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PSA: If you can read, you can cook
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:26 PM
There is only "will cook" or "won't cook." |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:59 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:40 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:39 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:40 PM
i usually just buy prepared meat @ harris teeter because i have no clue how the process works. seems like i'd end up wasting a lot of meat or something. im also lazy. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:41 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:36 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:39 PM
But even without such skills, anyone can make some damn good eats with the help of marthastewart.com |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:02 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:38 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:41 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:42 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:07 PM
You culinary artiste. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 1:58 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:18 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:37 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:39 PM
"I personally thinking [sic] cooking is a rather innate skill"
Sorry, you're just wrong. Being world class or getting good a bit quicker than others may involve some innate skill. But anyone can cook awesome food practically on their first try. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:40 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:46 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:48 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:43 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:45 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:47 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_B3QNu_Ks |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:50 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:52 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:54 PM
i also can make a technically perfect omelet |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:58 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:09 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:59 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:02 PM
that said, i don't flip these days |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:03 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:08 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:47 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:53 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:54 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:55 PM
"You can't be like pancakes: all exciting at first, but then by the end you're fuckin' sick of em." |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:27 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:58 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 2:59 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:03 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:21 PM
Preparation is key. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:02 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:13 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:14 PM
No. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:28 PM
That said, there's different levels of cooking - beginner level (like my mom in her whole life) is just cooking chicken without seasoning and adding frozen vegetables. IMO the addition of sauces/spices often makes it more advanced. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:26 PM
1: she tries overly complicated recipes
2: she doesn't cook what you like
My mom does both, so I know all about this. I can't eat the food she makes. But I have faith in her basic ability to boil an egg. Although, I bought some take'n bake bread to go with dinner and she baked the entire enormous loaf in the morning, thereby completely defeating the purpose of the take'n bake system. Also her scrambled eggs are runny on the inside and burnt on the outside. But seriously, it's not like she couldn't cook well if she really put in the effort and followed a recipe as directed. I think some people just don't pay attention or something. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:21 PM
Follow some fucking simple as fuck instructions and you can cook great food. Maybe you have to learn like 6 or 7 cooking vocab words at most and those only appear in some recipes. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:22 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:28 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:33 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:35 PM
I would love to see some statistics correlating cooking skills and divorce rates. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:40 PM
My mom is smart but doesn't cook well. |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:21 PM
pretty much anybody can follow a recipe though |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:24 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:31 PM
getting better a timing meat cooking is definitely an acquired skill since a recipe can't really tell you precisely what to do (it's always different depending on heat source and meat thickness/size). and there are some difficult recipes out there (e.g., try having a noob make pad thai or something very timing and multitasking intensive), but there's no excuse for people that flat out don't cook because they "can't" |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 3:35 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 4:10 PM |
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Date: June 13th, 2012 4:15 PM
The trick, in my experience, is not to blindly thumb through recipe books/sites looking for things you might like, but to start learning to make things you already do like. |