Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Nima Srinivasan]

Udhay - let me spend way more time wrapping my head around the idea that a
question is asked to not tabulate data :)

Thanks for the context.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:39 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:14 AM Nima Srinivasan 
> wrote:
>
> You know this is the sort of question that needs to be asked and answered
> > with Google sheets :)
> >
>
> If one were tabulating the data, yes.
>
> I was trying to get a sense of the time people spend in cooking *as an
> ingredient in the meal*, sparked by this book:
>
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/missing-ingredient-the-curious-role-of-time-in-food-and-its-flavour-by-jenny-linford-review-ppffqdhrq
>
> Udhay
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Venkatesh H R]

I have very little data because I haven't really cooked — ever — due to
combination of disinclination, and availability of someone to make food (a
cook and in recent years, a mother-in-law who loves to send food). But this
year, I'm learning. Bought the Instant Pot a few days ago and started with
rice and dal. Experimented with making yogurt. Made dosas. Small baby
steps. Maybe in a year, I will be a decent cook!

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:24 PM Thaths  wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:05 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
> >
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> >
>
> I love food (and cooking). I eat breakfast and lunch at work. I tend to
> spend 4-6 hours on weekends shopping for fresh ingredients and cooking for
> the week.
>
> Every night assembling dinner takes anywhere from 10-60 minutes.
>
> On average, I'd say 60 mins/day.
>
> Thaths
>


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Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Thaths]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:05 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>

I love food (and cooking). I eat breakfast and lunch at work. I tend to
spend 4-6 hours on weekends shopping for fresh ingredients and cooking for
the week.

Every night assembling dinner takes anywhere from 10-60 minutes.

On average, I'd say 60 mins/day.

Thaths

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I can't stop recommending this. 
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/01/vegan-garbanzos-con-espinacas-jengibre-spinach-chickpea-stew-ginger-spanish.html

On 05/09/18, 1:30 AM, "silklist on behalf of Heather Madrone" 
 wrote:

Udhay Shankar N wrote on 9/3/18 8:05 PM September 3, 2018:
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.

I probably average 2 hours a day, but over the past week it's been 4. My 
eldest was staying with us before flying away to graduate school in 
Scotland. Last week, I cooked all the family favorites. #2 child is 
working in the area after finishing her undergraduate degree. She's been 
home weekends, and I've been cooking extra for her to eat during the week.

I work from home, and still have two college-student sons living at home.

My daughter worked as a research assistant on a drought-tolerant 
chickpea genetics project at school. Each year's data yielded several 
tons of chickpeas from strains that come from all over the world. She 
brought home 12 gallons of dried chickpeas from India, Morocco, Spain, 
Turkey, Greece, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, as well as hybrid 
varieties that do well in drought conditions.

Every weekend she comes home, I make falafel (because it's a good summer 
supper) with one of the chickpea varieties. I figure that, if I cook 
chickpeas one day a week, the supply will last close to 15 years.

I have quite a few chickpea recipes and can alter other recipes to 
include chickpeas, but I'd welcome a few more to round out my repertoire.

-- 
Heather Madrone  (heat...@madrone.com)
http://www.knitfitter.com/category/personal/

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Udhay Shankar N]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:14 AM Nima Srinivasan  wrote:

You know this is the sort of question that needs to be asked and answered
> with Google sheets :)
>

If one were tabulating the data, yes.

I was trying to get a sense of the time people spend in cooking *as an
ingredient in the meal*, sparked by this book:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/missing-ingredient-the-curious-role-of-time-in-food-and-its-flavour-by-jenny-linford-review-ppffqdhrq

Udhay

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Nima Srinivasan]

You know this is the sort of question that needs to be asked and answered
with Google sheets :)

Roughly 30 mins over an entire month. If at all.

Entrepreneur with home office and fair degree of travel.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> Udhay
> --
>
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Simmi Sareen]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 1:30 AM Heather Madrone  wrote:

> I have quite a few chickpea recipes and can alter other recipes to
> include chickpeas, but I'd welcome a few more to round out my repertoire.
>
>
>
Here's a bunch of chickpea recipes I cook regularly:
http://www.bombayfoodie.com/2016/04/the-zahav-hummus.html
http://www.bombayfoodie.com/2008/11/you-arent-punjabi-if.html
http://www.bombayfoodie.com/2009/11/chickpeas-spinach-tomato-garlic.html
http://www.bombayfoodie.com/2010/10/lazy-weekend-rice.html

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Charles Haynes]

Given you have Moroccan chickpeas, I recommend this Moroccan chickpeas
recipe "Kalinté". We had it in Chefchaouen and loved it. (I also recommend
socca if you haven't already tried it.)

https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/tangier-street-bread-kalinte

On Tue., 4 Sep. 2018, 10:00 pm Heather Madrone,  wrote:

> Udhay Shankar N wrote on 9/3/18 8:05 PM September 3, 2018:
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
>
> I probably average 2 hours a day, but over the past week it's been 4. My
> eldest was staying with us before flying away to graduate school in
> Scotland. Last week, I cooked all the family favorites. #2 child is
> working in the area after finishing her undergraduate degree. She's been
> home weekends, and I've been cooking extra for her to eat during the week.
>
> I work from home, and still have two college-student sons living at home.
>
> My daughter worked as a research assistant on a drought-tolerant
> chickpea genetics project at school. Each year's data yielded several
> tons of chickpeas from strains that come from all over the world. She
> brought home 12 gallons of dried chickpeas from India, Morocco, Spain,
> Turkey, Greece, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, as well as hybrid
> varieties that do well in drought conditions.
>
> Every weekend she comes home, I make falafel (because it's a good summer
> supper) with one of the chickpea varieties. I figure that, if I cook
> chickpeas one day a week, the supply will last close to 15 years.
>
> I have quite a few chickpea recipes and can alter other recipes to
> include chickpeas, but I'd welcome a few more to round out my repertoire.
>
> --
> Heather Madrone  (heat...@madrone.com)
> http://www.knitfitter.com/category/personal/
>
> Nothing worth doing is ever easy.
>
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Heather Madrone]

Udhay Shankar N wrote on 9/3/18 8:05 PM September 3, 2018:

How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
in total.


I probably average 2 hours a day, but over the past week it's been 4. My 
eldest was staying with us before flying away to graduate school in 
Scotland. Last week, I cooked all the family favorites. #2 child is 
working in the area after finishing her undergraduate degree. She's been 
home weekends, and I've been cooking extra for her to eat during the week.


I work from home, and still have two college-student sons living at home.

My daughter worked as a research assistant on a drought-tolerant 
chickpea genetics project at school. Each year's data yielded several 
tons of chickpeas from strains that come from all over the world. She 
brought home 12 gallons of dried chickpeas from India, Morocco, Spain, 
Turkey, Greece, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, as well as hybrid 
varieties that do well in drought conditions.


Every weekend she comes home, I make falafel (because it's a good summer 
supper) with one of the chickpea varieties. I figure that, if I cook 
chickpeas one day a week, the supply will last close to 15 years.


I have quite a few chickpea recipes and can alter other recipes to 
include chickpeas, but I'd welcome a few more to round out my repertoire.


--
Heather Madrone  (heat...@madrone.com)
http://www.knitfitter.com/category/personal/

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Shrabonti Bagchi]

I love to cook, but I don't have much time for it. I have live-in help
who's been with my family for years and knows exactly what we want, so I
don't waste time telling her what to do unless she asks, which is rare. We
(my husband and I) mostly order groceries and even meat and fish online,
because neither of us is really into all the check-beneath-the-gills kind
of stuff and the last time he went to get his meat fresh from the butcher a
cleaver stuck his foot and he had to get stitches, so that suits us just
fine.

On weekends I usually spend a couple of hours making something special like
mutton curry, or try to make something new and unusual using a recipe, but
that's about it.

I feel blessed to have my J didi taking care of us, I truly do.

On Tue 4 Sep, 2018, 23:41 Jim Grisanzio,  wrote:

> On 2018/09/04 12:05, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
>
> Both my wife and I cook. A lot. Every day -- easily 2-3 hours minimum.
> Mostly Japanese food but a variety of types of food. We do eat out, but
> cooking is a top priority due to our desire to always eat the best
> quality food possible for ourselves and our daughter.
>
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> I work at home, at the office in Osaka about an hour away, on planes,
> and all over the place I guess. It sucks to eat while traveling so I
> fast a lot (especially on planes, I never eat the food on planes). Some
> restaurants are good while traveling, of course, but cooking your own
> stuff is generally better. :)
>
> Cheers
> Jim
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Jim Grisanzio]

On 2018/09/04 12:05, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.

Both my wife and I cook. A lot. Every day -- easily 2-3 hours minimum.
Mostly Japanese food but a variety of types of food. We do eat out, but
cooking is a top priority due to our desire to always eat the best
quality food possible for ourselves and our daughter.

> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)

I work at home, at the office in Osaka about an hour away, on planes,
and all over the place I guess. It sucks to eat while traveling so I
fast a lot (especially on planes, I never eat the food on planes). Some
restaurants are good while traveling, of course, but cooking your own
stuff is generally better. :)

Cheers
Jim 

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Simmi Sareen]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat?
>

I have a maid who comes in to cook every morning. I spend 5 minutes
reheating lunch, another 10 minutes putting together dinner from prep she's
already done and maybe another 5-10 minutes making 1-2 cups of tea or
coffee I drink during the day. So less than half an hour on a weekday.

I take up longer projects like making sauces from scratch or baking bread
over the weekend, so it could be 1-2 hours a couple of times a week.

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Charles Haynes]

Since we've been travelling I've been cooking less. So maybe 90 min / week.
Most of that is 15 min / day making coffee every morning (hand grinding for
two people, brewing by hand, cleaning up). Back when I was cooking more
regularly, I'd estimate 8 hours a week, including shopping, prep, cooking,
and clean up. Of that maybe 40 min / day actually prep + cooking. That
includes things like feeding the Kombucha, culturing yoghurt, preserving
lemons, etc.

-- Charles

On Tue., 4 Sep. 2018, 1:01 pm Bruce A. Metcalf, 
wrote:

> On 09/03/2018 11:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat?
>
> It varies greatly, largely because my wife and I don't have a consistent
> schedule.
>
> Breakfast ranges from 0 to 30 minutes, with most events at one of the
> extremes.
>
> Lunch I tend to slap together in about 5 minutes.
>
> Dinners well, it depends on how you calculate time. Last night I
> made soup in about half an hour. Last week I made short ribs that took
> 72 hours to cook, though obviously most of that I was sleeping or
> elsewhere (don't ask me about sous vide unless you have time). Some
> nights it can take up to 90 minutes.
>
> Other things need to be counted too. I make my own mustard at 1/2 hour
> per batch; marinara sauce, which takes about two hours per batch; and my
> own stock, which takes 8 hours for vegetable stock and overnight for
> bone stock.
>
> As for averages, I won't even try. We dine out too often and too
> irregularly for any average to be a useful figure.
>
> All of these times are up from four years ago when I retired from my
> part-time job and took up cooking with some enthusiasm.
>
> Don't know if this helps much.
>
> Cheers,
> / Bruce /
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Bruce A. Metcalf]

On 09/03/2018 11:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:


Something I am curious about.

How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat?


It varies greatly, largely because my wife and I don't have a consistent 
schedule.


Breakfast ranges from 0 to 30 minutes, with most events at one of the 
extremes.


Lunch I tend to slap together in about 5 minutes.

Dinners well, it depends on how you calculate time. Last night I 
made soup in about half an hour. Last week I made short ribs that took 
72 hours to cook, though obviously most of that I was sleeping or 
elsewhere (don't ask me about sous vide unless you have time). Some 
nights it can take up to 90 minutes.


Other things need to be counted too. I make my own mustard at 1/2 hour 
per batch; marinara sauce, which takes about two hours per batch; and my 
own stock, which takes 8 hours for vegetable stock and overnight for 
bone stock.


As for averages, I won't even try. We dine out too often and too 
irregularly for any average to be a useful figure.


All of these times are up from four years ago when I retired from my 
part-time job and took up cooking with some enthusiasm.


Don't know if this helps much.

Cheers,
/ Bruce /

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Peter Griffin]

TL;DR

> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
home (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)

Do some part of my work from home, but go to office too.

> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
in total.

I have a lady who comes in to cook and clean twice a week. So my cooking is
purely based on whether I feel up to it. I usually cook on weekends, and
time actually spent exclusively in preparing the food would be about an
hour, maybe two.

> > I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the
food ecosystem in your household?"

Our cook and housekeeper takes care of ordering basics from our
neighbourhood store, which delivers. I shop for things I want that our
kirana guy does not stock, and a bit of meat and fish, usually once every
two or three week, a couple of hours each time, including getting to the
mall and back.


TM;SI*

I can barely claim to cook. Until a few months ago, I prided myself on a
good fluffy omelette, getting the coffee powder right in my filter, and
recombining leftovers and sauces.

The lady who cooks for me isn't comfortable outside the spices-and-oil
thing, though she uses far less in my house than she does in her own home
or elsewhere. She does rice, daal, veggies, a meat dish enough for a couple
of meals.

My cooking is purely based on whether I want something different from the
stuff she knows. She has worked for us for nigh on 15 years, and when Mum
was alive, she would cook under her supervision, not really paying
attention to the methods, so she can't re-create family recipes,
Anglo-Indian food. Also, she's Muslim, so we had no pork, which I love, and
now we can eat that, since I buy and cook it.

I only started cooking regularly a few months ago, when I resurrected my
mum's electric rice-cooker. Yes, it cooks lots more than rice, once you get
the hang of figuring out adding ingredients at different stages depending
on cooking times and prepping some things before tossing them in. I've been
messing around with it, learning from advice from friends and recipes
online. Mostly it's one-pot cooking, with some prep (rinsing, soaking,
chopping, marinating, sometimes a little pre-cooking on the stove). With
the RC, once it's in the pot, I practice delegation and go off and do other
things while it does its thing. So time taken varies depending on the prep
work needed and what else I have to do.

My grocery shopping is mainly to indulge this quest of mine, getting herbs,
spices and veggies the carts near home don;t have, and mildly exotic stuff
from the foreign goods shelves, as well as meats.

By the way, if any of you, like me, did not cook because you'd never
learned, I thoroughly recommend a rice-cooker. It takes a lot of the pain
and trial-and-error out of cooking, is simple (two options: Cook and Warm
(the third is switch off the power at the plug)) very versatile, and rather
foolproof (I have no culinary disasters to date, and I'm a bigger doofus in
the kitchen than in other parts of life). This Ebert essay -
https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-pot-and-how-to-use-it -
helped me make up my mind to just go for it. You might like the read.
Cooler friends are recommending the Instapot and variants of it, These
basically have more controls.I haven't reached the limitations of the RC
yet, so I haven't been tempted.

I found some of Mum's handwritten recipes, and once I get used to the idea
that I can sort of cook, the next goal is to try and make those.


* tangential meandering; safely ignored

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

This is whatever Ra Jesh was cooking his fish in.

Whether that is black bean sauce, black pepper sauce etc is an exercise left to 
his taste buds.

On 04/09/18, 11:03 AM, "silklist on behalf of Deepa Mohan" 
 wrote:

What is this "thickened black sauce" you are talking about? Sounds like my
cooking when I've forgotten things...

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:59 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian 
wrote:

> And depends on what you cook.  Meat generally takes a lot more preparation
> time as well as cooking time than vegetables do.  Simple dishes that can 
be
> cooked in a single pot take far less time than more complex ones involving
> thickened black sauces. [etc]
>
> So anywhere between 45 minutes to 3+ hours depending on what's cooking.
>
> And those 45 minutes are if you multitask.  Eg: Put the pressure cooker on
> to boil rice, and start chopping vegetables, heating the tamarind extract 
+
> salt + sambar powder just in time for the cooker to finish + the steam
> inside to dissipate enough for you to open it .. when you add the steamed
> vegetables and then the dal that are in the cooker along with the rice.
>
> Then again there are those dishes where you can just set them to cook and
> go off, do your own thing for half an hour plus while they gently simmer 
on
> the stove.
>
> On 04/09/18, 10:55 AM, "silklist on behalf of Alok Prasanna Kumar"
>  kautilya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I work outside home and I usually cook every alternate day or so given
> that
> I live alone and cook only for myself.
>
> So I guess I cook about 3-4 hours a week tops (not including 
re-heating
> leftovers).
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ra Jesh  wrote:
>
> > I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing
> the
> > food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier
> generations
> > in India included in "running the household".
> >
> > E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and
> made a
> > prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
> > purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and
> prawns, and
> > gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks,
> but I
> > bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the
> rest
> > of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local
> sellers).
> > The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth,
> which
> > took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the
> freezer but
> > will become a soup sometime next week or so.
> >
> > So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate
> quantity of
> > vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what
> gets
> > cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of
> what's
> > been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some
> of the
> > families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
> > appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:
> >
> > I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the
> cooking. I
> > make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per 
day
> > cooking.
> >
> >
> >
> > Karen.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Something I am curious about.
> > >
> > > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they
> eat? To
> > > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the
> past
> > week
> > > in total.
> > >
> > > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily
> within
> > home
> > > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> > >
> > > Udhay
> > > --
> > >
> > > --
> > > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Alok Prasanna Kumar
> Advocate
> Ph: +919560065577
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Deepa Mohan]

What is this "thickened black sauce" you are talking about? Sounds like my
cooking when I've forgotten things...

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:59 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian 
wrote:

> And depends on what you cook.  Meat generally takes a lot more preparation
> time as well as cooking time than vegetables do.  Simple dishes that can be
> cooked in a single pot take far less time than more complex ones involving
> thickened black sauces. [etc]
>
> So anywhere between 45 minutes to 3+ hours depending on what's cooking.
>
> And those 45 minutes are if you multitask.  Eg: Put the pressure cooker on
> to boil rice, and start chopping vegetables, heating the tamarind extract +
> salt + sambar powder just in time for the cooker to finish + the steam
> inside to dissipate enough for you to open it .. when you add the steamed
> vegetables and then the dal that are in the cooker along with the rice.
>
> Then again there are those dishes where you can just set them to cook and
> go off, do your own thing for half an hour plus while they gently simmer on
> the stove.
>
> On 04/09/18, 10:55 AM, "silklist on behalf of Alok Prasanna Kumar"
>  kautilya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I work outside home and I usually cook every alternate day or so given
> that
> I live alone and cook only for myself.
>
> So I guess I cook about 3-4 hours a week tops (not including re-heating
> leftovers).
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ra Jesh  wrote:
>
> > I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing
> the
> > food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier
> generations
> > in India included in "running the household".
> >
> > E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and
> made a
> > prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
> > purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and
> prawns, and
> > gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks,
> but I
> > bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the
> rest
> > of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local
> sellers).
> > The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth,
> which
> > took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the
> freezer but
> > will become a soup sometime next week or so.
> >
> > So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate
> quantity of
> > vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what
> gets
> > cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of
> what's
> > been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some
> of the
> > families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
> > appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:
> >
> > I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the
> cooking. I
> > make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
> > cooking.
> >
> >
> >
> > Karen.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Something I am curious about.
> > >
> > > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they
> eat? To
> > > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the
> past
> > week
> > > in total.
> > >
> > > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily
> within
> > home
> > > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> > >
> > > Udhay
> > > --
> > >
> > > --
> > > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Alok Prasanna Kumar
> Advocate
> Ph: +919560065577
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Veena Venugopal]

Close to zero minutes a week. Perhaps six hours in a year, at most.

Veena



>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

And depends on what you cook.  Meat generally takes a lot more preparation time 
as well as cooking time than vegetables do.  Simple dishes that can be cooked 
in a single pot take far less time than more complex ones involving thickened 
black sauces. [etc]

So anywhere between 45 minutes to 3+ hours depending on what's cooking.

And those 45 minutes are if you multitask.  Eg: Put the pressure cooker on to 
boil rice, and start chopping vegetables, heating the tamarind extract + salt + 
sambar powder just in time for the cooker to finish + the steam inside to 
dissipate enough for you to open it .. when you add the steamed  vegetables and 
then the dal that are in the cooker along with the rice.

Then again there are those dishes where you can just set them to cook and go 
off, do your own thing for half an hour plus while they gently simmer on the 
stove.

On 04/09/18, 10:55 AM, "silklist on behalf of Alok Prasanna Kumar" 
 wrote:

I work outside home and I usually cook every alternate day or so given that
I live alone and cook only for myself.

So I guess I cook about 3-4 hours a week tops (not including re-heating
leftovers).

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ra Jesh  wrote:

> I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the
> food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier 
generations
> in India included in "running the household".
>
> E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and made a
> prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
> purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and prawns, 
and
> gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks, but I
> bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the rest
> of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local sellers).
> The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth, which
> took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the freezer 
but
> will become a soup sometime next week or so.
>
> So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate quantity 
of
> vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what gets
> cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of what's
> been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some of the
> families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
> appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.
>
> On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:
>
> I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
> make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
> cooking.
>
>
>
> Karen.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? 
To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
> >
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> >
> > Udhay
> > --
> >
> > --
> > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> >
>


-- 
Alok Prasanna Kumar
Advocate
Ph: +919560065577

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Alok Prasanna Kumar]

I work outside home and I usually cook every alternate day or so given that
I live alone and cook only for myself.

So I guess I cook about 3-4 hours a week tops (not including re-heating
leftovers).

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ra Jesh  wrote:

> I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the
> food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier generations
> in India included in "running the household".
>
> E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and made a
> prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
> purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and prawns, and
> gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks, but I
> bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the rest
> of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local sellers).
> The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth, which
> took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the freezer but
> will become a soup sometime next week or so.
>
> So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate quantity of
> vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what gets
> cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of what's
> been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some of the
> families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
> appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.
>
> On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:
>
> I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
> make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
> cooking.
>
>
>
> Karen.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
> >
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> >
> > Udhay
> > --
> >
> > --
> > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> >
>


-- 
Alok Prasanna Kumar
Advocate
Ph: +919560065577

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Deepa Mohan]

Ah.As my mother said, "Cooking is the time from a clean kitchen to a clean
kitchen again." Perceptive post, Rajesh, thank you!

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ra Jesh  wrote:

> I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the
> food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier generations
> in India included in "running the household".
>
> E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and made a
> prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
> purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and prawns, and
> gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks, but I
> bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the rest
> of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local sellers).
> The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth, which
> took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the freezer but
> will become a soup sometime next week or so.
>
> So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate quantity of
> vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what gets
> cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of what's
> been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some of the
> families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
> appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.
>
> On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:
>
> I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
> make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
> cooking.
>
>
>
> Karen.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
> >
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> >
> > Udhay
> > --
> >
> > --
> > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> >
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Ra Jesh]

I would expand the question to "How much time do you spend managing the
food ecosystem in your household?" I guess this is what earlier generations
in India included in "running the household".

E.g. Last week I cooked a fried fish in a thickened black sauce and made a
prawn curry (3-4 hours on that day) but the process also involved
purchasing the fish (I don't do home delivery of groceries) and prawns, and
gutting 2 kg of prawns. Now the fish dish needed boneless chunks, but I
bought the whole fish (because smaller fishmongers can't discard the rest
of the carcass profitably and I prefer buying from smaller local sellers).
The rest of the fish carcass can best be used to make a fish broth, which
took another 90 min, but 2 days later. This broth is now in the freezer but
will become a soup sometime next week or so.

So, from picking and buying an adequate variety but appropriate quantity of
vegetables, fruits, grains, fats, and meats, to orchestrating what gets
cooked when to maximize freshness of each item, to keeping track of what's
been eaten and how much is leftover in the fridge, to cooking some of the
families meals myself, to cleaning up and disposing of kitchen waste
appropriately, I'd say it takes about 12-15 hours a week.

On Sep 4, 2018 10:29, "Karen Fernandes"  wrote:

I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
cooking.



Karen.



On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> Udhay
> --
>
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Udhay Shankar N]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:29 AM Karen Fernandes  wrote:

I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
> make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
> cooking.
>

When you pick something to cook, is the primary concern the dish itself or
the time it takes to cook it?

Udhay

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Karen Fernandes]

I work from home. I live with my mother who does most of the cooking. I
make my own breakfast though, for which I spend 30-40 minutes per day
cooking.


Karen.


On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> Udhay
> --
>
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Radhika, Y.]

I work from home. About 1 hour and 15 mins.

El lun., 3 sept. 2018 20:43, Gaurav Vaz  escribió:

> Well, when I am in Toronto, I work from home, and I spend between 1-2 hours
> a day on cooking food. This depends on whether I am cooking from scratch or
> from a meal-kit that we order a couple of times.
>
> When I am out traveling, this drops to ZERO :p
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Something I am curious about.
> >
> > How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> > make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past
> week
> > in total.
> >
> > Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within
> home
> > (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
> >
> > Udhay
> > --
> >
> > --
> > ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
> >
>
>
> --
> If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
>
> Gaurav Vaz | m...@gauravvaz.com | +91-99005-16145 (India) &
> +1-647-572-1123
> (Canada) | http://gauravvaz.com
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Gaurav Vaz]

Well, when I am in Toronto, I work from home, and I spend between 1-2 hours
a day on cooking food. This depends on whether I am cooking from scratch or
from a meal-kit that we order a couple of times.

When I am out traveling, this drops to ZERO :p

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> Udhay
> --
>
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
>


-- 
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!

Gaurav Vaz | m...@gauravvaz.com | +91-99005-16145 (India) & +1-647-572-1123
(Canada) | http://gauravvaz.com

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Deepa Mohan]

I cook in both my home and my daughter's...it averages to about 40 min a
day...more when I have forgotten what I left on the stove and carbonized
it

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 9:03 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:52 AM Deepa Mohan  wrote:
>
>
> > One would think that when starting a thread like this, you would share
> your
> > own data, Udhay!
> >
>
> I mostly offer prep services to my wife, who is the main cook - except on
> weekends, when I generally make things like frittatas. So perhaps an
> average of 20 minutes/day.
>
> Since I live alone, though, the time I spend cooking varies a lot.
> >
>
> How much has it been over the last week? (I picked that time period because
> I am skeptical that people will recall the time they spent in the kitchen
> for longer than a week)
>
> Udhay
>

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Udhay Shankar N]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:52 AM Deepa Mohan  wrote:


> One would think that when starting a thread like this, you would share your
> own data, Udhay!
>

I mostly offer prep services to my wife, who is the main cook - except on
weekends, when I generally make things like frittatas. So perhaps an
average of 20 minutes/day.

Since I live alone, though, the time I spend cooking varies a lot.
>

How much has it been over the last week? (I picked that time period because
I am skeptical that people will recall the time they spent in the kitchen
for longer than a week)

Udhay

Re: [silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Deepa Mohan]

One would think that when starting a thread like this, you would share your
own data, Udhay!

I work both "outside the home, on my outings, and from home when I am
posting photographs and writing about them. I tend to cook most of the
cooked food that I eat, except my post-nature-walks breakfasts/brunches at
darshinis near the places I visit, which also have freshly cooked food.The
uncooked food part forms a major part of my diet...vegetable salads and
fruits. Since I live alone, though, the time I spend cooking varies a lot.

Deepa.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:35 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Something I am curious about.
>
> How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
> make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
> in total.
>
> Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
> (as a homemaker or a long distance worker)
>
> Udhay
> --
>
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))
>

[silk] How much time do you spend cooking?

[Udhay Shankar N]

Something I am curious about.

How much time here do people spend actually cooking the food they eat? To
make the data more useful, calculate the time you spent over the past week
in total.

Also, please mention whether you work outside home or primarily within home
(as a homemaker or a long distance worker)

Udhay
-- 

--
((Udhay Shankar N))  ((via phone))