What's wrong with fresh tomatoes? Why don't you buy fresh vegetables and make a nice meal at home? Is it about saving time? I could never understand it.
They're super bland most of the time (unless you're willing to pay a premium for the more flavourful varieties and those can be hit and miss aswell) - I usually just get canned ones unless I specifically need fresh ones
I do get your point though, making a meal from scratch can be so much better, both taste and health wise, with a bit of practice - not to mention it's relaxing to do the actual chopping & cooking usually
Try getting some heirloom tomatoes from a farmer's market, or grow your own. You'll be shocked at the difference. Tomatoes (real ones) have a distinctive and delicious taste!
I'm like you : tomates in ca only, cos anything else in my country is not tomato : it's a reddish thing that tastes absolutely nothing.
Spring sucks though - freezer is empty, waiting for the new plants to deliver the first cherry tomatoes.
(hilariously that URL is blacklisted from HN "submit")
Yes. Time and effort.
The effort argument often reminds me of people who have incredibly inefficient workflows in their computer tasks, simply because they never learned how to do it right in the first place.
So everyone here has learned how to do basic cooking and what a healthy diet should consist of. It's not like everybody are doing it but at least the basic knowledge is there.
Sometimes making food from scratch is actually easier too than making it from store bought packages.
In the US, the equivalent subject was called Home Economics, and was focused on women. This article goes through the history of the field: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/what-happened-to-home-eco... (keep in mind that the publication is biased, as all are)
> in the 1950s and ’60s [...] in many cases, home ec departments were eliminated, renamed, or folded into other departments, and funding was cut (although administrators’ salaries typically rose). “Administrators, all male then, held skeptical and hostile attitudes toward home economics, even as they expressed unabashed ignorance about the field,” Margaret W. Rossiter writes
That's really great. Of all the things constantly added to the expectations on schools, this is one that can have such a massive impact on many levels.
Fun thing is, I hated those lessons. I fell in love with this kind of work later on though. Now I want a wood workshop in my garage. Need to afford a garage first though...
Anyhow, this kind of lessons is definitely helpful. I see them as sort of compilation of "how to X" Youtube videos. With a teacher to help you with more complicated steps.
The woodworking/mechanics part is called "sløyd" and the other is "forming" (shaping).