Takeaway Night for Four, Cooked at Home

This is the whole Friday order, made at home, with a timing plan so that everything arrives hot at the same time - which is the part people find harder than any individual recipe.

The night before, or that morning:

• Make the ShackSauce and the ranch. Both need to rest.
• Dust the wings with baking powder and leave them uncovered on a rack in the fridge. This is the single biggest factor in how crisp they get.
• Make the Frosty base and get it into the freezer.

Two hours before: cut the chips and give them their first fry at 150 °C. They then sit on a rack for as long as you like - which is what makes this timing plan work at all.

Forty-five minutes before: wings into the oven.

Fifteen minutes before: second-fry the chips at 190 °C, toss in Cajun seasoning.

Last five minutes: smash the burgers. They take ninety seconds a side and they are the only thing here that genuinely cannot wait.

Total cost for four, at UK supermarket own-brand prices for the quantity used: about £11. The equivalent delivered order, with the app mark-up, delivery and service fee applied as in what delivery apps actually add: around £55.