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Everything that takes the mind off of all the stress of contemporary life.

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[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Would you mind talking a bit more about your approach to cooking? I take some satisfaction from being able to cook and sometimes from the feeling of improving my skill as a cook, but mostly it feels like a necessary chore.

[-] ExtraJudgement@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure! But it's not particularly sophisticated. Other than staple recipes (like e.g. vegetables stews) I learned while growing up, when there's a product I was previously dependent on buying ready-made that gets enshittified by the food industry so much I'm unwilling to pay the full asking price, I start looking into the recipe for it and experiment to calibrate quality, time efficiency, and material cost to the exact tradeoff I consider best for me. Frozen pizza vs self made pizza being one example.

My joy in cooking, aside from the above optimization process I find fun, comes from knowning I pay less money to eat a better quality (and almost always less unhealthy) meal than I'd otherwise be able to. Once I have a recipe dialed in, it also requires virtually no thinking to get done, which is the opposite of my daily work; that's the "unwinding" for me. I can then also combine it with listening to some audiobook or TTRPG actual play / podcast.

Due to this depth-first approach my actual list of recipes isn't incredibly large, but it's enough to never get boring by now, at least.

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