Who doesnt know how to cook??

[_Lisa_]

I can make the most perfectly toasted bagel & some burnt toast. Thats about it.

[AChiOAlumna]

My mother and grandmother are wonderful cooks! When I was young, I wanted to learn, but my mother wouldn't let me help. She would make me sit and watch her...I'm a tactile/visual learner, so I'd get bored and leave the kitchen...

Since then, if you give me a recipe with explicit instructions I can figure it out and make a good meal...but I cannot just "come up with something" on my own. I make chicken dinners (chicken parmesean is a specialty!) and breakfasts I'm great at (french toast, pancakes, eggs, etc.)...

The question is more do I like to cook? NOPE!

[honeychile]

Originally posted by Susan_Renee
I can cook, I just don't do it often. It seems pointless because I live alone. I just don't see the point in cooking for just me, so I only do it if I have friends coming over to eat as well.

This, I understand. It's much more fun, much easier to cook for two or more than one.

[AOPIHottie]

I can cook, but I just don't like to. I get impatient easily, so I wont cook big meals. I did however cook Thanksgiving dinner for the first time this year! Well, everything but the turkey. My boyfriends dad did that. My mom is a fantastic chef and can cook some good stuff, and keeps trying to teach me, but I just don't care. I have cooked for my boyfriend once, and it turned out terrible, so he has to cook now cause I hate our stove. I used to cook awesome meals for my ex-husband, but apparently lost my touch.

[omegamcgee]

I'm not so good at the cooking. I can make boxed stuff, and I can cook like chicken and roast, but that's about it. My most famous meal was Easy Mac and Tequila. That was all we had to drink, and amazingly, it goes well with easy mac!

[Tom Earp]

Damn, cooking is easy!

Read Instrctions, Drink, re-read instructions, drink.

Smoke alarm goes off, throw hockey puck dinner in trash and drink!

Well, it is harder than that or not! Maybe!

Try Meat Loaf! My MOM liked Mine better than Hers, I had to fix mine for every Family gathering!

But, a True Chef such as Myself has secrets to a degree.

Meat Loaf, Popeyes, Gooey Buns, Mac and Cheese Casarol, just a few!

Eat Cake you Peons or eat out!

I love Dharma!

[AlphaSigOU]

Just remember the motto of the military cook: "When it's cooking, it's burning... when it's burning, it's done. Dinner's ready when the smoke alarm goes off!"

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

Originally posted by valkyrie
You know I think I'm a decent cook but Mr. valkyrie puts me to SHAME. He never uses a recipe and just comes up with the most amazing, random things.

The one thing I do that he doesn't is bake. Now that I've gotten the hang of high altitude baking, I make some killer cookies.

So I've heard there's a difference but never actually what the difference is. Is it the cooking time that's affected or what exactly?

[AWJDZ]

Originally posted by Susan_Renee
I can cook, I just don't do it often. It seems pointless because I live alone. I just don't see the point in cooking for just me, so I only do it if I have friends coming over to eat as well.

same here....I find it really pointless. When I do cook, I end up taking the leftovers to school for lunch several times. My best friend moved in by herself a few apartments over and we swore we would take turns cooking instead of eating out, but that hasn't worked...now we call and decided where we are going to eat out at and if we are carrying out or eating in.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
So I've heard there's a difference but never actually what the difference is [in high-altitude cooking]. Is it the cooking time that's affected or what exactly?

Both. Water boils at a much lower temperature at high altitude, and certain ingredients in baking that rely on water to activate (such as yeast) will react too quickly or not at all.

[Tom Earp]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Both. Water boils at a much lower temperature at high altitude, and certain ingredients in baking that rely on water to activate (such as yeast) will react too quickly or not at all.

Oh Dude, AlphaSigOU, you be to funny!

Dont you know anybetter than to throw an equation like this at a new non cooking person!

Well newbie cookers, live and learn! Go to the mountains to ski and drink, dont cook!

When water is boooiling, throw the shrimp in (Todays memu), and go like hell!

Heat is a bad thing at times.

Tried fried chicken for the first time, Hot grease, working oin chicken, Grease flamed Up, and burnt the Slats on the window and melted them!

Called a friend to see what I did wrong, was coughing my ass off. Called her husband who is a Highway Patrol Guy and he rushed over to take me to hospital for smoke inhalation.

Hell, all I wanted to do is do fried Chicken like Mom used to make.

Well, it aint happening, Mom Made The Best Fried Chicken.

Oh Yes, the smoke alarm was going off like crazy!

[Glitter650]

I like cooking, and I think I'm pretty good at it. My grandmother, mom, and dad are all good cooks. They all let me help them when I was little, so I've been cooking forever pretty much.

[KarenC725]

In theory I can cook. Since I live alone, I tend not to do it often and when Honeybaked Ham is so close, no need even for Christmas Eve! I don't trust myself with the big stuff.