Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by yibg on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:17PM (#22241668)

I had periods of doing something similar too. Make a pot of stew / curry / jambalaya with rice, eat with some salad.

Advantage of stew / curry is they can be frozen and later thawed and reheated. Over time though it got really monotonous for me. I like good food, and importantly variety.

Feels like there is some opportunity here. A way to scale home cooking for a bunch of individuals. Like if a few people in close proximity, say in the same apartment complex, rotated responsibilities for cooking. You can get bulk savings, time savings and variety.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by ianai on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:42PM (#22242874)

The real thing would be to have a freezer. Cook enough for now and freeze a cache for later. Do this quick enough and you’ll be able to stock up multiple recipes in the freezer with omit needing to cook once a week (for me, preferably). My trouble is my apartment won’t allow a freezer.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by yibg on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:18PM (#22243095)

Not everything is freezer friendly though. Many seafood tastes pretty bad after being frozen and reheated. Ditto for anything that is supposed to be crispy / crunchy etc or any texture that’s not soft.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by ianai on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:51PM (#22243576)

Somethings like fried foods heat up ok to great in the oven instead of microwave.

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