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Slow cooker is fren
Turns beef into beef flavored chicken, I love it.
Meal prep, and cooking stuff that doesn't need much involvement.
I eat 6 meals per day when I'm trying to gain weight, and it can be done with very little time spent cooking.
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Meals in countries that take food seriously last longer and are meant to be enjoyed with family and friends. Its just our shitty culture that causes this problem.
What do you mean by countries that take food seriously? I lived in a few different countries (never in the US) and can't really picture that
If food is viewed and enjoyed as an experience rather than a necessity as a culture, I think it leads to huge shifts in so many aspects of daily living.
I dont mean EVERY meal but getting together with neighbors, family, friends ect. is more common in places like Italy for example.
The US also has literal holidays centered around sharing a meal with friends or family. Thanksgiving turkey, 4th of July barbecue...
I'd wager the reason people eat in 10 minutes instead of an hour is the same as it is everywhere else: after an 8 hour workday, you feel like all you've got between work and sleep is a few hours and you don't want to waste it on something boring like eating.
That very American response speaks for itself.
I'm not American, I'm Estonian lmao, but I bet you're one of those Americans who wants to seem cultured so you talk about how much better things are in other countries? Am I wrong?
Edit: Nvm, Canadian - but up till like 2 months ago you guys were America Lite tbh
Estonia is Russia lite my bro. Or Poland lite. Take your pick I guess. Whoever owned your ass the most recently.
I wash as I cook. Usually you have moments when you're waiting anyway. Means I have serving dishes only afterwards.
Had to make it a habit though in order to force myself to do it. Took years to train the habit.
I wash as I go too, but there are still the after dinner dishes, and like the main pot/pan left over, the forks, the endless cups the just accumulate everywhere with having a whole family with adhd..
I tend to make everything by scratch, so I've only myself to blame (it's cheaper tho). Washing as you go helps, but it's not a full cure.
I posted cookies I made last night, and the only reason I didnt melt the butter with the lemon zest was to save pulling out and dirting my sauce pan I just cleaned from dinner.
I’m trying to not do that, because I always forget that I’ll need the things I’ve just washed again.
I do that, but the more complicated the meal, the less down time there is, and the more stuff there is you can't clean up until the end.
Also, if you use serving dishes, rather than just serve out of the pot / pan, that's another thing to clean. It's true that cleaning a pot or pan is normally a bit harder than a serving dish. But, IMO the extra bit to clean means it's not worth it.
It is a bit of a triumph when the only thing to clean after dinner is a single pot or pan though. And, pro-tip, you can make the pans easier to clean after dinner if you dump a bit of water in them as you're sitting down to eat. Even 30 minutes is enough to turn the remains of a delicious sauce into sludge at the bottom of the pan. But, soaking while you eat makes it super quick to scrape it out afterwards.
This is what I do, so nice to have just a few dishes at the end
Just spend 2 hours eating, easy
OK, tell me what in the world you are cooking that takes two hours. And putting something in the oven for an hour is not really any work, is it?
You underestimate how bad we can be at cooking. It takes me like an hour just to peal and chop up ingredients for even a simple dish like mashed potatoes or stir fry.
For real, folks need to watch more Jamie Oliver. Condense your pans and ingredient lists, make sauce for a few days, use parchment paper, etc
Spoken like someone who has never made soup.
Right, simmering something for an hour at low temperature is not an hour of work for you. Same principle applies as for the oven I mentioned.
Okay, someone who has never made soup stock and then soup with it before.
Also, make me a chowder that takes that little attention, or a bisque.
Clean as you go and there is very little left to be done after the meal.
There is a reason why the cooks and bussers are different people. Not everyone wants to get dishwater in their food from whatever tool they use to clean, nor do I have time while things are cooking and requiring near-constant attention to properly wash my hands 10 times as i go back and forth while cooking a single meal.
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Remember, you are dealing with people that never cook, and for some reason think they know what they're talking about.
And I suppose you have personal knowledge that they never cook, since they are constantly pulling your shitty food off the grocery shelves?
This is why i dont eat. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Jk kind of lol
And after all that cooking turns out you have leftovers for like 1 extra meal at best
Skill issue.
So true! I am trying to cook one pot or bake recipes, dump it all and forget about it. It is the only way not to go insane with 1000 pots and dishes to clean.
Avocado and canned tuna for the win baby.
This is why Huel.
This is what doordash is for
But then I have to work an extra 10 hours of my minimum wage job just to eat for 10 minutes. The ratio is even worse!
it's a skill. learning to live single after growing up in a family is a big change. i still remember paying a co-worker fifty bucks once to wash my dishes.
Imagine if you had to hunt for it.
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