Because cooking Rice & Beans is just a 5 minute YouTube video, not a culinary series.
How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great.
Submitted 8 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Zier@fedia.io 2 hours ago
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
BUT exploring how the addition of stuff like rice to regional dishes in order to increase yield… how techniques of necessity helped evolve traditional southern, Cajun and Creole cooking… how ingredients of necessity like potatoes are not just a random starch but a life blood and the source of a thousand dishes… stuff like that is worth a series.
I think there really could be a decent series that highlights stuff like that especially as a vehicle to show what you’re talking about, turn it into practice.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Surprised nobody’s mentioning Joshua Weissman’s “but cheaper” series. You get the impression he’s a little into himself, but the recipes are solid.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There are a number of cooks who did that, even as series or cook books. Low budget cooking or student cooking are the terms to look out for.
If you want low budget cooking, you can also look into food prepping and freezing, as large batch cooking is often a very money-conscious idea. I often cook large batches of some meals, usually 12-15 liters. Portion it off as needed and freeze it. One day of work when you’ve got the time and the ingredients are on sale, and countless hours saved on everyday cooking.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There are like nine seasons of a show called Struggle Meals.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Because no one watches cooking shows anymore.
l_isqof@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
And now you can know why… As we’re all broke.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
Mythical Kitchen is that, a lot of the time. When they actually fucking cook anymore, anyway. I am not a fan of the talk show type shit they started doing; I want 7/11 food turned gourmet, damn it!
buycurious@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Plug for BeyondFoodMarket
fizzle@quokk.au 4 hours ago
Cooking shows are funded by product placement and advertising deals. You can probably figure out the rest.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Unless your local prices are seriously outrageous, most traditional cuisine from anywhere will fit that bill.
drre@feddit.org 2 hours ago
if you know what you’re looking for and now how to cook.
one problem i see/have with cookbooks on traditional cuisine is that a lot of the better one focus on traditional sunday roast style fancy recipes (schweinebraten mit kraut und knödeln), and while good they are not cheap. what is more difficult to find is the saisonal poor mans cuisine. except maybe cucina povera from Italy.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 hours ago
Fair enough. The best way to learn traditional cuisine from somewhere is probably to have someone from there who can cook recommend recipes.
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Emmymade on YouTube has a series on depression era and similar recipes. Not all winners, but its a decent sized series on that theme
Regna@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Omg, thank you! TIL. Wonderful videos!
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I watch that lady, and she makes entertaining videos, but she makes Martha Stewart seem chill.
meco03211@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Martha before or after a J?
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Every match ends with an 8 way tie of
Welp, it’s edible! You Win
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This sounds like most daytime television anytime I catch it tbh
Patnou@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
In my family of five well four now we cook a big meal every sunday and it always lasts till at least wed or thur
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Oh no, what happened? Did you have to eat the fifth?
Whirlygirl9@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
Dollar Tree Dinners on FB
Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
It’s called Indian food. Sometimes also Mexican food.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
There’s surely got to be something like this on YouTube
Patnou@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I did a bid upstate…well here downstate. And one of the best meals I had was top ramen and crunched up flamin cheetos. But doesn’t feel the same when making it now.
Janx@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Huh, despite eating both extremely rarely, I’d try that! Don’t laugh, but do you have any tips? Just cook Top Ramen and add Flaming Hot Cheetos to it, or are there measurements or techniques I should aim for?
scrion@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Where could you even find healthy ingredients for under $10 that will last a few days?
It can’t be beans and rice again, all the time.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
It can’t be beans and rice
Ok… Onions and potatoes it is. 🤷♂️
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Okay I don't live in America but I routinely make healthy meals for the local equivalent of under 5 bucks, which should be equivalent to about 10 in America according to a quick Google. And for the record I mean proper meals, not beans and rice. For example Walmart sells a pound of lentils online for two bucks, an onion for about one buck and half a dozen carrots (actual carrots, not six carrots) for less than three bucks, or about 50 cents per carrot. A pound of lentils, an onion and a carrot will make enough lentil soup for five days*, or about a $0.75 per dinner. For the full experience you can add half a disk of pita bread for $0.5 per meal, or you can substitute with tortillas for less than 15 cents per meal. We're still a full order of magnitude below the ten bucks limit. And this isn't poverty food; where I'm from people actually eat this because they want to. That said this does need a food processor (cheapest I could find was 6 bucks on Amazon but I didn't look very hard).
Point being: Maybe I'm missing something, but even with recent price increases there's plenty of good food one could have without getting any close to the 10 bucks limit.
*There's no need to make the five days' worth all at once; lentils will last for months outside the fridge.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Beans, peas, lentils, peanuts, they’re all off the menu at our house because allergy.
Regna@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
In Sweden (where food is generally more expensive than in the US) we have several options. One food blogger launched a series called ”Portionen under tian” (Meal portion under 10 SEK/$1) which got so popular that she got to write several recipe books from it. We (or at least the people I hang around with) also use thrifty options like “Karma” and “Too good to go” which can stretch healthy meals for a family of three - four for almost a whole week (given that the kids eat lunch at school) for under 300 SEK/$30, and not be the same food every day.
Others in this thread have commented that the very cooking shows you’re asking about already exist.
bajabound@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Check out Chef Moe
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
YouTube. ofcourseitsgood.com/links
Search for Aggressive Cooking Tutorials. Her style is great, food is practical and reasonable.
Widdershins@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
The Marvin Show is your poor man’s cooking show. Hosted by one time Big Brother participant Marvin Latimer. It’s hard to put to words or describe the show so I just linked a memorable episode. This was on broadcast TV at some point. Green screen doorway and all.
Another poor man’s cooking show was Masaokis. He had a poor grasp on food in general and his genre is more “cooking with hoarders” with a heavy splash of harebrained philosophy. One video is about hot dogs and peaches. I haven’t watched the video in a long time but I can still remember the sound he made after tasting the concoction of hot dogs blended in peach juice. He tried to cook a steak on the rim of his toilet by burning paper. He thought the shell of an egg was the egg whites. He made a smoothie with whole moldy peaches and unpeeled oranges and who knows what else.
I believe his whole mythology was that he filmed in an apartment he would go to when he was on a bender. I think I remember seeing a much
nicerless trashed apartment in one video. It has been a long time but I remember seeing a ton of books on a shelf with all their spines placed inward. The conditions he cooked in are not for the faint of heart. I can think of at least 2 fires starting from all the shit on his stove.