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I love to cook, make my own stock, roast my own chicken, etc. But articles like this always rub me the wrong way. I imagine the all the articles I don't read

I love to cook, make my own stock, roast my own chicken, etc. But articles like this always rub me the wrong way. I imagine the all the articles I don't read that are about me: America: Too Stupid To Change Its Own Oil America: Too Dumb To Paint A Room There's only so many hours in a day, and we all have different priorities. A rotisserie chicken is nice for people who don't work from home, don't want to eat at 9pm, and don't want to pick up KFC. Get over yourself.

tptacek 17y ago
End of the article (read all of it): yeah sometimes cooking is a pain in the ass, last night I got Chipotle for the kids so I could play an extra game of pool. The title is sarcastic. It's making fun of the notion that America would think it is too stupid to stick a chicken in the oven for an hour and then put it on a platter.
- jdminhbg 17y ago
  Yeah, I got there. The problem with his premise that lots of cooking is just as simple as the "convenience" option is that it assumes away the time involved in obtaining the knowledge of how to roast a chicken or bake a cake.
  - tptacek 17y ago
    Rest of the end of the article (read all of it): turn oven to 450, salt chicken, stick lemon in hole (note: optional), put chicken in oven, wait one hour, rest off heat 15 minutes. How long did that take you to read? That's the amount of time he assumed away. (You don't really have to make yourself a drink or go have sex during the hour the chicken is roasting. The chicken will taste better if you are slightly buzzed and freshly laid, but it will still taste pretty good if you aren't.)
    - jdminhbg 17y ago
      Again, I read it. Again, I am the sort of person who would read an article about how to roast a chicken. Time spent reading his roast chicken recipe: 10 seconds Time spent reading cookbooks/articles/magazines/blogs so that I knew that roasting a chicken is easy and good and so that I knew that Ruhlman's blog or book might be a good place to find out how to do it: 8 years Like the apocryphal story about the itemized index: http://www.ruqus.com/the-red-x http://www.ruqus.com/the-red-x

tptacek 17y ago

End of the article (read all of it): yeah sometimes cooking is a pain in the ass, last night I got Chipotle for the kids so I could play an extra game of pool. The title is sarcastic. It's making fun of the notion that America would think it is too stupid to stick a chicken in the oven for an hour and then put it on a platter.

jdminhbg 17y ago
Yeah, I got there. The problem with his premise that lots of cooking is just as simple as the "convenience" option is that it assumes away the time involved in obtaining the knowledge of how to roast a chicken or bake a cake.
- tptacek 17y ago
  Rest of the end of the article (read all of it): turn oven to 450, salt chicken, stick lemon in hole (note: optional), put chicken in oven, wait one hour, rest off heat 15 minutes. How long did that take you to read? That's the amount of time he assumed away. (You don't really have to make yourself a drink or go have sex during the hour the chicken is roasting. The chicken will taste better if you are slightly buzzed and freshly laid, but it will still taste pretty good if you aren't.)
  - jdminhbg 17y ago
    Again, I read it. Again, I am the sort of person who would read an article about how to roast a chicken. Time spent reading his roast chicken recipe: 10 seconds Time spent reading cookbooks/articles/magazines/blogs so that I knew that roasting a chicken is easy and good and so that I knew that Ruhlman's blog or book might be a good place to find out how to do it: 8 years Like the apocryphal story about the itemized index: http://www.ruqus.com/the-red-x http://www.ruqus.com/the-red-x