• lvl13charlatan@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The author describing preparing meals as a “Sisphyian task” is all you really need to know. If you don’t like cooking no amount of new (or old!) gadgets is going to make it better. I also use my slow cooker all the time.

    • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Seriously, who thinks cooking is hard? Some meals are like five ingredients, six if you want to be fancy with it. As long as you have a knife, a pot and a pan you can make so many good dishes.

      The only single-use appliance I will advocate for is a rice cooker, because they’re cheap and they free your pot up for other things while still making perfect rice.

      • Icarus@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Having met a few people who could manage to catch boiling water on fire, there are definitely people out there for who cooking is challenging. Though I don’t disagree that cooking has an incredibly low barrier to entry so there’s no excuse in trying 🤣