No. This is a recipe for burning your dinner.

This is a good one for me because I often leave the kitchen and forget that I've got something on the stove. BURN. If I do this, it keeps me in the kitchen.

Yup, this. My girlfriend and I cook together which helps a lot. We'll both start chopping/prepping but once things start cooking, one of us can clean while the other finishes up, so by the time everything's done the kitchen's back to the way we found it!

On top of that, something I find helpful is to clean while cooking.

Chop while you cook.

My wife will clip coupons during commercials.