We're now three different series in three different universes by this author

[conuly]

And in every single one we have enough information to conclude that people in the future don't cook.

I'm starting to wonder if the author herself just hates cooking. I suppose there are worse personal issues to drag into your writing.

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Comments

[redbird]

Maybe also women for whom time-saving devices didn't actually give them any more leisure time, but were used to raise the standards: if you can make an OK meal in 20 minutes instead of an hour, is that 40 minutes to yourself, or is it reframed as "you used to spend an hour a day cooking, now you can make us a better meal in that time."

Or women who saw that those labor-saving devices were yet another excuse men used for not doing housework: if what took their mothers 20 hours/week can now be done in ten, why should *they* give up *their* free time so their wives only have to spend six hours/week instead of twenty? If the only choices are "no cooking happens at home" and "I spend most of the time that I'm not doing paid work on cooking, while someone else gets to sit around watching television and hanging out with his friends," I might decide that if you're not cooking for me, I'm not cooking for you either.

[conuly]

Yeah, but did those folks not like to eat at all?

(Then again, I've seen some retro recipes. Maybe they didn't.)