But as long as it gets men to cook it's not all bad.
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Yep, exactly what I called it too. My wife still says I’m making bachelor chow whenever I do some low effort ground meat with finely chopped veggies and some seasonings.
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Who can afford ground beef?
Ground b~~eef~~illionaire. It's surprisingly affordable, but for the best quality cuts, you have to work for it.
Honestly. SO wanted a dish with it. Picked up 2lbs it was $17
Yeah no thanks
Beefmaxxers
I use ground turkey instead. Its under 2 dollars a pound if you buy it frozen. Doesn’t do all the things ground beef does but you can still make spaghetti without going into debt.
Hit up your local restaurant supply if you can. $4.20/lb here currently in a 10lb tube and I usually hit a sale for under $4.00/lb for 80/20. A lot of those places don't require a membership, you just need the freezer space.
Why is the "we don't know what to do with these leftovers, so we shoved 'em in a grinder"-meat so expensive?
I recently started to mix in granulated soy protein into ground beef whenever I'm making burger patties. It's way cheaper and granulated soy has a lots of vitamins. Makes it a better "alternative"
Never heard of boy kibble.
Cooking is good for all genders.
All genders can be boys, I'm not gonna stop them
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Less red meat. Take care of your cornhole.
If it's seasoned, turkey meat can make a good substitute. But not for burgers and the like.
I imagine myself breaking out the cast iron getting it hot with some EVO. Throwing some tofu chopped into cubes and seasoning in a bowl, mixing it up, browning it on the cast iron. Then maybe throwing a can of beans 9n the cast iron because I like to make a mess.
Usually I'll follow this up with something fattier to reseason the skillet cuz tofu is so lean and EVO only does so much for the cast iron, in my experience.
Then wrapping it up in the lettuce leaf. Maybe Parmesan cheese or feta for mine.
EVO has a low smoke point that makes it less optimal for cooking. It's an excellent drizzle or dipping oil. Cooling, not so much.
This is something that is repeated a lot, but it is simply not true. No, you shouldn't use it for high heat cooking. However you can definitely sweat onions and do other low-mid temp cooking. If your oil doesn't smoke when it hits the pan, then you're fine. I cook with EVO every day.
Regular olive oil is good for cooking. EVOO goes bitter and should be used for finishing. Not saying you can’t, just saying it’s wasteful and worse-tasting than the alternative.
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This whole conversation is dumb
our society is dumb.
it loves cheap gender-based attacks and blaming individual choices for failures of our society at large.
instead of taking about stagnating wages and impossible education/healthcare costs, we just mock young people for being poor. and since young men are poorer than young women, subverting traditional breadwinner gender roles, they get mocked even harder.
on the radio yesterday NPR was mocking people for not going out and spending $50 on two drinks. telling gen z that pre-gaming, nips, etc were all 'cheating' at life, and they should just 'grow up' and fork over their money they don't have to overpriced bars and restaurants because they are 'killing the restaurant industry'.
it's absurd. personally I am doing quite well, I'm in a top 15% income bracket, but all around me society and my peers are constantly acting like anyone who isn't making a top 5% income is a failure of a human being, because if you aren't filthily rich you are clearly lazy and pathetic! I've even had people straight up tell me I shouldn't have been born because my parents were not rich and couldn't pay for my college and give me a downpayment on a house...
and i'm in my 40s. i can't imagine how awful it is to be like 25 and in a mountain of debt and being told by society/friends/family you're a pathetic loser for trying to climb your way out of it by eating cheap food.
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I'm a gen z man and I don't know what the heck is this thing
It's just rice with ground meat, which is nothing new. That's cheap and easy to make in bulk and it freezes well. So someone decided to call it 'boy kibble' and it's become a viral thing as large numbers of men realize they are in fact capable of operating a stove to create something tasty without burning their house down. .
As if cooking was so difficult... if you can follow a recipe.
it is. people are too stupid to read instructions.
they also do stupid stuff like think they can 'make it go faster' if they turn up the oven to 500 when it calls for 350, and wonder why their whole house is now filled with smoke.
they also irrational cling to bad habits because it was what their mom did or something.
Or they think why preheat the oven and then everything is sad.
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If you replace the mince with beans its regular poor person food.
Ground beef has long been considered poor people food in the US. It's gotten too expensive to still feel that niche, but that is the niche it used to fill.
I was just thinking "I need to stock more stuff for variations on rice and beans to stretch since dollars." But now I know that it's because I'm poor.
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Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to an amazing new product.
Yeah, I'm eating stuffed bell peppers because I'm from the future: 1970.
I remember this shit being delicious when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago I bought a box on a whim to try it out and it was almost inedible.
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That's not kibble.
Here's some real Human Kibble™.
The pelletizing process generates a lot of heat which can harm nutrition retention. A high quality pelletizer is cooled with liquid nitrogen to prevent that from being an issue.
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Weird that people are calling it "kibble". Just seems like an unnecessarily mean way to call it.
being mean to men is the point.
didn't you know we're all poor losers who never grow up when we could just get jobs in finance and become Michelin star rated chefs if we 'made an effort'??
but when women do 'girl dinner' it's celebrating their independence or something...
It's unnecessarily wrong lol
Kibble is dry
We had that as children. Called it "Krümelmett" meaning crumbly Mince. With Indian spices. That was a great comfort food.
It's called Keema Matar, but without peas.
Never heard of the term. Sounds like something trying to go viral like girl dinner (though the term could already be I just don't know). I do remember how I used to do this when I was younger. Pretty much any meat doesn't have to ground tossed in a pot with different hot sauces, cheese, green onions, cilantro if there's any, onions, eggs. That was pretty much the core. Then if there were anything like pickled jalapenos in a jar in the fridge. If there was some packaged guacamole in the fridge. Could also start with a can of chili or packaged chorizo rather than any basic unseasoned meat. Any lime, squeeze some in.
It'd end up looking like a greyish brown blob. Like refried beans. I don't do this as often anymore because it was insanely calorie dense and I don't exercise like I did when I was in school playing sports. Real easy to make this mashed meat bowl taste good. Times I would put in sour cream if that was in the fridge. There just leftover cranberry sauce there in the fridge, try it out
Bachelor Chow...now with flavor!
Is that what we're gonna do today, Kitty? We're gonna fight?
First of all, cut the ground beef with ground pork, and save a ton of money. 50/50, or maybe 2/3 Beef, and 1/3 Pork. They're a good combo.
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Chili: Add beans (kidney, black, red, a combo), add a 50 cent spice packet from the dollar store, and a can of diced tomatoes. Add some water, and let it simmer.
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Spaghetti Sauce: Add a jar of sauce from the store. Simmer for a while. Add other spices to taste. Or not.
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Goulash: Add pasta (not spaghetti), and diced tomatoes, and some spices. Add a little liquid. Maybe sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the top. Bake it COVERED in the oven for a while. Take the top off near the end to let the cheese get brown, and the liquid to steam off.
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Meatloaf: Take your raw beef/pork mixture, and mix it by hand with a bunch of herbs like chives, parsley, Italian herbs, garlic, salt pepper. Mix in Bread crumbs, or even torn up chunks of stale bread. Form it into one big loaf in a loaf pan, or get small individual sized loaf pans. You can even use muffin pans. Bake them at 350°F until they're done.
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Use it to make burrito bowls, like at Chipotle. You know what you like, and you know how to make it, you've seen them do it a million times. You just have to learn to make rice.
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Tacos: You know how to make tacos.
6 super easy, super cheap recipes to make ground beef way better. Experiment with them, add veggies, different spices, wine, Worcestershire sauce, BBQ sauce, etc. What's in the fridge?
You can even substitute ground turkey or ground chicken, or non-meat options. Make your buddies buy the ingredients, and you'll cook it, and cycle through these and a few variations and experiments. You get free food, and they get good food. Make them clean up, too.
And if you meet a good woman, she'll be super impressed that you can actually cook.
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Society would be improved greatly if people would stop policing the diets of others.
I think the bigger issue is people policing their own diets. We have some people addicted to convenience foods while others are so dedicated to an ideal that they are starving themselves and disguising an eating disorder as ethically or nutritionally superior.
Self policing is way more prevalent than the food police.
In this particular case we have people basically using the same idea of the billionaire wardrobe as nutrition advice. The same thing every day. No variation. Just shove the same thing in every day because cravings and nutrition blindspots don't matter. Just shove it into the food hole. Same stuff day after day. It's a form of self policing.
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The delights of gruel, congee and seeds are up ahead
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