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When did you learn to cook?

When did you learn to cook

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I don't think I've cooked anything I learned to cook at school, again. I hated the teacher and I think she had a grudge against me cos my big brother shut a door in her face once.


The only things I make that could be considered recognised dishes are spaghetti bolognese and cauliflower cheese. Everything else is just made up rubbish. I don't understand seasoning.
 
sojourner said:
How about your first roast dinner then? How fucking HARD was that to get right?? :D Took me over a year to get all the timings right!!
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eh?? Roast dinners are a fucking doddle!! One of the easiest things to cook!

..and I'm a bloke! ;)
 
Kanda said:
eh?? Roast dinners are a fucking doddle!! One of the easiest things to cook!

..and I'm a bloke! ;)
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I always fuck the veg up on a roast, I think I lose interest on the final bit and end up with brocolli like soup. :mad:
 
Taught myself, I am quite proud with my cooking, if people regularly tell you your meals are 'divine' and 'orgasmic' it must be good! :)
 
sparklefish said:
I always fuck the veg up on a roast, I think I lose interest on the final bit and end up with brocolli like soup. :mad:
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If you're organised, roasts are a doddle. I used to write timings down and set a timer...

2hrs Put meat in
90 mins put spuds in
30 mins put cauli cheese in

etc etc...

Logic innit, that's why you women suffer :D:D ;)
 
Kanda said:
If you're organised, roasts are a doddle. I used to write timings down and set a timer...

2hrs Put meat in
90 mins put spuds in
30 mins put cauli cheese in

etc etc...

Logic innit, that's why you women suffer ;)
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Fuck off. :mad:

I did a schedule for last years xmas dinner- 4 1/2 fucking hours. :mad: It was going so well until I got twatted. Drinking bubbly, baileys and half a bottle of sherry before lunch is not a great idea. :o :rolleyes:
 
I didn't see any options for youth groups such as Guides or 4-H :(

I taught many a kid to cook as a 4-H leader (and learned a lot myself).

I was taught to cook as a kid and was responsible for cooking the evening meal since I was 10 or 11, but that was just British food. Guiding, cookbooks and telly taught me a wider variety.
 
I find roasts pretty easy too. But in order to do so, you have to have some understanding of how food works. You have to know that carrots take 35 mins to roast or 5 mins to boil. Once you've got that down, it's straightforward.

But it's only easy once you know how to do it, if you get what I mean. If I'd tried a roast 8 years ago I'd've fucked it up.
 
I learned to cook meals in my mum and dad's chinese when I was about 12 but had been helping with the prep since I was about 7, started off with easy stuff like cracking a million eggs to harder stuff like nakedfying prawns eventually to cooking meals.

plus cause my mum and dad were working so much and i only worked at the weekends, i'd cook for myself and my sister during the week which also gave me lots of chances to figure stuff out but also meant eating a lot of dodgy meals in my early teenage years before i figured stuff out - incidentally, i got my first cook book around this time too :)
 
missfran said:
But it's only easy once you know how to do it, if you get what I mean. If I'd tried a roast 8 years ago I'd've fucked it up.
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My first roast was my 1st Xmas dinner after leaving home, was pretty good actually... each product does give you a cooking time on it to be fair!! :)
 
I don't know if I can cook or not (my bf says "yes") but I definitely didn't learn at college!

We only had one camping ring per 5 or six of us and one oven in a hall of thirty people!

Plus I could never afford any ingredients (remembering meals of boiled rice :( )

I could make a cake, do omelettes and pasta when I left home and have been ad libbing ever since.
 
Had to figure it out for myself really...................did spend a long time eating beans/tomatoes on toast though !


:)
 
Just remembered what kicked off a proper interest in cooking - I went veggie aged 19. I'd always eaten plain meat and two veg but eating veggie food made me appreciate flavour and texture in food for the first time. Rather than the limiting of choice some people see in going vegetarian, to me it felt like a whole world of food and tastes had suddenly appeared and I really began to enjoy eating for the first time instead of just taking on fuel. Being too skint to eat out cooking new recipes was the only way to try all the things I wanted to eat.
 
missfran said:
By this I mean, when did you FIRST learn to cook. I know we're all still learning and it's a lifelong journey and so on and so forth. But when was the first time you really set about learning how to cook and feed yourself something other than pot noodles and ready meals.
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Raspberry and coconut spaghetti was a recipe of my own devising.


:) *proud*
 
My mum taught me a bit, but I wasn't as interested as I should have been and didn't learn so much. It's a shame, because she's a better cook than I will ever be. I mainly taught myself, via a lot of mistakes, at university and afterwards. These days, mum and I swap recipes and cooking tips... :cool:
 
tarannau said:
Roast dinner's fucking easy. I'm always more concerned by thing like omelettes than I'm with roasts - you just put them in the oven and forget to a large extent.
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Bollocks

Mashed spuds, carrots and swede, cabbage, roast spuds etc - I ended up with raw something or another every fucking week for ages - chicken would be ready either way before or way after everything else

Easy my arse!
 
Kanda said:
My first roast was my 1st Xmas dinner after leaving home, was pretty good actually... each product does give you a cooking time on it to be fair!! :)
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:confused: a bag of carrots from the greengrocer never contained instructions when I were a lass :p
 
Really? I'm the opposite way, everything's usually ready before the meat.

I always found roasts to be fairly forgiving as well. You can leave the meat resting and rely on warming gravy, reheat veg where necessary and the like. It's difficult to fuck up to inedible levels, whereas other dishes can burn or overheat into ruined rubberness much more quickly.

I'm not going to say that I cooked perfect roast every time back then - hell my potatoes weren't a shadow of the consistent crunchiness they are now - but they were always serviceable.
 
sojourner said:
:confused: a bag of carrots from the greengrocer never contained instructions when I were a lass :p
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And I don't trust the cooking instructions from some places, particularly on beef and lamb cuts. Cook for as long as they suggest and you're likely to end up with leathery dryness instead of succulent pink meat.
 
tarannau said:
Really? I'm the opposite way, everything's usually ready before the meat.

I always found roasts to be fairly forgiving as well. You can leave the meat resting and rely on warming gravy, reheat veg where necessary and the like. It's difficult to fuck up to inedible levels, whereas other dishes can burn or overheat into ruined rubberness much more quickly.

I'm not going to say that I cooked perfect roast every time back then - hell my potatoes weren't a shadow of the consistent crunchiness they are now - but they were always serviceable.
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See, I didn't even know about the concept of 'resting' meat back then. I knew literally fuck all about the nature of foods. Didn't have a microwave to reheat so it was either oven or on top of a pan with hot water in.
 
tarannau said:
And I don't trust the cooking instructions from some places, particularly on beef and lamb cuts. Cook for as long as they suggest and you're likely to end up with leathery dryness instead of succulent pink meat.
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I know!

I used to ask the butcher in the end. Sound advice given. Also fishmongers taught me how to cook various bits of fish :cool:
 
Kanda said:
Ask the grocer then, read a book, use your head maybe??? Geezus...
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Yes - see my point re the meat.

There was no internet when I was 22. I knew fuck all about anything to do with cooking. Yeh - use your head which is dead handy once you KNOW about food, but not when you can't even boil an egg properly
 
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