I absolutely hate cooking/baking.... - Page 5

Lynnj · ‎03-21-2010

On 2/13/2015 VCamp2748 said:
Some people can cook/bake & the rest of us are beautiful. Obviously, you are in the latter category ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

Seriously, though, hang in there if you really want to succeed. It's like everything else in life - practice makes perfect. Good luck!

I'm in the latter category too, LOL.

I am kitchen challenged. If it involves a pot/pan/baking sheet, that is one step too many for me. I can, however, perfectly toast a bagel or bread. ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

Thankfully I have no one else but me to feed. I'm in my late 40s and have never had an interest in cooking/baking. I try recipes all the time, but once its made, in the trash it goes. I don't know what the problem is? I can read and follow directions. I follow directions exactly and never get anything that tastes good. And, if it has taste, then its either under/over cooked/baked. I've watched YouTube videos on how to for anything from techniques to full recipes, no such luck.

I have Kitchen Aid, Vita-Mix, Wolfgang Puck stuff, all the gadgets and do-dads that can do this and that. I have a crockpot and a pressure cooker too. Nothing makes what I put together taste good. I am done with it all!

But, I am a wiz with technology. There are many people who can't even figure out how to turn the computer on. So just as I cannot understand how someone can't easily understand technology and work with it, so they also need to appreciate my kitchen challenges. We are all wired differently, and that is what makes us so unique and wonderfully made.

Ms X · ‎09-13-2012

I know how you feel. The only thing I can cook from scratch is French toast. I even have trouble with scrambled eggs because they tend to overcook. I don't know how long to heat the oil or how to cook them so that they're just right but not undercooked.

I got a bread machine and felt so good to be able to make something that was good. Lately, the bread isn't rising and the machine isn't kneading the bread correctly and it just ends up in a twisted up mess.

Trader Joe's has great baked goods, and supermarket rotisserie chickens are delicious. People who are natural cooks don't understand that not everyone has that gift.

athenian · ‎03-18-2012

I like to cook, but over 50 years I've had quite a few failures that ended up in the trash. I'll bet Julia Child did, too. There was a thread here about cake mix recipes not working out because they have changed the weight of the mix, maybe that was the problem?

Lotus · ‎03-09-2010

I hate to cook and do so only because I have to....and only then as little as possible.

However I LOVE to bake.

"People with closed hearts will always feel as though they are at war with the world." ~My friend Nancy

granddi · ‎03-16-2010

My daughter was/is a very bright young lady. When she was about 10-11ish, I told her we were going to spend the summer learning to cook. As an avid tennis player she did not want to spend the summer by my plans and protested the idea.

She said "Mom, if you can read you can cook" First attempt was a boxed cake mix. As she prepared the cake she would read aloud the instructions. All seemed to be going well. The cake is now in the oven. She asked if I would check on the cake after a few minutes and before the bell went off.

So I opened the oven to see a tooth pick standing at attention in then center of the cake. The family was laughing out of control. My daughter said "well it says bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean!"

She is now a wonderful cook!

CinnyK · ‎03-10-2010

Not sure about the cake, maybe you over beat it, but for pudding, Cool Whip frosting, you should only use 1/2 the milk called for on the pudding box, so you should have used 1 cup instead of two. I hate to cook and bake too!

Caligurll · ‎07-20-2014

I love baking and cooking. I like to make a recipe once and then if I like it I start changing up the ingredients the next time I make it. I'm not a great cook, so some of my cooking is more like a science project but I have fun with the process.

LadyJayne813 · ‎10-13-2014

I think it's fine not to cook if you are in the financial situation to not have to. So many of my friends are constantly crying in their cornflakes that they are broke, yet are eating out every meal. Eating out constantly is a huge budget buster.

I make sure I keep things on hand that are quick and easy to prepare in case my dinner plans fall through because I do not want to waste $50 on takeout just because I forgot to defrost something, or time gets away and it's too late to cook the originally planned meal.

I pack my work lunches everyday. I also have co-workers that buy lunch everyday, but cry that they have no money. One had their car repossed, but can spend $15 a day on starbucks and lunches.

If you can afford to eat out all the time, or purchase pre-cooked meals that is great. But a lot of people are not in that situation, and do it anyway out of laziness, or just refusing to learn to cook.

Azcowgirl · ‎04-10-2012

I don't like to cook either, never had a lot of luck with it. I frequently call my 38 yr. Old DD who loves cooking, and ask her for recipes (:

Nickname1 · ‎03-17-2010

Well cooking and baking are two different thinks. With cooking you can be creative and get away with it, but with baking you pretty much have to follow the recipe or at least know if you replace one ingredient with another that it'll work. Cooking is an art, baking is a science.