Welcome back to another episode of the talk. Today we are talking to Kenji Lopez

Alt, our first ever professional home-cooked recipe tester. I'm gonna call you

chef. I'm gonna call you Chef. That's fine. I agree.

Okay, Kenji, I had a question for you. Again, I use this podcast for my own personal gain.

Obviously, I just ask all questions that I need to know about, but I promise we'll also

get to some listener questions.

And something we didn't get to ask you about was meal prep.

One thing that makes cooking very difficult for me or I'd say like I always think in my

mind kind of it's not worth the effort is the time piece. You spend so much time

cooking there's like three meals a day and obviously certain meals are easier like breakfast is going to be a lot less time than dinner.

But to me I'm just like I don't want to spend an hour every day making dinner and so a lot of time I'll just like batch make food and then

have it you know three four days in a row and I also just think that I'm not

very good at it and it also just makes it not taste as good because it's older food

so I was wondering like how do you approach the time aspect of

cooking do you cook every single meal or do you also do any sort of meal prep?

So I do cook every single well no sometimes we sometimes we go out I do cook every

I mean all the meals that we eat at home I don't know how many meals a week

that is but most most nights the week we are eating at home I do cook do cook all those. I don't I don't meal prep in the sense

that I generally don't. You know sometimes I might make like one big batch of soup that

we'll have a couple times later in the week. What I do tend to do a things done, you know, whether that's trimming the, you know, trimming snap peas and blanching

them so that I'll have them ready for the next day or, you know, chopping up the carrots

and celery that I'm going to use for soup or maybe I'll start you know I'll start like a

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