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And what is the case for home cooking over delivery food, in your opinion? (I may agree with you, but I don't think everyone is on the same page here.)

radiorental 8y ago
The case is that you know what is your food. Too often we'd order Indian and realise they had added extra salt to preserve some 'overstock' Also, invariably the content in takeaway food is the lowest cost produce. If you care about where your food comes from and what goes into it you cut out the middleman.
- michaelmior 8y ago
  Forget adding extra salt because of poor quality ingredients, restaurants almost always add significantly more salt and fat than you would be comfortable doing yourself at home.
c0nducktr 8y ago
It being far less expensive, seems to be the standout reason. Normal people can't afford $700/month for food delivery services.
- Agathos 8y ago
  It's a little less expensive, but I wouldn't call it "far" less expensive unless you're prepared to stick to the lowest-cost ingredients like rice and beans.
  - michaelt 8y ago
    In my area, cooking for myself, my weekly supermarket food bill is about £30 (~$40) and that lets me eat pretty well. For comparison, a medium-sized delivery pizza is £17 (~$22). So I'd be looking at about 4x the cost if I ate a delivery pizza every day. How do the figures compare in your area? Is delivery food radically cheaper?
    - Agathos 8y ago
      I'm in Chicago, so $22 is almost the cost of a medium deep dish pizza, and I can stretch that to almost a week of dinners if it's just me. A couple of footnotes: 1. Pizza is absurdly cheap, even for takeout food. I don't really understand how that works. 2. I prefer takeout over paying for delivery, which saves a lot. My favorite pizza places are in walking distance.
VLM 8y ago
Delivery optimizes for maximizing profitability, minimizing customer complaints (due to trying something too exotic, perhaps), and ease of marketing. If you want to play a different game, such as maximizing nutrition, maximizing taste or texture instead of appearance in an ad, meet some specific health goal, or try something that might (or might not) be enjoyable, then home cooking is better. By analogy its like the difference between formulaic pulp fiction mass market paperbacks vs the total sum of all human literature ever written. Delivery is more profitable, but profit does not imply better food. A bad HN car analogy is delivery/restaurant food is like a 70s american car before the foreign car invasion; someone's making money but its not a good product.
dagw 8y ago
And what is the case for home cooking over delivery food The big one is that I know what's in it and can select/exclude ingredients based on my own criteria. Another big plus is that I can tweak the flavors to match my preferences.

radiorental 8y ago

The case is that you know what is your food. Too often we'd order Indian and realise they had added extra salt to preserve some 'overstock' Also, invariably the content in takeaway food is the lowest cost produce. If you care about where your food comes from and what goes into it you cut out the middleman.

michaelmior 8y ago
Forget adding extra salt because of poor quality ingredients, restaurants almost always add significantly more salt and fat than you would be comfortable doing yourself at home.

c0nducktr 8y ago

It being far less expensive, seems to be the standout reason. Normal people can't afford $700/month for food delivery services.

Agathos 8y ago
It's a little less expensive, but I wouldn't call it "far" less expensive unless you're prepared to stick to the lowest-cost ingredients like rice and beans.
- michaelt 8y ago
  In my area, cooking for myself, my weekly supermarket food bill is about £30 (~$40) and that lets me eat pretty well. For comparison, a medium-sized delivery pizza is £17 (~$22). So I'd be looking at about 4x the cost if I ate a delivery pizza every day. How do the figures compare in your area? Is delivery food radically cheaper?
  - Agathos 8y ago
    I'm in Chicago, so $22 is almost the cost of a medium deep dish pizza, and I can stretch that to almost a week of dinners if it's just me. A couple of footnotes: 1. Pizza is absurdly cheap, even for takeout food. I don't really understand how that works. 2. I prefer takeout over paying for delivery, which saves a lot. My favorite pizza places are in walking distance.

VLM 8y ago

Delivery optimizes for maximizing profitability, minimizing customer complaints (due to trying something too exotic, perhaps), and ease of marketing. If you want to play a different game, such as maximizing nutrition, maximizing taste or texture instead of appearance in an ad, meet some specific health goal, or try something that might (or might not) be enjoyable, then home cooking is better. By analogy its like the difference between formulaic pulp fiction mass market paperbacks vs the total sum of all human literature ever written. Delivery is more profitable, but profit does not imply better food. A bad HN car analogy is delivery/restaurant food is like a 70s american car before the foreign car invasion; someone's making money but its not a good product.

dagw 8y ago

And what is the case for home cooking over delivery food The big one is that I know what's in it and can select/exclude ingredients based on my own criteria. Another big plus is that I can tweak the flavors to match my preferences.