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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • If you cook, you cook for a purpose, you don’t throw food away just because you’ve cooked for the sake of cooking, you eat it, or serve it to someone else to eat. In the end it’s a chore fulfilled still.

    There’s overlap, but not necessarily. If I’m cooking for fun, I’ll cook things that are tasty and that I (or whoever I’m cooking for) would enjoy eating. I won’t be paying attention to the nutritional content of the food. But if I’m cooking for sustenance, then nutritional value comes first before enjoyment of the process or the food. Sometimes, you have to do both for one meal.


















  • Without a lid, you lose more water and heat, so it’ll take longer and cost more energy to get the soup to temperature and maintain that temperature, as well as to heat up the extra water that replaces whatever has evaporated. But it’s perfectly doable.

    Some stores sell these one-size-fits-all lids that are basically like an inverted dome. Also sometimes sold as “universal pot lid”. A poorly fitted lid is better than no lid in my opinion. You’ll probably save on the energy costs with just a few uses.