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Not saying it is you but most people saying they don't have the time also spend hours watching stuff on streaming.

This is definitely the kind of stuff you can do while listening to a podcast, watching a show. Additionally cooking in general is an activity I actually like to do. Give me good music, a nice bottle of wine and I can spend a lot of time in my kitchen.

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Activity-hours aren't fungible and have constraints. If I need to eat by 6pm and get home from work at 5:30 pm, I generally can't just choose to swap a 9 - 10 pm hour of streaming with an hour of preparing food.

While some people can level up and perform food-prep activities during the 9-10 pm hour so that the following 5:30 - 6 pm slot can be filled with quick prep, many people don't know how to do so, nor see the ROI for such activity.

I am not saying you have to do fresh pasta every day (nor should you eat pasta every day!). I like to do it, same as bread and other things, but I obviously don't always do everything.

But parts of the pleasure of many things comes from both the anticipation and the satisfaction of making something good and taking the time to cook is part of it. Which sometimes involves organizing your day so that you can do it.

Not me but I understand your sentiment. I don’t even own a TV let alone watch hours of it.

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