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What inspired you to learn how to cook?

Posted - July 13, 2021

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  • 581
    Nothing.  I tried.  However, I am so bad at cooking, I'll burn the water.
      July 13, 2021 2:42 PM MDT
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  • Seeing my dad (he's the cook in the family) cooking. It made me want to learn what he knew. 
      July 13, 2021 2:42 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    The possibility of starving.
      July 13, 2021 2:48 PM MDT
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  • 2217
    Survival as bachelor. 
      July 13, 2021 2:49 PM MDT
    3

  • 7776
    I wanted to see if I could actually cook the more complicated recipes and it turns out that I can.
      July 13, 2021 2:51 PM MDT
    3

  • 44175
    Hunger pains.
      July 13, 2021 3:46 PM MDT
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  • Nothing inspired me to learn how to cook. 

    As a child I would watch my parents as they cooked meals.  At age 8 I could make a simple breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and bacon without parental supervision.  
      July 13, 2021 4:50 PM MDT
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  • 10449
    I haven't "learned" yet.

    How I boil water -   

    1 - put water in pot
    2 - set pot on stove
    3 - turn burner setting to high
    4 - wait 3 minutes
    5 - deploy fire extinguisher
    6 - open windows to vent smoke
    7 - Buy new pan, new stove, another fire extinguisher, and repair wall above stove.

    You know, if Amazon sold boiling water they'd make a mint off of me.

      July 13, 2021 10:31 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    I had dinner on the table when my mother came in from work at 6PM Monday-Friday as young as fourth grade.  I cooked everything...meatloaf, fried chicken and gravy, country fried steak, etc etc etc. 
      July 14, 2021 1:50 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    Marry me.
      July 14, 2021 9:51 AM MDT
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  • 17364
    Are you going to yell at me for starting the already running engine? ;)
      July 15, 2021 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    It's your car.
      July 15, 2021 7:12 AM MDT
    1

  • 52903

     

      I’m calling this in to Just Asking.


    ~

      July 15, 2021 7:15 AM MDT
    1

  • 6023
    It was a required part of the "Home Ec" class in middle school.
      July 14, 2021 10:20 AM MDT
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  • 16197
    Being hungry.
    Actually my mother-in-law taught me to cook, mum was a lousy cook (by her own admission, it was the domestic chore she hated most) so never tried to teach her sons - "I don't want you learning my bad habits, learn the skill from somebody who is good at it".
      July 14, 2021 5:17 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      Reports of my ability to cook have been greatly exaggerated.
    ~

      July 15, 2021 7:17 AM MDT
    1

  • 757
    As long as you can stomach your own vittles , you're doing pretty good.
      July 15, 2021 7:10 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      About 90 to 95% of what I eat at home is what my wife cooks. 

    ~

      July 15, 2021 9:24 PM MDT
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  • 757
    That's better yet.
      July 15, 2021 11:28 PM MDT
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  • 1817
    not starving 
      July 15, 2021 6:07 PM MDT
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