BenI am FURIOUS about the way kitchens are portrayed in TV shows. Someone is cooking dinner but either end of the counter are chopping boards - both with 1 large onion, two large tomatoes, 1 shallot and a whole bulb of garlic. In the middle, a THIRD chopping board with 5 mushrooms on it. The food? Apparently ready. Why is all that food out? Why is it all over the kitchen? Who is designing these sets? Someone needs to pay me one million pounds to be a TV kitchen consultant. I will make the kitchens realistic. Immediate Academy Award for services to TV kitchens.
Schroedingers_Cat@TheBreadmonkey Also - they often ask guests or family members to help chopping thing. And then, 10 minutes later the meal is ready.
You chop things first, then you cook them (possibly having cleared up). And eventually serve. When guests come or people turn up for the food, it should be at the serving stage.