/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9205583]

>buying pre-chopped vegetables

[Anonymous No.9205600]

So what, it saves time.

[Anonymous No.9205618]

>>9205583
>Not going to your local vegetable butcher to have your veggies professionally chopped.

[Anonymous No.9205654]

>>9205583
>buying vegetables from the store

[Anonymous No.9205666]

I wish I could buy bags of just broccoli stems but there's always some shitty florets mixed in.

[Anonymous No.9205755]

>>9205583
>making a greentext thread on /ck/

[Anonymous No.9205920]

>skipping the middleman and buying babyfood

[Anonymous No.9205947]

>>9205654
Where else would you get them?

[Anonymous No.9206287]

>>9205947
your backyard

[Anonymous No.9206304]

>>9205618
>local vegetable butcher

Laughed out loud desu. Have a (tu)

[Anonymous No.9206349]

>>9205583
>>buying pre-chopped vegetables
Every now and then, I see that the portion is kind of a better price and not such a bad deal. I don't often buy it myself, because I doubt it was properly cleaned.

There's kind of a western omelet starter chop-chop in my produce area: the trinity of: red onion, bell pepper, celery, mushroom mixture. I see a lot of people throwing it into their cart with a skeptical eye. But, to be fair? I can imagine anyone, even myself, on like a no carb diet, in a busy morning, tossing a couple Tablespoons each day into my omelet pan while doing something else like reading email, making coffee, packing the lunch box, etc. The only cleanup is the pan, not a cutting board and knife. Sure you can do it yourself, but like I said, the price can sometimes be right. When you buy a carton of mushrooms ($3) and cleaned them yourself, bunch of celery hearts ($3), bag of baby peppers ($4), bag of onions ($3), and made you own? Or had to use it up before spoilage? Your overall grocery bill might be less. I toss out bad celery and peppers really often if I don't rescue them to the freezer for use later.

tl;dr
Gotta remember it's not always laziness, but could make economical sense, not just convenience.

Latinos make a sofrito they dip a couple tablespoons at a time into as a recipe starter too. It's basically the trinity with a lot of cilantro/culantro and spices. Grandmas deliver them from their freezers to grandchildren if you're lucky, or live with an inlaw. It is economical to use all the herbs before they spoil, kind of like freezing your basil.

[Anonymous No.9206599]

>>9206304
this is some next level ja/ck/ posting

[Anonymous No.9206620]

am I a pleb?

[Anonymous No.9206658]

>Being a poor-cuck who can't pay the proletariat to chop their veggies

[Anonymous No.9206786]

>>9206304
Are the prices negative because you get paid to eat it?

[Anonymous No.9206812]

>>9206304
>tfw you can remember 90% of these atrocities from the top of your head

[Anonymous No.9206839]

>>9206620
>not mincing your own garlic so your fingers stink for the rest of the night

[Anonymous No.9207452]

>>9206304
>Bean dip
>no beans

kek

[Anonymous No.9207458]

>>9206839
I hope you don't go outside like that

[Anonymous No.9207488]

>>9206304
jej

[Anonymous No.9207527]

>>9205583
5 minutes is worth more than $2.

[Anonymous No.9207529]

>>9206304
>low quality Alaskan salmon
ah, perfection

[Anonymous No.9207636]

>>9205600
How the fuck long does it take you to cut veggies?

[Anonymous No.9207639]

>>9205583
I live alone and spend a lot of (often unscheduled) time away from home, hence I mostly buy frozen vegetables and meat except for things that last a long time in the fridge like onions and carrots

[Anonymous No.9208059]

>>9207636
Uh, who you talking to? Watch your tone, I'm not your damn mama.

[Anonymous No.9208104]

>>9208059
Obviously I'm talking to a slow ass motha fucka who cant spend 10 seconds cutting a fuckin carrot without bitchin bout ruinin they fuckin pedicure!

[Anonymous No.9208114]

>>9208104
God damn it, I almost started RPing again. Tough habit to break.

[Anonymous No.9208180]

>>9206304
>eating there

[Anonymous No.9209123]

>>9205618
Underrated post.

[Anonymous No.9209463]

>>9205583
You've obviously never made stirfy with precut veggies, that shit is made specifically for stir-fries

[Anonymous No.9209810]

>>9206304
>napalm the Palestinians race war now

[Anonymous No.9209845]

>>9205583
If I want to make stir fry I can either buy red bell peppers for $2 a piece, a bunch of sugar snap peas for ~$1.50 a lb, broccoli at a similar price, a pack of mushrooms for $4, a pack of carrots for $2, and an onion for ~$0.80. Or I could buy a pack of frozen, pre-cut stir fry mix vegetables that has all of those in it for $1.15. Sure I'll have less left over, but it can also make a quick meal just by being microwaved with some soy sauce and garlic powder in a bowl. I like fresh vegetables as much as the next guy, but the frozen ones aren't bad at all if they're steamed or fried and they're significantly cheaper. I make $10 an hour, I gotta save man.

[Anonymous No.9209869]

>buying any meat other than 50c/lb chicken from save-a-lot

[Anonymous No.9209881]

>>9206304
My parents actually did the block of cream cheese with salsa poured over it thing at a party they hosted once. It was long before Jack did it and they don't even know who he is. They served it with some tortilla chips and used a fancy, expensive salsa. It was actually bretty gud, believe it or not. I think it could be improved on though, like using fresh homemade salsa and maybe sculpting the cream cheese into a more appetizing shape.

[Anonymous No.9209939]

>>9206304
>ywn be served a dish made by Jack dual-wielding Meat Claw Forks

what's the point of living

[Anonymous No.9210882]

>>9205583
>buying premilked milk
>buying prepicked fruits
>buying deactivated almonds
>buying prefished fish
>buying prechurned butter
>

[Anonymous No.9211062]

>>9206304
Fucken saved

[Anonymous No.9211074]

>>9205583
People actually do this? That's actually fucking pathetic.