Poll: Do you cook?
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Hell, yes! I do about 98% of the cooking in my house. I have multiple shelves full of cookbooks and a subscription to Cook's Illustrated. I watch Alton Brown and Gordon Ramsay for ideas. I'm making stuffed grape leaves for dinner tomorrow with leaves from the plants outside our kitchen window. I love cooking!
I've managed to burn noodles before, so I would say I cook, just not especially well. Especially not well, in fact.
I can do some basic stuff, but I usually consider it too much effort, especially since my mother cooks for the entire household anyways. It is much cheaper to make one big dish for four people than to mess around with everyone cooking their own stuff anyway.
I cook all my own meals, having lived in a family were we eat quite a lot, my mom always used to cook a lot at once. So she'd be cooking 3 different sort of meals at the same time, then we'd have food for 4 days and then she'd cook again. Me annd my brother both used to help her out and we both make our own food nowadays and very seldom buy ready made stuff.
Not sure how my brother does, but for me the cook a lot at once hand have for 3-4 days food has stuck. So I usually make 2 dishes which will last 4 days each (lunch and dinner) and have it in the fridge and just microwave it. Works fine for me.
Not sure how my brother does, but for me the cook a lot at once hand have for 3-4 days food has stuck. So I usually make 2 dishes which will last 4 days each (lunch and dinner) and have it in the fridge and just microwave it. Works fine for me.
I voted other. I cook all the time, because I live alone and I am trying to eat healthy stuff, but I suck at it and I hate it. Whenever I try to read up on it, I get frustrated by the volume of information, also by how it tells me that I am doing everything wrong. Basically what I do is I throw everything in a pan together, then put some salt and pepper on it.
I enjoy cooking, but I haven't had much chance recently, with the kitchen being refurbished. Can't wait for it to be finished.
Using a mini-oven to cook just isn't the same. Can't really cook roast potatoes in it.
Using a mini-oven to cook just isn't the same. Can't really cook roast potatoes in it.
Other, I guess?
I'm a hobby baker so I make some breads and cakes from time to time. Other than that, I just make sandwiches for myself. Everything else I eat is either frozen/microwavable or made by someone else.
I'm a hobby baker so I make some breads and cakes from time to time. Other than that, I just make sandwiches for myself. Everything else I eat is either frozen/microwavable or made by someone else.
I eat to stay alive, so I wouldn't say my cooking is fantastic. I don't touch ready meals though, waaay too much salt and they're more expensive than buying your own crap and cooking it properly.
Also I'm really lazy and use a slow cooker, so all I'm really doing is chopping up some veg and meat and shoving it all in one pot.
Also I'm really lazy and use a slow cooker, so all I'm really doing is chopping up some veg and meat and shoving it all in one pot.
I do, but usually I'm very impatient.
I tend to only look for food when I'm hungry, so cooking something often will add a good 30 minutes to the time. Or, I could just throw on some mac n' cheese and be eating in less than 15 minutes.
But sometimes you get the desire for variety and going out is too expensive, so there's the time to just sit down and make something that will probably make up the next 3 meals you eat.
I tend to only look for food when I'm hungry, so cooking something often will add a good 30 minutes to the time. Or, I could just throw on some mac n' cheese and be eating in less than 15 minutes.
But sometimes you get the desire for variety and going out is too expensive, so there's the time to just sit down and make something that will probably make up the next 3 meals you eat.
I can, but I don't really. Living the student life here in my student flat often leaves me without much time to cook. Usually I'm out too often, or when I'm at home too busy with studying or something. So the few dinner times I do spend at home I just end up eating a couple of (grilled) sandwiches and some vegetables, and that'll do.
It's a very spartan affair, true, but for now that'll do, I get my enjoyment for other things. Maybe later in life I'll do more proper, fancy cooking. It's a skill I'd like to have.
It's a very spartan affair, true, but for now that'll do, I get my enjoyment for other things. Maybe later in life I'll do more proper, fancy cooking. It's a skill I'd like to have.
I can cook a handful of things, and sometimes I try fairly involved recipes, and do pretty well at them.
But...
Having said that, I rarely feel inclined to cook. Far too lazy and impatient, generally, to actually go through the effort to prepare a proper meal.
Then again, I struggle to do much of anything in a day. Every extra task I do comes at the definite expense of another...
And there aren't many to go around.
But...
Having said that, I rarely feel inclined to cook. Far too lazy and impatient, generally, to actually go through the effort to prepare a proper meal.
Then again, I struggle to do much of anything in a day. Every extra task I do comes at the definite expense of another...
And there aren't many to go around.
I do indeed. Made some lovely gyros last night. I've made better, but they were still good.
My weakness in cooking is that I take a long time because I need to prepare all my ingredients first, whereas say, my partner, will just do that as she cooks. I don't know how she manages it.
My weakness in cooking is that I take a long time because I need to prepare all my ingredients first, whereas say, my partner, will just do that as she cooks. I don't know how she manages it.