How many things can you cook?

[AeronautEdward]

I can only cook scrambled eggs. I forgot to add salt one time and it ended up tasting like undercooked egg white!

[Vanamonde]

Post roast and vegetable soup. That's about it. Both involve nothing more than cutting stuff up and dumping it in a big pot to heat.

[Tex]

Hmm... Toast, eggs, some no-bake cookies, and anything that has copious amounts of instructions without too many steps.

[Camacha]

I like to invent dishes. Following orders a recipe is quite boring, so I rather like to start with some ingredients I think would fit together. It usually turns out edible or okay-ish, but the weeks after I make the same dish again and again, each time adjusting and experimenting to make gradual improvements. After a while you get something that is actually a pretty palatable meal.

The latest one is a somewhat Carbonara inspired dish with minced meat and bacon bits, a union, cream, green beans and potatoes. If you do manual work or sports it is very nutritional and it has plenty of proper carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals too.

[tater]

I do most of the cooking, from following recipes, to extemporaneous. I taught my 8 year old to make scrambled eggs the other day.

[kenbobo]

Ramen noodles.

Veggie Dip.

Cheese Triangles

Nacho cookies (actually tostinos with shredded cheese in a microwave for 1 minute)

Grilled Cheese

[DarkGravity]

I only know how to make two really good dishes:

1) Take a chicken breast, put it in a bowl with LOTS of lemon pepper and red wine overnight in the fridge, then cook. Amazing this is!

2) Boil some pasta, add store-bought spaghetti sauce, sliced olives, chicken breast pieces, boiled asparagus. Put it on a plate. Put slices of cheese on top. Bake the plate till the cheese melts. Restaurant food at home!

Edited May 23, 2015 by DarkGravity

[Robotengineer]

I can bake a cake, it turns out rather badly, but its recognizable.

[Camacha]

Are you guys really horrible cooks or are you just pretending? I understand cooking is just a basic necessity for some, rather than something they enjoy, but some culinary skill-sets here seem truly quite, ehm, sparse.

I do not fancy myself anything special in the kitchen, but if I am going to (have to) do it, I better make something out of it. Not eating properly becomes rather depressing quite quickly.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Cooking is an art. It's not just something to do because you're hungry, but rather an expression the mind. A lot can be told about you simply based on the foods you eat.

Your cooking can never truly be divine if you never put your soul into it. Enjoy what you do! Have fun with the procedures, be creative, don't listen to the recipe books! Do what you want; experiment, and evaluate your work on your own.

Bread is a very versatile substance. It is both self sufficient, and can be part of a greater whole; something I cannot say about many other foods. Even if you think cooking as just a supplemental function in life, some people think that way about paintings. It's always the intention put behind the meal that truly makes it worth eating.

[Camacha]

Cooking is an art. It's not just something to do because you're hungry, but rather an expression the mind.

Though I understand what you are getting at and mostly agree, this is also denying what cooking for a significant part of the world population is - functional and necessary.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Though I understand what you are getting at and mostly agree, this is also denying what cooking for a significant part of the world population is - functional and necessary.

Oh I beg to differ! Though food may be considered a necessity, what is food made of? All we technically require are the basic nutritional supplements [i know that better than anyone. I don't like saying this to the public, but I have to drink 1.3 Cohaks of Endurance every day. That stuff is awful, but this conversation wouldn't exist without it.]

[Camacha]

what is food made of?

Erm... out of food?

[steve_v]

My oven can cook anything...

But it depends how you define 'cook'

Usually, food=fuel. If it only needs heating, so much the better.

While I can cook, I generally can't be arsed with anything complicated... Like requiring more than one pot.

[Nuke]

many things. i could probibly figure out anything with an unlimited grocery budget. unfortunately limited budget doesn't allow for what i like to call "science experiments", so i stick to things i know how to make without messing up.

[RainDreamer]

Mostly online recipes of simple stuff. Nothing fancy, although I do sometimes experiment with...interesting results.

[Nuke]

i once made what i called "admiral lucifer's chicken". my own version of general to's chicken. needless to say it was way too spicy, and totally awesome. i didnt have any of those little red chinese peppers, so i substituted them with habaneros.

[Voidryder]

With enough boosters I can cook anything.

[Xannari Ferrows]

With enough boosters I can cook anything.

Can you make a boo-stir fry?

​Jesus christ...

[KSK]

I haven't really tried any restaurant grade recipes (read, fiddly presentation) but otherwise, gimme a recipe book and I'm good to go. Me and my wife both work fairly long hours (definitely by the time you factor in commuting), so tend to cook in bulk at the weekend and freeze portions for reheating during the week. Can't beat home-made microwave meals.

Currently very much into my slow cooker (crockpot) - this afternoon's experiment is Thai style crystal chicken soup. Tomorrow is a double portion of a new favourite - Malaysian style beef and aubergine (eggplant) curry. My 'dessert to impress' is profiteroles - choux pastry is bloke cooking at its finest. No need for subtlety - just whack it together and beat with a spoon until it looks about right.

[ZedNova]

Many things. I can cook from the list i have in my head or from a cookbook. I learned a bunch of recipes from my mom so that way i can try and cook on my own when i move out.

[AeronautEdward]

I can't cook much since my family doesn't own a cookbook, the only way I can learn is to watch my parents, who are Asian culinary experts, my dad used to work for 2 restraunts and he catered for a wedding, so we got to eat 2 Ferro Rochers chocolates!

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I think my best option to learn cooking is to got to culinary school.

[LordFerret]

Anything and everything, including cakes from scratch. Desserts are my favorites, of course! Being a bachelor most of my life, I've learned to cook... it was either learn or starve lol.

[Wesreidau]

I could probably cook anything with meat.

[Dispatcher]

How many things can I cook? As many as fall into the cooking pit.