There are places where using convenience products in cooking makes complete sense. In university and workplace cafeterias it makes quickly cooking a large number of low-cost meals easier. At home sometimes the microwave meal or the all-in-one discount ramen can be the only long-lasting staple you have left after not having gone grocery shopping for a while, or because you've been sick for a few days. In fast-food restaurants convenience is arguably the whole product, with as few steps as possible in-between, often completely dismissing how happy customers are with the quality of the food. It starts getting less reasonable in the case of a proper restaurant around the corner. We go there for a nice dinner in our free time, and we expect food that has been cooked without using convenience products. We expect chefs who have been properly trained and know how to create the offered dishes from scratch and take some pride in doing that. Often these places also offer smaller products like…
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