When you measure time/cost/taste together as a value, feels like the humble baked potato is the simplest and best tasting meal for the money.You can spend an hour making pasta, cutting the vegetables for a salad or a burger, spend 20 minutes cooking meat, but a potato just takes like ten minutes in the microwave and you can add various toppings without fuss. Its the most time/money/value effective "homemade meal" that isn't just canslop or frozenslop.
>>22189346You can make garlic butter by mixing some chopped garlic and butter and microwaving it for 30 seconds. You can also use olive oil Then just pour it over your potato and enjoy!
>>22189346>You can spend an hour making pastathe rest of the thread is valid although i'd get tired of these if i were having them too often, but who the fuck spends an hour on pasta?
just eat it
>>22189361olive oil doesn't turn into garlic butter
>You can spend an hour making pasta, cutting the vegetables for a salad or a burgerNo I can't. I'm not developmentally disabled.>baked potato>ten minutes in the microwaveBut you sure are eh, champ? >baked potato>a meal it's a side at best, Corky.
>>22191498R*ddit tier comment
>>22191500>I'm not developmentally disabledi'm looking at some pretty persuasive evidence to the contrary right now
>>22191593Yes, most people have mirrors in the bathroom, Girl from American Horror Story.
>>22189346I don't have a microwave
>>22189346Yes. When I was a broke construction worker, I cooked a lot of baked potatoes after work because they were cheap, low-effort, and provided a lot of calories and vitamins.
>>22189346I just made some homemade pizzas and now I don't feel like cleaning up.
>>22189346How do you get them to not explode in the microwave?
>>22191710poke a bunch of deep holes in them with a knife or fork
>>22191714Did that yet it still exploded, put me off baked potatoes for years.
>>22189346>ValueAfter this drought in Europe, big potatoes will be a premium. Even ordinary potatoes are going up in price.
>>22191722Just bake them in the oven like a normal person, people who microwave them are pathetic manchildren.
>>22191710>>22191714>>22191722never had one explode before just score them a bit by whacking them lightly with a knife and wrap them in paper towel to retain some moistureany more than 6 minutes is overdoing it, even with large russets
>>22189346>add various toppings without fussit’s hard to get sufficient coverage. the baked potato experience is eating the last 40% of it with minimal toppings because they’re gone. unless you want to reapply, which I do sometimes. but it is a fuss, it’s a hoot and a holler alright.
>>22191500Get a bigger potatoMy life has changed ever since I started going to a store that sells 7 or 8 inch potatoes. You buy them individually rather than in a bag, but they are a meal by themselves.
>>22192311The first thing you're supposed to do when you put the toppings on is mash them all up into the potato so the inside basically becomes a mashed potato, and it absorbs all the toppings.
I just don't think baked potatoes taste good. So dry and mealy and bland.
>>22192805What about twice baked? btw, potatoes is one food the Brits absolutely destroy the US with. Brits can really jacket a potato.
>>22192833>jacket a potatoSound like you might be a tad biased, and it sounds like you might have only had a British potato before while imagining that American potatoes must suck in comparison.Have fun with your heinz beans in a potato though
>>22189346I can drink yogurt straight from the tub withzero cooking and zero prep.Checkmate.
>>22192894Look at this seething, it's so feminine. Show bussy
>>22191480HEY!!egg burger!is it good?
>>22191690shut the fuck up and clean.its the easiest habit that make your life better.you didnt clean as you went along?when i do pizza from scratch everything is clean by the time im cutting and serving the pie.
>>22192259Why is the knife so angry?
>>22192986
>one of the most efficient crops to grow>has iron that's as bioavailable as in meat which is incredibly rare for plants>low in antinutrients>provides almost complete nutrition>is one of the most satiating foods>also tastes great
>>22193000>>22193008lmao
Any simple pasta dish mogs baked potato
>>22192894I'm from the EU, live in the US and have never lived in the UK. My country doesn't even bake potatoes unless you count foil wrapped cunts on the embers after a cookout and we don't generally use toppings IE our "baked" potatoes blow goats. American baked potatoes are leaps and bounds better than ours. British jacket potatoes/baked potatoes are even better and American twice-baked are the paragon of potato-y perfection. I was comparing regular baked with regular baked. Calm your tits, buddy.
