Thanks, Doug. It sounds like a bit of an adventure.
I get tired of making the same meals over and over, yet I'm not one who stocks a lot of ingredients up for future use, so the idea has some appeal. My son, who is a computer network administrator, uses it and likes it, but he is more patient that I and more precise in how he does things. I might give it a try when things calm down a bit around here. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Doug Brewer <d...@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote: > Dan, my wife signed us up for Blue Apron a while back. At first it was a > kind of adventure and we looked forward to it bringing a little variety to > our meals. None of us are really inspired when it comes to meals we have to > cook ourselves. We're busy people who lean toward food as a necessary duty > rather than as a creative expression and we tend to fall back on habit, to > cooking the same few dishes. > > It should also be noted that we are not equipped with many kitchen skills > either, so the cheery estimates regarding the time it would take to prep, > provided by Blue Apron, had to be inflated greatly to compensate for the > relatively long times it took us to get through all the steps. It should > also be noted that when I write "we," you can assume it means "me," because > I work at home and have, apparently, a whole lot of free time. > > We began with three meals a week, I think, or was it four? I don't recall. > All I know is that my kitchen became a sort of exotic foods warehouse two > or three times a week, with deliveries and distribution taking precedence > over all else in my day before I ever began the tasks required to combine > the ingredients into a finished meal. And speaking of ingredients, Blue > Apron has exploded in the field of meal delivery, so much so that they were > cranking out boxes of stuff at an alarming rate to meet demand, so > frequently they'd screw up and leave out some small but pivotal ingredient, > forcing us to search through everything multiple times in a futile attempt > to locate said ingredient and to try to mimic its effect on the meal with > whatever we had on hand. > > To be fair, the meals were typically very good, if a little redundant, and > paid off the effort for the most part. There were some duds, of course, but > more often they'd satisfy us. > > I should mention the squash. I am not and have never been a squash guy, > and it seemed that every meal was curiously squash-centric after a while, > and had such breezily benign instructions as, "peel and chop the squash > into one inch cubes." I don't know how much you've worked with squashes, > but most of them are roughly the consistency of diamonds, and peeling one > takes engineering and tools I do not have at my disposal. > > Finally what killed it for us (me) was neither the stress of attempting to > replicate the perfection of the included photos, or even the squash. It was > the time investment. I had to block out hours of my day to prep and lash > together a meal that lasted at most fifteen minutes before we had to be > somewhere else. The responses were generally positive, though. > > Is summary, we tried it and it was fun for a bit, but it eventually wore > thin and we went back to what we do best, which is to throw together > something out of a panicked assessment of the pantry and a silent vow to > upgrade our available choices next time. > > I dunno, though. You may like it. > > > On 4/2/17 10:16 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> Does anyone use Blue Apron, or one of the competing food services? >> >> I'd be curious to hear what folks like or don't like about this ttype of >> delivery service. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
