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On Comparative Cooking Time
Mar. 27th, 2009 12:44 pmIt is a fairly well known fact that time is not a static measure. It expands and contracts, theoretically in response to the velocity at which one it travelling. But as anyone who's ever sat in a classroom watching the clock tick slowly onward knows, it also stretches out to impossible proportions or shrinks into the blink of an eye depending on the activity in which one is engaged. Time is, in fact, quite catlike in this regard.
Which is why when one is prepping and roasting a chicken for dinner after work, it takes no time whatsoever (even if the oven's heating speed is glacial). When one is making sabzi to go in the crockpot in the morning, however, prepping everything takes up the whole amount of time until one runs out the door to go to work. When the cookbooks tell you that you can chop everything up and toss it in the crockpot in five minutes? They lie.
Which is why when one is prepping and roasting a chicken for dinner after work, it takes no time whatsoever (even if the oven's heating speed is glacial). When one is making sabzi to go in the crockpot in the morning, however, prepping everything takes up the whole amount of time until one runs out the door to go to work. When the cookbooks tell you that you can chop everything up and toss it in the crockpot in five minutes? They lie.
