Cooking has changed so much during this past century I should say. No more are women slogging over t...
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Cooking has changed so much during this past century I should say. No more are women slogging over the stove throughout the day in the kitchen. I can even say many traditional foods ar enot being cooked anymore. Or maybe not as frequently. I can never stand for too long in the kitchen. So I have deviced techniques to cook as quickly as I can. For the most part I will not take more than 30 minutes cooking start to finish. Lets say I am cooking rasam, then I setup many items into the cookerand while that is going I just keep cutting vegetables. So while I wind up my rasam I have my veggies and rice done. Now one might ask why rasam. That being a very hot favorite in my house. Now rarely do I have to do sambhar and such. Lets say I am doing rotis. I would have already soaked my dhals so while I am making hot chappatis my dhal will be getting ready too.
So I always wonder has cooking methods changed , cooking times changed or is it just me??
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Very nice and interesting reply Ranjini:) I actually did mean all the startup and the actual cooking time around 30 mins BUT definetly excluding cleanup...since dh helps with that its a blessing:) thanks for peeping in..
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I think the time to cook is not the same as cooking time
, because in order to begin the cooking process, one has to get the factory into working order. This includes washing, scrubbing and tidying. All this easily adds up to a couple of hours! The method and time to actually cook something has changed in some respects compared to the way my grandma used to cook. We can cook individual meals fairly quickly. But for the most part, if you are talking about Indian cooking, you are talking about starting from basics, and this still takes it's own sweet time! Gadgets and gizmos help us somewhat....at least make the job interesting!
ranjini
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