/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5631231]

What does /ck/ think of Bob's Red Mill products?

likes, dislikes, favorites?

I've personally never tried them but am interested in adding steel cut oats to my diet and see a lot of praise in favor of this brand.

[Anonymous No.5631237]

>what does /ck/ think of overpriced, overvalued stuff that's no different than cheaper altervatives other than its eye-catching packaging?
Not a hell of a whole lot, I would guess. I thought we'd evolved beyond fascination with the bright and shiny.

[Anonymous No.5631238]

it's fine, it is probably the most widely available brand for many products in my area

as far as steel cut oats go I've not noticed a big difference between 3-4 brands, so go for it

[Anonymous No.5631248]

>>5631231

Listen Bob, stop shilling your products on /ck/. Don't you know we are immune to viral marketing?

[Anonymous No.5631250]

The company itself is really cool and their stuff is high quality. I buy their steel cut oats and their flax seeds

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/owner-multi-million-dollar-company-hands-business-employees/story?id=9875038

[Anonymous No.5631261]

>>5631248
CURSES YOU'VE FOILED MY PLANS AGAIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0Xx-oQKsU

*throws smoke grenade shekels on the ground a poofs away*

[Anonymous No.5633433]

>>5631231
I like the brand. its a bit expensive though. wholefoods has oats rolled/steelcut/etc. and a bunch of other things organic at a better price from the dispenser section. you gotta take a bag and write a number of the product on the tab though. got like 4 pounds of oats for ehh, 3$? organic tho

[Anonymous No.5633436]

>>5631231
Hipster bullshit for vegans and organofags

"Bob" is probably a fictional personage invented by a homosexual marketing CEO in New York or Hollywood

I'm sick and tired of the marketing machine shoving this kind of nutritional BS down our throats. As a STEM major I look at you vegan liberal arts faggots and laugh. Guess who's going to get a job after we graduate? Protip: not you.

[Anonymous No.5633437]

>>5631231
This is pretty much the only brand of xanthan and guar gum that i can find on the market.

For wheat flour.. I buy bigger bags of other avalable brands for much cheaper, but for certain grinds, and types of ingredient, they are the only game in town at most of my local shops.

[Anonymous No.5633439]

>>5631231
OH HI THERE CAMPERS!
NAMES BOB, BOB MORE
I SELL RAPE SLAVES, RAPE DUNGEONS AND ALL RAPE ACCESSORIES

[Anonymous No.5635310]

>>5633436
nobody is forcing anything on you. what in the world were you even doing in wholefoods if you have so many issues over some skinny vegan buying some coconut flour?

seek help you are insane.

[Anonymous No.5635320]

>>5631231
Not a bad price on arrowroot and xanthan gum, but everything else is stupid expensive.

[Anonymous No.5635348]

>>5633436
Never change, /ck/

[Anonymous No.5635351]

>>5635320
I agree. arrowroot is awesome though, I use it in the place of corn starch and I make my own deodorant out of it.

[Anonymous No.5635387]

>>5631250
It's worth supporting if you can afford it.

[Anonymous No.5635529]

>>5635387
If something is ripping me off and scamming me, I don't buy it. I don't care what the cause is, and I'm a hardcore animal rights health freak vegan.

I do love the brand, and its affordable products but I am insulted by how expensive some of their other ones are.

I buy what I can afford and support, at a fair price.

[Anonymous No.5635549]

>>5633436
>The company was established in 1978 by Bob Moore

>Bob's Red Mill is a brand produced by Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods of Milwaukie, Oregon

1 wikipedia search

never change /ck/

[Anonymous No.5635919]

>>5631231
excellent insane quality, yet some of their products are too expensive.

[Anonymous No.5636733]

>>5635348
I hope /ck/ changes so that there aren't people that hate vegans for no reason

[Anonymous No.5636754]

>>5635919
>>5635529

Which ones of their products are too expensive?

Are you actually comparing against a comparable product? In MANY cases there is no comparable product out there.

[Anonymous No.5636756]

>>5636733
>no reason
fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.5636758]

>>5631261
You sound like a faggot. Are you a faggot?

[Anonymous No.5636774]

>>5636733
We don't hate vegans. We hate hipster vegans who talk about how much better they are.

[Anonymous No.5636781]

>>5636754
for example, arrowroot powder is reasonably priced (can't remember the exact price right now, but its decent because I remember buying it and being okay with it)

however some of the other bags of their stuff (can't remember exactly which thing it was) were a bit more expensive than I believed they should be. I can't remember exactly what and I'm not in wholefoods right now.

I love the brand, the quality is just great.

[Anonymous No.5636784]

>>5636756
see, all this illogical hatred. why?

>I can't handle that someone makes different choices than I do! better hate them right?

this is tribal level logic. cmon.

[Anonymous No.5636786]

>>5636733
the cultural tide is shifting, the science is there, as people get more educated it seems inevitable to me. barring that, if the population keeps growing at this rate we're all going to have to rethink our diets pretty significantly down the line.

[Anonymous No.5636791]

>>5636774
well why don't you all ever say so? whenever you are about to give some poor vegan a bunch of hate, wait one second and ask them "wait wait, are you a normal vegan or a hipster vegan?" and then go from there.

however, I'm sure that there are some hipsters that don't cause any trouble. everyone is different so thats another reason to not immediately hate anyone right away.

[Anonymous No.5636794]

I use their wheat flour when making pitas. I just grabbed the first one I saw at the store. Wasn't aware it was so controversial.

[Anonymous No.5636798]

>>5636794
if you were happy with your choice, then be happy!

don't be sad unless you come to the understanding for good logical reasons, not because others tell you how to feel.

its a great brand, arrow root powder = good price, other of their things are a little bit high.

[Anonymous No.5636807]

>>5636791

this is 4chan. for as generally oldfaggy and reasonable as /ck/ is, impulsive illogical hate and vitriol is the name of the game.

[Anonymous No.5636816]

>>5636784
you can DO whatever you want, just stop trying to rationalize it as an intelligent choice. Vegans are like anti-abortion fags-reason and science play no role because "muh beliefs."
Thins does not include vegetarians

[Anonymous No.5636820]

>>5636791
>>5636807
You both are correct. We SHOULD look at the individual anon, but there's a reason these people aren't on the other cooking boards with the housewives. There is just some shit that annoys people with food, and /ck is where you can say I without being kicked out. I personally like the headbutting. I like that people don't filter their responses.

[Anonymous No.5636825]

>>5636816

Some do it because it's a healthier way to eat, some do it because they have respect for animals, some do it for both. What do you have trouble rationalizing?

[Anonymous No.5636827]

>>5636798
>bit high

Uh oh, I could have saved 75 cents by going store brand.

[Anonymous No.5636834]

>>5636791
Because veganism is a religion that should be eradicated.

[Anonymous No.5636853]

>>5636834

Hard to call veganism a religion when your diet involves animal sacrifice

[Anonymous No.5636854]

>>5636853

[Anonymous No.5636855]

>>5636825
thanks bro

[Anonymous No.5636857]

>>5636853
And isnt based off nutritional need, only cultural tradition.

[Anonymous No.5636858]

>>5636827
arrow root was an okay price but I have to reason to buy one of the other more expensive products if wholefoods has a store brand cheaper

[Anonymous No.5636864]

>>5636825
If health is your concer, it is healthier than some diets, but is by no means healthy or healthier than a proper diet
If animals are your concern there is no reason not to eat fresh local eggs, honey, etc.
it is a social statement and a way to publicize your firmly held beliefs, but does not actually acheive anything it aspires to.

[Anonymous No.5636868]

>>5636857
>muh incomplete protons

[Anonymous No.5636880]

>>5636864

>If health is your concer, it is healthier than some diets, but is by no means healthy or healthier than a proper diet

Why do you believe that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, etc and low in saturated fat and cholesterol would be unhealthy, and that adding saturated fat, cholesterol, and atherogenic and cancer-promoting compounds found in meat, and cow hormones would improve the diet?

>If animals are your concern there is no reason not to eat fresh local eggs, honey, etc.

I've seen people who consider themselves vegan but have a pet chicken whose eggs they eat once a month, and who obviously don't kill their pet when they're not good for laying eggs anymore, which you won't see even in local egg farms. I agree with you in that kind of context, but that's a very specific scenario

[Anonymous No.5637978]

>>5636868
Yum Yum. You're missing out.

[Anonymous No.5637982]

>>5636868
You're missing out on all these yummy protons.

[Anonymous No.5639700]

>>5636868
>2014 and having no idea about amino acids
>look up "why rice and beans are good"
>and look up "essential amino acids"
>and look up "non-essential amino acids"
>also look up "complete protein foods"

this will prove you wrong for criticizing vegetarian people and teach you some cool things in the process.

I am Not a doctor. Ask your doctor about doing anything.

[Anonymous No.5639704]

>>5636880
THIS. don't listen to the trolls anon. never give up.

[Anonymous No.5640874]

>>5639704
this

[Anonymous No.5641442]

>>5636825
anon gets it better than most.

[Anonymous No.5641785]

>>5631231
they're okay but they should make their prices lower in some aspects to reflect the cost to make them.

[Anonymous No.5641790]

>>5639700
>I am Not a doctor. Ask your doctor about doing anything.

are you the same guy who used to shitpost on /lgbt/ with bullshit pseudoscience trap diets?

[Anonymous No.5641791]

I have used two of their Gluten Free rice flours for breading fish and chips, and similar items, white and brown. The brown covers better for breading/battering. Still, they're both very poor for breading compared to regular flour. Can't say if that's the fault of the brand.

[Anonymous No.5641797]

>>5636733
we hate vegans because of posts like this >>5641633

[Anonymous No.5641970]

>>5641790
they were legitimate decent post that anyone with a knowledge of herbs could have put to good use.

and I always added my well known disclaimer.

I suppose that was me. if I think your talking about what you might be.

[Anonymous No.5641974]

>>5641797
that was obviously a troll don't you see? they post provocative garbage and get you mad, a real down to earth vegan with a balanced mind wouldn't screw around like that because they know it would hurt their image and give all vegans a bad reputation. vegans do not want that. they want peace.

[Anonymous No.5642476]

Teff

[Anonymous No.5642487]

You're worried about brands when buying fucking oats? They're just oats.

[Anonymous No.5643874]

I've tried their Scootish oatmeal and their quinoa. Both awesome, neither expensive. I didn't really shop around before buying a three dollar bag of oatmeal, so I don't know how it compares in terms of quality-to-cost, but I like it and it's plenty cheap and I see no reason to try something else. As for other brands of quinoa, I don't think I've even seen it for sale except in flavored, boxed, premade crap format.
Gonna try their lentils next just to see if there's any point in choosing them over the store brand (probably not). Also going to buy some of their chickpea flour and attempt to recreate some awesome quinoa/spinach/whatever cakes I had once.

So yes, OP, try that shit.

P.S. Some of you guys are spoiled as hell when it comes to availability of good food. I've never seen a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe's or whateverthefuck in my life, and I am not exaggerating. Best alternative around here is probably the organic section at Fred Meyer, which is admittedly pretty sweet. I gotta spend some time at their bulk dispensers and figure out what I can get there. Other than that, though, forget about it.

[syn No.5644791]

>>5631231
Sometimes they are the only brand to have what I need. Like corn flour. Or other odd floured.

[Anonymous No.5645031]

>>5631231
I work at a bakery in oregon and we get our oats from the same source as bobs red mill. They use the same oats as the cheap generic kind you find in stores.
You can go to a grocery store and buy bulk oats for like a $1 a lb, or you can spend a couple bucks for a the same amount and get bobs red mill. If you buy bobs red mill you are just paying extra for the packaging (this is true for most brands bought in a supermarket).