Hello fresh reviews how to#

Hello Fresh: the resultsĪll three meals – the paella/chicken rice, the Thai curry and the sausage casserole thing – were a cinch to make and very nice.

Hello fresh reviews how to#

However, if you follow Hello Fresh's instructions to the letter, beginners and experts alike will end up with something palatable, in between 20 minutes and an hour – I'm assuming complete beginners will consistently lag behind the 30-45 minutes Hello Fresh claims at first, as they learn how to half-moon onions and turn on their hob.

If you're an at least somewhat experienced chef, you might find yourself thinking, 'Well, I wouldn't do it like that' about certain instructions, and obviously you will know that paella isn't meant to be made with arborio rice. If you have a bit of experience of cooking, you can definitely definitely cook with Hello Fresh. In my opinion, pretty much anyone can cook with Hello Fresh, so long as they can chop a few onions (into half-moon shapes, remember) without amputating fingers. I deliberately stuck precisely to what was written down – resisting the urge to go off piste, particularly with flavourings, was pretty hard – so I could reach an at least reasonably fair conclusion on ease and taste. I count myself as a pretty good cook, so I wouldn't say I picked up anything new as such, but I still appreciated how concise the recipes were. Anyone who already knows the rudiments will pick up a few new tricks. Anyone who is literally clueless about cooking will soon pick up the rudiments from Hello Freshing it for a few weeks. Although a paella (sorry, 'chicken rice'), Thai curry and vaguely French-tasting sausage casserole would naturally tend to taste very different, they largely seem to start with chopping onions (into 'half moon shapes') and garlic, and heating a pan or two, then cooking your 'main ingredient', then adding the supplementals.īecause of the cleverly consistent way Hello Fresh breaks this down into recipes with broadly similar preparation times, its service also acts as a kind of cooking school. Instead, you order one or more at a time from a list that changes weekly.Īlthough the dishes on offer are diverse, Hello Fresh has managed to break down the recipes so the working method rapidly starts to feel familiar after cooking a few. Hello Fresh review: cooking up a stormĪlthough there are numerous dishes on offer at Hello Fresh, you can't access all of them at once. To my mind, packaging waste is not ideal but wasting food is outright obscene, so I'm all for this approach.Īs this is not a ready meal, although it does share some of the convenience of ready meals, you will also need to provide your own knives, utensils and cooking equipment and do some actual work. It's also worth noting that Hello Fresh's careful portion control should mean that food waste is practically zero, assuming you eat the meals. And while the individual sachets and packets and bottles may be large in number, the total amount of food packaging seems pretty small in the great scheme of things. However they are made from recycled PET, so Hello Fresh is at least trying here. Putting that kind of nit-picking aside for a moment, it was nonetheless very tasty.Ĭlearly, there is a certain amount of packaging waste involved, as the little plastic containers can't be recycled and nor can the ice packs. I think that might be because enraged foodies and Spaniards bombarded Hello Fresh with sarcastic tweets about the authenticity of their take on the dish. One quite funny thing about this is that the paella is now sold as just 'chicken and chorizo rice'.

Split into individual bags and swaddled in icepacks made from recycled plastic, the meals were chicken paella, a kind of sausage casserole thing and a Thai curry. I must admit my first thought on seeing that rather large box was, 'Holy crap, are these Hello Fresh portion sizes generous or what?' However on closer investigation, there turned out to be three Hello Fresh Classic meals for two in there. Vegans are not directly catered for.įamily and Classic recipes tend to take about 30-45 minutes, whereas Rapid aims to get you done and dusted in just 20. On the Classic box you can choose vegetarian options. Normal people such as you will be paying between £3.50 and £5.42 per meal, depending on whether you go for a cheaper 'Family box' or the standard 'Classic' or 'Rapid' boxes. No that isn't how big a Hello Fresh meal is there are three in that boxįirst up, I did not pay for this Hello Fresh just sent it to me for review purposes.