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Originally Posted by charlyee
It's not that I don't like to cook but I believe cooking is a waste of time. 
It takes 1-2 hours to prep dinner, 20 mins to eat, and an hour to clean up. Something wrong with that scenario imo. |
Well, yeah. You're taking too long to cook!
Most meals take me about 20 minutes prep and cook time. When I make sushi, that's a longer meal and some of the more complicated meals, like alfredo sauce, may take me longer. But most meals take 20 minutes, even lasagne (not counting oven time on that one). Clean up, well, it's at least a half hour, if I cook at home. If I cook at my parent's house it's longer because it seems that my MOm is also cooking something or other and that woman can use every dish in the house three times before I ever need it! I do a lot of stuff here and there during the day. Today, for example we were eating leftover BBQ. That part was all done, but we were out of beans, so I sorted and soaked those in the morning and then used a pressure cooker to cook them up in an hour. But the stove was doing all the work, so actual prep time for today's meal was about 5 minutes.
When I bake, it's also about 15 to 20 minutes for cookies or most cakes (not counting tiramisu) . I made choc mousse pie yesterday and that's a time consuming one. You have to make a pie crust (5 to 10 minutes prep and then oven time to bake it), melt chocolate and do the eggs. The egg part takes me 5 to 10. Then there is whipped cream which is another 5...so I'd say that takes me at least a 1/2 hour to 45 minutes if you include the crust. The clean up is more difficult because the chocolate sticks to the pan and to the melting bowl and has to be cleaned off with very hot water. I don't do that dessert often although it's my favorite. Tiramisu is worse. The cake for that is difficult to make and requires an inordinate amount of beating. Then after it's cooked, the cream filling is more beating, more eggs and more whipped cream. Husband makes the espresso for the layers, but then you have to grate chocolate (I do use cocoa as it's faster, but for the top, it really looks better with grated chocolate). That one takes me well over an hour.