Buying a professional grade kitchen appliance is the most effective way to ensure you never cook that specific meal again. We like to think that tools create habits and we believe that a heavy stand mixer will turn us into a baker but the truth is usually the opposite.
The tool acts as a psychological release valve for the guilt of not having the habit yet and once the box is open the debt is settled. You buy the air fryer and you feel like you have already eaten the healthy meal and so you feel free to order a burger from the place down the street.
The kitchen becomes a museum of who we wanted to be last Tuesday and the chrome surfaces stay clean because they are never touched by grease or fire or human hands.
Lessons from the Cathedral
I spend my days tuning pipe organs and I see this same thing in the back rooms of old cathedrals. There are massive instruments with thousands of pipes that sit silent for decades and the dust on the bellows is thick enough to write a name in.
I recently updated the tuning software on my tablet and it has all these new features for measuring frequency