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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
so i stuck to that and learned cooking... | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
On July 17 2012 14:01 Wangsta wrote: It's really not difficult to cook Cooking takes a lot more time than you realize. Getting ingredients, cooking, cleaning up, it's very easy to spend an hour on a meal on average (much more than that if you want to cook more than really simple dishes) As a young working professional in the city, eating out is also one of the most common social activities outside of drinking. It's really hard to have a social life if you don't eat out with people. It's also just fun to eat out The way I see it, cooking makes sense if you are cooking for more than 1 person. If you just cook for yourself, you are better off eating out. The only exception is if you don't make enough money to do anything else, but honestly cooking for yourself is not much cheaper than eating out (unless you buy dirt cheap crap) No its not, but as you said, it takes a lot of time. I personally hate cooking for myself, and even for 2 people its rarely justifiable unless someone be cleanin up me mess. But the world, especially US is facing a food epidemic, one that we have yet to see the full effects from | ||
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
On July 18 2012 01:25 Cambium wrote: I agree with this, with the caveat that while cooking may cost just as much as eating out, dollar for dollar, regardless where you live, you are guaranteed to eat better food. Also, if you have a freezer you can cook once a week and just freeze a bunch of batches. Cheapest possible way to eat, even when cooking for one person. | ||
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
One of the easiest things to cook is grilled steak and if you asked your random college student if they would rather eat and cook grilled steak everyday other than ramen, the majority would cook the steak (honestly it takes all of ten minutes and requires little effort). The reason why you don't see the prevalence of cooking a variety of foods, is because again, college student's are generally poor and can't afford to 'spice things up'. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
Life skills are important, education is important, a good parent needs to do a good job at teaching both to raise a kid that will be ready for the real world. Personally when I cook I really just cook w/e is healthy for me nowadays. When you start putting on them pounds and become self-conscious of them ITS REALLY EASY to start cooking cheap healthy meals for yourself lol. But god I miss the days when I would make an omelette over fried rice with ketchup while I watched anime. Too many calories bro, too many. | ||
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skipgamer
Australia701 Posts
Oh, and for the love of god let us smoke!!! -Written while eating a bowl of 2 packs Mi Goreng, one small tin of tuna, handfull of frozen vegetables, and 2 eggs. | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + and this + Show Spoiler + and this + Show Spoiler + So I welcome this blog with open arms and joy in my heart. Bless you. I will fly to japan someday, just to eat ramen, I PROMISE! | ||
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
On July 18 2012 03:47 Wegandi wrote: Most college people eat ramen because it is cheap and they are budgeting, not because they necessarily like it better than other foods, or that they do not know how to cook. I see a lot of assumptions in the OP and very little reasoning behind their assertion. One of the easiest things to cook is grilled steak and if you asked your random college student if they would rather eat and cook grilled steak everyday other than ramen, the majority would cook the steak (honestly it takes all of ten minutes and requires little effort). The reason why you don't see the prevalence of cooking a variety of foods, is because again, college student's are generally poor and can't afford to 'spice things up'. I don't know anything about the prices of food in the States, but I'm pretty sure there are always cheaper, tastier and easier (at least equally easy) meals than ramen fucking noodles. Everything in Sweden is generally expensive, but if you have a freezer you can eat like a fucking boss every day of the week for very little money, even if you're cooking only for one person. You just have to be smart with what you're buying. | ||
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IMLyte
Canada714 Posts
On July 18 2012 00:28 Zorkmid wrote: Blasphemy maybe.....but this is better than Ramen...... ![[image loading]](http://www.gogonoodles.com/images/ramen/indomie.JPG) Nah if your going the "indian" root Maggie Curry Noodles are the best :D | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
New England Clam Chowder is definitively a great thing to add to noodles. I haven't tried it with ramen, but taking a can of clam chowder, cream of mushroom and a little milk and putting it over pasta is a quick and delicious meal. Well, I was rather lucky in that my parents taught me how to cook as I grew up. I'd hang out with my mom in the kitchen a lot, and she'd let me do little things, like cracking eggs, chopping vegetables, etc. By high school, I could cook by myself and actually ended up splitting cooking duties with my mom fifty-fifty. I was by no means an accomplished chef, but I could whip up dinner quickly and efficiently and follow pretty much any recipe and come out with a pretty good approximation. Anyways, it was sad to discover how bad some people are at cooking in college. Some people actually didn't know how to make ramen noodles and simply stuck them in the microwave without water-- the result was a pretty nasty cloud of smoke and a broken microwave. Another time, some frat guys tried to barbecue out back bragging about how they did it all the time back home, but couldn't manage to even light a fire (not to mention their burgers, which were misshapen gobs of ground meat). It must have been pretty deflating to have me, a nerdy and rather skinny ABC, come light the fire and do the first set of burgers for them. Cooking competently is up there as one on my favorite activities. There's just a simple pleasure in seeing something take shape because of your work. Also, unless you totally flubbed it, it will taste really good to you. I disagree that cooking is expensive or time-consuming. Last year, my meal plan was $2700 for unlimited food. Given maybe 3 months(90 days) in a semester, that's 30 bucks a day or 10 bucks per meal given 3 meals a day. My mom goes shopping maybe 4-5 times a month for food an spends maybe ~$100-200 each time. So each month, even at ~$1000 of groceries, shopping is way better than my meal plan. That works out to be $250 per person per month, and works out to about $2 per person per meal. Cooking itself takes very little time-- its just knowing how to prepare well. Like, when you get home, take out the stuff you want to cook and get it all defrosted or whatever. Heat your cooking pot/pan/wok in advance while you chop veggies and meat. Cooking is mostly waiting time too, so you can even multitask a bit there. To stir fry some veggies and meat and put it over rice/ noodles takes like 20 minutes. | ||
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CPTBadAss
United States594 Posts
But to go further, it's truly sad how kids in college can't work a washing machine and need a friend's help. My mom always made me help out around the house so I guess it paid off later. And yeah, I played violin as well haha. But if I have to pick, I'm going with Shin Ramyun. A classic. | ||
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Funnytoss
Taiwan1471 Posts
Lots of kids in Taiwan can't cook at all, but a fair amount of ABCs can. Some of my fondest memories at Michigan involve staying on campus over Thanksgiving break. Someone would make Turkey, and mashed potatoes, and green beans and all the "standard" stuff, and then we'd also have potstickers, Japanese-style curry, sweet almond soup... nicely reflecting people's ethnic culinary backgrounds. I wonder if this is because eating out is so convenient (And relatively cheap) in Taiwan. If you want curry, you can go out and get it easily. If you want fried rice, you can go out and get it easily. In the States, as an ABC growing up in the Midwest, you had very few authentic Chinese-food options, and they tended to be quite expensive. As such, our Moms learned to cook all the foods they loved, and you pretty much learned naturally. You pretty much had to, because eating out all the time (if you wanted Chinese) simply wasn't practical. | ||
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Leeoku
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
The caveat for a lot of college students is that they're often cooking for themselves (FOREVER ALONE). The time spent on cooking a meal is pretty long, and often not even all that cost effective. Even with freezing/refrigerating batches of cooked food (like rice/vege's/meats/spaghetti), and reheating it later, it's pretty easy to get tired of said food, after eating it 3-4 times in a row. Also since foods usually come in a bulk pack, or greater than what one person is willing to eat before it expires, often food ends up being wasted. | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On July 18 2012 10:01 Funnytoss wrote: Hm, I'm reminded of an interesting phenomenon. Lots of kids in Taiwan can't cook at all, but a fair amount of ABCs can. Some of my fondest memories at Michigan involve staying on campus over Thanksgiving break. Someone would make Turkey, and mashed potatoes, and green beans and all the "standard" stuff, and then we'd also have potstickers, Japanese-style curry, sweet almond soup... nicely reflecting people's ethnic culinary backgrounds. I wonder if this is because eating out is so convenient (And relatively cheap) in Taiwan. If you want curry, you can go out and get it easily. If you want fried rice, you can go out and get it easily. In the States, as an ABC growing up in the Midwest, you had very few authentic Chinese-food options, and they tended to be quite expensive. As such, our Moms learned to cook all the foods they loved, and you pretty much learned naturally. You pretty much had to, because eating out all the time (if you wanted Chinese) simply wasn't practical. I haven't been in Taiwan in like ~14 years, so my memory is fuzzy, but from what I remember, street foods are extremely available, cheap, and tasty. Especially since, they're often made by regular people (not mass produced company stuff), it's also relatively healthy (lacking preservatives, and other chemicals). I remember Anthony Bourdain talking about the whole "eating out" phenomenon also applied to Hong Kong, in which majority of people eat out, rather than cook. | ||
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NoctemSC
United States771 Posts
I can only really cook ramen and some basic things like eggs and bacon, Luckily for me my Girlfriend is an excelent cook. Definite plus that she's Korean since Korean food is definitely one of my all time favorites. Mmm...Bulgogi. Seriously, I could eat that shit for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. | ||
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FullNatural
United States180 Posts
Now that I think of it that $90 per month also gets me whatever supplies I need as well, on top of food. Toothpaste, paper towels, etc etc. I want to get married in a Dollar store. | ||
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Leeoku
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