I hate it!

I taught myself how to cook,(my grandmother who raised me didn't really want to teach me how to cook and I was the typical kid who wasn't interested in learning). I did have some dishes that just were not edible (not because they would make you sick) but the taste was horrible. It took me months even a couple of years really to learn how to cook taking cooking classes when I was in school had helped a lot more then I thought, so I understood what most of the terms meant,Then I found cookbooks!!(OH Goodie)!! I love to read. and I started to read all sorts of cookbooks. Slowcookers are wonderful things just toss the stuff inside and turn it on and by the time you get home at the end of the day you have a meal that you DIDN'T have to slave over the stove cooking all day. I have stuck with cooking and while every once in a while there is a dish that doesn't turn out the way that I hoped that it would. For the better part of 25+ years I have turned into a Dang good cook. I have a few dish that I do that are excellent and my family loves them. I would sugguest finding someone that you know is a ggod cook and ask them to teach you how to make some simple dishes. That might help you more than you know. My little brother(ha!ha! he's 6'6")used to be a professional chef and he taught himself how to cook also.

Don't give up. try cooking the easy to do food first.since you already know how to fry, try going for stews. they are the easiest to learn as you just normally put everything together. get a good simple recipe and start form there. Almost everyone starts with failure, very few people are natural at cooking. take heart, you can do it.

I would have people cook for me. Why cook if I do not like the mess, worst still, if I do not enjoy the food I cooked. Cooking is a skill learnt. So if you are still interested, then maybe take up a cooking class (on something you really like first) and perhaps you will gradually gain the confidence. For me, I have no interest to cook. LOL.

Practice makes perfect. Your mom is correct keep trying. Lol! Whnei think of the first time ive tried making fried chicken. The pan caught fire. I took it outside and threw it in the snow. The snow melted about a foot all the way around it. I was trying to im press my dad who always complained about my stepmoms cooking. I impressed him alright, just not the way i expected. Nobody walks into a kitchen and is a good cook right away. Giving up is not going to help either.

I love to cook and it has been a long time since I used a recipe to cook. But when I started I did not like it at all and things didn´t come out as they should. I recomend that you start with a recipe and place al the ingredints (measured) in different bowls. Then it will be just al matter of mixing and the kittchen will not be a mess and the food will come out right. If you check at hoe chefs work in the TV shows, they have everything in a plate or bowl as they have to do the whole recipe in a short time. You can do it too.

I started out cooking desserts before making meals. They tend to be easier for me for some reason and even if they don't turn out beautiful, they seem to always taste great! Have you tried cooking food in a crock pot? That's an easy way to make soups (creamy potato soup is easy and so good!) and meals with meat.

If you really want to, keep trying. The saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try again. Sometimes we just have to keep plugging away. Maybe you could take a cooking class. Or ask your friend to show you. And anyway, nothing wrong with a fried hot dog! They are yummy

just practice. i was also a bad cook but when i had my family, i practiced..and when u put salt. put it little by little and taste it. look for easy recipes and read :)

Why on earth you wish to be that perfect in cooking dude Cooking is my time pass --- when i feel like bored or got nothing else to do with then i get hold some recipes from the magazines and i give it a try!I would only be lying if i say "All my dishes taste damn good" ... but i can gladly say they aren't that bad...guess what i can use these dishes on my rivals lol if they turn out to be awful.great day.

ohhh...i just fount someone like me. hahaha. dont worry pal, you are not alone. im sorry i cannot give advices because i also fail in cooking but i am good at baking. just continue to learn and you will be fine i guess.

In my opinion, I would not give up on something. Its just a test on your strength and perseverance to your part. It is also a test on personality. If you give on little things, then on the long run, you'll give up with LIFE itself. Also, I believe in the old saying the TRY and TRY until you succeed and Practice makes perfect. In everything, we tumble down, we make mess and that the reason why we learn and we persevere to make it successful. Its like cooking too. Now, you can't really cook much, but as the days goes by and when you practice well then you could be the renowned chef that you haven't expected. I don't know how to cook too. Messes everything in the kitchen, but I would not give up on it because it something that I'll treasure when I grow old.

Cooking by yourself is really a great experience if you like eating. You can eat whatever you like because you can try to cook them yourself. Maybe at the beginning it's not so easy a thing to do cooking all by yourself. But if you could insist doing and learning, you will master the skills one day. As a boy, living in an apartment without a kitchen, it's a pity that I cannot cook by myself. I love eating so much, and I really wish to get some chances to learn to cook some dishes. Cooking is also a way to enjoy our life, right? Good luck and come on, you will do it, if you really wish.

I guess, first of all you must have the interest in cooking so you could be a good cook. I myself, when i was still single, don't know how to cook. It was my husband who taught me how to cook and because i like to impress my husband, i developed the skill of making a simple meal delicious! Maybe because i love eating too! Whenever we eat in a restaurant and ate a delicious one, we would discuss what could be the ingredients as we eat. Then in a day or two i would buy the ingredients and cook it myself. Sometimes , i even cook better than the ones we tasted in those restaurants because i would think of other ingredients that could go well with it to improve its taste more! Although sometimes i cannot just get how to make it taste like that in the restaurant, but still i will try again until it will taste as good as the restaurant's. Same thing, when a friend would let me taste her cooking. If i find it delicious, i would ask for the recipe and try it myself. But of course, i will do it during those week-ends when we have our rest days from our office work!

zenkey, If I were you I would search for the internet for the most possible foods that you are going to cook. I mean their ingredients, the procedure to cook, and make a list out of it. Later, if you want to cook, let's just say steamed rice with chicken, just follow the procedure on the list you have made, provided that you are complete with the ingredients. Later on, you will begin to familiarize with the ingredients and procedures, and will become automatic from days and days of doing it.

I am learning to cook, and I am finding that cooking really isn't as hard as I thought it would be. I have found that more often than not, the trick is to cook things slowly. I used to be really bad about burning things, because I would have the burners turned up too high. Remember that cooking is not a race. In order to learn, you have to slow down and take your time. I also recommend that you get a couple of good cookbooks and try to use them as well. Don't be afraid to ask questions too. Get some of those friends you mentioned who you say are good cooks to help you out. I have a friend who is a really good cook, and go to his house regularly. He has helped me learn a few things about cooking, and we have had a really good time doing it, so don't be ashamed to ask for help. Your friends will likely be happy to help you out. The worst that can happen is that you might mess up a couple of times and have to take them out to eat instead, and then they will just give you a hard time about it later once you get good at it LOL Another thing you need to remember is to start simple. Don't try to cook like a professional chef to begin with. I tried that, and I messed it up. So I decided to start over with stuff so simple that no one could screw it up, and I have slowly but surely gotten a little better and a little more confident in the kitchen, and I have even started learning to clean up some of the mess as I go as well, so that the kitchen isn't totally wrecked when I am done the way it used to be. A word of caution though...it is kind-of ironic that I am giving someone cooking advice tonight, because LAST NIGHT, I was slicing an onion to put in the meatloaf I was going to cook. The knife slipped and cut the end of my left thumb REALLY BAD. It almost cut part of the end of my thumb off. I didn't go to the hospital, and it should heal up nicely in a week or so, but it hurt like hell, and I ended up not finishing my meatloaf. SO, be careful when you are cutting stuff up or peeling stuff...LOL

HI, When I was young, I don't even know how to cook rice. I only know how to cook instant noodle. But I am willing to learn.so when I was in overseas for my study, I learnt to be independent and try to cook some simple dishes. I learnt all from my mother,She taught me how to cook rice and some simple dishes like stir fried vegetables, stew chicken potatoes, cook soup and fried egg. Although just simple dishes that I cook,but they are healthy food for me. Now, I am cooking for my family everyday. Another simple dishes to go but we love to eat those home cooked meal. They taste great and healthy than dine out. Don't give up...as long as you have strong determination to learn,you sure can do it one day. Learn something easy and simple to cook and take less time for preparation...slowly do it and I believe you can success one day.

For me it is not good if you can't taste delicious to your food so louse but better to know how the taste that taste good not the taste of bad.

We all make mistakes now and again. If you feel that you cannot cook, follow recipes to the letter, so that you cook decent food from the recipe, and learn how to use different foods to the best effect. It would be a shame to give up as cooking can be enjoyable: as can the results. Good luck. Try following the BBC Good Food (UK based) website for simple ideas. They also send you a (free)newsletter if you subscribe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/newsletter/signup

Hello friend, your mom is right. When you keep cooking, you will learn every day something new. When we moved to live alone with my boyfriend, he was very worried about the taste of the dishes (i understood it after a month, actually ) Before that i haven't cooked at all, only when i was teen, it was a pleasure for me to make something fast, but nothing more. When i lived with my parents, my mom was really worried that i can't cook. All the time she was saying to me - you can't cook, you don't want to learn to cook, poor guy who will take you one day But now i can proudly say that i learned a lot of things really fast. Every time i had to cook for me and my boyfriend, i called my mother, because she is very creative person and she is cooking delicious. I was asking her what to put in different meals, what products, what spices. Soon i got myself that i know for which meal what spices are good, which taste will be good when it's mixed with another taste. My granny was saying - girl, the taste of one dish comes from the spices, if you don't know what spices to put in a dish, it will never be delicious. This is how i learn what tastes are good for mixing. Don't be jealous, your friends can help you a lot with different tips. And soon you will learn to cook everything, even new recipes will be easy for you if you know which tastes are good for mixing. Use imagination, use fundamental tips in cooking, be creative and you will cook delicious, believe me!

you can always try and try. sooner or later you will be a good cook :) i love cooking. i try to avoid messing up in the kitchen like i fix everything right away, i wipe the table after i use it so the kitchen does not look bad after i cook. good luck zenkey23 you can do it :)