I'm ashamed to say that, at the age of 31 i have never ventured outside of cooking oven chips, beans, burgers sausages or frozen pizza. I've gave myself a kick up the arse and purchased curry sauce and cooked myself a curry tonight with the use of fresh chicken breasts from the butchers. I must say that i'm very happy with the outcome but also angry with myself for not doing this years ago.This has made me really enthusiastic about cooking everything from now on and never ever going the ready meals approach ever again, but at what age did you start cooking good food and what spurred you on?
At what age did you start cooking proper food?
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About 9, mum taught me.
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Somewhere around 8-10. Though at that stage it would have been things like omelettes, cooked breakfasts and pancakes!
By my earlly teens i was cooking proper meals.
Both my parents worked and would regularly miss mealtimes, I was one of 5 kids so we all learned to cook for ourselves. Now we are all decent cooks and we enjoy cooking.
By my earlly teens i was cooking proper meals.
Both my parents worked and would regularly miss mealtimes, I was one of 5 kids so we all learned to cook for ourselves. Now we are all decent cooks and we enjoy cooking.
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I was about 8ish I suppose when I was allowed in the kitchen unaided. I used to do a lot of baking and that as a kid as well. Always used to watch the mother in there, she is the reason I love to cook.
I was about 8 when my mother set fire to the kitchen. This was not a good way to encourage me
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Probly around 10-12, lots of baking, ready steady cook after school, more savoury. You'd be a fool not to learn, what you make yourself will be so much better then pre prepped stuff, and also better then the low end chains. Cooking is great!
Left home at 16 and backpacked round france for 4 years,went from potwasher to classicly trained chef, being doing as a job for 21 years now. What i enjoy most about cooking is doing it for other's and them enjoying it. When you put a dish in front of someone and get a response of 'wow' is rewarding.
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About 18 I guess (I'm now 20).
I don't cook fantastically well, but I cook meals, and occasionally make my own sauces and stuff...
Going to Uni kind of required me to learn to cook if I didn't want to eat **** day in day out...
kd
I don't cook fantastically well, but I cook meals, and occasionally make my own sauces and stuff...
Going to Uni kind of required me to learn to cook if I didn't want to eat **** day in day out...
kd
Started cooking about 6-7 because my parents were working 60 hour weeks I spent a lot of time at my nans after school.
However I didn't start cooking full on meals for the family until I was 12.
It shocks and appauls me at uni how few people can cook, I don't think I could live on a diet of frozen food and ready meals, makes me feel sick at the thought.
Really upped my game at uni though, I was a pretty decent cook before but I only got to cook a few times a week. Cooking every day allowed me to experiment to the point where I've begun a long, in depth cookbook.
However I didn't start cooking full on meals for the family until I was 12.
It shocks and appauls me at uni how few people can cook, I don't think I could live on a diet of frozen food and ready meals, makes me feel sick at the thought.
Really upped my game at uni though, I was a pretty decent cook before but I only got to cook a few times a week. Cooking every day allowed me to experiment to the point where I've begun a long, in depth cookbook.
From about 12 I would prepare loads of things on my own.
Homemade pizzas
Toasties
Pasta
But I didn't really start to cook proper meals (ie. not crumbed chicken with frozen veg and chips) until I started buying my own groceries, so 19 when I moved to the UK.
Homemade pizzas
Toasties
Pasta
But I didn't really start to cook proper meals (ie. not crumbed chicken with frozen veg and chips) until I started buying my own groceries, so 19 when I moved to the UK.
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I could probably cook from about 14/15, but didn't start properly for myself until 18 when I went to uni. I preferred baking to cooking before 18.
I'm in my mid-20's and I don't consider myself as being able to cook proper food.
I love reading through the threads here and other foodpron blogs though! I'm a food voyeur I guess; I just can't be bothered to make anything myself most of the time.
I love reading through the threads here and other foodpron blogs though! I'm a food voyeur I guess; I just can't be bothered to make anything myself most of the time.
To be fair if it was anything like my food course at school it was stuff like cheesecakes and flapjacks, which everyone with half a brain can make.