Thread 21523604

Cooking takes too much time. Prepping, washing, peeling, cutting, dicing, rollng, kneading, stirring, whisking, boiling, frying, garnishing, cool down, finish you meal in 5 minutes, washing dishes, go the grocery store for more ingredients and doing it all again just eats too much time.
Delivery chads were right, all that time spent cooking could be used more effectively and it helps the economy by creating jobs
>erm dude, just spend even MORE time at the beginning of the week cooking so that you have stale food throughout the week
I honestly couldn't think of a less cost effective way of spending your free time

yes it is very easy to waste lots of time to maybe save $2 like a retard

also, foodtuber grifters are notorious for lying about this, saying it takes 15 minutes to make their recipe. Their incentive is to get people to watch their videos, so they rope gullible people in with this fast easy cooking fantasy. I am very selective about what things I cook myself

>>21523604 (OP)
Meh you've just got the wrong mindset. Cooking is a relaxing task and gives you a sense of accomplishment when you cook something good. I usually take my time to make sure it tastes right

What'd you be doing instead, besides posting more dogshit threads? You learning how to cook would benefit us both.

>Cooking takes too much time.
Depends what you're cooking.
>Prepping, washing, peeling, cutting, dicing, rollng, kneading, stirring, whisking, boiling, frying, garnishing, cool down
Fry an egg, nigga.
>washing dishes
Get a dishwasher, broke-ass nigga.
>go the grocery store for more ingredients
You cooking and eating all twelve eggs in one meal, hungry-ass nigga?
>just eats too much time.
You got time to be here you got time to be cookin', no time-management-skills-havin'-ass nigga.

>>21523604 (OP)
I live on processed foods. East and fast to cook plus I know how many calories I'm getting.

>>21523604 (OP)
I haven't eaten food from a restaurant in 15 years. I make myself breakfast, lunch & dinner every day.

Morning I'll have some oatmeal, or eggs with toast, or sausage and hash browns in the air fryer.
Lunch I'll pack a sandwich from home in the morning, with a fruit, a can of diet soda and a bag of chips.
Dinner every night is different, I'll do a pork roast, steak, chicken rice bake, bean soup, shrimp stir fry, pasta, bratwurst, baked potato, caesar salad, etc. Easy weeknight meals.

Then on weekends I take my time cooking something fancier or exotic like boeuf bourgagnon, gumbo, whole grilled red snapper, schnitzel or fried chicken, char siu, pad thai, barbecue (ribs, brisket, pork butt or chicken), etc.

I don't have much of a social life other than seeing one of my friends or my family every couple of weeks, and even then it's usually going to my house or theirs for dinner then having some drinks and watching tv or a movie. I never felt like I don't have time to cook, what else am I gonna do sitting around the house?

I made bread for myself for the first time a few days ago and I now 100% understand Andrew Tate's sperg out on how cooking is a waste of time. Cooking is a waste of time if your time can be better spent somewhere else. I make ~$80/hr when working. Why in the fuck would I spend a half hour making bread when it's $3.00 at the store? I just lost $37 worth of my life to make a loaf of shitty bread that wasn't even as good as store bought.

If you receive genuine joy and gratification from cooking then have at it. If you cook because you are broke as fuck and it's actually more cost effective for you, then have at it. But if you're like me and have plenty of income and you are trying to cook to "better yourself" or to "stick it to the stores" you are a pretentious showy faggot.

I like doing all that shit because it's a good way to kill time while also avoiding people

>>21523650
I have autism and not the right kind.
It's too fucking much. It stresses me out to a laughable degree. I can't handle more than 5 ingredients.

I find it funny how you think cooking is a waste of time and money but you're here shitposting on 4chan for free.

>>21523663
Well, for one, he is in prison for being a rapist and ruined his life, and he's a bald genetic loser, no matter his muscles.

But to answer your question, when you are dying and living out your last days alive, can you honestly tell me you'd be happy knowing you spent your entire life making money, and never experienced what it is like to bake your own loaf of bread?

If you look at everything at a "can I make money instead of this" angle, you're basically going to live a shitty, miserable life and miss out of a lot of life experiences.

>you're a pretentious faggot for feeling superior about learning to bake bread

Good to know that a fucking retard like you is the only person who thinks that, boo hoo dumb ass nigger

it's also insanely inefficient at home
a restaurant can prep lots at once, have big trays of stock, sauces, gravies, etc.

this might be the dumbest thread on /ck/

>>21523843
Hey you dogshit fucking retard, if cooking was pointless houses wouldn't come with kitchens, how about you live in a faggot apartment with no counter space where you can inhale pollutants and suffer terrorist attacks every year you metro FAGGOT

>>21523853
there's no need to be upset

>>21523663
if people really want to show off they should open a restaurant or food cart. that would be based and not a waste of time

home cooks however should get off their high horse and quit bragging about wasting tons of their time making slop no one would pay for

It's only a waste of time if your time would otherwise be spent profitably. Which it isn't.

>>21523858
I hope you die of really painful cancer, genuinely, your mother and father too.

>>21523604 (OP)
Were spending time talking about time profitably on a Somali AI generated hentai website dedicated to replicating Ken Sugimori's style.
What time did you say your flight was?
>>21523653
This
>>21523827

I like it when foodtubers break from the script and complain about what a shitty waste of time it was
but it's pretty rare they admit it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IsNRpZyEc

>>21524452
>fagusea
Opinion discarded

>>21523604 (OP)
copypasta?

>>21523663
You are a retard. I have a breadmaker and it takes 30 seconds to put the ingredients in. 4 hours later a perfect fresh loaf.

>>21523604 (OP)
wah wah wah
humans have been cooking every day for a million years, but it's too hard for you. grow up

>>21523827
anybody who talks about "ROI" or values their time in money, I guarantee you is actually a broke bitch who spends 90% of their time sitting on their couch browsing 4chan. it's a complete meme.

>>21524470
interesting cope

>>21524472
>instant seethe reply
yes yes, I'm sure your time is VERY valuable. better get back to grind big boy.

I'm cook because I'm poor as shit, not because I LARP as some food artist or whatever they're called these days.

>>21523757
sounds like a you problem, big boy. the fuck are you posting here for

psyop thread
real cooks crank the heat on high without the first clue of what they're putting in the pan and churn out something gourmet in 5 minutes

I only cook because my boomers are running out of money. I miss the glory days when I'd just text my boomer every day what fast food / takeaway I wanted. it was so cash

>>21523624
spent 15 years skilling up as a home cook to come to the same conclusion
life has become too busy to spend a lot of time constantly in the kitchen. also means i simplify my diet

>>21524514
its a little bit of earnest trolling by people who shared the misery of a home breadmaking exprience, and general shitposting
even you know that yeah 6 minutes for your mealio is gonna work in that case but you made no time for doing dishes while you cooked so you have to make up that time after you eat instead of before or during

>>21524517
swear there really is something different about fast food your mom would pick up for you after work or whatever compared to your own slop runs
yeah mom heck yeah ill take a qtr pounder meal love u

>>21524534
oh no, all 5 minutes that might take! you could have been posting on 4chan. i hope all of you kill yourselves

cooking isn't worth it if you're single
but you aren't single, right?

>>21524559
>wasting my precious food on some hoe

BaskinGODS?

The trick is doing a lot of food when cooking, just the other day I made like 10 kebabrolls to freeze and then just grab whenever I want to eat them.
If you're just cooking a meal for one you keep it simple and fast.

>>21523663
bread is like 10% work and 90% waiting, stick to tiktok lmao

>>21524534
I make food so good that the dishes afterwards are a reward in themselves.

Like sweeping the floors of the Basketball court after hitting nothing but slam dunks

>>21523604 (OP)
>the time used more effectively is spent doom scrolling this shithole

>>21523663
You're the kind of cunt who gives his friend a glass of water and then invoices them as they leave? Price of everything and value of nothing.

>>21524976
Imagine being forced to sweep after playing basketball

>>21525014
Imagine having that image saved to your computer

>>21525018
Glad to see you have a good sense of humor about the whole thing, keep up the good bants bro

>>21525031
Andrew Tate has worms in his asshole

>>21524983
Unironically yes. Cooking is a chore

>>21523663
I agree that people generally under-appraise their time (for instance, driving an extra 10 hours instead of flying for 2 hours because it saves you $100)
But there are certain things that are done for their own sake. I'll spend 8 hours making a desk out of $300 in lumber even though I can just buy one already made for $200, not for cost efficiency but out of love for the process. Same with baking sourdough. There is something inherently gratifying about fermenting the thing and getting it perfectly baked with consistent grain etc. Having bread to eat is a nice side effect. If I just need bread and don't have the time to bake it I'll just throw the starter in the fridge and go buy some.
It's all perspective anon. It's perfectly fine to waste a little time and energy if it's something you enjoy. Don't listen to some hustler retard. That faggot never built anything in his whole life and thinks he has any authority on telling people how to live.

didn't need to make a whole thread to let us know you're lazy

>>21525074
>under appraise their time

That's not my issue, it's yours, beta faggot.

>blogs about his fucking table on a cooking board

Nobody gives a fuck about you or your table, this is fucking cooking board, fuck this off-topic faggot thread, you should be banned.

>>21523604 (OP)
90% chance everyone agreeing with you is a terrible cook.

>>21525708
it's ok to leave things to the professionals and not pretend to be skilled at something that isn't your job

just like I don't make my own butter, farm, build my own house, etc.

>>21525682
It has nothing to do with laziness, it just takes up too much time

>>21525711
You also didn't build the internet or code 4chan yet here you are acting like this website owes you anything, enjoy being superior to people when you're a fucking hypocrite, did you knit your own clothes? Fucking stupid faggot.

Homemade food is simply better than fast food or prepackaged frozen goyslop from the dollar store. Even if you meal prep ten of the same meal for the entire week, every single one of those meals will taste better and be better for you than having mcdonalds every day. Also, yes you can think of a less cost effective way of spending your free time if you spend several hours a day staring at 4chan. If you're genuinely well-off enough to go to a high quality sit-down restaurant every single day then go for it, but if you're a normal person with a normal income then just make your own fucking food like an adult.

>>21525923
>if you're a normal person
being a normal person isn't a good thing
normal people watch marvel movies and watch their wives get fucked by black men
>make your own fucking food like an adult
Adults do things that are intelligent or makes sense on some cost benefit analysis axiom
You simply saying to just make food means not only are you single, you're also not mature nor an adult in terms of wisdom or experience

>>21525904
way to miss the point

>>21525923
takeaway always tastes better and costs maybe $15. if you manage ingredients perfectly without wastage, maybe you will save a few dollars, but add hours of labor. for me, the best is getting takeaway and then doing something simple like making extra rice at home

>>21526061
>takeaway always tastes better and costs maybe $15.

Lol no, fucking stupid thread man

i have ordered a good amount of food during my time as a babysitter and the convenience is noticeable. i can understand why working moms are doing it at least, but it really does feel unnatural

>>21525700
Found the third-rate hustler. The STUPID third-rate hustler.

>>21525959
You yourself are normal. If you were rich enough to go to a high quality sit-down restaurant every day, you would have said so. Thus, you aren't special. You're not rich or a genius, and your interests aren't as niche as you'd like to believe. Moreover, if you can't see the significant benefit in taking some of the time you were simply going to waste on the internet and setting it aside to ensure your body receives proper nutrition instead of mass-produced seed oil slop, then you are a particularly low type of normal person. You don't have enough impulse control or attention span to be talking about the "cost benefit analysis axiom," and you certainly aren't using any of the time you've saved by stuffing mcdonalds into your fat face to any productive end.

>>21526223
>I have to make everything myself because....sneed oils
holy kek

>>21526223
>he fell for the seed oils are le bad meme
Is it still 2019 in your world?

>>21523604 (OP)
this is the true /ck/ redpill

I don't like leaving the house, answering the door or trust food delivery people so I cook or starve.

>>21526245
>>21526397
>>21525700
>>21523663
Had a tranny coworker that would waste hundreds of dollars a week on uber eats because he said cooking took up too much time. I assume now if ur not cooking than ur a tranny as well.
>I can't spent 45 minutes cooking I have to watch my girly anime or play my skinner box videogame!

>>21523604 (OP)
Yup. Cooking is literally for low IQ, women, and fags

Only thing I'll do is easy stuff like eggs, stuff in an air fryer

>>21527286
It's definitely not low IQ lol

The cope amongst men is way worse than I realised.

>>21527294
>the cope amongst men
You're arguing with 4chan trannies Margaret

>>21527328
The downvotes on reddit are painful tho :(

>>21527272
and the "tranny" would probably say you waste dozens of hours cooking
also funny you act like "wasting" money as if it is free as long as you cook it at home. maybe you forget about the payment between buying groceries and cooking them. but really you are only saving a fraction of the cost of professionally prepared tasty convenient food

>>21523604 (OP)
Made a steak and fries and it took me 10 minutes of prep and 20 minutes of cooking. Had a couple of beers in the meantime. If I'd gone to a restaurant I'd have waited 20 minutes for my food anyway while paying an extra $30-40 for the privilege of sitting down somewhere that isn't home and having the exact same thing.

>>21527440
are you talking about deep fried fries

>>21523604 (OP)
>Delivery chads were right, all that time spent cooking could be used more effectively
I enjoy cooking, but not all meals needs to be a wreck-the-kitchen nightmare of prep and cleanup. Mix it up. Sometimes you can boil pasta in a large pot, clean 3 cutting boards, and steam veggies as well as pan fry. Sometimes it's a sheet pan dinner, or a one skillet meal. I'm sure about half the time, I have all but my dinner plates in the dishwasher at the time I begin eating. I tuck items I decided to no longer prep and cook and take an invite out to dinner, oh like half the time. My freezer gets a workout, or you can plan to have items that are flexible to your mood and energy. I have Smithfiled smoked pork chops in my garage fridge, with packs of bacon, tins of biscuit dough, smoked andoiulle, and a smoked turkey breast. These items will wait 2-3 weeks for my mood. Deep freeze has pizzas, baked ziti, steam in bag veggies and dumplins and other options for a rainy day. I never have to do delivery unless my oven + microwave breaks down unless my mood dictates Cheesecake Factory.
>and it helps the economy by creating jobs
So does shopping at the grocery. You should be eating for quality and your mood, ideally. If you rely on delivery, you are not getting the best textures, temperatures and freshness, fact. What you make should be worth the satisfaction to you or you're doing it wrong. Costwise, you can grill PRIME at home for the cost of any takeout.

Crazy how you don't know what a hobby is

Your time is worthless by the way. You're not ruling an Empire. You're not the Patriarch of a dynasty. You're some weirdo on a hobby board showing everyone you're too incompetent to warm up food in a pan

>>21523604 (OP)
Yeah... retard this board is for people who enjoy cooking the same way some people enjoy putting together models or working on cars.

What kind of retard goes NOOOOO YOUR HOBBY TAKES TOO LONG
Cunt I've been waiting six years for a plant to start fruiting. I've got four years to go before it hits maturity.
I'm waiting because I like plants.

I take the time to cook because I like cooking.
I like the prep, I like the stirring, I like the garnishing, I like the process. I like the eating.
I have a dishwasher because I don't care for the cleaning.
I LIKE cooking.
That's why I'm here, you deadshit.

>>21528294
actually it's also for people who enjoy food and drink

>>21525711
not being as skilled as a professional doesn't mean cooking is a waste of time or money.

>>21528294
>Yeah... retard this board is for people who enjoy cooking the same way some people enjoy putting together models or working on cars.

These dudes live dogshit lives where they're chasing finance payments to cover their cars and houses they bought which they can't afford.

>>21523663
You generally can't work a marginal hour. Do you think getting 8 hours of sleep instead of 7 costs you $80?

>>21528294
Cooking isnt a hobby its a chore/job. Its like saying vacuuming your house is a hobby

>>21524463
Do you have any Raisin Bran?

Uh... oh, no. Sorry.

Can you go get me some?
Uh... boy, that's kind of a pain in the...

Well, we do have...

we got Total, and we got some
raisins. I mean, you could,

like, mix those together. It'd be...
it'd be kinda like Raisin Bran.

Yeah, but it's not.

It'd be like Raisin Bran,
but it's not Raisin Bran.

That'd be like Total with raisins in it.

It's not really doing it for me.

What time did you say your flight was?

>>21530243
Moby Dick: Do you have any Raisin Bran?

Peter: Uh... oh, no. Sorry.

Moby Dick: Can you go get me some?

Peter: Uh... boy, that's kind of a pain in the...
Well, we do have... we got Total, and we got some raisins. I mean, you could, like, mix those together. It'd be... it'd be kinda like Raisin Bran.

Moby Dick: Yeah, but it's not. It'd be like Raisin Bran, but it's not Raisin Bran. That'd be like Total with raisins in it. It's not really doing it for me.

Peter: What time did you say your flight was?

>>21530121
If youve got to vacuum your house you may as well make it a hobby then.

>>21530121
Vacuuming doesn't feel rewarding, cooking does.

All these grifters tell ridiculous stories and have ridiculous opinions. He said something about scraping the chicken off of bones in the kfc trash, what a load of shit. At a certain point you have to realize any public figure is selling you something.

Anyway just cook simple things if you don’t want it to take up your time.

>>21531329
Even if it were true and not a pathological lie, growing up poor doesn't entitle you to exploit women and sex traffic them.

What kind of food??Do you really think am gonna pay 7 to 9 euros for a fucking omelette?

>>21524452
>le deep frying is le hard
jesus christ what a faggot, he might actually be retarded

>>21523604 (OP)
man, scarificing your health and wealth for "free time" is never a good excuse for not cooking at home.