Remember your first parody?-Mine was Vegemorphs

Seriously, when I first read a parody I was 8 years old,and not smart enough to understand what it was. It was the book Vegemorphs, a parody of my favorite YA novel the Animorphs. If someone had sat me down and said, "Look, parody is just roasting and making fun of thing, but done with love." I'm not sure I would've understood the full breadth of parody, for instance, I read A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift (I think?) in 12th grade,and I fully understood it at that point; but I would've had a much better chance. So Animorphs is about a group of 5 teenagers and an alien who are trying to resist a massive secret invasion by a race of brain controlling aliens. The alien good guy's older brother crash landed on Earth in book 1 and told the kids to touch his blue cube, which gives them the ability to absorb the DNA of any animal they touch and turn into it. But they have a 2 hour time limit, and the 5th teenager goes over it in their very first battle and is stuck as a Red-Tailed Hawk forever. So yeah, Vegemorphs has them turning into sentient vegetables with tentacles that shoot mineral rays to fight the evil fungus,and if they stay past cooking time, they'll never be able to turn back again. This is literally all I remember from the book, but I was so confused. What was cooking time and why was it so undefined? It took me until my early 20s to google this book and realize it wasn't a fever dream, and also realize the point they were trying to make. Why was the limit 2 hours in the original? Seriously, not once is it ever explained or do they try to make a pseudo-science goopy attempt at it, even though they do for so much stuff.