>>21462450 (OP)
I tried making the Tour of Italy at home and it just wasn't the same.

>>21462461
can't blame ya that's like making 3 full dishes at once

>>21462450 (OP)
>>21462461
Wendy's Frosty then

Indian curry. I don't know why, but it's hard to replicate the restaurant taste

>>21462450 (OP)
That's cool looking and all but I don't want so much food handling going into my food.

>>21462495
It's essentially processed meat at this point.

>>21462450 (OP)
With enough time and effort you can reproduce most things for a one-time meal, but I imagine some things would be prohibitively time-consuming and costly for their result unless you plan on doing it again and again. You could also get a meal that tastes just as good if you don't care for getting so far up your own ass for the sense of atmosphere that restaurants will go to.

>>21462450 (OP)
Depends how good of a cook you are and what kind of ingredients and equipment you have access to.

>>21462487
doesn't have fecal matter and sweat from an untouchable, that's where the flavor comes from

>>21462506
This. Things like ramen/pho/beef noodle soup take forever to make and are probably just worth spending $10 to get a bowl when you have a craving

>>21462487
It's the spice mix. You need curry tree leaves, in addition to the other, more common spices, and you need a masala mix which contains hing. Those two are pretty difficult to find.

Beer battered French fries

anything fried since an industrial fryer operated by trained people is much better than anything you could have at home

>>21462450 (OP)
everything...

>>21462450 (OP)
I make really good food, but sometimes I don't want to, and most restaurants make excellent food.

Realistically? Neapolitan pizza. You need to buy a million unitaskers for this shit like a pizza peel, a pizza stone, a whole fucking pizza oven, a modern kitchen is just not equipped for this type of dish.
I can't think of anything else, if they cook it on a gas stove you can do it as well

>>21462506
this webm makes me irrationally angry. I for some reasons, want to bash this man's head with a a heavy work tool.

>>21462450 (OP)
Peking duck. There is some tricks they do that makes it fucking amazing, and it's a right pain to replicate at home.

Any ramen/pho type soup where you have to make stock for hours on end and the whole process is like 2-3 days is just so much easier to let a restaurant do.

Same for dry aged steak. That shit requires specialized equipment, a month of time, and it's just not worth it. So much easier to get it at a restaurant.

Pizza is also a right pain in the ass because it requires special equipment and takes 2-3 days proper.

>>21463651
>Same for dry aged steak. That shit requires specialized equipment
Not true at all anon a cheap disposable dry age bag, your fridge and time is all you need

>>21463664
not him, but you need to dry age huge pieces of meat

>>21462487
In my cuntry, it is said that the Indian restaurants put used underwear (male) into their curries for the umami flavour (and black magic). Nowadays they simply use Ajinomoto.

>>21463651
>>21463664
doesn't your butcher sell dry aged steak? wtf?

>>21462450 (OP)
gelato

>>21462588
Fenugreek leaves are also a common component of restaurant curry that's hard to find in normal stores.

>>21462450 (OP)
Anything fried. I hate frying, I genuinely despise it.

>>21462450 (OP)
most things that are time consuming or better made by multiple folks working together
tonkotsu ramen multi-hour bone broth, etc

>>21463425
pizza ovens come with stones anon. a peel is like $20, I have 3. you can get a ooni for like $350. Considering how cheap pizza is to make and how much delivery costs, its easy to justify the cost if you eat pizza once every week or two.

>>21463651
>be me
>chinese american going on umpteenth china family visit with mommy and daddy
>we decide to visit beijing in addition to mommy and daddy's cities
>try peking duck there
>yummy
>buy dehydrated pejing duck at airport
>yucky

>>21464275
>spend $500 dollar on unitaskers to make pizza once a month
No, and I don't have space for all this shit

>>21464271
>bone broth
Fuck off, cooklet.

>>21464785
>unitaskers
Retard alert.

>>21464800
What else are you going to use a pizza peel for? What else are you going to use a pizza oven, especially such a specialized one like ooni?
Useless unitaskers. Pizza made sense when people had wood fired ovens not the electric shit

>>21462450 (OP)
Onion rings

>>21465505
air fryers have solved this

>>21462588
also asafoetida powder which is almost impossible to find in normal shops. the real game changer however is the sheer amount of ghee they use, using garlic & ginger paste and premade onion/veggie stock/puree.

I have gotten the texture of restaurant tier Indian curries down perfectly by using garlic/ginger paste, concentrated tomato puree & base stock, but can't get the flavour exactly 1:1 because I don't use ghee or curry leaves

>>21462557
They don't take any more effort than anything else. You just have to start prepping and cooking 12 hours before you want to eat. For 80IQ zoomers and 3rd worlders planning ahead is like witchcraft.

>>21463682
Simply buy a big 5kg piece of meat
>>21464189
Yeah they do and we had a funny moment today buying 5kg of strip because the butcher was confused i wanted to do it myself

The only times you should go to a restaurant are if you're going to eat something that is extremely time consuming (like multiple days) or prohibitively expensive to small batch at home

>>21462487
The trick is to never wash the pan or your hands

>>21462450 (OP)
for me, anything deep fried is better from a restaurant than at home. never worth the hassle to dump a couple litres of sunflower oil into a dutch oven just to fry a single meals worth of food for 1-2 people.

>>21463651
>Pizza is a pain to make.
>Requires special equipment.
Anon. I think you are definitely retarded.

>>21462450 (OP)
Mostly foreign shit but they lie to you about what they put in there. That said any home cook hits that moment when your cooking starts to exceed restaurants in your area.

>>21465854
asafoetida is hing

>>21465891
>they don't take more effort!!!!! you just have to make beef stock for 12 hours

>>21462450 (OP)
Playing with your food is a sin

>>21466914
Which is 10 minutes of actual work and 11h50m of having a pot on the oven on low.
Shut the fuck up frogposter.

>>21464198
good post

>>21466944
That's how they served it. It was a chef's special

>>21462450 (OP)
this picture makes me gag