Why don’t people like cooking nowadays?

Some time ago, I liked to watch the "girl living alone eating alone Vlog" video on Station B before going to bed. The fresh and juicy ingredients, with the skillful hands of the female anchor, will soon be served in exquisite dishes. The steamy delicacies and the up owner with a enjoying expression made a late sleeper like me cry so much.

But what is "really fragrant" is other people's lives. When it is your turn, your body will be much more honest. If you don’t believe it, you can think about it, how long has it been since you cooked a meal?

Now I only cook two lunches on weekends, and I try to cook two meals at a time, leaving part of it in the refrigerator and eating it hot for dinner. On weekdays, I eat in the workplace canteen. At other times, I rely on takeout to survive.

It was reported today that as of June this year, the number of online takeout users in my country reached 469 million. The consumer penetration rate of food delivery in first-, second- and third-tier cities reaches 96.31%.

Although data shows that single people born in the 1990s are the main group of people ordering takeout, accounting for more than 62%, in fact, many middle-aged urban people are now increasingly dependent on takeout. Some friends I know who were born in the 70s and 80s also order takeout more than they cook.

This makes people sigh. Will cooking, the "ancestral craft" of mankind, be in danger of disappearing in the future?

It seems that people don’t like to cook and the takeout industry is booming, but there are indeed reasons why people don’t like to cook and don’t have time to cook. The answer is visible to the naked eye:

Young people are busy trying to establish themselves in the workplace. It is normal to be busy at work and often work overtime. Middle-aged people have to be busy with work and take care of their families. Just tutoring their children with homework will put many parents on the verge of collapse every minute. Everyone is stressed, physically and mentally tired, and there is not much mood or time left for cooking.

In the end, takeout is still better when done by others