If you spent 2 hours cooking hopefully you made enough for more than one meal.
For me, 2 hours of cooking would be like 2 weeks worth of food, unless I’m smoking something, of course.
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So much this. I can’t remember the last time I had a huge pile up of dishes that I didn’t clean while something was simmering or whatever. By the time my meal is ready, everything is clean or there’s one pot that might need to soak while I eat.
I really think this is one of the secrets to successfully keeping up with household chores as an adult. After I started focusing on cleaning up when I could while cooking and saw how much easier it made my life later, I started noticing stuff that’s quick and easy to put away/clean while just walking through the house on my way to do something else. Doing little things all the time instead of saying “Oh I’ll clean that up later” and leaving everything as a big project was a switch in mindset that’s helped me a lot.
Doesn’t this like triple the use of your cleaning products though?
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Cleaning as you go is a lifesaver.
- Batch cooking
- Cleaning as you go
- Listen to something while you’re doing it
Makes it a pretty efficient and fun time.
Mental illness, which is why I as an enlightened man of the 21st century only drink meal replacement shakes
Vybey gang rise up!
so stop cooking dinners for the queen? if i’m lazy i can whip up food in like half an hour and i’ll just make 2 portions of it so i have for later too
boil some spaghetti, fry some meatballs, whip up some powder sauce, done.
Oh man, it’s been the complete opposite for me the older I get. Cooking has now become a pretty relaxing activity, but I think that’s because I’ve gotten more confident and skilled with my knife, prep, cooking, and cleaning abilities that I can really just focus more on the joy and experience of making delicious things for both myself and the people I love.
It’s probably one of the only true forms of self love that I engage in.
But for real, learning to clean as I cook was probably the most important skill I developed that has seriously reduced how painful cooking used to be for me. There’s no giant mess at the end and really, once you get good at it, you’ll find that there’s hardly any big daunting cleanup (unless you’re making a large family dinner or a finicky dish).
One pot wonders are good for regular cooking. Crock-Pot can make it easier too. Dump it in and come back a lot later.
I think Dan Olsen on Folding Ideas said it best that it is maddening when people talk about cooking at home that they always exclude the clean up.
https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU?si=IJ1Ffr_luBReNfIV (Folding Ideas, longer video about Jamie Oliver’s war on chicken nuggets)
If you clean as you go, there should be very little cleanup after.
For me, the only cleanup after eating is rinsing the pots/pans that had been soaking while I ate.
Victory loves preparation.
Cooking is basically just a choreographed dance, so planning beforehand is important.
I think it depends on how many guests you have for the post-cleanup. However, I generally agree with you.
I sometimes get on my partner’s or family members case about things left around when we’re waiting for the oven or something and they’re like: “I’ll just do it at the end”. For big meals, the large dish rack plus the dish washer (which seems to be another dish rack for us) almost always gets over crowded and we need to use those drying pads.
Or make the other people who ate help clean up.
I recently thought “God damn it’s 2024 where is my potato washing, peeling and cutting robot???”
Potato peelers exist and they’re the best fucking invention ever. It’s like $15 max on Amazon. The ones for apples work on potatoes too just FYI. Yeah you still gotta cut it unless you get another gimmicky kitchen device but anything is better than hand peeling potatoes imo
I read some reviews on amazon and they said they were total trash. I’ll have another look, thanks! But yeah ideally I’d want some smart device.
They’re definitely not all trash. I’ve had mine for like 5 years now and it’s mostly cheap plastic lol. It still works and not having to hand peel a single potato for years is lovely. The only issue I have sometimes is that it struggles with really big potatos but I just buy the ones I know it can handle or cut them in half.
If you have a kitchenaid you can also just get the peeling attachment if higher quality is a must for you.
Edit: If it helps, the one I’ve had for years is called the rotato lol
