You get faster/more organised at doing the preparing steps for cooking with practice, and if you clean as you go it can be quite efficient. You don’t need chef

You get faster/more organised at doing the preparing steps for cooking with practice, and if you clean as you go it can be quite efficient. You don’t need chef level knife skills, but you can become competent quickly enough and with good sharp knives it’s not hard. The one thing I will say though is a lot of the time estimates in recipes are absolute bollocks - my biggest annoyance is when it comes to caramelising onions. “Oh ten minutes” the food blogger says. lol no. That’s a muuuuuuch longer job!