learn to cook or born with it???

Question

I love to cook and i think im going to make it my profession. I was just wondering can you pretty much cook or not cook. Or can you learn how to cook???? If so howw do i get better at cooking do you know any sites with some easy and fun recipies to cook???????

Answer 1

I was born to cook. It's in my blood. I come from a family of excellent cooks and bakers. Both my grandmothers could cook anything and make it sing. They were both awesome bakers also. One made biscuits that just melted in your mouth and tasted like heaven. One made cakes and tea cakes you would give your first born for. One of my grandfathers could cut up in the kitchen also. My brother and father are also very strong in the kitchen. My mother has lost her touch a bit but back in the day growing up, she turned it out. She doesn't really cook much anymore. I learned from watching them as a very young child and trying to do the same things myself while also trying new things and putting my own signature on classics. You can learn because cooking is from the heart and soul and is about love. The best way to get better is to watch good cooks that you know personally and watch the food network. My favorites are Paula Deen, Giada DeLaurentiis, Tyler Florence, Ina Garten, Emeril, Mario Batali, Guy Fieri, and Nigella Lawson. You can really tell they enjoy food and preparing it. It's truly a love thing for them. Foodtv.com or foodnetwork.com takes you to the foodnetwork website. Every recipe you see on any show and some that haven't been aired are on there. There's like over 20,000 recipes I think. First and foremost, you must have a desire to cook and it sounds like you do.

Answer 2

Cooking isn't hard.
People are just stupid and can't follow directions.
But some people just like to cook and practice it a lot, which makes them better at it.
Basically, practice makes perfect.
Go to Barnes and Noble or any other bookstore and buy a simple cookbook.
Start out with cooking first, not baking.
Once you get comfortable with cooking, herbs, and utensils, you realize that certain spices are missing and add them.
You can't do that off the bat because you don't know what sweet basil tastes like or how it would go in a dish.
Like, it took me a while to realize that basil would make tomato sauce/cheap spaghetti sauce taste less tart and acidic.
It just comes with time.

Answer 3

You may be born with a good sense of what goes together taste wise, but you will have to learn to cook.

Point in contrast: I took to cooking like a duck to water, have an innate sense of what goes together and what does not. I started cooking for my family when I was 12. My older sister had no idea what worked together and my brother-in-law still teases her that he lost 30 lbs the first year they were married. Now, 25 years later, she is a fabulous cook.

Answer 4

If that was the case i might now not be a quality prepare dinner as i'm now. My mom proposal a good meal consisted of hotdogs and my father viewed anything out of a box used to be just right. No it just takes allot of follow and trial and error and fairly following the approaches and quantities in recipes. And finding out what the elements do. Style your seasonings by using themselves so you'll get an idea how they'll taste within the entire factor. I explore in my kitchen everyday and create recipes at all times and tweek those who exist presently. It's allot of labor but man while you get that recipe down pat it is just so rewarding. Yet another excellent tip is discovering that anybody that just "has it" within the cooking division that creates the most potent stuff and ask that character questions.

Answer 5

I think you have to have a love of cooking in order to be good at it. Any one can follow a recipe but it takes the love to tweak a recipe to bring it to a whole new plane, to put your own signature on it, so to speak. I learned by a lot by watching my mother from the time I was little, it was either step on me because I was in the way or put me to work as her helper. I was the only child of four that had any interest.

Answer 6

You definitely have to learn to cook. Watch the food network and go to the website or any website. Buy cookbooks. Try lots of new stuff and make notes in the books. I love to try new things. I usually make something with a recipe the first time, then make changes to suit it to my families taste.

Answer 7

You're born with desire, preference, and drive. If you like to cook, you'll more than likely catch on to whatever culinary experiences you witness while young, and then try it on yourself. There is always room to learn more, and refine your own skills. Even those who don't like to cook can learn -- but those of us who love to cook make it a POINT to learn.

Answer 8

no one is born popping out of their momma's womb sauteeing up some trout. it's learned. although, some people will have things they are born with that will help them along the way, such as a better set of taste buds, although those can be honed. passion may be another, and a sense of urgency. recipes are learned, technique is learned. but be careful, because it is a hardcore profession.

Answer 9

My mom is such a good cook I think maybe she was born to cook, but me I had to learn!!!..I like to go to foodnetwork.com and look for recipes from the food network stars I love!!

Answer 10

The best "site" that I know for you to learn to cook is the kitchen, your kitchen. Through practice you can hone your skills with all the tools of the trade. The other tools you need you where born with, Passion, Desire and your Tongue. If it tastes good to you then it will taste good to others.