Do you usually eat at home or in restaurants? Which one do you prefer; home cooking
or restaurant cooking? It is true about the nature of human that we enjoy having the best of
everything. Some people are interested to eat in restaurants, others prefer eating at home. In
fact, home cooking is very different from restaurant cooking in many aspects.
First of all, we can say that home cooking is cheaper than restaurant cooking. In on
hand there are several facts that increase the price of dishes in restaurants, such as; hiring
cooks and waiters to do the service as well as paying a high charge for the rental. Additionally,
restaurant owners spend a large amount of money on decoration of their restaurants. On the
other hand, home cooking doesn’t require chiefs and servers to prepare the meal, instead you
do the cooking yourself. Also, at home we all have perfect social atmosphere and neatly
decorated environment free of charge. Moreover, items are bought in large quantities for
home cooking and stored in the fridge for daily use making our dishes considerably cheaper.
Another aspect of difference between restaurant cooking and home cooking is the
quality of dishes. Restaurants don’t add all the necessary ingredients to make delicious foods
because variety of ingredients increases the price of meals. Besides this, the competition in the
market forces restaurants to produce less quality dishes with lower prices. Customers say that
restaurant meals have the same taste and quality everyday because in the recipe, general
opinions of consumers are considered not individuals. However, at home you can cook your
own favorite meal as well as having independence to make it more or less spicy. Not only that
there are lots of high quality home cooking which are not available in restaurants, but also, the
Qabulipalaw in a restaurant isn’t as delicious as a home cooked Qbulipalaw.
Last but not least, restaurant cooking is not as healthy as home cooking. The first reason
is using the same dishes to serve different customers without washing them fully because
restaurants tend to serve more hungry customers in less time. Moreover, messiness and
impurity of the kitchen in restaurants make the foods unhealthier. My own observation of some
restaurant kitchens is that they are very small. Since restaurants try to cook for huge number
of people, they use large amount of ingredients which is hard to be washed fully resulting in
unhygienic meals. Conversely, home cooking gives the chance to watch carefully to the cooking
ingredients and clean them. As a further matter, dishes are always clean and washed perfectly.
Lastly, at home cooking it is possible to add or forbid any specific ingredient to your meal
considering your diet.
As you can see, home meals are not at all like restaurant dishes in several features.
Restaurants keep on charging you with higher and higher prices everyday while home cooking is
very friendly with your economy. Additionally, home cooking provides delicious, tasty, and
hygienic foods while restaurants can’t consider individual’s favorite interest and diet. In my
opinion, it is always an advantage to cook and prepare your favorite food at home rather than
purchasing through restaurants.
-Abdulhay Zafary, 24 Nov, 2014