Pots, pans and cookware are tools. Yes, it’s great to use nice gear but the romanization of cooking, patience and love is all good…until you cook for someone sick, in need or dying. Then the nice tools and patience goes out the window. Nursing a pot of stock is a fantasy for some. Certainly use care but time is a commodity for some. Also, it’s not the tool or pan…it’s the cook. A good cook uses what they have and is open to “new” tech that 100 years old, if it can make life and the process of providing just a little easier.
I agree wholeheartedly. That’s, at least for me, why I specified “strictly from a final product perspective.” I spent forty years working at a very demanding job and cooking for a family with a person with a disability who had a lot of challenging requirements. Using a pressure cooker would have been a challenge! He learned to like and came to expect pan sauces with proteins, enough to drizzle over rice, barley, potatoes, etc. Now he is living on his own, and I am old and tired enough that big production cooking is much less appealing. I have joined the “from start to plating has to be twenty minutes or less or we change the menu” club! Having good broth on hand really helps.
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My mother lived with us the last six years of her life as a dementia patient. I already didn’t need a whole lot of sleep but I ended up figuring out how to get by on 3.5 to 4.0 hours and maybe a short nap during the day. Getting up at 2:00 a.m. to cook maintained my sanity.
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