Did someone teach you to cook? Or does someone else do the cooking?

I grew up on a dairy farm, and I was always in the kitchen helping my mom. To this day, we still do the "home -style" cooking thing. Whats kinda funny though, is I have an older sis who can't cook worth a darn.. lol. I like to experiment a lil bit..as long as its not "outrageous"..if that makes sense.

I learned cooking from the school...I started cooking lasagna, baked mac, siomai, hawaiian chicken and other filipino dish...and till I loved to cook food for my kids...it's very useful because you can save a lot.

i learn how to cook from my mum since i was a child... my mum is a great cook and she loves to cook for her family... i always watch her in the kitchen while she cook for the family and she also ask me to help her out so that i can cook for my family when i get married in the future... now that i am already married, i am the one who does the cooking in my house as my hubby doesn't know how to cook at all... take care and have a nice day...

i can cook but the taste is not really good. so i don't bother cooking at all. when i was on my country, the maid will do the cooking but here in my current location, i prefer eating outside as i don't like cleaning the mess in the kitchen after cooking.

Since my mom doesn't know how to cook, it's my father who does it in the house. But I learned it thru a friend who is very plain housewife, she does all the chores and more of the cooking. So she let me watch her and telling me every details of what she's doing. For her, cooking is for ladies at home. Since then, I found cooking a nice hobby, and hooked at it actually. I love experimenting too, collecting recipes and from there on, I got to learn a lot on cooking. Now at home, it's not my mom neither my father, but I who does it always.

My mum likes to teach me cook, but unfortunately, I don't like cook and help in the kitchen. So, most of the time is my mum prepare the meals for the family and I only cook when my mum is not around.

I like to cook and always helped my mom in preparing all the ingredients for her cooking. She did not teach me cooking but I have to look over her shoulders to see how she cook the dishes. It cultivated my interest in the art of cooking which inspired me to take cooking and baking classes. I do all the cooking at home as I like to experiment new recipes and get full satisfaction if others like the food I cooked.

I was taught at a very young age of 10 to cook. My first thing that I learned was spaghetti sauce. I also learned how to cook a turkey and all its trimmings. I'm very grateful that my mom taught me young and never needed to learn from someone else. Funny thing is my mom learned to cook from her brother-in-law and became a great cook. Now my significant other of 22 years also knows how to cook so if I'm not in the mood to cook he will which is great.

A pleasant day to you Free_man, With reference to your main topic discussion, the main person who pushes me to learn how to cook is my father. Wherein during my childhood days, he told me that I must learn to cook at an early age since I am the eldest among the four siblings. That, I should learn and must know how to cook foods for my brother and sisters. For this reason, I have learned how to cook different dishes at an early age. And not only that, during my secondary stage when I was still a student, my mom also taught me how to do buy foods from the wet markets. With the above experiences that my parents taught me to do, I have learned almost the process. From the point that you need to purchase your raw foods from the market up to the time that you need to cook them.

when i was young, my mother always do the cooking. my father also does cook sometimes if the specialty is from him. i also cook sometimes. but it only happens once in a blue moon, i think. or it can be when the parents are gone and we have nothing to eat,i do the cooking.but still,with my mother's permission on what to cook. she alwayd plans what to eat or cook in the family. i have never had that thinking of deciding what to cook or prepare for the family. but hopefully,i can make the move to plan preparing food,like now, we are not getting any younger and we should help our parents for the cooking. if i do cook,sometimes the food tastes good,but never better than my mom's. i also do experiment cooking. or preparing desserts to be exact. well,it's not perfect but still,you'll know the taste is good. and i want to be good at making desserts in the future as well. i have no patience sometimes when it comes to viands.

I honestly say that I do not know how to cook viands. I know a little bit but it was mostly common sense that had taught me like cooking eggs, hotdogs and stuff. I really wanted to learn how to cook. Its a good investment really to learn a little bit of this and that. The reason why I never learned to cook is that we had housekeepers while I was going up and even if my mom force us to learn to do the thing, I was just lazy to stand and do it. So now, I am regretting a little. But its not to late to learn. ;)

When I was in High School we were taught how to cook desserts in Home Economics class and how to make homemade mayonnaise, but i have forgotten all of them unless i have a recipe with me. When i was a kid i was really interested in the kitchen and love to learn with my grandmother doing all the cooking together with our cook. But i didn't learn anything and nobody taught me. My mother was a nutritionist and she can cook well but didn't spend time in the kitchen since she was busy earning money for us and if she does have time to cook, she never allowed me to be with her. Now I still don't cook at home and my husband is not bothered with it. We have a maid who does the cooking for us.

my parents taught me how to cook but just basic stuff

My mom teachs me cook. I can cook rice, boil a water, ... I like to fry eggs... ^^

Wow, what a wonderful hubby!!I can bake, but not really good at cooking, except for simple food, like baked macaroni, omelet, baked potato, pasta etc. I learn from books and mostly from my brother in law,as he was an intern in Grand Hyatt Sydney and Mandarin Hotel, Jakarta before the monetary crisis and his father passed away. HE usually cooks breakfast for his son every weekend!!

During my vacation holidays many years ago, I have work as a part time cook. From the job, I picked up some cooking skill. Also, I tried to pick up some cooking tips from my mother. Till now, I am still learning from her.

Nobody taught me... Both my mother and my grandmother were excellent cooks, but I didn't like spending time with them in the kitchen when I was a kid, and I moved out of the house when I was still a teenager. I guess I still picked up some reflexes from them, rather than actual cooking skills. Later, I learnt by myself, using cookbooks, the Internet, cooking shows (by the way, God bless Jammie Oliver, my family would've starved without him ) All in all, I'm pretty happy with my experience as a self-educated cook, everybody seems to appreciate my food.

I test on my own :) My mother cook great , but we got a different tastes so i try things on my own :) Well now i have started looking in the internet too , there some things i find here and there :) Well lets hope one day my wife will do the cooking , but well if its needed i'll cook too , i don't mind it fun sometimes ;)

My granny taught me some stuff as a kid, but basically I've learnt over the years, I think the key is I kept thinking on which kind of food I enjoy,so I started to figure out how to do it, I follow some recipes,but usually add up some of my own,or remove, it's been particularly useful since I'm vegetarian,the only one on my house,altho my husband really likes that kind of food,so he barely eat meat,and I've got my mom into trying more of that weird healthy food cos I can make it tasty! Experimenting is important! I add what I imagine it can be good,thankfully most of the time it turns out good.

I like cooking very much, it's fun. But I don't know how to cook complex dishes. But in the future I will learn to cook, and I love a girl who is good at cooking!!!