@Hdhdjejdj
To the poster who talked about not everyone having a well stocked kitchen, i’ve asked for nice dishes, pans or roasting trays for Christmas or birthdays in the past. I use them every day. I can guarantee that you could get really lovely things in charity shops. I’ve bought a full dinner service from one which I use for special occasions. Most seem to always have Pyrex dishes on sale.
My point wasn’t a moral one but you seem to have conflated it with one.
In that vein. So you have sufficient friends and family who have the financial capability to buy you gifts and you draw on their support.
You live in an area either that has shops in easy walking distance or you have access to transport to get you to those areas. The charity shops in the areas you can easily access have good quality stock on a regular basis.
Really not true for everyone.
And then there is the time, energy, effort etc spent acquiring the equipment. So you’ve just substituted time for money.
My point was simply that not everyone has as much at hand, both in terms of ingredients and utensils, to quickly whip up a roast. And if they don’t, then it can be a lot of initial outlay (in money, time, whatever).
They might not have these things due to lack of inclination as much as lack of resources. There’s no moral superiority in running a wells rocked kitchen.
I run a well stocked kitchen. I usually have homemade stick kicking about somewhere etc.
But I’ve also cooked really well in a situation where I had one pan, one heating ring, one knife, a chopping board, no spatulas etc just a fork etc.
That that latter situation cooking a full roast would have been a very expensive meal. First, buy oven..