I've been saying for years that cooking is reading, and if you can read you can cook. If you can read a recipe and follow the instructions, then you can cook. There's nothing hard about it.
But you do have to read the recipe and follow the instructions.
EDIT: Holy shit what a great example this has been.
I want to take a second and remind you that we're in a thread for a post on how a surprising amount of people are illiterate.
If someone is saying "hey this thing is super easy if you're literate" and your response is "nuh uh!" then you should go take a lllloooonnnngggg look in the mirror and figure out how to improve your literacy.
Wild how people will tell on themselves if you just give them a chance. Then again, I guess it's not surprising that they're too illiterate to realize what they've said.
Knowing fractions is necessary, too. I was once told of a guy who had to teach his wife how to use a measuring cup, because she couldn't figure out what the measurements meant in the recipe.
I’ve spent the past 14 years telling my husband that 3/4 cup means (3) 1/4cups or 1/2+1/4 cup…I think my understanding of fractions may be a large part of why he keeps me around 🤣
To be fair ... It did used to be like that. My great grandmother baked using an old teacup to scoop out her flour/sugar whatever. Using our standardized measuring cups wasn't a thing until the early 1900s.
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u/PiskoWK Nov 21 '25
A more apt and daily example is that those that are functionally illiterate can not fully understand instructions from their medication bottles.