reheated takeaways

Robsweezie

say a takeaway opens at 5,and you order half 5 or 6, and you get reheated crap from the night before, yet if you order at 9 or 10 you get fresher piping hot grub, does this happen at your local?

The Backwards Man

Takeaway food is all muck, reheated or not. Get the pots and pans out and make yourself a proper dinner.

dodderangler

Nothing better than a reheated curry from night before when your dying with hangover. Same with pizza and pretty much any takeaway.
But when dying with a hangover your tongue feels like Shiite anyway so taste buds aren't quite there so doesn't really matter what your eating.

Robsweezie

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Takeaway food is all muck, reheated or not. Get the pots and pans out and make yourself a proper dinner.

ok granddad.

The_Valeyard

I've done that when hungover,

Or eaten cold leftover pizza rather than find real food in the house.

thelad95

The vast majority of takeaways in Ireland wouldn't survive without the weekly Zombie apocalypse on a Saturday night.

kneemos

Always much nicer when the place is busy.

The Backwards Man

thelad95 wrote: »

The vast majority of takeaways in Ireland wouldn't survive without the weekly Zombie apocalypse on a Saturday night.

Slowly dying a death now thankfully.

The sooner the better though, I'm planning on getting a van on the road to hawk outside discos selling pulled pork and quinoa

AlanS181824

Chips are €2.30 at my local takeaway... I swear if those fúckers are reheated!

Gummy Panda

Robsweezie wrote: »

say a takeaway opens at 5,and you order half 5 or 6, and you get reheated crap from the night before, yet if you order at 9 or 10 you get fresher piping hot grub, does this happen at your local?

I wouldn't order from a Chinese take away when it first opens. I feel you get yesterdays curry sauce

Custardpi

So long as it's kept in hygenic conditions I don't see the problem with stuff being reheated, unless it's a real gourmet place which sells itself as using fresh produce. Whenever I make a curry myself at home I'll generally make a few days worth. The reheated portions always taste better than the original meal as the flavours have been absorbed more.

Pinch Flat

If you fancy sh!tting your insides out on a regular basis I'd say go for it

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning.aspx?CategoryID=51

Grandeeod

Back in Ireland for a few weeks. Always feel I'm missing something until I taste this takeaway ****e. Chinese? ****ing ****e and it was ****e before I left. Bland, quickly made muck, even in restaurants. I have one place I like, but its still not that good and its a restaurant. Indians? Oh good jesus for all they charge, its still so ordinary. Then we have the Italian chippers. How they have gone downhill.

It scares me that the OP wants to reheat this crap. Years ago, yeah, but these days you are literally reheating the reheated. The standard of takeaway food has sunk to new levels. There was a time when some effort went into it. Now its a race to the bottom and only for those who are ****faced.

dub_skav

Grandeeod wrote: »

Back in Ireland for a few weeks. Always feel I'm missing something until I taste this takeaway ****e. Chinese? ****ing ****e and it was ****e before I left. Bland, quickly made muck, even in restaurants. I have one place I like, but its still not that good and its a restaurant. Indians? Oh good jesus for all they charge, its still so ordinary. Then we have the Italian chippers. How they have gone downhill.

It scares me that the OP wants to reheat this crap. Years ago, yeah, but these days you are literally reheating the reheated. The standard of takeaway food has sunk to new levels. There was a time when some effort went into it. Now its a race to the bottom and only for those who are ****faced.

The literacy rate has improved since you left too

Our Chinese takeaway always send fresh hot food, never any reheats ( that we can tell anyway) plus it always gets here on time. They are great.

Id send the food back if it was reheated aul shyte

Grandeeod

dub_skav wrote: »

The literacy rate has improved since you left too

Typical.

Banjo String

Jake1 wrote: »

Our Chinese takeaway always send fresh hot food, never any reheats ( that we can tell anyway) plus it always gets here on time. They are great.

Id send the food back if it was reheated aul shyte

They sound like a great bunch of lads in your local takeaway.

thelad95

I think most people are over the whole 'cooking is a women's job' attitude. Any twenty-something man should be able to rustle up a meal of some sort from scratch. It's basic self-sufficiency. In fact, men who rely on takeaways or other people to cook for them are more 'wussy' than those who can cook.

Pinch Flat

Banjo String wrote: »

They sound like a great bunch of lads in your local takeaway.

http://collegetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/chinese.jpg

Grandeeod

Jake1 wrote: »

Our Chinese takeaway always send fresh hot food, never any reheats ( that we can tell anyway) plus it always gets here on time. They are great.

Id send the food back if it was reheated aul shyte

The definition of "reheated" is debateable. Its more a case of "technique". A typical Chinese takeaway (lets take a basic chicken curry) is made up of a premade sauce full of msg, precooked or thawed frozen chicken pieces and cheap veg. When you order its all flash fried in a wok within minutes.

Technically it is a reheat job.

Tonyandthewhale

thelad95 wrote: »

I think most people are over the whole 'cooking is a women's job' attitude. Any twenty-something man should be able to rustle up a meal of some sort from scratch. It's basic self-sufficiency. In fact, men who rely on takeaways or other people to cook for them are more 'wussy' than those who can cook.

What's this in response to?

castletownman

Chipper in town do buy one gets one free. There's literally nothing better than gorging on a few pints of a Sunday afternoon, going down there and ordering taco chips, eating half when you get home and the other half the following day.

Literally can't think of anything better

thelad95

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

What's this in response to?

There was a comment about the Grandad being a 'wuss' which has now been delted.

Bongalongherb

A few beers and a chinese delivery of a vegetable curry and fried rice piping hot is damn good for ye. Riverside chinese takeaway in rivervally swords does a great one.

humberklog

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Slowly dying a death now thankfully.

The sooner the better though, I'm planning on getting a van on the road to hawk outside discos selling pulled pork and quinoa

I really wish this "pulled pork" fab would slope off and die a lonely death.

Banjo String

Banjo String wrote: »

They sound like a great bunch of lads in your local takeaway.

They are indeed a great bunch of lads

The Backwards Man

humberklog wrote: »

I really wish this "pulled pork" fab would slope off and die a lonely death.

I hope not, few slices of Aldi ham through the mincer, throw a bit of garlic or apple sauce or something on it and fire at the jagerbomb brigade for a fiver a pop. This time next year I'll be a millionaire.

Holsten

I've heard people say this before and to me it's bollox.

Surely there are health and safety issues with reheating food? Thus they would be closed down if they failed, or they wouldn't get business due to their ****ty reheated food.

Paramite Pie

I grew up in a rural area where takeaway didn't deliver. To me, takeaway is exclusively a drunken, 4am food.

Since moving to more "civilised" areas, I'm suprised how often my peers get takeaway, especially when it's more than twice a week. One of my housemates get's takeaway almost every night. Shockin!! It's a habit, nothing more. It wouldn't even enter my mind to get takeaway delivered to the house either.

If I want a takeaway style dinner, I buy the cheapest chicken possible, throw veg, especially veg that doesn't need to be chopped like mangetout or water-chestnuts (laziness!:P) and 1 euro noodles from the Asian shop. A dash of sweet chilli or soy sauce and I dazzle my housemates with my 'fancy' cooking. Tastes amazing too!:pac:

Saralee4

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I've done that when hungover,

Or eaten cold leftover pizza rather than find real food in the house.

My husband does this too but im just thinking if they are reheats from the actual takeaway, then you eat it and then you reheat the next day.

That means the food is 3 days old and reheated twice. :rolleyes:

SEPT 23 1989

Paramite Pie wrote: »

If I want a takeaway style dinner, I buy the cheapest chicken possible, throw veg, especially veg that doesn't need to be chopped like mangetout or water-chestnuts (laziness!:P) and 1 euro noodles from the Asian shop. A dash of sweet chilli or soy sauce and I dazzle my housemates with my 'fancy' cooking. Tastes amazing too!:pac:

sounds manky

do you actually force that slop on your friends?

Grandeeod

Holsten wrote: »

I've heard people say this before and to me it's bollox.

Surely there are health and safety issues with reheating food? Thus they would be closed down if they failed, or they wouldn't get business due to their ****ty reheated food.

If you cook a dish from scratch, then freeze it, it can be reheated no problem and taste great. Believe it or not, lots of restaurants do this with a variety of food such as lasagne. But from my experiences from the Chinese trade, they are using foodstuffs that have already been frozen and reheated. You do not reheat food that has already been reheated. In a lot of establishments you will see signage telling you to refrigerate within 90 mins and consume within a certain period. The chinese trade is off the radar in terms of food safety. May not make you sick, but still...

anncoates

thelad95 wrote: »

I think most people are over the whole 'cooking is a women's job' attitude. Any twenty-something man should be able to rustle up a meal of some sort from scratch. It's basic self-sufficiency. In fact, men who rely on takeaways or other people to cook for them are more 'wussy' than those who can cook.

You're poised over your laptop waiting for the PM onslaught from impressed chicks now, aren't you?

cloud493

Nope. I had re-heated pizza a few months ago, thought it'd be fine. Got so sick, I was ****ting through the eye of a needle.

Wang King

Chicken vindaloo from Saturday night, put it in the fridge and eat it cold at 9am on Sunday morning for brekkie, divine!
No reheating needed!

thelad95

anncoates wrote: »

You're poised over your laptop waiting for the PM onslaught from impressed chicks now, aren't you?

No, only you've PM'd me so far

NewApproach

You mean I'm the only one who sneakily orders too much Indian to have some leftover for lunch the next day?

Robsweezie

people are missing the point here. its not about reheating takeaways YOURSELF, its about the takeaway outlets serving yesterdays leftovers as todays meals.

anncoates

thelad95 wrote: »

No, only you've PM'd me so far

Routine sting operation.

Wang King

Robsweezie wrote: »

people are missing the point here. its not about reheating takeaways YOURSELF, its about the takeaway outlets serving yesterdays leftovers as todays meals.

No, we knew, just found this more interesting

ProudDUB

I never order from our local chipper, since I moved house a couple of years ago. A snack box would usually be my artery clogger of choice. But the chicken has a toughness to it, that only comes from being cooked ages ago and being reheated. Tis a terrible pity, as there is nowt better than some recently cooked southern fried chicken.

Micky Dolenz

Curry is better the day after, FACT.

Ihatecuddles

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Curry is better the day after, FACT.

Couldn't agree more!

BetterThanThou

Pretty sure this is crap, if I go to my local Chinese takeaway at opening time, I can hear them frying the food, and I've even been offered extra food for free at closing time because they'd have to throw it out anyway. My local takeaway is just a typical Chinese takeaway that you can find anywhere, nothing special about it. Maybe some takeaways engage in this practice, but I've personally never seen one.

Cookie_Dough

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Pretty sure this is crap, if I go to my local Chinese takeaway at opening time, I can hear them frying the food, and I've even been offered extra food for free at closing time because they'd have to throw it out anyway. My local takeaway is just a typical Chinese takeaway that you can find anywhere, nothing special about it. Maybe some takeaways engage in this practice, but I've personally never seen one.

I would agree with this. I've never received any reheats from any of my local takeaway & they're nothing special either.

Surely if takeaways regularly reheated food from the previous night it would breach health & safety rules. Fair enough if people think takeaways are muck anyway but they would still have to adhere to h&s rules purely for fear of being closed down. It's their livelihood after all.

Nothing beats pizza that you've reheated from the night before! Reheated chipper chips are vile though. They always go soggy!

Teyla Emmagan

Just as long as the rice is never reheated. Which is a big no-no, as you will know from listening to your mother.

Gone Drinking

One of the lads swears by eating leftover chicken balls and curry sauce for breakfast the next morning, cold.

BeerWolf

I tend to avoid takeaways [not restaurants] that have the kitchen hidden away where you can't see what they're doing.

Saralee4

Robsweezie wrote: »

people are missing the point here. its not about reheating takeaways YOURSELF, its about the takeaway outlets serving yesterdays leftovers as todays meals.

Yes i have noticed it especially if you get chips. You just know when they have been reheated.

Egginacup

Grandeeod wrote: »

Back in Ireland for a few weeks. Always feel I'm missing something until I taste this takeaway ****e. Chinese? ****ing ****e and it was ****e before I left. Bland, quickly made muck, even in restaurants. I have one place I like, but its still not that good and its a restaurant. Indians? Oh good jesus for all they charge, its still so ordinary. Then we have the Italian chippers. How they have gone downhill.

It scares me that the OP wants to reheat this crap. Years ago, yeah, but these days you are literally reheating the reheated. The standard of takeaway food has sunk to new levels. There was a time when some effort went into it. Now its a race to the bottom and only for those who are ****faced.

Agreed. The takeaway food in Ireland/Dublin is fucking DIRE. The so called "ethnic" stuff is ..words fail me how this shit can be sold by people with a straight face. I went into some chinese kip to get some singapore noodles to take home. They didn't even have chopsticks....not even those crappy disposable snap-off ones. I guess they were used to just throwing a plastic fork into the bag along with the tub of shitballs and sauce that they usually dish out. The noodles were appalling btw. Dry, tasteless crap with slices of pork gristle. I've put less effort into masticating beef jerky than a piece of this garbage. The whole thing went in the fucking bin. I was staying at the mother's house after coming from the pub.....at least she had more booze in so I raided the cabinet.
And if you ever go to one of those all you can eat chinese buffets....christ! The only thing you can eat there is the brocolli (or is that e.colli?) or the hot and sour soup.

BeerWolf

Egginacup wrote: »

Agreed. The takeaway food in Ireland/Dublin is fucking DIRE. The so called "ethnic" stuff is ..words fail me how this shit can be sold by people with a straight face.

Absolute worst culprits for reheating are those rubbish, generic, Chinese takeaways which you'd find ANYWHERE.

More so considering they don't really make the food themselves for the most part, it's all from jars and frozen bags. That €8.50 meal you just bought ? It's €0.50 worth of crap they bought in mass frozen in the back... making a €8 profit.

If you've eaten the real stuff you'd think this muck was absolutely toxic, but common regular Joe European wouldn't know better hence being taken complete advantage of.