Cooking is hard work, peeling ten potatoes is a nuisance, peeling five hundred is a pain.

FORBES: Food Is My Job!

If teams find waste oil hard to come by they can load up with fresh cooking oil from supermarkets.

CNN: Chip pan rally

Three hours of cooking make a beet impressively luxuriant and sugary, but the dish is hard to finish.

NEWYORKER: Aska

Cooking oil, sugar and Zimbabweans' staple maize porridge have become very hard to come by in Harare, harder still in the countryside.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

While hardware manufacturers like Sony and Vizio have been hard at work making new Google TV devices, the folks in Mountain View have been in the lab cooking up new software features for the platform.

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When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.

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