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YVR Cockroach
For the time-pressed working couples (with or without families), the rebirth of the pressure cooker in the form of the Instant Pot and likes was a god send Quick meals that could be made or prepared ahead, even frozen for a week of home-made dining.
As far as cooking skills or lack thereof, I wonder if it has to do with innate thrift, upbringing, culture (related to the previous, upbringing) or some other factor. There are many in recent generations who seem to have no or next to no cooking skills. The restaurant and prepped food industry would love more of these.
I'll admit I'm something of a picky eater, and don't really find the types of meals you cook in an instant pot to be things that I really tend to want to eat, so it's hasn't been helpful for me.
I certainly had enough exposure to cooking while growing up. My family certainly didn't do a lot of restaurant eating when I was a kid. I've just never really learned to like doing it, and that combined with a fair number of years where the schedule for my wife and I just wasn't conducive to the idea of cooking at home a lot we just haven't really liked doing it.
Oddly, I do like to bake, but it's a somewhat limited selection there too
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