It also helps your brain to release stress & depress.
Over the years I've discovered that cooking is the most enjoyable hobby that saved me going into constant stress & depress.
Over the years I've discovered that cooking is the most enjoyable hobby that saved me going into constant stress & depress.
As a "hacker", I think a lot, all of the time.
So I cook to think about something else. Washing the dishes without dishwasher is also a moment where I let my mind wander.
Definitely not some time lost (to be honest I don't enjoy washing the dishes as much as cooking, of course, but I feel that connecting my brain on something "easy" is rahter good for me, else I'd jump on my computer right after eating...)
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I usually buy a book (these days I'm reading "Elements of Programming") read a chapter and then build the mental model while cooking. Cooking is a double edge sword for me.