Prep time: 10 minutes

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andrey m

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Now and then I come across a recipe that suggests that the time involved is
10 minutes - or some other ridiculous span. Wonder who does the timing?
Usually it takes me that long to just line the ingredients up on the kitchen
counter. Measuring, mincing and getting the pliers to remove a safety seal
on something takes some more minutes. Assuming that the dish eventually
gets going on/in the stove, there's putting away everything and clean-up.
Is the prep time suggestion useful to anyone? Polly
 
"Polly Esther" wrote:



My sister didn't believe in prep time.

We called her "Federal Express".because everytime she visited one of her
boyfriends, she absolutely/positively had to be there overnight.

Rodney "Andy" Dangerfield
 
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:28:52 -0500, "Polly Esther"
wrote:


The prep time is for entertainment purposes only. They should list a
clean up time. I might be able to make some of the prep times but it
would triple my clean-up tiime.

Lou
 
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:28:52 -0500, "Polly Esther"
wrote:


I presume it's someone with a staff that does everything except the
actual cooking part.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
In article , [email protected]
says...

That reflects on the level of organisation in your kitchen storage and
kitchen layout :-)

If I'm in a hurry I can assemble and prep a lot of family-meal recipes in
10 minutes ... stuff like a roast chicken/joint and veg, or a fruit
crumble or a sponge cake. (prep not cooking time).


Putting away and clean up aren't prep time in my book.

Janet.
 
Il 07/04/2011 16:28, Polly Esther ha scritto:


It's for those recipes a-la: "pop you frozen eal out of the freezer and
put it in the microwave, smoke a cigarette, realize you didn't turn on
the MW, turn it on and wait 5 more minutes to get the thing out of the
MW. 10 minutes :)"
--
Vilco
And the Family Stone
Shguazza, pesce fess'
 
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:28:52 -0500, "Polly Esther"
wrote:


Minutes schminutes... and yet yoose gals expect us guys to open and
roll on a condom in less than five seconds. hehe
 
Re: [email protected]

Polly Esther wrote:


There's prep time and then there's pre-prep time, especially on TV, and with
"quick:" recipes. You may notice that when a chef comes out to cook on TV
there is the mis-en-place, conveniently already set up, ingredients pre
minced, pre-diced, pre-peeled, and so forth, and set in individual little
containers in the amount needed with all necessary tools laid out at hand.
Some or all of the work necesssary to get to that point seems to be left out
many times when "prep" time is given.

MartyB
 
On Apr 7, 10:28?am, "Polly Esther" wrote:

Only as a guestimate. I bet they don't bother to time in the cleaning
up of the dropped egg on the floor or a counter wipedown. It does
give me a rough idea of when to start the recipe vis a vis getting
supper on the table by 6.
 
On 07/04/2011 10:28 AM, Polly Esther wrote:



I think that the prep time estimates are based on the time it would take
a competent person to find and prepare the ingredients. Some people are
faster than others. I tend to work quickly in the kitchen. I multi task,
heating things up while I am working on others. My wife has recently
started cooking one of her favourite dishes that I alwys usede to cook
fore her, Thai curried chicken with coconut milk. I start the rice and
it takes 15 minutes from the time it starts to boil. I like it to sit
for at least 5 minutes after it is done. I start working on the chicken
once the rice is started, so it takes me 20 minutes to prepare that
meal. It takes my wife more than an hour to do the same dish.
 
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