/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20300780]

Are there any other foods besides orange juice that are not cheaper to make at home?

[Anonymous No.20300790]

>>20300780
Rotisserie chicken

[Anonymous No.20300795]

>>20300790
seriously? where do you get cheap chicken from?

[Anonymous No.20300796]

>>20300780
Whole cooked chickens.
Those pre-made salad kits have several ingredients that might make it tough to make just one for that price.

[Anonymous No.20300807]

>>20300780
orange juice is such a scam. it's like 4 oranges in that glass!

[Anonymous No.20300812]

>>20300795
Costco sells rotisserie chicken at a loss

[Anonymous No.20300813]

>>20300780
Noodles of basically any kind.

>Pasta isn't HARD to make
>But needs eggs and flour
>Both of which have gone up in price
>Pasta is still $1 for 1lb of dry pasta
>Costs like $3 in ingredients to make the same amount from scratch
>And a lot of time and effort

[Anonymous No.20300828]

>>20300812
jfc ive had a membership there for 6 months and didnt even realize that. I've been buying the frozen chicken pieces that come is 6 packs for $1.60 lb

[Anonymous No.20300832]

>>20300780
high fructose corn syrup

[Anonymous No.20300881]

>>20300828
Those packs of thighs, and drumsticks are a great deal if you use the bones for stock. Since drumsticks are basically impossible to de-bone raw I just cook them in the oven until the meat is tender enough to pull off by hand.

[Anonymous No.20300888]

>>20300795
Costco sells $5 rotisserie
>>20300828
Chicken thigh packs are goated too, always keep some in my freezer
>>20300881
>if you use the bones for stock
I have too many bones and stock so I've instead been feeding the raw bones to my dog

[Anonymous No.20300892]

>>20300881
>>20300888
Wait i thought if the bones were already cooked they werent good for stock? you can use the bones after you cook the chicken for stock later?

[Anonymous No.20300896]

>>20300888
Checked and raw bone pilled. People that give their dogs cooked bones get the rope first.

[Anonymous No.20300897]

>>20300892
>you can use the bones after you cook the chicken for stock later?
Yeah, that's the main draw of the rotisserie chicken. $5 gets you like $8 worth of meat and enough bones to make a quart of stock

[Anonymous No.20300902]

>>20300897
hell yeah. its been too long since I've made bone broth soup. I sense another round soon

[Anonymous No.20300905]

>>20300892
It might reduce the nutrients in the final product, but roasting the bones to give them some color makes it taste way better IMO.

[Anonymous No.20300923]

Butter.

[Anonymous No.20301012]

>>20300807
and they're not even black!

[Anonymous No.20301063]

>>20300813
>needs eggs
False.
>and flour
Also false.
That's egg noodles. Pasta it's made from semolina flour, not plain, and requires no egg since semolina holds together just fine.
Let me find you a video, you misinformed little girl.

[Anonymous No.20301088]

>>20301063
>>20300813
Here you are.
If even a fucking street shitting Indian girl can make pasta correctly-ish (she adds salt to the dough for some reason) so can you.
Nonetheless, it's not worth making yourself because unless you're buying it on an industrial scale, semolina will cost more than would already made pasta.

[Anonymous No.20301093]

>>20301088
Derp. Forgot video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jfWMfZAUs

[Anonymous No.20301162]

Walmart sells rotisserie chicken for about a dollar more than Costco. It's still a good deal and unless you live near a Costco, Walmart is usually more convenient. Kroger charges $10 for the same thing.

[Anonymous No.20301181]

>>20301162
How are Costco chickens compared to shartmart? Cuz I had shartmart once and it was utter fucking poopshits. I've also had them from three different supermarket chains (one close some years ago due to gross mismanagement) and they were all also poopshits. I don't think I like supermarket rotisserie chickens, likely because I keep expecting them to be of the same caliber as a roastery shop's chicken.
Also, I'm euro in America and why the FUCK don't you have roasteries as a common thing here? Between where I live and NYC, I know of only a handful of such places and none are really very good.

[Anonymous No.20301313]

>>20301181
All supermarket chickens are pretty shit. Costco might be slightly better mainly because they tend to be fresher. They all use bottom of the barrel factory farmed chickens that are too shitty to sell normally. They inject them with a bunch of stuff to retain moisture, and give "flavor." Then they package them in plastic wrappers, or boxes which steams them making them soggy, and giving a plastic chemical taste. The only reason to buy a supermarket rotisserie chicken is if you are in abject poverty, and have to stretch every dollar. A decent quality whole chicken is only a couple dollars more typically, and roasting it yourself will yield far superior results with just a little bit of knowledge, and practice.

[Anonymous No.20301363]

>>20301313
>making them soggy, and giving a plastic chemical taste
I FUCKING KNEW IT!
Last time I said exactly that (although only as a suspicion) and /ck/ leapt down my throat about it. I was told that I'm insane if I "think" I can taste plastic. Bitch, there's no "think" about it: it's know. I know it tastes of plastic. It's awful.
>decent quality whole chicken is only a couple dollars more
In my experience, it's cheaper in the long run. I can get a whole chicken for $6-8 at a dollar per pound and roast it myself and it's larger than the supermarket ones which cost nearly as much.
Looking it up just now, supermarket rotisserie chickens are about 2lbs each. At roughly 25% weight lost during cooking, a 6lb chicken will weigh 4.5lbs cooked, over double the weight of the supermarket rotisserie chicken at the same price. The only extra cost incurred is that of aromatics, herbs and spices, which you're not going to be using a bank-breaking amount of, anyway.

[Anonymous No.20301369]

>>20301181
You're welcome to return to your homeland anytime you wish. I don't understand why people move to another part of the world and then whine that it isn't like the place they came from. You know what place is like the one you came from? The one you came from.

[Anonymous No.20301391]

>>20300892
Roasted bones actually give the stock more flavor.

[Anonymous No.20301397]

>>20301369
Other things are nice here, just not the ready cooked food and the fact that Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans exist. They're easily the two worst hyphens in the US, excluding youknowwhos. Just awful, stupid people.

[Anonymous No.20301780]

>>20300780
Store-bought orange juice is a lie
https://gizmodo.com/dirty-little-secret-orange-juice-is-artificially-flavo-5825909

[Anonymous No.20301890]

i try to make everything myself as long as it doesn't have a long fermentation process. it's always inferior to the commercial stuff, but i think it's fun

[Anonymous No.20301998]

>>20300780
1/2 orange blended well with a glass of water is cheaper than any serving of store bought orange juice and give you the same amount of vitamin c, if not more, along with additional nutrition and nothing artificial.

>Morrisons 100% orange juice with bits
>35p for 200ml
>Morrisons The Best Extra Large oranges
>£1.50 for 4 or 19p for half an orange

[Anonymous No.20302011]

>>20301780
oh no they flavor it with oranges

[Anonymous No.20302035]

>>20300780
Gyro/doner/shawarma. There was a bunch of markdown lamb at the grocery the other day but I thought about how I couldn't make it right at home.

[Anonymous No.20302048]

Bread. I actually value my time more than the cents I'd "save" spending 3 hours making a loaf.

[Anonymous No.20302075]

>>20302048
>3 hours
>get flour and a bowl, round up to one minute
>put bowl on digiscale and measure out flour, ADY and salt, round up to one minute
>add water, round up to one minute
>mix everything together then cover and let sit somewhere while you fuck off to work, round up to five minutes
>come home from work, preheat the oven and flour a work surface, round up to one minute
>knead and form loaf, round up to five minutes
>place loaf into oven, round up to one minute
>take loaf out if oven, round up to one minute
lol
You spend three hours to do seventeen minutes worth of work? Are you disabled? Intellectually, I mean? Cuz I've got a physical disability and I still spend under 30 minutes of my time putting together a loaf of bread lmao

[Anonymous No.20302176]

>>20302075
>Cuz I've got a physical disability
being fat isn't a disability

[Anonymous No.20302355]

>>20302176
What about having severe nerve damage caused by surgery to remove blood clots caused by an extremely rare blood disorder?

[Anonymous No.20302416]

>>20302355
did that happen after 2020?

[Anonymous No.20302438]

>>20301780
>The flavor packs aren't listed in the ingredients because they're technically derived from "orange essence and oil", whatever the hell that means.
terrific journalism

[Anonymous No.20303816]

>>20302355
rip

capcha: VAXWW

[Anonymous No.20303826]

>>20302438
>terrific journalism
>implying that sharticle wasn't created by an AI bot

[Anonymous No.20303838]

>>20302416
No.
2008.

[Anonymous No.20303843]

>>20300780
A croissant
A macaron
Those are the first that come to mind for me.

[Anonymous No.20303886]

>>20300780
where do you get real orange juice that is cheaper than making it at home?

[Anonymous No.20303892]

>>20301780
imagine needing a gizmodo article to tell you what your gut will tell you immediately

store-bought "orange juice" makes me feel like shit

[Anonymous No.20303944]

>>20302011
hey retard, think about it for ten seconds. why do they need to flavor orange juice with orange flavor?

[Anonymous No.20303993]

>>20303843
>macaron
Eh, you can make macarons in a bajillion flavours others haven't yet come up with. If you do any flavour you can buy, you're a fool but if you do some uncommon shit, it's neat.

[Anonymous No.20305190]

>>20300780
that's because you don't dilute it with water

[Anonymous No.20307134]

>>20305190
why would you do that

[Anonymous No.20307152]

>>20301397
Fuck you migrant trash
Go back to whatever rathole you crawled out of

[Anonymous No.20307452]

>>20307152
>Switzerland is a rathole
lmao