Maybe you could work on savoring each bite a little longer until you find yourself allowing enough time to respect the work you put in. Shut out the shittiness of the world and embrace joy for maybe a half hour.

Obviously you can't eat like that all the time, but on days when you took the time to make something special, savor it.

And you still have to wash the dishes!

unironically agree.

because cooking in itself is fun and almost meditative, and I am a fast eater. and when presented when food that's done exactly how I like it. then it's even better.

There is nothing worse than making a long meal but getting the timing off. Especially since the longer it takes to make the longer any fixes can take. Yesterday I had something at 7 pm and finished cooking at 6:40. So I had to speed run my dinner that took a hour to make. It was a hour or simmering so nothing that difficult but still

It's one of the reasons I try and both plan meals but also plan one meal that's nice but takes time and freeze it for later. My stupid human brain forgets the pain of making it, and only remembers it took the energy and time in the oven at the end! Stupid brain, love tricking it.

Thankfully one gets used to it after about the thousandth time!