New Delhi, June 13 -- It was a long day, and I was doomscrolling specifically in search of dinner ideas. And then, bam, someone popped up on my feed to convince me that "it just took 15 minutes to cook dinner."

From that five-ingredient recipe, I didn't have two ingredients handy, one needed to be soaked overnight (so much for 15 minutes!), and another was a kitchen gadget I've never owned because of serious space constraints.

My Instagram feed is saturated with recipe reels. And it looks like everyone is in search of that two-minute recipe, the three-ingredient tiffin idea, and the picture-perfect dish that somehow manages to look effortless, while requiring more effort than most seasoned cooks are willing to put in. But nobody is talk...