This is the easiest way to get a raise. Stop eating fast food. Love yourself. Watch the stream here: piratesoftware... Join the community here: / discord #Pants #Cooking #PirateSoftware Edited by Sunder
The issue with smart crock-pots is none have Matter integration or even HomeAssistant integration right now. > But why do you want a smart crock-pot I'm lazy and I want to control it while sitting less than 5 meters away from it, okay
@@_cybik they are great, never had an instant pot per se but they are basically electrical pressure cookers, and here in Brasil we use them a lot, from meats to beans to whole fuckin meals in a single pot it's just extremely easy and cost efficient because the pressure and high heat just cooks food faster and better, tough cuts of meat when stewed on pressure cookers become soft as butter and beans are basically made 99/100 times on pressure cookers, just be careful because pressure can be dangerous if you are a careless cooker, there's a lot of stories about them exploding but they are 99% of the time user error. They're also built like fuckin tanks and when the lid starts to warp there's some places who cut the pressure cookers in half and turn them into regular pots so it's a piece of kitchenware that will live a long ass time.
Baking is tricky, since it's not a particularly time-consuming skill once you learn what you're doing. It's the learning process that usually takes a few bouts of time and effort to get the hang of!
"Thor, what are you doing?" "Baking bread." "It's four o'clock in the morning. Why on Earth are you baking bread?" "Because I am in full control of my life."
Wait. Thor wants to open a bakery, Ludwig wants to bake good fucking bread, Connor wants to eat some good fucking food and I want a creative workspace. I smell profitable bread.
I find it so damn heart warming and hopeful to see streamers like you that go out of their way to help their mostly younger audiences become some percent more self sufficient. You know you have people that look up to you and I feel like a lot of what you do is based with that in mind
I just realized Thor (often?) does a square when he's starting something on paint even if it's not needed, and that aligns with his advice when making a game: learn how to make a square, put it down, and you've officially started making something. Paraphrasing a bit, but yeah it makes sense. Easier to get started.
Cooking and gathering your own ingredients is such an important skill. Refreshing to see someone in the content/gaming space talk about this since it's so common place to order food. It's a dummy good money saver which allows for more important things such as the Heartbound demo.
The biggest hurdle for people is usually discipline. Buying and cooking your own shit saves a lot of money, but can also, depending on your situation, require a loooot of time. Especially if you aren't used to cooking, or are slow like I am. I usually cut my stuff like 2x slower than most people, and I can't get the hang of it to speed it up. I'm always afraid I'll cut myself.
@@Notsogoodguitarguy the secret? Do all your meal prep on your day off. And have that meal prep be for the entire month. That's what I do. I cook maybe three or four times a month. Each time gives me more verity in my long term food supply.
@@Zathren problem is preping and storing :) not sure if I have ADHD or even related but I will forget I had food... so many time when I decide to start cooking I forget I even bought food. Even if it's just throw it on a pan and fry it. I forget even what I've already bought, next time going shopping thinking... didn't I buy this... just in case buy again. 2 full bottles of oil or spices... greaaattand when I don't buy it turns out I don't have any.
This right here, Thor. I saw my grandparents (who lived through the Depression) do a LOT of this. Grandma canned, preserved, made jams and jellies, and so on. They'd buy in bulk and store it. They grew veggies and rhubarb. Tried growing an apple tree, but that tree was to its species as Charlie Brown's Christmas tree was to pines or Douglas firs (apparently the Southeast Alaskan climate was not conducive to growing apples at the time). Everyone needs to see this as an example. Do what Thor is doing. Buy in bulk, preserve as much as you can, get less fussy about what you eat, and don't prepare or buy what you can't consume in a timely fashion.
apple trees usually suck if you grow your own and dont know. Like if you just plant a seed itll probably suck. To get a good apple you really need to graft from a good tree and go from there
Thor, the 225lbs is likely the hanging weight. The processed weight is 2/3 of that. On average, the lowest cost after processing is 4.5 -7.5 per lb. It's still a great thing to do, just clarifying for anyone budgeting it out.
@@Notsogoodguitarguy i would assume it refers to weight after removing all the inedible parts, so bones/connective tissue/any other gristly bits that you cant directly eat. Those parts can still be used for broths and stocks, but dont provide much in the way of nutrition.
Bones, gristle, fat, scraps, tendons, crusts, skins, any part you don't want to eat as-is, put it in a gallon freezer bag. Once it's full, pour all of it into a pot and simmer it until it all dissolves. This can take a few days. It won't rot so long as it stays hot, don't worry. This is how soup stock is made. Filter any remaining bits of solids before dividing into containers and freezing. You can drink it as-is or you can add meat, potatoes, carrots, rice, onions, noodles, whatever you like.
So what I've learned today is, if there's ever an apocalypse and most people are eating rats, maggots and each other, Thor will be chilling out and dining on fine deluxe ramen with bok choi from the windowsill, oyster mushrooms home-grown in a bucket, and carefully fermented kimchi. Rad!
One super pro tip I'd recommend is looking into how restaurants do batch cooking, and how that can be turned into meal prep, basically using your freezer as a DVR to timeshift the slow parts of cooking into periods when you can make batches of components you later assemble into meals instead of buying some hideous premade sauce where the label cost more to produce than the stuff inside the jar. British Indian Restaurant style cooking revolves around a base sauce and protein you pre-cook and can easily freeze, plus a few additional spices and sauces you throw in. Italian restaurants make buckets of marinara sauce that get modified into what the recipe calls for. Etc. It's a total power move to be able to defrost some prepped sauce and poached meat in the microwave then make a six serving restaurant style chicken curry in 20 minutes.
Another thing people can do that I’ve done is when meal prepping a lot of food, just freeze portions and put them in the fridge to thaw a day or 2 before! A great option is curries, soups, burritos, lasagna, casseroles, frittatas, etc. just spend an evening making 5 casseroles, freeze them, and you have weeks of food for cheap. Also check the discounted meats at the store and buy bulk when it’s on sale if you can’t afford to buy a half cow at a time!
I own a small meat processor that works directly with farmers based out of KY. It is so nice to see someone with a large following mention buying beef in bulk and freezing. Hopefully this will shed some light on the quality increase and financial savings you get when going that route for food! More power to you brother. We also have a garden to eat fresh veggies and can the rest for storage!
Thank you in advance for those cooking streams/videos Thor. Seriously. They will be vital for my expedition into "stop buying fast food and cook you fool".
You are a hero for the gaming community. Not only helping a group that's health isnt taken seriously enough. Not to mention the consistent good motivational advice you give everyone. Helps you have a voice that soothes everyone lmao. Cheers brotha. 🎉
Speaking of vegetables that regrow: Egyptian Walking Onions. Not only will they grow back every year, not only do they also self-propagate through bulbils... you can use both the leaves *and* the bulbils in your cooking. The former make great substitutes for scallions, and the latter can be cut up and cooked the way you might use regular onions or shallots. (In point of fact, I actually have some Egyptian Walking Onions growing in a standing planter on my deck. I've had them growing since last year, and this year I got my first harvest of bulbils!)
The half a cow per year trick is really good, but you need a big ass freezer. And not a lot of people have space for a freezer, especially ones that co-rent apartments. Getting a big-ass freezer is a life goal of mine when I get my own separate apartment.
same, i really want to have one of those big ass freezers to just store everything that i buy. aint it funny how life goals change with age xD 10years ago at 17y i wouldnt have thought about wanting to buy freezers and stuff xD btw even with small freezers you can still buy stuff in bulk, its just not gonna be half a cow but maybe a tenth of it but still as long as its bulk the size doesnt matter as you will still be able to save money compared to buying a meal directly
@@miriamweller812 Wait, wait, what do you mean? What do you think collect means? He doesn't talk about becomming a hunter-gatherer. He talks about - instead of ordering in, go to the supermarket and buy your own food. And then cook it. And I don't think saving food through cooking is a first-world problem. It's just good common sense.
It gets even better! Once you're done the food prep for veggies, you can store all the waste parts in a bag and freeze it. Drag it out when you need a vegetable stock and boil it for an hour. The same can be done with chicken stock and the chicken carcass and beef stock and a large beef bone when they have added onions/carrots/celery. Instead of always paying for oil, save your grease drippings in a cup and store them in the fridge, separately, of course. Those cups become instant seasonings for things like potatoes and vegetables. A pack of bacon can last you a week or two in the grease returned. Most herbs for cooking can be readily grown on a windowsill and don't take much maintenance outside of water. Fresh thyme is always preferable to dried/ground variants. Celery, garlic, and onions can be regrown from just their bases. Place the base in a large vessel and add water; ensure to change the water every day. Once the roots have grown out, they are ready to be transplanted into soil. Potatoes and rice, when bought in bulk and home-cooked, are incredible value for their price point. Used bread makers usually pay for themselves with a few months and you will have filling carbs with the best taste around. There are more ways to stretch a dollar, but these are the ones I can remember right now.
I love the pants, and I'm really looking forward to implementing your food advice into my own life more. I already cook and mealprep all the time, but I want to expand. One of the big things will be the freezer and the meat, I really want to do that too. After that I have to look how I can start growing my own stuffs.
Practice makes perfect and healthy mind, creativity also helps, which I personally lack. Not sure if brain broken or what. Recently a friend said fry some eggs and bacon... he was doing same thing at that time. Few minutes later sends image of Bacon and eggs with a smol salat. Said salat was last minute thing, took a tomato, basilisk, leftover mozarella and added pepper done and I'm like how the, what the... I can't literally fathom it. On paper super easy barely an inconvenience! but for brain NO
@@gamerdweebentertainment1616 Im pretty sure its not creativity you lack. Theres a bunch of websites where u can put all the stuff in that you have at home and they tell you what meal u can make! Its awesome. The "creativity" is just practice and time.
He only sleeps like 5hours a day, and can skip sleep and work like 30hours straight without issues. Bit of a leg up there in having more hrs of the day to do stuff lol
When you say all this stuff, and go through all this stuff, I really like and enjoy how, skill and passionate about things you do. You also say its easy and you can do it too, maybe so. I don't always feel like I have the power? skill? energy? but just sometimes I can struggle through days and not feel like I failed or wasted it.
You won't always have the energy, but you definitely have the skill and power to *start.* Once it turns into something you just do instead of something you *try* to do, you'll find it actually wasn't all that difficult looking back on it and you'll talk about it like Thor does!
@@JustinSimoneau Because frankly it should be common sense. If you buy processed things, you're paying for the processing. However the average human on this planet doesn't use that computing power to logic things out, and instead stick to what habits they formed. Literally any time you think something seems of, run a logic chain down and try to understand why it's that way. 9/10 times you'll figure out where the work is and why it is the way it is. Welcome to critical thinking, You're now doing what 95% of the population will not and will never do.
Hey, just want to say this to say it. I am at a pretty low point right now. I have a major eating problem. I am addicted to the fat, the grease, the sugar and I have been trying my hardest to take steps to get away. These couple ideas, just the small ted-talk format, just makes me feel like I am going the right way. IDK, I really enjoyed this so much. I love your content and I hope you keep making more.
The thing about buying in bulk is that when you invest a day and cook a meal in overabundance, you can prepack it in "generous" portions for 1 (or more) and simply freeze them. This works well when living alone since you only need to invest a few days a month and can stuff a variety of different meals into your freezer so you don't have to eat the same food 5 days a week. This works for very well for smaller living arangements or a lack of freezer space, a "preferred method" in Germany for younger people, be it working class, students, single households, etc.
Freezing of cuts, peelings and such from Veggies and once you have a good amount you can boil veggie stock on pieces you'd normally throw out and the stock can either be used straight away or again frozen to be portioned out for use in the future. Great way to get A LOT of flavour in to any dish with minial effort since you basically just throw your frozen scraps in a big pot, fill it with water and let it gently boil for how ever long you want and than strain it. Also boiling oil and pouring over fresh herbs that are on their way out and mixing can turn a really boring oil in to a nice herb oil you can use in cooking. Or just chopping up and mixing in to butter for compound butter and roll in wax paper and freeze. Big flavour bombs that are easy to do and saves on food waste.
currently work as a cook in a kitchen and i can say with 100% certainty, the man speaks the truth. taste as you go, remember you can always add salt but you can't take it away, start simple and you'll be surprised what you can do!
@@mogaming163 haha, well, i dont buy like thor, live in a studio apt in sf so i would love a top down freezer buuuutttt....that would be half my place lol i just personally stick to sausage at home, less messy and little cleanup. doing a tomato sauce from scratch though is cheap and lasts for the week, so dinner for a bunch of nights, eat out for a treat. check out a local butcher, costco, even a local market. gotta do some research yourself, itll be relative to where you live. like, i dont think (based on what ive seen as i dont know him personally) thor would say you have to follow his exact meal plan, thats just an example of what he does. the main takeaway is that if you want to save money, cook your own food! its a whole other world of knowledge to be had and, much like game dev or any other field/skill/craft/art/whatthefuckever, it only takes time, effort, and the willingness to be honest about your mistakes and correct them to learn and grow as a human fucking being!! so stop reading this and go make something already!
@@Smi7h1sH3r3 I already cook! :D I was mainly just asking for my family since I have a large extended family but they probably already buy beef in bulk lol (they live overseas)
Man, I fucking love your variety of content. Its informative, its entertaining, its fun to watch. I appreciate how much you are promoting what people can do for themselves. Take the like you filthy pirate.
I would LOVE if you would do an instruction video on how to grow mushrooms. My family loves & eats ramen quite often so having mushrooms we grow & dehydrate ourselves would be amazing
Trying to figure out how this man has time to do all the things he does, then I remembered he sleeps like a maximum of 5 hours every night and it makes more sense
@@donvitopatata For me, it's around 6-7 hours average, 8 at the most. Any more than that and I find I'm dragging throughout the day and having a bit of cramps.
@@dijonvon4378 Does the narcissist comment have anything to do with the mushrooms and kimchi? He is quite literally explaining that the things he is doing are simple. "You can make them in a bucket, real easy."
One of the most important parts of a cooking show is a charismatic host, and Thor is perfect. The food is likely been seen and done before so ya gotta rope people in with a good voice
My respect for you just jumped thru the roof! You are not only a great IT guy and great person but also a wonderful family oriented, proper man. I didn't expect this from a YTer and I apologize for that.
You got plenty of time when you look for it, just try it! Cook a simple meal on a Friday night and see how easy it really can be, you'll probably be surprised. Just keep. It. Simple. Getting complicated with food is how you make it take a long time. You could even find recipes that involve slow cooking or leaving things to simmer for long periods of time, then you don't have to spend much of the cooking time actually standing over the stove.
I would advice against freezing potatoes, they are rich with water so when you freeze them the water crystalizes and when you defrost them they become very watery because of the big ice crystals, Store them in a dark and cool place prefferably in a bag or a box that doesnt let through light.
I do the same, but as a vegan. Its even cheaper and easier. Beans, chickpeas and lentils are great protein sources and never go bad when dried. I can do so many dishes out of them. The only thing I go shop regularly is vegetables. Learning to cook is extremely helpful for that :) Eating one big healthy meal per day helps also alot.
It's also more of a time investment to start from scratch, so it's good to have balance if you're more short on time than money. But sometimes you're short on both and you're just screwed(where I'm at currently).
Not really? Food prepping saves overall cooking time. It turns 6 X 1 hour cooking, to 1 hour prep and 6 X 10 minutes cooking. If you're too short on money to bulk buy, you can still benefit from it. You can probably go to the markets and negotiate for cheaper chicken if you're buying in the dozen. Prepping your own pickle, sides or kimchi spruces up any dish you make. Thor even talked about growing your own mushroom and choi sum, both achievable even in apartments. However, I think this one is a bit of a stretch, you can get better value of time for nutrients if you added more black beans, carrots and frozen peas in your meals.
Yes, the raw ingredients are cheaper than buying a premade meal or kit, but you're not including the time, effort, and knowledge required to prepare the meal. Even for someone who know how to cook, making everything from scratch, breaking down a 1/4 cow, growing and maintaining a garden are all serious undertakings involving quite a lot of time and labor. When it comes down to it, you gotta calculate the total investment for the final product and compare it against how much your time is worth to you. For most people, it's worth it to do SOME things from scratch, but not all. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for the typical person who works a 9-5, commutes, aims for 8 hours of sleep, and tries to have some form of life beyond work, cooking, and cleaning.
I agree with that, I'd say the main takeaway from all this is get a big ass freezer if you can and buy meat and ingredients in bulk. It doesn't have to be half a cow, but maybe keep watch on "close to expiring" pieces at the supermarket, and find a way to buy from bulk providers. The instant pot also seems like killer advice because it saves a lot of time and work. Also preparing huge portions and freezing those too. If the issue is getting off prepared meals, sometimes throwing a bunch of vegetables on a pan and cooking for half an hour while listening to some podcast is more stimulating than just throwing X in the microwave and using the saved time to still watch said podcast. Like, yeah time is valuable, but we need to spend a bit of time on chilling out or the entire planet will go into stress-induced cardiac arrest. It's an investment in health. And might aswell water a garden, cut up a cow leg or just spend some time cooking a bunch of vegetables into a stir, giving onions their deserved headstart. Just my 5 cents. Thor's method is full Power-User, but one can take bits and pieces and adapt them.
gardens aren't actually that difficult, especially if you're growing simple replenishable foodstuff like onions and bok choy. Also, you can usually take that 1/4 cow to a butcher and they will do it for you.
cooking takes almost no active time Stop making these cope excuses i worked 72 to 84 hours per week manual labor outside, and i still cooked big ass meals that would last me 2 - 3 days and i also gamed and even had time to make videos if i was really disciplined but most of the time i was too lazy and spent an hour or two just wasting time every night. I am also someone that needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep
(@ OP) This, also if you have disabilities that impact your ability to do any of the steps along the way or do that kind of labour, you're always going to have to spend more for stuff that is more prepared already. Either a) because it's physically not doable to do that labour, or b) while possible, doing that labour would severely negatively impact your health. Great recipes though, the pressure cooker stuff looks great for lower-energy-cost meals that are still good
@@russ2120 I didn't say it was difficult. I said it involved effort, time, and knowledge. Three critical resources that are being omitted from the equation in this video.
While it's definitely good to get all your own food from scratch, it's also not feasible for a lot of people. I'd love to eat 100% clean but if I want to do something like eat a burger, I don't have the time or resources to grow my own lettuce, onions and tomatoes, bake my own bread, and grind my own meat while also going to work, working out, relaxing, reading, learning something new etc etc. For the cost of food you've also got to factor in the time it takes you to make it, so sure while it could come out to like $1 per meal money-wise, time-wise it's gonna level out closer to what it would cost to just go to the store and buy bread, lettuce, onions and the rest. it's definitely cleaner and the preferable thing to do, but you can't discount the time and effort it takes to do all of that stuff too. I know you can do a lot of it at the same time, but buying a head of lettuce and a bag of bread whenever I need it is a lot easier and less time consuming than tending a garden.
@@latticepoint5245 oh yeah 100%, I’m not disputing that at all I’m just saying maybe cuz I’ve been seeing it a lot lately in my feeds. Lots of people saying to grow your own stuff and never buy it, and I’m just wondering how those people have enough hours in the day
@@apophis456 To be fair, a lot of grown items don't take as much maintenance as people think. They usually just need water and you can just pluck a tomato or onion from a plant when you're cooking. On lettuce, I do agree... it can be quite annoying to deal with; I've never had any lettuce harvests any time I've ever planted some, so I just buy that from the store. Also, as for bread (and other baked goods)... it freezes absurdly well. I like to make bread (and assorted snack treats) once or twice a month.
I recently gave pickling a shot and made pickled water melon rinds. They turned out fantastic. Learning to not only cook but how to *make* food is incredibly empowering.
bro just whips out paint to draw random shit for any explanation to anything like just say what you need to say instead of presenting information as if i’m a toddler dude
I think it's cool. I do the same thing with my hands and I don't really think about it. I think that when you can break stuff down like that and make it simple, it's a sign of understanding. Also he talks about a lot of stuff that the average person probably doesn't see or hear about often
You've given a lot of amazing advice over the months that I've been watching, but this one takes the cake. That instant pot advice and website recommendation was amazing. I can't wait to see your cooking streams.
it's always a tradeoff tho. if you start w/ base materials, sure it's cheaper, but it also takes more time. convenience costs money, and not everyone has the time or money for tools needed to make it worth it -- I used to not have access to more than a tub of ice cream in freezer space. I would also say that cooking for 2, ideally 4 is most cost efficient. if you're cooking solo, you pay more for less. or you just eat the same meal for a week, which is mentally draining. pooling resources is definitely great if you have the opportunity (thanks mom).
I've upscale all my cooking to 20+ servings, such that my freezer has ~30 family-sized heat-and-eat meals at any time. I cook the carb fresh, which makes the heated meal much nicer; pasta, rice, noodles etc.
This man gets the world's biggest hype train and still cooks everything from scratch so his money goes to better things. The world needs more people with as big of a heart as thor 🧡💜
american cheese is not oil. it is still a significant amount of cheese that is recongealed with various chemicals, and water. i make the stuff. everyone who says it's not "real cheese" is also incorrect
Dang, that's a lot of tips I can't do because I live in an apartment and will probably never own a house to put things like a top-down freezer or storage for vast quantities of bulk food ingredients. I might be able to do a windowsill "garden" though, so I'll look into that and maybe try growing some green onions or whatnot, hope the inner Los Angeles air doesn't make 'em poisonous. Instapot is also something I can do.
I think the question about making pasta from scratch was more like: A: Do you make your own pasta? B: Do you make your own sauce? I personally make my own sauce now and it's super fun once you learn, and so easy to mix it up and try new things. But making pasta I have yet to do, and I'm not sure how much of a savings it is compared to the actual time it takes to make.
Good homemade pasta is well worth the investment of flour and eggs. The big issue is if you choose to do it with a stand mixer/roller, or having the mechanical ability to do it without either tool. I know older people that do it entirely by hand and it still blows my mind.
I will 1000% be there for any future cooking streams! I love growing my own food and cooking with it, buying in bulk, preserving food, etc. I have several hydroponic set ups and nothing is more freeing than buying $2 seed pack, and then cooking and preserving what you grow from it!
My dad used to prep crock pot meals in advance. He would throw all the stuff in a freezer bag, then have me put it in the crock pot and turn it on when I got home from school, and by the time everyone was home, it was ready to go. Your mileage may vary, but depending on what it is, you could put it in the pot before you go to work (I wouldn't, personally. I don't feel comfortable having something like that run all day if I'm not home.) or something. Crock pot meals are legit, especially if you like soup. Soup is a great meal to prep beforehand because it usually freezes super well. Avoid stuff with pasta (or gnocchi) in it though because frozen cooked pasta disintegrates when you reheat it.
I disagree that cooking and preparing your own food is always cheaper. It likely will be cheaper if you can afford the up-front costs of bulk purchasing but not always. A pound of ground beef (I do not have a grinder for meat, and even if I did, there is no cut that is cheaper per pound at the grocery store to make into ground meat) is around $5.50 in my area. I couldn't get staples for cheap when I needed them most because there was nowhere to store them in my house, and even so, I couldn't afford to buy at bulk prices to start out with. When I most needed cost saving measures, I was way less able to drop $500 on a meat purchase than I am now, where the difference per meal between $3 ground beef and $5.50 ground beef really mattered. I certainly could not afford a chest freezer at the time. I don't disagree that if you can get it all set up, this is the way to go. It's what I do with my meals now that I can afford to do so- I have a freezer, I can save up for bulk purchases instead of living on 8.50 an hour and trying to make ramen work for most of my lunches in a week. I have the money to drop at the beginning of the month for the entire month of meal prep now. And yes, those meals that I make ARE cheaper than the ones I made individually. Mostly. Consider a batch of cookies- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from the store brand of my local (cheaper) grocery store is 3.10 for 26 cookies. I will use the first recipe that comes up on google when I search for "chewy chocolate chip cookies" as my example: It yields 20 "Medium" sized cookies, so already it makes less than the ready-made package. These are the ingredient costs for STORE BRAND ingredients at the lowest per-unit price available at the store. (So the most "bulk" I could potentially purchase at my local store, which is already a huge boon.) I am dividing out only as much as I need, which is a luxury most people can't afford anyway. You can't buy only two eggs, etc. Chocolate Chips: 1.59, Baking Soda (negligible, not counting), Corn Starch: .24, salt (negligible, not counting), Butter: 3.84, Brown Sugar: .42, White sugar (negligible, not counting), Eggs: .50, Vanilla Extract: We'll go with 1.50 but really it's a lot more expensive than that. So the total cost for 20 homemade cookies is 8.90. Per cookie that is .40, compared with the store bought .12. And that is WITH me giving so many boons- I divided out only the amount of an ingredient you need and not the smallest possible unit you could purchase which is always more. I didn't charge for some things that most people have in their house like salt or baking soda. I didn't factor in time, energy costs, storage costs, etc. And it's still FOUR TIMES as expensive to bake your own cookies as it is to purchase them ready made from the store. So no, it is not always more economical. It is sometimes more economical if you can move the bulk of your eating practice into bulk items that you can afford to purchase at cost-saving amounts and store in cost effective ways. But the most expensive item on my list, BUTTER, I can't really buy in bulk and store. Either I use it before it goes bad or I don't, and I am disinclined to up my consumption of BUTTER in order to make it more cost effective, that wouldn't be good for my health.
As a person who loves good food, teaching myself to cook, and to cook well, was a tremendous experience. The fact that i can have pretty much any dish, any day at a fraction of the cost is simply amazing.
Very important points, especially the "learn to cook" point ties into so much more than just saving money, you have a way better understanding of what is in your food, what you personally like and also you just develop a better palette by nuancing your food until it is just the way you like it. It's also good for your mental health, developing a routine, self-care, etc. Also learn how to best preserve and store your food, chest freezers are very handy but lots of stuff can be stored for a long time in the right conditions
Getting a stand mixer is really important. I've always had one with a few attachments and it's meant the difference between living poorly and living well. As Thor says, going down to the most basic levels of ingredients reduces your costs tenfold at every step. Does it take longer? Sure, but it's better to make food in your kitchen for your loved ones that sit on your phone getting manipulated on social media. Home cooking is the greatest thing you can do for your family and friends.
Glad more people are gonna see this through you! This is how I eat/save also, although in a studio apartment my space doesn't quite allow the massive savings that a chest freezer would make possible. Bulk buying and no waste of leftovers is eveything.
Glad to hear someone with a lot of reach speaking about this. I'm currently cooking a soup which is stretching a whole chicken i bought a week ago into another like 3 meals. Just tossed the bones in there for broth and some vegetables and leftover chicken meat. It will feed me for like 3 days and i am a big boy. Didn't cost very much either.
The Bakery Name would have been... Pirate Bread? Piracy Kitchen? Piracy Brands? Pirate Bread? Pirate Kitchen? Pirate Brand? Piratisia? Pirate Breadirie? Krakens lair? Krakens hole? I mean their are some good ones but none of these?
This is perfect timing, i just started offgridding on monday, natures generator for power, home biogas for waste, atmopsheric water generators for water. I cant wait to start growing food for specific recipes and learning to cook with thor too.
IP rocks! This video is great Thor. I'm an old dude and had to figure everything on my own (before the interwebs) It's so good to see people taking care
I don’t watch his streams, but have come to greatly appreciate Thor through all the clips I’ve seen of him. Let me tell you though, learning that he does this and wants to inform his community about it is giving me so much more respect for him.
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Can’t wait to see the day of Thor’s Instant Pot Cooking Club
Not gonna lie, this might be how I finally get an instant pot
Made a chuck roast in 30ish mins that would have taken much more time otherwise. I like it.
Literally bought an instant pot after one of similar Thor's shorts. Sooo convinced, love cooking since
The issue with smart crock-pots is none have Matter integration or even HomeAssistant integration right now.
> But why do you want a smart crock-pot
I'm lazy and I want to control it while sitting less than 5 meters away from it, okay
@@_cybik they are great, never had an instant pot per se but they are basically electrical pressure cookers, and here in Brasil we use them a lot, from meats to beans to whole fuckin meals in a single pot it's just extremely easy and cost efficient because the pressure and high heat just cooks food faster and better, tough cuts of meat when stewed on pressure cookers become soft as butter and beans are basically made 99/100 times on pressure cookers, just be careful because pressure can be dangerous if you are a careless cooker, there's a lot of stories about them exploding but they are 99% of the time user error.
They're also built like fuckin tanks and when the lid starts to warp there's some places who cut the pressure cookers in half and turn them into regular pots so it's a piece of kitchenware that will live a long ass time.
"...I also bake."
Thor just out here with extra time, energy, and tasteful noods to spare.
Baking is tricky, since it's not a particularly time-consuming skill once you learn what you're doing. It's the learning process that usually takes a few bouts of time and effort to get the hang of!
@@Atsumifox It took me about 20 attempts to get a sourdough that was worth anything, but it's pretty much no issue having freshly baked bread now
thor in a frilly yellow apron with duckies on it baking bread at 4am is a nice dream
"Thor, what are you doing?"
"Baking bread."
"It's four o'clock in the morning. Why on Earth are you baking bread?"
"Because I am in full control of my life."
That is a VERY SPECIFIC image.
@@magetsalive5162 The reverse Stu Pickles
@@_cybik I imagine him running at full speed chasing me down for coding java
@@MYR_112 that's reason enough.
(Meanwhile I'm coding in C++ with lambdas and smart pointers nyehehehe)
Wait. Thor wants to open a bakery, Ludwig wants to bake good fucking bread, Connor wants to eat some good fucking food and I want a creative workspace. I smell profitable bread.
Might even be more profitable than selling their own bathwater. 🤣
You're on to something here-
Thor out here to become the modern day internet dad rolemodel, I'm so here for it
More like The Most Interesting Man Alive from the old Dos Equis beer commercials
Thor is that dad I never had 😢
I would love to see a collab with Dad How I
he's like a non-degen, not so depressive version of asmongold. *in my opinion*
@@redcell9636 Asmon had actual racoon roommates for a while. That's a fact :D
I find it so damn heart warming and hopeful to see streamers like you that go out of their way to help their mostly younger audiences become some percent more self sufficient. You know you have people that look up to you and I feel like a lot of what you do is based with that in mind
Careful, we dont want RUclips or twitch to see that tasteful thumbnail
@@ryanzollinger the bottom right bit, right under the red, looks like a human eye staring at you from the pot, it's... Really unsettling actually.
@@flutterdash647 why do all pirate software viewers just have the most cursed knowledge
@@bowreed This is less knowledge, more just... Curse. I can't unsee it.
@@bowreedWe have to be ready to fire back at Thor's cursed facts.
Protein
I just realized Thor (often?) does a square when he's starting something on paint even if it's not needed, and that aligns with his advice when making a game: learn how to make a square, put it down, and you've officially started making something.
Paraphrasing a bit, but yeah it makes sense. Easier to get started.
Cooking and gathering your own ingredients is such an important skill. Refreshing to see someone in the content/gaming space talk about this since it's so common place to order food. It's a dummy good money saver which allows for more important things such as the Heartbound demo.
The biggest hurdle for people is usually discipline. Buying and cooking your own shit saves a lot of money, but can also, depending on your situation, require a loooot of time. Especially if you aren't used to cooking, or are slow like I am. I usually cut my stuff like 2x slower than most people, and I can't get the hang of it to speed it up. I'm always afraid I'll cut myself.
@@Notsogoodguitarguy the secret? Do all your meal prep on your day off. And have that meal prep be for the entire month. That's what I do. I cook maybe three or four times a month. Each time gives me more verity in my long term food supply.
@@Notsogoodguitarguy better waste time cutting than wasting time healing from a cut.
@@Zathren problem is preping and storing :) not sure if I have ADHD or even related but I will forget I had food... so many time when I decide to start cooking I forget I even bought food. Even if it's just throw it on a pan and fry it. I forget even what I've already bought, next time going shopping thinking... didn't I buy this... just in case buy again. 2 full bottles of oil or spices... greaaattand when I don't buy it turns out I don't have any.
Not to mention it's healthier.
This right here, Thor. I saw my grandparents (who lived through the Depression) do a LOT of this. Grandma canned, preserved, made jams and jellies, and so on. They'd buy in bulk and store it. They grew veggies and rhubarb. Tried growing an apple tree, but that tree was to its species as Charlie Brown's Christmas tree was to pines or Douglas firs (apparently the Southeast Alaskan climate was not conducive to growing apples at the time).
Everyone needs to see this as an example. Do what Thor is doing. Buy in bulk, preserve as much as you can, get less fussy about what you eat, and don't prepare or buy what you can't consume in a timely fashion.
apple trees usually suck if you grow your own and dont know. Like if you just plant a seed itll probably suck. To get a good apple you really need to graft from a good tree and go from there
Thor, the 225lbs is likely the hanging weight. The processed weight is 2/3 of that. On average, the lowest cost after processing is 4.5 -7.5 per lb. It's still a great thing to do, just clarifying for anyone budgeting it out.
Yeah I remember I considered doing that and found out it wasn't as good as I had hoped, thought something had changed when he said that
What is processed weight?
@@Notsogoodguitarguy After trimming fat and connective tissue.
It's still so much better then getting deliveries of fast food
@@Notsogoodguitarguy i would assume it refers to weight after removing all the inedible parts, so bones/connective tissue/any other gristly bits that you cant directly eat. Those parts can still be used for broths and stocks, but dont provide much in the way of nutrition.
Bones, gristle, fat, scraps, tendons, crusts, skins, any part you don't want to eat as-is, put it in a gallon freezer bag. Once it's full, pour all of it into a pot and simmer it until it all dissolves. This can take a few days. It won't rot so long as it stays hot, don't worry. This is how soup stock is made. Filter any remaining bits of solids before dividing into containers and freezing. You can drink it as-is or you can add meat, potatoes, carrots, rice, onions, noodles, whatever you like.
Yes
You can also some of that as dog treats.
@@jgray2718why would you eat it as dog treats
I'm already a vegetarian, but this is next level gross XD
@@gormauslanderlmao
came for the game dev, stayed for the food
So what I've learned today is, if there's ever an apocalypse and most people are eating rats, maggots and each other, Thor will be chilling out and dining on fine deluxe ramen with bok choi from the windowsill, oyster mushrooms home-grown in a bucket, and carefully fermented kimchi.
Rad!
if there isn't electricity, he'll probably have some type of cured meats
You don't have to be that careful when making kimchi dude... It's pretty easy.
@@mrmaxin53 And like 5 thousand pounds of wood and 50 butane cylinders
Man thor out here exposing his Noods like they’re free
only noods
One super pro tip I'd recommend is looking into how restaurants do batch cooking, and how that can be turned into meal prep, basically using your freezer as a DVR to timeshift the slow parts of cooking into periods when you can make batches of components you later assemble into meals instead of buying some hideous premade sauce where the label cost more to produce than the stuff inside the jar.
British Indian Restaurant style cooking revolves around a base sauce and protein you pre-cook and can easily freeze, plus a few additional spices and sauces you throw in. Italian restaurants make buckets of marinara sauce that get modified into what the recipe calls for. Etc.
It's a total power move to be able to defrost some prepped sauce and poached meat in the microwave then make a six serving restaurant style chicken curry in 20 minutes.
Another thing people can do that I’ve done is when meal prepping a lot of food, just freeze portions and put them in the fridge to thaw a day or 2 before! A great option is curries, soups, burritos, lasagna, casseroles, frittatas, etc. just spend an evening making 5 casseroles, freeze them, and you have weeks of food for cheap. Also check the discounted meats at the store and buy bulk when it’s on sale if you can’t afford to buy a half cow at a time!
I own a small meat processor that works directly with farmers based out of KY. It is so nice to see someone with a large following mention buying beef in bulk and freezing. Hopefully this will shed some light on the quality increase and financial savings you get when going that route for food! More power to you brother. We also have a garden to eat fresh veggies and can the rest for storage!
Thank you in advance for those cooking streams/videos Thor. Seriously. They will be vital for my expedition into "stop buying fast food and cook you fool".
You are a hero for the gaming community. Not only helping a group that's health isnt taken seriously enough. Not to mention the consistent good motivational advice you give everyone. Helps you have a voice that soothes everyone lmao. Cheers brotha. 🎉
1:36 not the grindr joke going right over thors head ;-;
lmao swear nobody else noticed
Speaking of vegetables that regrow: Egyptian Walking Onions.
Not only will they grow back every year, not only do they also self-propagate through bulbils... you can use both the leaves *and* the bulbils in your cooking.
The former make great substitutes for scallions, and the latter can be cut up and cooked the way you might use regular onions or shallots.
(In point of fact, I actually have some Egyptian Walking Onions growing in a standing planter on my deck. I've had them growing since last year, and this year I got my first harvest of bulbils!)
The half a cow per year trick is really good, but you need a big ass freezer. And not a lot of people have space for a freezer, especially ones that co-rent apartments. Getting a big-ass freezer is a life goal of mine when I get my own separate apartment.
There are small top-opening deep freezers too, and that means you can buy even a little more in bulk which saves money.
same, i really want to have one of those big ass freezers to just store everything that i buy. aint it funny how life goals change with age xD 10years ago at 17y i wouldnt have thought about wanting to buy freezers and stuff xD
btw even with small freezers you can still buy stuff in bulk, its just not gonna be half a cow but maybe a tenth of it but still as long as its bulk the size doesnt matter as you will still be able to save money compared to buying a meal directly
Very valid, though I'd definitely talk with the other people because a freezer is just a good investment for anyone.
@@miriamweller812 Wait, wait, what do you mean? What do you think collect means? He doesn't talk about becomming a hunter-gatherer. He talks about - instead of ordering in, go to the supermarket and buy your own food. And then cook it. And I don't think saving food through cooking is a first-world problem. It's just good common sense.
@@miriamweller812 keep spending $10 for one chicken sandwich then.
So what im getting out of this is that Thor consistently passes himself as basically the coolest person on the internet
I'm a fan of the RUclips "pants". Hopeful that you continue to upload these along with the shorts!
It gets even better! Once you're done the food prep for veggies, you can store all the waste parts in a bag and freeze it. Drag it out when you need a vegetable stock and boil it for an hour. The same can be done with chicken stock and the chicken carcass and beef stock and a large beef bone when they have added onions/carrots/celery.
Instead of always paying for oil, save your grease drippings in a cup and store them in the fridge, separately, of course. Those cups become instant seasonings for things like potatoes and vegetables. A pack of bacon can last you a week or two in the grease returned.
Most herbs for cooking can be readily grown on a windowsill and don't take much maintenance outside of water. Fresh thyme is always preferable to dried/ground variants.
Celery, garlic, and onions can be regrown from just their bases. Place the base in a large vessel and add water; ensure to change the water every day. Once the roots have grown out, they are ready to be transplanted into soil.
Potatoes and rice, when bought in bulk and home-cooked, are incredible value for their price point. Used bread makers usually pay for themselves with a few months and you will have filling carbs with the best taste around.
There are more ways to stretch a dollar, but these are the ones I can remember right now.
I love the pants, and I'm really looking forward to implementing your food advice into my own life more. I already cook and mealprep all the time, but I want to expand. One of the big things will be the freezer and the meat, I really want to do that too. After that I have to look how I can start growing my own stuffs.
I'm convinced Thor must be a Timelord. No way one man has enough time to do so much stuff otherwise.
Practice makes perfect and healthy mind, creativity also helps, which I personally lack. Not sure if brain broken or what. Recently a friend said fry some eggs and bacon... he was doing same thing at that time. Few minutes later sends image of Bacon and eggs with a smol salat. Said salat was last minute thing, took a tomato, basilisk, leftover mozarella and added pepper done and I'm like how the, what the... I can't literally fathom it. On paper super easy barely an inconvenience! but for brain NO
@@gamerdweebentertainment1616 tomato, basilisk,... you just made my day
@@gamerdweebentertainment1616 Im pretty sure its not creativity you lack. Theres a bunch of websites where u can put all the stuff in that you have at home and they tell you what meal u can make! Its awesome. The "creativity" is just practice and time.
@@BillySummers13 whatever the greens is called in english
He only sleeps like 5hours a day, and can skip sleep and work like 30hours straight without issues. Bit of a leg up there in having more hrs of the day to do stuff lol
When you say all this stuff, and go through all this stuff, I really like and enjoy how, skill and passionate about things you do. You also say its easy and you can do it too, maybe so. I don't always feel like I have the power? skill? energy? but just sometimes I can struggle through days and not feel like I failed or wasted it.
That's honestly all that matters and just being able to do that is a great start!
Keep taking it one step at a time, you're doing good!
You won't always have the energy, but you definitely have the skill and power to *start.* Once it turns into something you just do instead of something you *try* to do, you'll find it actually wasn't all that difficult looking back on it and you'll talk about it like Thor does!
current day weak mentality, stop listening to your mind
School: You will use these skills the rest of your life.
Thor: I'm going to teach you life lessons today.
Still can't believe school don't teach that.
@@miriamweller812 yeah appearantly not all people can think this way, so at least now they know
@@JustinSimoneau Because frankly it should be common sense. If you buy processed things, you're paying for the processing. However the average human on this planet doesn't use that computing power to logic things out, and instead stick to what habits they formed. Literally any time you think something seems of, run a logic chain down and try to understand why it's that way. 9/10 times you'll figure out where the work is and why it is the way it is. Welcome to critical thinking, You're now doing what 95% of the population will not and will never do.
@@JustinSimoneau I didn't realize most people don't know this. My parents did this growing up
Yeah, i'm still waiting for trigonometry to come in handy and my meals are microwaved eggs and white bread.
The Flavor Bible was the primo recommendation of this monologue.
Get that digital book, you will learn to cook gourmet sh**.
Hey, just want to say this to say it.
I am at a pretty low point right now. I have a major eating problem. I am addicted to the fat, the grease, the sugar and I have been trying my hardest to take steps to get away. These couple ideas, just the small ted-talk format, just makes me feel like I am going the right way. IDK, I really enjoyed this so much. I love your content and I hope you keep making more.
After improving my diet, I found out lettuce actually has a flavor that can be enjoyed. You'll get there if you keep it on your mind.
Insta-pots are incredible. Turns my 24 hr recipes into 1-2 hours.
In the Netherlands prices are so wack that's it's often just as expensive to buy the lose ingredients as it is to buy a prepped kit in the store.
Indeed
Saving Pants
These pants are wonderful, yes
The thing about buying in bulk is that when you invest a day and cook a meal in overabundance, you can prepack it in "generous" portions for 1 (or more) and simply freeze them. This works well when living alone since you only need to invest a few days a month and can stuff a variety of different meals into your freezer so you don't have to eat the same food 5 days a week. This works for very well for smaller living arangements or a lack of freezer space, a "preferred method" in Germany for younger people, be it working class, students, single households, etc.
Cant wait for Cooking By Thor to go live!
Ready for CBT 😂
@@Mookii 💀
Freezing of cuts, peelings and such from Veggies and once you have a good amount you can boil veggie stock on pieces you'd normally throw out and the stock can either be used straight away or again frozen to be portioned out for use in the future. Great way to get A LOT of flavour in to any dish with minial effort since you basically just throw your frozen scraps in a big pot, fill it with water and let it gently boil for how ever long you want and than strain it.
Also boiling oil and pouring over fresh herbs that are on their way out and mixing can turn a really boring oil in to a nice herb oil you can use in cooking. Or just chopping up and mixing in to butter for compound butter and roll in wax paper and freeze. Big flavour bombs that are easy to do and saves on food waste.
currently work as a cook in a kitchen and i can say with 100% certainty, the man speaks the truth.
taste as you go, remember you can always add salt but you can't take it away, start simple and you'll be surprised what you can do!
where do you get your beef?
@@mogaming163 haha, well, i dont buy like thor, live in a studio apt in sf so i would love a top down freezer buuuutttt....that would be half my place lol
i just personally stick to sausage at home, less messy and little cleanup. doing a tomato sauce from scratch though is cheap and lasts for the week, so dinner for a bunch of nights, eat out for a treat.
check out a local butcher, costco, even a local market. gotta do some research yourself, itll be relative to where you live.
like, i dont think (based on what ive seen as i dont know him personally) thor would say you have to follow his exact meal plan, thats just an example of what he does. the main takeaway is that if you want to save money, cook your own food! its a whole other world of knowledge to be had and, much like game dev or any other field/skill/craft/art/whatthefuckever, it only takes time, effort, and the willingness to be honest about your mistakes and correct them to learn and grow as a human fucking being!!
so stop reading this and go make something already!
@@Smi7h1sH3r3 I already cook! :D
I was mainly just asking for my family since I have a large extended family but they probably already buy beef in bulk lol (they live overseas)
@@mogaming163 hahaha, got it, apologies!
yeah, nowhere special for meat lol!
Thanks!
"I have a grindr"
-Pirate Software
Nice😂
2:25 " instapot the company instapot the company " lol
"if you do kimchi wrong, you die"
Bongkrekic acid is one hell of a thing..
Man, I fucking love your variety of content. Its informative, its entertaining, its fun to watch. I appreciate how much you are promoting what people can do for themselves.
Take the like you filthy pirate.
I would LOVE if you would do an instruction video on how to grow mushrooms. My family loves & eats ramen quite often so having mushrooms we grow & dehydrate ourselves would be amazing
Cant wait for the cooking streams. Also the knowledge you've given the internet over the past couple of years is actually insane.
Trying to figure out how this man has time to do all the things he does, then I remembered he sleeps like a maximum of 5 hours every night and it makes more sense
I really envy this. I feel totally screwed if I dont get around 9, no matter what I do
@@donvitopatata For me, it's around 6-7 hours average, 8 at the most. Any more than that and I find I'm dragging throughout the day and having a bit of cramps.
This dude is a narcissist... Growing mushrooms and making kimchi, are both shockingly easy. Americans have a low bar when it comes to cooking at home.
@@dijonvon4378 you mean who?
@@dijonvon4378 Does the narcissist comment have anything to do with the mushrooms and kimchi? He is quite literally explaining that the things he is doing are simple. "You can make them in a bucket, real easy."
I am really interested in seeing how you plan, prep, and cook that sounds amazing and love how well thought out everything you do is.
As a Chef who’s been in the industry for 9+ years, this is all genius.
One of the most important parts of a cooking show is a charismatic host, and Thor is perfect.
The food is likely been seen and done before so ya gotta rope people in with a good voice
thor cooking channel is something i didnt know i needed in my life
Dude is really out here just trying to help people be better, I love it.
I love seeing your longer form content.
My respect for you just jumped thru the roof! You are not only a great IT guy and great person but also a wonderful family oriented, proper man. I didn't expect this from a YTer and I apologize for that.
Compromise: make a bakery game 🥐🎮🥖🎲
And the recipes are all the ones he was going to use to open that bakery.
Or do like the classic fallout games that have recipes at the end of the manual.
final boss: the almighty Cheesebread
oh sorry, wrong genre
I would buy that
Bro this is so sick I would LOVE to see your setup and a cooking stream and breakdown, thanks for sharing man, this is dope
Remember kids get a Costco membership AND shop at lidil you can get very high quality food at both those places for much cheaper than other places
Also another thing, you can control what goes into your meals too! As someone with food allergies that part is super important
I think one thing I would like to know is time. Cooking for yourself is great, but my main issue is just having the time for it.
You got plenty of time when you look for it, just try it! Cook a simple meal on a Friday night and see how easy it really can be, you'll probably be surprised. Just keep. It. Simple. Getting complicated with food is how you make it take a long time. You could even find recipes that involve slow cooking or leaving things to simmer for long periods of time, then you don't have to spend much of the cooking time actually standing over the stove.
I would advice against freezing potatoes, they are rich with water so when you freeze them the water crystalizes and when you defrost them they become very watery because of the big ice crystals, Store them in a dark and cool place prefferably in a bag or a box that doesnt let through light.
I do the same, but as a vegan. Its even cheaper and easier. Beans, chickpeas and lentils are great protein sources and never go bad when dried. I can do so many dishes out of them.
The only thing I go shop regularly is vegetables.
Learning to cook is extremely helpful for that :) Eating one big healthy meal per day helps also alot.
I've never seen dried chickpeas at the store, where do you get them?
Taking huge inspiration from you and have already improved my life and mental wellbeing, can't wait for the meal prep stuff!
It's also more of a time investment to start from scratch, so it's good to have balance if you're more short on time than money. But sometimes you're short on both and you're just screwed(where I'm at currently).
Not really?
Food prepping saves overall cooking time. It turns 6 X 1 hour cooking, to 1 hour prep and 6 X 10 minutes cooking.
If you're too short on money to bulk buy, you can still benefit from it. You can probably go to the markets and negotiate for cheaper chicken if you're buying in the dozen. Prepping your own pickle, sides or kimchi spruces up any dish you make.
Thor even talked about growing your own mushroom and choi sum, both achievable even in apartments. However, I think this one is a bit of a stretch, you can get better value of time for nutrients if you added more black beans, carrots and frozen peas in your meals.
The price of one DoorDash order can make you several meals worth of food. The Instant Pot is amazing!
Yes, the raw ingredients are cheaper than buying a premade meal or kit, but you're not including the time, effort, and knowledge required to prepare the meal. Even for someone who know how to cook, making everything from scratch, breaking down a 1/4 cow, growing and maintaining a garden are all serious undertakings involving quite a lot of time and labor. When it comes down to it, you gotta calculate the total investment for the final product and compare it against how much your time is worth to you. For most people, it's worth it to do SOME things from scratch, but not all. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for the typical person who works a 9-5, commutes, aims for 8 hours of sleep, and tries to have some form of life beyond work, cooking, and cleaning.
I agree with that, I'd say the main takeaway from all this is get a big ass freezer if you can and buy meat and ingredients in bulk. It doesn't have to be half a cow, but maybe keep watch on "close to expiring" pieces at the supermarket, and find a way to buy from bulk providers.
The instant pot also seems like killer advice because it saves a lot of time and work. Also preparing huge portions and freezing those too.
If the issue is getting off prepared meals, sometimes throwing a bunch of vegetables on a pan and cooking for half an hour while listening to some podcast is more stimulating than just throwing X in the microwave and using the saved time to still watch said podcast. Like,
yeah time is valuable, but we need to spend a bit of time on chilling out or the entire planet will go into stress-induced cardiac arrest. It's an investment in health. And might aswell water a garden, cut up a cow leg or just spend some time cooking a bunch of vegetables into a stir, giving onions their deserved headstart.
Just my 5 cents. Thor's method is full Power-User, but one can take bits and pieces and adapt them.
gardens aren't actually that difficult, especially if you're growing simple replenishable foodstuff like onions and bok choy. Also, you can usually take that 1/4 cow to a butcher and they will do it for you.
cooking takes almost no active time Stop making these cope excuses i worked 72 to 84 hours per week manual labor outside, and i still cooked big ass meals that would last me 2 - 3 days and i also gamed and even had time to make videos if i was really disciplined but most of the time i was too lazy and spent an hour or two just wasting time every night. I am also someone that needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep
(@ OP) This, also if you have disabilities that impact your ability to do any of the steps along the way or do that kind of labour, you're always going to have to spend more for stuff that is more prepared already. Either a) because it's physically not doable to do that labour, or b) while possible, doing that labour would severely negatively impact your health. Great recipes though, the pressure cooker stuff looks great for lower-energy-cost meals that are still good
@@russ2120 I didn't say it was difficult. I said it involved effort, time, and knowledge. Three critical resources that are being omitted from the equation in this video.
Bro you continue to amaze me with the kinda of person you are. I cant wait until you release these meal prep videos
0:06 thor what the hell is a “mewls”
One thing that's nice about having chickens, is there is almost no food waste, cause I feed all none chicken scraps to the chickens.
While it's definitely good to get all your own food from scratch, it's also not feasible for a lot of people. I'd love to eat 100% clean but if I want to do something like eat a burger, I don't have the time or resources to grow my own lettuce, onions and tomatoes, bake my own bread, and grind my own meat while also going to work, working out, relaxing, reading, learning something new etc etc.
For the cost of food you've also got to factor in the time it takes you to make it, so sure while it could come out to like $1 per meal money-wise, time-wise it's gonna level out closer to what it would cost to just go to the store and buy bread, lettuce, onions and the rest.
it's definitely cleaner and the preferable thing to do, but you can't discount the time and effort it takes to do all of that stuff too. I know you can do a lot of it at the same time, but buying a head of lettuce and a bag of bread whenever I need it is a lot easier and less time consuming than tending a garden.
Buying the ingredients at the store like that is still far, far cheaper than eating out, so I’d say you’re still winning by doing that
@@latticepoint5245 oh yeah 100%, I’m not disputing that at all
I’m just saying maybe cuz I’ve been seeing it a lot lately in my feeds. Lots of people saying to grow your own stuff and never buy it, and I’m just wondering how those people have enough hours in the day
@@apophis456 To be fair, a lot of grown items don't take as much maintenance as people think. They usually just need water and you can just pluck a tomato or onion from a plant when you're cooking.
On lettuce, I do agree... it can be quite annoying to deal with; I've never had any lettuce harvests any time I've ever planted some, so I just buy that from the store.
Also, as for bread (and other baked goods)... it freezes absurdly well. I like to make bread (and assorted snack treats) once or twice a month.
I recently gave pickling a shot and made pickled water melon rinds. They turned out fantastic. Learning to not only cook but how to *make* food is incredibly empowering.
bro just whips out paint to draw random shit for any explanation to anything like just say what you need to say instead of presenting information as if i’m a toddler dude
For real... He makes basic shit sound so overly complex, in an attempt to impress his teenaged audience 😂
I think it's cool. I do the same thing with my hands and I don't really think about it. I think that when you can break stuff down like that and make it simple, it's a sign of understanding. Also he talks about a lot of stuff that the average person probably doesn't see or hear about often
He gone through this before, this is how he gets everyone to pay attention in meetings.
You've given a lot of amazing advice over the months that I've been watching, but this one takes the cake. That instant pot advice and website recommendation was amazing. I can't wait to see your cooking streams.
This man was a web developer living in california. I'm gonna trust his money saving meal plan tips
Some people don't even cook, virtually at all. Everyone I know like that never has any money and constantly complains about how life is so expensive.
it's always a tradeoff tho. if you start w/ base materials, sure it's cheaper, but it also takes more time.
convenience costs money, and not everyone has the time or money for tools needed to make it worth it -- I used to not have access to more than a tub of ice cream in freezer space.
I would also say that cooking for 2, ideally 4 is most cost efficient. if you're cooking solo, you pay more for less. or you just eat the same meal for a week, which is mentally draining.
pooling resources is definitely great if you have the opportunity (thanks mom).
Omg I was in this stream ages ago and I tried to remember this because it seemed really useful but i forgot. This video jus5 saved me
I've upscale all my cooking to 20+ servings, such that my freezer has ~30 family-sized heat-and-eat meals at any time. I cook the carb fresh, which makes the heated meal much nicer; pasta, rice, noodles etc.
This man gets the world's biggest hype train and still cooks everything from scratch so his money goes to better things. The world needs more people with as big of a heart as thor 🧡💜
You're out here being the dad/teacher a lot of people need. Not all real heroes wear capes.
american cheese is not oil. it is still a significant amount of cheese that is recongealed with various chemicals, and water. i make the stuff. everyone who says it's not "real cheese" is also incorrect
American cheese ain't cheese
Dang, that's a lot of tips I can't do because I live in an apartment and will probably never own a house to put things like a top-down freezer or storage for vast quantities of bulk food ingredients. I might be able to do a windowsill "garden" though, so I'll look into that and maybe try growing some green onions or whatnot, hope the inner Los Angeles air doesn't make 'em poisonous. Instapot is also something I can do.
Don't worry, his tips aren't that good anyone. The dude talks out of his ass a lot.
I think the question about making pasta from scratch was more like:
A: Do you make your own pasta?
B: Do you make your own sauce?
I personally make my own sauce now and it's super fun once you learn, and so easy to mix it up and try new things. But making pasta I have yet to do, and I'm not sure how much of a savings it is compared to the actual time it takes to make.
Good homemade pasta is well worth the investment of flour and eggs. The big issue is if you choose to do it with a stand mixer/roller, or having the mechanical ability to do it without either tool. I know older people that do it entirely by hand and it still blows my mind.
I will 1000% be there for any future cooking streams! I love growing my own food and cooking with it, buying in bulk, preserving food, etc. I have several hydroponic set ups and nothing is more freeing than buying $2 seed pack, and then cooking and preserving what you grow from it!
Dang right, buddy! I've been doing all of this for years. We have young kids now and its made life much easier and more affordable.
My dad used to prep crock pot meals in advance. He would throw all the stuff in a freezer bag, then have me put it in the crock pot and turn it on when I got home from school, and by the time everyone was home, it was ready to go. Your mileage may vary, but depending on what it is, you could put it in the pot before you go to work (I wouldn't, personally. I don't feel comfortable having something like that run all day if I'm not home.) or something. Crock pot meals are legit, especially if you like soup. Soup is a great meal to prep beforehand because it usually freezes super well. Avoid stuff with pasta (or gnocchi) in it though because frozen cooked pasta disintegrates when you reheat it.
I disagree that cooking and preparing your own food is always cheaper. It likely will be cheaper if you can afford the up-front costs of bulk purchasing but not always. A pound of ground beef (I do not have a grinder for meat, and even if I did, there is no cut that is cheaper per pound at the grocery store to make into ground meat) is around $5.50 in my area. I couldn't get staples for cheap when I needed them most because there was nowhere to store them in my house, and even so, I couldn't afford to buy at bulk prices to start out with. When I most needed cost saving measures, I was way less able to drop $500 on a meat purchase than I am now, where the difference per meal between $3 ground beef and $5.50 ground beef really mattered. I certainly could not afford a chest freezer at the time.
I don't disagree that if you can get it all set up, this is the way to go. It's what I do with my meals now that I can afford to do so- I have a freezer, I can save up for bulk purchases instead of living on 8.50 an hour and trying to make ramen work for most of my lunches in a week. I have the money to drop at the beginning of the month for the entire month of meal prep now. And yes, those meals that I make ARE cheaper than the ones I made individually. Mostly.
Consider a batch of cookies- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from the store brand of my local (cheaper) grocery store is 3.10 for 26 cookies. I will use the first recipe that comes up on google when I search for "chewy chocolate chip cookies" as my example:
It yields 20 "Medium" sized cookies, so already it makes less than the ready-made package. These are the ingredient costs for STORE BRAND ingredients at the lowest per-unit price available at the store. (So the most "bulk" I could potentially purchase at my local store, which is already a huge boon.) I am dividing out only as much as I need, which is a luxury most people can't afford anyway. You can't buy only two eggs, etc.
Chocolate Chips: 1.59, Baking Soda (negligible, not counting), Corn Starch: .24, salt (negligible, not counting), Butter: 3.84, Brown Sugar: .42, White sugar (negligible, not counting), Eggs: .50, Vanilla Extract: We'll go with 1.50 but really it's a lot more expensive than that.
So the total cost for 20 homemade cookies is 8.90. Per cookie that is .40, compared with the store bought .12. And that is WITH me giving so many boons- I divided out only the amount of an ingredient you need and not the smallest possible unit you could purchase which is always more. I didn't charge for some things that most people have in their house like salt or baking soda. I didn't factor in time, energy costs, storage costs, etc. And it's still FOUR TIMES as expensive to bake your own cookies as it is to purchase them ready made from the store.
So no, it is not always more economical. It is sometimes more economical if you can move the bulk of your eating practice into bulk items that you can afford to purchase at cost-saving amounts and store in cost effective ways. But the most expensive item on my list, BUTTER, I can't really buy in bulk and store. Either I use it before it goes bad or I don't, and I am disinclined to up my consumption of BUTTER in order to make it more cost effective, that wouldn't be good for my health.
Oh a meal prep stream! That's great. I'm also in the Seattle area, so pricing would be even more accurate to budget for. Awesome!
As a person who loves good food, teaching myself to cook, and to cook well, was a tremendous experience. The fact that i can have pretty much any dish, any day at a fraction of the cost is simply amazing.
Thor is the definition of optimized
Very important points, especially the "learn to cook" point ties into so much more than just saving money, you have a way better understanding of what is in your food, what you personally like and also you just develop a better palette by nuancing your food until it is just the way you like it.
It's also good for your mental health, developing a routine, self-care, etc.
Also learn how to best preserve and store your food, chest freezers are very handy but lots of stuff can be stored for a long time in the right conditions
Getting a stand mixer is really important. I've always had one with a few attachments and it's meant the difference between living poorly and living well. As Thor says, going down to the most basic levels of ingredients reduces your costs tenfold at every step. Does it take longer? Sure, but it's better to make food in your kitchen for your loved ones that sit on your phone getting manipulated on social media. Home cooking is the greatest thing you can do for your family and friends.
Glad more people are gonna see this through you! This is how I eat/save also, although in a studio apartment my space doesn't quite allow the massive savings that a chest freezer would make possible. Bulk buying and no waste of leftovers is eveything.
Started meal prepping and lost 100lbs over 14 months. Used to weigh 280lbs from age 13-40. Feel a lot better these days.
Glad to hear someone with a lot of reach speaking about this. I'm currently cooking a soup which is stretching a whole chicken i bought a week ago into another like 3 meals. Just tossed the bones in there for broth and some vegetables and leftover chicken meat. It will feed me for like 3 days and i am a big boy. Didn't cost very much either.
He is the most useful and down to earth youtuber i have ever seen. Its almost poetic how many things he knows and teaches
The Bakery Name would have been...
Pirate Bread?
Piracy Kitchen?
Piracy Brands?
Pirate Bread?
Pirate Kitchen?
Pirate Brand?
Piratisia?
Pirate Breadirie?
Krakens lair?
Krakens hole?
I mean their are some good ones but none of these?
This is perfect timing, i just started offgridding on monday, natures generator for power, home biogas for waste, atmopsheric water generators for water. I cant wait to start growing food for specific recipes and learning to cook with thor too.
IP rocks! This video is great Thor. I'm an old dude and had to figure everything on my own (before the interwebs) It's so good to see people taking care
What a really nice, informative guy. Id love to sit across a table from him and just pick his brain on different things. My kind of people
I don’t watch his streams, but have come to greatly appreciate Thor through all the clips I’ve seen of him. Let me tell you though, learning that he does this and wants to inform his community about it is giving me so much more respect for him.