I have another statistic: 0% of Americans love doing laundry. So why is Tide still in business?
My dependents (two small kittens) sure love when I do laundry though, don't know how that skews the numbers.
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
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#12It's also becoming increasingly difficult.
Main supermarkets have semi-prepared stuff. And actual grocery shop is a massive detour and involves lots of peeling.
The actual cooking part doesn't bother me as much as the surrounding activities.
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#13I have another statistic: 0% of Americans love doing laundry. So why is Tide still in business?
Because there hasn't been a simple-enough, cheap-enough outsourcing method developed. It's probably only a matter of time though.
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#14Forget Neuralink, I wish someone would pioneer a way for me to pour Soylent directly into my stomach. Eating is fun socially, but it's just another inconvenience otherwise.
There is. Nasogastric and percutaneous gastrostomy tubes are commonly used for various reasons in hospital settings.
Now ask your self, will you really get surgery for convenience and productivity sake only? Any sane person will say no.
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#15I like cooking well enough but not so much that I'd still do it if I could get the same results, at the same price, without doing it. Ditto house/construction stuff—I kinda like it but not enough that I'd keep doing it if there were no value in the work, i.e. I could wave a wand instead and the work would be done and I'm out the same amount of money as materials. Hell, in either case I'd pay a smallish premium—tens of a percent over the cost to DIY—to never do it again, all else (quality, selection, availability/timing of product) being equal, even. It's only because the activities provide tons of value that I do them myself, even though I "like" them.
Actually the more I think about it, that goes for lots and lots of things I do. Almost all of it, maybe. To "love" an activity must one love doing it even if it provides nothing of use, no desirable output? Hm. I mean, even games provide a goal, typically. People might just move pieces around on a board or hit a ball around aimlessly and enjoy it but that's not what gets people really going. You need rules, structure, a point to it.
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#16I'm not sure that I love cooking, but I haven't yet figured out how to stay healthy on prepared food. The things we cook at home tend to be pretty basic and quick, possibly monotonous if you care about variety.
I love homemade bread.
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#17I like cooking but end up with a bunch of things to clean if I get creative.
The real revolution in Smart Homes will be a system that cleans and puts away dishes, wipes down counters, washes dries and folds laundry, puts away toys and cleans up messes without human intervention. I’m rooting for Roomba.
But they should name it 'Rosie' after a copy righted show about the future (from my childhood).
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#18I guess I’m crazy, but I enjoy the forced break from modern life that the ancient ritual of cooking dinner brings. That’s not to say that I’m always stoked to cook, but I don’t dislike it and am almost always happy with the results.
I’m all for new ingenious things, but I also like to be in touch with age old traditions.
Heh, I use vim too tho, so go figure.
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#19It's also becoming increasingly difficult. Main supermarkets have semi-prepared stuff. And actual grocery shop is a massive detour and involves lots of peeling. The actual cooking part doesn't bother me as much as the surrounding activities.
All those goddamn "hands on time: 15 minutes!" recipes where the ingredients list includes diced-this and peeled-that and chopped-whatever and shredded-other-thing and it's clear the 15 minutes doesn't include getting all the ingredients prepped & measured, which will easily take more than that 15 minutes all on its own.
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#20I guess I’m crazy, but I enjoy the forced break from modern life that the ancient ritual of cooking dinner brings. That’s not to say that I’m always stoked to cook, but I don’t dislike it and am almost always happy with the results. I’m all for new ingenious things, but I also like to be in touch with age old traditions. Heh, I use vim too tho, so go figure.
I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg.
Meanwhile I can bang out a rosemary chicken that's low calorie and delicious in like 10 minutes of actual work and a half an hour playing games on my couch, and steam up some vegetables to go with it with 5 minutes on the microwave.
Cooking is not even remotely hard but if you tell my mom that she'll flip, but that's because she has whole cookbooks full of this stuff where the prep time is measured in HOURS. And it's just like, why are you making this so hard on yourself?