I was already cooking 95% of my meals at home (I'm mid-twenties, single and live in a big city and I've seen too many of my friends spend 50% of their income on take-out, it's just not worth it to ...

I think where the 1/3 second burst comes in is that 1 serving doesn't equal one pan. You couldn't cover an entire pan in a 1/3 of a second, but you could probably cover the space equal to one brownie.