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Originally Posted by RangerJoe
I'm kind of confused on whether or not this was supposed to come across as being rude. I'll say it wasn't. Less trouble that way. (;
Some people can cook, some people can't. I'm one of those that can't, no matter how hard I try. Now, baking is another story.
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If you can bake, you can cook. Good cookbooks help a LOT. So does practice. Cooking does take technique, but technique can be learned and practiced, just as cooking method can be learned and practiced (and then expanded upon). There are plenty of cooking shows on television that show what good technique is, and there are cookbooks that demonstrate it (for instance, Mark Bittman's
How to Cook Everything: The Basics. And if you don't have cable television, these cooking shows are easily found on the Internet, and the cookbooks are available at the library (I recommend
Joy of Cooking, anything by Mark Bittman, and
Cookwise by Shirley Corriher, especially if you like to bake, as Shirley goes into the science behind the method).
Anyone can cook if they're willing to learn and if they're willing to put the effort into cooking. Now, I understand that fried chicken is an intimidating dish, but there is an easy alternative: Roast it. You don't even need a roasting pan. All you need is an oven, a decent meat thermometer (for safety reasons), and a cast iron skillet.
But we wouldn't take this challenge in my household, simply because my SO is vegetarian, and I don't cook meat at home. As to luciferase's comments about vegetarianism: I am a proud omnivore, and I enjoy a good steak being such, but vegetarianism is a way of life with a number of health benefits, not to mention the comfort one has knowing they're not contributing to the
confined animal feeding operation racket. When I do eat meat, I choose it conscientiously because I don't want to continue to promote the CAFO system (KFC uses CAFOs to raise their chickens and/or buys chickens raised in a CAFO). The environmental effects of such operations are profound; such CAFOs create enormous amounts of pollution and waste that must be dealt with. We get by eating a significant amount of legumes in our diet, and neither my SO or I have had any problems with protein deficiency or anemia.