How old were you when you started cooking?!
How old were you when you started cooking?
And what was the first meal you ever cooked?
Answers:
When I started kindergarten I started cooking my own Saturday breakfasts. According to my Mom I ate lots of poached eggs. French toast was also one of the first things I cooked.
Well... I dont know
when i was 11, i made a hashbrown casserole, with brownies for dessert.
about 9 or 10 and i started with easy Hamburger Helpers. lol
I think I was 12 and made a pot roast for my parents (with mom's help). She didn't like me cooking since I guess I made a mess, so anything else was tacos and cookies. But after they passed away I REALLY had to learn how to cook. That was when I was 19.
Probably about 5 or 6. Cake making with mom. An actual meal, maybe about 10 or so. My mother worked full time, so I usually started the dinner after school.
I was in 5th or 6th grade when I started cooking. I wanted to bake my own bread but didn't know there was a diffence between yeast bread, which is what I really wanted to make, and quick bread. So I made my recipe and was really disappointed when I tasted it, even though it tasted very good. I realized years later I had made a quickbread instead of a yeast bread.
hmm...i started cooking when i was 12
i started helping in the kitchen when i was three. the first thing i ever made all by myself was probably pretty nasty. i wanted to surprise my mom for dinner, and worked with what i had in the house. i made her a mashed potato sandwich on toast. the only thing was the potatoes were cold, and i probably over-mashed them, so they were nice and gluey. she was a sport and smiled and ate it!!
now my daughter is three and i can't get her out of the kitchen. i had to buy her a super deluxe kitchen of her own. i used to read her cookbooks for the first year of her life (i figured, hey, as long as i'm reading to her. she doesn't know what i'm reading.) now she's obsessed with cooking shows, and thinks all my old kids cookbooks are hers!
My parents bought a pizza restaurant when I was 9, so I would work with them sometimes. I used to make pizzas, subs, all kinds of stuff! I love to cook at home now, but I am more into eating healthy.
My first cookbook, the Betty Crocker one for kids, is dated 1964, which means I would have been (COUGH CHOKE HACK GAG SPLUTTER) years old.
(Sorry about that. That always seems to happen whenever the subject of my age comes up.)
After first grade, I fixed my own breakfasts before I went to school. I liked to make toast with raisins and peanut butter and a glass of milk, or else a bowl of tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Those would probably have been the first meals I ever cooked on my own.
Well Helping Mom about 12 some chopping and simple things and lots of cleanup.
I think I did a roast of lamb about then But she was checking behind my back.
I did a turkey at 14 about an hour too long Beautiful color but the meat just fell off...Thanks that was funny.
I was around 7 when I started cooking. I helped my grandparents on their ranch. When the cattle roundup came up my job was to help feed the cowboys. My great grandmother showed me how to make the best chicken fried steaks. I was the flourer and dipper. Also I learned to make all kinds of sides which I cherish every recipe she gave me. I use them to this day. My mother made me start doing full meals when I was a sophmore in high school. Then, I was totally bummed because I had to come home from school and cook for everyone and NOT HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS! But, since she did that, I have found my niche in life and can cook very well (according to husband and kids and family,lol) I am trying to instill in my boys that cooking is cool and girls will flock to you if you can cook!
Other then throwing some hot dogs on the grill when I was a kid, not really cooking. I guess I started to really cook when I got divorced, I was 38 years old. I had one of my boys living with me so I couldn't afford to go out every night. I don't remember the first thing I cooked, but I am sure it was something frozen that came from the store. Then I went to doing stuff in the microwave. After 25 years I have gotten pretty good and will try anything. I am raising a grandson now so I still cannot afford to go out every night. Tonight it was southern fried chicken, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes.
i was 7 and i used to make vegetable soup
I was 12 when my mother first became ill. I cooked spaghetti then I learned to cook pork chops and mashed potatoes. Boy did we all get tired of those meals fast.
Well I started out at a young age since my mom had to work quite often and I usually made Hamburger Helper or pizza. But as I got older and got married, I started experimenting with making things from scratch. The first meal that I ever cooked that was not in a box was Homemade meatloaf with macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes. It turned out delish and I have been cooking home made ever since. I hate to make anything that came from a box nowadays! Have a Blessed day! :)
i was about 15 or 16 when i 1. cooked. i cooked eggs, at the end they were brown but my dad was proud of me.
8 years of age!
16 maybe
I was about 8 and I made carrotts, corn, and fried chicken (Well, I heated the fried chicken from a leftover meal!)
i was about six and the cards from my mom's "betty crocker recipe card file" started showing up. the dish was pork chops over canned yams and topped with orange juice and pineapple. my next was a pot roast recipe from my brothers cub scout manual. the rest is history.
ABOUT 10, AND I MADE SOME FRIED CHICKEN AND SALAD, NAMASTE,P.S. I MADE THE CHICKEN RAW
I was 8 .I used to have to watch my younger brother while mom went to work. I think the first thing I cooked was hotdogs!
omg, i think i was like 2 when i started helpin in the kitchen, 10 for my first entire meal from start to finish. i love my memories of learning to cook w my grandmother :)
Some time in the early days of high school. I hung out with a group of guys and we played canasta or some such game one night a week ... only thing our card playing interrupted most of our dinner schedules. One night when it was time to play at my house, I got the bright idea of making all of us something to eat ... spaghetti with just about everything I could find to put in the sauce. Being teen age boys, we thought it was the BEST. If I remember correctly, my mother was horrified at what I had concocted. The idea caught on and every one of the guys in this group started making something on those nights when we played cards. This continued until graduation. I wonder what happened to those guys. Like most kids after graduation ... very few relationship are carried on after that final walk down the high school steps. I only have one friend who has lasted all these years but the last time I physically saw her was in 1960 but we have remained in touch. She lives in California and is a grandmother. My !! ... how time flies ... seems like ... only yesterday.
I started cooking since i was 6, i started doing desserts
I would have to say 5. I started out in the kichen with my grandma. The good oh days.
I was 7, I think. My mom taught me how to make a big pot of beef stew!
i was 10 and I made fried chicken and kraft mac and cheese....