Poll: Do you know how to cook?

[Schwenkdawg]

I can cook decently well, but since I'm an unemployed post-university graduate i usually dont have the money for anything in the way of good ingredients...or...well, ingredients at all. can't bake to save my life though

 

[blaqknoise]

I can make Kraft Dinner and pancakes. That's about it.

 

[mikey7339]

I've got enough experience that I am a pretty good cook with most anything now. Even new things I can make relatively decent on the first try but it takes making them a few times before I consider it good cooking.

 

[Brandchan]

I can cook just fine but it is not something I get a lot of enjoyment out of. When I had a roommate and was cooking for other and had access to better grocery stores I did enjoy cooking more. Where I live now, I'm by myself and the local food stores don't really carry a lot of the items I would want to include in my cooking.

 

[Mafoobula]

I think I fall somewhere between great and awesome. I've made and created dishes both spectacular and terrible to behold. But the good kind of terrible, like the things they make on Epic Meal Time. However, my plate presentation is sorely lacking. I can make a beef stroganoff that'll put you to sleep, it's so good, but don't expect it to look particularly lovely.
And I bake too. My cookies are industrial strength delicious, my cakes... are tasty, to be sure, but half the attraction of cake is that it looks good before you cut it. I'm just not that kind of artistic, you know? Oh well, I still make one HELL of a New York cheesepie. Fun fact: What you call cheesecake is really pie, since it's batter poured onto a crust. Cheesepie.

 

[RagTagBand]

I can follow instructions, which in turn makes me able to cook almost anything.

 

[BRex21]

I'm a pretty good cook, i can make some pretty fanciful dishes. But usually stick to "bachelor cooking" basic meals that can be made in a few minutes mostly on the cheap. I make a mean lentil soup and a great beef stroganoff.

 

[Jzcaesar]

I can cook, but for some reason when I do so, my IQ drops to like 30. For example, I've poured out some spice into a measuring cup when the spice container fails to pour. Reasoning that all it needs is a good shaking, I start shaking it vigorously, failing to note that I've transferred the container to the same hand as the one holding the measuring cup, and now there's a ton of spice all over me and the floor.

 

[lord.jeff]

I'm a pretty good cook as I was doing most the meals for my family sense I was twelve.

 

[scw55]

I can cook. It's easy and boring and therefore I don't want to do it.
I do enjoy the pretty side of it, i.e. icing a cake.

 

[Instant K4rma]

The most complicated dish I can prepare is either Kraft Mac n' Cheese or Ramen noodles, and I'll even mess those up on occasion. I couldn't cook an actual meal for the life of me.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I'm alright at cooking, but I could use improvement.

 

[latenightapplepie]

I'm pretty hopeless. But I can follow a fairly simple recipe, I suppose.

I really should learn.

 

[dvd_72]

As a man in university, I could cook if I wanted too but while I'm in school I'm usually too tired in the evenings to do any cooking, so I stick to simple stuff. Doesn't stop me from making the simple stuff taste really good. People love my quick stir-fry!

Now, when I have the energy for it I just love to cook, allong with bake. The best part for me is when other people enjoy something I've made. Makes it all worthwile.

 

[intheweeds]

Really? No choices in between 'good cook, but needs improvement' and 'world class master chef'?

I'm a career chef of 14 years, but i wouldn't say I'm 'world class'. Where does that leave me?

 

[Weealzabob]

I think I have decent cooking skills. I don't have a huge variety of things I do but I keep my house fed.

 

[Nymi]

I'm definitely not any kind of chef, but I know my way around a kitchen. The basics. Boiling potatoes, making rice, pasta, various sauces, salads, lasagna and other basic meals. That's it, though. Nothing fancy for me. If I got a recipe for something fancy, I could follow it fine, of course, but generally I just don't do that.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I'm OK, I guess. I've been complimented by everyone who's had my cooking and they have neither raced to a bin to hurl nor come down with a case of food poisoning, so I'm doing something right I think.

The thing is, I enjoy cooking... a lot, but when it becomes a chore (as it did when I was living by myself for my PG deg) it kind of turned to crap... it wasn't bad, or anything, just very plain. Didn't really have much time to prepare any fancy stuff, but it kept me alive so can't complain that much...

But despite being Chinese, can't cook Chinese food for shit... Japanese food, I'm OK with, but can't make a Chinese dish to save my life...

 

[AD-Stu]

I do pretty much all the cooking in my house and I do OK - nothing too fancy though and I'm lousy with baked goods.