Do you "get" people who are interested in food/cookery programs

15-02-2011 05:58PM #1

My 18 year old daughter said to me I don't get people who are interested in food/cookery programs/recipes books as far as she is concerned food is fuel and cooking is boring. On the other had I love cooking and trying different recipes I watch lots of cookery programs I have alway being like that and my oldest daughter is like me in that way.

I have come to the conclusion you are either born interested in thing like cooking or you are not and its not one of the things you develop as you get older. I have a friend whose husband dose all the cooking in there house because my friend hates cooking and she says she has always been like that.

The one situation I don't understand at all are the people who live on cornflakes pot noodles and take aways, dose it not get boring after a while.

jester77 · 15-02-2011 06:01PM

I "get" them.... get them to cook for me

Duggy747 · 15-02-2011 06:02PM

Sometimes I don't understand some people who prepare and slave over a hob for over an hour, eat the damn thing within 5 minutes and are then left with a mountain of washup. (Usually with enough leftovers in the saucepans to feed Africa twice)

Still, I do love my mix of shìte food and cooking real food.

n0irin · 15-02-2011 06:06PM

I'm not sure - I mean I haven't ever been interested at all in cooking until last summer, and since then I've started reading any cookery book I can get my hands on and I do tend to watch some cookery shows and talk about it more than I used to...so it seems that SOME people do develop a like for that type of thing, it's not just something that you're born with or not...

Kasabian · 15-02-2011 06:08PM

I love cooking.

xzanti · 15-02-2011 06:09PM

I LOVE cooking programmes.. Come Dine with Me and Masterchef are my favourites.. My OH moans about it constantly.. I can't see why people wouldn't be interested in it tbh..

But then again, I hate football and can't see why people are interested in that so it's horses for courses I guess..

parker kent · 15-02-2011 06:11PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Sometimes I don't understand some people who prepare and slave over a hob for over an hour, eat the damn thing within 5 minutes and are then left with a mountain of washup. (Usually with enough leftovers in the saucepans to feed Africa twice)

Still, I do love my mix of shìte food and cooking real food.

Wash as you go or get a dishwasher.

I love cookery programmes and cooking. That interest was spurred by the godawful timetabling/subject selection my secondary school had. Having zero interest in technical drawing, I picked Home Ec. I was horribly afraid of cooking at the time and grew up in a microwave/burnt food type family. But I slowly learnt how nice it was to make good food and I now enthusiastically make all sorts. It relaxes me to make food.

I think this story shows that more lads should do Home Ec. Plus the teacher was a Grade A hottie!

Luxie · 15-02-2011 06:12PM

I love them. I aspire to being able to cook like that, only I never end up bothering even trying, so it's a form of 'escapism' I suppose.

15-02-2011 06:13PM

New masterchef series starts this week

Debthree · 15-02-2011 06:17PM

I never understood it. But lately I find I'm watching them more often. It might be an age thing.

I hate the pretentious sh1te where you need to have spices imported by ship from Outer Mongolia but I like the straight-forward ones like Jame Oliver's 30 minute dinners and Masterchef (can't stand the junior one though)

Snakeblood · 15-02-2011 06:17PM

Come Dine With Me is awesome, it's like gladiatorial combat among the nouveau bourgeois.

Sykk · 15-02-2011 06:17PM

Kasabian wrote: »

I love my brick.

FYP :pac:

phasers · 15-02-2011 06:20PM

I love baking, can't cook to save my life but I understand why people love it. I always feel great when my cakes turn out perfectly.

Your daughter's logic could be applied to any hobby really.

Kasabian · 15-02-2011 06:21PM

Sykk wrote: »

FYP :pac:

Why?

stovelid · 15-02-2011 06:21PM

I hate cooking and can't get my head around people who rhapsodize about what they want to cook when they get home. I like eating but I don't really care if it's a sandwich, soup or a meal. If I didn't have to do it to fulfil social obligations, I'd never go to a real restaurant again in my life apart from lunch in cafes maybe.

Oranage2 · 15-02-2011 06:22PM

Why does anybody like anything anyway?

Dravokivich · 15-02-2011 06:22PM

You should smack yer daughter with the oily side of a frying pan and leave her to prepare her own fuel for herself if that's all it is to her.

Ah man... always loved food. the smell of it while cooking... love watching cooking shows to see how people do things differently or something new I might be able to try out that I didn't because it looked so hard to do...

Kasabian · 15-02-2011 06:23PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Why does anybody like anything anyway?

Because anything is better than nothing except in the case of STD's.

AnonoBoy · 15-02-2011 06:23PM

An 18 year old who thinks something their parents are into is boring?

STOP THE PRESS!!!!! :eek:

15-02-2011 06:30PM

Stovelid my youngest daughters attitude would be very like yours she also said why do people go to restaurants when you could get a take away pizza instead!

phasers · 15-02-2011 06:31PM

Don't worry, when she gets older she'll start to appreciate good food and the work that goes into it.

FTGFOP · 15-02-2011 06:33PM

Blast her with piss
Garnish with parsley (optional)

George83 · 15-02-2011 06:35PM

I love cooking/baking, reading about food & eating out. Not overly fond of cookery shows on tv tho.

Azureus · 15-02-2011 06:35PM

I used to hate cooking, proper HATE it! Mainly cuz I was crap at it I think, but since I moved out with somebody who likes it and is good at it, and learned a thing or two about it Ive developed a really big interest in it. Before I lived off sammiches, readymeals and takeaways, now I eat not neccesarily healthily all the time but fresh and interestingly

that said, I still love a good sammich, it just has more on it than white bread and cheese now!! As an 18yr old I didnt get it, as a 22yr old I do-you can grow to love it doesnt mean you will tho.

J K · 15-02-2011 06:38PM

I don't see how she can bag herself a husband if she can't even cook a dinner

Kintarō Hattori · 15-02-2011 06:44PM

mariaalice wrote: »

I have come to the conclusion you are either born interested in thing like cooking or you are not and its not one of the things you develop as you get older. I have a friend whose husband dose all the cooking in there house because my friend hates cooking and she says she has always been like that.

I'd have to disagree with you there. When I was living at home many moons ago I had no real interest in food. I ate what the mammy served up and that was that. When my brother came back from having studied abroad he cooked all sorts of weird and interesting food which I found amazingly tasty and suddenly the Mammy's meat and 2 veg wasn't so interesting.

When I moved out for the first year or so I didn't really cook much, as I was a little lazy but in the second year I bought myself two cookery books and it took off from there.

So I'd be inclined to disagree. You can develop an interest in cooking, it all depends on your circumstances really. If you like to eat, you'll most likely learn to cook.

Novella · 15-02-2011 06:45PM

I love cookery programmes, I think I always have. My granny was a really good cook and very interested in food so I grew up immersed in that kinda thing. I get it.

phasers · 15-02-2011 06:45PM

I'd agree with Kintarō Hattori, I never had an interest until last year when I just fancied a carrot cake one day :pac:

Poor Craythur · 15-02-2011 06:47PM

I love cooking shows, but hate the proliferation of competitive cooking shows. So tedious. I just want Delia showing me how to boils eggs, dammit! I also love cooking myself, find it very relaxing and love people enjoying my food. I'm a bit terrified of baking though.

EDIT: I watch 'Come Dine With Me' but that's not really about the cooking, now is it?

the_syco · 15-02-2011 07:04PM

The old programs, yes. The new ones, tend to be ads for crap to buy to enable you to bake...

Overheal · 15-02-2011 07:05PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9I2JfLgQrE

Do you "get" people who are interested in food/cookery programs

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