What's better store bought or homemade?

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What's better store bought or homemade? You're probably thinking home made. You know, childhood memories of freshly baked, warm cookies and cakes. MMMMMM But I remember the cookies my mom baked. They're still used as heat shields on spacecraft. And truly, some of our favorite baked goods come from the factory. So what's really better store bought or homemade? And how many still bake, anymore?
 

I prefer home-made.. but I do use store bought more times than not.

I do still make my own pies, and sometimes my own flavoured breads... but I no longer make so much as I used to...bottling pickles, making jam... baking cakes.. all store bought now.. or ''Home made'' at the farm shop...
 
I enjoy both.

I do believe that over the years we have eaten so many commercial products that many have now become the standard. It's kind of amusing that we have gone from trying to make things just like mom or grandma used to make and now try to recreate the foods produced by various enormous food conglomerates like the folks at Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Pepperidge Farms, etc...

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”― Oscar Wilde

"Resistance is futile." - The Borg :):playful::eek:nthego:
 

Most things I still prefer homemade. My kids sure do! When they come to dinner, they always ask if it's my cooking or not. :lol:

I have to say, I've never managed to make a pie crust like my Mum used to make! I've honestly never tasted a pie crust as flaky and delicious as my Mum used to make. So though I bake a lot of pies, and the fillings are all mine, the pie crust isn't. My faves to bake, usually at Thanksgiving, are pecan, pumpkin, apple, blackberry. Oh, and cheesecake, which isn't technically a pie. ;)
 
Home made, I enjoy cooking and nothing tastes as good as your own, although I don't bake cakes anymore, living alone I would just eat the lot !
 
Ronni said:
I've honestly never tasted a pie crust as flaky and delicious as my Mum used to make.
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Pie crust
Homemade

What do grocery stores and restaurants do, or not do, to make their crusts so….so, flakeless

My lady’s pie crust is to kill for

Same with most grammas with big flappy upper arms
They know, they just know

If there ever came to be a place called

Pie Haus
Home of the flappy arm crusts

I’d be there

effing WOOF!
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Both, homemade and store bought. We love pancakes from IHOP, but my wife sure makes terrific blueberry pancakes at home. And, her BLT's are much better than any restaurant would make.

As far as most sweet stuff, like pies, cakes, cookies...…..rarely eat anymore due to both of us being Diabetic II.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
What's better store bought or homemade? You're probably thinking home made. You know, childhood memories of freshly baked, warm cookies and cakes. MMMMMM But I remember the cookies my mom baked. They're still used as heat shields on spacecraft. And truly, some of our favorite baked goods come from the factory. So what's really better store bought or homemade? And how many still bake, anymore?
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I still bake. I love peanut butter cookies. I can vary the amount of sugar. You can't with store bought and they are always as hard as a brick.

And if you cook or bake you can vary the amount of salt.

I think it's healthier.
 
Pie crust to be flaky? Use lard. I know that's a no no but that's what makes great pie crust.

Also. Limit the amount of water you use to make the dough so that it just holds together.

Those tips came from my mother-in-law.

Store bought pie just isn't the same. The crust is what makes the pie.
 
It helped me to continue reading the Op's input. I was going to go with store bought clothing but food was the theme.


Home made for us since we have time to make whatever we like. That to control the content & sanitary prep.


Something as simple as tomato sauce & tomato paste with no preservatives or salt make a difference. Setting aside a small amount for tomato paste the rest we are able to flavor the bulk amount left for a variety of meals. Garlic,jalapeno, onion, basil, & of course marinara. Separated into batches then frozen those are the different flavors added while hot.


With the internet making virtually everything from scratch is possible.
 
Homemade, but with one caveat.

My name is Tommy . . . I'm a cookie-holic. In the store, I can walk right past the cookie aisle. Just a brief pang of desire and it's over with. Home baked cookies taunt me mercilessly. Twenty four perfect chocolate chip disks calling out to be eaten. Impossible to eat just one or two. Carb count soars. Home baked cookies are pure evil!

:awman:
 
I have to say store bought. My mom was a good cook, on top of the stove. But she couldn't bake. My mom was cheap. So when it came to adding ingredients, if they were expensive; she cut them. Stuff didn't come out right. I remember when she made some kind of molasses cookies, and they came out looking like a type of brown glass. Cookies aren't supposed to be shiny. She had to throw them out. As for me, if it weren't for store bought, I'd starve to death.
BTW, nothing is better than Fig Newtons. Aw, died and gone to heaven!!!!!!
 
How I beat the 'can't eat just one, so can't buy a bag" syndrome ... I keep a roll of Nestles Toll House Cookie Dough in the frig. When I have a 'gotta have a cookie' moment, I heat up the toaster oven, slice one or two thin slices from the roll, bake 10 minutes or so then savor warm cookie in tiny bites. fine

If the cut roll is tightly sealed, it keeps just fine.
 
The only thing we bake, on occasion, is bread. That's usually a winter activity. Just what we need in the cold months --- decreased exercise, more carbs! We don't ever have dessert in the house, so baking is not done as far as cake, pie, cookies, etc.
 
My homemade beats store bought AND restaurant food. No arguments possible, at my house: I'm a gourmet, vegan chef.
 

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