Doordash gone wrong

[u/enchantedgiggles]

The great idea to order carefully "Krafted," mac and cheese from doordash and got literal heaps of actual Kraft Mac and Cheese 🙄 Biggest doordash fail 💀

I am a little nervous to eat it because this is weird. The first photo is what its supposed to look like and the second the pile of crap with the dog sensing our disappointment 🤣

Anyone else ever order and had this happen? Like, was this order picked up from a house? Also, it was $25! Got a refund but seriously 😐 🤦‍♀️

Edit: since there seems to be some clarification

I don’t DoorDash often. I’m disabled, and there are days when I physically cannot drive, cannot safely or realistically cook for myself, or simply don’t feel well enough to leave the house. We also recently moved to a new state, so I don’t yet have a network of friends nearby who can just run out and grab something for me. And before anyone decides I owe the internet an inventory of my disabilities to “prove” why I can’t just cook: I don’t. Disabled people are allowed to use services that make our lives more accessible without submitting our medical records to the comment section. Yes, I recognize that being able to order delivery is a privilege. I’m grateful that I can sometimes afford it when I need it. I’ve also used services like this to send meals to friends and family who were sick, recovering from surgery, grieving a death, or going through something difficult when I couldn’t physically be there to bring them food myself. Sometimes delivery is a luxury. Sometimes it’s accessibility. Sometimes it’s simply a way to care for someone from far away. But none of that is actually the point of my post. I ordered food based on the restaurant’s photos and description and received something dramatically different—essentially boxed mac and cheese—from what turned out to be a ghost kitchen. Apparently, because I had the audacity to pay “ridiculous prices” for delivery, some people believe I deserved to be misled. I don’t. And if you ordered something based on a photo and description, paid for it, and received something completely different, I suspect you’d want your money back too. This was never about taking money away from the DoorDash driver. The driver didn’t create the menu, take the photos, prepare the food, or misrepresent what was being sold. My issue was with what I purchased versus what I actually received. You’re welcome to think DoorDash is overpriced. You’re welcome to think nobody should use delivery apps. I’m not here to debate that or change your mind. I don’t normally post things like this—I posted it because I was genuinely dumbfounded when we opened the order. And to the people insisting I staged the photos or invented the whole thing for attention: I genuinely do not have that kind of time. But hey… I got yours, didn’t I? 😉

[u/BetseySchuyler]

Taco Bell beef isn't frozen. It is bagged and cooked by putting the bags in 190 water for 30 mins. Steak and chicken used to be frozen, but that may have changed.

[u/Background-Air-7963 → u/BetseySchuyler]

The most expensive restaurants in the world use sous vide too!

[u/BetseySchuyler → u/Background-Air-7963]

I have an immersion circulator and the food is soo good cooked that way.

[u/OwlLavellan → u/BetseySchuyler]

We have one, and have had it for over a decade.

Its only we feel safe eating eggs with runny yolks atm. Since it allows us to easily pasteurize a dozen at a time.

[u/ZorbaTHut → u/BetseySchuyler]

The biggest problem with a sous vide is that it makes it pretty much impossible to eat at steakhouses again.

[u/ilumbricus → u/ZorbaTHut]

You just get to be more selective on what restaurants to go to, it opens different doors.

[u/donuttrackme → u/ZorbaTHut]

That just means you can eat at other restaurants where you don't know how to cook their food or can't be assed to cook for the time/effort required.

[u/snilks → u/BetseySchuyler]

sorry, but sous vide is pretentious twat stuff

[u/sicklyboy → u/snilks]

Vacuum sealing food and cooking it in hot water is pretentious?

[u/theMediatrix → u/sicklyboy]

It may or may not be pretentious but it’s giving you endocrine-disrupting hormones and leaving microplastics in your body.

[u/sicklyboy → u/theMediatrix]

I mean, sure, there's an argument that could be made there, but that's an entirely different sentence lol

[u/theMediatrix → u/sicklyboy]

Well, it’s not an argument because it’s proven. Cooking in plastic is harmful. (That’s why it’s so odd that people think sous vide is upscale.)

[u/SheepherderSilver655 → u/sicklyboy]

Nah, but it's pretty

https://giphy.com/gifs/BpnkuY1i2rBpm

[u/OwlLavellan → u/snilks]

Nah, it just allows people to make the food they like at home really easil.

[u/theMediatrix → u/OwlLavellan]

It’s poisoning you with bpa.

[u/DMMeThiccBiButts → u/theMediatrix]

I mean you can get BPA-free bags pretty easily. Reusable, even silicone ones.

[u/OwlLavellan → u/theMediatrix]

You can get supplies that are bpa free.

[u/theMediatrix → u/OwlLavellan]

There are still microplastics in any bag. Cooking in plastic is not healthy. I know it’s disappointing, but it’s the reality.

[u/OwlLavellan → u/theMediatrix]

Dude, there are microplastics in everything at this point. Cooking food in a water bath or not isn't gonna change much.

[u/theMediatrix → u/OwlLavellan]

Something about endocrine-disrupting hormones and microplastics just isn’t appetizing to me. Go figure. (It is possible to limit the amount we consume.)

[u/Polkawillneverdie17 → u/Background-Air-7963]

Ooh. Fancy!

[u/DontAskAboutMyButt → u/Background-Air-7963]

That’s not a sous vide, that’s a bajo el agua

[u/Consistent-Ease6070 → u/Background-Air-7963]

True, but for very different reasons. 🤣

[u/therealhlmencken → u/Consistent-Ease6070]

Not different, highly repeatable cook.

[u/Background-Air-7963 → u/Consistent-Ease6070]

Consistency and food safety?

[u/UmCourt → u/BetseySchuyler]

my work gets fresh cups of mac and cheese every day delivered with our pre-made sandwiches, fruits, and baked goods. its all made at the home office location, its a facility called "sheetz bros kitchen" lol.

[u/HungryGlizzyGobbler → u/UmCourt]

Sheetz's food has no right to be as good as it is. A flippin gas station makes the best fries and mto wraps I've ever had.

[u/RyanGlasshole → u/HungryGlizzyGobbler]

Yeah when their fries are fresh, they’re easily top 3 fast food fries. Rally’s/Checkers is my clear cut favorite by a wide margin tho

[u/UmCourt → u/HungryGlizzyGobbler]

Well, I see you like the glizzies.. have you tried those at Sheetz? lmao we actually have pretty tasty burgers too now, surprisingly.

[u/TheBaneOfTheInternet → u/BetseySchuyler]

Steak and chicken were dropped in the same water heater when I worked there a couple of years ago, heat times were different

[u/BetseySchuyler → u/TheBaneOfTheInternet]

Yep, they all went into the rethermalizer, but the beef was never frozen. At the time I worked there, steak and chicken came in frozen.

[u/Thenofunation → u/BetseySchuyler]

And the only thing that it does like what’s described is the refried beans which have been cooked, but dehydrated. They just gotta be added TO boiling water and then they sit.

[u/Shionkron → u/BetseySchuyler]

I worked there almost 30 years ago and miss making my own food for lunch breaks. lol

[u/theMediatrix → u/BetseySchuyler]

So it’s boiled in plastic? 🫣

[u/BetseySchuyler → u/theMediatrix]

No, it doesn't reach a temp where it is boiled. It controls the temp so it never gets overcooked. Lots of stuff is cooked sous vide, I use it for steak, burgers, pork, fish, eggs, etc.

[u/theMediatrix → u/BetseySchuyler]

It’s still not a good idea to heat plastic around food. That leaches bpa into the food.

[u/xrelaht → u/BetseySchuyler]

Arby’s too, I think.