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I mentioned to Critch (Academician on LW) awhile back that I was considering learning how to cook, and he responded that it's not worth my time. I blinked, remembered approximately how much I valued my time, and more or less had to agree. This is a time/money tradeoff that many people whose time is valuable may not be navigating sensibly. There are lots of ways to pay other people to prepare food for you - restaurants, hiring a personal chef, meal delivery programs, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a social network of some kind where people offered to cook for other people, and if there isn't someone should make it.
(I currently obtain food partially through restaurants and partially through a combination of fruit, hard-boiled eggs, and whey protein.)
Are you in a position where you can convert your time to money freely as-desired?
I expect that people on Less Wrong are demographically more likely than most to be able to do this, but most people have jobs which take up a certain amount of their time, beyond which they are not at liberty to convert more time into more money at a comparable rate should they so choose. So time/money tradeoffs which fail to account for whether the time being traded off is actually employment time, and thus valuable at that rate, will tend to be misleading.
Edit: I missed the fact that gjm has already noted this in another comment.