“Cooking scales well, but for single people the economics are remarkably bad. Stop telling single people not to order delivery.”
It does if you cook one meal at a time. The sweet spot for cooking, depending on the dish, is probably 4-8 people most of the time. Any more and you have to start doing multiple batches or get larger cookware and any less and you aren’t amortizing the fixed costs. So the home cooking route is to cook 4 portions and save 3 for later. Mix and match a bit between sides and mains and you can have quite a bit of variety (most foods freeze quite well too) still. I’m skeptical delivery can every compete on cost or takeout on time outside of maybe NYC and a few similar places, but if you have the money spend it on whatever you like.
Last time I was in the US, I often relied on the following pasta recipe to prepare multiple meals at once: - fettuccine - cook bacon in a pot with just a drip of olive oil (no other additions) - cook pre-sliced mushrooms in another pot (no other additions) - throw everything into the drained fettuccine in a pot - add a few cheese singles and mix everything until they are melt and blended
The thing about this recipe is that I’ve observed it keeps the original flavor if kept in the fridge and re-heated in the microwave, I kept it in the fridge up to 10 days. Many other pasta sauces alter their flavor in a bad way if so processed, and freezing was even worse in my experience.
“Cooking scales well, but for single people the economics are remarkably bad. Stop telling single people not to order delivery.”
It does if you cook one meal at a time. The sweet spot for cooking, depending on the dish, is probably 4-8 people most of the time. Any more and you have to start doing multiple batches or get larger cookware and any less and you aren’t amortizing the fixed costs. So the home cooking route is to cook 4 portions and save 3 for later. Mix and match a bit between sides and mains and you can have quite a bit of variety (most foods freeze quite well too) still. I’m skeptical delivery can every compete on cost or takeout on time outside of maybe NYC and a few similar places, but if you have the money spend it on whatever you like.
Last time I was in the US, I often relied on the following pasta recipe to prepare multiple meals at once:
- fettuccine
- cook bacon in a pot with just a drip of olive oil (no other additions)
- cook pre-sliced mushrooms in another pot (no other additions)
- throw everything into the drained fettuccine in a pot
- add a few cheese singles and mix everything until they are melt and blended
The thing about this recipe is that I’ve observed it keeps the original flavor if kept in the fridge and re-heated in the microwave, I kept it in the fridge up to 10 days. Many other pasta sauces alter their flavor in a bad way if so processed, and freezing was even worse in my experience.