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 always love these "I understand food better than you" people. Because mainly... They don't 🤷🏻
I know professional chefts who sometimes use jar sauces. Nwver using these doesn't make people better than others. Some jars are actually nice.

While I agree that lots of people can't (rather don't want to) cook, the 97% is just plucked up from nowhere and it made me suspect, it's just to ensure plenty of clicks and comments.

I have to say, I ASd you because I couldn't believe someone would write something so... Wanking over self's skills while making out most can't do anything close. Surprised you are an actual poster.

Sorry. You are not The magical 3% who know how to cook. Because there is no such thing.

What did you cook for Christmas Day @ShrikeAttack, turkey and all the trimmings? And what would all the trimmings be?

I had a gorgeous sandwich the other day. Granary bread, mayonnaise, strong cheddar cheese, tomato, pickle, ham and cucumber. With carrot sticks and olives on the side, washed down with a cup of coffee and followed by a chocolate brownie with raspberries. That is NOT shit food!!

So you had a cheese, ham and pickle sandwich. With carrot sticks and olives (why?) followed by a brownie? Now, that would be the sum total of my food intake for a day lol.

What other people find delicious is subjective. I know because I cook meals that are delicious to me and my kids won't touch them. They find boring plain food delicious.

@ineedaholidaynow. Based on the menu posted above, I'm assuming it was a fifteen-bird roast. And what the OP hasn't mentioned is the two family members hospitalised afterwards for causes entirely unrelated to Covid.

There's the can cook and can't be arsed cook and I'm in both categories. I cook from scratch on my days off but when I've been in work for nearly 12 hours, including a short commute I don't want to rustle up a roast at 7pm. So it could be something from the chip shop on my way home if I haven't got a meal in the freezer I've previously made for can't be arsed days.

@MilkMoon

Well, clearly one of your parents being Irish has allowed you to time travel to an era before avocados and coriander.

Did you actually read the posts between myself & another poster. We were talking about traditional dishes!!!!

be we = never

[quote MessAllOver]@ineedaholidaynow. Based on the menu posted above, I'm assuming it was a fifteen-bird roast. And what the OP hasn't mentioned is the two family members hospitalised afterwards for causes entirely unrelated to Covid.[/quote]
Indeed. Sounds very much like a recipe for gout!
Do you have gout OP?

I grew up eating pheasant - grandfather was a gamekeeper. And rabbit.

But it's a much smaller bird than a chicken and yes, you'd need at least one between 2 people. Two pheasants would cost you about a tenner. A large chicken is as little as £4, so I'm assuming OP is talking about free-range, corn-fed chicken.

Duck eggs are about £1.50 for 6, branded supermarket free range eggs are around the same price but supermarket own brand free range eggs are half that price. OP is clearly not on a budget.

Anyway, I can cook. I like to cook. I don't buy jarred pasta sauces, make lots of things from scratch. But neither am I a martyr to it, or a judgey arse. We're having pizza tonight - pizza bases bought ready made (from Aldi, they're very good) and we'll make our own toppings.

Dh does all the cooking in our house and he really can cook. I prefer to grow the ingredients for him to use as cooking bores me.

I agree with others who no longer find cooking from scratch all that rewarding, being fifty, I've cooked many, many meals, three quarters of them weren't appreciated because ''delicious'' is extremely subjective. I'd rather have something simple and quick and have the time I do not spend cooking. There is nothing sad about this.

Agree Wise is rather spend time gardening than cooking.

[quote wonderup]@MilkMoon

Well, clearly one of your parents being Irish has allowed you to time travel to an era before avocados and coriander.

Did you actually read the posts between myself & another poster. We were talking about traditional dishes!!!! [/quote]
I was wondering about that too lol.

Basically, I was saying that the Irish do authentic old Irish cooking very well. OP was saying authentic old English cooking is quite similar to Irish cooking.

'Foodies' are 100% more likely to bore people to death than anyone else on the planet.

Is your surname 'Oliver' sounds like your on a mission to save the nation from bad cooking! I think this thread and your approach is bizarre...

Sorry, not OP - wonderup was saying....

'Ijust want people to eat decent food. Because it's a pleasure.,

Well you can pay for it then.

I cant afford all that fancy shit. I'm on minimum wage and working part time after losing my job to redundancy last year.

I can cook from scratch but these days I Imake do with what I have to hand and what will feed my family.

I'm feeding 5 of us and 4 pets on 70 quid a week. How much is your food budget a week op?

@ShrikeAttack

It genuinely does make me sad when I read about rubbish food that people eat.

Not because they can't afford it.

Because they can't cook.

It makes me feel sad that the majority of people eat rubbish food. Life is short. Why feed yourself terrible things?

you seem determined to ignore everyone who says it's not because they can't cook, they just choose not to (to the extent you do)...

I taught myself to bake and cook properly years ago but cannot be arsed the bulk of the time. My idea of heaven is an instant pot meal where I can chuck everything in and wander off and leave it. I'm in the middle of making lentil and veg soup, and I only tolerate making that every week cause I blend it at the end so can just chuck the onions in quartered, etc.

I want to eat food that is tasty and preferably healthy BUT I really can't be bothered devoting loads of time to it.

The OP is being a dick. But she does make a reasonable point. I know a lot of people who cam put a meal on the table which is perfectly edible but I wouldn’t say they are good cooks,I’d smile and eat it and say lovely because I’ll polite.

I know 1/2 a dozen people in my life, who aren’t chefs, who are really good cooks. My ex landlord could make a roast dinner that was just superb, the veg tasted of veg not boiled to death, th3 gravy was deeply flavoured not watery, the potaes perfectly fluffy and crunchy, the meat never tough. and he loved to cook food from all sorts of cultures.

A couple who are brilliant cooks and use the cheapest of ingredients.

Lasagna from jars, curry from jars...it’s not cooking.

How you can eat anything at all with your head rammed so far up your arse is a wonder

Hatstrategicallydipped

Thank you! 😆

@WiseOwlRelaxing

What other people find delicious is subjective. I know because I cook meals that are delicious to me and my kids won't touch them. They find boring plain food delicious.

Exactly! Otherwise all restaurants would cook the exact same things, the exact same way. So would all of us. Life would be pretty boring

Blimey. The op is such a massive twat that I'm tempted to post constantly about pot noodles and jarred sauces just to deliberately make her 'sad'. I mean, fucking hell, there are kids starving to death in Yemen but you're sad about kids in the UK who have extra veg chucked into their not authentic enough Ragu? Massive, massive twat.

I cook most nights. About twice a week to save time, dishes and effort I'll just heat up something like chicken kievs or chicken breasts and have those with potatoes and vegetables.
From comments I read on here I would say that some people always just heat up food but real like experience tells me there is no way it is anything like 97% of people.