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, <[email protected]> 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 / > >
