Rate your own cooking!

[renovation]

If I had to rate myself as a cook it would be not great-between a 3-4.
I can cook a hamburger, make a chili, do up a steak or pot roast. But if its a full meal from scratch forget it! So easy meals I'm ok with, but if its a sauce meal or a Thanksgiving feast then I leave the kitchen to the wife. :)

[shaggyucla]

I think you need to got an unbiased opinion of your cooking. Send me samples and i would be more than willing to help you out :lick:

[GraingerGuy]

I think I'm a pretty good cook. I would say 6-7....do well on taste...just not so much on the presentation part. My food is kind of ugly...:)

[Maarchk]

I would say a 2? I can follow a recipe book but i'm slow to do it all. I can make a great breakfast or bake really well but i never really make meals on my own. Hmm something to definitely work on.

[oblongmelon]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.

[johnnymk]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.

nm

[brainsmile]

awww... and she's a hottie too :P

[Apex]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.


Wait, lemme double check.

Nope, still don't have my dinner invite. :disa:

[DarkFury]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.
We need physical proof of this...

So what time is dinner? :lick: :D

[Markel]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.
If I could just get IBM or Endicott Interconnect to require my services on site....

[oblongmelon]

If I could just get IBM or Endicott Interconnect to require my services on site....
Do those places even DO business anymore? I swear I never hear of anyone working there anymore!

[Markel]

Do those places even DO business anymore? I swear I never hear of anyone working there anymore!
Endicott Interconnect is very busy (I think they've inherited most of the business that IBM was doing). I was just working with a customer there yesterday to get their software reinstalled. Unfortunately, it is something I could resolve remotely.

[uncledaddy]

I would give myself a solid 9. And my grilling is awesome.

What can I say? I'm from Guam and that's all we do. :D


If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.

Mouth's watering, when do we eat? :dinner: :D:

[BlueTriangle]

can we get some pictures of the dishes? mmmmm yummy

[DarkFury]

can we get some pictures of the dishes? mmmmm yummy
Pictures don't do this justice.

Only a personal TASTE test will do!!!! :dinner:

[Paymaster]

My skills are high, but my creativity is low. Give me a good recipe and I will nail it, but give me a few basic ingredients, and you will get a blank stare.

[The Happy Squirrel]

strong 8 taste and presentation is good but i tend to lack diversity i know how to make many things well but enver really do. there are a handful of dishes i stick cuase i never think of making the other things unless psecifically askd

[ray]

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest), I would probably put myself at 5. I am really good at the dishes I personally like eating, but I would suck if I had to prepare a variety of dishes for a handful of people.

[Napoleon54]

I'd give myself a 7 or an 8, mainly 'cause I have good intuition with food. For simple things I just toss stuff together and it always works. For complex dishes I usually look at a few recipes to get a general idea then put together something of my own using substitutions for ingredients I don't have at hand. All of my cooking is from scratch.

[Napoleon54]

If 10 is the highest then my cooking is a 15. Yes..it IS that good.

y'know, modesty is considered one of the most admirable virtues. :rolleyes:

[gwilks98]

I'm ok, I can make tasty stuff with little to go on. I'm no chef, so maybe a 5 or 6.

However,

1/4 cup br sugar
1/4 cup sweet paprika
3 tblesp black pepper
3 tblesp coarse salt
1 tblesp hicory smoked salt
2 teasp garlic powder
2 teasp onion powder
2 teasp celery seeds
1 teasp cayenne
1 package of chicken thighs (skin removed)

Mix ingredients together and rub onto chicken. Grill until liquids run clear. Use charcoal, no gas.


that's the one recipe where I'm a 10. best BBQ chicken ever.

[zenbooty]

Its easy to be a good cook when you love to eat. I'm not picky!

That being said, I do a badass Irish fry. And no one can touch the stuffing recipe Ma passed down to me.

[gear02]

Where does suck fall in the rating scale?

I love to cook, but I'm relatively bad at it because I can't experiment well and recently I'm beginning to think that my food's tastes become muddy. I really just muddy up the flavors.

[DarkFury]

y'know, modesty is considered one of the most admirable virtues. :rolleyes:


<humming...>

They say I'm cocky, and I say What?
It aint braggin' motherf'er if ya back it up
They say I'm cocky, and I say What?
It aint braggin' motherf'er if ya back it up

<humming...>

[oblongmelon]

y'know, modesty is considered one of the most admirable virtues. :rolleyes:

I AM being modest.

[BigJon]

1 to 10...I'm a 7 or 8.

[sourdough]

Cooking or baking? I can't cook, but my baker is %$#@&*! unbelievable. Thanks in part to my superior yeast cultures, of course. :)

[Maarchk]

Cooking or baking? I can't cook, but my baker is %$#@&*! unbelievable. Thanks in part to my superior yeast cultures, of course. :)

I love sourdough. He pops up from time to time and makes the world taste better. Where is his nemisis French bread at?

So who is going to give cooking lessons? I'll fly out for that.

[Napoleon54]

One of these days (hopefully soon, by necessity before the weather gets cold) I'd like to make my own sourdough. If I remember correctly from what I read a while ago, you take a bowl of water, add a little sugar, cover it with a cheesecloth, and set it outside on a breezy day. In a day or two, yeast from the air will collect in it and start to grow. That's the old-skool way of starting sourdough bread.

[Paymaster]

You would think that this thread would bring Emeril Lagasse (http://www.gotapex.com/members/emeril-lagasse.html) back out of lurking...