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So you can eat it for lunch the next day.

chrisseaton 8y ago
If you want two meals why not get two meals instead of expecting one meal to provide two - doesn’t seem like a reasonable expectation to me.
- behringer 8y ago
  Because when you're paying $10 for one meal you kind of hope it goes a little further. To put this in perspective, if I go to the store and buy a 10 dollar meal, I'll be eating: porter house, slathered in butter and olive oil, asparagus fried in the juices, with a baked potato. I'll have also a side of chilean grapes and a slice of cheese cake for desert. 10 dollars is a crazy amount for a dinner. (Ok that might cost more like $15)
  - crysin 8y ago
    A porterhouse alone is typically 8 to 10 dollars, so no you're meal you listed there is more like 20. Sure Blue Apron is expensive but don't go making it sound like you can have a big nice steak, a baked potato, an expensive dessert, some butter and vegetables for near the same cost.
    - Spivak 8y ago
      If you buy every single ingredient absolutely but that's not how cooking-at-home food math works. You head to the grocery store and buy whatever beef cut is on sale so if you're buying a porterhouse it's because it's $4-6. Your pantry is already stocked with butter, flour, eggs, sugar, and potatoes. You had some almost stale graham crackers lying around which is why you decided to make cheesecake. You hit up the store buy some asparagus, cream cheese, and whatever fruit is in season rounding out to about $10-12 bucks and you've pretty much got the meal with plenty of leftovers and leftover ingredients for whatever you do next. You can spread a good cheese out over multiple meals to lower the cost but I'm not seeing how to get even a brie without going over budget here though.
      - behringer 8y ago
        We'll have to ditch the cheesecake I think. Start slicing!
    - behringer 8y ago
      Pff, I buy my porterhouses on sale. If they're too expensive, I go for whatever else is on sale. Sirloin isn't bad either ;)
  - chrisseaton 8y ago
    When I spend a lot on food I don’t hope there’ll be a ton of it - I hope it’s high quality. I think BlueApron aims at higher quality rather than massive portions designed to be too much.
    - sokoloff 8y ago
      Blue Apron misses massively on the high quality front, IMO. Every single beef cut we got from them ranged from terrible to barely mediocre and many made me think of Rodney Dangerfield's quote in Caddyshack: "This steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it..." Their chicken was generally very good and pork OK and I'm not a BA hater, though we did initially enjoy it and eventually stopped because the value simply wasn't remotely there for us.
- scott_s 8y ago
  One benefit of cooking "a meal" is that the effort to cook 1 meal for 2 people is not significantly different than the effort to cook 2 meals for 2 people. Since Blue Aprons competition is people cooking and preparing their own meals, it seems like a reasonable criticism to me.
- bluGill 8y ago
  Because the second meal is going to be eaten at work: I only have a microwave, they frown on anything sharper than a butter knife, and my time is limited. There are lots of options that can work; but they compromise taste, quality, speed, price, or time - often all of the above. (It need not be - but good luck finding exceptions). Making a little extra and bringing it in latter is useful.
- vkou 8y ago
  Because if it takes 30 minutes to prepare one meal, but 35 minutes to double your ingredients, and prepare two meals worth of food, the second option is probably a better use of your time.

If you want two meals why not get two meals instead of expecting one meal to provide two - doesn’t seem like a reasonable expectation to me.

behringer 8y ago
Because when you're paying $10 for one meal you kind of hope it goes a little further. To put this in perspective, if I go to the store and buy a 10 dollar meal, I'll be eating: porter house, slathered in butter and olive oil, asparagus fried in the juices, with a baked potato. I'll have also a side of chilean grapes and a slice of cheese cake for desert. 10 dollars is a crazy amount for a dinner. (Ok that might cost more like $15)
- crysin 8y ago
  A porterhouse alone is typically 8 to 10 dollars, so no you're meal you listed there is more like 20. Sure Blue Apron is expensive but don't go making it sound like you can have a big nice steak, a baked potato, an expensive dessert, some butter and vegetables for near the same cost.
  - Spivak 8y ago
    If you buy every single ingredient absolutely but that's not how cooking-at-home food math works. You head to the grocery store and buy whatever beef cut is on sale so if you're buying a porterhouse it's because it's $4-6. Your pantry is already stocked with butter, flour, eggs, sugar, and potatoes. You had some almost stale graham crackers lying around which is why you decided to make cheesecake. You hit up the store buy some asparagus, cream cheese, and whatever fruit is in season rounding out to about $10-12 bucks and you've pretty much got the meal with plenty of leftovers and leftover ingredients for whatever you do next. You can spread a good cheese out over multiple meals to lower the cost but I'm not seeing how to get even a brie without going over budget here though.
    - behringer 8y ago
      We'll have to ditch the cheesecake I think. Start slicing!
  - behringer 8y ago
    Pff, I buy my porterhouses on sale. If they're too expensive, I go for whatever else is on sale. Sirloin isn't bad either ;)
- chrisseaton 8y ago
  When I spend a lot on food I don’t hope there’ll be a ton of it - I hope it’s high quality. I think BlueApron aims at higher quality rather than massive portions designed to be too much.
  - sokoloff 8y ago
    Blue Apron misses massively on the high quality front, IMO. Every single beef cut we got from them ranged from terrible to barely mediocre and many made me think of Rodney Dangerfield's quote in Caddyshack: "This steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it..." Their chicken was generally very good and pork OK and I'm not a BA hater, though we did initially enjoy it and eventually stopped because the value simply wasn't remotely there for us.
scott_s 8y ago
One benefit of cooking "a meal" is that the effort to cook 1 meal for 2 people is not significantly different than the effort to cook 2 meals for 2 people. Since Blue Aprons competition is people cooking and preparing their own meals, it seems like a reasonable criticism to me.
bluGill 8y ago
Because the second meal is going to be eaten at work: I only have a microwave, they frown on anything sharper than a butter knife, and my time is limited. There are lots of options that can work; but they compromise taste, quality, speed, price, or time - often all of the above. (It need not be - but good luck finding exceptions). Making a little extra and bringing it in latter is useful.
vkou 8y ago
Because if it takes 30 minutes to prepare one meal, but 35 minutes to double your ingredients, and prepare two meals worth of food, the second option is probably a better use of your time.