Many moons ago, I worked as a realtor, and one of the "tricks" of the trade was to bake cookies before an open house. It makes the house smell great, and you get to give out snacks. It really shattered my internal concept of baking cookies, because I could buy pre-cut cookie dough and a cookie sheet on my way to a house and make delicious, warm cookies in 20 minutes while wearing a suit. No apron, no cleanup, just an increasingly tight pair of suit pants.

Relevant XKCD - Stove Ownership