How did you learn to cook?

I'm actually just now learning to cook. My biggest teacher in learning to cook has been my husband. He learned to cook from people in his family, while I didn't learn how to cook from my own. So as an adult he has been my best teacher when it comes to cooking things. =) The other major resource that I have in learning to cook is the internet. The whole reason I am doing a lot of cooking right now is because I am on a very restricted diet for my health, which is keeping me from being able to eat out as much or eat many "prepared foods" that you can buy, as they all contain either too much sodium or ingredients I'm not allowed to eat. So I utilize wesbites specifically about low-sodium cooking a lot, as well as getting recipes from friends who have similar dietary restrictions to mine.

i learned how to cook because i am interested in cooking both of my parents love cooking and that adds up to my interest. cooking is fun for me. now i have my own kids and cooking still for me is fun it was never meant to be achore but a hobby. now i am trying to make a twist on all the recipe i tried and also starting to do some baking.

I mainly learned how to cook by trial and error. This happened when I first was living on my own. I had to teach myself because it was either cook or starve. lol. However, I often would call and ask my mom for advice or recipes. I would also think back on how she cooked for inspiration. I also would watch food/cooking shows for inspiration and tips/tricks.

Hi there. French toast and boiled potatoes, were the first foods that I learnt to cook, I started cooking when I was young, around 12 years old, the next thing I learnt to cook was a beef and vege stew... Both my parents worked all the time, or so it seemed and being the eldest at home, our mom would prepare dinner in the mornings, before she left for work, We would get our chores and home work done and all I had to do was turn everything on, at a certaint time and keep an eye on everything, which was quiet easy, making sure pots had water and nothing boiled over... Later on, as I got older, I started to experimenting with foods and different tastes, mixing and matching, and now I consider myself to be a good cook, well my family and friends love my cooking...

I went to a Technical high school in which everyone chose career majors. Mine was Culinary Arts and restaurant management. Technically I knew how to cook before that, but you learned a lot more and the rules of cooking and all that sort of stuff from your classes. We ran a restaurant in which we served our teachers. It was pretty nice. A nice break from boring old classes.

I learnt how to cook to survive! xD Well, not really, but I first started cooking when I was about 19, when I needed to make some lunch for myself while I was a student... I started with very simple stuff and my first attempts where TERRIBLE xD You know, like rice tasting really bad, burnt potatoes, etc... Then I began to make some cakes and sweets, specially for my boyfriend when we just started going out ^^ and I found out that I did have some talent to cook some very tasty things!! Right now I can cook a lot of more things, but I still need some basic guidelines for more elaborated foods... I do have a special notebook from my mother with a lot of recipes ;) All I know I've learnt it from her and from my boyfriend, who's an excellent cooker!!

I learned cooking from my mother. She taught me the basic things to do when starting a dish. After that I started to invent new recipes, adding other ingredients into it. I like cooking spaghetti noodles, fried rice, chicken with coconut milk, banana fritters, roast chicken, grilled fish and many other recipes. I think now I can cook better than my mother. Lol. Sorry mom, but you are still my number one cook. Happy posting, and have a nice day!

I learned by watching my dad and my mom cooking. My dad was an army cook and I learned how to make stuff peppers and stuffed cabbages by watching him. From my mom, I learned about beef roasts and roast chicken. Then I learned how to make a cake and those oatmeal crisps, that we called oatmeal cookies. They were not like the kind of oatmeal soft cookies they have now. My dad used to make a kind of Minestrone that we called Macaroni Soup but it was not as spicy as I would have liked and he always made tomato soup with milk and creamed corn.

I learned from watching. I use to always watch my parents cook and that is basically how I learned. I also learned just by expericence. And reading the directions on the back of the products. But I'm not a better cook than my mom.

Well i would have to say that my cooking talents come from a variety of avenues actually. I used to watch my mom alot when i was a little girl. I also liked to watch cooking shows on tv alot too. I have always loved cooking anyways. We had a cooking class in highschool as well. I taught myself alot on my own though i love to experiment in the kitchen and i must be doing alright the kids seem to love the things i prepare for them.

I have learned to cook from my mother because she dearly loves to cook. She was a good teacher and she does it from her heart.

hunger bordering at starvation is the best cooking teacher in the whole world.

I too learned how to cook while watching my mom and grandma make dishes. I always wanted to help them stir or mix something together. I have to admit my grandmother taught me the most. I lived with her and she showed me how to cook every dish that she knew. There were alot of them, my favorite was her Chili. OMG I can smell it now. I also loved her fried potatoes, there was just something about how they tasted...they melted in your mouth. Now, I am a mother of 3, All to which love to cook, and assist in the kitchen.

I learned to cook when my mother teach me and she also gets to read lots of recipe books, somehow that really helps a lot.

I learned to cook by watching certain things my mother made...I also learned by trying things myself just to see how it would come out..after ruining a bunch of different dishes, I finally figured out how to cook...and made everyone that knows me happy..I used to get them to try the things I would make and according to them, I got a lot better at it...

I learned how to cook from my grandma. She was a great cook. I used to spend hours in her kitchen with her. I still have all her old recipes and cookbooks.

We used to have a small food stall in front of our house. You can't help but learn ..lol. It also helps that we area family who just love good food.

When I was about five, my Mom would assign me a slicing job. I used to slice vegetables, and everything Mom tells me to slice with my little knife. She always brings me with her to the kitchen, most of the time, when she cooks for us. And when I became an excellent slicer(?) in my Mom's eyes, she promoted me to being someone who will pour the sliced ingridients on the cooking pot. In that way, I would know what has to come first and so on. When I was about nine, I learned how to cook very simple recipes by myself. One of the preparations that I learned is to cook starch to make a paste(glue) out of it because I ran out of glue for my art project. I have poured so much starch, so I had to pour some more water. And finally, I was able to make the right kind of mixture to make a paste(glue). I only used 1 teaspoon-full of the paste that I made. It was all I needed to get my art project finished. But I have prepared a pot-full of paste! So, I decided to add 3 eggs, some mild and sugar on the paste mixture and then stirred it. After stirring it for what seemed like forever to make the mixture even, I poured the "modified paste" in a very nice plate and placed it in the refrigerator to chill it. And when my big brother came home from school, tired and hungry, he opened the ref and saw the nice looking "modified paste," and asked who made it, but when he asked he was already devouring it. A few minutes after my brother has consumed everything that I made. I went to the kitchen to check the ref, and found that my paste is gone! And then I asked out loud, "Who got my paste!?" Then my big bro, still chewing the last few spoonfulls that he had replied, "What paste?!" He was holding the plate. When I saw him holding the plate, I pointed at the plate and told him, "That one, that's my paste you're eating!" And then I showed him my art project and told him, "I used that paste to make this." I was already mischievously grinning. My brother's face changed from a 'happy to have his hungry belly - filled with a yummy delight' to 'an angry face who just found out that he'd been betrayed.' I just knew right then that I needed to run for my life. And I did, I ran to my Mom. My Mom asked what's the commotion about, and then I told her everything. And then Mom asked my brother, "Did you like it?" And then my brother said, "Well... Yeah, I did like it. " "Do you find it delicious?" Mom asked. And he said yes. "Then why are you angry at your sister, you must be thankful!" My brother shrugged then said in a low voice, "But it's paste" LOL!!!. That was my first successful cooking experiment. Until now, I do my little experiments in the kitchen, which is very much supported by my Mom. And my brother, he likes my cooking, but he can never forget about the paste. LOL. Sometimes, he calls me from the US to tell me that he misses the food that we used to have at home, most specially the Beef Randang that I cook. At the end of the conversation he'll tell me, " I'm still having my revenge on that paste!" Then we'll laugh out loud over the phone. :) That funny experienced ispired me to explore the culinary arts. I just love cooking. :). Thanks to my Mom too. :)

my mother rarely cooks when i was young. it was our housekeeper who does the cooking. so when i got married, it was really hard for me to learn. i am just so lucky that my husband loves to cook. he is also patient i teaching me how to cook.

Since I was a kid I love to eat and discover those different kinds of food preparations,in this way I got started to learn more about food preparation and eventually I love to cook as well as to eat. Now most of the time I'd like to go fine restaurant to taste their variety food menus..