Can you cook?
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I'm good at cooking. It combines so many fascination things from different sciences. Like physiks, when it comes to the kind, size and shapes of pots and pans. Or chemistry, when it comes to adding which spice at what heat to not kill the flavour.
I don't know many recipes. But when I learn a recipe, I learn very quickly, which is way more than I can say for many people. So yes, I can cook.
Yes, I can cook, it's not hard... well, sometimes is considered all the heat around it. I do cook almost everything, plus I learned to prepare macrobiotic meals with all the cereals and vegetable and... things in it.
I'm a fairly competent cook, i specialize in breakfast with a minor focus on chinese food.
in my experiences the two don't mix so well.
in my experiences the two don't mix so well.
I can make myself a bacon sandwich, I can follow simple recipes, I'm not the most skilled person with a knife (still bear a scar from when I was 6 or something), and I doubt I'd be able to live entirely self sufficiently, but I'll throw a decent meal together if pressed, and if I have something telling me how to do it.
We had a few cooking classes at school.EBHughsThe1st said:
I personally love cooking. I'm a decent cook, and i'm getting better.
I can cook - though I haven't cooked properly in a couple of years (lamb cutlets in a red wine and shallot sauce, damn it was good). Learned when I was at Unie the first time, then went home for a couple of years (so my parents cooked) then went back to uni, where for the last year practically everything has either been out of a microwave or a stir-fry.
My partner doesn't think I can cook, given that I've cooked for her about 3 times in the 6 months we've been together...but I've been really skint and worried that I've forgotten how to cook the fancy stuff.
Still, I can cook a mean spaghetti bolognaise, a killer stir-fry and a pretty good chilli - so I can just about feed myself
My partner doesn't think I can cook, given that I've cooked for her about 3 times in the 6 months we've been together...but I've been really skint and worried that I've forgotten how to cook the fancy stuff.
Still, I can cook a mean spaghetti bolognaise, a killer stir-fry and a pretty good chilli - so I can just about feed myself
Pretty much anything except for pastry or cakes. They're fiddly buggers which need precise measurements and timing, I much prefer 'throw stuff around the right time' kind of meals. Developing different types of stew is a favourite of mine; shame they're either massively unhealthy or just have no flavour tho. ._.
I can cook really well for myself, but I'm not as good at making meals for other people. I like messing around and trying new stuff in the kitchen though.
I can cook well enough that everyone in my family attacks my food the moment its done. I guess my cooking skills are decent, but I think the harder question is can you prepare food well. Cooking onions, dicing bell peppers and marinating meat always make me D:
I am a decent cook. I find my own cooking delicious and am capable of cooking a wide enough variety of things that I am never bored with my own cooking. Cooking isn't a difficult skill to learn, it requires one, maybe two lessons on some basics, then some improvisation to find out what works well together. I enjoy cooking quite a lot, really. It's one of my favorite forms of entertainment. It helps that my roommate and I both really enjoy cooking, so we have good equipment for it, and a large selection of things so that we can cook from a variety of cultures.
Something that's confusing me is people saying "I can cook well enough for myself and a few people"... what does that even mean? You can cook well enough for a few people? Doesn't the amount of people you cook for depend largely on the amount of food being made, not on your culinary skills? Or is it something along the lines of only a few people can stand to eat your cooking? I don't get what that means. If you feel confident in your cooking enough to give it to other people then you are a decent cook, not that you are good enough to feed a "few people". Someone could feed 500 people shit and they're still not a good cook.
Something that's confusing me is people saying "I can cook well enough for myself and a few people"... what does that even mean? You can cook well enough for a few people? Doesn't the amount of people you cook for depend largely on the amount of food being made, not on your culinary skills? Or is it something along the lines of only a few people can stand to eat your cooking? I don't get what that means. If you feel confident in your cooking enough to give it to other people then you are a decent cook, not that you are good enough to feed a "few people". Someone could feed 500 people shit and they're still not a good cook.
Anybody can cook if they have a recipe in front of them and everything they need to make it. Cooking well on the other hand...
I'm okay. I tend to be lazy and stick with things like a stir fry, omlette or just shit thrown in a pan/pans (like veg, fish, meat or a combination). When I have enough time on my hands I can cook a variety of things including gluten free pizza (with potato base, tastes much nicer than that sounds), curries and burgers. I also love making chips from potatos and seasoning them with stuff before cooking them but that's a side order really.
My favourite thing though is baking and apparently I'm pretty good. For example the tablet I made was, according to one of my friends, the best he'd tasted (and hadn't even told him I'd made it). I love baking cakes, pancakes, brownies and more. But then I've always had a very sweet tooth, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't eat chocolate (again).
I'm okay. I tend to be lazy and stick with things like a stir fry, omlette or just shit thrown in a pan/pans (like veg, fish, meat or a combination). When I have enough time on my hands I can cook a variety of things including gluten free pizza (with potato base, tastes much nicer than that sounds), curries and burgers. I also love making chips from potatos and seasoning them with stuff before cooking them but that's a side order really.
My favourite thing though is baking and apparently I'm pretty good. For example the tablet I made was, according to one of my friends, the best he'd tasted (and hadn't even told him I'd made it). I love baking cakes, pancakes, brownies and more. But then I've always had a very sweet tooth, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't eat chocolate (again).
