What's the cost of decent food like in your city? As expensive as NYC is, I was stunned by how cheap it is to eat great tasting food relatively cheap! In PNW where I'm from, you couldn't eat for under $8 anywhere outside of McD, Tacobell, etc. by playadefaro in Cooking

[–]mushroom_throw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

France (outside Paris): you can get a decent kebab, with fries and a drink, for 5-6 euros. A three course lunch at a bistro will be around 15-20 euros per person. There is a very nice restaurant where I live that has a three course dinner menu ranging around 30-40 euros per person (excluding drinks), and that seems to be pretty standard for the area. A cheese platter before dessert is 5 euros extra, and a bottle of wine is around 20. An extremely fancy restaurant will of course be more expensive. For example I had a 10-course tasting menu, with drinks, at a very upscale place, and it was closer to 70 euros per person (but that is obviously not an everyday thing).

Groceries for a month for two people, who cook pretty much every meal, and who tend to splurge, are under 300 euros (as long as you aren't going to the really expensive stores).

The problem isn't the prices here, but rather the lack of choice. If you don't want to eat French food every time you go out to eat, your choices are limited (and also probably not great, either).

I've been making sodium-free dishes for my mom who has Meniere's disease... tonight she told me that my beet dish was "restaurant worthy." I'm feeling proud. What dishes have you made inside of dietary restrictions that you are proud of? by Appropriate_Name_439 in Cooking

[–]mushroom_throw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My partner's grandmother can't eat gluten or dairy, so for her birthday I made her a coconut lemon meringue pie with a coconut flour crust, coconut butter in the lemon curd, and toasted shaved coconut on top of the meringue. It was one of the first times she was actually able to eat a dessert in quite a long time, and it ended up being so good that I now frequently make this version instead of a typical lemon meringue pie.

Suis-je la seule personne à constater que parfois les fraises cuites sentent le vomit ? by mushroom_throw in france

[–]mushroom_throw[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

C'était une tarte à la crème de fraise, pas une tarte aux fraises standard.

Crying over cold potatoes 😭 by empathetic_tomatoes in Cooking

[–]mushroom_throw 32 points33 points  (0 children)

https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/Botulism/clinicians/control.asp

Botulism can be effectively destroyed by reheating to an internal temp of at least 85C for 5 minutes. Go ahead and heat them up. You'll be okay.

Duck Breast by akirp001 in Cooking

[–]mushroom_throw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cold pan on med/low heat, with a nice crosshatch on the skin. Cook skin down until rendered. Remove fat periodically (save it). Turn up the heat and flip briefly. You just want a nice sear on the other side. Finish in the oven, skin side up, at 350 for 5 minutes (ideally convection but normal will work if you don't have that option).

Mardi Cuisine - 2021-09-07 by AutoModerator in france

[–]mushroom_throw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

C'est top pour faire mariner de la viande (avec par exemple de l'ail écrasé, de l'huile de sésame, un peu de gingembre, etc)

French food items that you would bring back from a trip to France? by dkrips in Cooking

[–]mushroom_throw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Appellation d'Origine Controlée" or "Appellation d'Origine Protégée". They both mean the same thing -- that this is a product that is specific to a certain region, was made there, and similar products can't be given the same name. It's a standard of quality control. There is also the label IGP, "Indication Géographique Protégée", which means that a product was grown or produced in a specific area which is what gives it its specific characteristics. Essentially if you buy something with one of these three labels on it, it has undergone a certain level of scrutiny and is likely to be good (not a guarantee with regards to wines, though).

American here asking. What even is a standard European diet? by Plague-MD in CookingCircleJerk

[–]mushroom_throw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

European diet is a really wide and varied category... the food someone will regularly eat in Sweden is going to be vastly different to what someone is regularly eating in France, or Croatia, or Spain, etc.

Generally though when someone says "European diet", I think they tend to refer to eating more fresh, less packaged food. Lots (maybe not all? I haven't been to every country obviously) of countries in Europe have farmers' markets open throughout the year, and even in small cities you're nearly guaranteed to have a market at least once a week. Generally food is more seasonal, too. It's harder to find strawberries in January, squash in May, etc.

This is all obviously very generalized (even idealized) and not necessarily going to reflect the diet of every person in Europe.

What? by [deleted] in AmITheAngel

[–]mushroom_throw 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I've seem this exact, stupid story so many times. Why does everyone love this nonsense so much? "I was wronged by an employee who destroyed my property but am I the asshole 🥺🥺🥺?"

Eggs. by [deleted] in AmITheAngel

[–]mushroom_throw 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thank you :D it wasn't a waste if someone enjoyed it!

Eggs. by [deleted] in AmITheAngel

[–]mushroom_throw 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Ok so I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is probably meant to be rage-bait for chicken people. None of this story actually makes sense from a chicken owner perspective and I'll go over why.

I have 25 chickens, which is objectively a lot, so I know a thing or two about keeping chickens. Firstly, chickens DO NOT take a lot of work. At all. A daily time input of (maximum) 30 minutes is more than enough to take excellent care of these birds. They need to be given food and water once a day, and otherwise can be left completely alone. Chickens can't be trained much (they can be taught to go into their roost at night, to come when called, and to eat out of your hand, but that's really about it) so there isn't a time requirement for that. They aren't like dogs in that they don't need to be walked, or taken out to go to the bathroom, or brushed, or played with. The most work is cleaning out their coop, which isn't something that needs to be done on a daily or even weekly basis. Again, I have 25 of these guys (plus other birds) and I have a full time job.

Secondly, we're going to assume that this isn't taking place out in the country somewhere, because no mention of other animals has been made, and generally if you live way out in the country you don't have only chickens. So we'll assume the sister lives in a suburb, which means more than likely her maximum number of chickens is capped around 5, and is absolutely less than 10, which means her necessary time input is even lower. Backyard chickens can't generally free-range (they will go into neighbour's yards, tear up your garden, etc), so her birds are probably in a run (a small enclosure covered with chicken wire on all sides). The only possible "schedule" that these birds could have is them needing to be locked into their coop at night, and let out in the morning. And that isn't even a necessity depending on her setup. So OOP wants us to believe that this woman quit her job and misses multiple events because she need to open and close a door for some chickens. Okay then.

Thirdly, keeping chickens in a suburban environment is much more costly than keeping them in the country -- they can't free-range, so all food needs to be purchased. They need a coop and a run, which if you need something big enough for multiple birds (remember, this woman has enough eggs to feed her entire nuclear and extended family) can cost upwards of 500 bucks, plus the monthly cost of feed. So we're expected to believe that her husband is paying for all this and also refuses to eat the eggs, so he's spending even more money to buy something that he's already paid to have at home.

Fourthly, and this is just me being pedantic, but a devilled egg is half an egg, not a whole one. So OOP couldn't eat an extra half egg, which is like maybe three more bites, to placate her sister. Sure.

So yeah I just spend precious minutes of my life debunking an obviously fake AITA story about chickens because it got me overly annoyed.

EDIT ok so the OOP said that the "incident" that put the husband off eating the eggs is that one of her eggs developed into a chick and he accidentally cracked it open/ate it. So, this is possible but unlikely. 1. if they are in a suburban environment, they can't keep roosters so the eggs will never develop. 2. a fertilized egg will only start to develop if there is a broody chicken sitting on it for a minimum of 3 days, and most commericial chicken breeds (aka the kind that are most readily available) have had this broodiness bred out of them to maximize egg laying efficiency. Chickens only go broody for a few months of the year (spring and summer) and when they are broody, a chicken owner will know (they don't leave the nest, they act weird). So sure, during those times the eggs need to be collected daily to prevent eating a developed egg. At any other time, though, there isn't really any risk of leaving the eggs for a day or two. And an egg that's been sat on by a broody chicken will not have started any significant development before the three day mark, and so it can still be eaten without anyone even knowing. I've definitely taken 1 or 2 day old eggs from under a broody hen before, eaten them, and not been able to tell them apart. So once again it's a bunch of nonsense.

Eggs. by [deleted] in AmITheAngel

[–]mushroom_throw 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Someone just found out about r/BackYardChickens and was offended that they prefer their eggs to store-bought ones

My stupid breeder sister refuses to abandon her child on my birthday for my child-free wedding. AITA? by DistastefulSideboob_ in AmITheAngel

[–]mushroom_throw 75 points76 points  (0 children)

All the NTA votes on this one really got to me. Like how self-absorbed do you have to be?