i cooked puff paste! have you ever cooked it?

I once worked out the cost of making pastry from scratch and compared it with the cost of ready-made frozen pastry. If I didn't include the time, the basic ingredients worked out to be a couple of pence cheaper. When I added the cost of my time (at the basic rate of around £5.50 or $8 an hour), it proved to be cheaper to buy the ready-made pastry. Puff pastry is quite labour intensive. First the flour and liquid must be mixed and rolled out, then dabbed with fat, folded and rolled again several times and it should be chilled in between each rolling and folding process. Of course, it's possible to do other things in between but much simpler to take a roll of pastry from the freezer (with time to thaw), just roll it once, if necessary, and trim or cut to size. I will sometimes make shortcrust and water crust pastry by hand but puff pastry is not worth the effort, especially when you get perfect results every time with the ready made kind.