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30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online

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Some places are exceptionally good at making meals they offer, and while there probably is a certain number of excellent restaurants for almost any meal, as a rule of thumb, most people find certain meals to usually taste better homemade. The reasons for this may vary from preferring it made in some exact way, using exceptionally fresh or high-quality ingredients to believing that home coziness is a crucial part of it. People shared exactly these kinds of meals, answering one Redditor’s question: “What always tastes better at home vs. a restaurant?”

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#1

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online I really like going out to eat, and honestly the most disappointing thing is vegetables. I hate spending $30+ on an expensive entre for the vegetables to be steamed, unseasoned, and overall sad. That's not to say I haven't had good vegetables out, but I notice when meat is the centerpiece of a dish the vegetables have very little care. I like my veggies.

freehotcakes , Engin Akyurt Report

Final score:

62points

Xenon 10 months ago

I hate how the veggies are pretty much raw most of the time.

24points

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#2

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online I think mashed potatoes taste better at home.

Defan3 , Anna Stampfli Report

Final score:

50points

TheGoodBoi 10 months ago

Looks like vanilla ice cream!

48points

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#3

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Homemade mac and cheese, roux style.

yggdrasilthu , Hayden Walker Report

Final score:

48points

WhiteClawOfDeath 10 months ago

Didn't even know there was another way other than roux

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#4

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Lasagna. unless the place makes a big tray daily there is a very high chance you're going to get lasagna that was frozen. the other thing that goes wrong with lasagna is when they try to cook it on the spot. you end up with this gross meat soup in one of those pizza place to go tins.

BilBorrax , Ioan Bilac Report

Final score:

45points

Undercover 10 months ago

Italy, the land of big, cheap and delicious lasagnas 🥰 the whackier the restaurant looks, the better the lasagna 😍😍😍

18points

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#5

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Chocolate chip cookies. Like standard, no frills, ~~milk~~ semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies.

I recall going to Mrs. Fields at the mall and the cookies were good (if not great) but still not as good as a home baked one.

Paradigm_Reset , SJ 📸 Report

Final score:

41points

PattyK 10 months ago

I like chocolate chip cookies chewy, not hard. Few places make them chewy; hard cookies are often hard because they’re overcooked.

30points

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#6

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Soup. Made from scratch soup. Or grilled cheese. It’s a tie.

wordsinverse , Anna Pyshniuk Report

Final score:

39points

Kookamunga 10 months ago

Many many great restaurants (not chains like Panera, Applebees, etc) make their own soups from scratch. You must seek to find.

14points

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#7

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online scambled eggs. nothing like eating them just out of the pan and done precisely to your preferred texture.

zem , Annushka Ahuja Report

Final score:

38points

kitteh floof lover 10 months ago

the best scrambled eggs i've ever had, in my 68 yrs on earth, were on swiss air, and in the swiss hotel breakfast buffet. what's their secret? i need to know!

10points

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#8

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Chili

Atsir , American Heritage Chocolate Report

Final score:

37points

Impasta (she/they) 10 months ago

I've nevet had chili but want to try it, how does it taste?

6points

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#9

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online BLTS

jirenlagen , eliztesch Report

Final score:

34points

Dan Holden 10 months ago

The amount of bacon they use when you order a BLT at a restaurant is always pathetic.

20points

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#10

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Steak always taste better at home because you can do it just as good if not better than 99% of restaurants for a much lower price.

SCP239 , Lukas Report

Final score:

29points

Lotekguy 10 months ago

I've been to a whole bunch of restaurants that serve better steaks than I've had at anyone's home... including mine.

9points

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#11

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Man idk but that simple breakfast, eggs sausage/bacon home fries biscuits ultimate home meal that never slaps quite the same In a restaurant 😂

HeartsIce , Julian Jagtenberg Report

Final score:

25points

Kookamunga 10 months ago

At a great Mom and Pop diner, it slaps even better because I didn't make it.

51points

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#12

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Tamales. I’ve had very good tamales at restaurants but there’s just something about homemade that you can’t compare.

anon , Phil! Gold Report

Final score:

23points

Two_rolling_black_eyes 10 months ago

I never buy restaurant tamales. They need to be made and then sold by the dozen by a 140 year old Mexican woman who rules over her family's assembly line, Soaking corn husks, making the green chili, slow cooking the pork, grinding the perfect masa to make the dough, properly assembling them, and finally the actual cooking all take a long time. Restaurants don't have that time to get them perfect.

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#13

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online I'm a good cook, but I can't think of anything that I make that I couldn't find better at *some* restaurant.

However, I have been perfecting my beef bourguignon to taste like the one served at Joséphine Chez Dumonet in Paris. Theirs is the best I've ever had. So it's still better than mine, but mine is better than anything I eat at local restaurants.

mintbrownie , stu_spivack Report

Final score:

22points

detective miller's hat 10 months ago

Just googled this and found Julia Child's recipe, definitely making that this weekend.

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#14

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Christmas dinner

TheFunkyChief , Nicole Michalou Report

Final score:

22points

Lady Gypsy Rain 10 months ago

I suspect people who tend to eat out for these meals do so because it’s the only or best option for them. Used to see a lot of single dads with kids on those days. Don’t know what it’s like anymore, but sometimes it’s less expensive to eat at Dennys or the Waffle House than make an entire meal at home

11points

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#15

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Baked potatoes. They never have good, crisp skins at restaurants. Most taste either microwaved or cooked well, well in advanced with soggy, sad skins.

Marinara sauce. I make it my grandmother's way, so could be biased.

Coffee.

anon , Pixabay Report

Final score:

21points

Megan Curl 10 months ago

Those aren’t baked potatoes in the picture, but they are delicious looking crispy roasted potatoes. Yum.

22points

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#16

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Biscuits and Gravy. Those are so much better homemade

Scari_Fairi , Larry Hoffman Report

Final score:

17points

Jeremy James 10 months ago

As a Southerner, I take issue with that photo. Those are dinner rolls, not biscuits, and that gravy looks like it may have only had a passing acquaintance with a sausage, back in college.

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#17

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online I live in a chinese food desert so lo mien noodles are always better when I make them at home.

All I want is a little takeout box full of delicious, mildly greasy noodles. Is that too much to ask?

pantaleonivo , Thank You (24 Millions ) views Report

Final score:

16points

Benita Valdez 10 months ago

Ah man, I take for granted just how many are within a 15 mile radius of my house; it's an obscene amount.

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#18

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Omelettes. Restaurant omelettes are nearly always overcooked and leathery.

anon , Arvin Nav Report

Final score:

16points

Ace 10 months ago

I feel sorry for you guys - any French or Swiss chef (and most others, I'm sure) would be able to produce a perfect omelette in seconds.

20points

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#19

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online **Salad**. So many salads are sad, old lettuce with a tomato and maybe a sliver of onion. Salads are easy to make at home and I can add everything: Sweet potato, grains, beans, avocado, fresh fruits and vegetables, roasted eggplant, sundried tomatoes, lentils, kale, spinach, tofu, tempeh, etc...

**Tortillas**. Both corn and flour tortillas are fast, easy, and cheap to make at home and 9 times out of 10 mine are better than the restaurant tortillas.

**Anything spicy**... I can make my food spicier than most restaurants.

**Oatmeal** again, super cheap and easy to make at home. I've never seen a restaurant with oatmeal as extravagant as my oatmeal: nuts, nut butter, berries, peaches, cinnamon, chai seeds, nut milk, steel cut oats, flaxseed, and cloves.

scholargypsy , Dana Tentis Report

Final score:

16points

Ace 10 months ago

With you on most of this, but your 'oatmeal' sounds disgusting, and too healthy by far.

7points

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#20

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Bacon. Making your own Bacon, even the most basic of recipes, ruins all commercially available Bacon.

TheDadThatGrills , Polina Tankilevitch Report

Final score:

16points

Lady Gypsy Rain 10 months ago (edited)

The cut of bacon also makes a difference in flavor. Yes, you get less thick cut bacon than regular cut for the same price. But you won’t regret the flavor. I’ve yet to try center cut. Price is just too rich for my blood but I sincerely hope to find a decent sale on it at some point

3points

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#21

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Spaghetti

DDNorth20 , Lisa Fotios Report

Final score:

15points

Forrest Hobbs 10 months ago

Cue laughter from thousands of Italian restaurants. I mean Italian restaurants - the ones staffed by Italians, in Italy.

21points

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#22

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online My shepherds pie is always SO MUCH better than any restaurants. Most of my Mac and Cheese's have been better as well.

91cosmo , jules Report

Final score:

15points

PeepPeep the duck 10 months ago

I made a rule as a chef who was getting too comfortable with eating only a select number of meals 😂 I’m now not aloud to order anything I would cook regularly etc I have to order something I wouldn’t normally cook or attempt to make etc. makes it easier on judging the kitchens and this excludes steak options 😂 sometimes a good steak is just fun cooked by someone else.

4points

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#23

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Chocolate frosting. Have yet to find one in a restaurant that I really like. They all taste little better than canned or have powdered sugar added. Nothing beats Grandma's recipe. 😋

Mabbernathy , Darko Trajković Report

Final score:

14points

Louise Clarke 10 months ago (edited)

Here is a simple but delicious chocolate frosting. Butter, powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Mix and adjust sugar and cocoa to taste

6points

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#24

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Grilled corn on the cob. It's always rubbery at every single restaurant I've ever eaten it at.

ArokLazarus , Kayode Balogun Report

Final score:

14points

Joyce Melton 10 months ago

Do street vendors count as restaurants? I've had excellent grilled corn on the cob from street vendors in various Southern California cities. I don't make it at home, so it's hard to compare.

7points

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#25

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Burgers, on the grill outside.

Admirable_Success732 , Valeria Boltneva Report

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14points

Impasta (she/they) 10 months ago

The picture is making me hungry and I just ate :0

10points

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#26

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online In Danish cusine, there is a thing called: Mormors frikadeller, it's 100% impossible to replicate.. you need a big chunk of "hygge"

Kwispy6969 , u/Jbd0505 Report

Final score:

13points

Somebodys grandmother 10 months ago

It's a danish thing... in the spring with fresh potatoes in potatosalad... every family have their own recipe... It's dinner, lunch, snack.... you just can't buy this - It's the feeling af family og hygge...

4points

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#27

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Meatloaf

petizzysback , jeffreyw Report

Final score:

13points

Joyce Melton 10 months ago

I have had excellent meatloaf in a restaurant but I do make better myself.

2points

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#28

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online A simple roast chicken. It's hard to make a roast chicken cooked to order in a restaurant unless you spatchcock it.

-UncleFarty- , Tim Douglas Report

Final score:

11points

Cathy 10 months ago

Why is that roasted chicken in an oven dish with veggies that are not cooked 🤨

5points

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#29

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online pizza at home is pretty damn good, huh. I can make the dough nice and thick, and put full cherry tomatoes on it, with lots of fresh basil. I also like eggs & toast at home better.

Itom1IlI1IlI1IlI , Narda Yescas Report

Final score:

10points

Sky Render 10 months ago

In our house especially, homemade pizza is queen. No restaurant can make it the way I do, with my highly custom sauce, seasoned crust, and expert cheese and topping selections.

5points

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#30

30 Homemade Foods That Will Always Win Against Their Restaurant Versions, As Pointed Out Online Stuffed vegetables (Grape vine leaves, cabbage, eggplant, etc.) and stuffed pigeon. No restaurant can make them like parents or grandparents.

robotobio , Rebecca T. Caro Report

Final score:

6points

Impasta (she/they) 10 months ago

TIL stuffed pigeon exists

16points

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The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago

I’m a pretty strong home cook and can replicate a lot of recipes I like. I learn new techniques frequently and enjoy making good food for me and my family (even if my kids don’t always appreciate it). I go to restaurants for a few key reasons: 1) I’m just too tired to cook; 2) I’m getting something I don’t know how to cook; 3) I’m getting something that is time-consuming and/or messy to cook; 4) they just do it better.

4points

Shoshana Sherrington 10 months ago

There is an art to knowing what to order even from a restaurant you've never been to before

3points

BookFanatic 10 months ago

Heh. I should not have read this before lunch... (stomach growls)

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The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago

I’m a pretty strong home cook and can replicate a lot of recipes I like. I learn new techniques frequently and enjoy making good food for me and my family (even if my kids don’t always appreciate it). I go to restaurants for a few key reasons: 1) I’m just too tired to cook; 2) I’m getting something I don’t know how to cook; 3) I’m getting something that is time-consuming and/or messy to cook; 4) they just do it better.

4points

Shoshana Sherrington 10 months ago

There is an art to knowing what to order even from a restaurant you've never been to before

3points

BookFanatic 10 months ago

Heh. I should not have read this before lunch... (stomach growls)

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