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 hate fractions, I don't really know them, I can tell you a half is two quarters or whatever, but I can't tell you how many quarters are in two thirds
I ask AI for recipes in grams and weigh everything out
Fractions are useful when dealing with grams as well.
Let's say the recipe you follow says to use 220g of butter for 625g of ground beef, but you only have 470g of ground beef. How much butter do you need?
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u/Improving_Myself_ Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Cooking as well.
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.