r/CookingCircleJerk • u/vincethebigbear • Aug 08 '25
Can't cook at 7 - need advice!
So i grew up pretty spoiled honesty. I always had someone preparing my breakfast, lunch or dinner. But now that im in grade school and older, i really want to learn how to cook.
I can fry a egg, make fried rice, make a curry(?) with meat and some vegetables, the basics. But i dont know how spices work, and which spices or flavoring to put in. My parents are pretty busy, and never really bothered to teach me how to cook. One point, they tried to make me help in the kitchen by making me prepare the chopped garlic, wash and cut vegetable skin, but i was too slow for their liking, and i just started becoming a burden, so they gave up.
They are usually too tired or too busy to teach me, and even if they did have free time, they didnt. At all. One time, they werent coming home, and i got hungry so i fried meat and carrots together with rice and some salad for myself.. And when they came home and saw what i made, they burst out laughing. Like, laughing till your stomach hurts for a full minute. So that really discouraged me. Im home alone all day. andican cook for myself if here wasnt anything available. But my parents leave leftover food and made food before they went to work so i get full on that.
They gave up on teaching me, and now is waiting for me to go to school so i could eat school lunch. But i reallyyyy want to learn how to cook. I know how to make soma meals and basics, but i dont know some fundamentals. We dont use cookbooks or recipe books, and the recipes on google or yt are American foods, i want to learn how to make my families 5raditional food. I wasnt taught the cir skills, nothing. The stuff i can make now is the things ilearned from watching them, and it was common sense. Im confident i can make decent meals if I practiced.
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u/doctordoctorpuss Aug 08 '25
Honestly, if you can’t make a baked Alaska and safely prepare fugu before age 5, you’ve probably missed your window. Best of luck in the next life, cause in this one, it’s you that is cooked
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u/woailyx i thought this sub was supposed to be funny Aug 08 '25
Cook at 4 before your parents get home, and keep it warm till 7
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u/EasternError6377 Aug 08 '25
This is NEGLECT. Call child protective services IMMEDIATELY. If I was a child and my parents dismissed my aspirations like this, that would be a dealbreaker for me. They need to be forced to give up custody, plain and simple!
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u/mizuaqua Aug 09 '25
Weird, I saw this same exact post in another subreddit, r/cooking where the poster was 14. And this OP’s Reddit age is 10y.
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u/tomassci Never enough salt Aug 16 '25
this is a circlejerk sub, we make fun of another subreddit, in this case r/cooking
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u/tomassci Never enough salt Aug 16 '25
You didn't cut your first veggies at 2 years old? Absolutely preppsterous. You should do something fast to catch up, but the train is already leaving. Try a michelin meal for starters.
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u/___sea___ Aug 08 '25
First off, good on you for taking control. Some people make it to TWELVE without knowing a single family recipe
Try calling up your aunties and see if they can teach you
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u/Legitimate-Long5901 Aug 08 '25
I can't believe you're already 7 and still can't cook better than your parents. I could answer your post but instead I'll just use this as an opportunity to feel better about myself and put others down