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I used to like the idea of Soylent, but after subscribing to one of those weekly boxes where they deliver all the fresh ingredients and recipes to you, I've fou

by jarin 12y ago

I used to like the idea of Soylent, but after subscribing to one of those weekly boxes where they deliver all the fresh ingredients and recipes to you, I've found a lot of enjoyment in cooking.

bbarn 12y ago
I love to cook. I tend to shop for meats / primary ingredients in bulk at costco, and freeze/thaw as needed. However, the individual dishes I almost never plan out, other than maybe a few days ahead of time. Almost nightly I go for a walk to the local food store(s) and build our meals there. Sometimes I have a mission and some times I tool around. It's about an hour's time total, and what I do to kind of separate work time to home time (aside from a short bike ride home). It's as much a part of my cooking process as anything else, and for that reason something about these subscription things doesn't feel right for me.
someone13 12y ago
Which service do you subscribe to, if you don't mind my asking?
- jarin 11y ago
  Blue Apron, to me it has the most variety and more interesting ingredients than the other ones I've looked at so far.
mrieck 12y ago
Having those boxes delivered really saves a lot of time for me. The next step in time-saving should be automating the cooking with robots, not accepting that because we have no time we should take the pleasure and variety out of food. In a utopian robotic future we'd all have robots cook our meals with the expert quality of a high-end chef. In a dystopian robotic future, the robots would give us the most basic sustenance to keep us alive if they deemed us useful... and I'd imagine what they'd give us would be something like Soylent. If some people are happy with that, then I'm not going to judge, but personally I think we could do better.
- jarin 11y ago
  I don't necessarily disagree, but I take a lot of pleasure in the actual act of cooking, especially when I have friends over for dinner. It's not something that I'd want to save time on by having someone else (or a robot) do it for me, because I enjoy it.

by jarin 12y ago

I used to like the idea of Soylent, but after subscribing to one of those weekly boxes where they deliver all the fresh ingredients and recipes to you, I've found a lot of enjoyment in cooking.

bbarn 12y ago

I love to cook. I tend to shop for meats / primary ingredients in bulk at costco, and freeze/thaw as needed. However, the individual dishes I almost never plan out, other than maybe a few days ahead of time. Almost nightly I go for a walk to the local food store(s) and build our meals there. Sometimes I have a mission and some times I tool around. It's about an hour's time total, and what I do to kind of separate work time to home time (aside from a short bike ride home). It's as much a part of my cooking process as anything else, and for that reason something about these subscription things doesn't feel right for me.

someone13 12y ago

Which service do you subscribe to, if you don't mind my asking?

jarin 11y ago
Blue Apron, to me it has the most variety and more interesting ingredients than the other ones I've looked at so far.

mrieck 12y ago

Having those boxes delivered really saves a lot of time for me. The next step in time-saving should be automating the cooking with robots, not accepting that because we have no time we should take the pleasure and variety out of food. In a utopian robotic future we'd all have robots cook our meals with the expert quality of a high-end chef. In a dystopian robotic future, the robots would give us the most basic sustenance to keep us alive if they deemed us useful... and I'd imagine what they'd give us would be something like Soylent. If some people are happy with that, then I'm not going to judge, but personally I think we could do better.

jarin 11y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I take a lot of pleasure in the actual act of cooking, especially when I have friends over for dinner. It's not something that I'd want to save time on by having someone else (or a robot) do it for me, because I enjoy it.