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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by watwut on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:12AM (#31617832)
I often cook like that but pre-packaged fast-food is in fact faster to cook. I am not saying it should be eaten all the time, but the receipt you describe is not that fast. Mushrooms specifically are time consuming to clean in any non symbolic quantity.

And you also need rice/potato with it unless you go keto in which case you need much more cleaning/slicing mushrooms and more meat.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by phonypc on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:01AM (#31620417)
> Mushrooms specifically are time consuming to clean in any non symbolic quantity.

FWIW, in my ~10 year professional cooking career I think I've washed a batch of mushrooms a grand total of 2 times, only because they were uncommonly dirty. You've probably eaten unwashed mushrooms many times in restaurants. Eating a little dirt probably isn't going to hurt you. If there's anything pathogenic on them a rinse in water isn't going to do much.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by JJMcJ on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:25PM (#31688608)
Clean? I rinse them under running water. This isn't a TV cooking show. It's just home cooking.

I should mention that the mushrooms are always cooked well.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by bobthepanda on Saturday June 04, 2022 @04:34AM (#31618213)
A lot of cooking time can be done async tho.

Rice can be put in a cooker and prepared ahead of time. Some cookers even let you specify a time in the future when it should be ready. Similarly, marinading develops a lot of flavor over time that you could be doing work or errands.

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Re:Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores by JJMcJ on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:27PM (#31688616)
Or prepare four or more servings. Put in refrigerator or freezer depending on how fast they will be consumed. So the 20 minutes, let's say, turns into 30 but split over four or six meals, so it's not so bad.
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