Blue Apron

>>9166832
Seems like the same shit as papa murphy's. If you want to make your own food then just do it. Why pay extra for food that's not even cooked? That's the point of restaurants.

>>9166851
You save money from not tipping

besides there aren't many restaurants that let you have food this nice unless you get a $25 steak etc.

>>9166832
>>9166860
Viral marketer get ye gone

>>9166924
not an argument

>>9166832
No no no just that that .png you posted to the store and buy all that shit instead
Hell my local grocery store has a delivery service so you could get the exact same thing for cheaper than poo apron

>pay 10x as much
>still have to cook
No thanks. I can get everything they ship , organic and all for a tenth of that or less if i grow it myself.
A toy for lazy upper middle class moms.

>>9167077
comes with the exact portions for a recipe, no wasting your cash on shit you wont use

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>>9166832
>look up recipe online
>go to grocery store
>buy stuff
>cook it

>>9167136
>no wasting your cash

Paying 5x as much is wasting your cash.

The crossfit of cooking; as close as they can make it to Lego-instructions simple to appeal to people that wouldn't even consider cooking normally

>>9167136
>no wasting your cash on shit you won't use
I could buy twice as many ingredients as I need for the same price and use the leftovers to wipe my ass

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>>9166832
Its good for people learning how to cook who are shy about buying large quantities of perishable foods that they'll likely not use or not like and it helps you understand the difference using fresh ingredients makes.

Its kind of like the training wheels of food, its cheaper than taking actual cooking courses but if you actually know how to cook already its kind of useless unless you want to pay a large premium for convenience.

>>9167202
I figure I could try it out with the $30 discount and find some nice recipes that I would then just go to the fucking store to buy for

>>9167213
You can find nice recipes for free you literal retard

>>9167202
This unironically

How fucking white do you have to be to buy that shit

>>9166851
Also you can use foodstamps to buy Papa Murphy's

>>9166832
I don't like it.

1) overpriced

2) I don't want random produce that's been selected for me. When I buy fruits and vegetables I want to pick them out myself.

3) I can't shake the feeling that these sorts of services are used, in part, to sell off produce that's on the verge of going bad.

>>9166860
>use the same money you saved from not tipping on a service for people too retarded to shop for groceries

>>9167202
>for people who are shy about buying large quantities of perishable foods
I'd be more embarrassed if someone found out I signed up for a service like this.

>>9168503
>I'd be more embarrassed if someone found out I signed up for a service like this.
Thats because you're diagnosably autistic.

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>>9166860
>You save money from not tipping
Oh fuck that c killed me

>>9166860
also on alcohol
$12 a glass for shitty house wine or I can get a good wine chosen by me and drink as much as I want

If packaged effectively, this could eliminate waste for the average family as well as provide properly sized portions and nutrition.

They need to optimize it to allow for you to define you and your family's TDEE.

>>9167136
Or you could just use the extra to cook more food

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>>9166832
>>9167136
>beef ramen with whole sprigs of mint
God I hope those aren't the portions they want you to use. Using mint at all is nasty.

>>9170378
>Blue Apron customers usually live in urban areas and don't use personal cages much

Probably. But you have a myriad number of grocers available within walking or biking distance. Do you really want to leave it to Roberto to choose your veg, meat and fruit for you, sir fruit?

>>9170420
Blue Apron Inc. has deposited $0.02 into your bank account.
Remember, food is better when you start from scratch, so have some dinner, the Blue Apron ® way!

>>9167202
Good point

>>9170378
Please fuck off and never come back, you disgust me

>>9167136
Shut the fuckin up, anyone with half a brain could see buying your own groceries is less expensive. You juicero faggot

>>9167055
Of course it's not an argument you shit kicking retard. He's saying it's viral marketing, which it is

>>9166832
Just ate my first garden grown tomato today and it was fucking delicious and flavorful unlike the shit you buy at the store.

>>9170378
I live in the city and drive 2 minutes to a Kroger once a month in a sedan with my roomates. A fully loaded truck easily wastes more gas transporting that shit from their warehouse to each complex.

>>9166851
dont talk shit on papa murphy's, best pizza chain in the world

>>9166851
Take and bake is totally different. All the difficult preparation steps have been done for you. These subscription meal boxes are overpriced groceries and a recipe.

>>9166832
It's only really good if you just never have time to pick out good recipes, make a shopping list, and go to the store (provided the stores in your area actually have a good selection).

my partner gets it and it's actually saved her money, since she lives by herself and each meal is portioned for two people. makes dinner one night, has leftovers for lunch or tomorrow's dinner. she also told me that it's helped her branch out and try new things, and she's never gotten a repeat meal. she works at a pretty intense government job full time so she's just too tired to go out for groceries most of the time.

if you're the kind of person who does have the time and means to get good ingredients, don't bother. it's not really catering to you.

>>9167572
this is a white website, look at the demographics

we are not african americans of the urban sector

>>9168522
right fuck off

In america you are forced to tip extraordinary amounts making an 8.99$ meal (the price per meal on Blue Apron) become a 12$ meal. Perhaps you tip 10% on some silly rule but that will catch up to you.

Healthy meals put you even further up with 8.99$ eat out meals rare to satiate. You definitely are saving money over eating out.

>>9170854
No argument presented against Blue Apron in the end, other than what other anon can actually discuss in this thread.

Saying >SHILL is really just shitposting, even when its obviously shilling it doesn't need to be said, the best way to defend against shills is present real arguments which can actually convince one that the product is bad.

>>9170615
>>9170378
thank you for your contribution

>>9170841
unintelligent

>>9171523
I would probably find two good recipes and then just cancel my subscription to buy them in bulk at the store

>>9171736
but I'm asian
why do slave state irrelevants always bleat about their escaped slaves when they start to feel confused or alienated?

>>9166832
the only thing i like about it is that it saves me from having to spend lots of time picking out ingredients in the local supermarket.

>>9167146
>recipe requires some spice/ingedrient that you will never use again and costs a lot of money

This is, imo, the only appeal of services like blu apron

>>9166832
All of the recipes are boring as fuck. If I was wealthy and busy enough to justify getting it, I would rather just order food.

>>9172435
what do you consider an exciting recipe? can you post an example?

>>9166860
>You save money from not tipping
I do that at the restaurant too

>>9166832
Pros: don't have to shop as much, helps teach you how to cook, don't have extra weird ingredients lying around afterwards

Cons: expensive, lots of packaging, you might not want to eat what they send you

My millennial cousin learned to cook by using Blue Apron but it's overpriced

>>9166860
>besides there aren't many restaurants that let you have food this nice
because you are the one cooking it you big moron
>im going to pay someone else extra to let me cook my own meal and not even let me pick the ingridients
walmart does home delivery, its the same fucking shit except you dont need a subscription or to wait two weeks fro your order

>>9166832
they should expand into this system where they deliver big size boxes to you so you can make a lot of food and sell it so it pays for itself
imagine free food, you just have to cook and sell it for them and its entirely free for you

>>9173864
the only fuking difference is the fucking box
how maerican can you be?

>>9173878
its cheaper to buy every ingridient in big boy size from walmart than the little autistic one portion box they sent
god forbid its too much and you only need 70% of the food in the box, what will you do then?

>>9173895
nonon, its 30% extra food, you cant have extra ingridients, its like going to the supermarket and coming with more than a sigle spoon of salt, the recipe doesnt call for a box of salt, it calls for a spoon of salt, how come they dont sell spoons of salt? it doesnt make sense

in fact blue apron is such a great idea they should expand
green apron for vegans
yellow aprons for people who eat gluten free
orange apron for people who dont like onions
we can cover the full spectrum

Fucking Web 2.0 generation wants their fucking food to be packaged up like pinterest incarnate.

What the fuck is wrong with the world?

Have you people ever heard of joing a CSA?

It's been a thing for decades now and the difference is you get an assortment of food from your local farm instead of from wherever the fuck jew apron gets it.

Mine costs about $200/month for 10lbs of meat/month and a bag of fresh vegetables/greens/fruits every week.

Check out eatwild.com for a list of farms that provide this service near you.

>>9173951
>just the weird stuff
like garlic or lemon or god forbid mint
who ever heard of that before?

>>9174026
>wierd stuff
>clearly everything in the picture in the op can be bought at the supermarket

but yeah, i dont have 60 things around my kitchen because i actually cook my meals
i totally get why you need blue apron tho make sure to instagram me a picture of that super exotic lemon chicken you made that you took with your iphone

>>9174049
>somewhere between salt, and garlic
oh my god, garlic is reallly an exotic ingridient to you?
where the fuck do you live? are you an eskimo or something?
sometimes i use an entire clove to make dinner

>>9170378
>Keep in mind, "average" to many people means driving to the grocery store in the oversized motorized wheelchair once a month, loading up on boxed Kraft Dinner, and burning 20 gallons of gas while idling in 8 lane suburban interchanges. It's a rather wasteful way to live, but this is the definition of "freedom" drummed into their heads.
????

everyone is arguing with the shill OP about convenience without realizing blue apron is $60 per fucking week for 3 meals

>>9172463
They pick the safest recipes to appeal to their yuppie fanbase. Aka food that is somewhat fancy/exotic (e.g. udon or some glazed fish, shit you'd find in a cooking magazine on the rack in Whole Foods). I like cooking with cuts of meat that many people don't use, like liver or pig feet, because it's cheap and tasty.

Also >>9174115 what anon said. I can feed myself like a king and eat out once a week on $60.

>>9173951
you seem to be really autistic irl, who spends this much effort shilling a bad service like ba?
I never tried it and i will never try it, like any other person that doesnt like getting ripped off, you wont find your elaborate discussion on an international cooking board about a service catering to cooking babies with too much money. I got my kitchen stacked with dry and durable ingredients, i rarely use, from all over the world, but i know every single thing i have in there. Thats what you build up over time when you like to cook, some of those things i go through fast, others not so much, but thats how its supposed to be. for me the tiny quantities are a huge turnoff, not building up a pantry is a huge turnoff, not going shopping yourself is a huge turnoff... did you ever try to cook at a persons place that didnt build up a pantry through cooking? it fucking sucks, if all my ingredients were gone from my kitchen id hate cooking, every single recipe would be blue apron expensive, since yeah, buying a bottle of shaoxing wine, sichuan pepper, a bag of hot pepper flakes, this shit is expensive when you have to buy it, but once you have it cooking becomes cheap as fuck and a different level of fun, since you can just shop anything and make it taste good. i bet i can make 100 different dishes,lasting 3 meals, with a chicken and 1 or 2 vegetables, spending 4€, which will all taste better than ba

>>9174009

>overload of more vegetables than I could use for 6 months

Ah I see, you're a fat ass who's idea of eating vegetables is a baked potato with a couple of grilled asparagus spears (with butter of course)
>Surprise project comes up at work oops your entire week's food supply just rotted

Lol, apparently you live in a place where CSA's are a thing but refrigerators/freezers are not.

>>9172523
>helps teach you how to cook
if you need to be taught to cook you're automatically retarded. cooking is hardly even a skill; it's just something you do

>>9174115
There is a coupon for $30 off you can use the first week but fuck that is doubling the price afterwards from 8.99 per meal to 17.99

>>9174208
i was going to try it when i saw the coupon from ja/ck/ and then i realized i wasn't actually saving money. it's advertised as a meal for 2, so you're actually getting ~1000 calories per meal max. it wouldn't even feed you for an entire 3 days if you were alone.

>>9174177
im friends with this one girl, really nice, honest person, but she just has no class.
she reads bad books, laughs about bad jokes, loves cheesy movies and has no taste in food, and i cant argue with that.
Thats what you are, blue apron shill, you can not argue with a person that has not enough class to realise they are paying premium for bland food they have to cook themselves, and think they are part of a foodrevolution while you are just consuming. its a fooddelivery+a random basic recipe, congratulations, i bet its worth the 20 dollar per recipe.

>>9174247
>i can't excuse the ridiculously high cost so i'll just point out that they used the word shill which wasn't part of their argument

>>9174247
you are not even discussing anything i argue,while complaining people are not not engaging in an argument, shill.
bottom line is, if you enjoy not having a say in whats for dinner, if you enjoy cooking somehing you did not choose to cook, if you got the 20€ per meal to spare, good for you. but why you are not ashamed of it is beyond me.
but i guess how you describe your friends ,
>"elitist cuck foodie hipster" who just got burned out on the overbearing #localvore #cleaneating nonsense that was all the rage in the '00s

probably explains the way you think and why i hate you so much

>>9166832
"Hay", I suppose? I don't see the point.

There's a grocery store less than a mile away from me that's very well stocked. I have no issue hopping in my car and going on a grocery run at least once a week.

I'm good at planning, and I'm a decent cook, so I don't see any value in these people telling me what I'm eating tonight. The only way it could be justified is if you don't have transportation, or are literally wealthy enough to not care that a home-cooked meal costs $9 a serving, when the nearby diner has big meals for $7.

>>9174287
sorry i dont want to eat at dennys literally makes me puke

hard to find recipes too and they seem to have nice ones hidden in these boxes

>>9174408
>hard to find recipes
>what is Google
>what are recipe books
Good to know that BA markets to dumb yuppies.

>>9174408
>dennys
No one mentioned Denny's.

>hard to find recipes too
What fucking planet do you live on?

>>9174413
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-VjBxMufhw

I look up recipes and its either fucking girly "Tasty!" branded shit that focuses mostly on looks always uses ketchup and farmed salmon as the primary ingredient, or some celebrity chef with a camera man dealing with hyperactivity disorders like Chef Ramsay in example.

Not to mention his recipes are usually impossible to replicate.

>>9166832
Hey blue apron, you like fresh bread? I'm selling you the raw ingredients for bread so you can make warm fresh bread at only twice the price your local bakery sells bread for, what do you say? Can I sign you up for a three year supply deal?

>>9174431
Translation:
>I'm incapable of taking 12 seconds to scroll past the clickbait

>>9174431
>impossible to replicate
More like you don't actually know shit about cooking. Googling Tikka Masala gives me a recipe from Epicurious as the first result. Want authentic shit? Maybe try googling "authentic tikka masala" you dumb shit. Guess you like paying to be spoonfed.

>>9174441
I can't even get recipes in this god-forsaken place as most here would already have their recipes and just want to discuss memes or say "look at my pot mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm" and discuss how you can "mmmmmmmmmmmm mmm mmmmmm"

>>9174431
I made this one 3 days ago

https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/recipes/3849-chicken-tikka-masala

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>>9174448
I hope to god that you're a shill. I can't believe anyone would actually be this incompetent.
>coming to /ck/ for actual cooking

>>9174448
Aren't blue apron recipes online, they are selling you the fucking ingredients, you can just look at the list and buy everything at the store

>>9174464
It certainly should improve, don't tell me I need to search some other clickbait site

>>9174431
That's funny, because as ADD as this video is, it actually spells out virtually everything you need to do, assuming you understand the very basics of cooking.

All it involves is creating a sauce mixture, searing some chicken, then mixing everything back in and simmering a bit.

Serve with rice, and you're golden.

my family got a free trial so we got some teryiaki chicken recipe
it was a good recipe but I would just save that and buy the shit myself

>>9166832
Nay. It's a bizarre marketing trick to sucker in gullible millennials. These fuckers will choose dogshit if it's portrayed loud and flashy enough. Witness our current political climate.

If I had that much money to piss away and magically zero time to shop/plan my meals, I would just hire a personal chef

>>9174533
FYI millennials mostly voted for Hillary so your point is moot.

>>9174589
aren't the new generation the trump voters actually

>>9167136
That is absolutely incorrect. From the looks of the pic in OP, they just give you one of each vegetable that goes into the recipe.

You can purchase individual vegetables at a grocery store, ya know.

>>9174613
>>9174589
i dont think anyone really knows what millenials want, everyone claims them to their side
also makes sense that the blue apron shill voted for hillary, he probably doesnt have any healthcare

>>9167136
There's an entire bulb of garlic, and a fuckton of mint in OP's image.

>>9174613
No. Over 50% of them voted for Hillary. You only think most of them voted for Trump because you're more exposed to /pol/. Normies love Hilary and Blue Apron.

>>9172135
You have a very unique style of pretentiousness in your writing
You could probably write for a liberal mag if you wanted to

>>9174613
>the new generation
Millennials are certainly not a "new generation".

Millennials are between 36 and 22, give or take a year or two depending on who you ask.

>>9174521
This, pretty much. I'm not seeing the value-add of BA, unless you're somehow unable to go to a grocery store.

>>9174634
I voted for Trump desu

>>9166832
This is backwards. Perverse. They ship you tiny bits of packaged food in all this plastic, you follow some directions, and you have a perfect Blue Apron Meal™.

Just go to the store and buy some veggies and see what you can throw together. Ask your mom or grandma how to cook. Watch videos online and read tutorials.

>>9174665
I made it to like half the first paragraph

>>9175237
But anon that requires effort. And how else are you going to subtly show off how wealthy you are to your friends and neighbors?

>>9166832
Pro tip: Vegetables in the Blue Apron box are usually wilting by the time it gets to you. Also, extremely expensive to begin with compared to what you'd pay if you bought them at a grocery store.

>>9171780
>Forced

>>9174026
Just make tea ffs

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too much waste

>>9178247
I dont know about anywhere else, but here that salmon alone would cost more than a blue apron meal.

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>>9170378
>i didnt get mad until your cuck ass shit on cars

fuck you nigger ill drive my 8 mile to the gallon vee ate right over to your moms house faggot

>>9171780
>Forced
lmao no

>>9179306
Try harder next time.

>>9170378
>coastfaggots are THIS out of touch with anything outside their GRIDS-infested bubble

I bet you get crippling anxiety every time you have to leave your walkup studio in brooklyn to go anywhere but work you noodle-armed soyboy

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>>9167202
This is actually true. I would never use this service, but this is the only non-retarded reason I can imagine to do so. Unless you have extra money and you like wasting it, I guess.

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>>9170615
Are you seriously completely discounting the value of choosing your own produce and meats? Do you just grab the first potato you see without even looking at it? Because many people actually give a shit about inspecting the fresh food they buy, and guess where that stuff ends up once it's been picked through? At best, you're getting a box of stuff that someone put together knowing that they won't be eating it. At worst, you're getting the dregs. Same reason I never order produce from Amazon, those people don't give a shit if your avocado is underripe or mushy.

>>9170378
>lives in urban area
>but not near a grocery store
>not somewhere that has a grocery delivery service
>urban