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

Yes, I agree. And I'll add that most (not all, but most) salads are only like an afterthought; they're almost always so disappointing. The ones I make at home are infinitely better.

30 on a starter?

Madison, Wisconsin will surprise you.

My homemade taters have lovely lumps. Restaurant mash always seems more like puree to me.

I think it depends. If it's just an afterthought side dish at the restaurant then, yeah, homemade should be better because you can make it how you want it. But the places that put actual thought and effort into them are damn good. And sure you could replicate it at home using enough butter and cream but, in general, I'm not doing that so they're generally better, to me, dining out.

well at least they shouldn't taste or look like ice cream... BP illustration at its finest

That looks like a big bowl of really dry hummus to me lol

I don’t know what that is in the bowl but it isn’t mashed potato.

Homemade Mac and cheese is the best. A white sauce was the first thing I learned to make. My home ec teacher(back in 1969) insisted it was the basis for so many recipes. I pretty much just add cheese to it!

I’ve heard some people complain that homemade mac and cheese isn’t creamy enough but that’s all about milk content. Also, Mac and cheese of all kinds doesn’t end up creamy upon reheating unless you add moisture.

I always make homemade mac and cheese, and I never use a roux or an egg. You don't need either.

Just because it is frozen does not mean it‘s not good or not made from scratch. Any dish that you would need lots of prep or a big batch will be frozen in any restaurant. Like Goulash or a Ragou or soup. You cannot make a pot of soup and hope enough people will come and buy enough of this dish, so there will be nothing left at the end of the day. It just isn‘t eco friendly snd frankly too expensive.

That all depends on where. I had no idea how bad restaurant food got until watching Gordon Ramsay. But the idea you'd find anything other than excellent lasagne in an Italian restaurant visited by Italians seems unlikely. That's "Italian" as in "genuine Italian people visiting restaurants actually in Italy".

Disagree. If the lasagna tastes better at home, you're either an incredibly talented cook or in a bad restaurant or both

I feel like you have to generally overspend on restaurant lasagna to get a really good one. There are restaurants who do make it really well and daily (yes, it's reheated. How else could they serve non-frozen lasagna) but it's probably going to cost you. As someone who doesn't make it and only eat the supermarket kind, I'm willing to pay once in s a while for a really good restaurant lasagna.

Can never compare to my mom's lasagna. Maybe I'm biased but still...

Mrs Fields is nice, but very sweet. Cookies should have more brown sugar/butter flavor or something, not just generically sweet

Crumbl makes amazing chocolate chip cookies. Still warm, and packed with chips.

There was a cookie brand called Famous Amos cookies that you used to get in malls. They were so good.

Agreed! I refuse to buy cookies when I can make them at home and imho, they are so much better!

Disagree. Restaurants often have the best scraps for the best soup

My grilled cheese is usually covered in garlic salt and I use good melty cheese since I don't like American much, but munster is so good.

Grilled cheese is better at home, especially when I do it because I put extra ingredients in it, such as spinach or avocado

Soup made from scratch 😂 stop eating at franchise restaurants and go to a real one - I find it funny cos growing up in kitchens and having my dad get up at 2am to make prawn cocktails and soups and bolognese for the day 😂 picturing him slacking away while someone suggests it’s packed soup is hilarious, I can’t rely on customer palettes to be fair cos I’ve had ‘oyster connoisseurs’ SWEAR our Tasmanian oysters were the best and real deal, when they were Gold Coast oysters 🦪 😂 people don’t even know half the time what they know or want

I’ve definitely learned I prefer my eggs soft scrambled over hard. The creaminess imo just cannot be beat. I also prefer my fried eggs somewhere between over easy and over medium and my poached eggs soft. And I cannot make an omelet that isn’t overflowing to save my life.

Scrambled eggs are one of the few foods I am fussy about. I absolutely detest slimy scrambled eggs. I'd rather they were over done.

Lots of Sheldon wannabes in the comments. Chili can have beans, it can be made white, it can be a sauce... Pedantry on something so generic isn't a sign of intelligence or superiority.

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Real chili does NOT have beans.