How old is this woman, and where does her hairline start? Is she in her 30s or 60s? Is her hair blonde or white?
Old, near the top, but it still flows down. Dunno exact age. Blonde, but not everyone loses hair color.
My solution is just to act like I’m cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.
Yep I batch cook too, I make 4 portions then eat 2 and freeze 2. Eating over 2 days obvs
Yup, I’m doing the same. Cooking 4 portions, then eating them all while crying
I cook four portions, my husband has a portion, I have one too, my son then eats two portions and says he’s still hungry.
You can’t meal prep with pre-teens/teens in the house. This kid will eat leftover roast chicken for breakfast, like the whole damn thing.
I cry while grocery shopping and pray to saint peanut butter for help
The one who cooks shouldn’t be the one to clean unless, of course, you live alone.
I live alone and I think this is a great idea
Hmm… Maybe after dinner, take a walk and ask random strangers to do your dishes. 😆
2 hours of cooking for a 10 minute meal sounds like a skill issue.
I wash as I cook. Usually you have moments when you’re waiting anyway. Means I have serving dishes only afterwards.
Had to make it a habit though in order to force myself to do it. Took years to train the habit.
Lucky you! I’ve got a simple solution, only use single use plastic, then all you have to do is just put a big plastic bag over your table and when you’re done eating you just pick up the bag, close it all up and throw it away and that way you just leave the problem to your grandchildren and they’ll die from climate change.
climate change AND microplastics in their food
You do the cooking with single use plastic too?
TV dinner.
It takes 5-15 minutes to prepare whatever you’re cooking. It takes an hour or two for it to sit in the oven while you don’t do anything other then wait for it to cook. It takes 5 minutes to wash everything after.
You spent 20 minutes actually doing anything and there’s 16 hours in a day. Boo fucking hoo.
Do you exclusively cook meals that go in the oven and that’s it? No sauces to simmer, etc?
I think if I’m ever staying at your house, I’m ordering McDonalds lmao
I cook damn near every night and I’d like to think my food is decent, not amazing but decent. I’m not making my own sauces but will do lots of searing the meat on a cast iron and then throw in the oven while the vegetables are being steamed. Takes about 30-40 minutes and 10 minutes to clean dishes. The only way I’m cooking for 2 hours is if it’s a weekend and I’m batch cooking for lunch meals.
If you’re cooking every meal with homemade sauces to simmer, that is great but your standards are higher than most people.
To be fair, I don’t take 2 hours every time to simmer, I was just pissed off at the guy who says cooking takes less than 5 minutes. I do usually try to make some sauce for most things, but it’s nothing too fancy. It’s either that or fries and some sort of meat in the oven which does indeed take less than 5 minutes - but makes me feel like a lazy piece of shit every time, so I don’t do it too often.
Thing is, I grew up with my mom being stay-at-home and we didn’t have all that much money. So she always made the best of what she had, and when things started getting better financially, well, she still cooked every night, except now she had more money for more and higher quality ingredients. So I’m really spoiled when it comes to food.
Clean as you go and there is very little left to be done after the meal.
There is a reason why the cooks and bussers are different people. Not everyone wants to get dishwater in their food from whatever tool they use to clean, nor do I have time while things are cooking and requiring near-constant attention to properly wash my hands 10 times as i go back and forth while cooking a single meal.
What? Cleaning as you cook is about cleaning the shit you use to cook as you make your food.
That just mostly means wiping shit down, stacking pots and pans as they’re used, and organizing before you start (mise en place is a huge help in this).
Great and I already wipe down some things. Genuine question, however, because maybe it will actually lead to a productive insight that can help me when cooking: How do you do as-you-go cleaning with the following things:
- Things that have touched raw meat
- Things with a bunch of fat
- Things that have caramelized sugar or starchy remnants stuck on them
Because, in each of these cases, all of which are common, I have to wash them with hot water and soap, and they require using something to wash them. These tools, such as sponges, pads and brushes, are universally filled with dishwater and germs that I don’t want in my food, and the process sends that dishwater spewing up like toilet spume. These are also time-consuming, and their washing is incompatible with most of the dishes I make, which require near-constant attention.
You forgot the 40+ hours of work a week just to afford the ingridients.
Yep, you don’t cook.
Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.
Edit: “fictional” to “fictionalized”
just cook bigger portions, i usually make enough food to last half a week
I’ve been eating the same two-pound portion of taco meat for the past four days. Usually in soft-shell tacos, but sometimes in frittatas. The trick is to be dead inside.
Cooking a steak takes 5 minutes. You make a side salad while it’s frying. Everything goes into the dishwasher in a few more minutes. Not sure what your problem is…
This is great, do you have any more recipes?
If you have a Ninja Speedy, you can cook loads of dishes in 10-15 minutes, but only for 1-2 people at once. My fav is to cube potatoes and pork belly at 2cm size, mix with salt, spices and oil, put everything in the device and cook for 12 minutes in steam + air fry mode.
