Re:Ask HN: How to become ramen profitable
by 0x00000000 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @03:27PM
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If you want to take it to an even greater extreme here's what I do.
Get a 20lb bag of rice, dry beans, frozen vegetables, maybe eggs. The rice lasts me about 2 months and all together can cost as low as about $15-20 a month.
You can rotate between making a few different things such as soup, beans and rice with different seasonings, and fried rice. If you want, all of this can be cooked in only a rice cooker.
Get used to eating less, your body will adapt.
Re:Ask HN: How to become ramen profitable
by fatboy93 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:53AM
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To add to what you said, rice should also be cheaper. Add rice to the mix or cook it separately,
Cheaper, better good with a nice calorific yield.
Heck, half the time, it's my go to food.
I do cook rice, in a rice cooker, when I make bean stew. I mix a bowl together in the microwave.
Assuming you have access to an oven. In my brief stay in Silicon Valley, I lived in an office in an industrial building with only a hot pot to cook with.
Re:Ask HN: How to become ramen profitable
by bobabooey02 on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:12PM
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A great thing about the internet is it's decentralization. If you don't have tons of capital or income, you might consider moving to somewhere with a lower cost of living and making your app there. You can host it nearly anywhere with an internet connection until you hit a global scale, at which point you should be able to go to a more expensive area.
I'm not sure what's meant by "hot pot." The above recipe can be done with a "crock pot," although crock pots are expensive relative to an iron pot. Can be bought used, or donated from friends/family. Bottom line, adapt to circumstances, and try not to live on ramen.
Buy an electric pressure cooker and do it all in that.
Cheaper and smaller than an oven, and no need to soak beans overnight.
Re:Ask HN: How to become ramen profitable
by joshontheweb on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:22PM
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Also invest in some beano!
rinsing beans thoroughly helps too which s/he mentions
Sidenote: as for "ramen profitable," for anyone in the situation where they're eating ramen or similar to survive, don't. Ramen's expensive and not great for you.
Buy dry black beans and vegetables. Soak the beans over night (rinse a few times during the process), then boil the beans the next day as you cut up carrots, peppers and onions. Saute the peppers, onions, garlic and similar, wash and cut up the carrots, saute with the rest just to have some place to put them. Other vegetables too if you like.
Pre-heat the oven to 300 F.
Rinse the beans once more, dump everything in a big oven pot (which you bought with the money you saved from not eating ramen and going under-nourished). Add about two cups of water, half cup of wine that can be drunk, or quarter cup of apple cider vinegar if you don't have wine. Or neither. Whatever spices you have.
Cook in oven about 3 to 4 hours. This will feed you for days. 16 oz black beans costs $1 here; the above bean stew costs in total $5 US or less. And there's actual nutrition in there, as opposed to ramen.