Again. I don't get a comment box. I have to piggyback. Pasta always cheap. So is cheese. No sauce? 22.00 dollars, for any pasta dish. Ridiculous. Now lobster would be more plausible. For that price. That dish way overpriced. I would laugh in their face. I know what ingredients cost. Just leave any place that wants 22.00 for that.
Restaurant pasta is a scam. Last year I went to a seaside restaurant with my family and I ordered a plate of seafood spaghetti. 35$ for a plate which didn't even have that much quantity although it did have quality . One day I decided to try and make it myself with the same ingredients, which were nothing more than some squid, shrimp, tuna and scallops as seafood and tomato, garlic, basil and some Italian seasoning. All the ingredients cost me 27$ and that was enough to feed a family of 4 and still have leftovers. It tasted good but not as good as the one in the restaurant. Still, I'd pick the homemade one 10/10.
Trader Joe's Cacio e Pepe is totally JUSTIFIED! Not quite as cheap as making it yourself, but it still ends up al dente, the pepper flavor is big and the sauce is creamy asf! You should try it!
Real pecorino romano is expensive as hell, it's around $15 for a 8 oz block. I always make it with parmasean, which isn't cheap either but it's about half the price. Olive oil isn't cheap either, but you can definitely use cheaper olive oil. A trick is to barely cover the pasta with water, which increases the thickening properties of the water because the starches are more concentrated the less water you use.
you didn't include the time to go to the grocery store, buy everything, bring it back. if you're gonna include the time to drive to the restaurant, you should add it for the cooking side too.
okay, sure. The time to get to the grocery store and back is the same as the restaurant. What if I want to eat again? I could drive to the restaurant but I still have ingredients (pasta pepper and cheese) left from last time so I can stay home
Don't forget at the restaurant, you need to add a tip, california service fee, endangered animal fee, governor's fee, oil protest fee, etc. on top of the recent price hike on minimum wage. lol.
And even after *all of that* the workers still can't pay their rents and the entire restaurant closes down because it's not a sustainable business, while not a single thing actually gets better.
@@shophocho7798adds a lot to the time but it's actually even cheaper if you make the pasta from scratch and of course then the quality improves drastically; basically if you put in the same amount of time it would take you to run out to a restaurant and get it you can still save a ton of money and have an even better dish than the restaurant. In my opinion fresh pasta is the single most important ingredient for the final result in any pasta dish
@johnsmithsu310 um, no? like, as someone who makes pasta often from scratch no, salting the water absolutely has an effect. You have to use more salt then you think but like, it does affect it, a lot. you can taste it, you can prove this with your tongue. even if you mean "it doesn't affect the pasta much" you are making water with a higher salinity which is added to your sauce (because you do that with almost all sauces) like, its not some superstition, its basic cooking
Some restaurant pasta is worth it. Cacio e pepe generally is not. Aglio e olio is not. Simple ass pasta But short rib lasagna? Yeah, I will pay a restaurant.
@@tv-21 no thanks. I can do better at home with an air fryer, a pot, and Rao’s. Let alone if I put the time into making my own sauce or doing alfredo properly (no cream sauce and just butter and parmesan emulsion). Olive Garden is a fucking abomination and offensive to my grandparents. Breadsticks are shit too.
I agree that it’s overpriced in some restaurants, but it’s also important to realize that a properly made cacio e pepe is not an easy thing to achieve and is leaps and bounds above what pretty much anyone can achieve at home.
Obviously, most pasta dishes at a restaurant are not justified, but to make good cacio e pepe, you have to use actual pecorino Romano, not the pre grated cheese you used. The cheese is pretty expensive. It costs around $34 per big piece here in socal.
for the next time you make it - rather than dump the pecorino into the pasta as is, use the pasta water to make a paste and turn off the heat of the pan. it will incorporate and emulsify better to make a creamier and richer sauce.
This is an overrated dish. You should go lifetimes without trying this pasta. It is very little flavor if you make it yourself or buy it. It is 0/10 unjustified.
What about the ingredients ? Do they just spawn at ur house? Why not count the Gas and time to go to the store and buy those ingredients… , the cooking utensils , and the stove too… electricity and also the efforts used to cook as well.
this is like one application where kraft parmesan just won't work lol. Don't get me wrong I'm a green shaker enjoyer. but it just won't melt the right way to get a sauce going. will be very gloopy/gritty
Lol too uncivilized? Maybe this is why I always get the eye from my fiance when I order pasta at a fancy place xD "but if I slurp it then they know I like it" doesn't work at italian restaurants I guess
I’ve been making this dish for about two years now, but could never get the creamy cheese consistency I wanted. After watching two recent Shorts I realized I was supposed to take the pan away from the heat. Now the cheese is creamy like it’s supposed to. 🙂
Cho fo sho hotel....or something like that....hate hotel food... except that urgent cup of coffee. I might try this, dollar store cracked pepper shaker could carry it.
bro pasta at restaurants is the biggest scam. just a tip tho, while it's not the ITALIAN way, just put some butter or oil to make an emulsion with the pasta water after you put the pasta in the pan. then put the cheese in, and the residual heat is enough to create a thick sauce. yours (no offense xD) could've been a bit better
I’ve worked in a lot of restaurants the reason why dishes like that are pricey, is cause of the time it takes to bring together not just the cost of the product itself,all pasta is cooked and prepped the morning of,Not order to order it would take wayyyyy to long to get orders out,with pasta being precooked and prepped a pasta dish can still take anywhere from 6 mins to 12 to be made,also depending on the pasta dish certain sauces need to be prepared in the morning as well.just something to think about when you think pasta dishes are expensive
Honestly, that is pretty much how I feel about eating out at any restaurant nowadays, unjustified. I would rather just cook something at home and save my money.
So now eating pasta the way you like is considered uncivilized? I have noticed that in some videos, you cover your mouth while chewing, no one would notice and say he is eating like a cave man because it's normal you are just overthinking it. You can call it uncivilized if you were at a restaurant tho.
Yes emotional outburst fees. The pen fee to sign your credit card. A processing fee for your credit card. Water tax fee for your free water. There is a straw fee too. Napkin fee Clean air act fee.
trader Joe's has some pretty good cacio e pepe that's fairly cheap, I would be interested in how it compares to homemade and restaurant in terms of price and quality
Cacio e Pepe is the easiest of the Roman pastas. Just good peppercorns, starchy pasta water and pecorino. A good carbonara is way more justified at a restaurant
Didnt salt water because pecorino has plenty of
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Again. I don't get a comment box. I have to piggyback. Pasta always cheap. So is cheese. No sauce? 22.00 dollars, for any pasta dish. Ridiculous. Now lobster would be more plausible. For that price. That dish way overpriced. I would laugh in their face. I know what ingredients cost. Just leave any place that wants 22.00 for that.
Before I had no knowledge of this dish. Seems simple to make so I'll try it out myself.
You forgot to add some Oliveoil to pepper! Do again!
Any good substitute for pecorino? Maybe mozzarella?
Unless all ingredients are made from scratch charging 22 dollars for a pasta dish should be considered a crime
Pecorino romano is expensive as hell, unfortunately.
@@marcjohn9404how much is in the dish? 1 or 2 ounces?
@@marcjohn9404restaurants get them wholesale price
@@marcjohn9404 $22 is like 2lbs of pecorino
@@ronjericho7977 nah you're right, Pecorino Romano is at a market value of $24.99/lb.
Please don’t do that again
thats a bit of a clickbaity title brah
19 seconds! IM EARLY
Thanks ricki
Restaurant pasta is a scam. Last year I went to a seaside restaurant with my family and I ordered a plate of seafood spaghetti. 35$ for a plate which didn't even have that much quantity although it did have quality . One day I decided to try and make it myself with the same ingredients, which were nothing more than some squid, shrimp, tuna and scallops as seafood and tomato, garlic, basil and some Italian seasoning. All the ingredients cost me 27$ and that was enough to feed a family of 4 and still have leftovers. It tasted good but not as good as the one in the restaurant. Still, I'd pick the homemade one 10/10.
So 22 dollars for pasta with pepper and Romano cheese What a ripoff 😒
I cringe everytime I hear a fork against metal 😂
Well you’re a freak
Aye next time ill keep in mind
@@shophocho7798 Coward. Don’t delete my replies
same!
The profile pic telling me otherwise bra
Trader Joe's Cacio e Pepe is totally JUSTIFIED! Not quite as cheap as making it yourself, but it still ends up al dente, the pepper flavor is big and the sauce is creamy asf! You should try it!
Yes I was about to say this too❤❤❤❤🤤🍝 trader Joe's justified ✅✅✅
It's only a buck or 2 more than making your own with around 5 minutes cook time. If making a single serving, then definitely justified!
$ 22.00 for butter noodles. My mother who is Black and Italian. Calls it Butter noodles.
I came here to say the say the same. As long as TJ's has it for 5.99, I will not be cooking or paying 22 bucks for Cacio E Pepe.😂
@@jacemiller2593 That would be alfredo. My father loathed eating it because my grandmother served it whenever he was sick.
Sho eats his pasta like he's been stuck on a life raft for a few weeks. Justified bites.
homemade always justified
Real pecorino romano is expensive as hell, it's around $15 for a 8 oz block. I always make it with parmasean, which isn't cheap either but it's about half the price. Olive oil isn't cheap either, but you can definitely use cheaper olive oil. A trick is to barely cover the pasta with water, which increases the thickening properties of the water because the starches are more concentrated the less water you use.
You're overpaying for pecorino romano lmao
@Alsry1 I don't buy it, that's just how much it costs lol.
That pasta is definitely bland
Man is grinding bro is even cooking in a hotel😊
you didn't include the time to go to the grocery store, buy everything, bring it back. if you're gonna include the time to drive to the restaurant, you should add it for the cooking side too.
okay, sure. The time to get to the grocery store and back is the same as the restaurant. What if I want to eat again? I could drive to the restaurant but I still have ingredients (pasta pepper and cheese) left from last time so I can stay home
Don't forget at the restaurant, you need to add a tip, california service fee, endangered animal fee, governor's fee, oil protest fee, etc. on top of the recent price hike on minimum wage. lol.
And even after *all of that* the workers still can't pay their rents and the entire restaurant closes down because it's not a sustainable business, while not a single thing actually gets better.
It's not a fast food restaurant They probably can pay their employees less than 20 dollars although servers get tips
What about LGBTQ recognition fee? Cannot possibly forget about that one.
and also living fee
@@toumorokoshi1619 breathing fee
Yeah I'm sorry this is not justified this time
$22 pasta is kinda hell no
$22 for pasta with just seasoning is a rip off
Yup
@@shophocho7798adds a lot to the time but it's actually even cheaper if you make the pasta from scratch and of course then the quality improves drastically; basically if you put in the same amount of time it would take you to run out to a restaurant and get it you can still save a ton of money and have an even better dish than the restaurant.
In my opinion fresh pasta is the single most important ingredient for the final result in any pasta dish
Salt the water！😢 damn it！
🫡 next time
Isn't the cheese already salty?
Little to none effect, debunked
its not *that* salty if you use the amount used in the recipe@@TheBakuganmaster99
@johnsmithsu310 um, no? like, as someone who makes pasta often from scratch no, salting the water absolutely has an effect. You have to use more salt then you think but like, it does affect it, a lot. you can taste it, you can prove this with your tongue. even if you mean "it doesn't affect the pasta much" you are making water with a higher salinity which is added to your sauce (because you do that with almost all sauces) like, its not some superstition, its basic cooking
Everything sucks, eating at restaurants, pricing, service, inconsistent food. Cooking at home Prices, time, doing dishes.😂😂😂
Choose your poison
@@shophocho7798 Stay home. Stay lit.
Unless you happen to have all the ingredients it should be more than 25 mins
Some restaurant pasta is worth it. Cacio e pepe generally is not. Aglio e olio is not. Simple ass pasta
But short rib lasagna? Yeah, I will pay a restaurant.
Olive garden chicken Alfredo is the BEST! JUSTIFIED 1000%!!!
@@tv-21 no thanks. I can do better at home with an air fryer, a pot, and Rao’s. Let alone if I put the time into making my own sauce or doing alfredo properly (no cream sauce and just butter and parmesan emulsion).
Olive Garden is a fucking abomination and offensive to my grandparents. Breadsticks are shit too.
Cacio e Pepe is a difficult dish to make if you think about it. Some people don’t know how to get the creamy consistency from the cheese correctly.
@@animechic420 it is not difficult at all
Nice job, in a hotel room no less. Justified!
Fork scrape noises not justified
Why didn’t you have them side by side? That’s what your about and what we’re here for mate
Shophochos videos are always justified
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I'm guessing all those ingredients just appeared in your house since the time to buy them wasn't accounted for.
I understand now why you eat out all the time. Polish those cooking skills, sir.
I agree that it’s overpriced in some restaurants, but it’s also important to realize that a properly made cacio e pepe is not an easy thing to achieve and is leaps and bounds above what pretty much anyone can achieve at home.
Try the one from Trader Joe’s it’s delicious and under 5 dollars
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He should definitely try it and some other frozen stuff from Trader Joe’s!
I would pick the 22$ pasta
How is there a stove in your hotel?? Agreed-but I love cacio e pepe
Obviously, most pasta dishes at a restaurant are not justified, but to make good cacio e pepe, you have to use actual pecorino Romano, not the pre grated cheese you used. The cheese is pretty expensive. It costs around $34 per big piece here in socal.
Sho’s house the new GOAT??
Hotel
@@shophocho7798 Holiday Inn!
Restaurants love when you order their pasta dishes. Huge profit margin.
You forgot to factor in the time and gas of driving to the grocery store and picking out the ingredients.
No crap things are cheaper at home, that's the point of a restaurant, you pay extra for the convenience of not having to cook yourself
for the next time you make it - rather than dump the pecorino into the pasta as is, use the pasta water to make a paste and turn off the heat of the pan. it will incorporate and emulsify better to make a creamier and richer sauce.
Declassify the missing footage of you slurping the noodles. The people deserve the truth
Sorry bud that is not cacio e pepe that's just shite
We demand the slurping sounds you’ve made
And the clip
See you say that.. but trust, something better left unseen
Mmm that’s not how you make it and you used the cheapest, low quality ingredients. I’d def spring for the $$22 restaurant version over this.
“Didn’t add salt to the water” unsubscribing lol
Sorry but this video is a disaster all around
Honestly this goes for all pasta.
This is an overrated dish. You should go lifetimes without trying this pasta. It is very little flavor if you make it yourself or buy it. It is 0/10 unjustified.
Day 6 of asking for the durag back
Didn't use butter
The question is can you MAKE it as good? If you don’t know how to cook then the restaurant will win every time
Good video. But this dude cant cook for shyt. How u gon put pepper and noodles directly onto hot pan with no olive oil or butter. smh🤦
No salt in pasta water , didnt use whole fresh black pepper, probably not quality pecarino
As an italian, almost no italian would order almost any pasta in a restaurant as almost all recipes of pasta are so easy and cheap to make.
If you had chopsticks and a fork, which would you use to eat with your pasta?
Whatever is closest to me
What about the ingredients ? Do they just spawn at ur house?
Why not count the Gas and time to go to the store and buy those ingredients… , the cooking utensils , and the stove too… electricity and also the efforts used to cook as well.
Your home doesn’t have cooking utensils nor stove? 😂
Pasta and pepper are staples in most homes
Cooking effort minimal as i showed
Looks flavourless no offense
Get it from Trader Joe’s - it’s absolutely delicious
i ate a $48 pasta few days ago.
it was the worst pasta i've ever had, no lie.
Who in the world doesn't season their pasta water, WTF
Fettuccini Alfredo falls under the same do it at home
please do not cook pasta anymore and spend the 22 dollars.
my favorite black italian content creator back at it!
Bro use a wooden spoon you didn't have to scratch that pan
You gotta order some expensive cacio e pepe now to compare against
Bro skipped the eating like where he paused was any more civilized
You should try Vox in garden grove ca, they have food with ridiculous prices. To me they’re definitely not justified…..
So now your a cooking channel 😂
Stop being cheap and go review more fast food
Bro he got his health to worry about. He eats nothing but GMO sodium filled processed crap
nice. 1 heck mark and some have 4 check marks
I wonder if I can just use Kraft Parmesan 😂
🇮🇹 reading this 😅
this is like one application where kraft parmesan just won't work lol. Don't get me wrong I'm a green shaker enjoyer. but it just won't melt the right way to get a sauce going. will be very gloopy/gritty
I love this series because i always see people saying it's cheaper to eat out but this video is proof it's not
Who even says that eating out is cheaper?
Hello
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0:06 This is the price in 2030😱😱😱
That looked disgusting
that makes rubios cheap
Youll perfect it over time ...
Thats not even cacio e pepe pasta
where is the butter??
Nice.
Thanks!
Lol too uncivilized?
Maybe this is why I always get the eye from my fiance when I order pasta at a fancy place xD
"but if I slurp it then they know I like it" doesn't work at italian restaurants I guess
I live in Italy and it's been a good while since I left North America but
What the fuck is 22 bucks for cacio e pepe?????? Jesus Christ.
I’ve been making this dish for about two years now, but could never get the creamy cheese consistency I wanted. After watching two recent Shorts I realized I was supposed to take the pan away from the heat. Now the cheese is creamy like it’s supposed to. 🙂
Cho fo sho hotel....or something like that....hate hotel food... except that urgent cup of coffee. I might try this, dollar store cracked pepper shaker could carry it.
bro pasta at restaurants is the biggest scam. just a tip tho, while it's not the ITALIAN way, just put some butter or oil to make an emulsion with the pasta water after you put the pasta in the pan. then put the cheese in, and the residual heat is enough to create a thick sauce. yours (no offense xD) could've been a bit better
I’ve worked in a lot of restaurants the reason why dishes like that are pricey, is cause of the time it takes to bring together not just the cost of the product itself,all pasta is cooked and prepped the morning of,Not order to order it would take wayyyyy to long to get orders out,with pasta being precooked and prepped a pasta dish can still take anywhere from 6 mins to 12 to be made,also depending on the pasta dish certain sauces need to be prepared in the morning as well.just something to think about when you think pasta dishes are expensive
Honestly, that is pretty much how I feel about eating out at any restaurant nowadays, unjustified. I would rather just cook something at home and save my money.
So now eating pasta the way you like is considered uncivilized? I have noticed that in some videos, you cover your mouth while chewing, no one would notice and say he is eating like a cave man because it's normal you are just overthinking it. You can call it uncivilized if you were at a restaurant tho.
1:04 After watching so many 'itsQCP' shorts, I was half expecting you to say 'Betch' at the end.
Yes emotional outburst fees.
The pen fee to sign your credit card. A processing fee for your credit card. Water tax fee for your free water.
There is a straw fee too.
Napkin fee
Clean air act fee.
I was expecting Costco and In-N-Out to be justified here. Sorely disappointed
trader Joe's has some pretty good cacio e pepe that's fairly cheap, I would be interested in how it compares to homemade and restaurant in terms of price and quality
Cacio e Pepe is the easiest of the Roman pastas. Just good peppercorns, starchy pasta water and pecorino. A good carbonara is way more justified at a restaurant
You could've made this a lot better with butter. Should've added the pasta water first then butter, then your noodles and cheese
Its crazy how much restaurants charge for spaghetti. It cost about 33cent per serving.
Great value lol no shyt
Olive Garden eat ur heart out🤩 cuz 22.00 to much for ANY restaurant...
Caccio Peppe is one of the easiest dishes to make, and i make it better than they do in resteraunts. 22 dollars is totally unjustified
Or stock up on the Trader Joe's frozen cacio e pepe pasta for around $5 with a cook time of around 5 minutes.
They probably (hopefully) use fresh spaghetti at the restaurant but $22 is still too much
Now do garlic and oil pasta. My local place charges $13 for that. At home costs $1.
Nice video shophocho
Thank you for the pause, I don't understand why people want to sit at a window table to let everyone see you eat its not sexy is it