Member Profile: Razor512
Razor512 has been a FoodIRL member since October 17th, 2009.
Razor512's Comments:
Seems good, it's hard to find foods rich in cholesterol these days.
With candy prices these days, $299 wont get you much candy
RE. So, it is enough to feed 2 hungry people?
it is if the 2 people already ate a few minutes ago
mcdonalds is always changing the meat patties in order to cut corners while increasing prices, this has another negative problem of cook times, what worked yesterday will burn the food today.
if you have a dslr, use the exposure bracketing
lower the exposure all the way (in many cases it removed the over exposed areas, then do 1 normal image and then do some tone mapping or just photoshop out the highlights by replacing those parts with the under exposed image)
another solution when taking a image of a very shiny object and you want to preserve detail, use a low powered indirect light, then with the camera do a 3 second exposure (or longer depending on the camera, also use the lowest ISO possible)
you will still get highlights but they will still have much of their detail because they wont expose to a point where the camera starts flashing the over exposed areas
and if you want quick results that will give the best result then take 13 images each at a different exposure, then in photoshop, convert it into HDR image this will give you a single 32 bit image and in there you can adjust the curves to bring out details in both the lows and highlights of the image with out any full tone mapping which will often make the image look unrealistic(for more complex shots, just play around with the curves and if needed duplicate the original layer and throw it into LAB color then further bring out detail of select areas, everything is fine as long as you get the image to look as close to how you saw it in real life as possible)
The caramel is there, you just have to use your imagination :).
There generally good but for the price, you get a insanely small portion
I generally get the chicken pot pie from costco, they have a box of 8 for like $10.
they taste pretty good and when microwaved (generally 4 minutes) the come out crispy.
but I am buying it less and less because the company has downsized, theres not as much sauce as there used to be
while there are many chinks of chicken in it, some of them are not eatable because it will be like a chunk of fat with a chicken veneer
The main reason why I get them is because they come out to around $1.25 per pot pie which is good because each pot pie is about 284 grams of food.
If you need, I currently have some and can take a high res photo of it if needed.
edit:here is a image of how these pot pies look in a higher resolution
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1505/chickenpotpie.jpg
Pizza hut pizza taste extremely good as long as you don't get the pizza mia (aka pizza flavor missing in action).
The normal pizza hut pizza has the extremely good crust, quality sauce and cheese but the pizza mia uses a crust similar to that of a cheap frozen pizza, it is also hard in some cases and also dry.
Sadly I am only able to get a good pizza hut pizza once in a while other than that it is costco pizza (extremely good also but the crust cane compete with that of pizza huts), pizza hut = a lot of money for a little bit of food.
seems like your also getting less since the middle area is flat (so you loose a couple grams of food)
Money saving tip, in terms of grams (weight) buying items from the dollar menu will give you more food for your money. and if you really want to save money, get the double stack from wendys (in some cases it offers up to 15 grams of more meat and it is 1 penny cheaper)
PS at fast food places, never buy the french fries, remember potatoes are one of the cheapest food on the planet, back when the country went into a depression and many people lost their homes and couldn't even afford food. the most common thing they actually made enough money to afford was potatoes because you get a lot of grams out of a little bit of money. when you spend $1 for a small fries, your basically getting like 1/10th of a potato and the cost of that for the company is so low that it is seen in fractions of a penny. Don't waste your money on fries.
Same goes for the soda, for the price of a small soda, you can buy a 2 liter bottle at the store.
I had one a few months ago. Would also never buy again.
When i microwaved it, everything was soggy and rubbery (the the macaroni and cheese was watery and rubbery. ( I was able to slightly reduce the sogginess and rubber like feel of the fish sticks by reheating them in the toaster oven)Lucky for me I only lost $1 because it was on sale
the pudding was slightly sweet and bitter at the same time, very hard to describe the taste.
The main problem is for much is cost, you get very little for your money and even worst, it barely had a taste. While it is not the worst pizza I have tasted, it is one of the blandest ones. (if you want the worst pizza, check out the walmart value pizza crap, I would buy one if they still sell it, to take a picture of, but me and my wallet is scared because of how much of a bad experience I had with it a while back) (sadly i wasted my money before the article on it was posted on consumerist http://consumerist.com/257595/walmarts-great-va... )
Sry if i was a little harsh in the review, I just hate getting ripped off, for the price I paid for it, I could have gotten a bigger slice (in terms of weight in grams) that taste much better from a local pizza shop for $1.50 if i hadn't been lazy that dat and just walked the extra 3 blocks to the pizza shop)
PS sry for the errors in the post
I gave it a 1 out of 5 for the taste because it didn't really have any
and for the look, even though it had some cheese, the lack of pizza sauce knocked it down a point or two.
While it is ok to eat, for the money I could have gotten something much better and compared to actual good pizza (which is around the same or more grams and cheaper at $1.50, for me this pizza was a really bad buy.here is a pic of the price tag
they look pretty close to me. keep in mind that when the box shows a picture of the food, the picture is taken with perfect lighting, and fresh ingredients and most of all, the photos are enhanced
kinda like when you see a model in a magazine then you see the same model in a youtube video or taken by a news reporter, you will see how the magazine photos have been enhanced to look more perfect. the same goes for food, but personally I find it deceptive.
a better solution would be for the government to pass a advertising law that if a company makes a food item, that they are required to have the advertising company take a product off a store shelf or the would be product (since it will not be released to stores yet) then they take a picture of the item and that goes on the box that way if companies what to have a good cover then they will have to actually make a good product)
