Did someone teach you to cook, or did you learn on your own?

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Did your parents teach you? Friends or other family? Or, did you figure it out on your own how to cook?

Dachshund_guy · Accepted Answer

I learned partially from my mother and partially on my own. She often worked nights and my father worked a job so taxung, he would rather go to bed hungry rather than heat what we called back then, tv dinners. I start cooking at about ten. I'd get home from school, get all of my younger siblings started on their chores. Then I would do mine. I would then get dinner going and have it done about 15 to 30 minutes after my dad got home because he had to get to bed by 8. Eventually, I got tired of not having desert so I would see what ingredients I could find which were never anything desert related and invent something. The craziest thing I ever made was whole wheat cake with rose flavored whole wheat frosting. I eventually took up baking and then other things. When I got married, I made most of our food. I was also a nurse. I guess I am not really your average man.

OfMiceandMen · Accepted Answer

Both my mom and dad taught me to cook. Both my brother and I were responsible for making the meals during the week, bc we got home before our parents.

We never had women's and men's chores at the house either, they were just chores.

At age 14, I washed, hung, dried and folded my own clothes. I also did outside work like cut down trees, split and pile wood, and cut/trimmed about 4 acres of grass.

They taught us at an early age to be independent and not rely on anyone to do our chores.

DizzyDesii · Answer

I loved playing with my barbie stove and easy bake oven as a kid. But i only preferred to watch others cook. I took a culinary arts class in HS and i sucked so fckin bad. My hamburger wouldn't brown and my omelet wouldn't pull together. So i chose not to takeup the class for the following year. Last year i started focusing on a few recipes and can somewhat cook now. So teaching myself worked best and was less pressure than being watched by a class. I still hate cooking tho

melanieeeB · Answer

A family friend teached me on how to do pancakes.

Everything else I had to learn on my own. My mom only showed me a few basic things, I can't even remember what... she wanted me to stay away from the kitchen and be a kid but that didn't go so well lol
As a late teen I had the internet and nowadays I ask friends and family to get alternatives or their way of cooking.

purplepoppy · Answer

I learnt the basics as a kid off mother and granny then developed my own style as I got older

LickwidSkie · Answer

I largely learned on my own. I didn't pay any attention when I lived with my mom. When I first moved out, I ate a lot of sandwiches and frozen meals. I got tired of that after a while and started cooking. The first time I fixed spaghetti noodles the water boiled over and went everywhere lol.

SarahSizzle · Answer

A question I've never really thought about!! Mainly I taught myself but I think being surrounded by family who liked to cook you just pick things up without realising, so when I started living by myself there was just stuff I knew without really being taught directly!

Sun_Kim-Ai · Answer

My aunt gave me the basis, but I pretty much learned on my own.

When I went to live with my mother, she was surprised I could cook and I remember the face she made when she came home to find dinner ready.

I remember I cooked a lot back then to make her happy and get her praise and compliments.

Pudsmucker · Answer

I basically taught myself how to cook when I was about 12 years old if I wanted a snack I learned to make it. When I was in high school mom was working and it was easier for one of those children to prepare our evening meals. When I was a junior in high school I started cooking and a Cantonese restaurant, I learned Cantonese dishes. When I went to college I start cooking in the short order part of the cafeteria. I also cooked at Zion national Park during my summer months during college. There I met a chef who pulled me into his tutelage. He taught me how to cook professionally. I have been dabbling and smoking meats. I enjoy the opportunity of cooking great meals. Also freeze my wife up take care of our children. My oldest daughter when she got married asked me to prepare her wedding meal at her reception. It was quite simple but elegant.

mstbooblover · Answer

As a child I learned some cooking basics from my stepmother, probably the only useful thing I ever learned from her, whatever reasons she had. First of all how to wash dishes (by hand I mean ;0) then peeling and cooking patatoes, baking meat and making pancakes (dough and baking). Later in life I just learned cooking mainly on my own, often inspired by the cooking of other cultures as Chinese, Indian and North African.

xoxosilentgirl · Answer

i learned cooking by watching my mom prepare the food. She never intentionally taught me but watching her helps a lot. Also whenever got lost i always ask her for cooking advice.

DaisyM23 · Answer

i mean we learnt in school although i don't remember much, and my mum taught me some of her recipes but i mostly cook by throwing in whatever ingredients and make it taste okay lol

ChiTown33 · Answer

I'd like to say I learned it on my own. When I like to cook I really like to COOK. But I bow to the knowledge my mother has in the kitchen still. She's still giving me pointers. Something you just can't learn with decades of successes and failures.

spartan55 · Answer

My mom taught me how to cook and do laundry when I was 14. I am so grateful she did because I believe both are important life skills.

Stressyalaire · Answer

My parents somewhat, I just looked because I found it fun to see how it all came together.

belle_kai · Answer

I would say by watching my mum, 70% if my mum then the rest is either cooking shows and youtube

Twalli · Answer

I learned by watching and then (with supervision) trying myself. I'm not a culinary master by any means and I can't cook a large variety, but I can cook. It works great with my girlfriend because I can cook, but don't get hungry and she can't cook but does get hungry. So we work well together her hunger determines when I cook. If my hunger did, I would never cook.

nawtee_me · Answer

Mine was out of necessity. I had a really good paying job when I was young and went out to eat a lot. Then I lost the job and was so used to eating really good food that I started learning to cook from cook books and cooking shows. I am pretty good now and love to cook.

NewsReader · Answer

Majority of stuff I learned from my parents. Later I learned online or experimenting myself.

SaoirseS · Answer

For me it was a combination. My mom taught me a lot when I was pretty young, but I also learned a few things from family business employees (a few of whom were like extended family), one of my aunts, and the rest I learned on my own.

AviatorTom · Answer

If you listen to my SO, I never learned how to cook. I admit I'm no chef, but I can prepare food so people don't starve, and that's what's really important, isn't it?

saffoler · Answer

Our school had mandatory home economics for everyone. Learned how to cook and sow. Took the next level course in high school. It was so much better than the stuff they were serving in the cafeteria and it was free.

Agape93 · Answer

Largely I taught myself, with certain dishes being taught to me, like how to make hummus or dolmades

Zandoval · Answer

I learned on my own using YouTube. I wanted to eat stuff I liked, so yeah.

jamesgoldman · Answer

Bit of both Started with my parents, added at school then my time as a sous chef as well as my own stuff along the way and beyond

Phoenix98 · Answer

Both I used to take cooking and baking classes when I was a kid I loved it and after I got older I just kinda started doing it on my own I mean I can't a candle to my mother's cooking but it's edible and taste good most of the time lmao.

Blackcupcake · Answer

I learned it on my own! but @nathandavis taught me how to make Pepsi guacamole and it was amazing

Dargil · Answer

Mostly self taught. I invented my own Spaghetti and Asian-style wok-fried foods.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

My mom taught me the basics. Then I figured out the rest by experimentation.

krin_m · Answer

Mostly on my own but in reality , it is a combination of someone teaching and self-learning! NO McDonald's though! Or any other fast food for that matter!

Wise4myage · Answer

I've learned on my own for the most part. But I do love me some McDonalds now and then.

Akam93 · Answer

I had to learn on my own. My parents are lazy people.

sheenagwapa · Answer

even when i was lottle even school assignments i do it on my own everything about mei learned it by myself only

Sirenboobzilla · Answer

My mom taught me most of what I know. Also learned from my grandma in Czechia. Aaaaand YouTube

Laura131 · Answer

I always watched my older sister and mom cook dishes and was interested in cooking since I was 7.

Vesuvius87 · Answer

I learned through google and youtube at the age of 29/30; learned it on my own basically.

Ninania · Answer

I learned the basics in sixth grade cooking class (mandatory in Danish schools), but taught myself all the rest after moving out.

Wish4UrB00ty · Answer

My dad was a pretty awesome cook! And he taught me everything I know.

exitseven · Answer

I learned on my own. I have downloaded a recipe for Irish pot roast and followed the directions ant it actually came out pretty good.

Sparkie460 · Answer

My mom taught me some stuff. My wife taught me some and I learned other stuff on my own. I. Not a chef by any means but I wouldn't starve if I was on my own

AdithyaR · Answer

I learnt with my own guy instinct, a passion for food and the dream of a French rat who wanted to be a chef.

Paul09 · Answer

I've seen my mom she some foods. But over all I taught myself. In a way feels like Im learning every time I cook something new.

humanearth · Answer

My family, 3 people in my family were (were as in no longer living) professional chiefs

XXblack88 · Answer

my school tried to teach me. But the little I can cook I taught myself.

AimeeKyle · Answer

A few different ways….. watching my parents cook, my mom telling me how to cook some items, experimenting myself and working at McDonald’s

Anonymous · Answer

I learned on my own and was baptized by fire. Literally, I started a fire

Damian69 · Answer

My mom taught me some, and I learned some on my own

bolverk · Answer

I was taught by my Mam, Dad and Grandmothers, all of the usual kitchen skills from Mam and Grandmothers, Dad taught me how to butcher beef, sheep, pigs and filleting fish fresh and salt.

AydenHazor · Answer

My parents taught me the basics and I learned the remainder on my own

the_sinner · Answer

I’m yet to start cooking because I live with my parents and I don’t have to necessarily cook for myself but I’m planning to learn cooking soon.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

My mother and grandmother both taught me some basics, but I taught myself most of what I know.

westsideman · Answer

I learned on my own and I will cook some delicious Cook for my future wife. :)

Charliefretz329 · Answer

Both, learned from many people and adapted to my tastes

Anonymous · Answer

I have learned independently, from recipe books, videos, or by watching others. But no one taught me cooking and now no one I know can. I cook better than professional chefs now.

PeterLegg91 · Answer

Mum's my carer , she cooks for me and the rest of our family

BriannaWallace98 · Answer

I love cooking and taught myself/learnt by observing good cooks in my family. I call it learning by osmosis.

ssr007 · Answer

Cooking is a skill which you can learn from your family, friends or mentor but for enhancing that skill you need to work on that on your own.

SnowedIn · Answer

My mother and grandmother.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Yeah someone taught me my mom taught me how to cook and clean

LavLavLuv · Answer

Learned on my own 👩‍🍳🍳🥯

john8907 · Answer

learned some recipes on youtube

Grond21 · Answer

I know little, mostly learned on my own

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