i was like... the first person to comment on the distinction between frozen and non frozen foods. so yeah, didnt miss that.

youre right, im probably a bit worse than i rate myself. that doesnt mean id still consider myself a LARGE favorite over the avg culinary school student; ive paid attention to this stupid **** since i was like 9 years old.

its LOL simply because of 2 things. 1, it seems pretty obvious imo (and i would imagine it seems obvious to most other ppl who have ever cooked a meal in their lifetime) and 2, even if it wasnt obvious the other way makes no sense at all.

yes im obv being purposefully dense; you are correct they teach more than how to scramble eggs. they also teach stuff like how to make a medium rare steak. oh wow! NOW all of that tuition is worth it! scrambled eggs AND medium rare steaks!!!

they also teach you how to cut up fish!

I don't think it even really matters if the difference is substantial or just a minor preference -- we all agree it is preferable to have fresh so why begrudge it to OP? If middle-class can't afford simple preferences like the ability to choose fresh meat over frozen then what is the point of being middle class?

hbo

what doesn't make sense? Using frozen meat? Good grief man. What if you go to a store and see a great cut of meet on sale, only its more than you can eat in the next x amount of days. Buy it and freeze what you don't eat. I'd rather do that then only buy it when I want it and pay hand over fist for meat. The downgrade in quality is not large enough for me to give a ****. No one is arguing frozen is better than fresh, but plenty of people are saying they don't mind the difference enough to the point where they see better value in buying in bulk and freezing.

There seems to be a large group of people itt who seem to want the best at all times. Thats fine if thats your desire, but you better make sure you can afford it. Don't complain about being broke or barely scrapping buy when you are basically living above your means just because you want the best at all times. You have options. Either make more money or cut your costs. The suggestion of freezing meat is just one suggestion. The difference in quality is small enough, imo, that most people shouldn't be ****ting themselves over the thought of using meat thats been frozen.

If OP admitted to having HBO OOT would have been arguing that he should be drawn and quartered.

lol@ high quality? I know I've mentioned before that my inlaws raise pigs and have them slaughtered for meat. It's good stuff, and it's frozen.

I also have like 12 lbs of wild alaskan salmon that was frozen immediately after being caught by a fisherman friend of the family.

and how to make hummus! top of the line stuff right there if you ask me.

the part that didnt make sense, and was intuitively incorrect, was his stance on "assuming its high quality to start with" or whatever. i personally dont mind the difference either but ffs at least try to follow the context of the conversation.

Also, yes, if you have a ****ty fresh steak and a ****ty frozen steak, the difference may be less pronounced than the difference between fresh $35/lb prime kobe and the frozen equivalent. But for what most people eat, like a decent usda choice ribeye, the difference will be negligible imo.

You don't know where he gets his meat or what its quality is. You have no reason to assume its not high quality if he claims it is.

I mean, I agree with the essence of a lot of what you say about expectations and disillusionment and etc., but you seem to have these really weird, rigid notions of 'class' and 'what that (should) get(s) you' as though there were these bright-line distinctions and neat little boxes that don't change with time and location and blah blah. 'I am an X sort of person, I should therefore get Y and Z.'

dude go re-read what he originally wrote. it was a statement, qualified with "assuming it is high quality to start with" or something along those lines. he was wrong, regardless of where he gets his meat or what the quality ACTUALLY is. which is why i questioned it in the first place. jfc.

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here, i did the hard work for you:
its a ******ed statement, as the higher quality it is, the difference will in fact be MORE noticeable. you are either reading his post wrong, or have no idea what you are talking about.

Jesus christ, you are a nit. Fine, the more expensive the steak, the more you will notice the difference. The point I'm trying to make is that if you buy a decent steak and freeze it, its still gonna be decent when you cook it.

good point, being a nit like i was is a far worse offense than (ambiguously) stating obvious facts like that. bravo, sir, bravo!

only if you have the palette of a 6 year old

not if you cut it up with cutco knives

Yes. It is based on the fact that when you price things in multiples of the average over the last ten years or so I have really noticed an eroding of value. It seems that every year you have to pay a higher multiple to maintain the same level of quality.

Well it must not have been obvious enough because people like thremp were making some pretty silly blanket statements about frozen meat!

Heh. I'm done with this abortion of a thread.

thank god.

That doesn't exactly follow, and I haven't been throwing money around as long as you have, but I obv know what you mean.

I'm pretty sure the bright boys over at Economics forum would say it's ultimately all down to ballooning energy prices, and anecdotally it's hard to argue with them. Gas was $.89 the summer I started driving. And all the ill **** I buy comes from trucks! Big trucks!

SC was right imo. But ya'll just gotta dids.

I'm only saying that because I had the perfect example last night of what freezing meats does to the quality of them. I cooked up some frozen hamburger, which I'm going to go out on a limb here and probably sound a little insane but it's probably one of the lower quality meats out there. It was ****ing horrible. A mcdonalds burger with nothing on it tasted better. Maybe it's just me, but freezing = losing a ton of natural flavor

I'm not sure what 'didsing' means in this context.