You’re not selling this to me because, as someone with no attention span, I can NOT relate to the notion of “frying X takes the same effort than microwaving X”.
You’re forgetting “where is that pan, no that one, the other one”, “which oil to use, not that one”, “gotta watch that pan for three minutes so it doesn’t burn and I don’t forget”, “now i have a pan, a plate and a stove to clean” vs. “i’mma do some other shit until i hear the microwave go bing” and “rinse plate”.
I feel like that’s largely a habit thing. I never cook using the microwave, I would have to spend a lot of time looking up shit to cook something decent. But I cook meals from scratch most days and I know exactly which ingredients to use, where things are, and how to cook a dish quickly and effeciently.
I often cook while I listen to podcasts, which strangely enough helps me focus on the mechanical tasks since I am not distracted - or rather, only distracted by the podcast. That works well for the dishes I know by heart, but if it’s something new where i need to check a recipe I have to force myself to concentrate as well :)
I would not walk away from something in a frying pan for 3 minutes, but I would for something in a microwave. Microwaving on a plate dirties one fewer thing, too.
I think it’s pretty different.
Frying isn’t even the relevant comparison - that would be baking wrapped salmon in the oven.
Thanks for breaking it down like that. I struggle to bring myself to cook but Ive been working on it by breaking down steps like that. Easy meals are the best!
If you like easy meals, get yourself a simple Italian cookbook. There’s like, one million different pasta dishes with about 3-5 ingredients in them which can be cooked in 20 minutes.
Worse than just frying it for 3 minutes which takes the same amount of effort.
You’re not selling this to me because, as someone with no attention span, I can NOT relate to the notion of “frying X takes the same effort than microwaving X”.
Microwaving:
Frying:
If you can microwave stuff you can also fry stuff, cooking is just following steps and practice.
You’re forgetting “where is that pan, no that one, the other one”, “which oil to use, not that one”, “gotta watch that pan for three minutes so it doesn’t burn and I don’t forget”, “now i have a pan, a plate and a stove to clean” vs. “i’mma do some other shit until i hear the microwave go bing” and “rinse plate”.
I feel like that’s largely a habit thing. I never cook using the microwave, I would have to spend a lot of time looking up shit to cook something decent. But I cook meals from scratch most days and I know exactly which ingredients to use, where things are, and how to cook a dish quickly and effeciently.
I often cook while I listen to podcasts, which strangely enough helps me focus on the mechanical tasks since I am not distracted - or rather, only distracted by the podcast. That works well for the dishes I know by heart, but if it’s something new where i need to check a recipe I have to force myself to concentrate as well :)
Good luck however you feel like feeding yourself!
Three minutes! The horror!
Shit man, the video games aren’t going to play themselves.
That’s the duration for only one of the listed sub-tasks
Not the point.
I would not walk away from something in a frying pan for 3 minutes, but I would for something in a microwave. Microwaving on a plate dirties one fewer thing, too.
I think it’s pretty different.
Frying isn’t even the relevant comparison - that would be baking wrapped salmon in the oven.
Thanks for breaking it down like that. I struggle to bring myself to cook but Ive been working on it by breaking down steps like that. Easy meals are the best!
If you like easy meals, get yourself a simple Italian cookbook. There’s like, one million different pasta dishes with about 3-5 ingredients in them which can be cooked in 20 minutes.