i must say
@Kaido i had underestimated you.
Yes, my system and yours have differences, but i see we are both taking the same approach. I find that impressive, because very few .. VERY few people i know, care about taking cooking to this level.
Mine is more due to executive dysfunction:
1. I forget stuff easily. My ADHD will let food rot in the back of the fridge simply because I don't see it & don't
remember.
2. I get overwhelmed REALLY easily. Too many steps & my brain shorts out lol. I primarily use the
APO,
Instant Pot, and
Ninja Creami because they require low effort. It often literally hurts my brain to follow recipes, haha!
From the outside, this approach looks tedious & complex, but really it's just a calendar with minimal amounts of work!
For example: Homemade pre-cooked bacon
1. I can sous-vide a pork belly. Just vac-seal & drop in the SV:
<p>Maybe just one – homemade bacon. It may sound like an intimidating proposal at first, but don’t worry, we’ll help walk you through the process with today’s recipe.</p>
www.spotix.com
2. I have a deli slicer & will make bacon slices:
3. I'll cook the bacon & then freeze to make homemade microwave-reheat bacon:
It's easy to make bacon ahead of time in your oven! Whether you make bacon for a crowd or stock your freezer, you'll love this recipe!
www.thisfarmgirlcooks.com
4. I'll save the bacon fat to use for later.
Unfortunately, I can't do this all in my head because I will space it. Instead, I stick the steps on a Google Calendar. That way, each step only takes maybe 10 minutes of actual hands-on time.
That's how I do pizza, too:
1. Make the dough & cold-ferment for a few days
2. Ball up & freeze in my silicone storage containers.
3. Thaw & roll-out on-demand. Load onto a Baking Steel indoors or an outdoor gas pizza oven with a SuperPeel. Cut with pizza scissors (hate, but love lol).
This is the approach that makes cooking accessible to me over time. Over the years, I've collected various neat tricks to improve my processes. For example:
1. No-knead pizza dough for overnight flavor
2. Cold fermentation for 72-hour flavor
3. Homemade sourdough starter
4. Fresh-milled wheat in my Mockmill
5. Einkorn ancient wheat flavor upgrade
6. Sprouted wheat berries nutrition upgrade
etc. etc. etc. Around the time I joined the forums, I was a broke college kid, so I started putting away just $10 a week into an auto-savings account for my kitchen toys:
Over the last 20 years, that's $10,000+ invested into special tools, ingredients, and education:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/rqxxcc/table_of_contents/
I pretty much just push buttons on appliances for about 10 minutes a day because my focus is garbage lol. It'd really nothing more than a fancy checklist system!!