“Nobody should give two shits about efficiency with cooking unless your job is to cook efficiently.”
That’s like saying you shouldn’t care how long it takes to drive somewhere unless it’s your job to drive there quickly.
Cooking at home is one of the easiest ways to save money AND improve your health (if done conscientiously), but many people don’t do it because they are daunted by it, and they think it’s a ton of time and work. It’s so easy to lower that barrier, why wouldn’t you?
The ease of doing something and the efficiency at which you do that thing are entirely unrelated in terms of accomplishing the thing.
Cooking eggs is easy. You can get more efficient by cracking eggs better for instance but is that going to save anything? Maybe a few seconds. Is that meaningful? No. Cooking tends more often to fall into that category than the other.
As you get better at cooking overall, you'll get more efficient. It's the same for nearly any other skill. So don't bother optimizing for efficiency unless it's your job - you'll get there eventually anyway.
That’s like saying you shouldn’t care how long it takes to drive somewhere unless it’s your job to drive there quickly.
Cooking at home is one of the easiest ways to save money AND improve your health (if done conscientiously), but many people don’t do it because they are daunted by it, and they think it’s a ton of time and work. It’s so easy to lower that barrier, why wouldn’t you?