Do you ENJOY to cook??

United States
March 2, 2007 12:54am CST
Do you genuinely enjoy cooking or is it something you do just to keep from starving to death? My mom taught me and my 3 brothers how to cook and bake at a young age so we have always done it. I really enjoy coming up with new things to make for dinner. Are you a cook, or are you the king/queen of the microwave?
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@hopeful28 (1439)
• Singapore
2 Mar 07
Oh yes, I definitely like to cook. I enjoy cooking what I feel like eating. Since young I have been trying out different dishes whenever my mom allowed me to use her kitchen but I only cook enough for myself, nobody offered to be guinea pig for me, lol. Through cooking I learnt that patience is required if I want to whip up something which will come out good tasting and not half-cooked or burnt.
• Canada
2 Mar 07
I enjoy cooking and baking more for a change from a routine and have tried several diffent ways to cook mostly will BBQ soomething or now for holidays will deep fry a turkey for the meal.
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@caramello (4377)
• Australia
2 Mar 07
I do like to cook and very rarely use the microwave, but am not too impressed if a new recipe that I have tried does not turn out the way it should or does not taste nice. I had to teach myself to cook and a lot was trial and error I must say! Apart from what I learnt in cooking class at school and one tends to forget when it is so long ago! lol
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@charlazio (215)
• Italy
2 Mar 07
i love cooking, i generally look forward to it every night. it's a challenge to continually improve on dishes and to try to figure out what went wrong (sometimes it happens!). it's great to feed your loved ones.
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@lpipe0240 (1161)
• United States
2 Mar 07
A few years ago I started cooking some awsome meals for my wife. I mean I cooked for her before then, but nothing to write home about. Then one day while she was still at work I made stuffed peppers and me cooking had began. She worked on Sundays and I would cook if my football team (Cleveland Browns) were lossing. She got a lot of good meals out of that. The cooking kinda took my stress off the game and so when she got home I was not all upset about them losing. Instead I was excited for her to try another one of my meals. Now a days since we both work M-F its a joint effort.
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@magaw2tnk (103)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I do enjoy to cook for family and friends. I always watched my Mom, and Dad cook meals. Cooking for me is fun when I see people enjoy what I have made. Baking is realaxing for me, warm thoughts of my Granny to. I use the microwave to defrost or rewarm foods.
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@annihilus (2181)
• Italy
24 Apr 07
Sure, and I prefer to cook fish, lobsters, clams, prawns... I am a good cook!
• United States
4 Mar 07
I love to cook and bake. Nobody ever taught me, and I love to experiment. I never follow a receipe exactly. I am always thinking of things to make different and fun and easy. I enjoy the microwave mostly for heating up things. I bake in the oven and on the stove.
@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
2 Mar 07
i like to try different kind of food and cooking is my hobby when i am free...Most of the food i cook using the fire and not oven or microwave...i think some of the food will taste more better when you cook them with fire...but baking is nice too...
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
2 Mar 07
I do cook occasionally. I usually cook when i have harvested my vegetables from my veg garden.
@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
2 Mar 07
I've been cooking for a big family since i was 4 years old, and i've come to love it. I love cooking and baking, but mostly because i get to experiment and make my own 'inventions' as one might call it. I can cook anything. I love it, and I'll never stop. I got offered jobs being head cheff and what not, but i don't think i would take it that far, i enjoy cooking, but i think that would take the fun right out of it.
@mgtextek (109)
• India
2 Mar 07
really, "cooking is an art" but it depends upon the persions likings and taste.suppose you are not much interested in eating you can't cook nicely,at the same time you like variety food you definetly love to cook..In my case i love cooking, i enjoy cooking.i feel Microwaves can be used for heating food....
@aweins (4199)
• India
2 Mar 07
yes, i m a cook and enjoys cooking.
• United States
5 Mar 07
I think it's all about what you like to do nascar_girl_4jr. It might be one of those things a person is just born to like. That's me. My dad was a cook. He owned his own bakery and he is the one who did most of the cooking in our family. I learned at a very early age the 'art' of cooking. It can be an art or it can be a cold can of pork and beans with weiners (or whatever). Personally, I LOVE to cook. Give me a well stocked kitchen and a lot of people to cook for and I'm in heaven. If I were 40 years younger I would probably go to chef's school or something. For me, the satisfaction of spending minutes or hours in the kitchen to make a quick dish or a huge meal mixed with decorating the table, and eveyrone really enjoying the food is a natural high for me. Heck, I don't even mind cleaning up afterwards.