Are you a chef/cook?

[ShawnFuzz]

Not necessarily professionally, but would you consider yourself good at cooking food?

I have watched way too many cooking competition shows, so it makes me feel like I know what I am doing.

Then I slice my finger cutting chicken breasts and realize I am slightly above moron when it comes to home cooking!

I can follow a recipe, but I have never understood how people in my life can just look through what's on the shelves, and improvise an amazing meal.

Would you consider yourself a good cook?

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I only cook at home. I enjoy trying out new recipes and figuring which ones I really enjoy and which ones could be better. Cooking is also the only read I would buy wine as I don’t really drink.

 

[SunnyAC]

I’m not a professional at cooking but I am pretty good at cooking food. I help my mom cook food and find recipes.

 

[Aniko]

Not at all. I have a few things that I'm not too bad at, and that's all. I can bake breads.

I have hard time following recipes, I often improvise when not sure and make a mess.

And since I lost my sense of taste thanks to Covid, it makes things way more complicated. I love gingerbread, but can't taste it, if I follow the recipe it taste nothing, if I triple+ the spices, it tastes awful for others. Everything I cook is too spicy for my family.

I still managed to bake cookies for TBT, it was quite an adventure. The only cookies I had baked so far were chocolate chips, molasse cookies, that kind of cookies, not shaped cookies. I had to create my own shapes, ruined half of them, some fell apart, some burned, some were hard as rock. Decorating them wasn't easier, I watched several youtube videos explaining how to do it, but I have big clumsy fingers, I made a mess with the food coloring and icing, I had decorations in my hair as well. It was not easy but I still baked cookies and they tasted good!

So I'm not naturally gifted, often I don't know what I'm doing and I'm terribly messy but sometimes, I get results and it tastes good.

I'm also very picky when it comes to food and think most of people (I know) can't cook, my father was a very good cook, my brother too, but the rest of my relatives and friends...not that much.