IF (all caps) you have spare cash, it can be worth it to order / eat out instead of buying + preparing + cooking + cleaning up.
There’s the taste and satisfaction factor too if you’re not a confident cook. Good, satisfying food is a great boost if you need it.
Again, BIG IF. I understand not everyone has this leeway but if you do, it’s very helpful when you don’t have to spend energy and time to prepare meals
And there is an argument to be said for the economics of a centralized source of food versus distributed ones. Cost of labor and profit margins aside, aside, cooking food in bulk for more people in one place uses fewer resources than that number of people buying food themselves and cooking at home. Sure, restaurants have a lot of food waste, but I can guarantee supermarkets waste a lot more.
Absolutely. There are certain things I never get in a restaurant anymore. Steak, for example, is very easy once you learn how to cook it and gets marked up a lot.
But sometimes a fast food burger just hits. And even if it’s $7 that’s still less money than I would spend to but the individual ingredients to make it.
plus if you’re not an experienced cook and don’t really know what you’re doing (hell, even if you do and you make a simple mistake), a ruined meal means all those ingredients and all the money spent on them go to waste.
As someone who only learned to cook as an adult, my experience has been that if you're careful it's nearly impossible to ruin a meal. Even if you mess up the spices it's probably salvageable, and with a timer having food burn is really not a concern.
OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Man Idk why you got downvoted for this.
IF (all caps) you have spare cash, it can be worth it to order / eat out instead of buying + preparing + cooking + cleaning up.
There’s the taste and satisfaction factor too if you’re not a confident cook. Good, satisfying food is a great boost if you need it.
Again, BIG IF. I understand not everyone has this leeway but if you do, it’s very helpful when you don’t have to spend energy and time to prepare meals
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
And there is an argument to be said for the economics of a centralized source of food versus distributed ones. Cost of labor and profit margins aside, aside, cooking food in bulk for more people in one place uses fewer resources than that number of people buying food themselves and cooking at home. Sure, restaurants have a lot of food waste, but I can guarantee supermarkets waste a lot more.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Absolutely. There are certain things I never get in a restaurant anymore. Steak, for example, is very easy once you learn how to cook it and gets marked up a lot.
But sometimes a fast food burger just hits. And even if it’s $7 that’s still less money than I would spend to but the individual ingredients to make it.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
plus if you’re not an experienced cook and don’t really know what you’re doing (hell, even if you do and you make a simple mistake), a ruined meal means all those ingredients and all the money spent on them go to waste.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 hours ago
As someone who only learned to cook as an adult, my experience has been that if you're careful it's nearly impossible to ruin a meal. Even if you mess up the spices it's probably salvageable, and with a timer having food burn is really not a concern.
Jessicat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Agreed, so long as you use good ingredients to start with the resulting meal is almost always passable at the very least.