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Senior Cook
I'm just starting to learn. I used to bake with my mom a lot when I was a kid, but the cooking was pretty much always taken care of.
I'm inherently lazy, so cooking with effort is significantly outside my normal motus operandi, even though I always WANTED to be able to cook. When my gf started watching Food Network Canada regularly a few months ago, I got hooked. I decided it was time to just start working on what I wanted to be able to do - cook a lot of interesting, tasty, and healthy dishes.
Another reason I started learning was because of the lifestyle change where I'm no longer eating McD's regularly (or at all, for that matter). I've become a lot more interested in what I'm consuming, so cooking seems to be the best way of doing that.
My problem I hate not knowing how stuff will react. I don't just like tossing stuff in a pan and seeing what happens. I want to understand all about heat and flavours and cooking methods and prep and all that other junk, so I've been reading this site religiously, I've been watching Food Net Canada non-stop, and I've started reading various "reference" books on cooking so that I can learn as much as possible.
Learning is good!
I'm inherently lazy, so cooking with effort is significantly outside my normal motus operandi, even though I always WANTED to be able to cook. When my gf started watching Food Network Canada regularly a few months ago, I got hooked. I decided it was time to just start working on what I wanted to be able to do - cook a lot of interesting, tasty, and healthy dishes.
Another reason I started learning was because of the lifestyle change where I'm no longer eating McD's regularly (or at all, for that matter). I've become a lot more interested in what I'm consuming, so cooking seems to be the best way of doing that.
My problem I hate not knowing how stuff will react. I don't just like tossing stuff in a pan and seeing what happens. I want to understand all about heat and flavours and cooking methods and prep and all that other junk, so I've been reading this site religiously, I've been watching Food Net Canada non-stop, and I've started reading various "reference" books on cooking so that I can learn as much as possible.
Learning is good!