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There are a couple of pricey delivery cookie places by my house.
I never used them before, but I was curious how much cookies actually cost these days. Getting a single cookie is $2.50 in-store, delivery is $7, so getting that single cookie delivered would be $9.50.
Getting a single cookie, however big, is crazy so you have to get two right? So that is $13. Then a tip and taxes, and damn that's an expensive set of cookies.
Damn and y'all tip the driver too? We pay like 3 bucks for delivery unless we order enough crap then it's free at most places.
Delivery driver gets a regular wage no matter what.
It's one cookie, Michael, what could it cost, $20?
Wanna use this opportunity to shill an awesome cookie recipe by Adam Regusea.
Recipe :
Ingredients
Instructions
The dough should be a little sticky — you can chill it for a few minutes to make it easier to shape.
Divide the dough into six 115g portions and roll each into something like a golf ball.
Space them evenly on a baking sheet — no parchment paper or grease necessary (but you can use parchment paper if wanted).
Flatten each ball into something like a hockey puck and tidy up the circular shape.
Turn the oven off and turn the broiler/grill on maximum.
Give it a minute or two to heat up, then put in the cookies near the top.
Let the broiler brown the tops of the cookies until golden — this should only take a minute, so don't walk away or they'll burn.
If you're doing multiple pans of cookies, brown them each one at a time.
Turn the broiler off and the oven back on to 375ºF/190ºC.
Give the broiler a couple minutes to cool down, then return the cookies to the oven.
Bake until they spread and look done to you — mine take about eight minutes as this stage, but they'll take longer if you don't have a convection fan.
For perfect “chewy” texture, take them out when they just look a hair under-baked.
Let the cookies cool and solidify before scraping them off the baking sheet.
I find it hilarious how he actually knows iodine deficiency is an issue for a lot of people, particularly in the US and yet he still tells you to use kosher salt lol
Though I think that was only there as a measurement, as in "1 teaspoon of this exact salt is 10 grams, and we want 10 grams of salt". So you'd know not to rely on the teaspoon if you use a different salt.
If you’re making chocolate chip cookies, I highly recommend browning half of the butter in a pan. Heat it on medium low, stirring, until it starts to turn brown. Then pour it into a bowl and let it cool a minute before mixing in/melting the rest of the butter (you don’t want the new butter to sizzle when you add it). It really adds a great, distinctive flavor that the best chocolate chip cookies have.
If there's one ingredient where you really don't need to use a specific brand it's salt.
True, but when measuring by volume it IS important to be clear about whether you're using coarse or fine salt. The distinction is not important if you measure ingredients by mass like a civilized person.
Let me rant about sour cream. In America, land of the free, home of the brave, we measure things by volume. Why? Because fuck you, that's why, I guess. When you need sour cream, you look at it and see "oz", ahh, ounces, okay, so how many fluid ounces are in a cup? Alright, let me look that up and... Wait a second. That's "oz" not "fl oz". That's the weight ounce, not the volume fluid ounces!
It was at this point in the conversation that my wife got frustrated and said it was probably the same. To which I protest, no, it's not, they're different! To know how much volume is in this stupid container of sour cream I need to look up the fucking density of sour cream or just guesstimate based on if I think it's gonna fit in a measuring cup or whatever. And you know they're playing with shrink flation and that thing where your brain has trouble with certain shapes and thinks it's bigger than it really is.
So imagine my frustration when writing this post that I randomly decide to look up how much a fluid ounce of water weighs, because I think at one point that was brought up and I said we shouldn't assume water and sour cream have the same density. But apparently a fluid ounce of water weighs 1.041 ounces. And also, apparently the density of sour cream is extremely close to water. According to this god-forsaken website it is 1.0125 ounces per fluid ounce.
SO IMAGINE HOW STUPID I FEEL THAT AFTER WRITING ALL THIS TO VENT ABOUT IT, THAT YES, IN FACT, AN OUNCE OF SOUR CREAM IS ABOUT A FLUID OUNCE.
I hope this brought you joy.
Exactly - this is usually why chefs are recommending a specific brand. For volumetric measurements used in backwards countries using a different brand with a different grain size can significantly alter what a teaspoon of salt ends up tasting like. Some salts are also "saltier" than others even at the same mass so brand can make a difference on multiple levels.
You forgot the:
I hope this is a fictitious example and he's not actually paying almost $20 for a cookie.
But I've talked to enough Californians to know how much some people are willing to pay for things.
"Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Cookies $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying"
“Spend less on cookies”
“No”
At $20/cookie, this is 180 cookies per month, or an average of 6 cookies per day.
Yeah. Their family is dying. They need to spend more on cookies, not less.
You're right I vote to get rid of the food budget entirely. That's 10 more cookies a month.
Maybe with DoorDash fees, but if that's the case then this guy fucking deserves bankruptcy.
Mfer door dashing cookies one at a time
If it is from Crumbl, thus seems more than possible
A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.
He had this to say:
"You know, this is the first time I've been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint."
Was he surprised a pint of beer in general was $8 or specifically at an amusement park? Because, for the latter, that is surprising.
He was surprised it was $8 in an amusement park.
This was also like 14 years ago. Might need to update the dollar amount when I tell this story.
I hope nobody is stupid enough to pay $3.75 for a cookie, let alone any of those other prices!
Depends on the cookie.
Hey man, Cookie is a nice girl. She's doing the best she can in this economy.
Yeah if you’re used to California prices most places feel like a deal. I don’t bat an eye paying $4.70 a gallon for gas currently.
This guy's buying cookies from Erewhon
There's a lot of things lately that I realized that I don't really care for now that they are expensive anyway. I haven't paid for XBox Game Pass since it went up. I'm not missing it. I haven't had Neflix or Spotify in 2 years. I don't miss it. Losing Amazon Prime saved me a ton of cash and made me realize I was buying crap I didn't need. I haven't had McDonald's, Chipotle, or Jimmy John's in a long time. Don't miss it.
I haven’t had Neflix or Spotify
For the last few years I ask for a 1 yr gift card for Spotify premium, costs like $99 so it balances not terrible for the year.
But especially since I have an AdGuard home DNS, I'm loving tubi. Haven't seen an ad and the selection isn't bad.
I'll check it out. Unfortunately I have comcast and I'm forced to use their modem/router. Could I still set up an AdGuard DNS with it?
I had my own modem and router, but it mysteriously stopped working and comcast can't figure out why. Happened with 2 modems, but theirs works fine.
You can set up a pfsense router behind your other router and install stuff on pfsense, including adblockers, dns, etc.
Basically you'll go into your Comcast router, set up a static IP to be in the DMZ, and have that IP designated to the MAC address of your pfsense box.
There may be more to it as I haven't messed with my routers in quite a while. I'm sure someone will correct me 😂
When I was in a similar situation, I accepted the vendor managed router / modem, then just setup my network as a client. The vendor solution sat there and advertised to itself while my subnet respected my DNS solutions.
Ahhh
I'd never use an IP provided router so I can't say specifics. I'd hope you'd at least be able to config your own wifi settings like SSIDs, network passwords and such. If you're able to set the primary DNS then you're golden.
As for the device, it's stupid easy but requires buying a raspberry pi. Tons of vids on YouTube how to set it up; it's just downloading the OS and adguard to a micro sd card, set a password and do basic configs. I think NetworkChuck did a good video on it but there are others that legit take yours step by step.
The only downside is if you use phone apps/games that are tied to ads. It will block those ads, which some apps would then fail to register the ad's completion so you won't get the "reward".
the cookie shop was working on it already
"oh no, cost of production went up 30 cents. Better pump prices by 5 dollars and blame inflation"
what cookie? we shouldn't judge, maybe its worth it
Cookies aren't even that difficult to make yourself...
It's crazy how expensive it is not knowing how to bake, if you like good bread.
Most people have no idea how expensive it is not knowing how to cook.
I genuinely can't understand why people complain about having no money and then spend $50 on $4 worth of food to have someone bring it to you in more time then it takes to make.
Someone somewhere right now is ordering pasta, the highest margin restaurant for item, at a 900% markup compared to basic ingredients in the store. And it takes longer. And tastes worse by the time it gets there.
What we want are cafeterias and automats.
What we get are finely crafted artisan pasta experiences, and empty closed buildings, but nothing in between.
You say that, but cafeterias and automats are usually wholly impersonal mass produced garbage like fast food in another wrapper. That's what they were when they were new, a la carte prison food. They would bet slammed for not being authentic enough for some reason.
But I don't want garbage. I want inauthentic mass-produced healthy food - economies of scale.
Sure, but fresh food is perishable, making this a more expensive prospect. Economies of scale doesn't apply to a flat line of food waste. Fruits and veg only have so many days before they go off.
Chipotle used to be the single-cuisine version of exactly this, and look what happened to it. Chopt does all fresh veg and over 25 years only has 70 locations. And neither of these things are cheap.
I'd have no problem with that, of course. But that would do best in bigger cities, and there's always going to be a significant advantage to knowing how to DIY. Specialization is for insects, never de-skill willingly.
I paid $160 for my electricity last month. This month the bill came and the watt-hours used was the same but the bill was for $200.
💀that's a crisp $480 per year more
Do you have a balcony or even just a window you can hang a solar panel from? It might even be worth financing one