Does anyone here know how to cook?

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I certainly can't do it. However, not only is it too much for me to do... but I also have a slight fear of the hot stove. This is actually due to a little incident that happened as a kid. The stove was hot, and my mom kept telling me not to touch it. Well, I didn't listen to her at the time and did anyway. It burned me enough to make me realize like "Ouch!", but it didn't cause any blistering pain. It was just tramautic enough that now, I fear cooking over a hot stove. X_x However, I can cook using the microwave pretty well and have adapted to that as a secondary option.

Anyway, I was just wondering if there are any aspies/autistics who are capable of cooking. I mean over the stove, not the actual microwave that is. If not, why can't you?

I cook frozen food on the stove.

Yes, I can actually cook and bake!

I just don't like cooking...

I do like to bake though...

I cook and bake, I started early when I was around 12.

I've been learning how to cook--adjusting recipes until they have the taste and texture that I want.

Depends what I'm cooking--it is often more practical to buy some pre-seasoned shimp appetizers on sale or a box of waffle mix and use it "as is" when you are cooking for one.

I don't cook much, if there's more than a couple of saucepans it gets tricky to synchronise the completion times, because the times aren't accurately predictable unless I cook the same meal every time and get everything measured. Even 3 different kinds of frozen food in the same oven gives me a bit of trouble, because the recommended temperatures are often different for each type, and I don't like approximating and compromising. I have to calculate the start time for each type of food and set a number of alarms.

Beyond that, all I do is omelets and mashed potatoes. I had a method for boiled eggs which was slightly better than the normal method, starting by putting the eggs into boiling water so the whites are more likely to solidify before the yolk starts to do so. Unfortunately I lost the time data.

Instead of spending lots of time cooking, I eat a lot of raw food such as carrots, spinach, cheese, hummus and tomatoes. There's something about cooking alone for one that makes me feel lonely. I'll probably get more involved with cooking when I'm not living alone any more.

I like baking bread, and the result is always better than anything I can buy. It's a large part of my staple diet. I've got the recipe optimised pretty accurately. Rather than haphazardly leaving the dough to rise "in a warm place," I set up a covered bowl of water at 37 centigrade and use that as an incubator.

So all in all, my cooking is pretty limited, and don't have much know-how, though I like it well enough.

I can cook, bake etc. I was taught how to at a young age and it was part of my studies in secondary school.

I'm not a gourmet cook by any means--but I can cook things like steak, pasta, pork chops, rice--meat and potatoes type of things. I'm not really into "nouveau cuisine."

When I'm inclined, I could make certain foods taste pretty good.

I can cook, not anything especially complicated, just basics, but those are the things I like. I have to cook for myself, because I am such a picky eater, and I have a really sensitive gut. I can't eat many frozen foods or restaurant foods, because the additives and seasonings in a lot of stuff can make me sick.

These days I mostly eat rice and fried chicken strips or pork chops. Sometimes I make spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce and beef, but that takes more concentration so I don't do that too often.

I can fry chicken in the oven, but I've never gotten the hang of frying it on the stove (I mean boned chicken). I think it comes out better in the oven anyway though. I don't cook it that way often anymore because it takes over an hour.

I keep some frozen stuff on hand too for when I don't feel like actually cooking. Mainly frozen pizzas or pizza snacks.

TV dinners, grilled cheese, oven nuggets and fries, canned food. Soup? Chicken? Full meals? Haha hell no!

I shudder to think what I would eat with celiac disease if I didn't know how to cook.

I can cook things like pancakes or eggs or pasta or toast and I can cook french fries or TV dinners.

Over the last two years I've had to learn how to cook since I'm now living on my own for the first time in my life. My mom has taught me about all she can. I think I could still use more lessons though. I can cook well enough for the most part but there are some things I won't even consider trying to cook.

I know how to make really good breakfast burritos and cheese sandwiches.

I can cook but only simple food. Such as an omlette, french fries, boiled eggs or potatoes.

I have no idea how to make full meals and I am afraid of cooking meat. I just cannot figure how it is possible for something so scary (I can't stand the feeling of raw meat on my skin) turn into a tasty meal. I can eat well prepared meat but I would never try cooking one myself. I did once - the chicken nuggets ended up not cooked enough even though it was a "precooked" dish, "just fry it on a frying pan till it gets the color you want" - kind.