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Meh. People aren't afraid to cook. There's a whole industry centered around convincing people that cooking is easy and fun. Many people just aren't intereste
by Semiapies 17y ago
Meh. People aren't afraid to cook. There's a whole industry centered around convincing people that cooking is easy and fun.
Many people just aren't interested in cooking, out of laziness, busyness, and/or simple disinterest. I like cooking now and then, but some people don't find it enjoyable to do, and that's no crime.
- tptacek 17y agoDid you read his post closely? On closer examination, the whole industry seems to be centered around convincing people that there are thousands of modern shortcuts people can take to get complicated-sounding recipes executed in less than 30 minutes. The industry is simultaneously complicating cooking and dumbing down cooks.
- Semiapies 17y agoYes, and in many cases he's simply wrong. There are scads of cookbooks, cooking segments, and cooking shows with a "this may sound hard, but it really isn't" approach. The only thing "lacking" in their approach is the patronizing attitude of the roasted chicken recipe.
- makmanalp 17y agoAs a sidenote, his book "Ratio" he mentions is exactly the opposite and has a nice methodological way of explaining cooking which gives a lot of insight into how everything works as opposed to blindly following recipes. Great for engineers and tinkerers.