re: Blue Apron...only issue is we had to dirty a ton of dishes to make the meal

Here's the thing about BA: the dishes are extremely elaborate so you dirty a lot of dishes, and they use a lot of weird ingredients you would never buy, so you really can't recreate most recipes.

The upside is you learn a lot, and the dishes come out absolutely delicious, much more so than most services.

Plated, for instance, the dishes are much simpler. It's pretty basic stuff which is both good and bad.