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    when you learned to cook?

    trying to learn to cook food but i am not making good progress, the chicken was very dry and the pasta was not cooked long enough! seems so hard to learn to cook food right, always something wrong! potatoes boiled too much, broccoli being not soft to chew!

    how did you learn to cook and when??

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    If you're not following recipes to a letter, which I don't, then it's all trial and error.
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    True, I was just bored and tired but you are correct.

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    When I learned to read.

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    at school and at home from childhood, continuing through adulthood with recipes from internet and friends. early cooking experiments always have some problems, just takes practice to get it right

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linadra View Post
    If you're not following recipes to a letter, which I don't, then it's all trial and error.
    i tried to follow recipe but i got very dry chicken from that doesnt taste good!

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Push Buttons View Post
    When I learned to read.
    Ye. I cook for a living but hell if I'm not just gonna throw shit in a pan and have some fun.

    Anyway, chicken can be dangerous so for a beginner i would choose something less deadly like a homemade spaghetti sauce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital Dream View Post
    i tried to follow recipe but i got very dry chicken from that doesnt taste good!
    What was the recipe?
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    True, I was just bored and tired but you are correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital Dream View Post
    trying to learn to cook food but i am not making good progress, the chicken was very dry and the pasta was not cooked long enough! seems so hard to learn to cook food right, always something wrong! potatoes boiled too much, broccoli being not soft to chew!

    how did you learn to cook and when??
    You should watch some videos on youtube about what you want to cook. This is what i do a lot.

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    I am NOT trying to be sexist at all but I am NOT a cook in any sense of the word, it would probably be my only reason I can think of immediately why being married would be a good option.

    Obviously not for the food, but if she can and would cook, that would be pretty damned awesome. If cooking is up to me, everybody dies.
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    Well,when I went to live alone I had to eat somehow,so I tried out stuff,some were bad,some were good...a lot of trial and error later,and I'm here

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    How about checking the food occasionally and before eating ? Taste the pasta, stick toothpick into the potatoes and stab the chicken with fork or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mall Security View Post
    I am NOT trying to be sexist at all but I am NOT a cook in any sense of the word, it would probably be my only reason I can think of immediately why being married would be a good option.

    Obviously not for the food, but if she can and would cook, that would be pretty damned awesome. If cooking is up to me, everybody dies.
    It's not always the case that woman cooks better tho For example my mom used to be a cook in her youth, still cooks really good food, but her (now ex) husband cooked even better food.
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    True, I was just bored and tired but you are correct.

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    I learnt to cook at school as part of the lessons. We rotated between home etc, resistant materials and systems and control (electronics) for about 6 years so learnt from about the age of 10 how to start cooking basic food.

    I would say a bologanase sauce would be a better beginner recipe than cooking chicken, as stated above, simply due to not wanting to die of food poisoning or salmonella!

    As for following the recipe, which recipe are you trying to follow. For beginners I would recommend the easy cook magazine or recipes from the BBC, as they are designed to be simple to follow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linadra View Post
    What was the recipe?
    i used this http://www.delfi.lv/receptes/makaron....d?id=48677709 but chicken was very dry...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linadra View Post
    It's not always the case that woman cooks better tho For example my mom used to be a cook in her youth, still cooks really good food, but her (now ex) husband cooked even better food.
    That is why I said I am not trying to be sexist, I only meant it in that it would be the biggest benefit for getting married. Hell I'd marry Chef Boyardi at this point LOL


    Yeah I am horrible at the cooking thing.
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    I am not sure what people mean by learning to cook.
    There is nothing to learn about putting something in the oven or the microwave.à
    Learned to boil water? I guess
    More "Advanced" Techniques such as a Mary bath (probably got the name wrong, my engrish is great) could be defined as learned to cook, I suppose.

    In other words, I don't consider it very possible to "learn to cook" it is a case by case basis of learning to cook X so that it tastes good, memorizing the recipe, finding the perfect fire power and timer, etc.

    So as a poster above said, when I learned to read and when I learned to google.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital Dream View Post
    i used this http://www.delfi.lv/receptes/makaron....d?id=48677709 but chicken was very dry...
    A little difficult without actually knowing what it says D:

    On the offhand tho, I'd suggest adding some food cream, if it already doesn't suggest it, dunno. If it does, then add some more.
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    At home. My parents had me cook for the family once a week. But, really, it's not hard, as long as you can read a recipe.

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    At home. Trial and error really.
    I think as long as you cook meals you never stop learning.

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    I started to cook when I was about 10ish usually small stuff like baked potatoes gradually working up towards hamburgers from scratch when I was 12.

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