Is cooking just a very expensive hobby? Once you do the calculation, it turns out eating out costs the same as cooking at home.

It's as expensive as you make it to bucko

>>21488788 (OP)
a half pound of cheese is like 8 slices, that's way more than mcdonald's crams up my ass plus you're not going to be using entire bottles of ketchup and mustard or eating 2 whole pounds of my ass, plus you got 8 buns and you said you only needed my two buns ass butt

>>21488788 (OP)
>half pound of cheese
>2 lbs of onions
>8 buns
>entire bottles of mustard and ketchup
>I could make 2 burgers
try a little harder with your bait next time

>>21488799
Not entirely convinced the retard is bating at all. My doctor inexplicably tells me about her day and her life and her husband and one conversation was about how her husband is fucking retarded and legitimately thinks cooking is a scam because of shit like OP. She's pointed out "it's not like you make one burger then throw out the other seven buns" but he just doesn't seem to get it (according to her; not sure I've ever met the guy)

>>21488795
>>21488799
>>21488806
The fact is, if you want a burger, you'll have to buy all those things regardless. My point stands.

>>21488809
The fact is, after you make one burger, the other buns don't magically disappear into the ether. Assuming $4/lb mince, 8 double quarter pounders would cost you $83.12 at McSloppa vs $29.76 at home. The beef would have to cost you $17.34/lb for a homemade burger to cost the same as a SlopDonald's one.
You must be a woman or negro or negro woman. No other group could possibly be so fundamentally bad with money.

>>21488809
>21488809
It doesn't stand at all
You buy 8 buns, that's enough for 4 meals of burgers or other sandwiches on separate days.
You buy a whole container of ketchup
That's enough ketchup for a month at least
You buy a whole block of cheese
That's enough cheese for your burgers and snacks of sliced cheese or if you want to make something else.
6 whole onions is enough for at least 8 meals, not just 1 slice for burgers.

ANY time you retards try to argue this you forget (conveniently) the crucial point that you are not throwing away any food you are not using for that one dish you are making, you will use it later.

So when you price up how much that burger costs you work out how much the amount you are using for that burger alone will cost.
Those buns?
You spent $4.39 on 8 of them
That means a bun for each burger only costs $0.54, if you have 2 that's $1.08 on the two buns for those burgers.
That cheese? $3.30? 1/2 lbs?
A typical slice of cheese for a burger will be about 1/2oz so you'll get around 16 slice minimum from that.
So that makes each slice $0.20, ($0.40 if you have 2 burger)
Ketchup? $1.69 for 20oz
The bottle even says there should be 33 servings in the container.
So that means every tbsp serving is $0.05.
Why would you use the whole price of the ketchup bottle when you're using only 1 or 2 servings?

See how the prices start to come in?
We've already got bun, ketchup and cheese and it's only $0.79

Beef mince, walmart has 1lb for $8.97
That's 4 1/4 pounders or $2.24 ea
Add that to the bun, ketchup and cheese and you've got just over $3 dollars per burger.

Cope all you fucking want but you're crying about things you don't understand and intentionally skewing how you cry about it to try and make it valid, when it's just plain wrong what you're saying.

IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO MAKE IT YOURSELF.

>>21488841
u sound big mad

>>21488830
What if I just want one burger
Or I don't want to cook with or eat stale burger buns for the next few days
I could repurpose some of the ingredients, sure, but half of the ingredients will go bad in a couple of days so you're forced to eat the same thing or something very similar for the next few days. Some foods are better suited to homecooking than others.

I like cooking, but I've done the math and found that unless I intentionally make mostly poverty meals or cut corners with my recipes it doesn't save much money compared to eating a frozen meal or value menu item or sandwich from the deli.

>>21488841
>you are not throwing away any food you are not using for that one dish you are making, you will use it later.
i think a lot of people don't use it later. they don't think about using up what they've bought. they want to make completely different things all the time. so they do end up throwing away a lot of what they've bought, and that's probably why it doesn't seem beneficial to make the food yourself to some people.

>>21488848
>I just want one burger
Freezer
>I don't want to cook with or eat stale burger buns for the next few days
Preservatives. Check the best-by.
>I could repurpose some of the ingredients, sure
True
>but half of the ingredients will go bad in a couple of days
Liar
>forced to eat the same thing or something very similar for the next few days
Liar
>I like cooking
Pants on fire
>I've done the math and found that unless I intentionally make mostly poverty meals or cut corners with my recipes it doesn't save much money
Your nose must be in China by now, Pinocchio.

>>21488849
Do they think mince and buns can only be used for burgers or some shit? I once bought a whole bunch of hotdog buns on managers special after one of the summer grilling holidays. Labo[u]r Day, I think. They were 25¢ per package. I took them all out of the package, cut them up, dried then out over the next two months then used them for my Thanksgiving stuffing that year.
Throwing shit out is a strong indicator that a motherfucker Is too stupid to know how to cook.
We're a family of three and don't even full a single trashcan in a week for garbage collection. Shit, it takes is months to go through enough recyclable packages to put out the recycling

I think this question is almost entirely dependent on portions and servings at time of consumption. I think 1 serving is roughly the same with cooking only being slightly cheaper, but as you make more servings, the equivalent cost for fast food becomes unreasonable. My family often cooks three or four dishes on one day that is enough for the whole week. For a house that has 6 people, that's much cheaper than all 6 going out to eat fast food each day of the week.

>>21488867
>I think this question is almost entirely dependent on portions and servings at time of consumption
Wrong
>I think 1 serving is roughly the same with cooking only being slightly cheaper
Wrong
>as you make more servings, the equivalent cost for fast food becomes unreasonable
Wrong. It's always unreasonable.
>[cooking at home is] much cheaper than all 6 [people] going out to eat fast food each day of the week.
It's cheaper even if just one person does it.

>>21488848
Dishonest lying retarded cooklet faggot.

>>21488788 (OP)
Brown people such as yourself need to fuck off back to pakistan or whatever shithoel you came from

>>21488848
Buns freeze well. Cheese and onions last for weeks and can be used for tons of things. Condiments last for months, if not years. This isn't a real problem.

>>21488809
you don't have onions, cheese or ketchup already? those are pantry staples. nobody is buying a bottle of ketchup every time they want a burger, it's just something you have.

Imagine caring about having money, pathetic fucking pissants

I hate these threads so much and everyone who replies to them, including myself.

>>21488848
>Some foods are better suited to homecooking than others
Sure. In some cases. If you just have an odd craving for *a* burger once a month, it might make more sense just to hit up McDonald's for that. The thing is, that's not usually what these types of arguments are talking about. It's usually repeated by people who want to justify not cooking at all. And it's retarded.

>>21488848
>I've done the math and found that unless I intentionally make mostly poverty meals or cut corners with my recipes it doesn't save much money compared to eating a frozen meal or value menu item or sandwich from the deli.
utter horseshit lmfao. I'd love to see your calculations.

>>21488788 (OP)
OP doesnt know how to divide