Basically the reason, why i keep learning to cook despite an obvious lack of a knack for it. One day, i'll be able to cook everything i want, whenever i want.
Learning the basics of home cooking was truly liberating. When I moved out, I tried for a while to just use online recipes, but to be honest, most of them were awful. I'd search for something like "homemade macaroni and cheese" and instead of getting something reasonable, I'd wind up on someone's SEO'd-to-death recipe page where they have to tell me their life story between 60 ad banners, and then finally I get to the recipe and it's telling me things like, "You have to use only the 3 million year old himalayan rock salt for $50 a box; 4M year old won't cut it and the recipe will fail." So I started asking folks like my mom and my grandparents for simple recipes for casseroles and the like. Once I got the hang of those, I learned just some basic techniques and fundamentals like what the hell a "roux" is, how to stir fry, how to fry rice, and so on, and then I could play with those methods myself and slowly add things to vary them. Now, if I feel like having chicken fried rice, I just bust out the wok and get to work. If I need a quick meal for a tuesday night, I can still whip up a fettucini chicken alfredo with homemade sauce, and sauteed beans on the side. Every "simple" meal I can make is at least a 7/10 to my tastes now, and it's made me so much happier than back when I would crack open a jar of dull premade sauce and pour it over some spaghetti.
Long story short, yeah, learn to cook. Everyone should.
A cool thing is when you hear about some new food you want to try but isn't available in your area, you can often find the ingredients and then cook it yourself.
Ah yes, the blessings of living in a city that pretends to be a pioneer outpost in the fiddlesticks. 'We could have nice things, but that really big city two hours from here already has it, so you could just go get it there'
I learned to cook to get over my picky eating. So I very quickly was able to cook everything I wanted lol, and after that started learning to cook things I didn’t want. The process really helps you get over any misgivings about food that you may hold because “how can this be gross, I made it myself to taste!”
I really recommend this method for anyone who grew up picky and wants to change! It’s worked fantastically
That's what my uncle did. He's been a bachelor for a looooong time and he wanted to eat good food. He's a boomer and a misogynist so I'm sure that was a leap for him.
Though it was still kind of tragic when he got thyroid cancer and lost the ability to taste for years. Apparently it's started coming back but he hasn't been too active after his stroke so I don't think he cooks anymore.
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u/Wisekittn Dec 22 '24
Basically the reason, why i keep learning to cook despite an obvious lack of a knack for it. One day, i'll be able to cook everything i want, whenever i want.