How do you learn to cook?

I learned from cookbooks as well! But that was kind of after I had some "tutorials" from my uncle and roommates. Basically, they just told me the common arrangement of which goes first in the pot for most dishes, so I kind of got the hang of it. I suggest you start with meals you are fully familiar with, so you can better gauge how much you're improving. :)

I have nearly experience as yours, but I haven't learned it specially. I almost fried all the food in same way.

For me, i have learn hoe to cook from my mother and sister. They taught me a lot in cooking since i was 12 years old. im a cooking lover, i often watch cooking show and even hooked my self at youtube to learn some different recipes from there. Meanwhile, my family members always be my 1st audiences to taste my new recipe and they always criticize for improving my cooking skill. I really appreciated their comments and wish can become a world class level chef in someday. Have a great day ^_^

WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD MY TWO OLDER SISTERS WENT INTO COLLEGE IN THE CITY, MY MOTHER WENT INTO GARMENT FOR WORK AND MY FATHER WAS FAR AWAY FROM US.EVENTUALLY I WAS LEFT WITH MY TWO OTHER YOUNGER SISTER AND BROTHER AND DO THE HOUSEHOLD CHORES, I LEARN TO COOKED BY MERELY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTION LEFT BY MY MOTHER IN THE TABLE.SHE PUT THE INSTRUCTION INTO PIECE OF PAPER AND I DO IT ON MY OWN.fUNNY RIGHT! I AM NOT GOOD AT THE START BUT I LEARN THE TECHNIQUE AFTER DOING IT EVERYDAY.

Same story as yours... i also learned to cook when i got admn in university.. there we tried to hav a cook for us.. but were unable to get any.. so to save money we all tried to cook.. so we learnt there... sometimes we use to call our mothers n learn some recipies n sometimes we tried somethng new.. at the end its an nice experience.... enjoyed a lot...

My Father is the cook in our house. He will never let any of us touch anything in the kitchen because he'll get angry if his kitchen is not in order. But I am a stubborn bull. So when my parents are not around I began experimenting and concocting recipes for me and my brother. I started doing that when I was still 12 years old. My brother is the taster. He usually fancy my cooking. So I cook anything and I even bake. I am so thankful I have all those training before getting married since they said, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. So now I am cooking for my husband and my kids and they appreciate every meal I made. Through the years I also enhance what I've learned.

I learn basic cooking while watching my aunties when I was a kid. My mom also thought just a few dishes when I was pregnant with my first son. And for other dishes, I learned from recipe books, recipe printed on product cover, or online.

That's good. At last you had the time to learn cooking. Cheers! :) In my case, I learned to cook when my mother wasn't around. Before I went to the university, I was the one who usually cooked in our house. My siblings were very young then to help. Actually, I already forgot how I learned how to cook. All I can remember is that when I started cooking at the house, they just made me cook more often. My father will just buy the vegetables and ingredients from the market. Based from the stuff available, I cook the dish and it went that way from time to time. The most common cooking I learned was sautéing. There are so many vegetables in our place and sautéing is always applicable for them.

I got a job in a restaurant, I learned right quick like!! We all learn in many ways, usually by making mistakes and having to correct them.

For me not to my mother because she's not good to cooked but o my experience but not totally good but it is cooked.

I was very lucky that I learnt to cook at my mother's knee, and I have always made sure that my five children learned to cook with me, now I teach my grandchildren. However if people have not had this experience it isd still possible to learn to cook. The main thing is that you WANT to do it and that you are interested in food and eating. These days you don't even need to buy recipe books are there are so many available online. I'm sure that you'll soon pick it up and I do hope that you enjoy the process of learning such a wonderful skill as cooking!

yes.most of students just from college don't know how to cook and they have no chances to learn. more are tend to learn it after school. when mother do not teach them. they may have difficties. so they choose guidebook to learn some and they wil make some mistakes . so they have the fun and it is a good try. hehe,ia ma learning from the friends, and you know this is a practice.

I learn to cook by helping out my mother sometimes. Anyway, i would like to try on new things, that why i manage to cook some 'special dishes' as well. That's the interesting part of cooking. Add your imagination ...

My mother and sister taught me to cook. And im really good in cooking now.

i started to learn cooking at an early age and i really enjoyed it. if I have eaten something that i like, i try to do it at home, i like experimenting and trying new things.

As far as I am concerned, I usually learn to cook from my father who is a good cooker in my family and cook so delicious . We family memebers enjoy his cooking so much.But for my cooking, it is just so-so that I can enjoy it by myself . As to my father or mother will just eat but without any other comment on the cookings that I have cooked.

first i learn to cook with my father..because my mother doesn't know how to cook..but only a simple way of cooking..only vegetable and other common dishes which can be eaten only for a poor people..but for me, to make a good food and to cooked for the best is on our skills and it can develop if this is our hobby..to cook is only a fun..

Based on my experience, I learned to cook just by watching on cooking reality TV shows, watching my mother or my grandmother cooking at home providing me a one by one step of what to do. Then, mom bought recipe books then I used to read it and get familiar with some of the ingredients and procedures. Then, I'm focusing on meatless dishes. I enjoyed cooking a lot at home. I also enjoyed watching at my siblings eating the food I cooked and they like it. And yah, I love cooking spicy dishes.. That's my all time fave.. I love cooking but Im not expert in cooking..

I learn to cook just by watching my mother to cook and also I watched several cooking shows.

yeaa i too have learnt frommy mother only i don't know much about cooking but i can make a cup of tea and can make chapaties, i can cook meal for my self if would be alone thats all i have learnt frommy mama.