"Take out halfway through heating and..."
What the fuck is this, Food Network?!
Get that shit outta my face.
I used to get the TGI Fridays hot wings because they were the cheapest decent-tasting thing in the tiny convenience store near where I used to live in the desert. You would pop them in, 6 minutes, done.
I don't know why but they fucking changed it. Now the sauce is in a separate plastic pouch instead of already on the wings, with its own separate heating instructions that involve boiling water and shit.
So I thought "maybe it tastes better now" and jumped through all of the hoops. Dirtied an extra dish, extended my prep time by about five minutes, drizzled the sauce onto the wings and shook them in a couple bowls to get an even coating of sauce.
It tastes exactly the same as it used to. What the fuck why would they do that.
Probably for the same reason box cakes ask you to add oil, eggs, milk, or whatever else they ask you to add. All of that shit could be powder. Every box cake mix could be "add water, bake" but folks think it's "more real" if they have to measure out some oil or crack an egg. So box cakes with a couple of simple instructions sold better than "add water, bake" ones and here we are
"more real" ... either bake an actual cake or buy one from a bakery you fucking aaaaaahhhhrgh
box cake comes in a box! you couldve added a fucking egg to make it "more real" anyways you culinarily illiterate jackasses, but if im making a cake from a box its cause i dont want to deal with eggs and measurements, for fucks sake
aneurysm
My favorite is Trader Joe's burritos
Like why the fuck do I have to stab holes in the burrito and dampen with water and cover it with a paper towel?
Wtf your trader joe's burritos are weirder than mine. I just have to unwrap the packaging and rewrap the packaging but more loosely
The chicken chile verde ones are the ones I usually get, but even the beef and bean and vegetarian ones are the same way.
It's strange
I've never bothered doing any of that, ever - but wrapping something in a damp paper towel so it doesn't come out dry is a tried-and-true trick I normally use if I'm reheating something like french fries.
Yeah, but they want you to dampen the burrito itself, which just ends up making the tortilla gummy
Microwaves should be able to scan QR codes (from the packaging) and cook an item perfectly by being set to the proper power, time and interval. Inb4 "lol WiFi connected microwave"
I mean, you know full well that there will never be a microwave that can do that without WiFi connectivity to sell ads and spy on you and shit. But yeah, technically a QR style code could hold all the necessary instructions for the microwave. Temperature and steam sensing on a microwave is also pretty important and constantly screwed up by microwave manufacturers. Technology Connections has a wonderful video about how "microwave technology peaked in the 90s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0&ab_channel=TechnologyConnections
imagine not willing to endure 1 minute of prep for a meal thats gonna be 20x better than the "throw in and press microwave" alternative. couldnt be me
