Mind blowing churro place in Chacarita

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    Yesterday I was out and about with my husband and we came across Churrería Olleros (Olleros 4169, just next the the Chacarita cemetery). I am not a big fan on churros and they are usually so hard to digest because they are not fried correctly. However the churros from this place are something heavenly. They make classic, filled with dulce de leche, filled with DDL and covered in chocolate, and filled with crema pastelera, which I had never seen and were my faves.

    They also make bolas de frailes, pastelitos, torta frita and donuts (though I didn't see them when I was there).

    Apparently this place is quite famous among the insiders. It was pretty regular from the outside. The price is also cheap compared to panaderías where they usually sell stale churros. There is no seating, it is take away only.

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    A lady selling them out of a wicker basket in my area, has them for 1500 pesos each. For me, a bit too much considering it is not even an establishment.

    The missus has always warned me not to choose them whenever we've been in a bakers. She says they're always cooked in fat that's been lying about and used for days and days The very few that I have bought seems to prove her right. She has made them herself on the very odd occasion and still has the implement but it's so much faff the end result isn't worth all the hassle.

    Quote from UK Man

    The missus has always warned me not to choose them whenever we've been in a bakers. She says they're always cooked in fat that's been lying about and used for days and days

    It could very well be. Overall, Argentina's food is about quantity and heaviness, not about quality or delicacy of taste.

    My mother is shocked at the amount of food I am eating during this visit. She keeps asking if there is any food in Argentina. Yes, there is, but awful quality and the good stuff is prohibitively expensive (I am thinking about vegetables preserved in oil, such as grilled zucchini, eggplants, mushrooms, artichoke etc.). While here they just cost 3-4 USD and they are good quality.

    A good quality marmalade in a dietética is cose to 8 USD, whereas in Europe you can find comparable or better quality for less than half at every supermarket. This, and let alone the variety of brands and food available at an arm's length. It doesn't take much effort to eat quality stuff in Italy, but in Buenos Aires it would mean to grab the car and go to fancy small stores scattered across the city. It is not sustainable, both in term of time and money.

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    A good quality marmalade in a dietética is cose to 8 USD, whereas in Europe you can find comparable or better quality for less than half at every supermarket.

    I've made 9 jars of marmalade so far in the last few weeks and the cost works out at 500 pesos a jar. Said it many times before but the retail industry here is a joke. It's obviously well protected in various ways or half of it wouldn't exist.

    Here on every block people turn their garage or front room into a shop selling stuff. There's obviously some sort of fiddle going on.

    When people make their own, it's usually because the chief ingredient, the fruit, is free (already growing in their yard or on the estancia). Labor is free, and there are no industrial costs. So the sugar is the main expense. Not really fair to compare to the cost of commercially prepared marmalade, which has to figure in the cost of the fruit, labor, machinery, transport, etc.

    Always best to make at home if you can. I'll bet yours is delicious, UK Man .