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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
by 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 agoRest 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 agoAgain, 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