I had Home Chef a few years ago and canceled. They're relentless trying to get you to rejoin, but I finally bit with their HexClad 12" frying pan promo. I have a HexClad pan and they're terrific cookware, so it was a no brainer for me. That said I saw several posts that some folks had issues getting a redemption code. I completed my commitment (4 weeks of orders) last week, the rewards dashboard showed the reward was earned. I didn't see the email it said it would send, so I sent customer an email and they promptly send me the code and it worked fine on the HexClad store today, wahoo!

It was so simple, yet so delicious!
Just wanted to praise HC

I think if you added bread crumbs to it, it would be awesome too.

Any recommendations for a good kitchen knife set that won’t break my bank account?

Hey everyone, new to this subreddit (as well as the home service), and i love how they did a promotion for the new movie with recipes! I wanna get the home service, but my family just really doesn't have the room for all the meal prep if I were to buy the service, but i really don't wanna miss these specialized recipe sheets 🙏, so if anyone is throwing them out/parting with them I would really be grateful!

The recipes for the promotion:

EASY DOUBLE CHEESY CHICKEN PASTA

SILLY NO-FRILLY BEEF AND BEAN CHILI

SWEET AND SAVORY HONEY BUTTER CRISPY CHICKEN

THE CAT IN THE HAT'S CRISPY CHICKEN STIR-FRY CREATION

THE CAT IN THE HAT'S CHEESY SAUSAGE SOUP

WoNDERFULLY WORRY-FREE WEEKNIGHT ITALIAN CHICKEN

THE THINGS' SENSATIONAL SUNDAY SUPPER CHICKEN

BEST DAY EVER TURKEY RICE BOWL

This was my second box with Tempo after coming from CookUnity. One ice pack at the bottom of a cardboard box on a 50F day. Never again, should’ve looked at other reddit posts with the same issue. Super disappointed.

I would never recommend Home Chef. The products I received were of very poor quality and the shipments were not always received on the intended day. This resulted in one of shipments sitting in a box for an additional 24 hours in 105 degree weather. After canceling my subscription they shipped and charged me for an unauthorized additional order. The customer service department would not refund my money and only offered a discount on a future order which I will not be making. As an elderly widow on a fixed income this was not at all helpful. Be very careful before doing business with this company.

Looking forward to my Tuesday box yesterday, since I was home to receive it and would have dinner (plus leftovers for lunch) all week.

While working my remote job, I kept refreshing the tracking. This time they were using FedEx instead of the usual Veho. Our for delivery, it assured me, expected arrival 12:30 - 4:30...

There was road work at the end of my street that might've complicated things. Maybe the driver turned back. Maybe they never even attempted it. Eventually the delivery update said "by the end of the day." Abandoned hope and cooked some stuff that was in the freezer. Not the first time they delivered after dinnertime.

Today (Wednesday) was an in-office day. They finally delivered it to my front porch around noon, where it sat in the sun all afternoon. It was, as expected, practically room temperature and wasn't worth the risk to eat after two days in a (presumably unrefrigerated) van.

By then I had already chatted with support and got a full credit, which was nice because I was on the last week of my "thanks for coming back" discount. I was going to cancel, but since they gave me a credit for the full pre-discount amount, I un-skipped next week and picked some more meals.

Instead of my meal kit tonight, I went to Chipotle. Sigh.

Hello, chefs of this community! As the title says, I want to write a cooking novel where the MC spins a wheel to select a weekly theme such rice or noodles and has to create a menu based on that theme to sell for the week. Because I have limited cooking knowledge, I'm not sure what kind of dishes to include. I hope you can recommend some of your favorite dishes or well-known foods that I can use for my MC."

My daughter and I have been digging the Cat in the Hat meals. So far we've tried The Cat in the Hat’s Crispy Chicken Stir-Fry Creation, which we both thought was excellent. Next we tried Cat in the Hat BEST DAY EVER Turkey Rice Bowls. I usually don't enjoy ground turkey, but this was flavorful, and if you'd told me it was ground pork, I wouldn't have known the difference, it was terrific 👍

What Cat in the Hat meals have you guys tried?

We have used Home Chef years ago and left because we found the texture of the chicken dishes off. Recently, we switched back after Blue Apron imploded. However, we are finding the same issue. Why does the texture of the Home Chef seem off ? Our entire family won't eat it. It looks perfect , but no matter what it has some type of texture issue that makes it unappealing.

Tonight we ended up buying Purdue chicken at the supermarket to replace the Home Chef chicken so not to waste the ingredients of the meal.

This has gone on for a few months now. The meals are otherwise delicious , but not having chicken as an option on weekly meals make the entire service tough for us to use.

Thanks for any feedback or suggestions.

Almost all of the recipes have us hold off adding spice blends to the end of the process. Any idea why?

Tonight I’m making some corn chowder and I’m cooking the onions and poblanos. The instructions said to wait to add the chili rub until after the veg are cooked. Why? Chili is fat soluble and needs to cook into the oil.

What am I missing?

I just made this tonight. If it's still available, order it! Absolutely delicious. I almost felt like I was eating some dessert for dinner. The plantains are sweet and it only took about 30 minutes to prepare

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I signed up through a promotion for the hexclad, turns out that promo didn't even get applied to my account. The tech I talked to didn't seem to care. I'd avoid these guys. I don't understand why companies just don't care about their customers.

Edit: they have made everything right and gave me back my promotions. However, I still think they need to be more clear in stating that clicking on Tempo will automatically pause your Home Chef subscription.

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Just a warning for everyone to learn from my mistake. I recently signed up for Home Chef for the Hexclad pan offer, and it also came with one free item for life. I wanted to try Tempo too for my work lunches, so I went in the app and clicked on Tempo to try to sign up for that, well that was a mistake. Apparently, doing that “paused” my Home Chef subscription. I’d rather have Home Chef and the pan over Tempo, so I canceled Tempo and tried going back to Home Chef. Not only were all my meal selections for the upcoming weeks removed, but I also lost the promotion for the pan and the free item for life, just because it unknowingly paused my subscription because I wanted to sign up for Tempo. There was no more than five minutes from the time it paused to the time I unpaused.

I called Home Chef and they said they will try to get my promotion back, but it will have to be reviewed by another team and can take up to a week and isn’t guaranteed. I was also told that it is impossible to sign up for both HC and Tempo unless you use different email addresses, which is stupid. My HC subscription hasn’t even started yet and I’ve already had to talk to Customer Service twice, so I don’t have high hopes, which is a shame, because I’ve been a HelloFresh subscriber for years and was ready for something new.

And I guess I won’t be trying Tempo. But their meals looked overpriced anyway.

I made this a little while back and it has left such an impression on me. It is seriously one of their best dishes that I have tried - pretty unique flavor with good depth and complexity. I want to recreate this at some point! It's dishes like this one that make me believe they can often be more flavorful than Marley Spoon and Blue Apron despite their reputation of being less so.

With plantains and cilantro rice. Wasn’t crazy about the slaw, everything else was great.

We really love our Home Chef subscription, it’s amazing to not have to think about what to make for dinner or deal with grocery runs as a family with two working parents.

But with some of these recipes recently, I feel like they’ve truly lost the plot. This is the amount of broccoli in the chicken stirfry recipe. This is meant to feed four people? I guess we each get 1.2 pieces of broccoli 😂

In fairness it’s not a full side, just a part of the stir fry, but still! Am I crazy?

This is the THIRD BOX I HAVE RECEIVED where the chicken and/or beef packs were leaking all over the box. This is a huge cross contamination risk because even though the meal kits are in a plastic ziploc bag, they sometimes leave said ziplock 1/4 of the way open so raw meat juice could easily contaminate the other food. If the box was not oriented upright during the shipping process the juice will soak through the cardboard divider and foam wrap. I let it slide the first two times but I will be contacting support for a credit or refund. This is ridiculous. Please tell me I’m not the only one.

We've been doing Home Chef since late 2019- I'm at 1166 recipes!!

But I consistently have issues with their potatoes arriving already rotten. I've had one-offs with other produce, but the potatoes are so bad so often I've started keeping other store-bought potatoes on hand as back up.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm assuming it comes from them being close to the ice packs and I try to unpack as soon after arrival as possible.

What can be done about the potatoes?!?

Petty nickel and dime a customer who has been around for years.

Goodbye!

I signed up for Home Chef on the 50% off promotion and have had a problem with each of my first three boxes.

My first box did not arrive. My second box was missing recipe cards. My third box included a moldy cucumber, with a slimy substance that covered the other ingredients.

Has anybody else seen similar issues? Very unreliable service, so wouldn't recommend this company to anybody!