Timeline for How to reduce the time and cost for making a cheesecake?
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| Jan 9, 2017 at 16:38 | vote | accept | Cynthia | ||
| Aug 15, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | rackandboneman | Hint about the electricity: an oven in a commercial bakery will be larger (which mean less heat loss to the environment), probably be better insulated, and will be used constantly or in long shifts (so less energy loss by heating up/cooling down the oven). | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 15:59 | comment | added | Catija | I don't see how any of those things are faster. You say yourself you marinate the chicken for two weeks... which means you're implying that buying cooked chicken at the store takes you longer than two weeks... You're also saying that buying premade sushi at the store takes longer than going to the store, buying the ingredients, cooking the rice and assembling the sushi... You seem to have little concept of the time you're putting in vs the time the store is putting in for you. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 9:12 | comment | added | Cynthia | When I make sushi, it's cheaper and faster than going to the store. And I get to make it the way I like it. When I grill chicken, I marinate it in the spice mixtures I want in the freezer for two weeks, which the store doesn't - and then I grill a couple pieces on my huge george foreman the way I want it - which is cheaper and faster than going to the store. I grew up making noodle soup and pasta dishes. My mum made it. My sister made them. They were always much better, cheaper and faster than the store ones. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 9:11 | comment | added | Cynthia | "making something yourself will nearly always cost more" ... Really? | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 9:07 | history | edited | Cynthia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:37 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | On a related note, the double chocolate cheesecake recipe on epicurous.com (former Gourmet and current Bon Apetit magazine site, recipe archive is free) is insanely decadent. I highly recommend it. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:22 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | Catija | There are tons of recipes out there for "no bake" cheesecakes... these are completely different but take very little "active" time... just time to chill in the fridge... This is an example of what I mean when I say "try a different type of cheesecake". | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:16 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | Catija | Anyway... how much time is "So much time"? What method does your recipe call for? There are tons of different types of cheesecake recipes... perhaps you need a different style? Also, your animal cracker/graham cracker question is completely unrelated and should be asked as its own question. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:15 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | It takes so long because when you cook it, you have to heat it up long enough that the cream cheese and egg custard, which is what it essentially is, heats through, sets, is fully cooked, but not so much that it is baked or overcooked. That takes time. Are graham crackers really that expensive? Do a simple Google search on "fast easy cheesecake" if you're looking to reduce time, effort, and your standard is topping what they have at Walmart. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | Catija | This really isn't unique to cooking... making something yourself will nearly always cost more in time and/or materials than a store bought one... If I were to crochet an afghan and charge what I would want in time spent and materials, I'd have to charge $500+ for it... and I can buy one for $50 or less... If you're having a difficult time with making cheese cake, I recommend trying something else. Cheesecakes are difficult to make, which is why I don't make them... good recipes are hard to find... your problem may be the recipe you're using... but you haven't given that, so we can't know that. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 13:40 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | ...go buy one from walmart, then. Of course, that would be inferior in taste to my homemade cheesecake, but taste is evidently not a factor for you, just time and cost. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 8:46 | history | edited | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 8:42 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | Hi Cynthia, I had to remove the question on price. It is a purely economic question and has nothing to do with cooking - indeed, earlier questions of this type tended to have wrong answers based on bad assumptions about price policies. The factors which create the price of a homemade cheesecake and a walmart cheesecake are totally different, there is no reason to expect that homemade will be cheaper, and there is nothing wrong with a homemade cake being more expensive than a storebought one. A study on the price structure of a walmart cake would be interesting, but not doable here. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 8:39 | history | edited | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 8:32 | history | asked | Cynthia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |