8 foods you shouldn't cook yourself

Sausages

Two words: meat emulsion. Even the most intrepid cook preparing homemade sausages must admit that achieving the perfect, porous mixture is best left to the professionals. Chorizo You can make them at home, but it's easier to buy factory-made hot dog sausages.

English muffins

If you want to host the perfect brunch for your guests, surprise them. homemade hollandaise sauce (it's really not that difficult). But muffins It's best to buy them in a store, as truly delicious buns with their characteristic texture and dimples are difficult to make at home.

Mozzarella

Kneading and stretching warm cheese curds can be a fun weekend activity. However, don't expect to do this labor-intensive process every time you need cheese for your summer meal. caprese salad.

Cocktail cherries

Nothing decorates a cocktail better. Manhattan or whiskey sour, like candied cherries in liqueur. Finding the right sour cherries, pitting them, and soaking them in imported liqueur takes time and money, so a jar of cherries costing about 1,200 rubles at a gourmet store is a pretty good deal.

Pastila (fig)

At first glance, the recipe seems simple. However, it requires pureeing, using a fine sieve, a fruit dehydrator, and waiting for over 20 hours. The result is often disappointing: the pastila turns out brown, too thick, and sticky. If you're concerned about preservatives in store-bought sweets, use dried fruit instead. prepare the marshmallow only in exceptional cases.

Puff pastry

You can make it once, for the sake of a new experience. But rolling out and kneading the capricious dough, which needs to be chilled repeatedly, is a thankless task. And in fact, the whole beauty puff pastry It's about what you make with it. Use store-bought dough (you can find good ones at stores!) strudel or puff pastries, and you can still be proud of serving a homemade dessert.

Pastrami

Yes, there's little actual work involved. But you'll have to dedicate an entire shelf in the refrigerator for three days to soaking the meat, another day to drying it, use the smoker for 6-8 hours, and then let the meat rest in the oven for a couple of hours. Yet another reason to love the gourmet food store.

Potato chips

According to some estimates, 450 grams of potatoes will yield only 110 grams of chips. That's too much peeling, chopping, and cooking for a snack that's eaten in seconds. If you still want to try it, take one potato at a time and serve it to your friends. chips with cocktails.