Solving the Problem of Weeknight Dinner

The Wirecutter Show

The New York Times

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4.4 • 894 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.
0:06.4	Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show. I'm Cairo Blackwell.
0:10.2	I'm Christine Sir Clissette.
0:11.8	And I'm Rosie Garron, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.
0:17.8	Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.
0:26.2	This episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Solving the Problem of Weeknight Dinner.
0:50.7	Hey, Kyra. Hey, Christine. Hey, hey. I'm coming in with a question for you both today. I want to know how much do you two cook at home? Are you cooking every day? Yeah. Yeah. Too much. How do you feel about it?
0:56.9	I hate it, Rosie. I hate it. My pandemic hobby was cooking, but now I'm back in my New York apartment that has no kitchen, basically, and I have to cook for myself because I live alone.
1:01.6	I have to do it three times a day. It's become my own personal hell. What do you think about that,
1:06.5	Christine? What's your perspective? Well, I honestly really love to cook, but oftentimes I don't have a lot of
1:12.2	time to cook. So, you know, it's kind of like the 15 minutes before I'm going to go pick up my kids.
1:17.6	I'm like, oh, what am I going to make? But yeah, weeknight dinners is not like the funest time for me.
1:23.2	Like I feel like it's not the inspirational fun cooking that I like to do. Yeah, it does get really
1:29.6	boring. And for me, I just feel like there's nobody to impress. It's just me. I don't know.
1:35.0	Sometimes I don't even taste that good. It's just I'm trying to get protein into my body.
1:38.7	Well, you know, there are some people in this world that their entire jobs are to kind of help
1:43.3	think through this issue of weeknight meals.
1:46.3	And we're lucky enough to have one of those people joining us today.
1:51.7	Today is a special episode of The Wirecutter Show.
1:54.4	We're going to have a conversation with the editor-in-chief of New York Times cooking and the food section, Emily Weinstein.
2:00.8	Woo! Yes! Emily just came out with a new New York Times cooking and the food section, Emily Weinstein. Woo!
2:01.3	Yes!
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