Protein Plus options are quite wide, comprising about half of Factor menu elements overall. Meals are mainly remaining Americans and garlic Americans, garlic herbs, barbecue wings, a red pepper frittata for breakfast. Jamaican salmon Jerk and a chicken with Thai yellow curry were among the most peripatetic options I tried, but even these feel domesticated and accessible. (I actually liked the jerk salmon much more than what I expected.)
Most dishes, however, are classic square meals: meat, starch, a vegetable that is probably green. It’s almost healthy, Midwest’s mom’s food. Heck, Factor – Founded and based in Illinois – even has a sense of improvised adventure of a midwesterner: an “unlit pepper” is essentially rice and meat and tomato sauce that you would be hot in a pepper, but delivered in the form of a meat dumpling due to pieces of pepper impregnated with rice. He looked sloppy, and he had a taste of pure distilled comfort. If you hate what is essentially a pepper meatball stew, I don’t know you.
Photography: Matthew Korfhage
Over the years, the factor was perhaps too compatible on fleas and hatches to fill meals, but they only made a few appearances, including a chest puree made a little tasty with leeks, served as a falsifying side for a very pleasant slab of cute net which arrived average, and warmed up more good.
The proteins, uniformly, are tender and relatively juicy, whether chicken or shrimp or beef. Warm vegetables are always difficult to manage in terms of texture, and it was true here too. In general, Factor vegetables were likely to be a little soggy if you were pushing them – and much better if you put them in an air fryer or a convection oven. In addition, head to meals with brown and wild rice on white or “risotto”.
Long -term
Photography: Matthew Korfhage
I would always like the fresh cooked foods better than meals that have been prepared and reheated from a box: the brightness of a fresh tomato, the touch of a pea, the lively crisp of a just carrot, are impossible to reproduce in the food made yesterday or last week. But proteins and stews behaved pretty well in particular, and therefore the more protein options were equivalent to my best experience with Factor. It was also among my favorite prepared meal services overall. (See also Wired Guide on the best delivery meal kits.)
