

>> No.16996068

>>16995926

it means he likes his steaks burnt and raw. this retard not only goes to a restaurant and decides to order an expensive steak which is tier 2 cooking and absolutely boring as fuck but he then requests it to be burnt and raw