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"
<silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net on behalf of
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 <rajeshme...@gmail.com> 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" <kayfer...@gmail.com> 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 <ud...@pobox.com> 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))
> >
>
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