At what age did you learn how to cook?!

Wow, so young for answerers so far! I think many people are like me though too, in that they learned to cook a few things at a much younger age than they really "learned to cook" (meaning that they could make a wide variety of things, and be able to do that every single day).

I didn't cook anything at all until I was out of college, for example, though after a few years "I could cook." But I really started learning about the basics of cooking and expanding my repetoire much-much more (rather than just the recipes I'd learned) only many-many years after that.

You might also want to read the experiences of some other people in this previous question:

(...and maybe this answer too for many males in this society, or anyone who "never really learns" to cook:
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When I was a little girl, about 3 or 4 I spent lot of time at my Grandmother's restaurant called The Dunes, in Westport, Washington. She taught me to love cooking and baking. I had entered things in the county fair and won blue ribbons by the time I was 5.

I now live in New jersey and have done everything from raise 2 children, learning to feed them on 30 dollars a week if I had to: to learning to cook for 300 for wedding receptions for the fire department I volunteered for. You are never to young to start. And you never stop Learning.

Now I am 41, and just moved to Newark, NJ where I can be in Manhattan in 15 minutes. I explore every kind of store and market you can imagine, and I am learning more every day!!!

I started baking - not from scratch - when I was 13. I started cooking - whole dishes from scratch - when I was 17. I always love the taste of my aunt's cookies so I started baking most. I usually baked brownies or cookie doughs - never from scratch though. I took a culinary arts class when I was 17 and got really into it. I started making things from scratch. I have also started making desserts from scratch.

It seems to me a was so young I had to pull a chair to the counter to reach it and help my Mom but I guess I would have been around 6 when I started baking from mixes and was starting to read.
How old were you?

I always helped in the kitchen as a child...But I really took it seriously at about 13..

i was about 12-13