quick and easy are words to beware of

[kindkit]

Why do people always describe stir-fries as "quick and easy"? In my experience, while the actual cooking is quick, the prep takes ages and leaves me with an overflowing sink of dirty dishes. And then the cooking be-greases everything in the kitchen and makes the whole apartment smell of hot oil.

I suspect stir-fries are "quick and easy" to professional cooks, with better knife skills than mine and someone else to do the dishes. Also to people who cook them every day, and have proper equipment such as a wok.

Admittedly, if I hadn't decided to make a stir-fry of pork with spring onions and green garlic and ginger and orange + yellow + green bell peppers and zucchini and chard and bean sprouts, seasoned with doenjang and gochujang and sesame oil, it might have been quicker and easier.

(This was the veg I got cheap from work, and which needed using up. On the plus side, I have at least a couple of meals worth of leftovers.)

Comments

[sovay]

Admittedly, if I hadn't decided to make a stir-fry of pork with spring onions and green garlic and ginger and orange + yellow + green bell peppers and zucchini and chard and bean sprouts, seasoned with doenjang and gochujang and sesame oil, it might have been quicker and easier.

For what it's worth, it sounds delicious.

[thawrecka]

When I had access to a wok they were quick and easy! Now that I don't they're too much work.

[lilacsigil]

I'm having stirfry tonight! There's a lot of chopping but we make it while we're chopping the vegetables for whatever is going to be our several-days-worth dish this week, so it *feels* easy!

[silveradept]

"Quick and easy" in this case might mean "a small number of steps and a short cook time", eliding the fact that chopping and frying takes time.

[cathexys]

Yes, that! I've never found them quick and easy either. It's not even the cutting as much as the fact that my kitchen's a mess and I can't clean it up before I eat, bc the food's right there and ready. (Also, my wok's shitty and burns half the stuff so I resent the dish for very odd personal reasons :)

FWIW, it sounds really yummy!!!