How did you learn to cook?

lilac_lady

Being OS means cooking rather than buying instant meals. My mother wasn't a good cook and saw it as a chore so she never taught me. I learned from my Granny and cookery lessons at school. I've taught my children to cook and I'm proud to say that they already involve their children in some easy cooking. How did you learn how to cook?

pink.1970

I learnt to cook watching my mum and also through cookery lessons at school.

My DD now has own place with BF and is constantly phoning me to ask how to make something, otherwise they live on ready meals, which I have told them is more expensive in the long run.

destiny_star2006

i learnt to cook since becoming a member on os forum you guys have all taught me my mum hated cooking and hated ppl watching her so i never got learnt and for some reason diddnt do cookery at school! SO THANKS GUYS X

Elliesmum

I learnt to cook as a student as I couldn't afford to do to anything else. I've made a few mistakes along the way, but not so many that were never edible!

I enjoy cooking and baking - it's not a task for me like some.

EM xx

destiny_star2006

mine used to be a task/ chore but now i see it as an art you get out of it what you put in theres no point in rushing about it take ure time and the taste will tell the difference

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I was brought up by my grandmother in the mid 50s,and I cooked with her from being tiny,she baked all her own bread and pastries and to be honest I can't remember having any convience food at all apart from baked beans.I had my own little apron and rolling pin ect.and I just used to copy everything she did.Later when I was 11 until I was 16 we had weekly cooking and homecraft lessons at school.I loved these.The only thing is that,nowadays I always feel guilty if I don't make a meal from scratch.

linzibean

I don't really know how I learnt to cook - my mother never taught me a jot about it, nor my grandmother though she cooks everything from scratch and is a great cook. I had home ec lessons in school, but they weren't very informative, we mainly made random things that I haven't made since! I think it's been a combination of trial and error, common sense and a lot of reading, as well as watching cookery programs (not thatthey are always particularly useful!).

mary43

I learnt by trial and error really and a lot of guidance from first hubby. My Mum was always too busy to spend the time showing me how to cook properly apart from letting me mix things up in a bowl. I went to a cookery class before I got married and that was a good one...........we always did a meal that we could take home and have the next day and it was all cheap and easy stuff............just right for me. If only I could remember half of it.........lol Never did cookery at school at all..........bit of 'domestic science' in the sewing area and even that wasn't much to be of great use in married life.
First hubby's mother was ill with cancer when I met him and he was cooking for her so after we got married he showed me most of the 'do's and don'ts'.
Present OH does most of the cooking.............used to be a chef so feels a lot more at home in the kitchen than I do.

dan1979

Weight training gave me an interest in food which grew into wanting to try new things so I started buying them and looking up how to cook them, then I started buying cook books to see what else was out there.

Having been subjected to Bird's Eye Turkey Platters for Christmas dinner one year as a kid it's fair to say I didn't get any encouragement from anyone.

Wedding last year meant I got tonnes of kitchen gadgets and cookware now I often spend a whole day cooking. As long as I don't rush it's quite enjoyable, especially something like making a cake, only ever had shop bought versions before and you're never quite sure what you'll see when you peer into the oven.

Part of it is knowing so much about food that it's a straight choice between spending a fortune on high quality pre-prepared stuff or making it from scratch. The cheap food the most people eat is no longer an option because I know why it's cheap.

MERFE

Basics I learnt from my mum, mostly watching her asking when dinner gonna be ready! Then at about 16 if she was gonna be out she would get me to do the tea, so she would write the instructions for spag bol and I'd cook it totally unsupervised! Then one day she got me to do a roast so it would all be ready when she came home, all she had done was list all the timings of things. Then I went to uni and lived off lots of rubbish, pasta etc. When I was first with oh I knew the basics to cook with but still used alot of convinence foods and jars etc Then when I got pregnant was plagued with gestational diabetes so had to give up the convinence stuff as there is far too much sugar in it so had to learn a few more recipes and got most them off the internet or from mum.

I do cooking with my daughter too, if I get the time and it is great quality time with her, been doing it since she was 2, she helps to bake cakes, biscuits and make pizzas.

I've even taught oh how to cook cos even he can follow the basic instructions!

lil_monkey

My Mum and my Gran taught me how to cook. I did Food tech GCSE which helped with making a healthy home made diet. My Mum still gives me lessons now and I am 25!!! bless my mum she is the best!!:rolleyes: