I'm going to say about 97% of people can't cook.

[ShrikeAttack]

I read threads on here about food all the time & even people who claim 'to 'cook', as in 'make stuff hot and eat it', have no idea about food. How to make delicious things, how to treat ingredients, what goes together.

It honestly makes me a bit sad.

The majority of people probably eat really rubbish food.

I really want people to understand food and eat better, not because I'm a dick, but because it would make their lives more pleasurable.

I can cook you one of these?

You think people are lying about being able to cook?

🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️

I agree with you op

That’s a very high stat you pulled out of your arse based on so very little.

😂 ok hun

I make homemade, edible meals that the whole family enjoy therefore I say I can cook which I think most the population can do.

Could I make a fancy meal using ingredients that aren't the standard? No, probably not. But that's because I can cook, but am not a chef.

It’s ok they can all cook fine. You got it wrong. You can relax. Night x

Well aren't you so very superior!

I think your figure is far too high.

That’s quite a revelation you make OP without knowing what each individual MN user eats or cooks on a daily basis. Or does it just make yourself feel better somehow thinking that you’re a better cook than everyone else?

Yeah there's not many chefs on here

I, everyone in my family, and all my friends can and do cook.

"Not because I'm a dick"

Well. At least you're self aware.

Now excuse me, I must get back to my Pot Noodle.

ODFOD.

Where'd you pull that random percentage from? Every single person I know can cook. Some more confident than others but I've enjoyed healthy and tasty meals cooked by many family members and friends. The only person I've come across who couldn't cook was a man in his 80s who was recently widowed.

Good job we’re not cooking for you then.

It honestly makes me a bit sad

Aww bless 😭😭😭

Seriously though, if you were worried about being 'a bit sad' you wouldn't be starting threads like this on the internet...

How very odd.

No. I read what people are cooking, and it sounds terrible.

I read about cooking methods or recipes where people chuck in random veg. And then wonder why their children won't eat it.

Or people making a ragú which sounds like a watery tomato sauce.

Just throwing as many veg as possible into something and calling it a pasta sauce or curry or chillie.

And slow cookers, sweating stuff to death.

And jarred sauces.

Reading this whilst eating a frozen Goodfellas pizza

Well, this is nice and smug, isn't it?

Sorry OP, but you are being a dick & no it doesn't make my life more pleasurable.