A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry

Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by ashark on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:34PM (#14647986)

I think too much ambition to be able to home-cook every kind of food under the sun leads to much of this trouble. Focus on a narrower set of things—say, 2-3 national/regional/ethnic cuisines, and/or cooking techniques—and most of the difficulty, expense, and even planning of home cooking goes away.

The wildly globe-hopping table of the home cook is a recent, and kinda silly, development. You can get plenty of variety without trying to prepare meals from every continent.

(this goes out the window if it's a major hobby, obviously, but in that case so should complaints about its difficulty/inconvenience, which are entirely self-imposed)

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Re:A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry by ghaff on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:49PM (#14648120)

For me it's a hobby and I do like to try new recipes/styles (while recognizing that there are some things I don't do enough to get good at or that just take more work than I'm willing to put in). But I mostly agree with you. I keep an admittedly fairly thick binder of recipes that I probably use a good 75% of the time I even need a recipe. And there are lots of simple things I can throw together in 15 minutes given the ingredients.

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