McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonald's Restaurant Recipes
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1. Purchase fresh ground beef.
2. Cook it up.
Please don't be offended, I do it too and am not claiming to be above you.
My take is that McD's is currently the symbol for poor people food. Poor people are both money-poor and time-poor, so fast food is one of the few options they have.
When people criticise MCD's, they are usually just signalling that they are not poor.
It's very easy for people with confortable lives to prescribe rational choices for the less fortunate, as if they were characters in the sims. But they are human beings with all the usual human flaws like the rest of us, and they want their day to be less miserable, like we would.
[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/02786915939...
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006....
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_%28flavor%29#Conc...
The book 'The End of Overeating' says that modern food is engineered to maximise this enjoyable aspect of food, to make it hyperpalletable. (It feels like a reasonable book, the biases are clear, it's just popsci so it's a bit flaky in parts and obviously a bit sensationalist.
(http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American...)
He's pointing out a very important fact: McDonalds is not that tasty. What I make without these recipes using incredibly simple methods (as described above) tastes better. Frankly, these are elaborate instructions on how to make disgusting food.
Ok, maybe a little harsh. I actually enjoy eating Big Macs. But there is better and more delicious food out there. Try it, you won't be disappointed!
The number one reason it is not, most are lazy. People will drop steps, drop ingredients, and such, because "it doesn't matter" or "I don't care". Whatever justification meets their current mood. These companies on the other hand live and and die by their consistent delivery.
A Coke is a Coke, Minute Maid Orange juice tastes like Minute Maid and not Tropicana, McDonald's French Fries are all so much different from Wendy's and so on. We expect this so in turn for many people they become comfort items. Day went to hell, well I am going to get some X because it always satisfies me.
I am always amazed at how something simple in appearance can have so much behind it, the recent article here about orange juice was a prime example.
I think I'd be more interested in articles that told me how to recreate a feature from a product, rather than a guess at the whole product.
For example, something that tells me what potatoes to use (or how to cook them, or what oil and heat to use) to make fries could be more interesting. Especially if it went into some of the science of food. (So, in the fries example, what the starch granules are doing and how that affects taste, or what the oil does at different temperatures, and how that affects mouth feel.)
This isn't a plea for molecular gastronomy either.
1/2 teaspoon Accent?#060;/nobr>You should be able to find it in any decently stocked grocery store, I'd imagine.
If that fails check any Chinese/Asian food stores, they often have it in larger packs.
That being said, where I live this is called E621, but I probably wont rush out in search for it, I dont even particularly like mc food :\
These are simple recipes, and I think the value to people who enjoy this style of food is learning about how to do the onions, where a bit of mustard or Miracle Whip comes in, etc. Most people would not put mayo on a burger nowadays, but it can add a lot (and provides a nice moisture barrier).