How often do you experiment cooking new cuisines?

Question

My wife and I are in the early stages of starting a fresh Indian meal kit delivery service (http://rasoibox.com/). Our observation has been that people would like to cook Indian food but it can be too overwhelming to get started.With that in mind, I wanted to ask the HN community:- How often do you like to experiment in the kitchen by trying to cook new cuisines?- What hurdles, if any, do you face in these experiments?As data-driven engineers, our current hypothesis is that a good combination of pre-portioned ingredients and simple to follow instructions could lower the barrier to cooking for more young, urban professionals who are health conscious and have culinary curiosity (i.e. me when I was 25 y/o).

MilnerRoute · Accepted Answer

We tried a few meal-prep services. It's not really a question of "how often" we try new meal prep services, so much as it is just when the opportunity arises. (Like a good offer on a flier, or a friend trying to collect on those refer-a-friend offers...)I think you end up holding out for alternatives that are easy, cheap, tasty, and healthy -- and that's where the deal breakers (or "hurdles") tend to come. Time-consuming or tricky to prepare; expensive; tastes weird; too much fat/sugar/salt or too many bad carbs...