[gotorazor]

vs buying frozen french fries --- which takes 10 mins on a countertop airfryer.

It's not that people don't know how to fry from fresh potato, it's just that the time it takes to do so is a lot. For restaurants especially, frozen is also just more cost-effective after accounting for labour.

[meheleventyone]

I totally buy that for a commercial kitchen particularly going to the lengths in the sibling article but at home you're usually cooking a bunch of stuff and in general will be taking longer.

Also the vast majority of that time is fire and forget since it's just doing its thing in the oven. Yesterday for example I made fish and chips for my family of four and made chips peeled, cut, par-boiled and twice fried in as long as it took to prep and cook the fish, make a salad and heat up some baked beans. Which is a heck of a lot more active than the easiest way to do it but hardly this huge time sink.

I suspect choice at home is more expectations and lifestyle related.

[freejazz]

>I totally buy that for a commercial kitchen particularly going to the lengths in the sibling article but at home you're usually cooking a bunch of stuff and in general will be taking longer.

Except its totally the opposite in reality. A commercial kitchen is much better equipped to do all of that and probably doesn't also have to do it while managing children or having just gotten home from work...

> Yesterday for example I made fish

Good for you. What I fail to see you analyze in all your reasoning is what it would be like for someone that is *not* you.