An internet survey recently asked, “What is a food that tastes better processed and not homemade?” Here are the 20 best responses.
Ketchup
“Any chef will tell you it’s not worth making your own. It takes forever and doesn’t taste quite right.”
“If I go to a restaurant with house-made ketchup, I ask for Heinz because I don’t want artisan ketchup; I want real ketchup.”
Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets
“I know. It’s so hard to find dinosaur meat to make them myself.”
“Nothing felt better in college than eating a plate of Dino nuggies with kraft Mac n cheese after a painful midterm.”
Sugar Cookies
“Really? I find store-bought cookies of any kind terrible. I’m not an expert baker, yet I can cook better cookies.”
“Hard disagree. Sounds like you’ve never had someone bake from scratch before. There is literally no comparison.”
Tater Tots
“This is the only one that I 100% agree with. Homemade is just shredded potatoes.”
“The ketchup that goes with them. You’ll never nail it.”
Kraft Mac and Cheese
“Yep. Mac and cheese from scratch can be perfect, but it is so different from Kraft that I consider it a different food. And some days, Kraft sounds way better than from scratch.”
“Almost 60 yrs old, and I still like to cut up hotdogs and mix them in Kraft Mac & Cheese. Yeah, I know it’s about 3 days worth of my sodium intake, but you plan to eat better before/after.”
McDonald’s Fries
“The trick is to fry the potatoes at a lower temperature, freeze them, then fry them again at a high temperature. I had a deep fryer for a while and bought pre-fried frozen fries, and they tasted amazing once I fried them at 190°C.”
“Ore Ida makes “fast food fries” that are delicious! You can change the flavor depending on what oil you like.”
Creamy Peanut Butter
“We used to make our own peanut butter as kids. You could never get it super smooth, but even the chunky peanut butter from the store is better than homemade.”
“Nah, I gotta disagree, I just blend peanuts with a teaspoon of honey, and it tastes way better than the store-bought stuff.”
Cranberry Sauce
“That Thanksgiving cranberry sauce better have a can ridge on it, or I don’t want it.”
“Canned cranberry is good, but homemade is a treat.”
Green Bean Casserole With the Canned Beans and Canned Cream of Mushroom
“Fresh green beans are far superior in the casserole.”
“Hard disagree on this one. Canned green beans are nasty. Fresh green beans are superior, and it’s not even close.”
Puff Pastry Dough
“It’s difficult and annoying to make, and you’re just trying to replicate the store-bought. Save time and buy it.”
“Every professional chef I heard talk about puff pastry dough says to buy it. When I get into an “I must make this entire thing from scratch” mode, I still buy the puff pastry.”
Boxed Brownies
“I don’t know why. I prefer almost everything homemade, but I’ve never had brownies I prefer over boxed Betty Crocker.”
“Every baker in the world is jealous of boxed cakes. The reason is boxed cakes have been scienced to the moon and back to have all the right emulsifiers and other trace additives impractical for a baker to acquire and measure out super tiny amounts of into their batters. I’m sure boxed brownies are the same.”
Oreos
“I’ve made homemade Oreos, and they’re just…missing something.”
“I used Joann Chang’s recipe for Oreos. The filling was mostly spot on. Something was just missing, almost like a fake flavor to all of them? It was just not it.”
Hot Dogs
“Making homemade hotdogs is not worth the time and effort to make. Better to buy.”
“I like homemade hotdogs. I don’t like making them myself, though.”
Potato Chips
“100%. I HATE when restaurants serve their own potato chips. They’re always somehow both soggy and stale at the same time.”
“I worked at a country club that made their own. Had a horrible burnt taste, but they were not burnt.”
“No, these are good homemade. It would help if you had a mandolin to slice potatoes thin, though. And you must eat them promptly after frying.”
Pizza Rolls
“Something about those preservative pockets you can’t reproduce.”
“If I’m eating a pizza roll, then I’m not in the mood to spend an hour making it.”
The Majority of Condiments
“Reason being the market is flooded with them, and typically if the market is flooded, there is a good chance that the “best” is already out on the shelf.”
“You can make the most basic BBQ Sauce known to mankind, and it will blow 99% of store-bought BBQ sauce away.”
Fried Chicken
“I cannot be bothered to make my sad homemade version when Popeyes is literally RIGHT THERE.”
“This is me. I haven’t fried chicken at home in over 10 years. It won’t be better than Popeyes, and if they have a special, it won’t be cheaper either.”
“No way on this one. My family makes the best-fried chicken. I’m also from the South.”
Gyros With Beef/Lamb Meat
“Delicious, and not something that can be done at home because of how the meat is cooked.”
“Occasionally, Costco will have packaged Gyros meat that’s pretty good. Not quite the same texture as what I get at restaurants, but for something to pull out of the freezer on a moment’s notice, it’s pretty good.”
Pizza
“Everyone thinks their homemade pizza is amazing. It never is good. Mediocre takeout pizza is much better than anyone’s homemade pizza. My husband makes a few things, but pizza is one of them. I’m always glad when he cooks, so I fake enthusiasm, but truthfully, it’s not very good.”
“They have less common equipment in home kitchens and use different dough recipes. It’s not hard to replicate, and many grocery stores sell the same pizza dough the local pizza place uses. There is no need to make it. Buy a pizza stone, and you’re much closer.”
Movie Theater Nacho Cheese
“I’m with you. People look at me as crazy when I say I crave gas station nachos. I also buy the dipper cups for my tortilla chips at home.”
“That stuff is actually relatively low in fat. It’s mostly cornstarch thickened cheese flavored milk. As a French person, I wouldn’t even consider it cheese.”
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