/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14137169
the tactic of choosing two images with such different tones and then freaking out about "ERR- THE MURICAN FRIES SO YELLOW" is just.. odd.

Right up there with _THE FOOD HAS CHEMICALS_

>>6472912
When a statement lumps all Americans together in a single question over preference or activity you can see that the question is being asked by an idiot.

>shockingly, someone filming episodes for TV does exactly what is done when filming TV episodes

ten dishes is a lot for homewo- I mean, it's a lot of things for a food cart.

Aim lower.. like tots only. Become the Tot King. Keep the core thing strong (the tots) and move the other things around as needed. Tots with chili, tots with cheese, tots with shredded pork or beef with cheese, grilled onions and a spicy sauce. whatever.

one thing easy to hold or serve in easily-held containers (hot dogs for example) + multiple, usually small, variations (dog, bacon-wrapped dog, dog with sauteed onions, split dog stuffed with cheese) = food cart.

Or Grannies Irish Stew and Brown Bean Chili plus a third rotating/changing choice, served up in cups. Pasties stuffed with mac&cheese available fridays, limited numbers so don't dawdle.

But you start having too many things and you'll either need a 'cart' the size of a bus or you'll handle them all badly or, even worse, you'll waste precious precious money trying to be all things to all people.

>>5830754
Don't be downin' on hard cider.
It was the original drink, as american as apple pie long before apple pie was american at all.

>>5832294
and early up there in step one, make sure you are incorporated and get some legal help to build a wall between you and the business.

The odds are well in favor of failure and you want to make sure that you can metaphorically burn the place down and still protect your personal property.

>>5794067
Pratchett. The Truth
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>swedes
Oh, so that's what those are? I'd sometimes wondered.

"The curry was particularly strange, since
Mrs Arcanum considered foreign parts only
marginally less unspeakable than private part
s and therefore added the curious yellow curry
powder with a very small spoon, lest everyone
should suddenly tear their clothes off and do foreign things. The main ingredients appeared to be swede and gritty rainwater-tasting sultanas and the remains of some cold mutton, although William couldn't remember when they'd had the original mutton, at any temperature."

Anyhow, I've heard of them being mashed with potatoes, might be good. They need a big headstart in the boiling though. And if you can boil and mash.. maybe you can bake them like taters?

Not the worst food crime imaginable Op, don't worry.

If you find yourself needing small amounts of those "fruits" but don't want to commit to fresh you might try frozen for a different effect. Most supermarkets will carry things like diced onion right along with the other veg if you can't be bothered.

Don't be afraid of garlic though! A bulb keeps for a long time in a keeper in the spice cabinet and you can dice/smash/press cloves as needed quickly.

>>5754562
also this.
It's a vast world of cured and spiced pressed meat food.

>>5754517
Most people are only exposed to mid- to low-tier peperoni in pizza-topping form. It's not the most common sandwich meat outside of some italian places and the quality of their large diameter sandwich pep' can be pretty variable too.

Encourage it when you can but don't force the issue too hard, people and the market will come around.

>>5754150
I can't stop you.. but.. don't put it in the pot. Put the rice in the bowl, man.

Rice in the chili does not just hang out like tasty beans. The rice wants to murder the chili by first soaking up all the liquid and flavor and then exploding into overcooked mush and cereal sludge.

Put your nice hot rice inna bowl, toss some cheese on it and smother with a ladle of red beefiness.

It is like some people are saying.. people hate them because they were served badly prepared 'sprouts. Just like cabbage, broccoli and other green veg. The english tradition of Boil Everything To Green-Brown Mush held sway for far too long in the time of our parents and grandparents, creating that whole culture of "eww, X is gross"

To a much lesser degree the complex flavor sometimes turns away younger people with sensitive tastebuds and dumb pallets. Their parents make a big deal about it and force them to choke the veg down, making an indelible mark in their memory about how they dislike x.

>>5729465
the big guys have the cash reserves and the insurance to cover any lose while a small operation might be shafted by losing even part of their aging stock or production equipment.

That kind of displacement could leave gaps for the large cash-stacked conglomerates to buy up or buy out the strained competition.

>>5726615
This.
Just put a slightly-oversized serving in a nice big skillet, not a pot, and heat while uncovered. Don't give it maximum blistering heat, just something like a medium while the vastly increased surface area lets it evaporate off extra water and leave behind flavor.

Should probably remove from heat while just a tiny bit watery, I did something similar with a meaty pasta sauce and overshot the mark to the point of crumbly pasteyness instead of chunky sauce.

>>5724440
the not pretty but still wholesome apples, just like every single cheap-prepared-apple-product manufacturer ever and anywhere. So they have likely been damaged (not rotten, just busted in processing and sorted out) are a funny size, the wrong color or underripe. Low wage workers trim them down on some kind of assembly line and feed them into a machine that lops them into the approved wedges that cook properly in the recipe. And the recipe is probably minimal apples, maximum corn syrup stabilized into a spiced gel with starch.

No one really uses rotten fruit and veg, especially if it can be proven (the sales receipt for Apples, Rotten Shit, 15 tons)

It's not that scary.

>>5723295
this.
I want a happy cow right up until it becomes a dead one. This is only humane And stress can be bad for the end product. It only makes personal and business sense to provide the best lives and the best treatment right until the end, just like it makes sense to butcher carefully, follow the right food-handling procedures and everything else.

PETA wants to scour through years worth of recordings and records to find a handful of abuses and then show them again and again in horror-porn slowmo.
"eating chicken is wrong, watch this blown up and cropped image of some ethic guy chopping a chicken's head off on a stump! We're going to imply that he is today's standard! ..trimming out the image of the dirt floor, the rough hut the guy lives in and the timecode and labels that would say that this video was shot twenty years ago in Peru is just editorial discretion."

>>5696268
If the question is "Do Americans Really -Blank-", that answer is maybe. The United States of America happens to be a huge country with vastly different people spread all through it. Yes, right now someone is sitting down to enjoy a their "tacos" made of plain browned crumbled hamburger. Someone else is digging into a meal they made with grandma rosita's recipe for authentic beef tacos lingua and hand-ground dried chiles from the mountains of..

Oh.. I get it.. you're just being an idiot. Nevermind.

as painfully hipsterish as those guys are, I kinda sorta like the idea.

But still, goddamn.

>>5683427
pretty good.
They are the thin and crusty type of burger instead of thick beefy monsters and make a good change. Tasty.

Also great for very crispy fries that are cut narrow, tasty hotdogs and frozen custard treats.

legitimate stores (i mean grocery stores, larger chain gas stations, etc) are most often served by a salesman who brings in new product and removes the old to be forwarded to biglots, etc.

You could try going to lots of really bad gas stations to find someone who stocked on those and never sold or discarded aging products or check biglots.com to find others in your acceptable travel area to visit or call on the off chance that they will check the shelves for you. Maybe Ebay as well.

>>5578062
Quality.
I brought a little cooler full of Cheerwine to some July 4th celebration on friday, blew some minds. Dublin Brewing Company makes a few fine beverages at well, worth looking for.

>>5549692
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

>>5495295
nah, it's commercial but your idea sounds fun too!
probably not cheaper and probably something that is full of pitfalls and traps that the USDA, FDA.. FBI? are ready to leap from.