Let me be clear, I barely cook. I can cook eggs, quesadillas, frittatas, burgers and some recipes out of a cookbook. I’m not some maestro of the kitchen and I rarely cook because I usually have faster options. But if necessary I can cook things that are edible and tasty enough to satisfy.

That’s why it’s in some ways baffling that I have so many friends who have cook even less than I do. I texted a picture of a baked-from-the-box brownie to one of my friends who replied “wow! you can cook really well!” You add water and bake, does it really count as cooking?

Eh, I guess this is how it is sometimes. Not everyone owns an oven, not everyone even has a full set of cookware in their apartments, especially people around my age. But still, brownies, they’re easy and delicious so you might as well learn to “cook” them.