It is written in "Zengguang Xianwen" that there are thousands of acres of fertile land, and the eclipse is one liter; There are thousands of buildings, and you can sleep eight feet at night. The eight-foot floor where you sleep, and the three meals a day, are very ordinary but precious. However, the pursuit of high efficiency in big cities, the operation of squeezing time and advocating performance has made more and more people reduce the three meals of the eclipse, and the meal becomes the nourishment of cattle and horses, and continue to work mechanized after completing the task.
In order to regain their health and take back the initiative to eat, more and more young people are starting to find aunts to cook at home. 100 yuan a day, you can eat three dishes, one soup and two meals. Make your own recipes, go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, feel the changes of the four seasons and seasons through fruits and vegetables, and return to a healthy body and stomach and a comfortable sense of order in one meal and one dish.
Best of all, it's cheaper than ordering takeout.
Su Rui's day began with the "white noise" of kitchen knives hitting cutting boards, water brushing over vegetables, and porcelain bowls hitting chopsticks and spoons.
早上7點，阿姨來到她家，為她準備一天的飯菜。菜品是前一天晚上下班回來，吃完阿姨準備的晚餐，蘇蕊一邊搜菜譜一邊列的。她習慣網購，每天晚上，買菜App上還會出現打折的特價菜品，蘇蕊就根據能買到的打折菜，佈置第二天的菜譜。
The aunt's working hours are two hours, cooking one meal and eating it in two meals. She packs one and takes it to the company, and the rest goes home to eat in the evening. The family members of the Internet company "996" packed two portions and went home after eating. At noon, when other colleagues opened the takeaway software and struggled with what to eat, Su Rui could eat a bento with three dishes and one soup.
Su Rui is a Chongqing girl, one of the "cows and horses" who operate efficiently in the lattice rooms of countless office buildings in the big city of Shanghai. In the past, she might have ordered takeout during a five-minute break in a meeting, "once someone interrupted and realized that it was past the time she ordered takeout."
▲ The daily life of a migrant worker is one meeting after another, and it is difficult to have a whole block of time to eat. Photo / "Apocalypse of the Chamber"
The seemingly varied options on food delivery software are a headache. It is necessary not only to compare and evaluate, but also to check whether there is a physical store, and then switch a few software to calculate the full reduction and compare the price, "after thirty or forty minutes of a meal, in the end I still can't choose, and I don't want to eat when I'm angry."
吃飯，一度只是維持牛馬運作的養料。晚上10點下班回到家，“根本沒有力氣去計劃第二天吃什麼”，第二天只能繼續靠外賣餵飽肚子。
Takeaway, so that workers will not starve to death, but to a certain extent, corrodes health. Zhang Mengmeng, who also works in Shanghai, didn't have much savings when he first came to Shanghai, and he had eaten a good meal and bought takeaway without a physical store. In order to integrate into the working atmosphere of Shanghai Zao C, I learned to drink coffee, "but in fact, coffee is quite damaging to the stomach."
Later, after working for a while, the high-intensity work in the advertising industry made her eat with revenge from time to time in order to relieve pressure, "ordering the kind of takeaway that is very expensive in the Yintai business district". She once had stomach problems, and she was so painful that she went to the hospital for examination and was asked to have a gastroscopy.
▲ Most migrant workers can only rely on takeout for lunch. Photo/ Visual China
What do you eat if you don't want to eat takeout, don't want to cook, can't cook, or don't have time to cook? Young people who love to use their brains have come up with a new solution - ask their aunt to cook at home.
More and more young people began to ask their aunts to cook, and "asking your aunt to cook in Beijing is cheaper than ordering takeout" once appeared on Weibo's hot search. The girl from Beipiao appeared and said: "Auntie 100 yuan a day, do it once, enough for two people to eat two meals." If you don't want to eat pre-made dishes in Beijing, at least forty or fifty meals. In addition to cooking, the aunt can also do some simple hygiene, mopping the floor, brushing the pot and washing the dishes, if the two girls share the house and invite the aunt, the cost is evenly spread, cheaper than takeout, and safe and healthy. ”
張夢夢一度以為請阿姨的費用要七八千元，直到一次去朋友家，才知道按小時請阿姨上門做飯，做一頓，吃兩餐，“中間用微波爐加熱一下就可以”，人工費大概百把塊，加上食材費用，也比外賣划算。
Taking Shanghai as an example, Su Rui ordered a takeaway meal in the office building area in the city center, "If you want to eat meat and vegetarian combinations, each meal will be about 4400 to 0 yuan, 0 to 0 yuan a day for two people, and 0~0 yuan per month and 0 days of work."
And ask the aunt to cook at home, the salary is 3500 yuan per hour, 0 hours at a time, 0 yuan a month, two meals for two people, plus the cost of ingredients and seasonings, Su Rui and her family eat on weekdays every month is about 0 yuan, which is cheaper than ordering takeout.
Li Yan, who lives in Beijing, is also fed up with expensive takeout. After she was studying for a doctorate, she and her husband were tired of eating in the school canteen, and once ate takeout with their bellies open for a while, "Beijing takeaway is already expensive, around 7000 yuan for a meal." In addition to takeout, I also ordered coffee and milk tea", at the end of the month, when the bill was calculated, the two people ate 0 yuan a month.
Two weeks ago, Li Yan had knee surgery and needed to recuperate. Her husband goes to work every day, and she doesn't want to ask him to cook, "after working from morning to night every day, I don't have the energy to cook anymore", so she made up her mind to hire an aunt.
Li Yan's aunt is also 4500 yuan a day, and she can cook four dishes and one soup or five dishes and one soup, and eat them in two meals. In terms of ingredients, if the requirements for meat and vegetables are not particularly high, it will cost thirty or forty yuan a day, and if you want to buy more expensive meat dishes, it may go up to fifty or sixty yuan. On average, the cost of asking an aunt to add ingredients is about 0 yuan a month.
Obviously, in addition to inviting an aunt to cook at home, healthy and clean, the advantage of cost performance is outstanding in first-tier cities.
The moon on maternity leave is also a cooking aunt invited for cost performance. She didn't hire a sister-in-law, "I get eight or nine thousand yuan to hire a sister-in-law in Beijing, and I can hire three aunts at this price." She asked her aunt to help take care of the children, and another aunt helped her and her aunt cook.
Before giving birth, she lived on the company's free canteen and takeout, "although the taste is average, I would rather make do with it than cook it herself."
The aunt she found through an intermediary company had to pay an intermediary fee, the price was 5000.0 to 0 months' salary, and the aunt's monthly salary was 0 yuan, plus the cost of buying ingredients, and the monthly expenses for eating at home were around 0 yuan. Compared to eating free cafeterias in the past, "it's not much cheaper, but it's healthier." This is also a kind of "value for money".
▲ The dishes made by the aunt of the Moon family at noon. Photo / Courtesy of the narrator
People who have invited aunts generally have a consensus - good aunts are hard to find. There are several ways to find an aunt: introduced by friends, found through intermediary companies, and some young people posted on Xianyu and Xiaohongshu to find people.
Zhang Mengmeng's aunt was "inherited" from a friend. My friend wanted to move, so I had to quit my aunt, Zhang Mengmeng hurriedly signed a contract with my aunt, "I didn't like the few I found before that."
She values getting along with her aunts, "some aunts will complain to you about the previous employer, and there is no sense of boundaries", and some aunts don't like the cats she has at home, and occasionally criticize a few words. Some shrewd aunts will choose employers in reverse, don't like the elderly at home, "have more tricky tastes", favor young couples, "like lambs waiting to be fed, eat anything", "everyone will watch people cook".
And Zhang Mengmeng's aunt who has been carefully selected by friends, likes cats, is very professional, and will observe which dish was eaten less yesterday, and if she is not satisfied, she will ask directly, and change it next time. My aunt is very fashionable and can surf and search for recipes, "She told me that a good way to eat okra is to eat it dipped in mustard."
▲ Auntie cooked for Zhang Mengmeng. Photo / Courtesy of the narrator
Most people still find an aunt through an intermediary company, not only to pay the intermediary fee, but also to take some twists and turns in the middle, and to guard against routines and pits.
Zhou Zhou, who works in Tianjin, is the first aunt she found through a housekeeping agency, and she has good cooking skills, but she is very assertive, and she is not willing to follow the menu given. Pointing to the east and west, let me make fish-flavored eggplant, make a light and salt-free version, want to eat the three fresh, serve an oil-free version of the three fresh. The aunt doesn't seem to see cooking as a way to make a living, but enjoys this hobby, "She instructs us where to put the seasoning, what brand of pot to use, and posts her baking works in the group every day, and we give her wages and emotional value."
為了找到好阿姨，蘇蕊向同事諮詢，總結了一套方法論：找阿姨要避開晚間，這是用人的高峰期，價格不會便宜。於是她把時間段選定在早上7點到9點，“這對阿姨來說是一個外快，不影響白天正常的工作”。而找阿姨，最好是從附近下手，生活在同一片區域，人員穩定，可信任度高。
She searched the neighborhood of Gaode and found a housekeeping company that had been open for more than ten years. The two aunts introduced to her by the other party, one worked in a family for nearly ten years, from the birth of the first child to the second child in kindergarten; Another obtained a certificate of housekeeping in this area more than a decade ago, "which is all evidence of stability".
Due to the off-peak period of employment hours, at the beginning, she put a price lower than the market, 50 yuan per hour. Generally speaking, the employment cost of a door-to-door aunt in Shanghai fluctuates between 0 and 0 yuan. The advantage of this is that "you have a price point, so that the intermediary company can push people who meet the price, and reduce communication costs".
After choosing an aunt, the next step is the interview. A colleague told her that she couldn't make big dishes during the interview, but had to cook home-cooked dishes, such as shredded pork with green peppers, which showed knife skills; Another example is egg fried rice, which shows the control of the heat. On the other hand, making a big dish with a lot of condiments is actually easier to make quite delicious.
After practicing a set of methodology, Su Rui found a fellow Chongqing aunt with good character and craftsmanship. Be quick to do things, willing to improve, and will also make some suggestions appropriately. Once Su Rui was afraid that her aunt would not be able to kill, so she bought the killed fish the night in advance, and the aunt told her after she found out, "The fish that comes out of this way is very fishy, and if you want to eat fish, you have to buy live fish, and the freshest fish you have killed."
▲ Su Rui eats at home. Photo / Courtesy of the narrator
"They recommend an aunt with good performance to interview, gain the trust of the employer, sign the contract and pay the intermediary fee, and the aunt will find an excuse to resign." Although the intermediary promised that the aunt could be replaced, it didn't matter if you lived or died what happened later."
Zhou Zhou, who lives in Tianjin, is encountering this routine. Zhou Zhou was looking for an aunt during pregnancy, and after replacing the first aunt who cooked delicious but assertive, the cooking level of the aunt who came was not as good as one, and a month later, she stopped the plan to invite the aunt to cook, "A good cooking aunt is like a good man, and it is not circulating in the market."
Cooking for people has also become a side hustle for some mothers who come to big cities to help take care of their children.
Fitness coach Mi was lucky to brush a "aunt" on Xianyu, claiming to help her son take care of the children in Beijing, and she can cook during the day, and her home is a few stops away from her gym and the bus is 50 yuan an hour.
Rice quickly contacted the aunt and pressed the price to 45 yuan to make a meal, "I eat very simple, one meat and one vegetable, boil it, or simply fry it." Take-out gym meals are too expensive and you can't get enough to eat, so it's good if you can get cheaper. After a begging, my aunt quickly took the order and decided to give it a try. The rice is purchased from Sam's, frozen kunyu, chicken, beef, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts and other ingredients, and sent to my aunt's house, where she asks her to process it, with less oil and less salt, and the amount of two meals in one meal. Unexpectedly, my aunt has good skills, and she takes the bus to the gym every day, and she is most worried about the aunt now that the price will increase or she doesn't want to send it.
Original Creator: People of the Day