@nobile@ratman Do you have an air fryer? They’ve been coming down in price and they are wonderful for fixing fresh hot food. I also have a nifty countertop Breville convection “toaster” oven. I rarely need the big range oven for anything.
@nobile the All-in-One appliances might save you some space. Might drive up the electric bill though.
I’ve had one of those Ninja air-fryer/pressure cooker deals and it’s replaced every pot, oven, microwave, and toaster. The cooking times are only a little longer (compared to a cheap $40 900W microwave), but it does guzzle more juice at once ($100 at 1800W on any setting that’s above “slow cook/keep warm”).
People used to pay me to cook. Not like a chef or anything but I’m a solid cook. Like I had no idea what @sillyheathen meant when she kept talking about a roulade but I can whip you up 900 servings of Hawaiian Chicken if needed.
I do eat most meals at home, but recently made an exception and ordered some GrubHub food for breakfast. Seriously tho, it’s usually easier just to fix something than drive somewhere for a meal.
My pots and utensils were all bought piecemeal. Having a matched set would be nice, but nothing can replace my grandmother’s cast iron. That has soul.
@therealjrn I rarely dine out. I’m too lazy to drive somewhere and too cheap to pay for delivery. When I do dine out, it’s usually the local Vietnamese restaurant.
I have a set of pots and pans from Ballarini and it’s the best cookware I’ve ever had.
@kittykat9180 And it just feels better to cook on good cookware. I enjoy cooking and it’s really no trouble to fix whatever. Plus I have special dietary needs (nothing too weird, but I am T2 diabetic) and I can avoid certain things easily if I just fix it myself
I don’t cook much, so it will be easy to cook more. I hate recipes with 15 ingredients with small amount so each-and I don’t make them. Pancakes, waffles are good (not at the same time).
And BTW, the Meh “Cook More” comments area was hilarious.
I love to cook. It is my favorite hobby. I probably average a meal a day, and I would still like to cook more! I used to have a chef as a neighbor, with his restaurant a 5 minute walk from us, I was able to use the kitchen on closed days or before morning prep started. Those were the days; thanks, COVID.
I have worked in the industry, but it isn’t my profession and why I still enjoy it so much. I joke that if an intruder were trying to steal the most expensive stuff in the house most wouldn’t realize the kitchen is the room to be in. (Also, I don’t have expensive stuff around in general.)
However, like (gestures broadly) everything, the hobby is getting more expensive so my skills are less of trying new exotic stuff and techniques and more speed / efficient at getting the cheap staples our house enjoys to the table.
I will continue to cook, bake, and otherwise prepare foods as usual. I need not “cook more” because that would produce an excess which would go to waste. I should not “cook less” because I need the proper amount of food each day. And it takes something entirely outside the realm of cooking to get me excited anymore. (In fact, I’m not entirely sure that it’s possible.)
I like to eat and I like to cook. The vast majority of my meals are eaten at home, prepared by either myself or SWMBO. So I suppose the answer, in reality, is “neither”.
Sure, why not.
I don’t cook! I hate it,
I do a fair bit of Baking… there is a difference!
I don’t prepare food for myself at all.
Stove and oven haven’t been on since I moved in.
I do warm food from others in the microwave, though.
@ratman my microwave broke, so I’ve been using my oven more often lately
@nobile @ratman Do you have an air fryer? They’ve been coming down in price and they are wonderful for fixing fresh hot food. I also have a nifty countertop Breville convection “toaster” oven. I rarely need the big range oven for anything.
@ratman @therealjrn I’m in a studio apartment, not enough counter space for added appliances
@nobile the All-in-One appliances might save you some space. Might drive up the electric bill though.
I’ve had one of those Ninja air-fryer/pressure cooker deals and it’s replaced every pot, oven, microwave, and toaster. The cooking times are only a little longer (compared to a cheap $40 900W microwave), but it does guzzle more juice at once ($100 at 1800W on any setting that’s above “slow cook/keep warm”).
I do miss having multiple pots going (cooking meat and veggies simultaneously), though this one-pot cooking line offers simplified cleanup. Though you may need to buy more accessories (I had several on-hand) - a steaming trivet for example:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Steam-Rack-Trivet-for-Instant-Pot-6-Qt-and-8-Qt-Stainless-Steel-Steamer-Rack-Fit-Pressure-Cooker/5046419620
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Air-Fryer-Rack-Oven-Set-2-Multi-purpose-Accessories-Metal-Double-Layer-Wire-Skewer-Ninja-Cosori-Instant-Pot-GourmiaDishwasher-Safe/14337359514
It’s essential for air frying or baking (so hot air can move underneath) and the slats function as great bread holders for toasting more than 2 slices at a time.
@ratman I only use my oven when I’m baking. I don’t have a microwave but I used the hack out of my toaster oven.
@nobile @therealjrn I’m too lazy to do even that. All my plates, bowls, cups, and utensils are compostable, so I never do dishes.
My Air Fryer and Crock Pot do all the cooking for me; I just add the ingredients and eat the finished product!
/showme a happy fellow cheerfully eating a mouth-watering selection of realistic foods he cooked in his air fryer and crock pot.
I love cooking. It’s the cleaning things up after I hate
@regnowsin YES! This, exactly. I’m too lazy to bother doing all that work that comes after cooking, if it’s just for me.
People used to pay me to cook. Not like a chef or anything but I’m a solid cook. Like I had no idea what @sillyheathen meant when she kept talking about a roulade but I can whip you up 900 servings of Hawaiian Chicken if needed.
I do eat most meals at home, but recently made an exception and ordered some GrubHub food for breakfast. Seriously tho, it’s usually easier just to fix something than drive somewhere for a meal.
My pots and utensils were all bought piecemeal. Having a matched set would be nice, but nothing can replace my grandmother’s cast iron. That has soul.
@therealjrn I rarely dine out. I’m too lazy to drive somewhere and too cheap to pay for delivery. When I do dine out, it’s usually the local Vietnamese restaurant.
I have a set of pots and pans from Ballarini and it’s the best cookware I’ve ever had.
@kittykat9180 And it just feels better to cook on good cookware. I enjoy cooking and it’s really no trouble to fix whatever. Plus I have special dietary needs (nothing too weird, but I am T2 diabetic) and I can avoid certain things easily if I just fix it myself
How did that resolving to cook more work out for Walter White?
So, no.
@phendrick I don’t know how the rest of the series went but in the one episode I saw I was impressed by his trunk.
@phendrick @yakkoTDI
@phendrick @therealjrn That’s the trunk.
@phendrick @yakkoTDI Ain’t no junk in that trunk!
I don’t cook much, so it will be easy to cook more. I hate recipes with 15 ingredients with small amount so each-and I don’t make them. Pancakes, waffles are good (not at the same time).
And BTW, the Meh “Cook More” comments area was hilarious.
I love to cook. It is my favorite hobby. I probably average a meal a day, and I would still like to cook more! I used to have a chef as a neighbor, with his restaurant a 5 minute walk from us, I was able to use the kitchen on closed days or before morning prep started. Those were the days; thanks, COVID.
I have worked in the industry, but it isn’t my profession and why I still enjoy it so much. I joke that if an intruder were trying to steal the most expensive stuff in the house most wouldn’t realize the kitchen is the room to be in. (Also, I don’t have expensive stuff around in general.)
However, like (gestures broadly) everything, the hobby is getting more expensive so my skills are less of trying new exotic stuff and techniques and more speed / efficient at getting the cheap staples our house enjoys to the table.
I will continue to cook, bake, and otherwise prepare foods as usual. I need not “cook more” because that would produce an excess which would go to waste. I should not “cook less” because I need the proper amount of food each day. And it takes something entirely outside the realm of cooking to get me excited anymore. (In fact, I’m not entirely sure that it’s possible.)
I cook four days a week. I don’t want to think of the dishes that would pile up (in the sink and in the fridge) if I did any more.
I like to eat and I like to cook. The vast majority of my meals are eaten at home, prepared by either myself or SWMBO. So I suppose the answer, in reality, is “neither”.
No, but I may be forced to.
@cfg83 May the force be with you.
@yakkoTDI OMG, Yoda was talking to me.
/showme Yoda cooking mac & cheese for anthropomorphized goat holding a weak lightsaber.
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@mediocrebot Crap.
/showme Short green gremlin in khaki robe cooking mac & cheese for anthropomorphized goat holding a wimpy flashlight.
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@mediocrebot Thank you for letting me fool you. Hrmmmm, I wonder …
/showme Short green gremlin in khaki robe with eyes that resemble Einstein is looking at upside down physics book and murmuring “Spooky, this is”.
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@mediocrebot That’s ok. Probably the backwards Yoda-linguistics.