Make it so it last 3 days. Not really a big deal.
I think you over estimate people’s ability to cook these days.
I feel like the post is more about the moment of, not the days after. Making several days worth of food doesn’t delay the need to do dishes once you’re done eating tonight’s dinner.
No but having one plate, one reusable box, one fork, one knife and one wine glass to wash is a lot less than all the things I use for cooking.
Knives, spoons, blender, pans, pots, containers, and most annoyingly, the cutting board. Because you want to take care of that nice wooden cuttingboard and make sure it’s clean and dry.
Like they’re going to eat left-overs…
I might get away with white rice that I can make fried rice out of the next day
Kinda like life. The journey is actually the goal
How old is this woman, and where does her hairline start? Is she in her 30s or 60s? Is her hair blonde or white?
Old, near the top, but it still flows down. Dunno exact age. Blonde, but not everyone loses hair color.
Pretty sure it’s from a film (I can’t remember which)
- the character had cancer.I think it might be from The Skeleton Key.
It’s Pamela Anderson in “The Last Showgirl”
Oh! That explains why things are this way! She’s in-between all these things. Good for her! She’s aging in her own way and it’s wonderful!
just cook bigger portions, i usually make enough food to last half a week
I’ve been eating the same two-pound portion of taco meat for the past four days. Usually in soft-shell tacos, but sometimes in frittatas. The trick is to be dead inside.
I love tacos. I could eat tacos every day and never get tired of them. All varieties are good with me. Corn tortillas, flour tortillas, crispy fried tacos, taquito, even crunchy taco shells. There used to be a dive bar near where I lived in 2015 that would do $5 for 5 beef or bean crunchy tacos with cheese, lettuce, dice tom, and sour cream and I’d easily polish off 10-20 of those with a beer or two (I don’t live near there anymore and the bar closed down right before COVID due to the building be demo’d)
My wife isn’t big on eating the same thing for more than 2 days in a row and I miss the days of eating tacos 4-5 times a week by choice.
You’re not dead inside. You’re living a dream of mine right now.
This is ideal because the tortilla IS the plate.
You’re not dead inside until you move to hard tacos.
And that’s why my “necessary life skill” cooking lifehack is to just know that if you cook something big enough, it’ll last you enough portions for two or three days without that much extra cooking work. And you’ll only have to clean the cooking pot half (or one third) of the time.
Clean as you go and there is very little left to be done after the meal.
There is a reason why the cooks and bussers are different people. Not everyone wants to get dishwater in their food from whatever tool they use to clean, nor do I have time while things are cooking and requiring near-constant attention to properly wash my hands 10 times as i go back and forth while cooking a single meal.
What? Cleaning as you cook is about cleaning the shit you use to cook as you make your food.
That just mostly means wiping shit down, stacking pots and pans as they’re used, and organizing before you start (mise en place is a huge help in this).
Great and I already wipe down some things. Genuine question, however, because maybe it will actually lead to a productive insight that can help me when cooking: How do you do as-you-go cleaning with the following things:
- Things that have touched raw meat
- Things with a bunch of fat
- Things that have caramelized sugar or starchy remnants stuck on them
Because, in each of these cases, all of which are common, I have to wash them with hot water and soap, and they require using something to wash them. These tools, such as sponges, pads and brushes, are universally filled with dishwater and germs that I don’t want in my food, and the process sends that dishwater spewing up like toilet spume. These are also time-consuming, and their washing is incompatible with most of the dishes I make, which require near-constant attention.
Whatever. Really, I just love how there is always someone willing to climb that hill and tell me how to cook. It takes no time to clean as you are cooking. If you can’t properly wash your hands that is on you but somehow I manage to cook my meals and the cleanup at the end is always brief.
Remember, you are dealing with people that never cook, and for some reason think they know what they’re talking about.
And I suppose you have personal knowledge that they never cook, since they are constantly pulling your shitty food off the grocery shelves?
This is why Huel.
Thats why Im having waffles tonight
The one who cooks shouldn’t be the one to clean unless, of course, you live alone.
My demented father cannot even use the bathroom correctly. He will not help me.
What happened to all that Spaghetti-Ohs money?
I live alone and I think this is a great idea
Hmm… Maybe after dinner, take a walk and ask random strangers to do your dishes. 😆
The authorities were very clear that I need to stop doing that.
Hire prostitutes and make them do your dishes. Tell them it’s your kink.
And here I get the side eye and a sigh when I want to talk about my feelings together. 😢
At that point, we’re just doing the dishes and talking about our feelings.
2 hrs?
Do you spend 6 hrs a day cooking and do not do any clean as you go?
Wtf are you preparing? Are you stuffing a turkey each meal?
im a fast eater
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My solution is just to act like I’m cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.
Yep I batch cook too, I make 4 portions then eat 2 and freeze 2. Eating over 2 days obvs
Yup, I’m doing the same. Cooking 4 portions, then eating them all while crying
I cook four portions, my husband has a portion, I have one too, my son then eats two portions and says he’s still hungry.
You can’t meal prep with pre-teens/teens in the house. This kid will eat leftover roast chicken for breakfast, like the whole damn thing.
I cry while grocery shopping and pray to saint peanut butter for help
looks like its another night of pbj sandwich. again.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
You forgot the 40+ hours of work a week just to afford the ingridients.
You forgot breathing in and out 24/7 to stay alive to get to your soul-sucking job.
Life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to constantly breathe.
That’s what I thought until I discovered osmosis! Buy my new book!
Working many of the hours to afford a car. So that you can get to/from work.
Yep, you don’t cook.
Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.
Edit: “fictional” to “fictionalized”
Done
I try.
So, I was right.
