100% from me. I have a old Blue steel,outer rolled corners, official because there was nothing official about them, Detroit-Pizza-making, factory parts pan.
And damned if I’m gonna clean it for fish sticks because the seasoning is legendary , but also it gets to 350 minimum every time I use it, Foil or not, it is more sterile than a autoclave.
If you’re REALLY lazy/tired, a flour tortilla + a stick of string cheese nuked for several seconds makes a decent snack. The cheese gets really melty quite fast.
Breakfast burrito: go to a McDonald’s, and order a half-dozen of their $1 breakfast burritos. Go home, put in freezer bags, put bags in freezer.
Now, whenever you get the craving for one, they’re waiting for you; no McDonalds run needed. Pull one out and nuke it. I recommend a couple minutes at low power to heat them all the way through.
That’s the side I come down on too. We cook all sorts of stuff on a foiled cookie sheet. When I’m cleaning up after supper, I pull the foil off and toss it. A quick look will tell you if anything’s leaked through, and if so, I’ll wash it. But if it hasn’t, I’m putting it directly back in the oven, which is where it lives in between uses.
OMG-- you own one of those pans?? 
Very cool!
They were highlighted in this episode of Cook’s Country when Bryan Roof made pizza.
I also line everything with foil, but I use non-stick foil.
My go to lazy meal is Campbell’s Bean and Bacon Soup. Open can, dump in pan, add a can of water, stir, tell Alexa to set a timer for 10 minutes, go watch TV, come back when timer goes off and… dinner.
If I’m extra motivated I’ll make a grilled cheese sandwich to go with it (Bread, butter or oil, cheese, pan, heat, flip, eat)… or if slightly less so a toasted cheese sandwich (bread in toaster, cheese in between when toast is warm). Sometimes I’ll add a slice or two of ham… but that is bordering on actually cooking.
Otherwise it involves speaking into a speaker and saying something like "I’ll take a number 2, medium sized, with a coke.)
Heh. I actually made three Detroit-ish style pies yesterday with some 4-day old dough I had going in the fridge. (I didn’t do sauce on top, and I didn’t have any brick cheese around, hence my “Detroit-ish” disclaimer.) Damn, I do love those pies. One of these days I’ll have to get around to getting some of those proper blue steel pans.
yup
we do that with matza for Passover. It’s delicious and relatively easy, but it involves buying shredded mozzarella (not a household staple) and the cleanup is a pain.
But it doesn’t satisfy the “I want it now” criterion. And if I’m actually cooking, I could just as well pop a chicken in the oven or chops on the stove.
My “I’m exhausted, don’t want to cook” meals are:
Cereal with milk
Canned sardines over wasa crisps (I keep a supply of both handy. They keep indefinitely)
PB&J on frozen sandwich bread
Leftovers (right now we have lentils chili in the fridge. Also rice, some string beans, and a lot of oranges. That’s better than the usual options, but within the normal range.)
If I’m feeling a little more adventurous, I might boil an egg and make myself soft boiled eggs on toast. Or pop a batch of popcorn in the skillet.
My wife used to do something similar. Boil up some egg noodles, add a can of tuna, a can of peas, and a can of cream of mushroom soup.
I opened a super-premium (hey, it was a gift!) can of catfood for the boys (a good cowboy feeds the stock first) and the opened can smelled,well…my friend said “I’ll have some of that on a cracker.”
Dan
I just buy the boxed Tuna Helper (I throw in extra peas).
Small tub cottage cheese + semi-dried basil + small handful of cherry/grape tomatoes
OR
Put on teapot, throw packet of ramen in a bowl, sprinkle on the seasoning packet, crack an egg on it… pour boiling water over it, cover with a plate, eat 3-5 minutes later.
Yeah, I’ve had ramen with an egg, too. I don’t know why i don’t do that more often. It’s dead easy, and pretty satisfying.
The nuke in little bag rice, dump into a bowl, add a tablespoon of soy sauce, half a tbsp of mirin, mix well, add about a tbsp butter, mix, then top with an egg and mix together. Sort of my version of a Japanese breakfast.
I agree. At first I thought, “hmm, sounds strangely good, but I will never be able to make it, because I would never have potato flakes in my house.” However, then I realized that I do on rare occasion buy them, because they are a great additive to bread (yeast love them and bread rises beautifully with a few tablespoons of potato flakes in the dough).
If I may expand the thread to include a no-fuss dessert, I learned a neat trick from a co-worker many years ago. Of course, for most people a “no-fuss” dessert is probably ice cream or something else bought at the store, but if you are like me you don’t keep ready-to-eat sweets on hand. So here is a two-ingredient dessert that you actually have to make:
JAM CAKE
1 box angel food cake mix
1 jar jam of your choice
Mix together, put into a greased rectangular pan, bake at - oh, let’s say 375 - for a while, until done.
If you are obsessing over the size of the jar of jam, or whether the pan is 9x11 or 10x14, you are thinking too hard. Just do it.
This makes a LOT of cake, and it’s not as good when it isn’t fresh, so either eat it up pretty quick or refrigerate/freeze leftovers.
Really? I always cover my sheet pans with foil so I don’t have to wash them. Once in awhile, the foil might rip and the sheet gets greasy. Then, of course, I wash it.
Egg fried over easy, placed on top of leftover rice, topped with a dollop of oyster sauce.
If even that’s too much effort, there’s always Stouffer’s lasagna in the freezer.
Wait. Do you add water or eggs like the box directions say? Or just literally the contents of the box and the jam?
Get box of favorite breakfast cereal from cupboard. Pour cereal into bowl. Cover with milk. Eat.
Cook Top Ramen the in microwave for 4 minutes then eat the noodles. After the noodles are gone crumble saltine crackers in the broth.