Poll: Cooking, can you do it?

[Rockasaurus9]

No obligatory joke answer? Madness. Point is, I'm a horrid at preparing food. It does help that my toaster oven has it in for me though. How does 'low' mean blackened?

Toasters are peculiar lil demons. Low-High/Light-Dark is influenced by its mood, the weather, and the positions of Beavis or Butthead around Uranus. I find it easier to cook toast with a lighter than to trust in one of those damn things.

I'm so glad to know that my toaster isn't the only possessed one out there. I can cook pretty well, but that stupid toaster's just a toss up. I have a hard time believing I can prepare a complete meal from salad to entree to dessert yet fail at toast.

 

[EnzoHonda]

I want to add myself to the list of people whose skills improved when they went vegetarian. I was a decent cook before, but since becoming a vegetarian I've become a maestro in the kitchen. I think a lot of it has to do with meat being easy to prepare. Steak, burgers, and chicken are tasty even if all you add is heat. Tofu, aubergine, and even the best imitation meat products all take some effort and imagination to get good results.

I love baking too. Breads, pastries, and an assortment of cakes and cookies.

My greatest creation of all time was a green tea, maple-glazed creme brulee. Man was it good.

 

[Jenkins]

well seeing that im only 15...

i practice every chance i get, and i love to volunteer to cook stuff. i always tinker with food, sometimes for better or worse, i have a friend whos a chief in a really nice italian resturant who was a sous chief. hes going to teach me and improve me after he gets back from a huge cooking compitition in vegas

YES i do watch the cooking channel alot >.0

as of right now i am kinda being pulled into mediterranian style of cooking. mostly greek and italian? hmm so many choices

 

[kitkatalice]

Chef in training at a pretty prestigious school...but it gets tiring sometimes. I'd rather someone else cook for me once in a while. Not to mention I am extremely critical of my own meals.

 

[Jenkins]

please train me o powerful one.
kit what school and state?

 

[Gitsnik]

Been living on beans on toast for the past 18 months. Them and microwave lasagne's.

My spaghetti bol. is legend but I'm guessing the skills will have slipped somewhat as it has been so long since I cooked it.

Home taught though, mummy dearest and all that.

 

[Apone]

I've got to say I'm one hell of a cook. Give me a stove and an Oven that actually works, as in heats to the temp you set it on, and I can make awesome meals. I'm really good with steaks and Pies. And I'm not to shabby with a grill either. How would you like your steak? Rare, Medium Rare, or well done?

Steak and Pies are my Favorites (and Roasts)! Rare please, keep the flavour in.
@Gitsnik, try adding Marmite to your beans on toast for that extra kick.

 

[Le' Moog]

tin > microwave > bowl.

anything else and i'll get food poisoning.

 

[stompy]

tin > microwave > bowl.

You better make sure the bowl is metal...

Anyways, I myself am an alright cook. Though I mostly survive of packet and pot noodles, I can cook my own tacos, tortillas, sandwiches, and pretty much just some other miscellaneous items. Pretty mush everyone in my family loves my grilled cheese samichs...

 

[Spinwhiz]

I can make pretty much anything you want tbh. I have to look at a recipe the first time, but after that I'm usually good to go and can make alterations to make it better or more of the way I like it. Also, if I go into a restaurant and like something, I can usually pick out what is in it and duplicate it.

Now I'm hungry...time to go cook!

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

My tacos are stuff of legend.

Nobody can make better tacos than me im like the taco king.

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

I'm pretty good, I always kinda wanted to be a chef when I got to this point in my life so I've taken some classes, read a lot and watched a lot of cooking shows. Though I realized I could never handle the kind of cooking environment that comes with being a chef. I'd rather just cook professional type meals at my own pace for the people I love. I know if I'd actually gone into that profession I'd have come to hate it.


^_^

 

[Micronut]

Can cook, won't cook! If I have to I will but I find it too time consuming. I have the attention span of a gold fish so by the time my mind wanders back to what I'm cooking I need to start again :/

 

[jamiemac]

I say i'm pretty good, but I always feel kinda crappy whenever anyone mentions an omelette. I have no idea how to make one, seeing as I don't like eggs. That makes knowledge like this pointless, but that doesn't stop people looking at you like you're an idiot when you tell them you have no idea how omelettes work.

 

[call me alo]

Culinary school was my back up if i didn't get into any of my colleges, sadly i did and the rockstar life of being a chef is now a dream

 

[bluemarsman]

If it can't go in the microwave, I can't cook it.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I can only do basic stuff, like tomato soup, oatmeal, and rice. I have yet to learn the secrets of scrambled eggs and bacon. Well that's not entirely true. I've learned several times, but I just keep forgetting.