A lot of the time in baking when you measure out flour with cups you're meant to scoop the flour into the measuring cup with a spoon and then level it off with a knife, and I find that incredibly tedious. The easier option of just scooping the flour out with the measuring cup almost doubles the amount of flour, so that's not great either... I've found myself preferring a scale for measuring flour most of the time.

My problem is the multi-tasking, I get too stressed out if i have to do multiple things at once

i don't think i could do that; i can usually make enough soup for several days if i spend like an hour on it. i don't think i could make a multi course meal, and on short notice the problem would be i don't keep enough fresh vegetables around to do that.

oh that's actually a really good call. when i measure flour i have a whole process where i take a measuring cup and a butter knife to level the measurement off but that means i have to dirty two things up each time i measure.

I'll have to look in to getting a scale. i don't like buying special kitchen tools though, so who knows. if i get one i'll let you know.

The scale is good because you don't need to dirty measuring cups or anything else. Everything in one or two bowls! Amazing feeling

i'd say able to make a multi-course meal on short notice

yeah as far as using a scale to measure goes that's probably a good call if you wanna be really speciifc. one cup of flour can have different amounts depending on how much if fluffs, for example. but i feel like.......................................... IME cooking is pretty forgiving. you odn't need to be down to the miligram

being good at cooking means you don't need to use a scale

that might be cheesy, cause it is, but it's what i believe to be true

imo if you're deciding for yourself, all that matters is what your heart says

If someone is "good at cooking", I'd say they have the confidence to operate in their own kitchen space, and the capacity to make a good handful of meals from memory without any mistakes. They should be able to determine if their ingredients are fresh or not. They should know enough to know the terminology, be able to piece apart what parts really matter in a recipe, and be able to bake a few things. They should also have some baking competency.

That said, "good at cooking" might just be something someone tells you when you use a lot of butter, sugar, or salt in the meal.

And, by god, they should be using a scale for measuring whenever possible.

I mostly use my phone so I don't switch on the laptop everyday, but even when I did I always shut it down for the night

everything is on auto sleep

It probably does in some way

This is a blatant violation of the computer fraud and abuse act of 1986. You'll be hearing from my legal team about this.

a lady never tells ;-)

Never turn off my computer if I don't have to, same with the router. I like the hum when I'm trying to sleep. I only turn my phone off when I go to the movies which probably averages out once every four or five days.

I don’t even turn it on every day, so I clearly can’t shut it down every night lol. And I usually suspend to disk, with the occasional reboot for general system health.

On the other hand, my phone pretty much never gets shut down unless I’m doing a reboot.

Desktops never, my phone and router almost always, laptops usually (especially my Apple laptop, which seems to have good idle battery use)

i used to shut my phone down every night when i was in high school, i thought it saved battery

I shut down every night, although windows 10 being the piece of garbage that it is, sometimes it decides that I meant to restart and I have to get up when I notice that I can still hear the fans going.

I shut down your router every so often when I get bored :-)

my response to this one would be too " n s f w"

i would appreciate it, given the last monster

well, i would be terrified at least. kind of a fucked up thing to even have to consider