Random poll about cooking

[salinea]

Poll #6485 cooking

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Do you know how to cook

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I know how to use the microwave, does that count?
0 (0.0%)

Only very basic stuff, you know, pasta, boiling eggs, frying meat
11 (35.5%)

I can do a handful of meals reasonnably well
14 (45.2%)

Yeah, I can cook elaborate meals of various kinds easil
4 (12.9%)

I'm a cooking champ
2 (6.5%)

How did you learn how to cook

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Helping out my parents / other family members cooking as a child & teen
20 (64.5%)

Reading the back of foodstuff boxes' instructions
18 (58.1%)

Recipes books
24 (77.4%)

The same way I learned everything I know: I googled it
21 (67.7%)

I took classes
4 (12.9%)

I learned from someone else than family
7 (22.6%)

Watching TV
13 (41.9%)

Trial & error, for SCIENCE!
14 (45.2%)

Asking for people's advice on the internet
6 (19.4%)

Special snowflake (please explain in comment)
0 (0.0%)

Do you have a kind of cooking that's your speciality?

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Vegetarian food
5 (20.8%)

BBQ & fried meat
4 (16.7%)

British cuisine
0 (0.0%)

Italian cuisine
7 (29.2%)

French cuisine
0 (0.0%)

Middle-eastern / North-African cuisine
2 (8.3%)

East European / Russian cuisine
1 (4.2%)

Sub-Saharan African cuisine
0 (0.0%)

Indian / South Asian cuisine
4 (16.7%)

Thai / Southeast Asian cuisine
3 (12.5%)

Chinese cuisine
0 (0.0%)

Japanese cuisine
1 (4.2%)

Mexican / other Latin American cuisine
3 (12.5%)

Salads
4 (16.7%)

Anything sweet: deserts, pies, cakes, pastries, etc.
9 (37.5%)

Roasts
1 (4.2%)

Fishes & seafood
0 (0.0%)

Stir-fry stuff
8 (33.3%)

The kind of meal where there's a lot of things cooked in a delicious sauce
2 (8.3%)

Special snowflake (please explain in comment)
3 (12.5%)

Is there any ingredient/condiment you couldn't cook without?

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That thing, how do you call it, salt?
17 (65.4%)

olive oil
17 (65.4%)

lard
0 (0.0%)

cheese
5 (19.2%)

garlic
13 (50.0%)

shallots / onions
9 (34.6%)

paprika / bell pepper
0 (0.0%)

chili pepper
2 (7.7%)

soy sauce
5 (19.2%)

ketchup
1 (3.8%)

tomato sauce. Real ones, not ketchup
5 (19.2%)

mustard
1 (3.8%)

vinegar
4 (15.4%)

butter
7 (26.9%)

cream
1 (3.8%)

alcohol (whether wine or rhum or whatever)
1 (3.8%)

parsley
1 (3.8%)

Something else I unforgivenly forgot (please show me the error of my way in a comment)
2 (7.7%)

What is best in life?

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Rice
7 (23.3%)

Bread, pasta & other stuff you get from wheat
14 (46.7%)

Corn / Maize
0 (0.0%)

Potatoes
5 (16.7%)

Sorghum
0 (0.0%)

Quinoa
1 (3.3%)

Beans
1 (3.3%)

Another kind of starch / staple food I forgot about (please explain in comment)
2 (6.7%)

If there is one piece of advice about cooking you'd give to any would-be cook, what would it be?

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(I no longer have a paid account on LJ, so you'll have to go to my DW mirror to take the poll. Sorry for the inconvenience)

Comments

[salinea]

Me too! But it's based on wheat so I didn't include it :)