To all the males out there - have you ever tried your hand at cooking?

@rajeshfgh (1629)
India
July 19, 2008 10:32am CST
Hi friends, have you ever tried you hand at cooking? If yes how good were you. Hope you came out of the kitchen safely! Just joking! Tell me about your first cooking experiences. I am a complete foodie but not that good a cook. But, I must say I can do the basic stuff easily and efficiently. All thanks to my family who left me home alone for about a month. Want to share your experiences?
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12 responses
• Philippines
19 Jul 08
Why not? I love cooking! I learned how to cook as early as seven years old. My parent are always at work and my aunt is the one who looks for me and my two siblings. I remember one time when I have just arrived fro school, I saw her in the kitchen, mixing something. Out of curiosity I asked her what she is going to cook and she said it is a chicken curry. I watched her in the kitchen and I asked her to teach me how to cook. Since then, I learned many cooking styles and I am still learning from her. My aunt is a good cooking teacher.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey, it seems you've a flair for learning different dishes. You've really started very early. It feels good that atleast someone out there is not suffering or is not dependent on others for the basic necessity - FOOD!
@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
19 Jul 08
Hello,Rajesh! After my retirement now I have enough time in my hand to help my wife in the kitchen.so every day I am cooking for our lunch.For the first time I had cooked in a feast long days back and everybody appreciated my hand.so for cooking for two persons it is not a problem for me.but i cook only vegetarian diet.no meat,or fish.thanx.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey, that's great. You must be really good to earn praise from many people. Keep it up!
• India
19 Jul 08
hey i am really gud at cooking..surprised?my dad too does it brilliantly..but we both are terrible when it comes to preparing for cooking..otherwise we r fabulous cook..
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Nice for you and your father. I hope you're not joking. I can very well do the preparations like cutting the vegetables, peeling them or some similar stuff, but cooking is a very different ball game altogether. I hope you understand.
• India
24 Jul 08
I tried it once. But it was really a miserable moment in my life. My cooking caused my pressure cooker to explode. Then onwards I never tried my hand in cooking.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
24 Jul 08
hi, you're not joking, are you? Pressure cooker exploding is too dangerous, I hope nobody got hurt. For first timers, I think a frying pan is the safest method to try anything you want lest you will only burn something and certainly not blow up something. You've had quite a first-time experience! :)
@sirrob (4108)
• Philippines
22 Jul 08
it is hard at first, to be honest, i still have to figure out what was the ingredients and what and which to to do first. the first step is always the hardest and once you get used to it then it won't be that hard anymore. i also secretly look on someone when they are cooking by then before i know it, i am already instructing a friend over the net on how to cook. funny how it works but until now i still seldom cooks at home. it was just not my forte.
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@sirrob (4108)
• Philippines
22 Jul 08
yeah, i would agree on the will thing that everything has it's way out when you just don't give up that easily. and instead of focusing the difficult part, why not burn the time in looking for possibilities or the solution. perhaps, this just don't apply anymore with just cooking alone, it could be applicable in life situations, right?
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
23 Jul 08
yeah, i agree with you. It's the best approach one can use to come out of any situation which seems far from possible.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
22 Jul 08
You've really got a flair for cooking. I guess, where there's a will there is a way. I agree once you tackle the first hurdle then it becomes easier along the way.
• India
22 Jul 08
Oh yeah I do. Preparing for a career ahead which demands a multiple roles from all its employees. I like cooking, and I have tried my hands at some of the dishes, and have been good enough till now. I love my mum's food and my dad's cooking style. They both are different in their approaches towards food and that has crept into me and i like a bit of both of their work. So I also have cultivated that habit and try to find a combination between both of their styles and recipes and they also have come out successfully till now. Although I have to confess that in the beginning stages I had to face some serious failures. Well, I can do it now and it's never gonna go away from me. bourne
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• India
24 Jul 08
I'm not. Atleast for now. But I sure hope that I would get to work on it and improvise on it. bourne
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
23 Jul 08
Yeah, even I was very bad during the first few times. About the cooking genes you've received from your parents, I would say that you have taken the positive aspects of both of them and made up a hybrid variety of yourself. You kinda are a very good cook then! :)
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
21 Jul 08
Rajesh, I have tried my hand at cooking and it was some time ago. I must say i enjoyed it and the few occassion that I did , the end result was pleasantly beyond my own expectations. Now that you have brought it up , I must try it once again and see how it goes. Cheers
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey, great! I am proud of myself that I have stirred the cook in you. Hope you cook very well again. Happy cooking!
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
19 Jul 08
Well, I will answer for my husband. Yes, he can cook and he is good at it.He makes the best bbq pork chops and steaks in the world. He can make about anything that he wants to and he learned when he was a teen. I know several men who are good cooks and have learned to do a lot of cooking by experimenting on their own.
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey, you're very lucky to have such a dexterous husband. Yummy, steaks it has made my mouth water. Yeah, I agree most of the famous chefs in many big hotels are men.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
23 Jul 08
Hello dear rajeshfgh. I cook sometimes for myself when I am in my school apartment. Right now I am at home enjoying my summer vacation with my family. In the last five days, I have been cooking for my family. Every morning I go to the grocery market to buy vegetables and come back to cook meals. I like cooking when I have enough time at home and I have found that my cooking skill is improving with the guidance of my wife.
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
23 Jul 08
Hey, that's great. You have a teacher in your wife to teach you the cooking stuff. It's nice to know that you can cook for your family. I sometimes struggle to cook even for myself.
@Kemboi (341)
• Eldoret, Kenya
20 Jul 08
Thanks to my mum who taught me to cook when I was at the age of 7 years. Since then I have never forget cooking. I being a first born in our family I was given big responsibility by my mother. Early this year january my wife delivered and we are living in town and neither my wife and I could travell to village or my mum could come over where we stay, because of political crisis we encounter. So cooked for my wife for three months in my culture when my wife delivered my mum could come and spent some days in my place to help in cooking and overseeing her and new born, or my wife can travell to the village for such a care from my mum. So since the situation was worse, I myselve cooked for my wife for two months. There is a goat I bought for her and I sloughtered make her nice soup ho I tell you my wife has double her weight. Thanks rajesh and sorry for your family will your wife come back later when you sod out your differences? Concerned.
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey, you really care a lot for your family and specially your wife. Great man! You're too good. I wonder which dish is your favourite and which you can cook very well. You really have done a lot of cooking for your loved ones. By the way, I am still single and am reunited with my family (they were away only for 1 month). I kinda managed during those times.
@bluespace (132)
• Canada
20 Jul 08
I've been cooking since I was about 11 . So i know my way around a kitchen and am happy to report I cook better than most of the restaurants around here.I have to thank my mom for showing me how to do a lot of stuff in the kitchen!
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@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
21 Jul 08
Hey that's great! It's quite a good thing that you cook better than the chefs in the restaurant. I wish even I could do that as I am a foodie and cannot afford to have outside stuff regularly.
@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
23 Jul 08
I can cook dishes, only the simple ones. Like scrambled eggs, fried eggplant, fried rice and salted fish. I can also cook noodles. hehehe, lol.
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
24 Jul 08
Hey, that's pretty good. I am also the same as you as far as cooking is concerned.