Recipes don't consider the timing of the mise en place

Recipes often leave out the preparation time as if cooking only starts when the ingredients are ready to be combined. It skips through the boring prep work straight to the "effortless" frittata.

Part of it is that recipes don't account for skill levels - how fast you can chop or mince and if you have suitable equipment. Neither do they account for preheating or depressurisation, effectively tripling the cooking time in some cases. More often, the 30-minute meal is a lie because recipes can only account for so much.