I love to cook for people so I'm always fantasizing about opening up some small single-person operation, like a food truck or a lil hole in the wall type deal, but I can never decide what kinds of stuff I'd make
I don't know what kind of food I'd make, but I'd name the truck "Faster Food" and I would sell food to people while driving on the highway. We'd have a guy in a harness leaning out of the truck to hand your food through the window while you're cruising along at sixty miles an hour. We would make very little money and cause a lot of accidents.
We’d have a guy in a harness leaning out of the truck to hand your food through the window while you’re cruising along at sixty miles an hour.
outstanding, I'm picturing like the guitar guy from mad max: fury road but bouncing around with burritos and stuff instead of the guitar
Fuck yeah. I hope they unionize too, can't wait to join my Guild of Takeout Pikemen Local #420
Mexican rice, refried beans and for 'meat' I'd go with carne de soya, dried soy cooked in green chili sauce. Also tortillas corn and flour. I'd probably make burritos, tacos, food bowls etc. Drinks horchata, jamica, and maybe tamarindo. Good times all round :meow-fiesta:
That sounds amazing, I haven't had tamarindo in forever and I'm highly suggestible so I think i gotta track some down now
That sweet tangy taste is top notch :chefs-kiss: hope you can get your hands on some soon comrade.
I’d run a cocaine food truck
Would probably make smoothies too
Woodfire pizza. It's pretty overdone but it's simple. Make your dough, portion it, get a person to prepare the pizzas and one to fire them. All your prep is straight-forward. It takes like 90 seconds to fire a personal pizza I think. Once you get the timing between two people down, that's it. You just have a simple menu with maybe 3-4 pizzas. 3 staples and 1 seasonal/chef's choice. Vegan/vegetarian, Cheese, and Pepperoni. Then I'd go a little bit more wild with the seasonal one. Try out the more risky combinations and experiments there. Give something for the people who want a twee experience, not just a pizza.
The other one is ramen. People have been doing single-person ramen carts forever. It's just not super common in the states. Do 3 pots of authentic broths. Then prep your condiments. Noodles don't even have to be fresh if you don't want them to, as long as the rest is really good. It's all prep really. Cook your broths in batches. Get up around 8-9am to do other prep stuff. Get everything on the cart/truck. Head out around 11 am to set up somewhere. Then just dish it all out until you run out of food.
Both of those sound like they'd be great, a pizza base is an especially great canvas for experimenting on which would be very important for my hypothetical restaurant since I always want to try new things. I wanna put like beef rendang and pickled onions on it. Or maybe put the ramen toppings on the pizza, menma and scallions and seaweed or something. Fried shallots and fresh cilantro would be dope too
soup truck. making most food out of a truck is probably pretty hard. soup you make at home & then distribute EZPZ
Damn I feel like I should've thought of that, but I can't rip off your food truck concept so I guess I'll have to cook extensively with shishito peppers so the spice level of the food is wildly inconsistent from dish to dish
bacon and egg sandwichs, vegan option with tofu scramble and tempeh bacon
oh shit, I'd never really looked into that before but that looks incredible, especially the tower of adzuki beans and tapioca pearls i'm looking at
Bagels and Bagel sandwiches. Also coffee, and some basic espresso drinks. With vegan options, of course.
It would make more sense to me to bake them at home the night before or early morning. An oven would take up a lot of space in a food truck.
:grillman: :im-vegan:
Vegan burgs and dawgs, "sausage" and "meatball" sandwiches too. Grilled corn in tin foil with old bay seasoning. I'd keep one thing on the grill at all times and use a fan to blow the smell out to people to entice them. I'm imagining doing an experiment where I have two different signs, one which advertises in big letters the fact that everything's faux-meat and one that says it in fine print, and switching between the two to see which one gets me more sales.
some veg junk/comfort food, probably. something with lots of sauce, maybe nacho cheese. if you want some ideas, check out the "pods" in portland. endless food trucks full of somebody who loves food and has an idea. some notable uniques would be fatsquatch and potato champion
oh nice, looks like there's a lot out there! veg junk/comfort food sounds amazing, i made some nashville hot potatoes a few weeks back and they were absolutely heavenly right out of my deep fry pan
tbh it's worth a trip. Dirty Lettuce and MidCity Smash Burger are two other primo spots.
