Kitchen

[eddyandme]

It depends who's doing the cooking and who's doing the baking - I do have a 'gourmet' pallet to please!

Sorry, I try hard at both - used to be a good cook but only me and my furrybabe now so I don't do much of either anymore.  Did flunk homemade doggie cookies though - guess she's got a 'gourmet' pallet also!

[blackhole99]

In my humble opinion you can't have one without the other. If I'm cooking beef burgundy I need French bread to go with it. Of course choc. fudge cake is a must for dessert.

[spix]

Cooking is more my "thing" baking is mostly at Holiday times, love to make elaborate dinners, my reply to what can I bring is usually dessert, so I guess that tells it all

[Mominohio]

---

@coffee drinker wrote:

My prefereance is cooking because it isn't an "exact" science.  You can improvise with different ingredients and add a little of this and that.  Cook it a bit longer than the recipe and in most cases, the recipe won't be ruined.  Baking is more precise.  But in all fairness, I love eating savory or sweet.  No preferance there!!! 

---

@coffee drinker

Funny how different people see things differently. I was going to say that I'm a better baker than a cook, and for the same reason you offered up for the opposite. 

I don't find most baking to be so exacting, but a lot of cooking (certainly not all) is more precise to get the same results over and over.

I've always been a better baker than cook, and I think it is cause my mom was as well. 

I do both, and enjoy both, and love to eat both!

[KY_Liz]

I am a much better baker than cook.  I "get" baking.  I've even done fancy things like choux pastry.  I would love to take a baking class at a chef school.

However, I don't bake much any more because I certainly don't need it, and no one in my life does either.  We're all trying to eat healthy and some are diabetic.

When I get in the mood to bake, I make a cake or cookies or bars on Saturday night or Sunday morning and take them to church to share with others.

[RedTop]

To be totally honest, I would prefer to do neither.   However, the one thing I like to do even less than spend time in the kitchen, is to eat out.  Therefore I do cook daily, and bake, occasionally, for my family.  Because of our diabetes, baked goods are not allowed to remain in the house longer than 2 days before I find them a new home.  When my truck driving daughter is home for a break, I will make her favorite chocolate cake.  We each get one slice, I wrap 2 slices for her to take on the road, and the rest of the cake goes home with her boyfriend.   

[house_cat]

I prefer baking and I think I know why.  I can spend hours cooking a meal and it's gobbled up in minutes... then the clean up. Yuck.

When I bake something it usually lasts a few days.  Also, the way the house smells when something is baking is the best fragrance in the world. 

[beach-mom]

I like both too, but I probably prefer cooking. I love to try new recipes and use new (to me) ingredients. When DS was in high school, the first thing I did for ME was to join a cookbook club. This was the first activity/committee, etc. that didn't involve my children somehow and/or school. I even gave up another commitment on that night to do it! I actually said "I can't"! 

We choose a new cookbook each month, then each of us makes a recipe from that. We meet and bring our recipes for everyone to taste. I love it! And I've gotten some really good recipes! So much fun!