Hacker News Reader

Comment by carlosjobim | Hacker News Reader

[flagged]

Tell us your lifestyle and we will definitely be able to point out a lot of crazy things, but I’m sure they do make sense for you for whatever reason. Perhaps someone ordering DoorDash so that their family can spend more time together. Any blanket statement is short shortsighted.

I take it you also sew your own clothing and get milk from your own cow?

If not, what makes cooking special?

> and tastier than eating out

Eehhh.. I'm a decent cook, I can adjust things for my taste but there's no way I can compete with people who do this for 40h/week over multiple years with kitchen appliances worth as much as a decent second hand car. Hell, good restaurants have access to produce I can't really get since I'm not going to tour 4 farms to make 1-4 portions of food.

Sounds like you're comparing your cooking to the top shelf of restaurants. Most of the mid ones and all of the chains buy frozen goods, fresh produce and ready-made stuff like sauces from Sysco. I promise you, you can compete with Sysco.

Yeah, the cheap shit I win against. Maybe my perspective was/is bad since I already cook unless I'm going to a good place or at least a mediocre place with cuisine I can't cook.

Of course you can. Those appliances have the purpose of making their job faster and more practical. There's no recipe that you can't make at home, and YouTube is full of videos where the top chefs from the world's most famous restaurants show you how to cook their plates at home.

Yes, and to be honest if you know how to read, you can also cook. Just google a recipe with good reviews and follow it to the letter, the outcome will most likely be good enough.

You'd think this, but google results for recipes are full of slop (AI and otherwise) and what I assume are fake reviews.

I know people whose cooking is "good enough" for themselves, but suspect enough from my point of view that I now decline any invitations for dinner where they're cooking.

> Or people learning to cook instead of being lazy slobs.

There are many reasons people eat out beside lack of cooking knowledge or desire to be social. You seem like you value feeling superior to these people. Perhaps you can find a way to value yourself without looking down on everyone who makes different choices?

> Plus it is cheaper, faster, healthier and tastier than eating out.

You can get some of those 4 but in my experience, getting all 4 at the same time doesn't happen often.

or go to any other country where grabbing tasty food around the corner with your friends is a regular and affordable social activity...

Absolutely. I think either learning to cook or moving to another place or country, is a whole lot easier than forcing an entirely new urban structure where you currently live.

Yeah those places are super tiny and run by one or two people. Or they are running them under an awning and the whole restaurant is built on a bicycle. Try setting up a bicycle restaurant anywhere in the US and see what happens. You can barely set up a taco truck here. Unfortunately to run a restaurant here you need really expensive restaurant real estate.

> You can barely set up a taco truck here.

We have a ton of these food trucks all over Austin. Most of them ... just aren't very good. So, apparently, regulations aren't too onerous.

And a food truck isn't exempt from the fact that ridiculous commercial real estate prices cause people to be too spread out to be able to service in walking range.

And the regulations got tighter because these trucks were blowing up and killing people. I haven't heard about one exploding in a while, so apparently the regulations had an effect.

> You can barely set up a taco truck here.

I see taco trucks everywhere and there are dozens of food carts within a mile of me.

This sounds more like issue that is specific to your area and local government.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com