I do not know how to cook

[afuna]

And I have been scared to learn, so I am determined to do so at some point in this next week.

So far, I have:

• cut carrots (it looks easy! I did not realize it was possible to do it horrendously badly! But I did it anyway! (both the cutting and the horrendously badly!) )
  
  
• cut chicken into chunks (across the grain. or the, the, whatever you call the texture. I think I scared people with my knife. BUT. I did it anyway ahaha )
  
  
• mixed chicken in the thing you coat it in before cooking (in this case, dab of rice wine, black pepper, sesame oil, soy paste. Then some corn starch afterwards, to keep it tender, I think (sesame oil on my hands smells so very good) )
  
  
• rejoiced over not yet wrecking dinner \o/
  
  

PS. Have not yet touched the stove.

Comments

[zarhooie]

I am proud of you for learning to cook! Learning to use a stove is hard if you don't have any experience. I *highly* recommend learning to cook scrambled eggs and omelettes before you do anything more heavy-duty (like meat) on the stove. Eggs are a great learning tool because they're cheap and finicky. They can be sort of tricky to do, but if you fuck up it's ok, because they're cheap! Once you've got the scrambled eggs down, try an omelette. There are a thousand techniques for omelette-ing and most of them are online. Find one that you're comfortable with, and go for it! If you can't find one, ping me and I'll youtube mine. After omelettes, go for the whole egg stuff (over easy, broken yolk), and after that? THE WORLD.

<3 Let me know if you have any questions, hun.

[damned_colonial]

Hey, this is great advice! I am going to steal it for the next person who asks me for learning-to-cook tips.

[afuna]

I made eggs I made eggs I made eggs \o/

(Thank you for the suggestion <3)