Sad fact of life
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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I cook damn near every night and I'd like to think my food is decent, not amazing but decent. I'm not making my own sauces but will do lots of searing the meat on a cast iron and then throw in the oven while the vegetables are being steamed.
Takes about 30-40 minutes and 10 minutes to clean dishes.
The only way I'm cooking for 2 hours is if it's a weekend and I'm batch cooking for lunch meals.If you're cooking every meal with homemade sauces to simmer, that is great but your standards are higher than most people.
To be fair, I don't take 2 hours every time to simmer, I was just pissed off at the guy who says cooking takes less than 5 minutes. I do usually try to make some sauce for most things, but it's nothing too fancy. It's either that or fries and some sort of meat in the oven which does indeed take less than 5 minutes - but makes me feel like a lazy piece of shit every time, so I don't do it too often.
Thing is, I grew up with my mom being stay-at-home and we didn't have all that much money. So she always made the best of what she had, and when things started getting better financially, well, she still cooked every night, except now she had more money for more and higher quality ingredients. So I'm really spoiled when it comes to food.