To wonder why anyone would get a takeaway roast?

[NewAgeWiccan]

I get supporting local pubs, but I just don't understand why anyone would get a takeaway roast?

Pubs are charging £15 for a one course Sunday roast (every week, not just Easter). Which isn't exactly cheap. I would have thought this would be pretty grim once you get it home, and a home cooked roast is far superior.

[Barmychick]

supporting local business. Also disabled & very arthritic. ours charges £6.50 pp iveve paid more for all the ingredients! stop judging pls

[Bodynegative]

Because if, like me, you live on your own are disabled, are near a good butcher who sells a delicious home made roast for £7 it makes perfect sense. I can cook and make an excellent Sunday roast, but it's painful and I wouldn't go to all the hassle for just myself.
I wouldn't pay £15 though.

[numberoneson]

Because like me, they don't possess a cooker, just a microwave?

[lboogy]

I agree op. A roast is such an easy dish. I'd never pay for a pasta dish either. Basically I never pay for food I can cook myself without having to buy complex ingredients

[HeyManIJustWantSomeMuesli]

As a general rule pub/restaurant roasts are pretty rubbish but I sometimes do because:

• I'm the only one in the house who'll eat a roast but it's my favourite
  
• The pub I get it from is two doors down and also has their full normal menu on a Sunday (so rest of the family have a non-roast takeaway)
  
• The (very local) pub is the only place 'out' I'd choose to eat a roast in normal times as it is always like a homemade Christmas dinner and even as a takeaway is as hot and fresh as if I'd walked it from my own kitchen

[speakout]

Is a roast an easy dish ?

Not in my world.
lboogy I would love to hear of your easy roast.
What do you make? How does that work?

[Bluntness100]

@lboogy

I agree op. A roast is such an easy dish. I'd never pay for a pasta dish either. Basically I never pay for food I can cook myself without having to buy complex ingredients

Really? I will happily pay someone to make me something when I can’t be arsed cooking. 😂

Doesn’t matter if it’s a curry, a bacon roll, a pizza or a roast dinner. And making a roast with all the trimmings might be easy but it’s a ball ache and takes time and sometimes it’s nice to have it served up with no washing up after.

I also pay someone to clean my house, and I could do that myself if I really wanted, ans plenty of others things. Like taking a taxi when I could drive,,,

[Cait73]

I live on my own (with my 2 yo gs) it's a nice treat to have a dinner delivered that I haven't had to spend hours cooking while entertaining toddler single handedly

[caringcarer]

If you live alone if you made a roast you would have to eat it for a week or make miniature portions. Imagine making 1 Yorkshire pudding. If you.livr alone it makes far.more sencr to buy a takeaway of you can get one. For a family of 5 or 6 makes more sense to.cook a home made roast.

[GuildfordGal]

A roast is such an easy dish. I'd never pay for a pasta dish either

It is easy, but I find so dull to make. There's so little to love in the various cooking processes...steaming, roasting etc. is the kind of cooking that I just find boring. I do it occasionally, but I'm not crazy about traditional roast dinners anyway. Once or twice a year is about enough for me

I also wouldn't often pay for a pasta dish either, but an Italian restaurant nearby does an exquisite butternut squash ravioli with sage and chestnuts. It's doable at home, but they probably use about 49 times the amount of butter I'd let myself put in the sauce, and their olive oil and Parmesan cheese are both wonderful.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

@drpet49

* I would have thought this would be pretty grim once you get it home*

^I agree. You would have to reheat most of it. No thanks.

Ours came in foil containers

So just like a Chinese takeaway tbh

[AlrightTreacle]

One of our friends orders one pretty much every Sunday. He has his daughter at weekends and most Sundays they go for a long bike ride and pick up the roast on their way home. It's supporting a local business and is healthier than most take aways. It's more like £7/10 around here though, £15 seems very steep unless it's for 2 or 3 courses.

[M2B19]

I’ve had a few takeaway Sunday lunches. They transport and reheat just fine and we’ve had some really good ones. For me it means I can enjoy a Sunday lunch without having to do it myself as DH is a terrible cook. I wouldn’t pay £15 though.

[PembrokeshireDreaming]

I think a takeaway roast can be great for someone living alone, my great aunt has a roast delivered every Sunday and it lasts her for two meals! I would never order a takeaway roast............ I'm a good cook and a roast dinner is an easy option for me.
My brother is a chef and served up 132 takeaway roasts today............he doesn't understand how a family can afford to spend £60 plus every week for a roast dinner they still have to wash up after! He does make a good roast though !!!

[Leontine]

I got one for the first time the other week and don’t think I’ll be bothering again. I find that roast dinners are very individual things and if it’s not cooked exactly to my liking then I’m not really into them.

[MarchingOnTogether]

£15!! Get 2 for that price where where live. I've never ordered for myself but my sister bought me and my OH one as a treat for my birthday a few weeks back and it was actually really lovely!
I cook roast dinners quite regularly and do enjoy cooking but it was lovely just to have dinner on a plate with no effort or mess.
I did order one once for a friend, she was really poorly with covid & she had barely eaten for over a week! When her appetite started to.come back I had one delivered to her house, she was still too exhausted to cook and was surviving on meals friends and family were popping round and snack food/micro meals so it was a nice way to give her a little treat.

[LynetteScavo]

@Beyondridiculous The ones round here are soggy; I spend far too much time on our local Facebook takeaway group not to know that! Which is fine, if that's your thing and not as fussy as me

[GreenSlide]

@RosesAndHellebores

Tips in case anyone fancies making one - we have a roast every Sunday - always in the evening at about 7pm. Today, Easter Sunday we are having lamb. Just a half leg as there are only 4 of us.

At 5pm, I'll put the oven on and peel the potatoes, enough to make 3 pieces each. While they are boiling I put a glug of rapeseed oil in a small baking tray and pop into the oven.

As spuds boil I put the lamb into a small roasting tray and shove a few slices of garlic and rosemary sprigs into little slits. And bung a quartered small onion in with it.

Once potatoes have been bubbling for 2 minutes I strain the water into another saucepan - give the potatoes a juggle round the dry pan to fluff the edges and tip them into the sizzling oil - turning to makensure every bit is covered in oil.

Lamb and potatoes go into the oven together for about 90 minutes.

Bring the spud water back to the boil and pop in a sliced sweetheart cabbage and boil until cooked. Strain, reserving the water. Pop cabbage in one side of a serving dish.

While cabbage boils slice two leeks and wash well in cold water making sure there is no grit. Pop leeks into the reserved cabbage water.

In the second pan you have been using melt a slice of butter, about 1/4 inch and add a tablespoon of flour and stir in well. Add about 1/2 pint of milk, teaspoon of chopped lazy garlic and gently simmer, and season. Pour sauce into a serving dish and rinse pan at sink. Strain leek into pan, reserving the water. Add leeks to sauce and set aside.

Bung sugar snaps in reserved water and boil. Strain, again reserving the water. Add snaps to serving dish with cabbage.

Put anybdirtie in dishwasher. Get out carving tray, meat platter, and 4 plates.

(You will only have used two saucepans and the reserved water for the gravy is now full of goodness from the veg)

Set table (don't forget the mint sauce) and have a sit down with a glass of wine for 45 minutes.

At 6.45 tootle back into kitchen and take out meat. Leave spuds in but turn them and turn down the oven and put in plates, and meat platter.

Drain fat from roasting tin leaving just a bit and the meaty juices and the roasted onion - pop on the gas and add a desert spoon of flour. Call husband to carve. Add reserved juices to roasting tin, stirring all the time. Depending on flavour add a lamb stockpot and of course a glug of wine. Pour hot water into gravy boat. Pop 1st bowl of veg in microwave on high for 2 mins.

DH carries through meat platter and plates. Gravy simmers gently.

Veg goes through and leeks go in microwave. Strain gravy into jug squishing the juicy goodness out of the onion. Pour into gravy boat and take gravy and leeks through. Quickly tip spudsbinto warm dish and take through.

DH pours wine, everyone tucks in, kitchen is spotless at this stage.

Grown up children load dishwasher. Wipe down table mats and table. Drink more wine.

The caveat of course is that I enjoy it and find the sauce and gravy making quite soothing.

Didn't know Jamie Oliver was on mumsnet.

[therocinante]

1. The one from the restaurant round the corner is the best roast I've ever eaten except my mum's and she won't make me a roast and drive it 100 miles when I fancy one (rude). Gorgeous gravy, perfect roasties, 10/10 yorkshires.

2. It's £9.95 each, which for food that's cooked and delivered to your door, is a bargain.

3. No washing up. Or cooking. Which is the POINT of a Sunday - relaxation.

4. There's 2 of us, and if we cook it ourselves we end up eating cold roast potatoes and beef for lunch for the next six years because we're unable to scale our cooking down.


...fair enough if you like cooking and have a dishwasher or whatever. But I don't, we don't, and the place near us does such a good roast (delivered piping hot) that I don't see why I should bother.

[CrankyFrankie]

I’m a veggie so it was a nice treat to order a veggie roast on Mother’s Day and let the boys go wild with a bit of meat for a change. It was absolutely bangin’ too!

[avamiah]

I’ve just recently seen 2 posts on Instagram were people have had roasts delivered and they look amazing from 2 different companies .
I’m in London so they just deliver local.
They are very reasonably priced and I’m actually considering ordering from them .

[RiojaRose]

Having just finished the last of the washing up from today’s roast I can see the appeal. But I actually enjoy cooking a roast: I don’t find it particularly easy because getting the timings right for all the different bits is a challenge. I don’t have a microwave so can’t do the vegetables in advance and then reheat. Also my children (teens and young adults) are potato fiends so I need to start by peeling 2.5 kg of King Edwards. I don’t think I want a whole take away roast, but a few kg of take away peeled raw potatoes would be very welcome.

[GuildfordGal]

...fair enough if you like cooking and have a dishwasher or whatever

Actually, this resonates with me. If I didn't have a dishwasher, I would probably live on noodles and salad. My love of cooking is huge, but my loathing of piles of washing up might be a shade bigger

[LynetteScavo]

I guess I'm lucky to have a dishwasher and have been cooking risst diners for 30 years, so the things aren't something I have to think about. I'm now feeling a bit sorry for some of you on Christmas Day struggling to cook a roast dinner. Or maybe you just visit someone who cooks well.

I'd be in a rage if o ordered a roast and it didn't come with crispy parsnips. Having said that I do sometimes cheat and get mine from from a packet

[Bluntness100]

@LynetteScavo

I guess I'm lucky to have a dishwasher and have been cooking risst diners for 30 years, so the things aren't something I have to think about. I'm now feeling a bit sorry for some of you on Christmas Day struggling to cook a roast dinner. Or maybe you just visit someone who cooks well.

I'd be in a rage if o ordered a roast and it didn't come with crispy parsnips. Having said that I do sometimes cheat and get mine from from a packet

I think most people have a dishwasher now. We all know all the roasting tins and pots don’t go in any dish a washer with all the plates, unles you’re cooking with tiny things or washing in stages..And I don’t think anyone is struggling, no need for you to pity people. 😂