McTorture: I'm lovin it????

[acidfast7]

I don't think I quite follow when people say going to the grocery store every day to get food to cook takes awhile.

I go to the grocery store on the weekend, buy everything for the next week, and that's it. Very rarely do I find myself in a grocery store anytime else during the week. People actually go to the store each day?

I actually go everyday and select what's fresh/on sale/looks good. I never have an idea of what to buy until I enter then I usually buy the necessities (e.g. milk, coffee, tp, chocolate) and what I want to cook with that evening. Once you learn between 30 and 40 dishes, you lose the need for lists and can make decisions on the fly.

I'm actually disappointed because where I lived in Stockholm, I got off the subway, went up the escalator and had three supermarkets right there (one did well with meats, one with breads and the final with veggies.) In Frankfurt, Germans won't spend as much money on fine food so the selection and number of stores is much lower.

I am, however, thinking of getting a fresh veggie box delivered to the apartment once a week because it's all local ecological/environmental veggies and wines, which would take a lot of guesswork of figuring out which local farms do what with their produce.

 

[KnightWRX]

Once you learn between 30 and 40 dishes

Wait you learn dishes ? I just cook. Cooking is mixing ingredients together, no need to "learn". Experimentation!

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's less good. But that's what makes cooking fun. Following recipes is boring.

 

[acidfast7]

Wait you learn dishes ? I just cook. Cooking is mixing ingredients together, no need to "learn". Experimentation!

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's less good. But that's what makes cooking fun. Following recipes is boring.

I don't follow recipes :facepalm:

I've experimented enough to come up with 30-40 dishes I like. And when, I move (Maine, NY, Texas, Florida, Stockholm, Frankfurt), I always pick up a few new ones. I also worked a chef while in university.

That's why I head into the supermarket everyday. Sometimes salmon is on sale (Stockholm), sometimes Steak (Texas panfried), sometimes lobster, scallops or muscles (Maine).

We also do a "perfect dinner"/food connection where one person cooks once a week for 10-12 people, each person cooks once, and then you learn a lot about the local cuisine.

Learning to eat by taste really also makes a huge difference. That's why I can't stand crap like Subway.

 

[KnightWRX]

That's why I head into the supermarket everyday.

I go once a week and use the freezer for meats, the fridge for veggies. No need to go every day really.

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Learning to eat by flavor really also makes a huge difference. That's why I can't stand crap like Subway.

FTTFY. Subway and other fast food is about taste. Home cooking is about flavor.

Yes, flavor and taste aren't the same thing (one is a function of your nose, the other a function of your tongue).

 

[acidfast7]

I go once a week and use the freezer for meats, the fridge for veggies. No need to go every day really.

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FTTFY. Subway and other fast food is about taste. Home cooking is about flavor.

Yes, flavor and taste aren't the same thing (one is a function of your nose, the other a function of your tongue).

I never freeze meats and I never buy meats have been frozen. If you're making the effort to cook, why cook *****. If you can't appreciate the difference in texture between been frozen and never frozen meat, then you really must be burning the crap out of what you eat.

Also, you really have no idea about taste/flavor. Taste is a sense the detects the flavor of a substance. I recommend that you start with the five "tastes" and move on from there.

 

[KnightWRX]

I never freeze meats and I never buy meats have been frozen. If you're making the effort to cook, why cook *****. If you can't appreciate the difference in texture between been frozen and never frozen meat, then you really must be burning the crap out of what you eat.

I can appreciate the difference, but frankly, frozen meat isn't as bad as you make it out to be. And no, I don't burn the crap out of what I eat.

You're just going to extremes to try to prove some kind of point that McD's is faster than home cooking. Why, I do not know.

Also, you really have no idea about taste/flavor. Taste is a sense the detects the flavor of a substance. I recommend that you start with the five "tastes" and move on from there.

Ironic. I won't get into the debate with you. What I know comes from biology classes I've followed.

 

[jsolares]

Uh ? I've waited in line longer at McD's than it takes to cook a meal at home. Seriously, is tossing a salad together from some vegetables lying around longer than being 10th in line ?

Is slapping a piece of meat in a frying pan, throwing some seasoning on it longer ?

You can have a decent home cooked meal, cheaper than the dollar menu and much healthier in the same time it takes to wait in line, place your order and wait for your food.

Not to mention you don't have to get into the car and drive all the way to McD's for the home option.



People who claim they don't have the time are wrong. They have all the time in the world if they can go to McD's.

McD's down here are very fast, never seen more than 2 ppl in line unless it's the bigmac day where all bigmac sales go to charity.

If what you say is the usual wait time where you're at then yeah it makes more sense to actually cook your own food.

And also down here lunch is the biggest meal not dinner, now (yes now XD) i get why dinner is the big meal in the US/canada/etc, so you go home and cook it, and you just eat a sandwich or something for lunch

 

[KnightWRX]

And also down here lunch is the biggest meal not dinner, now (yes now XD) i get why dinner is the big meal in the US/canada/etc, so you go home and cook it, and you just eat a sandwich or something for lunch

And here lunch is where I skip pass the big line-up at McD's (6 cash registers, 6 10+ ppl long lines) and go to a healthier option for lunch.

Of course, I go for proper nutrition now, so Breakfeast is the biggest meal, lunch is 2nd, and diner is a small "tie-me-over-till-breakfeast" fare.

 

[63dot]

I usually, but not always, have bought free range chicken. I think this video will make me free range all the time.

As for McDonald's buying from this place doesn't surprise me but what would surprise me is who and how many actually do.

 

[iJohnHenry]

As for McDonald's buying from this place doesn't surprise me but what would surprise me is who and how many actually do.

Any that want to be competitive, and that's the problem.

 

[leekohler]

I was raised in a rural area where we killed animals for food with our own hands. I was taught by my father that we never let an animal suffer or torture one. This makes me so angry I could kill these factory farmers.

Factory farming is disgusting and it needs to end. No, I will not stop eating meat. BUT, we can all end this by no longer going to crap places like McDonalds. It's garbage food made by hideous human beings.

Everyone, stop going to chains and buy from your local farmers. Cook your own food at home, or go to decent places that serve local, humanely raised, free range livestock.

What's going on here is wrong in so many ways. Killing an animal for food is one thing. Torturing several longterm is unforgivable.