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Poll Question: How would you rate your cooking ability?
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1 [2.78%]
0 [0.00%]
17 [47.22%]
8 [22.22%]
2 [5.56%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [11.11%]
4 [11.11%]
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Somewhere between 3rd and 4th option.

I make excellent tortillas, tasty dressings/stews, very good goulash and amazing oyster mushrooms coated in breadcrumbs  - mostly when I want to impress a girl.  I use spices a lot.

But since I'm living alone, most of the time I'm doing ready-made foods, scrambled eggs and such.
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I can put mini doughnuts on a plate. That's about it really.
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If I stick to the types of stuff I'm good at, I receive many compliments. 
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I'm a pretty reasonable cook - can make a hearty meal to feed that family - including a killer bolognaise sauce and some rather spectacular casseroles, but living in far more temperate climes than many on here (it's warm to hot and sunny 8 months of the year) I love a good BBQ - I can turn out a perfect steak from rare to well done - your choice, and my BBQ lamb chops and cutlets have friends and family begging for more!

BBQ - the great Aussie tradition and the perfect accompaniment to beer and kids in the swimming pool.
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The spectrum of named cooks runs from Ray Ray to Wolfgang Punk? Tongue
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Cooking usually isn't a big deal. Follow some directions, take things out of the oven, put 'em in. Pretty hard. Pastries are harder. Doing BBQ right is fairly intensive. It's the difference between typical BBQ and "surely this is a meal for the gods" BBQ.

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The only cooking I'm not a fan of is grilling or barbeque - that's not cooking in my estimation, that's a revival of the viking practice of outdoor cremation




Especially when a novice BBQ cook decides to do chicken without pre cooking it first, so you get that wonderful delicacy, 'double crunch chicken' (ie burnt on the outside & still frozen inside)

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That's why its an art to be able to grill correctly, any meat, which I do very well. In the kitchen I do well also, I would have no problem serving my cooking to anyone.
I enjoy cooking.......And in the kitchen if you make a mistake, cover it with sauce throw in a potato and call it goulash and ur good to go!
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I am a fairly good cook, but for some reason quite a few accidents occur when I'm the kitchen. The scars on my hands are proof of that. Cry
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looks good Jim, I have yet to master a really good English fry-up with eggs and tomatoes and bacon and stuff
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I don't cook it that much (as I quite like being alive), but I can do a mean breakfast fry-up:



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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things.


That is quite a skill!  Shocked
 
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Worst sausages should probably be the andouillette and the boudin from France. They should leave this to the Germans or the Czechs and stick with the pate, the mousse, etc. 


Okay, this means war. En garde and all that jazz. Stern Smile
Agreed; I love a good Andouille, though I'm sure it can be a horror in the wrong hands--  never had real boudin but I'm game (pun intended)
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things.


That is quite a skill!  Shocked

If only as a child I could have focused my pouting into culinary skill...

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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things.


That is quite a skill!  Shocked
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I can burn toast, pout water into a pot, and set fire to many things.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Worst sausages should probably be the andouillette and the boudin from France. They should leave this to the Germans or the Czechs and stick with the pate, the mousse, etc. 


Okay, this means war. En garde and all that jazz. Stern Smile
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Gotta say I'm impressed at the response.  Figured I'd get one page if I was lucky.

I personally voted "fraid I'll poison people" even though I haven't yet poisoned myself (knock on formica).  My repertoire is pretty limited - I tend to do old standbys, e.g. burgers, pasta, baked chicken or fish - easy stuff that's hard to mess up.  I admit I rely too much on frozen and/or pre-made stuff.  On occasion I'll get ambitious and do a meatloaf or chili or something.  One of these days I'll break down and get a crockpot (slow cooker) so I can load it up in the morning before I go to work and have a tasty dinner waiting when I get home - assuming my building hasn't burned down in my absence.....
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I'm a terrible cook.  I can cook one thing well and even that goes wrong sometimes.

I only cook for myself though.
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Worst sausages should probably be the andouillette and the boudin from France. They should leave this to the Germans or the Czechs and stick with the pate, the mousse, etc. 
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