Am I the only one here that hates to cook?

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: gsellis
You are doing it wrong. That is all.

Check the Frugal Gourmet at your library. I think that will break the ice on cooking.

That just means I'd have to cook still and I hate doing it. It's not about money or anything. I hate even making a grilled cheese.

 

[guyver01]

give a man a fish.. he eat for a day
teach a man to fish.. he eat for a lifetime
teach man to cook fish.. he eat good

 

[Trevelyan]

I absolutely DESPISE cooking and can definitely relate to you. I can spend a whole day working on my car, but anything more than 10 minutes for cooking is the worst part of my day.

 

[rpanic]

this is what women are for, you should even be in that room unless its to take the trash out.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
no dude i absolutely hate cooking.

GOD DAMN TIME WARPS

see OP below

screw you, bitch!

/i gots skills, though

 

[Xstatic1]

Originally posted by: effowe
I really enjoy cooking and making new things. It's not uncommon for me to spend a couple of hours on the preparation of a good meal. It's completely satisfying when I make something at home that's better and cheaper than what I can get at a restaurant. Being able to cook also scores lots of points with the ladies.

u betcha.

 

[SandEagle]

I am so glad i don't know how to cook.. never did it in my whole life. i can live off of bread and water if it came down to it

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'll be moving out soon so I'll have to learn how to cook. In a way I'm looking forward to it just because it will be something different to do, but on the other hand, I don't like the idea of working for 1+ hour for a 15 minute meal. It just seems like a waste. Guess I'll just make big portions so I eat the same thing for a couple days in a row.

I'm looking forward to baking though, like I want to get into making cakes and other desert type food. Not something my mom ever does here unless it's a special occasion.

buy alton browns Im Just here for the Food and Im just here for More Food

thank me later, but trust me, buy them.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm not a big fan of food, so I find cooking irritating. It's a lot of work, for little payoff imo.

 

[irishScott]

I like efficient, easy to fix yet good tasting stuff. Doesn't take that much. Some fish + salt + spices + cheap steamer/pan/grill = 30 minute awesomeness.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'll be moving out soon so I'll have to learn how to cook. In a way I'm looking forward to it just because it will be something different to do, but on the other hand, I don't like the idea of working for 1+ hour for a 15 minute meal. It just seems like a waste. Guess I'll just make big portions so I eat the same thing for a couple days in a row.

I'm looking forward to baking though, like I want to get into making cakes and other desert type food. Not something my mom ever does here unless it's a special occasion.

The time to learn is before you move out along with how to do laundry, read a map, press a shirt and all the other tasks that you should learn before inflicting yourself on society.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Guess I'll just make big portions so I eat the same thing for a couple days in a row.

I'm looking forward to baking though, like I want to get into making cakes and other desert type food. Not something my mom ever does here unless it's a special occasion.

This works entirely well as a bachelor boy strategy. Freezing half for another time so you can mix it up works as well.

In the summer, making lots of "big salads" you can add strips of cheese/meat and chick peas to helps keep you eating healthy.

Hearty soups you throw the kitchen sink at go great in the winter, especially if you're going to get into baking your own bread.

Preparation is play. Cleaning up can be a kind of productive meditation. I'm weird. I like washing dishes. Clean as you go and it'll never get ahead of you.

Making your own meals is win on so many levels. It's a truly adult habit.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Guess I'll just make big portions so I eat the same thing for a couple days in a row.

I'm looking forward to baking though, like I want to get into making cakes and other desert type food. Not something my mom ever does here unless it's a special occasion.

This works entirely well as a bachelor boy strategy. Freezing half for another time so you can mix it up works as well.

In the summer, making lots of "big salads" you can add strips of cheese/meat and chick peas to helps keep you eating healthy.

Hearty soups you throw the kitchen sink at go great in the winter, especially if you're going to get into baking your own bread.

Preparation is play. Cleaning up can be a kind of productive meditation. I'm weird. I like washing dishes. Clean as you go and it'll never get ahead of you.

Making your own meals is win on so many levels. It's a truly adult habit.

This.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
Am I the only one here that hates to cook? I find no enjoyment out of cooking. I only cook out of necessity because I can't eat out all the time and hate cooking anything that takes a lot of time and with a lot of clean-up. If there's directions I can cook it but I hate doing it. At Costco I'll buy precooked stuff that's frozen just so I don't have to cook it. I love it when people make home-cooked food but I hate cooking anything. I like doing things myself like around the house and working on my car but when it comes to cooking I hate it. Everyone here is a 5 star chef so I know I'm out of the norm.

yes.

it sounds like you can't take care of yourself if your life depended on it.

it's not about being great at it, it's about understanding the simple, must fundamental abilities of shared human culture. Those few things that separate us from the animals. Like you mentioned about how you prefer to work with cars, helpful in that regard. Essential quality of human culture--tool work. awesome stuff.

cooking goes along with that--taking parts of the environment around you, throwing it together in a way that you can eat, won't kill you, and if you're lucky, create some sort of meal that a group of friends, be they so lucky to partake in this one glorious non-threatening creation of yours, will remember you for it, ask you to other functions, visa versa, etc etc.

so yeah, you are missing out. you have the tool use and defense part of human culture down...which is better than, I'd say...65% of humanity. But you need to kick it up one more notch and join the rest of us that can feed ourselves, when necessary.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Not the only one. Some people here who've kept up on my threads (both of them) know of my ongoing War on Flavor. Along with that are my other thoughts on the subject:
1) It's just food, it's not a big deal. It's an energy source. Yeah, some things taste good, but, you know, it's really not all that amazing.
2) If they had meal pills, I'd use them, and not be bothered taking up time eating or preparing food.
3) Food preparation is just one of many menial, utterly mindless tasks in life - things that machines should be doing.

Unfortunately, a lot of prepared foods have lots of salt and various other preservative-type ingredients. One of my favorite examples is the ingredient list of Doritos. Cheese-flavored corn chips, that can't be too tough, right? No, those things seem to have a little bit of every last element that occurs naturally.
And because they tend to come in meal-size portions, a lot of excess packing material is used. Plus they're something of a convenience item, so just like $1 20oz sodas in a machine, they are marked up accordingly.


Result: I wind up cooking more often than I'd prefer to. I aim to reduce prep times to less than an hour per thing being made, and I find that most recipes can be modified or streamlined to accomplish this.

I think this goes along with what I was saying.

I only started to enjoy cooking more and mere, as I got older, when it started becoming an event...(well, not completely), but rather as a side-show to a game: "Hey boys! I'm on bring me a big ass burger, grill that shit, and chow down,"

then it becomes "Hey y'all!! Ima bring me a burger, toss some onions in it!"

crowd falls silent. Then exhales a collective, "Whoa..."

Next thing you know, many months, years later....the contests are between certain types of meat, or certain non-indigenous plant matter, how it was prepared--how roasted/braised/grassfed/broasted/blanched/seared/brunzzzzed/unbrunzzzzzzzzzzed--it jsut never ends.

Cooking is 90% social, at least it should be. I find that those that cook are the easiest to get along with, interesting in general to talk with, and well...friendly. Less cloistered in their dealings with the outer world, as it were. (case in point--just returned from a house-warming party hosted by a new postdoc, he cooked 6-7 traditional courses for everyone else in the lab. he's been here for 4 months, the rest of us just about a year. New guy comes from rather different culture, English is good but certainly not perfect...and he has way more local friends than the rest of us lab geeks) Bingo bango.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: gsellis
You are doing it wrong. That is all.

Check the Frugal Gourmet at your library. I think that will break the ice on cooking.

That just means I'd have to cook still and I hate doing it. It's not about money or anything. I hate even making a grilled cheese.

Just because he is frugal does not mean it is about the money. His recipes are a little different and somewhat entertaining. For example, he has a recipe for Haggas in one of his books. The serving notes are feeds 4 Scots or 200 Norwegians.

Sort of "whistle while you work" kind of thing. Just like Justin Wilson's cooking show.

But yeah, I can get the "hate to" part. Myself and laundry are that way.

 

[rh71]

I cook breakfast on weekends sometimes... the amount of time it takes to prep/cook vs. consume is stupid. And this isn't even dinner. You cook, I'll eat.