Sad fact of life
Sad fact of life
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OK, tell me what in the world you are cooking that takes two hours. And putting something in the oven for an hour is not really any work, is it?
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You underestimate how bad we can be at cooking. It takes me like an hour just to peal and chop up ingredients for even a simple dish like mashed potatoes or stir fry.
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Stop ringing the potatoes and peel them instead!
And grammar jokes aside, I try to do prep work ahead of time sometimes. Potatoes can be peeled and placed in a bowl of water in the fridge prior to cutting and mashing. I will chop up things like broccoli and carrots for stir fry. I make a gumbo where I take a pepper of each color, red green orange yellow, and dice them small, so like mini dice. I've gotten pretty good at it, but I'm no chef or anything, so it'll eat up fifteen minutes or so, so for the gumbo I dice my peppers, slice the green onions, put them all in a bowl in the fridge ahead of time. Extra points if it's during the workday.
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For real, folks need to watch more Jamie Oliver. Condense your pans and ingredient lists, make sauce for a few days, use parchment paper, etc
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Spoken like someone who has never made soup.
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Right, simmering something for an hour at low temperature is not an hour of work for you. Same principle applies as for the oven I mentioned.
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Okay, someone who has never made soup stock and then soup with it before.
Also, make me a chowder that takes that little attention, or a bisque.
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