When did you guys learn to cook?
>>21664364childhood because I'm curious and like to eat well.
My grandpa owned a restaurant...so really early.
>>21664364childhood but then kinda didnt do it when i grew up lol.. and then during covid for real
>>21664364When I was 10/11, although I didn't become really passionate about it till 19/20, then got my first job in a kitchen at 21.
Around 20, asked my mother to teach me, got a handful of recipes before she died some years later. Then I had no choice, ma I really enjoy cooking so...
Learned to boil water/microwave/use oven somewhere around 7-10 years old. I didn't really make anything real homemade until I was at least 18 though. And I started cooking a shit ton and making everything homemade at 27.
>>21664364I started helping my mother pretty young because I liked food, starting cooking breakfast (more than toasts/cereal) around 11, cookies, muffins and the likes soon after. By the first yeah of high school I'd handle my own lunches, simple dinner too if mom was too busy. I'd make food for my sister too sometimes. Dad is a picky eater so I didn't cook much for the whole family back then, mostly just for myself so the recipes were rather limited. Once I started working at 16 I'd buy food to cook fancier recipes for myself and quickly got better. By the time I moved out I could handle cooking with mostly anything local.
I had to cook one night a week starting around 10. Most nights I just cooked spaghetti and meatballs or sometimes chicken thighs. If you never made a sauce with thighs instead of meatballs try it. It works. Do the same shit. Brown the thighs then stew them in the sauce for 2 hours just like a meatball. It was simple and could be served in a long window for whenever my parents got home. But also I would expirement with whatever we had on hand. I got really good at making king ranch chicken, that was what everyone requested on my nights to cook. But it's a time consuming (and now that I pay for shit expensive) dish. I kept cooking through college in the dorms and into modern life. I never thought about it until just now but I guess I spent a year not cooking while I was in Afghanistan. Unless you count heating up one of the few mres that benifited from it cooking. But other than that, and basic, and the random vacation, I've been cooking at least once a week since I was 10.
>>21664364It was a process that started probably about when I was 3-4 where my mom taught me how to make things like Tuna sandwiches and boiling vegetables and eggs, proceeded to using the oven, making things like canned soup. Probably around 10-12 I was cutting vegetables and making salads, as I entered my teens slow cooker meals, seasoning meat, barbecuing things like burgers and chicken.My brother went to culinary school, but he hates cooking now, I went to regular school and I generally enjoy cooking, but my work schedule is bad for cooking so I eat more takeout than I want to.
>>21664364probably like 9 or 10 when i was tall enough to use the stove and smart enough not to burn the house down.
When I was like 6 or 7 and my siblings wanted food
>>21664364Started survival cooking essentially at random without any recipes or anything at about age 19. Starting working in fast food and then local restaurants age ~21, but that was just assembly line cranking out whatever slop on the menu. After I got out of that "career" and went to college I got more into home cooking. Then at about age 28 when the covid kicked in a few months after I graduated from the university I wound up moving back home and neeting for almost 5 years, and during that time I took cooking psychotically seriously since that was pretty much my only thing I did every day and was also how I gave back to the folks for letting me live with them since I didn't shell out for rent or anything. Now I've moved out from with them and recovered from the neet hole and my cooking is transcendental since I have all that pressurized, daily obligation learning with the personal freedom of just making whatever I feel like
>>21664364When I went to uni I moved in with my dad who didn't know how to cook much so I cooked 3-4 days a week for my dad. Then I moved out and had to cook every day and that made me learn much more Well, I'm still learning many things
9 or 10.
>>21664364I was around 13-14 when I started cause it became embarrassing to ask my mom to cook me kraft dinner. by 15-16 I was taking it more seriously and cooking meals for the whole family
Not until i landed a sous chef position under a literal juggernaut of a chefYeah a helped in the kitchen when i was 7 and worked as a linecook and le culinary school but i didn't truly learn how to cook until i was inspired under a great chef who gave me the keys to his restaurant to runWe all have different definitions of knowing how to cook but for me its the ability and mindset to make something on the fly without a recipe or even leaning on experience
>>21664364Never liked sports so I didn't watch it. Had a wild imagination so I didn't care for scripted shows. Grew up watching learning channels, including the old school food network before it became reality shit. Was taught in private schools to give thanks to animals you consume. Was always erked by my mother defrosting meats and taking lazy approaches. If an animal died to feed me, I'm going to give it glory in the best way I can.
I'd just cook, it's self evident unless you're a fucking retard
>>21665148>private school education >erkedAnon, get it together.
i grew up with my mom cooking and was always curious about stuff, first kitchen task i did was chopping mushrooms, then breading shchintzel, then boiling pasta and so on. then mom died and dad only came home at dinner time so he made dinner for the two of us, i had to make due for lunch and thats when i really learnt to cook, i was 14 back then, i remember being 16 and inviting over some girls from school after skipping gym class and cooking for them, bitches loved that, got me laid a couple of times. later in life i started getting into cooking for real and now i can say its one of my hobbies and i consider myself WAY above the average dude
>>21665171I went to 9 schools in 12 years. I'm basically retarded.
when i was a kid, i wanted dessert so i just fucking made my ownobviously didnt work out :^)
it was part of our school's curriculum. Once a week we would get some recipes and some money. Then we, in groups of four, would make a budget and go buy everything needed. Our school had a big industrial type kitchen in which we then would cook and eat what we made for lunch. So we were even motivated to not fuck it up totally.This went on for at least half a year, maybe it was a full one. This was just a regular school in my country.
>>21664364I started trying to cook stuff around 12 or 13. Then I went to culinary school after I graduated. That was many years ago and I'm still learning to cook all the time. You can never learn it all.
>>21665134Did the chef know you're a pedophile?
>>21664364I learned to cook when I was tall enough to reach the stove with a stool and strong enough to toss things in a pan, so around 4-5.>When did I learn how to cook well?I'm working on it
>>21664364My mum was in a wheelchair so when I came home from school she would talk me through cooking dinner so it was ready when dad got home from work.I'm not an amazing cook by any means but I can do well enough to get by.
>>21664364When I was like 8?Was curious about why eggs were different when fried and scrambled.
>>21664364I didn't start taking it seriously until late high school when I started cooking for my family more.
>>21664364Home Ec class for 8 years of schoolGood parents teaching me to cook growing upExperience, trial and error on my own. Following recipes. The occasional Youtube video, ChatGPT question or texting a friend of mine who's a chef.
>>21664364i baked my first cake at 11years old (it was from a package)its not that big of a deal on the surface, but it encouraged me to jump to baking other foods from scratch like cinamon rolls, meat loaf, and eventually up to legit cooking and baking.all it took was that little push from cake from a box.
>>21665974the gun kata...
>>21664364When I moved out and got tired of eating ramen and burgers
>>21664364It's always funny when I encounter people who got sheltered because my experience was pretty similar except instead of having everything done for me I got beaten for doing anything but staying in my room and being quietI had to learn everything as an adult including cooking which I love but not because I didn't want to, the only time I tried to cook for myself I got beaten for touching my father's stuff and then I never tried again until I was free
Around grade 3 or 4 I could make porridge, scrambled eggs, french toast, and egg-in-a-nest. In our house, if you couldn't make breakfast on your own, you didn't eat. There usually was cereal around, which was fine for my siblings and I at a young age but eventually that gets boring.A few years later, I'd make simple dishes like spaghetti with canned sauce. It wasn't until I moved out on my own at 19 that I started to learn things a bit more complex. Tarragon crusted chicken was my first "signature" dish after being out on my own for a while.
>>21671363Did he ever give you a hard time about not knowing how to do stuff when you became an adult?
