>Go out to a very nice restaurant for bachelor party>Food is the best you've ever had in your life>Every bite of every dish is layered, delicious, and - frankly - beautiful >Realize that all the skills you've developed over decades cooking are meager >Your best home cooked meal tastes like mcdonalds in comparison>Get depressed eating other food now that you know how good it can beI feel like Aquinas after his vision of the throne of God; everything I've cooked is straw in comparison. I don't know what to do. I feel like never cooking again. Has anyone else had this experience?
I feel like that, but for McDonald's.
No, in fact I've had a the opposite experience a lot of eating something at a restaurant that I could have cooked at home for 1/5 the price or less that would have been just as good. I don't go to many high end places though.
>>21772034I feel that way about quality ingredients. I can take my mediocre ingredients pretty far but you just can't compete with true quality when you want simple flavors. Things I just can't afford like good seafood and beef, flavorful vegetables and fruit, etc
>>21772037I'd love to suggest you try it but frankly it might ruin your perception of food as it did for me. It's almost better to live in ignorance, frankly. I'd been to expensive restaurants before but never to a truly great one. Apparently those gay tire stars are legit.
>>21772039Man ... what I wouldn't give for tomato or a cantaloupe that actually tastes like something
>>21772050Do you have a farmer's market near you? In season heirloom tomatoes from a farmer's market are usually pretty good
>>21772034>>Your best home cooked meal tastes like mcdonalds in comparisonI get what you're saying and I do understand, but it's kind of a silly comparison to make imo.At a really nice restaurant like that you are experiencing the end result of someone talented and creative who spent years mastering the artform of cooking.You just can't expect every meal to be on that same level. Appreciate things for what they are.
>>21772050Exactly, I also miss strawberries and bell peppers. Avocados near me are awful now too, hoping they get good again once they're "in season". >>21772037That's infuriating. I avoid most american/european restaurants at this point unless I'm sure they have quality I can't get. I'm still working to make my own good thai/indian/chinese food so that's usually where I spend my money. Or like sushi, not dealing with that at home desu.
>>21772058Yeah, Chinese, Indian, etc. I don't mind, but spending $20 on a plate of pasta at a restaurant would kill me. This is from a midrange Italian place near me, unless you're retarded you can cook pasta with escarole or sausage.
this is probably just another bait thread but any chef worth their salt would tell you there's a huge difference between restaurant and home cooking and attaching the same expectations to the products of both is an unnecessary and pointless exercise in frustration.
>>21772050God yeah I feel that, I went from CA farmer's market produce to WA mid range grocery store stuff all the way down to CO Walmart shite. Pretty much the only way I can get any ingredients which don't make me want to chug bleach instead is to spend half my paycheck at Whole Foods.
>>21772062The amount people are willing to pay for pasta blows my mind. Especially when people act like Maggionos is worth the price difference compared to Olive garden. > Tfw Midwest chains are highly regarded in my area
>>21772037Those meals that look fancy and small, are actually about flavor and not looks+price.
>>21772034it's not hard to learn to cookand with some dedicationyou will be whipping up amazing things with ease at homenow that i know how to make gravy and use spicesmy cooking is so much betterit's just a process/skill that can be mastered like any otherand in my opinion cooking is an invaluable skillyou have to eat every day, so you may as welllearn how to do it properly
