I get the comic, but I wonder if people get that they have a choice at the end - throw up their hands and face the inevitable conclusion that cooking your own food is a hopeless pipe dream, or learn to cook.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Funfact. I absolutely hate cooking. My mind wanders out the window the very moment I take a step into the kitchen while my body becomes violently shaking akin to exorcised evil spirit. I feel violated by the very fact I need to do something in the kitchen.
So if I cook, I make sure to do plain things. Minced meat is your friend. It can work with rice, spaghetti, as part of casserole, or as a cutlet...and prolly more. It cares not. It's fast. It's botherless. It's cheap. It'll accept you as you are.
You enter the kitchen, lose all vibe for like 10 minutes, then leave with something that while maybe not being gourmet, is tasty enough to still make you feel like you did good.
And you can drop anything into minced meat. Beans, veggies, mushrooms. Again, it cares not.
It Gets Better
Hey.
HEY!
You like food, doncha?
You'll get better at it, just take it easy.
All the restaurants buy shitty Sysco food anyways. The only thing a restaurant has to offer that I don't have at home is a deep fryer.
I'm learning that my cheap air fryer works great. Homemade onion rings - ohhh yeaaahhh.
Not everyone lives in the US.
suggestion: tell people how it's different where you live
Uh the only thing that changes in other countries is the name of the factory, get real.
etc
I'm a chef. Any real restaurant uses fresh ingredients.
I'm sorry this is the standard of food you've been accustomed to but it is not the case in the majority of the planet.
I'm sorry you're living in a dream world.
Add more butter and salt until it taste good.
to be fair, it looks like you've pan fried oat meal, not sure what your expecting
I kind of want to try it now, though. It's a thing to fry rice before you cook it, so maybe you can also do that with oatmeal?
Ngl, for me, itβs the opposite. Cooking at home is actually better since you can try different recipes, mix some things up, and come up with something way more delicious.
Coming out of atrophy hurts. The longer atrophying, the more it hurts, the harder it is, the longer it takes. So get out of atrophy as soon as possible. Gently. Now. Gotta start from somewhere, sometime, and that somewhere is right here, and that sometime is right now. Yeah, you'll likely be sub-par, but that's the karma of losing it from not using it. Mendwards! What's cooking next today?
Skill issue, obviously. I'm not a great cook and the food I make is better than 90% of restaurants.
This here. My stepfather was a chef so I got used to very good food and he was kind enough to teach me the basics. I wouldn't call myself a good cook, but I can do maths and I can make way better food for so, so much cheaper than eating in a restaurant.
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It does not take very many tries to start cooking better than a restaurant. And the best part is you can make sure that only your favorite ingredients get in there.
After like maybe half a year of cooking for myself a couple times a week (instead of frozen food or like canned food) it's seriously started to astound me how bad some restaurant food is.
I know take out is mostly for convenience, but if the problem is taste you're in luck because the bar to clear for tastier food than take out is really really low.
I can cook some reasonably decent chow, but most people are deluding themselves if they think their cooking is better than any restaurant that isn't totally terrible.
Restaurant-style cooking is very equipment intensive. A proper Chinese style stir fry needs a gas jet burner and a big wok. A proper pizza needs an oven hotter than home ovens can do. Proper rotisserie meats like gyros or kebab need, well, a rotisserie. You can try to emulate these at home with varying degrees of success, but typically you do more work for what is objectively an inferior product. Many restaurant dishes also require the kind of prep work that doesn't make sense unless you're making them at scale.
With home cooking you have to play to your strengths and accept the fact that a lot of restaurant dishes are not worth making. There's lots of great home cooked dishes you can make, and oftentimes making them yourself at home does make them feel better than at a restaurant, but let's be honest the overwhelming majority of us are not cooking tastier food than a restaurant.
i only order food i canβt/am not willing to make at home
Home cooked food is also going to taste a bit poorer because restaurants design their recipes to be appealing, not good for you. Full fat butter and too much sodium in everything.
You can, however, absolutely make better food at home. And it can be delicious if you know what youre doing and have a good grocery. But you've gotta put time and effort in.
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If you like to eat tasty food, you should learn to cook tasty food. There -is- a learning curve if you're going in completely blind, but you'll pick it up way quicker than you'd expect.
Absolutely a skill worth developing!
Start with soup. Soup is easy to get good at, and teaches you techniques that are critical for other dishes.
Then do sauces (which are just soups in a top-hat), inc making a roux.
With classical cooking techniquesyou turn boring steamed veg and grilled chicken into grilled veg and steamed chicken with a mushroom sauce.
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Do it more often, it will get better.
Living in Toronto I can't relate to most of these comments. I've been cooking since I was a teen, I consider myself pretty good. Wife loves my stuff, as do friends/fam.
But the restaurant game here is so good I can't possibly rival it, and the variety is absurd.
Are there people who almost exclusively eat takeout?
How do they afford it...?
By constantly complaining they're broke.
Iβve lost count of the number of people I know tangentially who complain about not having any money yet talk about constantly ordering DoorDash for some cookies or other frivolous crap.
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CEO of big market chain in Spain (Mercadona) claims people will not have kitchens by 2050. They started selling ready meals some time ago and are now expanding it.
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I have the opposite problem. I learn how to make something I like, then I realize βOh shit, I donβt need this much lasagna in my life. This is going to kill me. I must seal away the recipe forever.β
I was getting real good at cakes, had to stop for my health.
Pasta is deceptive. A box of pasta, a pack of meat, 2 or 3 jars of sauce and all of a sudden you have 8 pounds of food...
Accidental meal prep, lol
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But it is a dog, it will literally eat poop!
Also calling it an it due to a recent meme.
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i would love to cook more if there was anybody actually eating the food. i'm not cooking for myself, i eat 3 bites and am full.
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