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Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:09:39 2016 No.7618695 [Reply] [Original]

What does /ck/ think think about Hamburger Helper? I recently discovered it and it is magical.

What are you favorite Hamburger Helpers and how do you make them better?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:14:15 2016 No.7618705 >>7618695 >What does /ck/ think think about Hamburger Helper? It sucks. It doesn't taste very good and it costs more than simply doing something similar from scratch. >>how to make them better Throw them away. Cook using fresh ingredients instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:24:32 2016 No.7618719 I enjoy it. But the price of ground beef is retarded right now so I'd rather use some nice fatty pork instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:25:11 2016 No.7618722 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJea4CIltE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIp9T25-iz8

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:25:12 2016 No.7618723 File: 1.44 MB, 1143x1524, a.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7618695 Never tried hamburger helper, but I do buy these little pasta kits sometimes for an easy side dish. They're alright.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:34:01 2016 No.7618752 >>7618695 Swill

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:34:51 2016 No.7618754 Hamburger... Hinderer....?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:37:09 2016 No.7618764 File: 26 KB, 215x365, 1461721355156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7618695 Perfect meal for single, virgin, NEETs like myself

Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:45:00 2016 No.7618792

>>7618705
>>7618695

>costs more

they're like 3 bucks. Similar to a bunch of spices that flyovers won't even end up finishing.

Hamburger helper is probably Bachelor food #1. Sure beats ramen and fried eggs and toast all day.

Of course if you're over the age of 30 and serving that shit to your kids everynight then you might be accused of wandering into white-trash zone, but that's honestly a very shallow disposition.

Hamburger helper is the kind of shit you make on a Wednesday night and eat it for 3 consecutive lunches in tupperware with a healthy spattering of the hot sauce of your choice.

It's simple, convenient, no-fuss food that hipsters and nu-foodies won't be able to appreciate because it reminds them of the flickering of TV sets at tense weeknights growing up at their parent's home

also, this captcha literally took 3 minutes of clicking rivers and street signs until "there are no more left" and I think I got a brain aneurysm, thanks hiro/moot you cocksucking piece of shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:48:59 2016 No.7618811 >>7618764 it's like 5 servings. How is that a meal for one person????

Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:49:15 2016 No.7618812

>>7618695
I used to make a lot of Hamburger Helper when I first moved out of my parents' house because I knew nothing about cooking. I guess it's a decent stepping stone to start cooking, but you'll hopefully eventually realize that you can make much better food from scratch with not much more effort and at the same or lower cost.

Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:49:47 2016 No.7618814
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>>7618792
>3 bucks

What the hell? I always have them at most $1.50 at my local supermarket. The ground beef is expensive though, at $4-5 a pound.

>>7618811

I eat half and refrigerate the other half for later.

salt Thu Apr 28 17:52:22 2016 No.7618823
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>>7618695
>What does /ck/ think think about Hamburger Helper?

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Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:53:24 2016 No.7618830

I can get it for 99 cents a box. A pound of beef is like $4 so we're up to $5. Add in the splash of milk and free water since I'm on a well and you have a 4 person meal for like $4.50. We have milk anyways so it's not like I have to go buy some just to make this meal. It's by far better than ramen noodles like >>7618792
said and the left overs are easy reheat able. You can sprinkle some parm and cheddar that you shredded on top and make it even better than the original box. Yes it isn't a home cooked meal or anything fancy but with a side or two and you are a single Dad with two daughters 6 and 9 who won't eat shit hardly and working 80 hours a week this shit comes into play.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 17:57:59 2016 No.7618845 >>7618705 I don't live in a country where you can get it, however i am genuinely curious about it. How would you go about recreating it from scratch with fresh ingredients?

Anonymous Thu Apr 28 18:00:17 2016 No.7618854

>>7618845
Obviously cook pasta. Whatever you like. Brown some ground beef/hamburger meat. Make a cheese sauce with a roux or whatever way you like. Mix it all together and add some seasoning and let the pasta absorb the flavor and serve once it's all reduced. Don't let it get too hot.

Anonymous Thu Apr 28 18:02:26 2016 No.7618863

>>7618845
The box just comes with the seasoning and the pasta/rice. So I assume if you know how to recreate the seasoning and have your own pasta then you're all set. The boxes usually suggest you add other ingredients like tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 18:05:20 2016 No.7618874 Don't ever use the velveeta branded one. It is awful

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 18:10:02 2016 No.7618883 something in hamburger helper fucks up my stomach bad. which is notable since i ordinarily tolerate poorfag food quite well

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 22:45:42 2016 No.7619633 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDXZTelnJvY it's great

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 22:51:38 2016 No.7619646 I'll always have a soft spot for beef pasta and beef stroganoff. Don't much care for all the rest of the flavors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 23:00:14 2016 No.7619663 Flyover as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 23:03:58 2016 No.7619673 File: 33 KB, 353x234, 1461288106156.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7618792

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 23:05:54 2016 No.7619683 File: 20 KB, 279x200, 5041240+_53a517f5f47704e77376511645cc158f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7618814 >Buying your ground beef at the supermarket

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 15:36:06 2016 No.7621579 >>7619683 Not all of us live by a butcher.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 15:46:21 2016 No.7621606 All about the stroganoff

Anonymous Fri Apr 29 21:35:30 2016 No.7622728

>>7618695
Poorfag here, me and my gf buy hamburger helper and boil the noodles with some vegetables, then mix in the seasoning with extra offbrand noodles and make like 8 servings of mac n'cheese. Pretty nice on its own when you're too poor to afford red meat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 22:01:30 2016 No.7622846 File: 1.27 MB, 768x1024, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] step aside plebs

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 22:51:09 2016 No.7623047 I've had hamburger helper a couple times and both times I've been surprised at just how flavorless it is. Coming from someone who likes processed junk, I don't feel the need to ever buy it again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 08:39:00 2016 No.7624063 >>7622846 those velveeta ones taste like shit and suck compared to the real deal and are also more expensive.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 09:32:31 2016 No.7624153 they released a fire mixtape

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 09:42:12 2016 No.7624161 >>7618695 Wat is that¿?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 10:06:56 2016 No.7624221 File: 995 KB, 400x215, giphy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7618830 Agreed 100%. You can use ground turkey too, and add some frozen veggies, cheese, etc. It ain't Michelin 5 star cuisine, but it has it's place.

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 10:16:15 2016 No.7624248

>>7618695
Don't like most of them, my family had Cheeseburger one growing up and I didn't know there was other ones. When I'd go to a friends house and we had dinner, they'd pull out these weird flavors and I didn't want to seem picky so I ate it and vomited later.

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 10:23:50 2016 No.7624264
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I make the cheesebuger one every couple of months. I like it, although half of that enjoyment probably comes from nostalgia.

I always have frozen ground beef from when it goes on sale, but this shit needs milk too but I never have it on hand. So I bought this stuff on Amazon and it works great when I need to use milk in a recipe.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 10:31:52 2016 No.7624281 >>7618695 Personally I love HH. But this thread inspired me to search for homemade varieties and they look pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 10:59:30 2016 No.7624341 because boiling pasta and shredding cheese is hard

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 11:37:23 2016 No.7624421 >>7618695 I fucking love it. They're cheap as hell too. The Beef Stroganoff one is top notch. Three boxes (for the noodles) and just one pound of g.beef feeds my whole family of seven.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 11:41:39 2016 No.7624435 >>7624421 Saw some people saying it's flavorless: it is, always add salt and pepper

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 12:08:50 2016 No.7624496 I grew up white trash, i feel nostalgic sometimes and buy a box. Reminds me of when i was a kid and my mom made a meal after 14 hours of work and she was exhausted.

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