Sometimes its all a question of value-vs-effort.
Following a cursory inventory of what we had on hand yesterday morning, I decided to make pizza for dinner. Doing the bulk of our work from home, I have time throughout the day to play in the kitchen, so I tend to make just about everything from scratch.
Started the dough in the morning so it could have a longish rise in the fridge. Then, since I had found a decent deal on a 7lb pork butt that was looking at me accusingly from the fridge, I cut it up and made a couple pounds of Italian sausage. Put the rest in the freezer.
Then made a small batch of pizza sauce.
Finally around 7pm I put it all together and made my pizza.
Then it hit me. Since I was technically working all day, I was technically "on the clock". So I figured that if I were billing clients for the time spent on the pizza, it would've been north of $600. Plus ingredients.
Dominoes would have required 30 seconds of my time to order a similarly sized pizza and a total cash outlay of under $20.
Was my pizza really that much better than Dominoes? Well I like to think so, but in reality it was just a pizza. Granted it was all home made, and there were no preservatives or mystery ingredients. And it wasn't handled by some unwashed minimum wage worker who may or may not have a grudge against his boss, or society at large. But still, it was just a pizza.
Following a cursory inventory of what we had on hand yesterday morning, I decided to make pizza for dinner. Doing the bulk of our work from home, I have time throughout the day to play in the kitchen, so I tend to make just about everything from scratch.
Started the dough in the morning so it could have a longish rise in the fridge. Then, since I had found a decent deal on a 7lb pork butt that was looking at me accusingly from the fridge, I cut it up and made a couple pounds of Italian sausage. Put the rest in the freezer.
Then made a small batch of pizza sauce.
Finally around 7pm I put it all together and made my pizza.
Then it hit me. Since I was technically working all day, I was technically "on the clock". So I figured that if I were billing clients for the time spent on the pizza, it would've been north of $600. Plus ingredients.
Dominoes would have required 30 seconds of my time to order a similarly sized pizza and a total cash outlay of under $20.
Was my pizza really that much better than Dominoes? Well I like to think so, but in reality it was just a pizza. Granted it was all home made, and there were no preservatives or mystery ingredients. And it wasn't handled by some unwashed minimum wage worker who may or may not have a grudge against his boss, or society at large. But still, it was just a pizza.
