Cooking provides lots of tasks that sound boring (and are easily handled by food processors, etc.), but are still very grounding to do my hand and focus on 100%

Cooking provides lots of tasks that sound boring (and are easily handled by food processors, etc.), but are still very grounding to do my hand and focus on 100%. I really enjoy making bread. Kneading dough feels very real after hours of debugging bad Algol code. Also: You forgot to mention garlic!