Rate your Cooking Expertise

[PRC1964]

I pay other people to cook for me.

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Poll now up.

Blimey you lot are eager beavers !

There was a bus company called that in Doncaster. Always made me laugh when I saw one of their buses.

[BrilloPad]

Poll now up.

Blimey you lot are eager beavers !

Interesting. I noted the following.

I submitted the message, then went on to create the poll, proof-read it and then submit it. However, there is a point in there after initial submission, that the message gets posted, whilst I am still proof-reading the poll options.

Just so you know.

personally I create the poll options in notepad first - so I can get it up quickly.

always a couple who moan I can't do it fast enough...

[DiscoStu]

Andyw is my chef.

[hyperD]

There was a bus company called that in Doncaster. Always made me laugh when I saw one of their buses.

When I was first introduced to the peppery Hungarian wine Egri Bikavér, I thought our host said "Angry Beaver". Ironically the wine is quite a raw red colour.

I like cooking, I explore and try new dishes and am confident cooking from scratch, looking for fresh, good produce.

However, when you start to get into the gourmet cooking you realise the skill in matching flavours together, rather than overspicing food by chucking everything from your kitchen cupboard into it.

I've spent years cooking but realise what an amateur I am. However, I'm a firm believer that it doesn't take much to start cooking from scratch rather than processed foods and from then on, you'd be amazed at how bland most takeaways taste - saves yer money!

Would love to run a small private exclusive restaurant in Surrey somewhere... or maybe Hungary where taste, not profits mattered.... Plan C I guess.

[Jog On]

I'm 'above average' - apparently

[BA to the Stars]

Where is the "I am AndyW, who the f@%$ is Gordon Ramsey option"?

[bogeyman]

I don't cook, i'm married

That's what my wife says.

I really enjoy it though. Helps me unwind after the working day.

I'm considered pretty good at it and can do most things from traditional British roast dinners to Thai, Mexican and a couple of fairly passable Indian dishes, but my favourite cuisines are Italian and rustic French.

Good fresh ingredients cooked simply. Can't be arsed with hours of prep and fancy sauces that take longer to make than the main ingredient.

I bake my own bread when time permits.

I'm an absolute spaz as pastry though. Don't have the touch. JustRoll to the rescue (it's fantastic stuff, especially the filo, which I'd never be able to make).

[TimberWolf]

Where is the "principle of cooking is so easy to grasp that even Gordan Ramsay can claim to be able to do it" option?

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Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps.
Si on vous fait attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire.