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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said: we get the same here, not with the prosciutto because we dont have enough hipsters to warrant them spending that kind of money but of the 2 large stores in the next town, both has a pretty impressive cheese selection and people with a lot of knowledge
if you're comparing sargento and laughing cow to what's at the cheese counter then I have bad news for you, there's a huge difference in quality, if you're comparing cheeses from the cheese counter at different stores, you'll see the quality is similar if not the same but there's usually a price difference
The stuff sold at the cheese counter is similar in quality especially lately in the past years, American supermarkets have improved their quality of foods a lot.
But at Whole Foods I was able to find for example, this raw, unpasteurized cheese that you wouldn't be able to find at a normal grocery store.
Again, $9.99 for a 6 inch block of cheese is not that bad of a price, even at Shoprite which is a low-budget, not even expensive grocery store sells the same amount of goat cheese for $7 or so. Good cheese is always expensive no matter where you go, hence why it's the most commonly shoplifted food item in the USA.
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blind taste test, that's the only way to go.
I can tell the difference. I sometimes buy prosciutto from Costco, and the Costco prosciutto is even a different color. The Whole Foods prosciutto is much darker pink, and it is saltier and has more flavor.
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I have eaten there one time. I've never eaten at a chipotle and I wont ever do so, not even out of desperation. yes, moe's is chipotle and cafeteria mexxican just isnt for me. I dont like it, nope, not one bit
Chipotle is not real Mexican anyway, we have much better and cheaper places out here that aren't overpriced where you can eat to your heart's desire and get full off $3 or $4 worth of food. Pretty much any hole in the wall Mexican place in California is probably going to be better than Chipotle and will have 59 cent Taco Tuesdays.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: pinedownpioneer]
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I've ordered alot of spices easily over $100 worth from this place. 90% of what I ordered I did not know what it was or bother to google it. My girl friend has all sorts of spices to make whatever she wants. They also have furmic acid at a great price.
I dont see how they have anything at a great price, an ounce of 'infused salt' for $6-$12 and turmeric, fresh, is around $5/lb here but they sell it for $23/lb
you should probably google that stuff, much if it is easy to make such as infused salts, some you can grow like the scorpion peppers and a lot of it is a lot cheaper everywhere
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Prisoner#1]
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I've ordered alot of spices easily over $100 worth from this place. 90% of what I ordered I did not know what it was or bother to google it. My girl friend has all sorts of spices to make whatever she wants. They also have furmic acid at a great price.
I dont see how they have anything at a great price, an ounce of 'infused salt' for $6-$12 and turmeric, fresh, is around $5/lb here but they sell it for $23/lb
you should probably google that stuff, much if it is easy to make such as infused salts, some you can grow like the scorpion peppers and a lot of it is a lot cheaper everywhere
Never claimed great prices. I was well aware I could probably find better deals but I needed the furmic and went on a spending spree for the girlfriend. Peppers are easy I grow more than I need and give most of them away at work. Already made infused salts, sugars, and extracts. You know all those tuna loins you buy and freeze you can catch them yourself. If you split up the trip costs with friends it comes out alot cheaper per pound...just sayin. I brought home hundreds of pounds of tuna meat from 1 trip.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
#23955658 - 12/25/16 02:25 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Repertoire89 said: I might try something like that curry powder, its pretty often that I dont have funds for all the seasonings to make something myself, it pays to have a backup plan
Honestly for Thai curry I've tried to find a recipe that doesn't use that curry paste and makes everything from scratch, and it would take you like a week just to procure all the ingredients. There were like 50 different ingredients, and so many of the herbs were so obscure and weren't native to or sold in America. It would be almost impossible to find all the ingredients at the same time to make it completely from scratch.
Bet you anything those Thai restaurants that serve curry use a similar curry paste.
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Repertoire89 said: I might try something like that curry powder, its pretty often that I dont have funds for all the seasonings to make something myself, it pays to have a backup plan
Also, regarding seasonings, do you have a Mother's market or Sprout's market by you?
That place is the best place to get seasonings... instead of selling individually packaged containers of seasoning for $5 a piece, they sell seasoning by the pound, and you scoop out as much seasoning as you want into a plastic baggie and weigh it out and pay individually. And it's wayyyyy cheaper than buying pre-packaged seasoning.
The prices are great too, for $5 I've gotten 8 different seasonings enough to last me over 2+ years.
You could also just buy a spice rack, you can get a 12-pack of spices for $15 from a place like Walmart or Target.
Here's a 16-jar spice rack, $18 from Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/36591519?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227024719917&wl0=&wl1=s&wl2=c&wl3=40343773472&wl4=pla-78307788752&wl5=9031545&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=36591519&wl13=&veh=sem
Yeah I wouldnt be surprised if they used pastes like that, half the restaurants Ive worked at use microwaves too, so premixed curry is definitely not out of the question. Usually I skip a lot of ingredients in recipes already though, so either way is fine.
Shoot, finding cheap bulk seasonings would be nice, Im usually pressed to even find what Im looking for. They dont sell tumeric or tahini in store I frequent atm.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
#23955668 - 12/25/16 02:43 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crystal G said: But at Whole Foods I was able to find for example, this raw, unpasteurized cheese that you wouldn't be able to find at a normal grocery store.
maybe. I havent looked for it specifically but we may have different views on what a normal grocery store is, in my town we have a mom and pop place they do package cheese like sargento and kraft, the next town up we have a couple of large chain groceries that both carry an extensive line, they carry the same shit as everyone else but they also have a cheese counter in which they sell craft cheeses
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Again, $9.99 for a 6 inch block of cheese is not that bad of a price, even at Shoprite which is a low-budget, not even expensive grocery store sells the same amount of goat cheese for $7 or so.
I dont buy foods by the inch, I buy based on weight, they cost of that cheese according to that label is $32/lb, you got a little more than 4 ounces of cheese for $10, now I can get a full pound of individually wrapped kraft singles for around $4 at sav-a-ton
that's what you just tried to do, compare a premium specialty store to a discount store that sells bulk bologna or maybe you were trying to compare mass produced feta to a hand made craft cheese, either way you wont be guying premium, specialty cheeses at discount places because they arent trying to cater to a refined palate, they're trying to move the 5lb block of velveta for $8
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blind taste test, that's the only way to go.
I can tell the difference. I sometimes buy prosciutto from Costco, and the Costco prosciutto is even a different color. The Whole Foods prosciutto is much darker pink, and it is saltier and has more flavor.
people claim to be able to tell the difference between organic and conventional produce and swear a piece cut from the same piece of fruit tastes different, prosciutto, iberico, serano, all of these will actually vary in flavor from ham to ham, two legs of prosciutto sold by the same farm will have different flavors if they didnt come from the same pig, changes in diet, seasons, weather conditions and drying times all affect the flavors so you're certainly going to taste a difference between products carried at different stores, even within the same ham you'll find that there are differences in flavor and color as you move to different areas
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Chipotle is not real Mexican anyway
what I've been trying to point out is that chipotle isnt even food
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: pinedownpioneer]
#23955672 - 12/25/16 02:52 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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pinedownpioneer said: Peppers are easy I grow more than I need and give most of them away at work. Already made infused salts, sugars, and extracts. You know all those tuna loins you buy and freeze you can catch them yourself. If you split up the trip costs with friends it comes out alot cheaper per pound...just sayin. I brought home hundreds of pounds of tuna meat from 1 trip.
my issue is time, I dont have the time to hit the ocean, charter a boat, go fishing and bring back 300 pounds of tuna, I sometimes get the time to go catch trout but that's more about spending time with the kids than getting food
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23955673 - 12/25/16 02:53 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dont buy foods by the inch, I buy based on weight, they cost of that cheese according to that label is $32/lb, you got a little more than 4 ounces of cheese for $10, now I can get a full pound of individually wrapped kraft singles for around $4 at sav-a-ton
that's what you just tried to do, compare a premium specialty store to a discount store that sells bulk bologna or maybe you were trying to compare mass produced feta to a hand made craft cheese, either way you wont be guying premium, specialty cheeses at discount places because they arent trying to cater to a refined palate, they're trying to move the 5lb block of velveta for $8
I was actually comparing one of these goat cheese logs you would find at any decent supermarket (which is a pretty good block of cheese, nothing like Kraft) to the Whole Foods price, and even 4oz of this cheese goes for $6.99 at supermarkets.
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people claim to be able to tell the difference between organic and conventional produce and swear a piece cut from the same piece of fruit tastes different, prosciutto, iberico, serano, all of these will actually vary in flavor from ham to ham, two legs of prosciutto sold by the same farm will have different flavors if they didnt come from the same pig, changes in diet, seasons, weather conditions and drying times all affect the flavors so you're certainly going to taste a difference between products carried at different stores, even within the same ham you'll find that there are differences in flavor and color as you move to different areas
Look, I will admit I can't tell the difference between organic produce and GMO produce. I can't tell the difference between cage-free eggs and factory farm eggs. I can only tell the difference if the eggs come from a neighbor's chickens. But the prosciutto, I can tell the difference, because whoever supplies Whole Foods with their prosciutto probably uses a different salt ratio and formula for the brining process.
Also I can imagine that whoever supplies Costco with their prosciutto probably uses machines for the entire aging process and for precision, hence why the taste and color always come out the same every single time.
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what I've been trying to point out is that chipotle isnt even food
Haha right... isn't Chipotle owned by the same company as Burger King?
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Repertoire89]
#23955675 - 12/25/16 02:59 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Honestly for Thai curry I've tried to find a recipe that doesn't use that curry paste and makes everything from scratch, and it would take you like a week just to procure all the ingredients. There were like 50 different ingredients, and so many of the herbs were so obscure and weren't native to or sold in America. It would be almost impossible to find all the ingredients at the same time to make it completely from scratch.
Bet you anything those Thai restaurants that serve curry use a similar curry paste.
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Also, regarding seasonings, do you have a Mother's market or Sprout's market by you?
That place is the best place to get seasonings... instead of selling individually packaged containers of seasoning for $5 a piece, they sell seasoning by the pound, and you scoop out as much seasoning as you want into a plastic baggie and weigh it out and pay individually. And it's wayyyyy cheaper than buying pre-packaged seasoning.
The prices are great too, for $5 I've gotten 8 different seasonings enough to last me over 2+ years.
You could also just buy a spice rack, you can get a 12-pack of spices for $15 from a place like Walmart or Target.
Here's a 16-jar spice rack, $18 from Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/36591519?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227024719917&wl0=&wl1=s&wl2=c&wl3=40343773472&wl4=pla-78307788752&wl5=9031545&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=36591519&wl13=&veh=sem
Yeah I wouldnt be surprised if they used pastes like that, half the restaurants Ive worked at use microwaves too, so premixed curry is definitely not out of the question. Usually I skip a lot of ingredients in recipes already though, so either way is fine.
Shoot, finding cheap bulk seasonings would be nice, Im usually pressed to even find what Im looking for. They dont sell tumeric or tahini in store I frequent atm.
Buying curry spices is like buying rice; they last a long time.
Things like coriander seeds and cumin seeds are the ones that would need to be most often replaced but even then, it's every few months.
Cardamom, cloves, peppercorns, all spice and fenugreek last years.
For these things the Asian store is best.
I could do with a curry now.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: pinedownpioneer]
#23955677 - 12/25/16 03:00 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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pinedownpioneer said: Never claimed great prices. I was well aware I could probably find better deals but I needed the furmic and went on a spending spree for the girlfriend. Peppers are easy I grow more than I need and give most of them away at work. Already made infused salts, sugars, and extracts. You know all those tuna loins you buy and freeze you can catch them yourself. If you split up the trip costs with friends it comes out alot cheaper per pound...just sayin. I brought home hundreds of pounds of tuna meat from 1 trip.
Hmmmm, I always see Groupon deals for deep sea fishing trips for $30 per person or so... you've convinced me to go out and consider checking this out. Too bad I don't have any fishing equipment or gear. I don't even know what to buy or what to get.
I knew a fisherman who would catch salmon and yellowtail all the time, he said he threw away the belly and the head though. I scolded him, that the belly is the best part because that's where all the fat is. And the cheeks are also the most coveted part among the Japanese, you grill them and eat around the cheekbone, the meat is very succulent around that area.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23955678 - 12/25/16 03:03 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't forget to dry fry those cumin and coriander seeds in the pan until they're fragrant before setting aside to be pulverised.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23955681 - 12/25/16 03:13 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thats interesting, I didnt know any of that, although my experience as a cook is pretty limited, especially in curries. Which is ironic having worked in a dozen restaurants, but it depends on the chef and sometimes they do the more interesting prep themselves
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
#23955685 - 12/25/16 03:25 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dont buy foods by the inch, I buy based on weight, they cost of that cheese according to that label is $32/lb, you got a little more than 4 ounces of cheese for $10, now I can get a full pound of individually wrapped kraft singles for around $4 at sav-a-ton
that's what you just tried to do, compare a premium specialty store to a discount store that sells bulk bologna or maybe you were trying to compare mass produced feta to a hand made craft cheese, either way you wont be guying premium, specialty cheeses at discount places because they arent trying to cater to a refined palate, they're trying to move the 5lb block of velveta for $8
I was actually comparing one of these goat cheese logs you would find at any decent supermarket (which is a pretty good block of cheese, nothing like Kraft) to the Whole Foods price, and even 4oz of this cheese goes for $6.99 at supermarkets.
you're still comparing apples to oranges, sure, both are goat's milk cheeses but they're entirely different cheeses and will have different flavor, consistency and quality
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Look, I will admit I can't tell the difference between organic produce and GMO produce. I can't tell the difference between cage-free eggs and factory farm eggs. I can only tell the difference if the eggs come from a neighbor's chickens. But the prosciutto, I can tell the difference, because whoever supplies Whole Foods with their prosciutto probably uses a different salt ratio and formula for the brining process.
Also I can imagine that whoever supplies Costco with their prosciutto probably uses machines for the entire aging process and for precision, hence why the taste and color always come out the same every single time.
color could be in a curing process or in the drying process, as I already stated, you'll see color variation in different muscles as well, just like with white and dark meat on chickens
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Repertoire89]
#23955698 - 12/25/16 03:42 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Repertoire89 said: Thats interesting, I didnt know any of that, although my experience as a cook is pretty limited, especially in curries. Which is ironic having worked in a dozen restaurants, but it depends on the chef and sometimes they do the more interesting prep themselves 
Just buy cumin powder if you want a really basic Indian curry taste. Cumin powder and soy sauce mixed together in sautéed rice, and the rice already imparts a very curry-like flavor based off just that alone.
You can feel free to add things like coriander and turmeric and cayenne and plain, unsweetened yogurt if you want, but this is optional. Cumin and soy sauce is all you need for the base of a simple Indian style curry, everything else you add to it are your own preferences.
Thai curry flavor is a bit more complex and complicated though, so for that one I recommend getting the Thai curry paste I recommended.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
#23955716 - 12/25/16 04:09 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well I certainly use a lot of cumin, tumeric and the like. Its the details idk and individual recipes like korma vs vindaloo, tikka masala, jalfrezi etc
Theres no rush anyways, one recipe at a time
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said: you're still comparing apples to oranges, sure, both are goat's milk cheeses but they're entirely different cheeses and will have different flavor, consistency and quality
Yes, that's true, it's not an exact comparison, but both are very good-quality cheeses and roughly the same weight, and the Whole Foods one still isn't that much more expensive. If anything the goat cheese packaged brand is mass-produced to a much larger quality than the herve mons ovalie cheese.
Hence my point about Whole Foods cheese still being worth it. Whole Foods charges outrageous prices for a lot of things, but their cheese is actually one of the things that's pretty fairly priced.
Take this picture for instance, their manchego section, you can see to the right of the sign, that slice of cheese says it's $4.60. Well $4.60 for a block of cheese that size isn't that outrageous, that's roughly around the same price you'd pay for that amount of craft cheese in any other grocer:
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Their infused waters, don't even get me started on those. Don't buy those, ever. Just make it yourself.
why? I mean soaking a hibiscus flower in water doesnt give you any health benefit that water wouldnt, it may add to the flavor but the whole thing is a scam, eat the fucking stuff you were going to infuse the water with and make some fucking tea or something
I never bought into the hype with such things.
I am kind of boring when I eat, meaning I eat to fuel myself, having proper fuel is my number one concern, flavor comes second, probably why I abstained from infused waters, I would rather just buy regular water and drink that.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
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Just buy cumin powder if you want a really basic Indian curry taste. Cumin powder and soy sauce mixed together in sautéed rice, and the rice already imparts a very curry-like flavor based off just that alone.
You can feel free to add things like coriander and turmeric and cayenne and plain, unsweetened yogurt if you want, but this is optional. Cumin and soy sauce is all you need for the base of a simple Indian style curry, everything else you add to it are your own preferences.
Thai curry flavor is a bit more complex and complicated though, so for that one I recommend getting the Thai curry paste I recommended.
I don't think soy sauce is used in Indian curries.
There is also a bit more involved that buying ground cumin powder(which I wouldn't recommend btw).
Just like adding oregano/thyme doesn't suddenly make an an Italian sauce or whatever.
I am a fan of curry pastes, though.
Tons of onion, garlic, and ginger.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23955824 - 12/25/16 06:35 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I wouldn't really call it anything close to authentic curry, but the soy sauce + cumin powder mix tastes similar to a rendition of curry. It's the most similar to being a curry without actually being a curry, and it's simple.
You know what it reminds me of, is it reminds me of a Japanese rendition of Indian curry.
Why wouldn't you recommend ground cumin powder though? It's easy and less hassle, and there's tons of flavor even in the ground stuff.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
#23955934 - 12/25/16 08:34 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's true but I've found it doesn't keep its original flavour for too long, just like if you were to buy more ground weed than you can smoke in a day or two.
Same for ground coriander seeds.
I mean for a couple of curries it's fine but having seeds and only dry frying and grinding what you need makes more sense.
It's cheaper too.
The scent after grinding is also part of the parcel.
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Re: Nasty Food Stuff and Groceries You Should Avoid [Re: Crystal G]
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Yes, that's true, it's not an exact comparison, but both are very good-quality cheeses and roughly the same weight, and the Whole Foods one still isn't that much more expensive. If anything the goat cheese packaged brand is mass-produced to a much larger quality than the herve mons ovalie cheese.
Hence my point about Whole Foods cheese still being worth it. Whole Foods charges outrageous prices for a lot of things, but their cheese is actually one of the things that's pretty fairly priced.
the rule of thumb I live by is if I want it and I enjoy it, then it's worth it, that cheese is still $32 a pound, Limburger is a similar price but it tastes of old urine so it's not worth it and it does not make a good grilled cheese
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Take this picture for instance, their manchego section, you can see to the right of the sign, that slice of cheese says it's $4.60. Well $4.60 for a block of cheese that size isn't that outrageous, that's roughly around the same price you'd pay for that amount of craft cheese in any other grocer:
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if it's an ounce of cheese, it's a pretty hefty price at $4.60 because that makes it more than $70/lb., if it's a 4oz wedge then that makes it less than $20/lb and that's much nicer to my wallet. when you're comparing raw prices it really doesnt tell you what you're spending or if you're paying similar prices to other places, kroger has a decent selection, they may not have oval cheese from french goats but I have the option of the boars head at the deli for the same price as the craft cheese at the cheese counter or I can go with the higher end cheeses and still not be paying $30/lbs for the majority of cheeses


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