Do You Cook

Can you cook?

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i count myself as an amateur gourmet, as i can cook in severral styles and types. - chinese, italian, mideastern, and mostly vegeterian.

i really dislike junk food, and usually cook my own food.
i prefer not to use the boxed stuff, using only fresh ingredients when possible.

i also dabble in artsy cooking (e.g. no following of the recipe. i cook by the seat of my pants)

i especially love "stoj" type foods (pies, goulash, deepdish stuff...)
 
Yes i can cook.. well im forced to unless gf is cooking! who else would? id like to not starve thanks
 
I don't enjoy cooking, but I can't afford to eat every day, nor stand the thought of living solely of microwaved noodles, so perforce I've acquired certain cooking skills. I don't do anything fancy if it can be avoided, however.
 
I love cooking... With friends most of the time, but even when alone I can't be satisfied with mediocrity. Making something sexy out of something usual rarely takes more than 10% of your time. I'm fighting against mediocrity...
But since I'm always moving I often go to the restaurant and I don't like fast food...
 
I cook instant macaroni and Ramen noodle soup. I have not really tried anything else, but I am sure with a couple trial and error cooking sessions I could figure out how to cook quite well.
 
I cook every day, meals for me and the whole family. Roasts, vegetables, soups, stews, sauces, cakes, puddings, salads, currys, Chinese-type, you name it! I like using good-quality organic, local and fresh ingredients, producing delicious, filling, attractive, healthy and balenced meals. Oh, and not using too many pans, to avoid excess washing up.
I've been learning cooking for ages - I remember learning to make toast when I needed to stand on a chair to see into the grill, and the chair was shoulder-height to me. Making tea when I had to reach up to the kettle, which was on a little table that is now below my waist. In school at the age of fourteen, they took a month to teach how to make toast and boil an egg, so I arranged to have my harp lessons during Food Tech - and got 97% on the exam.
Edit: I also make jams, pickles and preserves.
 
I'm OK at cooking, as long as the meal takes no longer than 20 minutes to prepare. After that my patience runs out and i get distracted very easily, usually resulting in overcooked/burned food. I also hate dish washing which leads to the following constrains concerning cooking:
1. Food must be edible in less than 20 minutes
2. Cooking must not take more than 2pots/pans
3. Resulting meal must not taste too bad.

Too bad being defined as having such a bad taste that no amount of ketchup/curry/pepper/chilly can cover it up.
 
i like to cook :) most of the time at least.

i can do just about everything pretty well outside of baking. i mean, i can bake but don't have alot of experience w/ it. i guess my main problem over the years was having a lousy oven. of course, the ovens work. however, older ovens often have hot spots or cook unevenly, or even have bunk thermostats. and as a result, baking stuff like cookies and cakes can be problematic w/ those kind of problems.
 
i can make 2 things, soup which is really just a matter of putting veggies in a pot and boiling them, so no skills needed there, and chilli.


i havent made either one in a really long time, i usually eat rice or potatoes with some kind of meat.
 
I can get by. Can't cook anything involving more than 4 ingredients without following written instructions, but I can get by with simple cooking. (Soup, canned foods, anything involving the toaster, and of course Ramen!)
 
My cooking skills are abysmal. Cooking seems to be a too challenging task for me.

Typical outcome: One day I got the task to make vanilla pudding. I mixed the milk, sugar, eggs etc., and put the thing in the fridge, but somehow it didn't look as yellow as usual, and it still was very fluid, despite repeated mixing. I then looked at the package with the pudding powder to check the recipe. Turned out that the package was still closed.

One of my greatest achievements happened when I visited a friend who, on her birthday, tried to bake her own bread for the third time. The two previous times the dough had remained flat, so the baking didn't work. My friend was happy and excited that the dough seemed okay this time. There came some other people visiting her, and wanting to help her, I put the bread in the oven. Half an hour later a strange smell caught our attention. We checked the oven and found out that I had *grilled* the bread. As a result the upper half of it was a hard, black and silvery shell. The lower half was basically mud.

I recommend to never, ever eat anything I cook. ;)
 
I can cook. I do cook every so often. I can cook if I have to (but not as a job).
 
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