2 hours of cooking for a 10 minute meal sounds like a skill issue.
My last dinner was 12hrs of cooking for a 10min meal. I love slow cooker beef and veggies stew
Yeah that’s like first time making a recipe. Third time around, the kitchen should be doing most of the work for you. You can just casually prep and blend while listening to a podcast.
Make it so it last 3 days. Not really a big deal.
I feel like the post is more about the moment of, not the days after. Making several days worth of food doesn’t delay the need to do dishes once you’re done eating tonight’s dinner.
No but having one plate, one reusable box, one fork, one knife and one wine glass to wash is a lot less than all the things I use for cooking.
Knives, spoons, blender, pans, pots, containers, and most annoyingly, the cutting board. Because you want to take care of that nice wooden cuttingboard and make sure it’s clean and dry.
I think you over estimate people’s ability to cook these days.
Like they’re going to eat left-overs…
I might get away with white rice that I can make fried rice out of the next day
Kinda like life. The journey is actually the goal
My solution is just to act like I’m cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.
Yep I batch cook too, I make 4 portions then eat 2 and freeze 2. Eating over 2 days obvs
Yup, I’m doing the same. Cooking 4 portions, then eating them all while crying
I cook four portions, my husband has a portion, I have one too, my son then eats two portions and says he’s still hungry.
You can’t meal prep with pre-teens/teens in the house. This kid will eat leftover roast chicken for breakfast, like the whole damn thing.
I cry while grocery shopping and pray to saint peanut butter for help
looks like its another night of pbj sandwich. again.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
You forgot the 40+ hours of work a week just to afford the ingridients.
You forgot breathing in and out 24/7 to stay alive to get to your soul-sucking job.
Yep, you don’t cook.
Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.
Edit: “fictional” to “fictionalized”
I try.
Done
Get a dishwasher.
im a fast eater
Make less elaborate meals or learn to chop faster.
Lucky you! I’ve got a simple solution, only use single use plastic, then all you have to do is just put a big plastic bag over your table and when you’re done eating you just pick up the bag, close it all up and throw it away and that way you just leave the problem to your grandchildren and they’ll die from climate change.
I also add shredded PFAS to my tomatoes 🤌
climate change AND microplastics in their food
And that’s why my “necessary life skill” cooking lifehack is to just know that if you cook something big enough, it’ll last you enough portions for two or three days without that much extra cooking work. And you’ll only have to clean the cooking pot half (or one third) of the time.
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.
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?
Listen to podcasts, or watch something during cooking dude.
that’s how my podcast list came to be
Clean as you go and there is very little left to be done after the meal.
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?
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.
What? Cleaning as you cook is about cleaning the shit you use to cook as you make your food.
That just mostly means wiping shit down, stacking pots and pans as they’re used, and organizing before you start (mise en place is a huge help in this).
Great and I already wipe down some things. Genuine question, however, because maybe it will actually lead to a productive insight that can help me when cooking: How do you do as-you-go cleaning with the following things:
- Things that have touched raw meat
- Things with a bunch of fat
- Things that have caramelized sugar or starchy remnants stuck on them
Because, in each of these cases, all of which are common, I have to wash them with hot water and soap, and they require using something to wash them. These tools, such as sponges, pads and brushes, are universally filled with dishwater and germs that I don’t want in my food, and the process sends that dishwater spewing up like toilet spume. These are also time-consuming, and their washing is incompatible with most of the dishes I make, which require near-constant attention.
Whatever. Really, I just love how there is always someone willing to climb that hill and tell me how to cook. It takes no time to clean as you are cooking. If you can’t properly wash your hands that is on you but somehow I manage to cook my meals and the cleanup at the end is always brief.
