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It takes 30 mins eh, the time it takes to go buy that crap

oblio 5y ago
You need to learn to cook and cook well (time), buy the raw ingredients (time), cook them (time), clean the kitchen utensils and the kitchen itself (time). Every person that cooks often that I've talked to grossly underestimates how much time their cooking takes them. The ones that are more efficient either have a ton of cooking experience and talent or just a great kitchen setup, which is a rare luxury and generally a large investment.
- hnbad 5y ago
  I'd say cooking a meal typically takes me about an hour if I include cleanup and preparation -- and that's while owning a dishwasher while not factoring in time spent on making meal plans and changing plans because an important ingredient isn't available or just time spent buying ingredients because not everything is available in one place.
nomorewords 5y ago
Unless you have been taught at a young age that cooking is something valuable, I've found out that a lot of adults run from it like hell. When covid hit, I expected people to start being reasonable with their budget (and health) and reckoned that food delivery services would have a rough time surviving. Turns out, people started ordering food for home a lot more, even though they now had the time as well as the incentive to save money due to the uncertainty.
- watwut 5y ago
  What additional time you are talking about? Between home school, work and more mess due to everyone being at home, it was a lot more time consuming to just exist. Add to it that you don't even make your 10000 steps a day like you normally would just by existing, if you want to keep little health you have to make more time for exercising too.
EliRivers 5y ago
And yet people don't. Are they so stupid and inept that they're physically incapable of this? Well, they can tie their shoelaces and go to work and carry out tasks at that job, so certainly not so stupid that they can't do this as well. So I guess there must be something else going on here. I guess the situation must somehow be less simple and obvious than you assume. Reality, it appears, just doesn't match your simplistic view of how the world should work.
sarlalian 5y ago
My partner and I cook almost 100% of our meals at home. I shop for groceries 1x a week, and it takes about 1 hour. Meal prep / cooking and cleaning varies a bit. We generally cook 1 roast chicken a week, and a pot roast in a slow cooker. Having pre-cooked proteins helps with meal prep time. We use a rice cooker often, and will usually toss some veggies in there with the rice to simplify things. That said, overall we probably spend 30-40 min a day on food prep, and another 10 min a day cleaning. When we cooked different meals every night, it was generally closer to 90 minutes a day on food prep / cleaning. Learning to cook takes time, learning to cook well takes more time, learning to cook efficiently and how to minimize time involved takes time.

You need to learn to cook and cook well (time), buy the raw ingredients (time), cook them (time), clean the kitchen utensils and the kitchen itself (time). Every person that cooks often that I've talked to grossly underestimates how much time their cooking takes them. The ones that are more efficient either have a ton of cooking experience and talent or just a great kitchen setup, which is a rare luxury and generally a large investment.

hnbad 5y ago
I'd say cooking a meal typically takes me about an hour if I include cleanup and preparation -- and that's while owning a dishwasher while not factoring in time spent on making meal plans and changing plans because an important ingredient isn't available or just time spent buying ingredients because not everything is available in one place.

nomorewords 5y ago

Unless you have been taught at a young age that cooking is something valuable, I've found out that a lot of adults run from it like hell. When covid hit, I expected people to start being reasonable with their budget (and health) and reckoned that food delivery services would have a rough time surviving. Turns out, people started ordering food for home a lot more, even though they now had the time as well as the incentive to save money due to the uncertainty.

watwut 5y ago
What additional time you are talking about? Between home school, work and more mess due to everyone being at home, it was a lot more time consuming to just exist. Add to it that you don't even make your 10000 steps a day like you normally would just by existing, if you want to keep little health you have to make more time for exercising too.

EliRivers 5y ago

And yet people don't. Are they so stupid and inept that they're physically incapable of this? Well, they can tie their shoelaces and go to work and carry out tasks at that job, so certainly not so stupid that they can't do this as well. So I guess there must be something else going on here. I guess the situation must somehow be less simple and obvious than you assume. Reality, it appears, just doesn't match your simplistic view of how the world should work.

sarlalian 5y ago

My partner and I cook almost 100% of our meals at home. I shop for groceries 1x a week, and it takes about 1 hour. Meal prep / cooking and cleaning varies a bit. We generally cook 1 roast chicken a week, and a pot roast in a slow cooker. Having pre-cooked proteins helps with meal prep time. We use a rice cooker often, and will usually toss some veggies in there with the rice to simplify things. That said, overall we probably spend 30-40 min a day on food prep, and another 10 min a day cleaning. When we cooked different meals every night, it was generally closer to 90 minutes a day on food prep / cleaning. Learning to cook takes time, learning to cook well takes more time, learning to cook efficiently and how to minimize time involved takes time.