I love cooking

[jodal]

I love cooking but I hate the fact that if you want to cook something nice or a bit special it costs shitload. Something is wrong when buying shite, unhealthy crap is cheaper than the good and healthy stuff. Anyway, thats a different thread.

 

[Relahni]

I love cooking but I hate the fact that if you want to cook something nice or a bit special it costs shitload. Something is wrong when buying shite, unhealthy crap is cheaper than the good and healthy stuff. Anyway, thats a different thread.

I love the going to the shops to get the stuff I need. Because of this cost doesn't really come into it.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Cooking is my favorite hoobby.

I LOVE COOKING. It is great. Especially when my boyfreind enjoys every morsel I make.

But your absoloutley right about baking. TI's a science. I@m crap at souffles and shit like that. And yourkshire puds. Always go flat.

 

[dirtysanta]

Cooking is my favorite hoobby.

I LOVE COOKING. It is great. Especially when my boyfreind enjoys every morsel I make.

But your absoloutley right about baking. TI's a science. I@m crap at souffles and shit like that. And yourkshire puds. Always go flat.[/QUOTE]

THE SECRET THERE IS DONT OPEN THE OVEN ONCE YOUVE PUT THEM IN !!
SILLY BINT !

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

But I dont!!!!!!!

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

8 eggs, 8 oz of flour 1 pnt of milk. preheat oven 220 degrees, batter into hot fat shut oven door. wait 20 mins. flat yourkshire puds.

 

[dirtysanta]

8 EGGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING HELL

2 eggs 1/3 pint of milk, 4 heaped tblsp table spoons of plain flour, 2 table spoons water, salt.

 

[maes]

Well la di fucking da. I suck at cooking.

<eats something raw>

 

[Pieface]

8 EGGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING HELL

2 eggs 1/3 pint of milk, 4 heaped tblsp table spoons of plain flour, 2 table spoons water, salt.

you've come over as quite the catch today, Santa. I'm surprised at this cooking thing you're into

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Cooking rocks and for some reason the action of cooking curbs my hunger.

 

[Pieface]

I get that too - it's quite odd really, and frustrating.

 

[tarannau]

I get that too - it's quite odd really, and frustrating.

Same here. Or I get to the eat and just find myself sweating, the heat of cooking having caught up with me. I'm also perhaps a little overenthusiastic at trying the food when it's cooking...

 

[foo]

Cooking rocks and for some reason the action of cooking curbs my hunger.

i often find this too, 'specially if i'm cooking something nice that takes longer than opening a tin of beans. i've always thought its because i pick and chomp as i go.

i really like cooking - however being a mum for the past 20 or so years and having to 'get the dinner on' every flippin night in the early years kind of put a dampner on the fun of it for a while.

made worse by son no.1 being born with a hatred of cooked onions and cooked tomatoes.

great!

 

[Rollem]

made worse by son no.1 being born with a hatred of cooked onions and cooked tomatoes.

oh

and i was gonna send you home with a spag bol goodie bag

i love cooking, but i dont think i am particularly good at it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

i've always thought its because i pick and chomp as i go.

:

So did I until I realised I wasn't chomping as I went.

 

[Rollem]

isn't it something to do with the cooking fumes?

 

[foo]

oh

and i was gonna send you home with a spag bol goodie bag

seeing as he supports Spurs, i wouldn't trust you anyway.

i just know you'd poison my big lad

edit: i think you're on to something with the fumes Rollem.

 

[dirtysanta]

you've come over as quite the catch today, Santa. I'm surprised at this cooking thing you're into

Im the nuts. Im a big box of tricks. . Iv got loads of other stuff not associated with cooking i do that make people go and

Cooked cheeses are a speciality. Especially deep fried Brie or Camembert served on a bed of rocket with fresh cranberry sauce and grilled goats cheese, with mango on salad.

 

[Pieface]

now you're just googling

I've never had this deep fried brie - sounds like it'll give me a massive arse

 

[Rollem]

i just know you'd poison my big lad

i could make him a get well card

it is the fumes, i am sure i read something about it somewhere once....

 

[dirtysanta]

now you're just googling

Cheeky bugger, i certainly havent. I listed those three cos they are my favourites. And SIMPLE.

YOur only jealous (((Piebonce)))

 

[pembrokestephen]

Cooking is for poor people and wankers. Anthony Worral Thompson and Ainsley Harriot prove this.

End of.

I don't cook, I chef.

But chefs don't cook. They organise other people who cook the things they've created.

How large a kitchen staff do you employ?

 

[pembrokestephen]

I feel sorry for people who can't cook. It's like magic - you get some ingredient, use your magic wand (wooden spoon? spatula??) and hey presto! a tasty meal!

Therefore we are magicians

edit: on a serious note, I see it as an essential life skill and if you can cook good and varied meals then you are making life better!

One of the wonderful things about cooking is, I think, the fact that for most of it, you don't need any particular special skills. When I hear people say to me "I can't cook", I know - from experience - that what they generally mean is "I'm too scared to try, in case something goes wrong". Most of cooking is an exercise in confidence, and the attitude that someone shows towards cooking is, I think, a very telling indicator of how they function as people, whether it's the mustn't-err-from-the-recipe approach, the "can't" approach, or the "hell, let's just chuck it in the pan and keep adding things until it tastes nice" approach (my personal favourite *preen* )

 

[pembrokestephen]

I hate it when I hear that phrase

I have no idea why

It's been overused - it's the sort of thing that stupid 1970s cookbooks would tell you about every recipe they had. It manages to combine patronisingness with a certain kind of self-congratulatory hubris - "look at this tasty recipe that we cleverly made, and it's nice and simple for you crap cooks out there", just before they tell you to add a pound of margarine and a tablespoon of bright yellow food colouring

I'm pretty sure dirtysanta wasn't using it in that context, though! Not unless he turns out to be a 1970s recipe book author.

(I knew someone who collected those appalling 60s/70s books, and always found them amusing. Now I discover that Ms Pembrokestephen has a collection of them Full of recipes for terrible 70s things with really inappropriate or disgusting ingredients. I humour her )

 

[pembrokestephen]

So I can't have a range cooker. I've picked one out and everything and have had dreams about it

DAMMIT, WHY?! WHY?!? THERE IS NO GOD!!!

If it's any consolation, stuff in real life rarely, if ever, lives up to the daydreams. With the possible exception of a bass guitar I still own and this girl I once knew, but that's a whole other story.

 

[beeboo]

If it's any consolation, stuff in real life rarely, if ever, lives up to the daydreams. With the possible exception of a bass guitar I still own and this girl I once knew, but that's a whole other story.

It had to be better than my current decrepit cooker

WAAARGGH!

<throws tantrum>

 

[maes]

One of the wonderful things about cooking is, I think, the fact that for most of it, you don't need any particular special skills. When I hear people say to me "I can't cook", I know - from experience - that what they generally mean is "I'm too scared to try, in case something goes wrong". Most of cooking is an exercise in confidence, and the attitude that someone shows towards cooking is, I think, a very telling indicator of how they function as people, whether it's the mustn't-err-from-the-recipe approach, the "can't" approach, or the "hell, let's just chuck it in the pan and keep adding things until it tastes nice" approach (my personal favourite *preen* )

See, I say I can't cook, but I'm not scared, just scarred from the bitter bitter experience of my previous hideous creations - think more the ""hell, let's just chuck it in the pan and keep adding things until it tastes or looks remotely edible." Not all that successful. If anyone wants to show me the way, do it .

 

[beeboo]

I'm not scared, just scarred.

((maestrocloud))

 

[dervish]

I used to hate it, now, after I've learnt to cook a few things I'm beginning to enjoy it. Getting a bit more creative as well, (I use spice sometimes)

I don't really have a clue what I'm doing but I usually manage to produce something fairly edible. I live by my mum's rule... Never measure anything! Do it by eye!

 

[pembrokestephen]

It had to be better than my current decrepit cooker

WAAARGGH!

<throws tantrum>

This probably won't make me too popular, but what about replacing the decrepit cooker, but not with one that needs chimney breasts removing?

I have to say, though, after reading your post, I went into our kitchen and started working out how many cupboards and things I'd need to move to get a six-burner range in there. It doesn't look too tricky...

*runs away and hides*