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Yeah, I can certainly appreciate the environmental and cost savings, but this would make me miserable. I could get myself the make the trip for ice cream, but t
by Falling3 6y ago
Yeah, I can certainly appreciate the environmental and cost savings, but this would make me miserable. I could get myself the make the trip for ice cream, but the multiple runs back to the fridge while preparing food has me agitated just thinking about it.
- em-bee 6y agoyou'll learn to plan your meals better. take everything out that you need before you start...
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- mjmj 6y agoThis is almost comedy for those with kids.
- em-bee 6y agoi have 3 kids. efficient meal preparation is quite important when your kids are hungry
- jjulius 6y ago"Refrigerate X while cooking Y, then remove X from fridge as Y begins to [something]," and variants of that phrase are common scenarios in recipes. Your point is only valid for a portion of recipes, not all. Let's also take into account how many ingredients you may need from the fridge when you plan ahead. Certain meals may require multiple trips to/from the basement (however far away that may be) depending on how many - and the size of - ingredients involved. Also, what mjmj said, re:kids.
- Xylakant 6y agoVery few recipes involve taking stuff from the freezer repeatedly however, most things will need to thaw in advance. Making ice cream in a freezer in the basement would suck, however. Not having the fridge readily available in the kitchen would suck, though, so that only works if you have a dedicated freezer.
- geofft 6y agoThere have already been two replies pointing out why this is a bad idea, but, why is this a good idea? Why is learning to plan your meals better (for... some definition of that term, which doesn't appear to be the usual one) worthwhile?
- jjulius 6y agoI cook often and, to OP's point, cooking can go a lot smoother if I spend a few extra minutes up front gathering all of my ingredients and prepping my workstation/workflow. That said, I also recognize that there are practical reasons for not always including every single item during said prep and making a few trips to the fridge during the cook.
- em-bee 6y agothank you. exactly that.
- Markoff 6y agoYou know people have limited capacity of hands and not everyone is cooking just for 1-2 people, right? While this may be OK for single or couple without children, it's hard to imagine it for family with 4+ members.
- em-bee 6y agoexactly because of kids i am more frequently distracted, and for example just today i forgot one (optional) ingredient because i didn't collect all the ingredients at the start.