I've been brave and put this public because I think it is (hopefully) noting the difficulty/cul-de-sac with these little things that might help others who perhaps don't realise the limitations of severe ME, or that many with it live alone etc.
Many people talk about air fryers. They say they are really 'easy'. Has anyone who is severe or who has been severe tried one as they seem unaccessible to me even on a good day, but don't want to be doing myself out of something that could be really useful if some of them are indeed 'easier'. Have I just not realised something about how you can just shove certain things in that might need more with some other way of cooking?
All the reviews say they are 'easy to clean' (and I'm thinking only if it all goes in the dishwasher as I can't do any wiping etc)
Are they easy with any lifting of things like the drawer bits etc?
If I were to even on a good day be able to use this then there would need to be dishes that could be produced genuinely fast as whilst I have something in the kitchen I can lie back on I can only do this for a short time and it is useless if I'm having to schlep a distance away to rest while I wait. So are dishes suddenly cooked much faster than they might?
It feels like most would land in the twilight zone of not batch cooking and just forget about for a long time, but also not fast enough you aren't hanging around?
Also the cognitive load of learning how to use something new seems a huge amount for me - has anyone else severe tried and found there is even a small selection of things they can work out (even with help of someone reading things for you) as many things you can only do when feeling OK because the timings are 'embedded' from e.g. microwaving for years etc? and then the idea of if you have to buy different things because 'recipes' would need different components?
Many people talk about air fryers. They say they are really 'easy'. Has anyone who is severe or who has been severe tried one as they seem unaccessible to me even on a good day, but don't want to be doing myself out of something that could be really useful if some of them are indeed 'easier'. Have I just not realised something about how you can just shove certain things in that might need more with some other way of cooking?
All the reviews say they are 'easy to clean' (and I'm thinking only if it all goes in the dishwasher as I can't do any wiping etc)
Are they easy with any lifting of things like the drawer bits etc?
If I were to even on a good day be able to use this then there would need to be dishes that could be produced genuinely fast as whilst I have something in the kitchen I can lie back on I can only do this for a short time and it is useless if I'm having to schlep a distance away to rest while I wait. So are dishes suddenly cooked much faster than they might?
It feels like most would land in the twilight zone of not batch cooking and just forget about for a long time, but also not fast enough you aren't hanging around?
Also the cognitive load of learning how to use something new seems a huge amount for me - has anyone else severe tried and found there is even a small selection of things they can work out (even with help of someone reading things for you) as many things you can only do when feeling OK because the timings are 'embedded' from e.g. microwaving for years etc? and then the idea of if you have to buy different things because 'recipes' would need different components?