Would you eat food cooked by some random unknown person?
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I was reading this article on BBC and found it interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24163742
Basically the idea is that if you're cooking a meal you can cook extra, and advertise the extra portions on this website. People can then take a look at what you're cooking, and buy a portion of it. In a way it almost seems like a mix of eBay, Facebook and JustEat.
Would you use something like this? I just don't fancy it... I'm not eating meals cooked by some random person. I know I do exactly that any time I go into a restaurant but at least there is some accountability there.
Basically the idea is that if you're cooking a meal you can cook extra, and advertise the extra portions on this website. People can then take a look at what you're cooking, and buy a portion of it. In a way it almost seems like a mix of eBay, Facebook and JustEat.
Would you use something like this? I just don't fancy it... I'm not eating meals cooked by some random person. I know I do exactly that any time I go into a restaurant but at least there is some accountability there.
This is what we do with my wifes 70 year old uncle and what I used to do for my 90 year old Gran when she was alive but we obviously didn't charge either just used to plate them up a meal and pop it around for them.
Not sure it would work on a commercial basis although I do make a mean cottage pie.
Not sure it would work on a commercial basis although I do make a mean cottage pie.
Office worker Dimitris Coustas buys at least one lunch from Cookisto most weeks.
"The cooks deliver the dishes to you themselves," he says. "Sometimes they add a free dessert to encourage you to choose them again next time. It's funny, sometimes the housewives will ask if you have ordered from anyone else on the site and enquire how their food rates compared to others'. I think there is quite a bit of competition!"
I assume this is only going to work in London then? Its very quickly going to cost you more in time/money/petrol driving around dropping off £4 dinners than you're profiting from it.
The only way I could see this making sense was if you took it to extremes and set out to cook 50 portions of something, purely to sell. The original idea of cook a few extra of what you were eating anyway, doesn't really seem like it would work well in UK to me.
"The cooks deliver the dishes to you themselves," he says. "Sometimes they add a free dessert to encourage you to choose them again next time. It's funny, sometimes the housewives will ask if you have ordered from anyone else on the site and enquire how their food rates compared to others'. I think there is quite a bit of competition!"
I assume this is only going to work in London then? Its very quickly going to cost you more in time/money/petrol driving around dropping off £4 dinners than you're profiting from it.
The only way I could see this making sense was if you took it to extremes and set out to cook 50 portions of something, purely to sell. The original idea of cook a few extra of what you were eating anyway, doesn't really seem like it would work well in UK to me.
Muntu said:
You probably want to change your username then
Indeed that's what I thought.
On the OP, We do this for our son as his G/f doesn't eat meat, at least he's getting good food 3 times a week.
Cooking for family is okay, but you'll find someone out there will pick on something that they feel isn't right and slag you of on the interweb.
pad58 said:
Indeed that's what I thought.
On the OP, We do this for our son as his G/f doesn't eat meat, at least he's getting good food 3 times a week.
Cooking for family is okay, but you'll find someone out there will pick on something that they feel isn't right and slag you of on the interweb.
Lol, the choice of username is pretty stupid, I'll give you that On the OP, We do this for our son as his G/f doesn't eat meat, at least he's getting good food 3 times a week.
Cooking for family is okay, but you'll find someone out there will pick on something that they feel isn't right and slag you of on the interweb.
Cooking food for your family is a different ballgame to cooking for strangers... if my mum is cooking me dinner I'm not going to worry about her dropping it on the floor then giving me it anyway. Or using out of date ingredients as its not her eating it. Or cooking it in a cockroach infested kitchen
obob said:
I think its meant to be for extremely local people like in the same street or a couple of streets away. Not for people to have to hire a delivery driver.
This.It's one thing to say "ooops, I've cooked too much dinner tonight, I'll switch on the bat light to see if anyone wants some leftovers before the dog/bin get them" but a whole different ballgame if you are physically setting out to cook catering sized portions to ship out to all and sundry. I thought the original idea of cookisto was the former TBH, as a way of reducing waste in times of tight economic circumstances.
Yeah, great until the food poisoning kicks in for whatever reason and the website gets dragged into a legal battle.
Also if I make some food and have spare do I eat my bit first and let the extra go cold, or do it the other way around?
I'd see the local council having an issue with this too, there are a whole load of food safety laws in place to protect consumers of food prepared by businesses; dairy products are a minefield and that's just for starters.
Also if I make some food and have spare do I eat my bit first and let the extra go cold, or do it the other way around?
I'd see the local council having an issue with this too, there are a whole load of food safety laws in place to protect consumers of food prepared by businesses; dairy products are a minefield and that's just for starters.
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