Shitty Ask Lemmy

When you start cooking/frying/baking and walk away from the kitchen to go on your phone/go online/read/watch TV ... you increase the chances of burning, overcooking or setting fire to your kitchen.

When you are cooking, you budget your whole time to stay in the kitchen. If your food is cooking / baking / frying and it has to heat while you do nothing .... you do the dishes, tidy up, clean the kitchen, put things away or prepare the next step of the recipe or prepare another dish ... you don't stop working in the kitchen and you don't leave the kitchen because you have to keep an eye on your food as it cooks. Sometimes even when you follow a recipe, things boil over, things spill, steam builds up or something gets knocked over. You have to stay in the kitchen.

I worked with my mom who worked at a hospital kitchen for a few years and then I worked with her in running a family run burger and fry place. We aren't gourmet cooks but she taught me all the basics of working in a kitchen. You never stop.

If you aren't cooking, you're cleaning, if you're not cleaning, you're cooking ... if you are not cooking or cleaning - get out of the kitchen so you don't bother the person cooking and cleaning in there.