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Do Mise en place. Holy shit does cooking get a lot easier when you read the ingredient list and interpret "1 onion, finely chopped" as literally "a small bowl containing 1 finely chopped onion before you start" and not "1 onion, which you should finely chop when you have the time". Also it lets me psychologically separate the prep from the cooking: right now I've got everything I need for dinner in the fridge; with that done actually making dinner will take 5 minutes.

Cooking is now way less frantic and I therefore do it more because it's less stressful

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@deafhobbit3/2/2024, 7:41 PM

i always try to do mise en place when I'm making something new or complicated.. in comfortable skipping it when I'm just winging it though, or when I'm making a comfortable recipe in familiar with.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/2/2024, 7:41 PM

biggest kitchen upgrade I ever got was I bought shallow bowls for mis en place that easily fit in my dishwasher without The Bowl Problem

chaos gf @zip3/2/2024, 8:06 PM

I have some shallow bowls and some ramekins (thanks, Gü) that cover a lot of stuff, but this is a great idea.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/2/2024, 8:08 PM

biggest "ugh i'll just do it all when cooking" reason for me is not wanting to give myself extra cleanup to do, so moving to "everything but the pan and knives go in the dishwasher" was a huge leap

Iro @Iro3/2/2024, 8:09 PM

i got like ten of those 50-cent gray plastic bowls from target and they are amazing

@Maidelen3/2/2024, 8:20 PM

I'll remember this, I'm in my cookin-learning process!

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess3/2/2024, 8:30 PM

this is how I've always cooked and I didn't realize there was an actual word for it

Twinkee @Twinkee3/2/2024, 9:20 PM

I like to use a big cutting board so I can have all my chopped stuff in their own pile without having to wash a bunch of lil bowls.

samson @squidcrusher3/2/2024, 9:50 PM

I was taught this in cooking classes in high school, but I am awful at applying it in practice. Usually my gf helps prep all the stuff that needs to be cut while I take care of the rest. (I am pretty slow at chopping and she is a prep cook so it's literally her job)
Also, I totally misread the "not "1 onion, which you should finely chop when you have the time"." and thought; I should just prep/measure whatever I can earlier in the day so it is much less to do around dinner time. I get up pretty early and I am usually pretty exhausted by the time my family wants to have dinner.

sharks + planes as formerly seen on Twitter @sharksonaplane3/6/2024, 4:21 PM

This actually does sound like a great way to do it for you! Bc otherwise I really do not understand how it makes the cooking time less if you have to do all of that at the same time anyway.

eevee @lexyeevee3/3/2024, 6:27 AM

as the one who does the dishes... hmmmm. hrrrrrm

chaos gf @zip3/3/2024, 11:14 AM

there's the implicit dishwasher here, I admit, but also I combine ingredients that go into the meal at the same time into one bowl if it makes sense

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