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The time involved in living healthy is not in the time it actually takes to make a meal (which is trivial, and can easily take less time than the round-trip to
by bruce511 4y ago
The time involved in living healthy is not in the time it actually takes to make a meal (which is trivial, and can easily take less time than the round-trip to a fast food outlet.)
The real time it takes is in the time you need to learn a bunch of skills that make that possible. In an ideal world you learnt those skills at your mother's knee, but we are now 3 generations into "fast food" so it's probable that was missed.
It takes time, and effort, to regain those basics. From something as trivial as boiling water, to using a knife, to "knowing" how long things cook for. Then experience as to what ingredients go together (tomatoes love Basil, chocolate doesn't like garlic).
A skilled person can make a lovely pasta dish in minutes, an unskilled person has literally no idea.
My mother learnt to cook with minimal information (recipe books and magazines), my children can get a master-class in anything on YouTube.
We live in an age where we have access to any knowledge we want, and yet seem to be incapable of doing anything for ourselves.
- klodolph 4y agoI learned those skills initially at my mother’s (and father’s) knee, but I have better access to good equipment, good ingredients, and information than they ever did when they raised me. It’s easy to say we “seem to be incapable of doing anything ourselves” but home-cooked meals are still de rigueur for younger generations.
- symlinkk 4y agoWhy don’t we just teach that in schools? Instead of learning that the interior angles of triangles add up to 180 degrees maybe we could learn to cook healthy meals for ourselves?
- rightbyte 4y agoIsn't cooking classes quite common? Atleast I had that for two semesters. Mandatory.
- bobthepanda 4y agoA lot of places have abandoned that in favor of optimizing for STEM and the college rat race.
- WalterBright 4y agoThey used to: "Home Economics" BTW, not learning math can be very costly to your financial future.
- alistairSH 4y agoMy high school offered Home Ec. But my guidance counselor made me take Latin instead (I had already completely several years of French and didn’t need language credits). Probably a good thing - in hindsight, the home ec curriculum was pretty watered-down.
- tunap 4y ago*aaS all the way down is the end result of a purely service economy. When we don't manufacture anything tangible, or develop skills of our own, it leads to reliance on 'specialists' to meet all our needs. The end result being a dependent, unskilled consumer culture... not quite as utopian as the MBAs made it sound. .
- LBJsPNS 4y ago"chocolate doesn't like garlic" Mole (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/223261/authentic-mole-sauce/ https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/223261/authentic-mole-sauc...) would like a word with you...
- JJMcJ 4y agoRecipe I described. You have to know how to chop an onion and mushrooms. How to break up a lump of ground beef. That could be "learned" in 1/2 an hour if you don't want nice TV chef uniformity in the veggies.