I am proud to be in the 10% who do enjoy cooking.
Well, sometimes you’re tired after work. Cook? Hell with that.
I’d bet they don’t know HOW to cook...w
With Obamacare and now a $15 minimum wage kicking in, and the fact that trying to find carb-free menu items is still very difficult, I think MANY more people will be cooking at home, and they will have to learn to like it.
Gee, I don’t like to eat out, ever.
I do it sometimes in a jam but mostly end up with the runs. And that’s after eating sh!tty food to begin with.
I cook at home. I shop for the finest ingredients I can find.
If you’re not doing that, you’re doing AT LEAST half a dozen things wrong and need a full reassessment of your life. Not just your culinary life.
I cannot even comprehend the alternative.
I like to cook but often spend more to make something than if I were to get it as take out.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I have done all but two of the items on his list, and I have butchered a deer so that's close. I hope to put off the last item on that bucket list for a long time.
I enjoy cooking—but like others I am often not in the mood after a long day at work. And being a bachelor, I also have to do all of the cleanup by myself.
If you work who has time to cook. I’m retired and can do whatever I want to. When I’m out I love to stop a Taco Bell for a couple of Tacos for under 5 bucks.
Cooking ain’t rocket science. It’s a creative, productive, & enjoyable activity. The cost of ingredients is low compared to meals out.
When we were newlyweds, a Lean Cuisine reminded us of airplane food & travel. But it soon came to meals prepared together in the kitchen.
I was always reminded, however, that the same dish tastes even better with a restaurant wrapped around it.
I take out clients 1-2 days per week for lunch and me and the wife eat dinner out or take carryout 2-3 times per week as we are both self employed and usually don’t get home until around 7:00 and just beat.
Hmmm.... what is taco bell stock going for these days?
Just tonight I sliced up an onion, some mushrooms, a little garlic and a pound of sausage. Coated the skillet with olive oil and tossed in the ingredients with a little pepper and hot sauce.
So good and so easy to make.
Cast iron skillet rinsed clean under just a little hot water and a bristle brush and now it's ready for some eggs and bacon tomorrow morning.
I live in the country. I have to cook and I enjoy doing it.
I think a lot of this is habit. You get use to buying meals out so that’s what you do. You don’t have to be a chef to fry a hamburger and cook some veggies. I probably spend less than 30 minutes a day cooking breakfast and dinner combined.
To make it even easier, one can microwave a TV dinner. That takes a few button pushes and that’s it. Truly the stuff of sci-fi when you think about it.
I cook from scratch most days and healthy things are on the menu. We'll have a big salad with bbq’d chicken breast and fresh produce from the garden, easy on the dressing.
The older we get, the less our appetite for food. My two weaknesses are Szechuan food and Vietnamese bahn mi. It's a trek for those items so we stay slim and trim. :)
Whole Foods has a good frozen food section. Can also buy single serving desserts that are prepared there. Have been craving a piece of Hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting but the closest store is two hours away.
I like to cook, but I can’t say that cooking for one - for dinner particularly - costs me more than going out. I can get a good meal with meat, fresh vegetables, starch & soup or salad at a local diner for about $15. But the portions are such that it almost always serves me for two to three more meals as well (doggie bag). That comes to $5 or less per meal, and no initial use of my gas or electricity. That’s not even counting the utility energy in cleanup of the means of production and serving of the meal.
Most home dinner meals I cook (other than pork chops) are batches - chili, soups, casseroles, spaghetti sauce and the like - where I get one meal initially and then the rest goes in pints or quarts into the freezer for future use. Pork chops are frozen in single zip lock bags and taken out and thawed as needed - usually one at a time. Chicken is similarly frozen immediately, or cooked immediately, Either way, when cooked there are leftovers I must religiously consume on a timely basis.
My biggest food losses are with fresh fruits and vegetables - salad greens most of all. My consumption rate never seems to match what is needed for the quantity bought before part of the purchase spoils - most of the time something spoils before I use it.
But if I am purchasing things things in a dining out fashion, I eat what I bought and nothing is leftover or thrown away.
If I were a household of 3-4 persons, I think cooking at home more often for dinner would be more efficient. In my single case I think it sometimes is not.
Actually since I went Keto, I wanted to take more charge of what I eat, and the only way is to cook yourself, and I’m finding that I actually enjoy it.
Any time you see an article implying something bad about America or Americans, it’s likely fabricated by people who don’t like this country.