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Getting the ingredients to make a pizza yourself will be far cheaper and tastier than both of those options.

by MontyCarloHall 4y ago

Jcowell 4y ago
Not in regards to time.
- MontyCarloHall 4y ago
  This is only true if in that hour it takes to make pizza yourself, you actually increase your lifetime earnings by more than the cost difference between store bought and homemade pizza.
vhgyu75e6u 4y ago
Sure, if you enjoy cooking or you don't consider your time as valuable, the math chacks out
bombcar 4y ago
That often isn't actually the case unless you make lots of pizza - for example with hamburgers I can't make one for myself cheaper than the local bar, because I can't buy a single slice of tomato or five leafs of lettuce. I can get a single patty at the meat counter ($7/lb, so about $2 usually), but can't buy a single bun or a slice of cheese.
- MontyCarloHall 4y ago
  You can buy ground beef in bulk for much less than $7/lb and freeze it. You can buy blocks of cheese and refrigerate them. You can refrigerate/freeze buns bought in bulk. You can buy several tomatoes at a time and use them for other purposes before they go bad (salads, salas, pizzas, etc.) Same goes for lettuce and pretty much any other ingredient except defrosted sashimi grade fish or live lobsters.
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    How does defrosted buns taste? I wish I could buy them one by one or two by two ... four seems like such an odd number of buns. What about families of 1,2,3 and 5.
    - MontyCarloHall 4y ago
      They taste fine, as long as you toast them and don’t let them get freezerburned/use them quickly enough (within a week and a half) that you just refrigerate rather than freeze. Good buns (i.e. without processed ingredients or preservatives) generally only come in <=4 packs anyway; the 8 packs are mostly processed crap that can sit out for a couple weeks without going moldy.
    - zo1 4y ago
      Grill them in an oven, don't microwave. They are as good as fresh and crunchy. Some places even let you buy the "restaurant" or "catering" frozen bread/buns that are pre-cooked but not fully baked. So they're risen, half-baked and frozen, ready to be "baked" from frozen by the final restaurant/caterer. That's how restaurants do it, they don't all bake or buy fresh-bread every day.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  Ye not being able to buy stuff at whatever quantity is annoying and probably a huge reason for waste. The biggest problem with hamburgers is the bread which I can't seem to get in packs of one or two. Lettuce and tomatoes you can use for any meal but if you buy 4 buns you either eat hamburger half the week or throw them away.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Yeah buns are the most annoying - I wish I had a local bakery where I could buy ones or two. I've taken to using buns for sandwiches (extra buns around an egg is a decent breakfast).
- greedo 4y ago
  Cheese lasts a long time in the fridge, and even iceberg lettuce does as well. My local burger/micro-brewery has been sliding in quality for the last two years and I finally reached my tipping point. Normally, it's about $12 for a 1/3lb burger and fries there. So I found a local butcher who makes a 'steakhouse' grind (chuck, brisket, short ribs) for about $7/lb. Two slices of cheddar are about a buck for non-Kraft cheese, buns and condiments are about another buck. Takes me about 9 minutes to cook at home, and I have a custom, super fresh and hot burger that tastes better than anything I've every had at a restaurant. Now I do miss out on fries, but eh, chips will do as a replacement. At the end of the day, I have a burger and chips for about $5, plus leftover stuff for other sandwiches. Throw in a decent beer, and I'm still cheaper than the microbrewery. And no driving required. Of course, I have to do the difficult part of cooking. /s
  - jewel 4y ago
    An idea for the fries: an air fryer would let you make a small batch of fries without having to use a lot of oil for deep frying.
- hirvi74 4y ago
  > I can't buy a single slice of tomato or five leafs of lettuce. Hit up the salad bar for this stuff if your grocery store of choice has one. It's usually measured by weight, and it is much cheaper and less wasteful.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    That'd be a great idea if Covid hadn't given them the excuse to get rid of them all (everywhere I know that has a salad bar has disappeared it).

Getting the ingredients to make a pizza yourself will be far cheaper and tastier than both of those options.

Jcowell 4y ago

Not in regards to time.

MontyCarloHall 4y ago
This is only true if in that hour it takes to make pizza yourself, you actually increase your lifetime earnings by more than the cost difference between store bought and homemade pizza.

vhgyu75e6u 4y ago

Sure, if you enjoy cooking or you don't consider your time as valuable, the math chacks out

bombcar 4y ago

That often isn't actually the case unless you make lots of pizza - for example with hamburgers I can't make one for myself cheaper than the local bar, because I can't buy a single slice of tomato or five leafs of lettuce. I can get a single patty at the meat counter ($7/lb, so about $2 usually), but can't buy a single bun or a slice of cheese.

MontyCarloHall 4y ago
You can buy ground beef in bulk for much less than $7/lb and freeze it. You can buy blocks of cheese and refrigerate them. You can refrigerate/freeze buns bought in bulk. You can buy several tomatoes at a time and use them for other purposes before they go bad (salads, salas, pizzas, etc.) Same goes for lettuce and pretty much any other ingredient except defrosted sashimi grade fish or live lobsters.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  How does defrosted buns taste? I wish I could buy them one by one or two by two ... four seems like such an odd number of buns. What about families of 1,2,3 and 5.
  - MontyCarloHall 4y ago
    They taste fine, as long as you toast them and don’t let them get freezerburned/use them quickly enough (within a week and a half) that you just refrigerate rather than freeze. Good buns (i.e. without processed ingredients or preservatives) generally only come in <=4 packs anyway; the 8 packs are mostly processed crap that can sit out for a couple weeks without going moldy.
  - zo1 4y ago
    Grill them in an oven, don't microwave. They are as good as fresh and crunchy. Some places even let you buy the "restaurant" or "catering" frozen bread/buns that are pre-cooked but not fully baked. So they're risen, half-baked and frozen, ready to be "baked" from frozen by the final restaurant/caterer. That's how restaurants do it, they don't all bake or buy fresh-bread every day.
rightbyte 4y ago
Ye not being able to buy stuff at whatever quantity is annoying and probably a huge reason for waste. The biggest problem with hamburgers is the bread which I can't seem to get in packs of one or two. Lettuce and tomatoes you can use for any meal but if you buy 4 buns you either eat hamburger half the week or throw them away.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Yeah buns are the most annoying - I wish I had a local bakery where I could buy ones or two. I've taken to using buns for sandwiches (extra buns around an egg is a decent breakfast).
greedo 4y ago
Cheese lasts a long time in the fridge, and even iceberg lettuce does as well. My local burger/micro-brewery has been sliding in quality for the last two years and I finally reached my tipping point. Normally, it's about $12 for a 1/3lb burger and fries there. So I found a local butcher who makes a 'steakhouse' grind (chuck, brisket, short ribs) for about $7/lb. Two slices of cheddar are about a buck for non-Kraft cheese, buns and condiments are about another buck. Takes me about 9 minutes to cook at home, and I have a custom, super fresh and hot burger that tastes better than anything I've every had at a restaurant. Now I do miss out on fries, but eh, chips will do as a replacement. At the end of the day, I have a burger and chips for about $5, plus leftover stuff for other sandwiches. Throw in a decent beer, and I'm still cheaper than the microbrewery. And no driving required. Of course, I have to do the difficult part of cooking. /s
- jewel 4y ago
  An idea for the fries: an air fryer would let you make a small batch of fries without having to use a lot of oil for deep frying.
hirvi74 4y ago
> I can't buy a single slice of tomato or five leafs of lettuce. Hit up the salad bar for this stuff if your grocery store of choice has one. It's usually measured by weight, and it is much cheaper and less wasteful.
- bombcar 4y ago
  That'd be a great idea if Covid hadn't given them the excuse to get rid of them all (everywhere I know that has a salad bar has disappeared it).