What do you enjoy most about cooking

[ricksrealpitbbq]

For me in no particular order...................

I love tasting as I cook. My wife gets after me sometimes but I tell her it's my treat for cooking.

I like to experiment with different ingredients, except when I bake. I learned the hard way don't mess with a baking recipe.

And I like seeing people enjoy eating what I cook

 

[Mama Mangia]

I love the thank you's and the oooohhh's and aaahhhhh's........

I love the "can you please make................ again"

I love creating

I love all those special requests

I guess I can honestly say that I love the personal satisfaction of being in the kitchen and making everything I possibly can

and I love a full pantry and freezer filled with all my "Little Red Hen" goodies -

and I love to feed people

 

[jglass]

My reasons are pretty much the same as Mamas. Growing up with the parents I had and food coming after booze and smokes on the priority list I have always had that need to get and give comfort food.

 

[jpshaw]

Other then eating I quess the satisfaction I get when other know guys can. We were at Church a week ago when a friend turned to my wife and said; We were at Gary and Cathys yesterday for dinner and had some really great yeast bread and Gary said it was from you. She pointed at me and said that's his deal, I don't do bread. Her reply was; Your kidding.

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I'm usually not at a loss for words- but I really can't offer anything here that others already have not. First there's the joy of spending one's time doing something they truly love. Second- and perhaps best- it the reaction from others. I don't have a lot of skills or talents... but I'm lucky to have one that reaches folks in all the right places, I guess!

One thing I've always felt- and that I see again here as I read everyone's words; Cooks are generous people.

I think it was cookbook author Edna Lewis who said: "Cooks are the most generous people I know. Most would give a stranger their last bite of bread and jam, and be content themselves for just a sip of water."

 

[Mama Mangia]

I agree - cooks are generous people.

 

[ChileFarmer]

Rick, tasting your food as you cook, I think is part of being a caring cook. I want my food to taste good. I always taste as I cook.
I want people to enjoy what I cook , I want them to have plenty. You come to my house we gonna eat. Now let me say here, I have cooked some things I was not real proud of. CF

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Rick, tasting your food as you cook, I think is part of being a caring cook. I want my food to taste good. I always taste as I cook.
I want people to enjoy what I cook , I want them to have plenty. You come to my house we gonna eat. Now let me say here, I have cooked some things I was not real proud of. CF

I agree- having plenty is a big part of it too.

Being single I don't like to have lots of left-overs (because I'll eat every bit of it all, myself!) so I like to send any extras home w/ folks. I love watching folks "wrestle" over the leftovers!

 

[jglass]

Now let me say here, I have cooked some things I was not real proud of. CF

Same here
My first attempt at my Mom's breakfast gravy was a like a scene from that old horror movie The Blob lol. It kept growing and spilled over the sides of the skillet and I poked it with a fork and it expelled steam lol. In my defense I was 12. My first try at apple pie came out like apple soup lol.

 

[ChileFarmer]

Now JG, that is funny. I can laugh because I have been there. I guess we all have. CF

 

[jglass]

Yeah that gravy came over the sides of that iron skillet just like the Blob bubbling up out of a sink in that old horror movie. If someone had just told me way back then that equal parts of fat to flour browned up and then add milk it would have been way more simple lol. It would have saved a lot of cleanup.