@@FrugalNotCheap Will help on your next trip to Liberia or Myanmar! These days, while being in the USA, I make my burgers starting with 100gr of meat. Metric is much easier than older systems inherited from dead Empires.
I really like what you are doing here and showing that you can get much nicer, cheaper and healthier food by cooking yourself, and I really think that absolutely everyone should learn to cook and feed themselves. However, I do find breakdowns like the one at 13:57 a bit misleading for several reasons. If you live alone for instance and you need a slice of tomato for this, you still have to buy the entire tomato even if you dont use all of it. Sometimes you are even forced into buying a pack of 4 too, but in any case you are now required to make more things with tomatoes before they spoil, which they will do very quickly the moment you take a slice off them. If you dont manage to do that by the time they go bad, the entire cost of it is now added to your burger, making it $1.78 more expensive. And that is just 1 item on the list, that cost will rack up very quickly. This kind of breakdown works very well for items that basically last forever, such as salt or ketchup. I think it doesnt for perishables because it assumes 100% efficiency, which is not really realistic imo. Both because you are often forced to buying a pack of something, because you are paying for dead weight (like the stone in the avocado) and because in order to deal with your leftover ingredients your only 2 options are to either make the same meal several times in a row until you run out, or you have to go back to the store and get other ingredients you are missing to make something else with them. Again, I really like what you are doing here and I think you did a great job, but if this is meant to convince people who already live off fast food to cook instead then I think saying you can make a burger meal from scratch for $3.91 when they are looking at a 20-30 dollar shopping list (especially if missing stuff like peanut oil) and a bunch of utensils they may or may not have could be very disheartening and unrealistic. Especially once they start throwing out bad ingredients a couple of days later that they didnt manage to use up in time. Theres very often a big upfront cost involved in home cooking where you will in fact be better off buying fast food (purely economic wise of course) for quite a long time before stuff like ingredients, air friers and cast iron pans pay for themselves. Then one could argue that theres the cost of running them, electricity and gas is so expensive restaurants have been closing down over their power bills, and these draw alot of current. On top of that, Ive heard people argue that if it takes them 1 hour to go shopping and 40 min to cook this, they could spend that time working and earning far more than what the meal costs. That last one I think is kinda silly simply because noone works every hour of every day, but it is the mindset of some people. Im sorry if this comes off as negative, its really not meant to be. I just think that there are people out there who see no need to cook at home, and I think their thinking might not be as flawed as we think. Its a bit like buying a Tesla to save on fuel, if you can foot that upfront cost on one then yeah you will be better off in the future for it. But not everyone can, or want to. I would absolutely devour this burger though
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! Yes, for the math to work, you need to make 100% use of the ingredients before they go bad. Being single, I might freeze things that freeze well. Most of the time though, I can just find a way to use those things for my next meal! I generate practically 0 food waste, and I don't find that hard to achieve In general, the point about higher upfront costs but much lower long-run costs is a very important one for personal finance. If we make sacrifices so that we can take advantage of these volume discounts, it makes a huge difference. Anything from buying a big bag of rice, to paying for insurance annually or 6 months at a time, to buying plane tickets at the optimal time of year, etc. I wish to promote long-range thinking and a mindset of abundance with an internal locus of control, rather than a short-term, scarcity mindset with an external locus of control (helpless) 😀
@@FrugalNotCheap I like that way of thinking, earlier today I made 5 liters of Ragu, then had home made bolognese with a little bit of it. The rest was portioned and frozen for later use, essentially 6-12 dinners with 100% efficiency depending on how many eats. But I still think this only works if you actually are mindful of using things in a way that makes sense, and actually like to cook. For those who dont, the learning curve and time investment would be fairly rough I think.
Sounds tasty! Me, I'm headed to a Korean fried chicken restaurant for dinner to celebrate a friend's birthday 😁 I think learning to grocery shop and cook, the basics anyway, is pretty easy! But we all make choices 🙂
That looks delicious!! Definitely saving money. But I know people that value “time” so buying it and preparing it takes time. I can use that time to make money, for example, on a side hustle
It was delicious 😀. The fancy burger I referenced would take way longer to travel to, wait for it to be prepared, and then come home. Could order with Uber Eats etc but then it comes soggy from steaming on the way, and costs even more. There's really no time saved in eating out, nor going out for coffee, if we're honest with ourselves
@@FrugalNotCheapto be blunt here (and to support your statement), that time=money argument is conveniently taken out of context by the fast food consumption advocates and used as a cop out in order to avoid acquiring an essential, money-conscious skill. Translation: folks be lazy out here.
Looks delicious! I’m old school cook at home kind of person for both cost and quality. No need to convince me. lol. For future reference though, a quarter pound is 4 oz not 3 oz.
Awesome video! It's always bothered me when I hear people say "fast food is cheaper than cooking". It's never been true and it's more expensive now than ever to live off fast food.
Half a pound is 8 oz
😅 oops! I need to learn my Imperial units!
@@FrugalNotCheap still a delicious and cheap burger 😁
@@FrugalNotCheap Will help on your next trip to Liberia or Myanmar! These days, while being in the USA, I make my burgers starting with 100gr of meat. Metric is much easier than older systems inherited from dead Empires.
I really like what you are doing here and showing that you can get much nicer, cheaper and healthier food by cooking yourself, and I really think that absolutely everyone should learn to cook and feed themselves.
However, I do find breakdowns like the one at 13:57 a bit misleading for several reasons. If you live alone for instance and you need a slice of tomato for this, you still have to buy the entire tomato even if you dont use all of it. Sometimes you are even forced into buying a pack of 4 too, but in any case you are now required to make more things with tomatoes before they spoil, which they will do very quickly the moment you take a slice off them. If you dont manage to do that by the time they go bad, the entire cost of it is now added to your burger, making it $1.78 more expensive. And that is just 1 item on the list, that cost will rack up very quickly.
This kind of breakdown works very well for items that basically last forever, such as salt or ketchup. I think it doesnt for perishables because it assumes 100% efficiency, which is not really realistic imo. Both because you are often forced to buying a pack of something, because you are paying for dead weight (like the stone in the avocado) and because in order to deal with your leftover ingredients your only 2 options are to either make the same meal several times in a row until you run out, or you have to go back to the store and get other ingredients you are missing to make something else with them.
Again, I really like what you are doing here and I think you did a great job, but if this is meant to convince people who already live off fast food to cook instead then I think saying you can make a burger meal from scratch for $3.91 when they are looking at a 20-30 dollar shopping list (especially if missing stuff like peanut oil) and a bunch of utensils they may or may not have could be very disheartening and unrealistic. Especially once they start throwing out bad ingredients a couple of days later that they didnt manage to use up in time.
Theres very often a big upfront cost involved in home cooking where you will in fact be better off buying fast food (purely economic wise of course) for quite a long time before stuff like ingredients, air friers and cast iron pans pay for themselves. Then one could argue that theres the cost of running them, electricity and gas is so expensive restaurants have been closing down over their power bills, and these draw alot of current. On top of that, Ive heard people argue that if it takes them 1 hour to go shopping and 40 min to cook this, they could spend that time working and earning far more than what the meal costs. That last one I think is kinda silly simply because noone works every hour of every day, but it is the mindset of some people.
Im sorry if this comes off as negative, its really not meant to be. I just think that there are people out there who see no need to cook at home, and I think their thinking might not be as flawed as we think. Its a bit like buying a Tesla to save on fuel, if you can foot that upfront cost on one then yeah you will be better off in the future for it. But not everyone can, or want to.
I would absolutely devour this burger though
Thank you for the thoughtful comment!
Yes, for the math to work, you need to make 100% use of the ingredients before they go bad. Being single, I might freeze things that freeze well. Most of the time though, I can just find a way to use those things for my next meal! I generate practically 0 food waste, and I don't find that hard to achieve
In general, the point about higher upfront costs but much lower long-run costs is a very important one for personal finance. If we make sacrifices so that we can take advantage of these volume discounts, it makes a huge difference. Anything from buying a big bag of rice, to paying for insurance annually or 6 months at a time, to buying plane tickets at the optimal time of year, etc.
I wish to promote long-range thinking and a mindset of abundance with an internal locus of control, rather than a short-term, scarcity mindset with an external locus of control (helpless)
😀
@@FrugalNotCheap I like that way of thinking, earlier today I made 5 liters of Ragu, then had home made bolognese with a little bit of it. The rest was portioned and frozen for later use, essentially 6-12 dinners with 100% efficiency depending on how many eats. But I still think this only works if you actually are mindful of using things in a way that makes sense, and actually like to cook. For those who dont, the learning curve and time investment would be fairly rough I think.
Sounds tasty! Me, I'm headed to a Korean fried chicken restaurant for dinner to celebrate a friend's birthday 😁 I think learning to grocery shop and cook, the basics anyway, is pretty easy! But we all make choices 🙂
@@FrugalNotCheap Oh that sounds awesome, have fun! :D
Looks yummy
It was! 😃
Your burger would cost 20.00 (oh, 18.99) at a restaurant. Egg and avocados don't grow on tree, oh wait, half right.
😆 nice one!
That looks delicious!! Definitely saving money. But I know people that value “time” so buying it and preparing it takes time. I can use that time to make money, for example, on a side hustle
It was delicious 😀. The fancy burger I referenced would take way longer to travel to, wait for it to be prepared, and then come home. Could order with Uber Eats etc but then it comes soggy from steaming on the way, and costs even more. There's really no time saved in eating out, nor going out for coffee, if we're honest with ourselves
@@FrugalNotCheapto be blunt here (and to support your statement), that time=money argument is conveniently taken out of context by the fast food consumption advocates and used as a cop out in order to avoid acquiring an essential, money-conscious skill. Translation: folks be lazy out here.
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Great video, cute doggo!
Thank You!
Great video!!
Thank You!
Looks delicious! I’m old school cook at home kind of person for both cost and quality. No need to convince me. lol. For future reference though, a quarter pound is 4 oz not 3 oz.
Dang! Still no contest costwise :)
Awesome video! It's always bothered me when I hear people say "fast food is cheaper than cooking". It's never been true and it's more expensive now than ever to live off fast food.
Thank You! I've always looked at them like they're aliens when they say that 😁