For many years, I have also belonged to "most people" and I was cooking in one of the weekend days by traditional means, which required many hours, then in the rest of the week days I was reheating the food in a microwave oven.

Only a few years ago I began to experiment with cooking raw ingredients in the microwave oven. After discovering how much this simplifies cooking I regretted very much that I had not tried to do that earlier.

Because cooking at microwaves is much faster, nowadays I cook most food immediately before eating it.