Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.

Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/3/2024 11:59 PM, dsi1 wrote:

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:52:46 +0000, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:
 

On 11/2/2024 3:17 PM, jmcquown wrote:

You can make a smash burger for less than half the cost of
having someone flatten it for you.

 
Same goes for chicken nuggets - so???

 
I've been trying to make a smash burger but that's been elusive so
I'm looking for some new tools: a flat iron weight to flatten the
burger and a thin metal spring steel spatula.

I have one of those cast iron bacon press things.  I don't use it
often, its typical purpose is to sit on the back of the stove and
hold burnt out match sticks until I dump them in the trash.  I never
thought about using it for burgers.

It would work if you want a dried out 'smash burger'.  It's just a
surrent fad to do that.

Meantime I did a cost analysis of the 'ragu challenge' and replaced the
ragu for a better sauce component.  Interesting if feeding 4 or more!
Sorry prices are here and sales based but very common sales here.

Replace Ragu with either 1 large can of diced tomatoes or a small one
of sauce and a small one of diced. (2.50 for diced tomato can LG)

The broth could be a can of tomato soup and a can of water but I used
homeade vegetable broth.

2 cans of beans. (black and cannollini) 2/1$

2 ts Peruvian Chili Lime spice (unk but online can make it for about
6cents in this amount).

The 7oz of link sausage are on constant sale here for 1/2 off so about
2.25 worth for 1/2 a link (7oz).

2.50 (tomatoes)+1.00 (broth), .06 (seasoning) +2.25 (sausage) +1.00
(beans)=6.91 and at 10 servings, 69cents a serving.