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Comment author: [deleted] 08 February 2011 05:08:21PM 4 points [-]

Intellectual types often find basic household chores as the kind of things that aren't worth wasting their time and smarts on, not when there are more interesting / important things to do.

Cooking is applied chemistry, and at the higher levels, it's art.

Comment author: Alicorn 08 February 2011 05:30:30PM 1 point [-]

I categorize cooking as an organizational skill - I have some ingredients, and I'm going to arrange them in a way that suits me. The algorithms I engage aren't that different from the ones that come into play when I organize the junk on my desk.

Comment author: Blueberry 10 February 2011 09:56:16PM 0 points [-]

The algorithms I engage aren't that different from the ones that come into play when I organize the junk on my desk.

A task many people also find boring and painful, sadly.

Comment author: MartinB 08 February 2011 05:33:48PM 0 points [-]

I see it as a process. The few things I can cook and cook regularly I tend to optimize to their absolute minimum effort needed.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 08 February 2011 06:45:34PM 0 points [-]

I don't dispute that. Nonetheless it easily gets emotionally tagged as "boring chore", even if it could be made interesting once you overcame that emotional tag.

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