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It's funny how separate of a discipline meal-prepping & consistently using our awesome kitchen gadgets is from the job of actually cooking! If you're high-energy & highly-motivated, then you can easily consistently engage in using them, but if you're like most people, we get really excited by the idea initially, then it kind of fades over time & becomes intermittent!
A lot of my chef friends will get a girlfriend who gets drawn in by the idea that "chef = will cook amazing food for me 24/7" hahaha. But really, they slave away in the work kitchen all day & then come home to make a PB&J sandwich because they're fried & don't want to do their job at home lol.
Because when you do the math on the logic of things, none of it makes sense in practice, especially in the professional & TV chef world! I don't know how many recipes Paula Dean has published, but there's over 900 of them on this Pinterest board!
Given a typical 16-hour waking day, it's pretty hard to develop recipes, especially ones that fit your particular profile (ex. Southern comfort cooking), are at least somewhat unique, are actually good, plus test endless iterations until repeatability is achieved, plus go shopping for ingredients, plus do the cleanup, etc. Which is where Recipe Developers come in to do all the background R&D work, so that the TV Chef can be the superstar!
I mean shoot, I've been cooking for decades, and I've only ever come up with like half a dozen unique recipes myself, and I don't even know if I've even tried 900 unique recipes in my WHOLE LIFE lol! If you want to read a cool story on people who combined high energy with creativity, check out the book "Mission Street Food" (under five bucks used), which is about the people who essentially kicked off the food truck craze in SF a decade or two ago:
Anyway, I use personal automation to make things easier in my life, which is why I'm so passionate about sharing tools like the APO, IP, Souper Cubes, meal-prepping, macros, etc. Look good, feel great, eat amazing food all the time, and do it in a really easy way by bothering to put in a few minutes a day to meal-prep, clean up, shop, and plan using some simple pre-designed checklists!
It's not as glamorous or romantic as mentally freestyling a lavish meal from your head based on all of these magically non-spoiled ingredients you just happen to have in your kitchen, but the results are pretty good! For example, I really like how my IP pasta master system + Souper Cubes + APO retherm procedure came out:
Coupled with this cold-start bread procedure:
And pressure-cook (instead of steam) up some veggies:
So on a lazy weekend, I can pick out a block of pasta for lunch, reheat it in the APO using steam, throw some parm & whatever seasonings on it, then reheat a pre-sliced baguette half in the APO, and throw some frozen broccoli in my IP for zero minutes, and have an amazing meal in under 20 minutes with about 60 second's worth of effort lol.
Which translates into (1) a HUGELY reduced mental load on my brain, especially when I want great-tasting food but don't have the energy or aren't in the mood to cook, and (2) repeat that for breakfast ...snacks ...lunch ...dinner ...dessert..day after day, every day, forever! All from following some laughably easy checklists for miniscule amounts of time using paltry effort from my fancy modern kitchen gadgets! Which is why I love to geek out about the APO!
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