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Literally eating a Blue Apron as I read this. This is too bad, I just started doing Blue Apron and I really like it. I'm actually a good cook but I get stuck i
by throwaway427 8y ago
Literally eating a Blue Apron as I read this.
This is too bad, I just started doing Blue Apron and I really like it. I'm actually a good cook but I get stuck in a rut with respect to cooking the same things over and over again so it's been nice to have some enforced variety, especially when it comes to sides or bowl/hashes.
The quality is good, the prices seems fair. Just seems like a fraught model.
- jordache 8y agook yeah to sprinkle in some varieties.. why would the mass market stick to it? it simply doesn't provide lasting value prop
- throwaway427 8y agoI mean I don't think the economics work out for a publicly traded company, hence my saying the model is fraught. Certainly there is a non-trivial market for it though.
- edoceo 8y agoJust get a random recipe subscription?
- throwaway427 8y agoIt's not an issue of ideas, it's an issue of wastage and cost. And cost might even be a wash but at least now I don't have to watch a whole bottle of gochujang or horseradish or bag of farro go to waste because I wanted to try this one recipe I saw on NYT cooking and you can't get those things in perfectly sized amounts.
- unexpected 8y agoI feel the exact same way - maybe that's the pain point a business needs to be solving - making much smaller bottles of one-off ingredients!
- ip26 8y agoA bulk department helps a lot with this.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSo you think we need to trade the occasional waste of some ingredient you didn't use (and didn't bother to give to a friend/neighbour) for wasting ungodly amounts of plastic on small packaging? (I know this is happening and will continue to happen - and this is how market choices contribute to the climate change and destruction of environment we live in.)
- ramenmeal 8y agoSeems like the packaging waste could be solved. I think these services might be underestimating how much waste weighs on peoples conscious when they subscribe.
- hw 8y agoIt's ridiculous how much plastic goes into each Blue Apron box. I was on Blue Apron for a couple months until I realized how damaging it is for the environment vs me just going out there and purchasing the ingredients myself. Wasting ingredients can be solved with better planning of meals and grocery shopping. Blue Apron is just the lazy way of getting around doing that. Those plastic containers to hold the ingredients and spices though, leave a near permanent negative footprint on the environment
- throwaway427 8y agoModern landfills really aren't all that bad, the real cost being the space they take up, which happens to not be a problem in the US.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoLast time I checked, modern landfills were methane emitters, which is bad.
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- whywhywhywhy 8y ago> gochujang Stuff like this is a bad example, as far as I can tell it doesn't go off because I only buy it once a year and if you know you like Korean food thing things like this are used in loads of it and if you don't know if you like Korean food maybe go to a restaurant.
- throwaway427 8y agoThanks for the advice.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y agoTrying it for two weeks, my first thought was that they should do a mise en place sort of service for the non-commodity groceries. I can buy my own chicken, broccoli, rice, etc. just fine, but having the little bits all ready to go, not stuffing up my small fridge, would be great.
- throwaway427 8y agoYes exactly.