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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by dwild on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:46PM (#22241351)
> There is something about cooking, doing things with your hands that is fundamental to the human experience.

I agree that doing more has plenty of avantage, but is there something specifically about cooking?

Have you ever sew piece of clothes that you regularly wear? Most people never did... yet for something that will be used for hundreds of hours, we pay 20$+ for it instead of taking a few hours to do it. Why are we arguing about cooking ourself but not sewing our own clothes?

Cooking our own food is simply a tradition that stayed with us, nothing else. It doesn't make more sense to do it ourself, than making our own clothes.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by erklik on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:01AM (#22244637)
> is there something specifically about cooking?

I mean sustenance and cooking is one of the fundamental activities required to continue living. Defintely ranks higher than any other skill i.e. sewing etc. Although, still quite important to do that as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by mandelbrotwurst on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:32PM (#22244048)
It's more than that.

You can live without clothes (at least in certain climates) - you can't live without eating.

It's not just tradition, it's more core to our survival.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by sharadov on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:09PM (#22250033)
Yes it does matter, because food is something that I put in my body, it has a direct correlation with my health. Clothes, not that much.
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