Do you suck at cooking?

[Rob Williams]

I sure do, so I appreciated this link that I found at CNN:

http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/techniques/cooking-questions-tips-00400000064986/

There's surprisingly a lot of good tips in there, regardless of whether you are baking something or cooking a meal. I am a major repeat offender for #10: You overcrowd the pan.

 

[b1lk1]

I consider myself a great cook and I still like reading articles like this because you can always pick up a new tip here and there that will just add to the eating experience. Anyone that feels they need tips should definitely read that, alot of them are not a common sense as they should be.

 

[Tharic-Nar]

Made a few of those mistakes as well, and i will say that i have a serious problem with cooking meats in general. White meat i can handle, it's actually quite hard to get wrong, but red meats... the number of failed attempts far exceed those of an edible level, lol. Pastries i don't have a problem with anymore, or more accurately, i don't have so many problems. Going from making bread to making pastry often results in over-working the dough and you end up with rubber.

With the likes of cakes, the one thing that has to be emphasized is the creaming method, most people just simply mix the sugar and fat, resulting in bricks. You have to work it, and work it for a while until it really is fluffy in texture, otherwise you will be greeted with a brick.

Yes i can cook...... for the most part.... i think.

 

[slugbug]

When I was 10 or so I destroyed my mom's kitchen curtains while attempting to make myself french toast for breakfast one morning. Note to self: don't pour water on a grease fire

I'm a much better cook now though

 

[Doomsday]

i wanted to become a Chef! but then i realized there wont be anything left for other people to eat!

 

[Optix]

Did you ever see Homer make cereal only to have it spontaneously combust? Yeah...that's me. Luckily I married someone who LOVES to cook. Cooking to her is like tinkering with my computer to me.

OVERCLOCK YOUR DINNER!

 

[Doomsday]

Did you ever see Homer make cereal only to have it spontaneously combust? Yeah...that's me. Luckily I married someone who LOVES to cook. Cooking to her is like tinkering with my computer to me.

OVERCLOCK YOUR DINNER!

Lol!

 

[Rob Williams]

OVERCLOCK YOUR DINNER!

Didn't you read? Slugbug tried that, and it went completely wrong ;-)

 

[slugbug]

Didn't you read? Slugbug tried that, and it went completely wrong ;-)

I forgot to mention that I grabbed the cast iron skillet and threw it outside in the snowbank, burning my hand in the process.

 

[Optix]

Good thing you live in Canada. Where would you have thrown it if you lived in say, Arizona?

 

[b1lk1]

Good thing you live in Canada. Where would you have thrown it if you lived in say, Arizona?

At a cactus, lol.

 

[slugbug]

I suddenly have a craving for french toast

 

[Jen McPherson]

Cactus... haha.

I think I'm a decent cook, not the best, but I enjoy it. Yeah, french toast does sound good...

 

[Kougar]

If you have not "caramelized" fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake made by one of our editors.

Hmm, guess someone likes martini's a bit too much.

That's definitely a great (and amusing) read, I'm bookmarking this one. Lots of really good tips and pointers in there...

 

[Rob Williams]

That's definitely a great (and amusing) read, I'm bookmarking this one. Lots of really good tips and pointers in there...

Yup, I put a couple of the tips to use last night, and the supper turned out to be better than usual (though it was just steak and vegetables, not rocket science).

 

[Kougar]

Do you suck at cooking?

Nope! When it involves computers (especially CPUs), I now consider myself a pro.

Which reminds me... I need a new sig.