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The trick to this is you clean as you cook. Like last night. Everything was put in the dishwasher the moment it was done being used or washed by hand.

OMG yasss

Kids: Can you make pizza. Sure go get one out of the garage. No we want your pizza.

Flattered/exhausted: yeah sure

Bowl to bloom the yeast, mixer bowl, mixer, dough hook, counter, cutting board, cast iron pan, convection oven, grater, stovetop, cooling rack, pizza cutter, other counter. Fridge space for 2 days cold ferment.

It's fucking good, but OMFG, I die a little every time.

90% of stuff I cook "from scratch" is made in one skillet or pot for this exact reason. When I was a bachelor, I would just eat out the pot or pan alot too. Fuck them dishes.

I've been focusing on cooking more simply. the goal is fewer ingredients, less time and effort, more appreciation for simple flavor and quality ingredients

that's why you cook the whole bag of pasta and put the rest in the fridge for the next day, make 1kg of beef for gulash or bolognaise... make at least twice the amount to have something to reheat. You can also put in zip bags and freeze if you want to have more days between eating the same thing

I have finally rediscovered my love for cooking. Here's what I do:

1. Don't follow the recipe. The chef can't write and the writer can't cook. A lot of it is nonsense. If you think you know better, you do.

2. Do whatever you want. Don't oversalt it or burn it and everything else can be fixed with more cookery.

3. Don't cook for 2 hours unless you are having fun goofing around in the kitchen for 2 hours or are making a holiday dish everyone's been wanting all year.

4. Learn all the shortcuts and try your own.

5. Eat while you're cooking to see if it's the way you want it and use all those spices and sauces to see what they do.

6. Easy mode: To make anything delicious, add salt, oil/fat, and acid. That will make everything but burned or oversalted stuff into edible. Also, pepper is somehow underrated despite being everywhere and in everything.

7. Don't eat it in 10 minutes. You won't digest it properly and it will add to your stress rather than relieving it. Take your time eating; the people making you rush are the problem not the food.

Bare minimum: when cooking always make enough for multiple meals (dinner and lunch).

Pro minimum: stay busy the whole time, cleaning and preparing tupper ware.

Goal: make at least 7 portions, fud 4 the week.

Make a week meal (bulk fajita mix is the go to for me) and then you just have something you need to reheat and you've only spent 2 hrs one day rather than 2hrs everyday. i usually end up making a couple meals on some of those days but there's no pressure to it since there's always something ready.

Freezer bags and Budgetbytes scaling features are your friends. FYI spaghetti sauce can be made in bulk super cheap and will stay in freezer bags for literal years.

Maybe try a slow cooker. If you find a few recipes you like and prepare what you can in larger batches and save some for next time (for example if it uses a collection of spices, measure out multiple recipes worth of all of the spices and store them (pre-combined) in spice jars), you can get the prep time down to a few minutes each time you want to cook it. Slow cookers have the added benefit of not having to worry about taking it out of the oven at the right time or whathaveyou - when it finishes cooking, it'll just keep your food warm until you're ready to eat it. This also keeps the washing to a minimum - it's just the slow cooker insert and your bowl + utensils. As an added bonus, you'll get multiple days worth of food out of one time cooking.

This is the most me_irl shit ever

Why are you taking 2 hours to cook every meal? Surely, you don't mean every meal every day, right?

This is why I have mastered the microwave. Once I get near that thing im basically gordan ramsey, minus the good tasting food. But food is food

I’ve been like this for 20 years now.

People ask why I triple every recipe. This is why.

Dish washer ftw. Such a big investment in your own happiness!

pro tip: try cooking for 2 days or more at once

Just hyperfocus on cooking. Eventually you'll beat the learning curve and just throw out great dishes by heart