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I'd be happier with the low-tech solution of assuming you're not some feral monster who doesn't have eggs or flour in the house. Oddly, the one thing they don'
by idlewords 12y ago
I'd be happier with the low-tech solution of assuming you're not some feral monster who doesn't have eggs or flour in the house.
Oddly, the one thing they don't provide for you is cooking oil. Who are these high-income loners living in a bare apartment with just a single bottle of olive oil?
- dllthomas 12y agoYou've never run out of eggs? Certainly I'd be happy enough with that approach, but not happier I think. Particularly if the pantry management stuff itself provided value.
- tptacek 12y agoIf you acquire eggs for your cooking by waiting for them to arrive individually wrapped in recipe kits, you're basically always out of eggs. Just keep a dozen eggs in your fridge all the time.
- dllthomas 12y agoI do keep eggs in my fridge; that doesn't mean I never run out (my egg use is bursty). Whether that's relevant probably depends much on the time frame these kits are acquired over.
- idlewords 12y agoWell, part of that is up to different personalities. I am a disorganized fellow and I dislike internet-of-things type stuff a lot; other people aren't/don't. To me the salient difference is between stuff I can easily pick up at the corner store (eggs, milk, flour) and things that it really is helpful to get in a kit box (premeasured hoisin sauce, blue potatoes, daikon radish).
- dllthomas 12y agoFor sure - and like I said to tptacek, it depends a bit how easy the kits are to obtain relative to groceries. If they magically appear on my doorstep the same day when I otherwise don't have time to run to the store and cook, that's worlds different than if I have to plan for them as much as any other meal.