Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds

Re:Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds by volumetric on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:28PM (#32310222)

I've been cooking a long time and IME there's about a 95% chance that a recipe billed as "15 minutes" is only actually 15 minutes if you don't start the timer until all the veggies are processed, all the equipment is out, and all the ingredients are measured.

Almost always the actual time for "15-minute meal" is 30-40 minutes—sometimes even longer. Not counting stuff like clean-up (any that you can't accomplish via clean-as-you-go, anyway) or shopping or any of that, just the actual time between "I have all the stuff I need for this recipe and am going to make it now" and "OK it is ready to eat".

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Re:Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds by omginternets on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:39PM (#32313922)

Agreed. This is precisely the issue with a lot of beginner-oriented cookbooks.

Fortunately, 15 min start-to-finish recipes exist. And once you have four or five under your belt, it becomes something of a pleasure to extend the 15 mins to 20 (or even 30) and make something better. At least, when you have the time, which for me is on Sunday.

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