How old were you when you learned to cook and who taught you?
(Don't you love the image? That would easily pass for me in the 70's when I learned to cook with my Mum and Nan - I didn't like to wear clothes much...)
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Monday, November 8
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(Don't you love the image? That would easily pass for me in the 70's when I learned to cook with my Mum and Nan - I didn't like to wear clothes much...)
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8yo. I taught myself because no-one would teach me. I would grab the 10089084098 year old commonsense cookery book from the cabinet and make the recipes, and sometimes alter them and experiment (usually with colours, but also ingredients, textures etc).
I think it drove my love of experimenting with food, and annoys my friends when I can read a recipe I've never made before, and alter the ingredients and it tastes awesomeness.
I learnt to cook my mum's recipes from about 8 or 9 years old. My son loves to cook now and he is only 4 - he asked for a cookbook for Christmas!
Dani that is SO fantastic (and cute) ! xx
Intermediate school cooking classes I think - 11/12 yo - and then I became the pastry chef at our house - scones, pastry that sort of thing.
I can still make a mean pinwheel scone :-)
I plan to be 40 when i learn to cook, i know the shame, being 35, not a great cook & mother of 4 who spends so much time home alone (husband is the great cook shame he goes away all the time). I figure with our eldest about to start high school & keen to learn, she can teach me. My mother is a chef (i know, it gets worse) but never let us in the kitchen. She couldn't stand my lack of inclination!! I can bake, i can prepare food, it's just when heat is involved it goes pear shaped as i am doing homework, spelling lists & um, blogging, all at the same time. Love Posie
Hmm I don't remember. I learned on my own though as my mum didn't like me being in the kitchen!
I was about 6 or 7 max. I learnt to cook very early as I was the eldest and wanted to help out my mother with housework and cooking. I am glad I did that :)
I was 4 when I started to pay attention to my Grandmother's lessons well - then much to her surprise I made bread rolls with her without her seeing me do it. I always was a very quiet child. They were good rolls too!
M
My Nanna explained a lot of the basics to me and I used to sit and watch her make things - sometimes helping - always asking a question - probably about 9 or 10. My Mum never stopped me from cooking if I wanted to - she never was an adventerous cook and it was pretty much the same thing all of the time rotated week by week.
The reality was that I learnt to cook - all from trial and error - from the time I was married at 18 and started having children and was finally in control and charge of my own kitchen - I loved it and still do.
Cheers,
Wendy
from when i was a toddler... i was making up my own cake recipes from when i was about 4 years old... and started cooking for the family from when i was in school... i was always under my mum's feet in the kitchen so she gave up and let me help...and i loved it! i try adn let my 2 year old boy help with the cooking now... he loves it as well!
I can't remember. I know I have photos of myself at a young age under my Granny's kitchen table licking out the bowl....
I know I spent time with my grandmothers as a very young child, baking.
And my Mum was an amazing cook.
I hope I am fostering the cooking bug into my children.....
xx
Gosh, Mum would let me help with the type of things you've mentioned in the '5 ways your kids can help' post, but I guess I really learnt to follow a recipe in Food Tech in high school! Then the rest has been self taught through books, recipe books and the Internet.
I have been cooking since I could stand on a chair at the bench. My mum and grandma taught me to cook. LOVE the photo, could be my 2yo today :)
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