>>21781051
it's not faggot. you're just retarded.

>>21781051
What dishes besides a pan and plate do burgers need?

I love when retards expose that they are retarded because they can't think more than a day into the future at best.

>>21781051
I briefly considered getting pizza today but then I realized the stores are open this sunday and went to buy 1.5kg chicken and a shitton of vegetables and made some soup for the next 3 days for the same price

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>>21781061
>plate
thats optional, its why they have a bun
>pan
you dont grill? sweet lady C3H8, taste the meat not the heat

>propane grill, maybe $1 in gas
>same price for stove top and skillet in utility cost
>bun $5
>meat $5
>tomato $2
>condiments should have on hand already, if not go to a fast food joint for free ones
>lettuce $2
>onion $1
>labor cost is sort of a unknown variable
You could buy the meat from the service counter in a smaller quantity, same goes for the bun at the supermarket grocery bakery section and just buy one bun or whatever.

>>21781057
/thread

I bought ground beef the other week for $2/lb (couponing shenanigans), already formed into burgers.
Buns are a scam so I bought a loaf of white bread, 18 slices, not including the heels, for $1.
I already had Chedasharp cheese at home and it was a 5lb package for $9.
So even if I used every last single slice of cheese, I would have nine burgers for a grand total of $14. How many burgers will $14 get you at WhataMcBurger'N'OutKing?
Shit, even if I bought buns ($2 for eight), that would be eight slightly larger burgers for $15.
Even if I didn't coupon the meat or bread, that'd be $20 for 9 burgers or $21 for 8.
$52 would get me at least 27 burgers with plenty of money leftover to buy a few toppings or potatoes for fries or something.
Financially illiterate people are fucking infuriating.
>>21781108
If I seasoned the burgers the way I like before cooking then in a pan, it would result in bonus and delicious burger grease. I love frying eggs in it the next morning. You can't save the grease if coming then on the grill.
>>21781110
One bun from the bakery is a dollar for some fucking reason.

>>21781117
>You can't save the grease if coming then on the grill.
COOKING THEM on the grill. Fucking autocorrect.

>4 quarter-pounded burger patties
>$5.35
>4 brioche buns
>$1.32
>slices of cheese (would be $0 because you have american cheese already as a burgercuck)
>$1.87
>Lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onion
>$6

I just made you 4 burgers for $12.67.

AKA $3.17 per burger,

>>21781057
>>21781110
>>21781117
>>21781126
Did you stop to consider the fact that not everyone lives in a flyover shithole with uncompetetively priced goods like (You)?

>>21781051
NOOOO I CANT BUDGET MYSELF PROPERLY NOOOOOOOO

>>21781110
>>21781117
>>21781126
Try going outside next time.
>dude everything costs 1 or 2 dollars!!

>>21781153
Board has the highest unemployed neet number count after /r9k/. A bit silly to expect them to know anything about pricing when the closest thing these people have been to grocery shopping is buying cigarettes and red bull at the local shitmart.

>>21781126
Where I am it's
>$7.45 1/3lb
>$3.98
>$1.59
>Probably closer to $9
respectively.
So roughly $5.50/burger, and they're smaller.

>>21781051
>1lb beef
$7
>8 hamburger buns
$3
What did she spend the other $42 on?

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>>21781051
posting this again for you because you're a moron
1lb of ground beef makes
three(3) ⅓lbers
4 qpers
6-8 smashburgers

Rounded to the nearest cent:
On the lowest end $10.45~10.75 for beef, buns, and fresh vegetables (1 head lettuce, 1lb each tomato & onion) + 7.52% natl average of sales tax = $11.23~11.56

Condiments and pickles leftovers good for the next 10lbs of burgers
$4.28~6.89 + tax = $4.60~7.41

Total $15.83 (low end combined) ~18.97 (high end combined)

>$15.83
four(4) ¼lb burgers
>$3.96 /e
three(3) ⅓lb burgers
>$4.75 /e
smashburgers
>6 @ $2.64 /e
>8 @ $1.97 /e

>$18.97
four(4) ¼lb burgers
>$4.74 /e
three(3) ⅓lb burgers
>$5.69 /e
smashburgers
>6 @ $3.16 /e
>8 @ $2.37 /e

>tldr; yes, buying ingredients is cheaper because you make 3-8 burgers for less than you pay for one at restaurant
>>21781110
>>21781117
>>21781126
happy to see other anons who both aren't helplessly lazy and able to do simple math

>>21781051
Even if you're going to go down this path, it is indisputably cheaper to buy premade meals and heat those up rather than getting Uber Eats or whatever, even if its not as cheap as cooking. There's no excuse, it's just laziness and gluttony.

>>21781173
Beer and frozen sides to eat with the burger

>>21781139
Imagine living in a giant concrete box full of niggers and spics who randomly set people on fire for fun and everything costs hyperinflation amounts because jews on tv told you to.

>>21781139
It doesn't matter, it's all proportional. If groceries are more expensive then whatever restaurant you order from will be more expensive too.

>>21781139
>NYC is flyover
lmao
You're just shit at shopping, you fucking retard.
>>21781153
>>21781164
Nigga, as said, I'm a couponer. Without my moneysaving methods, the beef would've been $4.49/lb (regular price is $5.99/lb but it was on sale $4.49 and I had a coupon for $5 off meat, bringing the $8.98 two-pound tray down to $3.98). The bread was 99¢ ($1.49 with a 50¢ off coupon). As for the cheese, I buy that shit for less than wholesale because it keeps going on clearance. $14.99 for a 5lb stack of slices and clearanced down to $8.99.

>>21781139
>>21781153
Where the fuck do you guys live? I live in a suburb of Washington DC and I can get the ingredients to make a couple burgers at home for like $25 at the most.

>>21781195
Putin's Demokratikski Republikski of Russiaski.
Only reasonably possibility. They'd otherwise know that even in expensive ass places like New York, you can shop on the cheap of you're not a complete fucking retard.

>>21781051
>1lb ground beef: $6-7 if you go fancy, can use leftovers for another meal tomorrow or freeze
>Pack of buns: $5 if you go fancy and get a 4-pack of brioche or something. Can use for a sandwich tomorrow, freeze the other 2
>Jar of pickles: $3.50, and the jar has many, many pickles
>Tomato: 75 cents, can use the remainder easily
>Mayo, mustard, ketchup etc: You should have all this already. Maybe another $5 if you need to restock multiple items, and again, lasts a looong time

So we're at $20ish if you have *nothing*, and all of it will have leftovers.

Let's say another $10 for a pack of cheese and a pack of bacon (which again, will have lots of leftovers).

That leaves another $20 for whatever fancy shit your heart desires on the burger. Go hog wild - an egg, goat cheese, some weird jam, whatever viral thing you saw on TikTok (and in this case, you probably skip the mustard, pickles, tomato). And once again, all of that fancy shit is gonna be in a *multi serving pack* that will last a week+ in the fridge with multiple uses and potentially is freezable.

The people who post this shit simply have no concept of "leftovers" or building a recipe around what they have. It's all instant gratification "I want exactly this NOW, and then I don't want to touch any of the pieces for a long time"

>>21781195
Ironically, groceries are actually slightly cheaper in Da Big City ime vs in Flyover Shithole. The big cities are closer to transport hubs, so they benefit from scale and competition. Labor and real estate cost more in DC than Buttfuck, Wisconsin, but the DC grocery store gets more traffic + pays less to get the produce there.

>>21781051
Pic is absolute cooklet and retard behavior.
If you wanna save money you buy what's on sale or in season and THEN figure out what to make, not the opposite.

>>21781051
Amateur cook learning curve where you don’t know how to shop and what to do with leftovers.

Try this experiment with eggs and potatoes before your next diner.

>>21781051
people who say it's cheaper don't take in to account the total cost of cooking a steak on a grill or a stove. it's not just the price of the steak.

>>21781139
>>21781195
>>21781209
Can confirm. I grew up in eastern Massachusetts and spending summers in Pasco County Florida. The groceries were always more expensive, independent or multi natural chain. Same with Gasoline.

Steak $23
cheap propane grill $250
propane $50
Tongs $1
Plate $2
silverware $20
table $150
House to eat it in $495000
electricity $350 per month
chair $20

Steak dinner at steak house $34

yeah eating at home is SOOO much cheaper.

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>>21781051
It's not cheaper when you buy groceries in bulk like a normal person.

>I went to the store to get EVERYTHING necessary to make a burger. Guess what: It's less affordable than you think! Click to subscribe!

Nope. It's ALWAYS cheaper to make it at home.

>>21781051
the real difference in home cooking and eating out is quality and convenience

>>21781231
Yes. If you start with nothing at all it's cheaper at the restaurant.

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This is why smart people are doordashing every day. If it's from a quality restaurant the food is about as good for you as anything you can make at home and will always be far cheaper.

want to make one burger for dinner. I will need:
a pack of buns now I have 5 that I don't need.

have to buy a pound of hamburger, or a pack of hamburgers. lets say we buy a pound of hamburger. we make a 1/4 pound patty, now I have 3/4 pounds of meat I have to store and use later.

Have to buy a pack of cheese slices or a pound of cheddar and slice one slice, now I have a ton of cheese to deal with.

have to buy a whole onion just for 2 or 3 rings and store the remainder

have to buy a tomato and do the same.

have to buy a bottle of pickles, now I have pickles I probably won't use for months.

and this does not include any sides

OR

I just go to a fancy restaurant order a burger for between $15 and $25, someone else makes it, brings it to my table, then they clean up the mess.

yup cheaper and easier to eat out.

>>21781051
She got enough ingredients for 4 burgers and plenty of leftovers of some of the ingredients
The total cost of her burger in 8 bucks but retards don't understand cost =/= price

>>21781242
>smart people are doordashing

That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. And you can't use that as a verb.
Smart people would eat at the restaurant where the food is fresh and hot and you don't have to pay a weird gig cabby to bring it miles to your home.
Oh, your post was bait.... 10/10 then.

>>21781247
Some people think ahead. Some people will eat another burger the next day, or have a family to help them eat the groceries.

You have a rudimentary understanding of how things work due to your autism issues. You've failed to make any good points with your big stupid post where you followed no rules of the language.
KYS, incel.
Go play devil's advocate somewhere else where you might make sense.

>>21781061
Meat grinder
Bowl for mixing
Knife and chopping board
Counter space to mix and knead dough
Bowl to let it rise
Oven tray to bake the buns
Burger patty molds

>>21781256
>burger patty molds

Is this whole thread just for you to troll??

>>21781247
>now I have 5 that I don't need.
Chop them up, dry them out. Now you have croutons. Next "problem".
>now I have 3/4 pounds of meat I have to store and use later.
Then use it later. Next "problem".
>Have to buy a pack of cheese slices or a pound of cheddar
False. Just get a quarter pound of American. Next "problem".
>have to buy a whole onion just for 2 or 3 rings and store the remainder
>have to buy a tomato and do the same.
>have to buy a bottle of pickles, now I have pickles I probably won't use for months.
Salad bar, bitch. Next "problem". And that shibboleth just outed you as an Ivan, comrade. : )
>and this does not include any sides
Bag o' fries, you fag o' lies.

I eat out for dinner 4 times per week. I can have just about anything I want without having to buy ingredients I don't normally have, and make more food than I really want to store. I rarely ever have food that is anything lest than damn good.

If I wanted to have steak one day, mexican the next, then italian, and maybe a pizza your talking more than $100 in groceries, lots of work, way too much leftovers, and tons of cleanup.

I vote for eating out.

>>21781251
>just spend $100 in gas and parking fees to access your meal, bro

Lmao

>>21781264
I don't want croutons and rarely ever use them.

I don't want to use it later.

I don't want a 1/4 pound of cheese.

I don't want a salad bar bitch

I don't want to break out my dryer.

I can just go out and have it all done for me.

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>>21781265
You just can't handle cooking and planning. You know you're inferior to we who can cook for ourselves. I hope you never complain about your finances or the economy or not having enough money, because it's your fault if you don't.
All of those dinners add up and take away from investing for your future or buying things that will last you years.
Eating out is nice, but pretending it's actually cheaper for you in the longrun is total delusional bullshit and you know it.
You have different priorities with your money and that's fine. But you'll wake up eventually and realize life could have been so much better.
Or maybe you just don't like cooking. In which case, go to another board.

I eat at home for dinner 7 times per week. I can have just about anything I want because I'm not a cooklet retard, and make the right amount of food. I rarely ever have food that is anything less than damn good.

If I wanted to have steak one day, mexican the next, then italian, and maybe a pizza you're talking less than $30 in groceries, little of work, very few leftovers, and not much cleanup.

I vote for not being retarded.

>>21781270
Nobody cares, Ivan. Cry to Poutain about it.

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>>21781268
We're talking about normal restaurants for the 99% here. But nice try.
There's no one in this thread who is sincerely positing restaurant food is more affordable. All of this is a goof and a spoof.

>>21781283
The hot stays hot and the cold… stays cold.

>>21781274
>>21781275
The funny part is that you're paying more for worse food but the sad part is that you're too stupid to realize how or why.

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>>21781169
Still nowhere near the $18 the woman in OP was claiming though.

Also, buy pic related, I add the onions in and it makes making a burger literally 1 pan not a silk of dishes like this BITCH said

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I know what I want better than the restaurant kitchen. And I probably have more experience than they do anyway.
This beef cost me probably $9 total because I plan ahead and buy in bulk when the sales are happening.

>>21781256
>making the burgers from whole cuts of beef and baking the buns yourself

nobody is doing that you fucking faggot, even the kitchen you order your $18 burger from does all of that shit on an industrial scale too you disingenuous fucking cuck

>>21781288
You've lost the argument many times over. Why are you persisting?
Tell us 'how and why' we're paying more. I've just proven that I'm paying far less. And it's BETTER food because I'm a better chef.

Pay attention. You lost the debate.

>>21781256
Do you think tools and equipment are single use?
Do you not understand the concepts of planning or investment?

>>21781304
It's bait. We all fell for it.

I live out in the middle of nowhere in a tiny little village with less than 100 people in it. I drive 45 minutes to a nearby small city twice a month to get groceries, and I get everything organic that I can, including cage free chicken and grass fed beef. I don't buy any slop at all. I never even spend the full $400 a month I get in food stamps.

The whole point of buying the ingredients is you now have stuff to make something like 8 burgers with 52 bucks worth of ingredients. 8 burgers at 18 a burg is like 140 dollars

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>>21781293
I got one of the long bois similar to this one except the ridges go across the whole surface, but I'd rather just throw them on the grill outside, save me cleaning a pan.

>>21781311
But it irritates me :(

>>21781317
What nation? You can't get that much in the USA.

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>all the idiots spouting cooking at home as more affordable are either couponmaxxers or on food stamps

You can't make this shit up

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>>21781318
This.

The retardation levels we're seeing on this website now are off the charts.
Who the fuck wants ONE burger and then has no idea what to do with all the leftover components??

>>21781295
>This beef cost me probably $9 total because I plan ahead and buy in bulk when the sales are happening.
Speaking of which, we skipped shopping yesterday because snow storm and 18° and didn't shop today because religious stuff but either tomorrow or Tuesday, I'm gonna pick up our rib roasts which are sadly a whole dollar more per pound this year than last. $5/lb then, $6/lb now. Still cheap enough to stock up, just as I did when turkeys were 25¢/lb for Thanksgiving.

>>21781326
They should know then. You think you're tearing down the argument but you're only strengthening it. This is how stupid you people are.
You're on the wrong side of an argument and you're losing in spectacular, hilarious ways.

>>21781322
I'm in USA's Deep South. I also keep lots of prepared foods in my freezers. I've got fish cakes, meatballs, chicken curry, and like 4 gallons of chicken soup. I eat a salad with fresh ingredients pretty much every single day. My biweekly grocery bill is nearly always under $200, and that's shopping at both walmart and kroger.

>>21781326
Did you miss the part where the coupon guy broke it down that even without coupons, it's cheaper? He said it was $21 for 8 burgers, no couponing. You're not getting jack balls at McDick's for that these days.

>>21781333
Hear me out, ok? Maybe, just maybe, the reason you're so severely impoverished is linked with your poor financial decisions.

>>21781318
>I like mushroom cheddar burgers
Best!
>buys lb of mushrooms.
>uses half a mushroom

Wow this burger is so expensive!

>>21781341
>frugal spending habits = poor financial decisions
a fascinating hypothesis

>>21781139
food is actually CHEAPER in california actually because we are right next to the source

>>21781318
>a burg
Is this an official standard unit of measurement in the USA?

>>21781341
I'm not poor. In fact, I'd argue that I'm eating better than you are because I'm smarter.
I'd rather spend disposable income on my watch collection or fine art or books; things that won't be shat out and forgotten within hours.
It's fine that you choose to spend your money on eating out. We have different priorities. The food I cook is superior to most restaurants and I ENJOY doing it. It's a win-win. I eat out too of course, but I don't delude myself into thinking I'm saving money by doing so.

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>>21781359
It's the reason we don't use metric

I literally made burgers for myself every weekend this summer because the store was selling burger and buns and it was about $3 per burger.

>>21781353
lol
lmao

>>21781051
>Why cook when it's cheaper to eat out?
Because the food you make is of higher quality, you get more of it, and you can adjust it after your own taste.

FUCK YOU DUMB CUNT BITCH

>>21781366
>It's the reason we don't use metric
You do when it comes to bullets and drugs.

>>21781326
it's more affordable even without those things as long as you're not going and buying the most expensive things in the store.

i dunno how you think a restaurant is going to be cheaper when you're having to pay someone else for labor. labor is the biggest cost in a restaurant.

>>21781051
Don't. You should eat out for every single meal and never post here again

>>21781402
How are you preparing your meal? You're using something to cook it, right? What are you eating the food with? How are you cleaning it? You probably bought more groceries than what you need for just the burger. How are you storing the leftover groceries? Where did you buy the groceries in the first place? How did you get there? How expensive is the gas? The reason you think you're paying less is because you're not taking everything into account.

>>21781432
True that's a lot to ask of a homeless person.

>>21781432
and those factors just disappear in a restaurant? restaurants aren't having to pay for cleaning and equipment and energy and storage?

>You probably bought more groceries than what you need for just the burger.
yes, but you end up with enough food to make multiple meals that end up being cheaper per meal than the one meal you got from a restaurant. $52 worth of ingredients from the grocery store should end making you enough food that it gets below $18 per serving unless you were dumb and just bought the most expensive things in the store.

>>21781432
You DUMB ASS STUPID FOID. No one with half a neuron goes out to buy groceries JUST FOR ONE BURGER YOU RETARDED FUCK. The ancillary costs are spread out by:
1. Buying in bulk YOU SHIT LICKER
2. Doing groceries on your way home from work YOU DICK GARGLER
>inb4 muh time is money
NO IT's NOT YOU BALLS THROATER. You cook in your free i.e. $0.00 time. You're not cooking during your working time. Do you charge yourself a bill for JACKING OFF YOU PROSTATE TICKLER?
>muh electricity/gas bill
Again, it is spread out and usually pennies for every borgar YOU ANUS FINGERER.

>>21781432
>You probably bought more groceries than what you need for just the burger. How are you storing the leftover groceries?

Fucking skill issue, let's say you have excess lettuce or tomato, well you just buy extra vegetables to make a salad elsewhere in the week.

This is how it works, and how normal adults function, by planning.

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>>21781432
jesus fucking christ

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Eating out and cooking at home are both $0 when you just steal it. Black people figured this out already.

>>21781139
>food is cheaper
>shithole
huh

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>>21781051
>it's cheaper to eat out
how stupid do you feel?

>>21781051
Cheapest Walmart Prices in my city
>$5.44 - Pound of ground beef
>$1.44 - Eight burger buns
>$0.98 - 20oz Mustard
>$1.97 - Shredded iceberg lettuce
>$2.12 - 15fl oz mayo
>$2.24 - 16fl oz pickles
>$1.12 - Fresh tomato

$15.23
Enough to make 4 quarter pound burgers each costing $3.80.
Plenty of condiments, pickles, lettuce, and buns left over for future meals.

Not even in California would it cost $52 of ingredient to make a burger unless you are retarded.

>>21781402
>labor is the biggest cost in a restaurant
this nigga ain't never heard of insurance.

>>21781550
>Walmart
not a reputable source of price.

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>>21781051
>$52 worth of ingredients to make a burger
On what planet?

>$18
American, I presume? That's $27.09 ausbux. $52 USD is $78.25 AUD. Let's see how many burgers I can make for $18 Lardistani Funbux
>Woolworths 6 Stacker Beef Burgers 500g
$7.50
>Mighty Soft Bread Rolls Hamburger Buns 6 pack
$4.40
>Mainland Extra Tasty Cheese Slices 210g (12 slices)
$7.00
>Woolworths Mixed Leaf Salad 200g
$3.00
>Woolworths Secret Burger Sauce 330mL
$2.95

6 Burgers for $24.85, no specials, and from Woolies as you can probably tell. That comes out at $16.51 USD, and $2.70 USD per burger. For less than a single one of those burgers I can make 6. For the full $78.25 I could make 18 burgers. Americans will do literally anything to avoid eating something other than fastfood.

>>21781555
>Restaurant businesses pay an average of $141 per month, or $1,691 per year, for general liability insurance
a single day of labor costs is more than what an average restaurant pays per month for insurance

>>21781394
Caliber is not a metric scale.

Perfect bait thread to draw out the pseuds desperate to sound smart, getting their gold star for pointing out that home cooking is cheaper

>>21781612
stop blinding us with the radiance of your megabrain please

>>21781051
Besides as a hobby and to fulfill specific nutritional needs, there's no reason to. Division of labor and economy of scale remain unbeatable.

>>21781117
>I bought ground beef the other week for $2/lb
Now that’s a good deal. Too many people don’t know how to sale max nowadays

>>21781139
Cities have affordable food. Cauco-yuppies and ebo-urbanites just have some sort of mental affliction that prevents them from buying real food for a reasonable amount of money. Stop going to Whole Foods/Erewhon/Whatever else and wasting your money on premium organic heirloom products and other stupid things that cost way more than they should just because they got a graphic designer to yuppy-fy the label.

>>21781612
lol, that's strange how you're trying to find a way to insult logic. The argument is unwinnable and that pisses you off, so disparage the ones who reveal that so thoroughly.

>>21781642
This. Dumbass fucking cunts.
>"American cheese isn't REAL cheese," the small-souled bugman says as he eats Impossible Burgers

I always have cheese, tomatoes, onions, tomato sauce, chutney and frozen bacon
I just need cos lettuce, mince beef and buns

>>21781193
>nigga
ihhh... no, no. I couldn't read anything past that. Wiggers are cringe.

>>21781689
>mince beef

haha, you Brits are so silly and cute

>>21781680
I think you're a coper trying to strawman/satirize what you think a "flyover" would say, but it's not even that lol.
Yuppies will ignore brie that is 60 cents an ounce in favor of some shit that is 2 dollars an ounce but packaged more cutely. Yuppies pay top dollar for the same shit but packaged cutely or something that convinces them that they're saving the world by buying it.

>>21781701
When you put garlic through garlic press, what's the end product called?

>>21781712
>you're coping which is why you're agreeing with me
???
Are you just looking to be contrarian or what?

>>21781126
If your ingredients cost that little, then you may as well buy the mcdouble for $3.50 and save yourself some effort cooking and cleaning and hauling groceries around. It will taste better too because you're probably not adding msg to your burger.
There are only two reasons to cook at home: using better whole ingredients, or you're feeding a family of 3+. If neither of these apply to you, then it's a waste of time and money.

>>21781051
>4 Buns: £0.99
>4 1/4lbs beef patties: £4
>5 Cheddar slices: £1.40
>Lettuce: £0.89
>Onions: £ 0.42
>Tomatoes: £0.45
>Burger sauce: £1.35
>Total: £9.50 = $12.70
It's quite literally cheaper to make four burgers yourself than to buy one in Shartmartistan

>>21781742
No one believes that you believe what you're posting. You can't do anything but post the opposite of what's rational. I guess I'm too old and smart to understand your motivation, but you must have one. I just can't accept that you would genuinely suggest people are better off eating the "food" from Mcdonalds instead of cooking burgers at home. There's just no likelihood of anyone actually believing that.
I have to give you too much credit to believe you.

>>21781051
woman momento

>>21781231
where the FUCK are you finding 1 dollar tongs? You live in china or smth?

>>21781051
>Dumb fucking rage bait thread for autistic people
Thanks /ck/ another great cooking thread

>>21781394
I measure my drugs in ounces though?

>>21781762
Daiso

>>21781139
Did you ever stop to consider that you've been spamming this same unfunny shit for years and should kill yourself?

>>21781697
But you've been acting like a nigger the whole thread.
>BIX NOOD A SINGLE TOMATO IS $20
No, shut the fuck up.

>>21781778
That wasn't me, you mass of cringe.

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Show us what you can eat out for $10 in your country.

>pic, japan

>>21781802
>they eat seashells in japan

lol they fuckin dum as shit

>>21781823
It has a delicious crunchy texture.

>>21781724
Hmmm, silence as usual.

>>21781226
>Masshole moves to Floriduh

They drive like fuckin rhoadies down theah its fuckin bhedlahm.

>>21781139
Just because you enjoy getting mugged for the 100th time in your shithole city doesn’t mean everyone else does.

>>21781823
the also eat the bowls + the chopsticks

>>21781057
somebody doesnt know what a coupon is

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So sooking for americans is thawing frozen deep fried food in more oil?

>>21781609
Nobody sells a point-two-something inches pistol in your crime ridden cesspool of a nation, retard. It's a 9mm caliber gun.

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>>21781958
Those ugly fucking press-on nails... the glasses... the fucking bullfrog head/mouth/gullet...
Someone needs to euthanize her for the health of those kids. She should NOT be surviving in their world or ours.

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>just buy shitty grocery store mark down ingredients and eat wood dust (but it's also only cheap if you also get "coupons" by giving away your personal details to ad data exchanges and getting non stop robo dials) bro!
wow what wisdom! sure am glad /ck/ is here to always set the record straight!

>>21781991
>giving away your personal details
This retard actually gives Safeway her real name, address and phone number rather than just using a 10minutemail, lmao

>>21781997
>implying he ever actually thought to do that until this moment
>implying he has a disposable phone number in the post-google phone-era while simultaneously being a penny pinching fuck
>disregarding the part where he's eating all the cheap shit in the grocery store that is ass and butt tier
get fucking serious

>>21781991
>It's okay when you give McD, taco bell, chick-fil-a, and burger king your personal details

>>21782004
>more implying
i still cook because i don't want to die of heart failure at 40, i'm just not gonna sit here and pretend that shopping as a single individual is cost efficient to make myself feel smart on 4chan like you fucking retards.

>>21782000
Friend, I've never given my real phone number or address to anything. It's a minor inconvenience. For example, I can't get groceries delivered because of that but that's okay because the $8 tack-on ain't worth it. Also can't do pickup because that requires email updates for the code to get your groceries.
Other than that, there are no downsides to giving them a false name, address, email and phone number. And yes, I thought of doing that long, long ago and that's how I get my coupons and always have. I don't even use the app because I access that shit entirely through the browser. I'm >>21781117
>>21781640
It was a lucky break, to be fair, combining a sale with a free $5 off coupon. They toss me a new one of those coupons every now and again when they see I've not been there a while.

>>21782011
well guess what fuck face? you're still either buying the stepped on nearly out of date shit that's gonna go bad in two seconds, the cheap shit that's industrial scale livestock/produce that sucks ass and has less nutritional value, or you are as you say yourself "getting lucky" with a loss leader that you can in no way count on to be routine.

>>21782030
You seem upset. Wanna talk about it, kiddo?

A burger is a pain in the ass to make

>mix in bowl
>flatten on board
>put on plate
>fry in pan
>put on another plate
That's 5 dishes just for the fucking meat
plus utensils

But we ain't done yet bro
>heat buns (add 20 more steps if you make them yourself)
>toss salad
>cut gherkins (fuck tomatoes)
>stack on yet another plate

WHOLE KITCHEN = MESS and what do you get out of it? A fucking bun with some stuff in it. Ain't worth it, just make something else or order.

>>21781051
>Why cook when it's cheaper to eat out?
If you find it cheaper to eat out, your diet is likely lower end items.
As far as your pic, you can easily buy a nice burger at the grocery, fresh sirloin w/bacon and blue cheese crumbles made by the store, or even a wagyu, even, and cook a single burger, toast a nice onion roll or ciabbata bun, freeze the rest or have bought only what you need, and so forth for cheaper than the $18 burger meal.
You can even bake a whole trayful of frozen fries, let alone slicing a fresh potato from a 10lb bag, using a tsp of olive oil, to bake or air fry it for like $1. Even lovely russet dark chips for $5/bag You can add a salad kit to steal a few bits of lettuce, or make a side of gourrmet kale cole slaw with poppy seed dressing for another $4 for 4-5 servings to enjoy for a couple of days.

>>21782181
The timing is also finnicky.

If you are cooking for multiple people it becomes kinda difficult to server everyone a decently cooked burger with the patty and bun still nice and warm.
What I do is set out all the individual ingredients on the table and the patties and buns come last for people to assemble their burger with but it really isn't worth the hassle.

If I want to eat like an American I typically opt for hot dogs since you can just steam the buns over the pot you're heating the wieners in.

>>21781061
>cutting board
>knife used to cut the tomato
>pan you used for the bacon
>butter knife you used to spread condiments
>plate you ate on
>pan for the patties

>>21781051
What would Ameribros rate this woman?
6/10?
7/10?

>>21781051
I could make like 4 burgers for $20. I guess, if you mean buying a jar of pickles and everything it can be $52. But if I buy ground meat I can have four burgers a day for several days in a row for like $35 or something including everything. Also learn to cook without using so many dishes.

>>21782264
There’s more to ‘eating out’ than just your McSlop restaurants you dumb cunt.

>>21781327
beef goes off in like 1 day once opened.
lettuce goes bad in like two days
bread goes bad in 3
onions go bad in 4
so all i have left now is cheese and everything else goes in the trash. no, i’m not eating 8 burgers in 2 days.

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>>21782339
No, beef doesn't "go off" in "like 1 day". You're clearly a moron doubling down out of pride, which is dumb on an anonymous forum.

All of that stuff will be fine a good week, maybe not the lettuce.

You keep eating at Mcdonalds, you uneducated fat incel. We won't stop you. And it doesn't hurt you if we cook superior food for half the price. You "win". lol

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>if I keep doubling down and making the most fucktarded claims about the cons of cooking at home maybe the people who actually cook at home will concede

>>21782181
>Has board out
>Flattens on plate

Disingenuous fuck.

>>21782339
what?
are you an idiot or are you taking answers from AI?

>>21782353
I'm glad other people are acknowledging that AI answers are retarded and not to be trusted.

>>21782242
Why would you swap pans

>>21782359
Yeah, look up when boiled eggs would spoil.

>>21781051
She looks constipated

>>21782347
>open beef lasts a week
no

>>21782400
Well, you don't leave it 'open'. You keep it in a ziplock in the fridge. But yeah.

>>21782359
>>21782353
>>21782347
>(1 or 2 days for ground beef and variety meats such as liver, kidneys, tripe, sweetbreads, or tongue)
USDA, get fucked idiot.
https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/What-are-suggested-storage-times-for-beef

AI has mindbroken you btw, schizophrenic.

>>21782404
beef parasites have rotted your brain.
your tastebuds must be dead from all the rotting food you eat.

>>21782405
>suggested
>force you to CONSOOOOM

>>21782405

haha, I wonder how much food is wasted by paranoid little retards who are afraid of getting sick. Real righteous attitude for a drooling idiot.

>>21782416
>>21782413
>your brain on taenia saginata

>>21782350
reading comprehension: 0

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>>21782422
Yep. I've been not worrying about beef and eating it rare for 25 years, but I'm sure the signs of brain parasites will be showing up any day now.
Probably in Two Weeks. lol

>>21782467
>i eat rotten food and i’m proud
what kind of thirdworlder are you?

>>21782515
>raw = rotten
You must have been dropped on your head an awful lot as a baby

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>>21782519
>5 day old open beef
>not rotten
pick one then refer to previous question, rather than projecting your life experiences onto me.

>>21782524
Who are you quoting?

>>21782532
your pick
>>21782416
>>21782404
>>21782347

greentext has multiple usages by the way, here’s an article to help you out:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greentext

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>>21781288
listen anon, it's ok to be poor. I get it. I used to dumpster dive to. I cook foods all the time, all the food I make is damn good and I don't care what bullshit you will make up about me. but one thing I learned in life is that certain foods are more trouble to make than they are worth, and you can get food that is just as good or better in a restaurant and I like trading money for quality and time.

Things I eat only at home because I make them better:
lasagna
tamales
smoked meats
but the simple fact is that when I want pic related. no matter how good I make it, it's rather difficult to make just one taco and one enchilada without making a mess and dealing with leftovers. I like leftovers but frozen enchiladas kind of turn to much when reheated. frozen tacos just don't do it for me.

When I worked (I'm retired) I meal prepped and made lots of good food, and froze a lot of it for my lunches, but I found weird things happen to certain foods when frozen. try this moron. make a stew with potatoes in it, then freeze the stew, and after a couple weeks reheat it. tell me how the potatoes are. I'll wait.

no anon the smart man knows when to spend money, and when not to. I found that I make better smoked meats/BBQ than any place that exist anywhere. so I invested in a smoker.

but most steak houses are experts at making steaks, and while I make nearly perfect steaks, sometimes I don't want to make one.

once again sorry you are poor and stupid.

>>21781293
cooking on a grilling pan... no grill marks ngmi

>>21781297
>baking the buns yourself
I do

>>21782555
sorry that you're blind

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>>21781288
>you're paying more for worse food

>>21781317
>food stamps
fester? is that you? eat a bag of dicks.

>>21781327
>who the fuck wants ONE burger
I do.

leftovers are not the issue. I just want one. not like your fat ass.

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>>21782515
>>21782524
>rotten

>>21782562
there are no grill marks.

>>21781110
>bun $5
lmao what?

>>21782581
food past its use-by date = rotten, filled with bad bacteria, parasites, spores
Keeping open ground beef past 1-2 days, and open steaks past 3-5 equals rotten, spoiled, hazardous.

>mouldmuncher stops replying
every time on this imageboard kek
who knew you can defeat jeets purely with synonyms?

>>21782590
>food past its use-by date = rotten
You think the clock strikes midnight and the food goes from edible to rotten instantly?

>>21782584
again, sorry you are blind.

This thread is fucking retarded.

>>21782585
This. You can't buy a bag of brioche buns for less than $8 now.

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>>21782720
1. yes you can
2. brioche buns are a meme
3. op's pic does not feature a brioche bun

>>21782692
you’d be fired from any real restaurant.
i believe facts, that the food continually develops bacteria and other pathogens once opened.
you should use or freeze meat products immediately upon opening

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>>21782720
>>21782585

>>21782735
>you’d be fired from any real restaurant.
Most home chefs would be fired if they were in a "real restaurant" while they were cooking.
What you believe is that everything will kill you if you don't follow strict guidelines, when opening a package and sealing it in another is not going to do anything harmful unless you let it sit for weeks, when it would actually rot anyway.

>>21781173
drugs

>>21781177
Where's the butter/oil/tallow?
Seasoning?
Cheese?

>>21782568
who

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>Eat nice, warm meals at Wetherspoons all week
>Only costs me £44
Why even bother cooking any more

>>21782812
risk management/harm reduction

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>>21782815
kek, it's a fine line, anon.

>>21782812
Christ thaf would be not even two days worth here in the maple syrup colony

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>>21782825
It's great if you can't be arsed to cook after work and want a pint with your dinner. Not haute cuisine obviously tho, just cheap and cheerful (sort of)
https://wetherspoonsmenu.com

>>21781110
And with that you have two to three meals for one.

>>21782575
Oh, right. Because if you don't eat all the burgers today, you'll get sick from the rotten spoiled meat. lol

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>>21782735
I constantly have a bunch of steaks in my fridge that I "open" and then work from until they are gone. I've got them seasoned and sometimes in marinade, so they just get better every day. They don't "develop bacteria" for a long time. That would take far longer than a week if the cooler is working properly.

Trust me. If any of what you've written ITT were true, I'd be fucking dead many times over, wouldn't I? Because I don't follow your guidelines at all. Also, I'm ServSafe certified by my restaurant group (for the next 3.5 years). So it's not like I don't have training in sanitation practices.

>>21781139
great bait, flyovers can't help but seethe at those richer than them

>>21782933
>spam the same obvious bait for literal years
>people call you a retard and tell you to fuck off
>haha! it was bait! you've all been baited! I was only pretending to be retarded!
Cool

>>21781139
I’m in socal
>>21781153
Yes it does when you buy individually
>>21782585
Yeah if you buy like a pack. Made that clear later in my post
>>21782847
Yeah but then the produce is fridge rotted
>>21781117
Yeah it is when you buy individually.

>>21782933
>complain about how my pumpkin spice labububu grocery store for rich married women is too expensive for me
>"actually, you're the poor one"
It's amazing how much debt that poor people will accrue to convince other poors that they're not poor.

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>>21781051
u could just grow up, be an adult, and eat like an adult. a rice cooker can do a lot

>>21782976
People in LA really don't know how little they pay for food. California is the only state that could function without anyone else and do better.

>SEA turd worlders still coping about eating spoiled meat
lol

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>>21781326
If you're spending more than $200 bucks a month on food, and your diet isn't varied, you're a retard who is used to getting scammed.

eating out should be a luxury or a little reward at the end of the week. if your daily meals consist of fast food, you're probably fat on top of being stupid.

>>21782982
>can afford to shop at better grocery store
>"u-ur the poor one!"
galactic cope

>>21781256
>Burger patty molds
Pathetic

>>21783014
It sounds like you eat the lowest quality food you can get.

>>21782839
>around £7.24 for the full American breakfast.
What comes in a full American?

>>21781051
But with these ingredients you're able to make a few burgers
If not you're a failure

>>21782181
90% of those steps are unnecessary, I can tell by the way it was written that you are european. Why do you guys always try to overcomplicate things? At least when the Japanese do it it serves an aesthetic purpose. But you guys just make things more difficult for yourselves because you like the trouble it feels like.

>>21782426
reasons why you should exist: 0

>>21783093
rent free + obsessed

>>21783176
>doesn't deny it
Looks like I hit the nail on the head.

>>21783067
Heart disease and self-loathing.

>>21783093
>90% of the steps are unnecessary
please highlight which steps are unnecessary please
i will be checking to see if they add up to 90%

>>21782976
>the produce is fridge rotted
?
I wonder what's going on with other people's refrigerators. One neighbor tells me and the wife her salads rot in two days. How? We've kept heads of lettuce for far, far longer than that with no problems

what i really want to see are some reciepts and containers with food in them posted by the single men in this thread claiming that food is not expensive and cooking is not time intensive. let's see what the fruits of your time management and effort actually bring. i'm sure it will be exactly as you are all saying it is despite the reality that food costs are insanely high right now and that even meal prep on an 8 hour a day schedule is very taxing on free time. let's see it!

>>21783181
>pull hamburger out of fridge
>grab hand sized chunk
>form ball in hand
>put ball in hot pan and press flat
>salt and pepper
>flip
>salt and pepper
>cheese
>toast bun in same pan while meat is finishing
>place bun on plate, add condiments
>place burger on bun
>wala
1 pan, 1 plate, 1 knife used to cut tomato/onion and spread mayo. While burger is melding wash knife and put a little water in the pan so everything releases easily when washing later.
All of this can be done in 10 minutes or less including clean up. If it takes you longer than that you are a broken mess of a human.

>>21783190
Oh fuck forgot the spatula, sorry tack on 20 extra seconds of cleaning.

>>21783186
Every single time I do that, someone says something about the receipt invalidates the claim that I got XYZ cheap.
>ugh, you shopped a sale?!?!? THAT'S FUCKING CHEATING!!
>you stacked manufacturers paper coupons with digital store coupons and a rebate?!?!?! THAT'S FUCKING CHEATING!!!!
>you used rewards points so you didn't have to pay out of pocket at all?!?!?! THAT'S FUCKING CHEATING!!!!
Every. Single. Time.

>>21783197
as previously hand waved earlier, sales/coupon deals are almost always:
stuff about to expire
stuff that is low quality garbage industrial scale food
stuff that is a loss leader and not regular, which is unviable in the time efficiency department (having to constantly develop new plans for routine eating)

so yeah, no fucking shit sherlock.

>>21783181
Real steps:
>Mix and flatten on board
Because it doesn't take 2 hours to flatten some meat, you can do it right before adding to the pan
>Fry in pan
>Put on plate
>Wash board and cut gherkins
The burgers need to rest anyway
>Put next to patties
>Toast buns on pan
>Toss salad

Two plates, a pan, a salad bowl, and a board to clean, hell you could make all 4 burgers on that one plate if you don't mind it being a bit crowded.
If your kitchen is a mess because you used 4 items, you must live in a prison cell.

>>21783205
That's entirely wrong but congratulations!
Only a woman could be as confidently stupid as you are so good news: you're passing! Keep it up!

>>21783213
>handwaving it again
i'm glad your mom cooks for you or you are lucky enough to not have such a strained schedule that you can take the time and effort to shop for cheap shit. good for you. really!

>>21783222
Sally's bad at time management. In other news, water is wet.

>>21783226
>keep handwaving it with accusations of entities living rent free and the claims are suddenly no longer valid
really, good for you!

>>21783222
>I'm glad you have time and can take advantage of good deals and special sales instead of working three jobs to make ends meet
Is this supposed to be a diss?

>>21783228
>she admits she doesn't pay rent
You really ought not to live rent free. It's not nice. Your mum could use the money.

>>21783186
Type crockpot into google

>>21783210
>If your kitchen is a mess because you used 4 items, you must live in a prison cell.
I clean as I work too. I like to relax after the meal. I'll literally only have plates, cutlery and my glasses for the dishwasher. I already put away the leftovers and cleaned the pots and pans before I sit down and relax. I honestly don't mind washing my hands 10x during prep as I do the dishes as I use them. I am old enough to know I am not getting a 2nd wind of energy post dinner anymore, haha.

>>21783230
one job with occasional overtime actually, thems the breaks when you are born in a shithole world without nepotism based opportunities. for the record i meal prep on sundays in an effort to reclaim even a modest amount of my free time. feel free to continue to postulate though.

>>21783238
>still have to prep
>get to eat the same thing for multiple days in a row
>strategy blown apart if crockpot based recipe ingredients aren't on sale which results in time spent every week hunting deals and planning new strategies for week
boy i sure do love arguing in circles.

>>21783190
>even more steps
>>21783210
>the same amount of steps more or less
concession accepted

>>21783253
Now you are just being contrarian for the sake of shitposting. Europeans man...

>>21781051
Eating at home is healthier. Restaurant food makes me feel ill.

>>21783248
It takes seconds to cut up veggies and meat and it's cheap as fuck since you can buy the cheapest, toughest cuts of meat. 10 minutes of prep time gives you a week of delicious chili or beef stew or chicken soup or pulled pork etc etc. Your argument is that cooking is more expensive than eating out which is nonsense. Broke and drunk college students figured this shit out as teenagers. Cooking at home is as cheap and effortless as you want to make it. Getting tired of the food that you cooked is a you problem.

>>21783242
So with your one job you still have a strained schedule, and you cope by saying having the time to get deals means eating scraps.
This is just the fox and grapes.

>>21783230
That's the thing: it doesn't take much extra time at all. I open the deals page, click "organize by newest" see what new coupons they're offering and clip them. Takes about three minutes since they usually only give a dozen or so new ones.
Then when we go to the store/s, we can buy what we need/want. Most of our money is spent on produce which rarely get specific coupons for things we want/need/can't get better prices elsewhere, but there are points rewards for them. The last specific produce coupon we actually used was for spaghetti squash back in September. Bought 15.something pounds of the tasty yellow cunts.
Instead, we get produce coupons for dumb shit like underripe starfruit or whatever.

>>21783258
that is not my argument, my argument is that food is so goddamn expensive that to cook cheaply you generally have to make an exchange in time. obviously OP is some stupid horseshit.
>>21783259
>t. never worked a 8 hour schedule with commute before

>>21783261
>we
and there's the answer, mom or the fat girlfriend is the one actually doing the cooking. no surprises there. moreover
>has to write a literal paragraph about the hoops jumped through to make it work affordably but still doesn't realize hoops are jumped

>>21783265
Is your commute also 8 hours?

>>21783265
You don't though. It takes seconds to cut up veggies and meat. It takes a second to dump stock in a pot, turn it to the low setting, and then go to work. You spend far longer waiting in the drive through at taco bell especially in my town. You really want photographic proof that crockpots exist? Jesus Christ man

>>21783268
25 minutes one way which is an extra 50 minutes per day, if I'm lucky. usually I'm not.

>>21783271
>seconds
at least 5 minutes and we're still hinging on the part where
>all you ever eat is crockpot junk stew
great!

>>21783272
So you're just too lazy to look over an app for a few minutes

>>21783259
On top of this, xe spends the time xe doesn't have MANstruating into xir panties about how much time it takes to cook a burger.
It's like all the dumb bitches who major in women's studies then bitch that women are underrepresented in STEM fields. Bitch, you coulda been a STEM major but you decided to major in something worthless instead. That's on you.
Just like this cunt here coulda made a dozen burgers with all the time she instead used to bitch here that she doesn't have.
It's not very convincing. At least not to men.

>>21783276
>cooking is as effortless and cheap as you want to make it

5 minutes is shorter than most drive through wait times and you have leftovers for days. Step your bait up dude it's weak.

>>21783277
>now we're back to needing a data robbing app which was previously stated to be uneeded
gee whiz i love arguing in circles

>>21783267
>fat girlfriend
Thin wife.

>>21783280
>hung up on the drive through
as stated, i cook for myself. unfortunately i like a diet more varied than
>junk veggies and junk meat tossed in a slow cooker
eating like a bum ass poor person fucking sucks.

>>21783282
Yeah, it's starting to dawn on me that arguing with a retard who thinks an hour commute means his whole day is wasted is a waste in of itself

>>21783282
>data robbing
Sweetheart, that's been covered. Do try to work on retaining what you read.

>>21783287
That's a you problem. If you can't even make a decent slow cooker soup or stew, you can't cook a damn thing. I bet you think your kids are picky because your cooking is so godawful that they refuse to eat it.

>>21783288
>can't do basic math and realize 8+1 = 9, but likely more because the 1 is the lucky minimum
>does all this while sharing the load of daily chores, cooking, and likely having another income stream in their household
fuck ya
mudda

>>21782590
rotten:
having rotted.

Rotted:
to undergo decomposition from the action of bacteria or fungi

meat that has gone past a date on a package has NOT rotted.

also I have bad news for you anon. beef is already 14 to 21 days old BEFORE it gets cut in to primals, and then sent off to your local grocery store to be processed in to specific cuts of meat.

until it smells off, AND is growing something it has not rotted.

>>21783294
>decent slow cooker soup
salty seasoned broth is always a decidedly 6/10 meal. it is physically impossible for it to go higher. to make a soup that doesn't suck you are now in the realm of real prep work, using an actual pot, and ingredients that aren't fucked up walmart produce and undesirable butcher cuts.

>>21783294
Xe doesn't have kids.
>>21783296
I think the point is that everyone works an 8 hour day and we still manage to shop, cook and eat because we're not retarded. The only difference is the commute. So yes, that's what he's harping on, retard

>>21782735
>i believe facts, that the food continually develops bacteria and other pathogens once opened.
no you don't believe "facts" you believe guidelines. you live in a state of fear because you do not understand what is in the real world, and not what some corporation, or government entity is pandering to the lowest common denominator. dates and guidelines are for complete idiots (like yourself) who cannot think.

>>21783304
>everyone blah blah blah
except we've already established they're either willing giving up extra free time, splitting the effort with another person, or not actually dealing with a serious strain on the schedule

>>21783299
If you can't make a crockpot chili that is better than taco bell or mcdonalds, you're a failure. It's better for you. It tastes better. Prep time is nil. It's cheaper. You lose bro. You're a obese retard spending hours arguing about shit college students figured out in a drunken stupor.

>>21783184
>her salads rot in two days. How? We've kept heads of lettuce for far, far longer than that with no problems
their fridge is probably set at too high a temp, and she isn't covering the salads. I keep my lettuce in an air tight container, and it lasts at least 2 weeks.

>>21783307
>crockpot chilli
gross. i did make chilli this week though. it took about an hour to get it going because i was managing a couple of different proteins and burners and a food processor. so yeah back to the other clearly established point which is
>i like to eat better than poor people sloppa if i can help it and that costs time or money or both

>>21783299
>walmart produce
I don't understand why anyone would buy produce there. It's shit quality and more expensive than other stores. It's a real travesty. You, however, es un vrai travesti.

>>21783313
You think it's gross because you probably used canned beans which would break down in a crockpot. Dried beans won't. Like I said, you can't cook.

>>21783257
liar

>>21783306
>here, let me spend 39 hours telling you how I don't have time to cook a burger
lmao
Sally's gettin' real mad that I ain't buyin' what she's sellin'.

>>21782897
nope, I just want one burger, stop making shit up. you fat retarded fuck.

>>21783319
>beans in chilli
lol, lmao even. I will however slow cook beans to go with minimum effort prep meals like good ol rice/protein/veggie meal preps. i think what's actually happening is i have standards and you do not.
>>21783316
>implying kroger or publix or harps or what the fuck ever produce is better and significantly cheaper
i guess i've seen that in some regions, but not many.

>>21782713
there are no grill marks.

>>21783322
>hurr durr because you are burning some of your holiday free time arguing on an imageboard, your schedule is clearly wide open! let me reference the bait OP again even though he already said that's obviously nonsense
fuck ya
mudda

>>21783326
Oh. You live in the impoverished South. No wonder your produce is shit and expensive. How sad.
Is your destitution contagious?

>>21783326
>lol, lmao even
So you don't actually know how to cook tasty, cheap food? An all meat chili costs far more than a chili with beans and it's far less nutritious. You've moved the goalpost so far that you forgot your original point.

>>21783329
You're holiday starts ten days before the holiday? Neat. Or, rather: NEET.

>>21783331
>implying this is also not true in the plains, along several parts of the rockies, in the "midwest," and several parts of the eastern seaboard
i've lived in more states than you almost assuredly. way to argue from an unironic position of privilege though.

>>21783335
>spicy bean stew is the same as chilli
>still claiming it's tasty cheap food
>claiming there is such a thing as tasty cheap food
shiggy
>>21783337
no, mine is taken when i actually get a fucking chance to because holiday time slots are highly contentious and it's my year to get the shit end of the stick. stuff that is not surprising for anyone who actually works.

>>21783342
>"you're privileged!!!!"
Do you think this is an insult? No shit, I'm privileged. And I'll remain so because I'm not buying $18 burgers from wherever the shit and am instead making them at home. Enjoy your poor financial planning, poor time management, likely poor hygiene and just being poor in general, Poverty-chan.

>>21783347
>claiming there is such a thing as tasty cheap food
Spaghetti with tomato sauce. Takes 20 minutes from scratch, costs nothing and will drop panties.

>>21783349
>simply refuses to calculate the actual costs of his not solo lifestyle beyond hard dollar amounts

>>21783351
>spaghetti noodles
>good
>probably uses premade sauce from a can or jar
even the shitty san marzanos are like $5/can, get serious

>>21783355
not him but holy bait. the other guy should stop responding to you.

>>21783357
>not liking nasty ass egg noodles in shit sauce is bait
good to see the specific concession you two are making to make your lifestyle work is "dealing with food that sucks"

anyways fuck yall im off to ACTUALLY COOK and then maybe do something that isn't sustaining myself for 30 minutes good luck with whatever the fuck you're all doing

>>21783355
>>21783360
Spaghetti are neither noodles nor made from egg. And scratch exempts jarred sauces, Sally. Try again.
>>21783361
Yeah, I'm going to bed in a minute. Missus is pissed some handwarmers she ordered from Amazon didn't come today and have been delayed until Friday. 17° F weather is no fun for her.

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>>21781177
>putting romas in a burger

>>21783371
Yeah. They'll steal it.

It's the weekly "ADULTING IS TO HARD FOR ME MOMMY DO IT FOR ME!" thread. Everyone smile for the camera!

>>21783375
Being an adult is making enough money so you can pay 3rd worlders to deliver all of your food so you never get to experience fresh unspit meals. I like my burgers like I like my women, soggy.

>>21781126
I wish I could buy brioche buns for that little
I'd eat them every day, wouldn't even need a burger I just fucking love brioche

>>21783205
You just won't stop. You insist on posting disinformation and pretending it's obvious. You're NEVER going to make fast food preferable to home cooking.

I guess you just need to justify your faggotty existence. Sad.

>anons now posting how cheap food must taste bad

shut the fuck up

>>21781958
pig/human hybrid aka american

>>21782787
>butter/oil/tallow
not required for 80/20 ground beef
>seasoning
you have bigger problems if you don't already have salt and pepper. Do you want me to include prices for pans, gas/electricity, and rent too?
>cheese
OP said burgers not cheeseburgers

>>21783587
I been craving burgers too... fur burgers.

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>>21781139
>Did you stop to consider the fact that not everyone lives in a flyover shithole with uncompetetively priced goods like (You)?

Us flyovers are getting better products at lower prices than urban hive dwelling coastfags.

>>21781991
>just buy shitty grocery store mark down ingredients and eat wood dust
Bro is talking as if whatever fast food joint he eats at isn't this plus gallons of corn syrup.

>>21781126
I got a local burger place that does 2.29 quarter pound hamburgers on saturday and sundays. My burgers are tastier, but its harder to justify not just getting those.

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>>21781051
Perhaps pat a buffet it's cheaper but cooking at home as gotten too expensive ever since the pandemic, and yes you can always to with that rice and beans recipe but eventually getting fresh food like good fish dents your wallet; not talking about snow crab legs but regular fish.

>>21783888
This argument is find because it's a local burger place and not corporate fast food. At least you know you're getting fewer chemicals and the money is staying in the local economy.

>>21781051
kek this is what happens when retards who can't or regularly cook end up buying the most expensive ingredients. The complaining about washing dishes also shows how these people lack discipline, I guess this is what happens when you have a generation of young people working stupid unnecessary jobs where all they do is attend Zoom meetings about some dumb shit for a company, no actual life improving skills being developed in any way, but at least they're making decent money I guess.

>>21784065
The argument to eat out in general is fine for any number of reasons. Costing less than homemade is just not one of them, is all.

>>21784254
The argument to eat out only makes sense if your free time is worth more than the price difference, the enjoyment of cooking, and the health debuff of what you eat out.

>>21784256
Wrong.
There's also the "I just want to" argument. That's perfectly okay, too.
If I'm out and about and pass by a place selling XYZ and I want XYZ, I'm getting XYZ. If I'm taking my kid with me to the supermarket on a summer's day, I'm getting him (and me) an ice cream on the walk home. There's no practical reason to ever buy ice cream other than "I just want ice cream".

>>21783297
> to undergo decomposition from the action of bacteria or fungi
which meat does as soon as it is removed from the packaging.
> also I have bad news for you anon. beef is already 14 to 21 days old BEFORE it gets cut in to primals, and then sent off to your local grocery store to be processed in to specific cuts of meat.
it is stored at sub-zero temperatures and packed with nitrogen.
your fridge does not do this.
> until it smells off, AND is growing something it has not rotted.
completely false, information a simple google search can find.

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>>21784274
He's STILL at it.
Has to have the final word!

You're a special kind of troll. We all know you don't believe what you're posting. I wish I could understand your motivations. You must be pretty fucked up to spend your time arguing for a losing side.

>>21784280
>he
who is “he”?
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/13/17/2751
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.1078201/full
Microbial populations reach spoilage levels within 1-2 days of opening. These are simple scientific facts.

If it's cheaper to eat out than to cook, why does any place cook? They could just order a burger from a place to sell you.

>>21784274
>which meat does as soon as it is removed from the packaging.
none you idiot, it's like you can't follow a thread.
>it is stored at sub-zero temperatures and packed with nitrogen.
your fridge does not do this.
no anon it isn't, it's never frozen until you get it and freeze it.
>completely false, information a simple google search can find.
nope it's correct.

>>21784288
quoting things that are wrong, makes you wrong.

>>21784337
see >>21784288

>>21784340
where’s your counterevidence?
note: personal anecdotes are not valid
you cannot refute so you dismiss.
keep coping and keep eating rotten garbage.

>>21784288
I guess those microbes are powerless against MY immune system then. Fuck your facts. I leave "opened" meat in the fridge all fucking week and it tastes better every day. Then once it's cooked it lasts ANOTHER week.

People as dumb as you have no idea how resilient our bodies are when it comes to foods we eat. We have evolved to survive on almost anything. We have our preferences, but we can eat a lot of things and get away with it.
If it makes you feel better to live in fear of meat that you bought two days ago and haven't cooked, keep believing your own bullshit. But it's not true.

>>21784368
I guess this 'rotten garbage' can't hurt us. You can stop now.

>>21781051
Those glasses look silly.

>>21781051
I thought not understanding per capita was a black thing

>>21784845
Your stupid Anal moniker looks silly. Why are you doing it?

>>21781972
no one but the government and muslim rapists has guns in your nation