I have decided that I will learn to cook.
Reasons:
-it is a skill I will need for survival once I leave home
-it will stop me from filling up on chocolate when I am home alone and hungry
-it will mean that I don't just have to eat raw vegetables as a way of 'healthy eating'
-it will show my parents that I am becoming an independent individual
I will start by practising to crack lots of eggs.
I have never actually cracked an egg properly. I always overcrack them, or undercrack them and then crack them again and then end up overcracking them.
This results in:
-raw egg bits going on my fingers
-egg shells going into the dish
-or the whole egg missing the dish and going on the benchtop
I can use the toaster and the panini press though.
I am also quite good at chopping, but just really slow.
I can also boil pasta without any problems, and add pasta sauce too.
Frying pans are a bit of a problem.
I reckon it's just the frying pan and eggs that are the problem. It makes me look and sound like I'm no good in the kitchen, but actually it is not true...
But then again, I've never actually cooked a proper meal all on my own. And I have never cooked rice before, ever - not even in an automatic rice cooker.
There was one time at camp, I was given the task of making rice (I think they assumed I knew how to make rice for some reason?). No matter how many times I rinsed the rice, the water was a foggy white colour and unclear. So I washed it probably like 40 times over and over until the water was somewhat transparent, and then got told off that I wasn't supposed to rinse it that much and that the water's supposed to be white. So they took over from there.
