THE TIME COST

Mixed-diet households lose up to 150 hours a year cooking separately

That’s nearly a full working month — gone to running two dinners instead of one. SameTable hands it back.

Estimated — methodology available
150hrs
a year, est.
Two dinners, every variant night
Source · Est. from USDA ATUS
THE EVIDENCE

Two dinners, every variant night

The average UK meal-preparer already spends 51 minutes a day on prep, cooking and cleanup — for a single meal. Running two parallel meal tracks (different proteins, different timings, separate pans) adds 20–35 minutes of active cooking every evening.

51 min
a day on a single meal already (USDA ATUS)
+20–35 min
per extra variant track, every evening
≈ 1 month
of extra kitchen time across a year
Cook mode — parallel chicken saag + chana saag timers
ONE COOK, NOT TWO

One recipe. Every variant. One cook.

Parallel cook mode runs a single staggered timeline for both meals — the slow track starts first, the quick one waits, and everything lands hot together. One session instead of two.

  • Staggered timers engineered to finish together
  • Per-variant steps, filtered automatically
  • “Cook the gaps” — sub-tasks slot into waiting time
Estimated — methodology available

USDA Economic Research Service — 2014 American Time Use Survey (average meal preparer spends 51 min/day on food prep and cleanup). “~150 hours” is an estimate; methodology in the footnotes.

Get your evenings back.

Plan your first week tonight and cook two meals in the time of one.