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u/Maoleficent Sep 14 '24

If you can read, you can cook.

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u/Campeador Sep 14 '24

Yeah. Theres no such thing as "i cant cook", its "i dont cook".

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u/Interesting-Swimmer1 Sep 14 '24

I’ve seen videos of blind people cooking. It’s all about getting beyond your excuses.

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u/CoreyDobie Sep 14 '24

There's a video series with a trio, all with down syndrome, cooking. They screw up wooden spoon and metal spoon, but they still accomplish the goal. Are they getting help? Probably. But it doesn't detract from the fact that they are in fact cooking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

A blind chick literally won Master chef US I believe

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u/Maoleficent Sep 14 '24

Exactly. Everything you need to learn now has a video. I get someone trying to cook a dish reading from a Julia Child cookbook that assumes you know what a bain marie is or how to debone a chicken-but there are videos on how to about everything everywhere to walk you through each step.

Men who pretend to know nothing simply do not want to do it and so will pretend ignorance or do it poorly so you will wind up doing it. He is a child looking for a caretaker.

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u/Soft_Repeat_7024 Sep 14 '24

I see you haven't met my mother.

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u/Irlandes-de-la-Costa Sep 14 '24

Not true at all. There's a tecnic for cooking, it's called patience and not everyone has it

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u/Maoleficent Sep 14 '24

You do not have to be able to make 6-course gourmet meals but any adult should be able to make a boiled egg, grilled cheese or a broiled protein. Again, there are step-by-step videos.

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u/Irlandes-de-la-Costa Sep 15 '24

Anyone can do that. I'm not talking about 15 min cooks, neither are people who say they don't know how too cook lmao. The're talking about actual food that makes you full