Nakito: The proper spelling is "kibebs" (US) or "kibbebs" (UK). An acceptable alternative is "keebabs," but only is that is your native dialect. Anything else (kabob, kebab, kebob, etc.) is an informal anglification and regarded as improper.

In Turkish it is "kebab" or "kebap."

I actually used to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for my daughter's lunch. She stopped eating them. Since I can't go to school with her and watch over her shoulder to force her, I had to find something else I could do to get her to eat something.

Uncrustables saved lunchtime.

Uhmm You can shred cheese in a food processor. A high majority of American kitchens have them. That is reason one.. Reason Two: Pre-shredded cheese does taste different then cheese you have just shredded. Test it folks. Like brand for like brand of course. I am guilty of on occasion buying a pre-shredded bag, but only if a discounted price is involved and I need volume right now.

Just as fresh whole carrots sliced taste different than those whirled baby carrots that they shredded off portions of large carrots and then bagged and resold as "baby carrots". Foods that are sized down have different tastes, textures, and moisture contents. Sizing down and processing opens a whole new set of doors regarding bacteria etc.

I've never heard or seen the PB & J.. The thought makes me shudder.

"Baby" carrots in stores are not there for people who are lazy. They are there because people won't buy carrots with deformities. It's a way of rescuing perfectly edible carrots from the dumpster.

This lady has yet to see the frozen meal section of her store, clearly.

Dried corn husks. Biggest WTF ever.

You have a huge thing of corn on the cob with a trash can next to it*. People come up get corn, shuck it in the store. Then one aisle over


*WTF do you people shuck corn in the store? It's like a damn built in wrapper/cooking container.

Oven on 350-400. Corn in oven. Wait until husk is browning. Butcher knife to both ends of the cob, peel off the rest and eat.

MorphOSX: The_Six_Fingered_Man: ZAZ: For me, the time it takes to grate cheese is worth more than the price premium. So the choice is time vs. quality -- buy a good block and grate it or go with the lower grade pre-shredded kind.

When I used to eat hamburger I found the manufactured variety held together better. Making and cooking hamburger is just not one of my skills.

I use one egg and a 1/4 cups of bread crumbs per pound of ground beef when making my own burgers. Works wonders.

I got the bread crumbs. But eggs? really? Hmmm. I'll have to try that.

Actually, if you want to make it really farking good and a bit healthier, substitute oat bran for bread crumbs. The oat bran sucks up the juices of the meat as it cooks, the egg holds everything together perfectly, and if it's seasoned well, you end up with an incredibly delicious burger that's also high in fiber!

I just let my mom buy that stuff for me.

I have a paper shredder that I use to shred cheese. It also works great at turning bologna into potted meat. I should market it.

Omnivorous: I have no cheese grater in my defense, and peeling carrots is a PITA.

Nothing will clog a sink up faster -- even with a garbage disposal -- than carrot peels. Though my wife once did it with liquid wax.

Artichoke leaves will stop up an entire house.

AnyName: Pre cooked burgers and the people that buy them have always been a mystery to me.

What do you mean "Pre-Cooked"? We are talking Pre-Formed, raw burgers.

I used to agree on the shredded cheese thing... until the prices equalized. So now I buy both. Also there's the fact that I can shredded combos, like cheddar and ... 2 other kinds of cheese, can't think of what they are, BUT THEY'RE AWESOME.

I buy shredded cheese and "baby carrots". I never bought the shredded cheese until I looked at the price and saw that the store I shop at charges the same amount per pound for block and shredded so why deal with shredding if I can get shredded cheese for the same price? And baby carrots are ready to rock. And I like not having to clean/cut carrots if I'm making a salad. A couple chops each and I've got carrot nuggets of uniform size.

I like getting the preshredded cheese bags like fiesta blend that combine a few different types of cheese. Fark going out buying 3-4 different blocks of cheese just to grate them into one bag.

Ha! Chef-Boyardee - anything isn't on the list, so I am not a lazy bastard.

Shredder attachment on the stand mixer FTW in cheese grating, as well as a ton of other menial tasks. Requires a little up-front cost, but the long-term payoff is worth it for me.

Screw using a hand-held grater though, those things suck.

100 Watt Walrus: cryinoutloud: Baby carrots are a fiction, a myth, a made-up idea, a ploy to get you to spend a couple of dollars more on regular carrots that have already been peeled & shaped into little rounded plugs.

So shoot me, but I didn't know this. I even thought they tasted better because they were young carrots.

And if this is the case - and I'm not saying I believe it one way or another - why do baby carrots taste better? That's why I buy them - they're sweeter.

/loves me some baby carrots

I didn't know this either, but I am going to hazard a guess on the sweetness thing (assuming the author of the article is correct). It's probably a result of the already peeled carrots losing some of their moisture content while in the package, which would concentrate the sweetness.

This is a complete stab in the dark, but it makes sense to me.

I'm with you guys on the burgers and cheese. But c'mon, pbj hot pockets? Wtf?

Not to mention shiat like:





Hot like these things aren't.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: I use one egg and a 1/4 cups of bread crumbs per pound of ground beef when making my own burgers. Works wonders.

Sounds like the start of making meatloaf.

Also: in case anyone wanted an alternative to buying bread crumbs, what I do is take saltines, stick them in a freezer bag, and roll them with a rolling pin. I have more reason to keep saltines stocked in my house than bread crumbs anyway.

Nakito: The proper spelling is "kibebs" (US) or "kibbebs" (UK). An acceptable alternative is "keebabs," but only is that is your native dialect. Anything else (kabob, kebab, kebob, etc.) is an informal anglification and regarded as improper.

"Regarded" by whom, the Grand High Council of Douchebags?

Lazy is such an ugly concept. I prefer to see it as conserving my energy in case a dangerous animal leaps from a bush so I can make a more dynamic getaway. It simply makes evolutionary sense.

I grate my own cheese - it isn't that hard

its just cleaning the grater afterwards, that's the pain...

so i just throw it away and use one of the many new ones i keep handy.

Plus grating your own cheese sometime you might catch some skin and bleed on the cheese or get a hunk of fingernail in there so... you got that to kick it up a notch, blood and skin and nails and stuff yum...


/ "grate my own cheese" heh giggity ooooohyeah

LeftCoastGuy: Uhmm You can shred cheese in a food processor. A high majority of American kitchens have them.

I dunno, from my experience, cleaning a food processor is even more of a pain in the ass than cleaning a grater.

Do most American households have them? I've never found them to be all that useful, personally, so I don't own one. Seemed more like one of those "nifty gadgets" people got accustomed to back in the '50s and hung onto, even though they weren't notably more convenient than the old-fashioned way.

I'm FAR from lazy as far as food's concerned. I make my own pizza-including the dough- from scratch. Brew my own iced tea. Heck, I even make my own soda water and tonic water, and roast my own coffee beans.

I have no problem with baby carrots.

/pre-made, refrigerated pancakes. THAT'S lazy.

malaktaus: Nakito: The proper spelling is "kibebs" (US) or "kibbebs" (UK). An acceptable alternative is "keebabs," but only is that is your native dialect. Anything else (kabob, kebab, kebob, etc.) is an informal anglification and regarded as improper.

"Regarded" by whom, the Grand High Council of Douchebags?

I just used two pounds of pre-shredded mild cheddar so I'm getting a kick...

piss off, i love me some baby carrots. dip them in blue cheese, i do.

The grocery store I go to sells cored pineapples for the same price as regular pineapples... so I obviously go for the cored. Guilty on the baby carrots because I don't have a peeler... I usually get shredded cheddar, but if I get some mozzarella or Parmesan cheese I usually shred it myself.

The PB&J doesn't surprise me, the crappy fast food place I work at sells Grilled Cheese sandwiches for like $2.50 and people buy them... for the cost of 2 sandwiches you could buy a loaf of bread and pack of cheese, and have grilled cheese for a week!

/people are lazy
//not news

Have any of you had an Uncrustable? They're godd@mn delicious.

I buy them all except for the frozen PB&Js. Honestly I don't think any of them are that bad.

I would have put those retarded snak pak things on the list myself. Ridiculously overpriced and a waste of packaging.

My three food groups are: canned, boxed or frozen, supplemented by any resturant that has ketchup in packets.

skinink: Ha! Chef-Boyardee - anything isn't on the list, so I am not a lazy bastard.

You know, I bought a couple of those on clearance a while ago, and I'm wondering if the recipe radically changed since I was a kid, or if I was really willing to eat something that godawful as a kid, because there are few (ostensibly) edible things I'd not rather eat than Chef Boyardee.

preformed burgers are the bomb

Thaw a couple out, cover one with pre-shredded pepper jack and gorgonzola, use the other one to cover it up making a meet cheese pocket and fry it up.

/best to use the fattier kind
//the fat and cheese mix up and something magic happens

peanut butter and jelly in the same jar? (new window)

F*ck that article. I buy a lot of those things, and I like it that way.

joegekko: Seems like the article is nothing but the author's unbiased unresearched opinion... except for the PB&J thing. I don't need the Googles to tell me those things are grody.
They look disgusting. My 13yo keeps begging for those things.I think this may be related to the lack of white bread in the house.
Ick.
/ick

crazycooter: kiss my ass stupid article writer.

All that needs to be said. :)

rohar: preformed burgers are the bomb

Thaw a couple out, cover one with pre-shredded pepper jack and gorgonzola, use the other one to cover it up making a meet cheese pocket and fry it up.

/best to use the fattier kind
//the fat and cheese mix up and something magic happens

THIS! You can cook them well done and they're still juicy.

Tr0mBoNe: They're very useful if you take your cooking seriously but maybe more if you cook more traditional foods.

...what? That doesn't make any sense. I would think if you took your cooking seriously and cooked more traditional foods, you'd be more inclined to use some good knives and cutting boards.

Vincibleman: Have any of you had an Uncrustable? They're godd@mn delicious.

I don't buy them, but I've had one and you're right.

Whatever happened to the "pop-tarts" with the cheese-egg-ham slurry inside of them. Pure awesome, although the preservatives would leave a weird after-taste.

So, assuming I bought all those items instead of the DIY yourself variety.

I'm spending what, an extra 15.00 dollars?

Or I could spend 3 hours doing all the prep myself to save 15.00.

Sorry, I don't do ANYTHING for 5.00 an hour.

Article writer is poor as shiat and/or has nothing better to do with their time than shred cheese.

Have at it, then.

Guess I'm a lazy bastard... personally like baby carrots and will pay extra for them. Have yet to ever get a slimy or dried out package and saves a shiat-load of time and clean up tring to make them myself.
Also like to be able to just grab some as a snack.

/never bought any of the other stuff except the cheese when making pizza