How long did it take you to cook tonight v what the recipe said

[Tacocatgoatcheesepizza]

Our meal said 15m prep and 50m total cooking time. 1.5 hrs later I’m just about ready to dish up….

We had a Gusto. It took about 5 mins longer than it said - probably about 20 mins all in

Chucked a load of sausages, veg & a tin of tomatoes in the slow cooker about 8 hours ago. Took me all of 10 minutes and was delicious.

Made a cake today. Recipe said 45 mins. Took me at least twice that

A baked seasoned chicken thighs and garlic rice recipe all in one job 50 mins cooking time which it was and only about 10 mins prep before hand.
Not bad imo.

My oven rubbish. Takes double the time because I have to cook.on a lower than suggested heat. I won't buy cheap next time🙄

17 minutes from frozen
Took about 20 minutes to crisp up.

Yes, we had a frozen pizza with nothing on the side, kids fed at cm today so just me and dp. Idfaf today haha

I can usually beat the recipe, tonight was one of mine so not applicable

@Tacocatgoatcheesepizza

What did you cook?

We had spag bol, batched cooked the sauce last week so only had to defrost that and boil some pasta. Easy meal.

@BingoBonus a honey mustard sausage hotpot. It was delicious!!

This was last night but recipe said 15 mins prep and 2 and 1/2 hours cook. Took 15 minutes prep and 1 and 1/4 hours to cook. Cheated though - it was a beef and prune tagine and I used an instant pot.

Simply Cook. It's just the herbs and spices or paste, the ingredients list and the method and they are all delicious and simple. Take about twenty minutes most of them and healthy too. Fabulous.

So I have calculated I almost always take 3x the recipe instructions for the prep time. Usually a bit less for the cooking time as have a good oven. So I'm with you!

Recipe said 30 minutes in oven but it just wasn't crispy enough to my liking so it ended up taking 45 mins. I think my oven is working fine.

20 mins recipe time 30 mins cook, but it was an gousto one that I’d re bought the ingredients for , so nothing was measured out etc .

This is so funny this came up. Me and the OH have just started the Jamie 30min meal challenge. We race to see if we can actually do it in the time (because we're just that cool). You get out all ingredients but dont weigh them, boil the kettle, preheat oven & saucepans etc as it says to do in the book. This takes about 15mins but doesnt count in the time limit.

We picked a particularly simple one and it took 2 decent home cooks 37mins together to get it on the table and we were racing lol. We are going to keep going until we beat the 30mins.

So 2 people, a 30min meal from nothing to table in a total of 52mins.

Pizza in the airfryer - 8 mins versus 20 minutes in the oven 🤣

5 mins to microwave my carbonara ready meal 😀 exactly as it said on the packet so I'm winning tonight 😂

How do you fit a pizza in an airfryer?

It was the smaller baguette type ones you get in Aldi.

I always enter a time warp when I start cooking in the kitchen. Time seems to go so terribly slow.

I once timed myself making Salad Nicoise. It took me a whole fucking hour!

I didn't use a recipe (very rarely do unless it's a cake) so it wasn't an issue, but it took about 20 minutes, which is what i expected.

Melanzane parmigiana 😇. 30 mins prep. 30 mins in oven. The kids love it.

I put some spaghetti to cook.
Then chopped and fried garlic in olive oil, added chilli flakes, herbs, salmon, seasoning, spinach, lemon juice , some cream cheese then added the spaghetti.
Took about 25 minutes while I listened to an audiobook.

I tweaked the recipe (it was an Ottolenghi one) by doing two parts in parallel to speed it up a bit. The recipe didn’t give a time though, and I tend to disregard them if they do. Particularly for Jamie Oliver ones - it’s a particular bugbear that those 15/30 minute recipes are nothing of the sort once you take the prep time into consideration.

I no longer even read the time given for prep .It always takes me sooo much longer .
The prep times might be accurate I suppose if you had a sous chef who had got all the ingredients out ,weighed and prepped them ,put them in little bowls and that you took it from there .