— Mark Rappaport

So you basically want the vegetables to be, if you put them in the pan when you're sauteing them, um, and you are the ones that you want to be the softest and the more well cooked you put in first, most people are going to start with onions, um, to be able to put onions into your dish to be able to get them that nice kind of glossiness before adding other things into them. And depending on the dish that you're doing, right? So if you're doing something like a chili, you might put your onions and maybe your carrots and, and then your mushrooms on top of that. And you know, after each had a little bit of time to be able to cook and kind of add things after that as well too. But by and large, the things that are harder and more dense are gonna have to cook longer. Um, if you like, the reason people use onions, uh, you know, at first is they wanna get a nice some release some of those sugars and get that caramelization to add that little bit sweetness to that to be able to start. Um, so it really kind of depends on what you are making for that as well too. But, um, yeah, just think of it like a stir fry, the things you want cooked.