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Old 17-02-2012, 00:23
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How old were you when you first cooked (using oven, hob or deep fat fryer)? And what did you used to cook?

I started frying sausages during school hols when I was around eight when parents were at work. Mum used to advise me to tie my hair up while cooking. I think sometimes perhaps I didn't cook the sausages for long enough and perhaps they were a bit 'rare' in the middle. But I thought they tasted fine and I didn't get ill!

Tell me about your childhood cookings. Or whatever age of your first cookings.
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Old 17-02-2012, 13:26
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I knew how to cook a couple of very simple things before I turned 10, but that was the age that I learnt how to make cheese sauce and everything else followed from that. Once you can do a roux, you can use that technique with loads of other things.

My mum worked full-time (divorced from my dad) and once I started secondary school, we didn't have a childminder so me and my older sisters would take it in turns to cook for each other during the week. I made my first roast when I was 12 or 13.
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Old 17-02-2012, 15:45
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I learnt to make a fried breakfast as part of a "Cub Badge".. can't remember exactly which one it was but it included sowing as well cooking. I was around 8 years old I think.
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Old 17-02-2012, 19:04
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I can't remember the exact age, but the time I was in early double figures I would lead my younger siblings in making Sunday fry ups for ourselves and parents. We would grill sausages and or bacon, fry eggs, have beans and if we were really good have plantain to fry as well.

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Reading that back it sounds reckless in respect of today's mores. My parents had coached me on kitchen safety.
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Old 17-02-2012, 22:00
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I knew how to cook a couple of very simple things before I turned 10, but that was the age that I learnt how to make cheese sauce and everything else followed from that. Once you can do a roux, you can use that technique with loads of other things.

My mum worked full-time (divorced from my dad) and once I started secondary school, we didn't have a childminder so me and my older sisters would take it in turns to cook for each other during the week. I made my first roast when I was 12 or 13.
Whoa, you made a cheese sauce from scratch aged 10?! Now THAT is impressive! I think I first did a roux when I was around 16/17.

My nephew and neice used to prepare and cook ham & cheese omelettes to perfection aged 9 and 7 respectively. The only thing I'd do to help was turn on the cooker and watch over them quietly. Never had to direct them in any way, and they produced the most perfect, golden, delicious omelettes possible.
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Old 17-02-2012, 22:19
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I tended to do more baking when I was little. In particular I remember making 'ginger and pickles oat biscuits' from a jemima puddleduck recipe book, and jam tarts
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Old 19-02-2012, 14:54
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Basic jam tarts.... which was just some pastry cast-off, rolled out and spread with jam and baked . Aww.

Then I progressed to jam cakes.... which was basically a kind of scone/rock-cake dough. You put a hole in each and put in a teaspoon of jam.
I used to make the mixture into 4 fairly chunky cakes.... and years later I remember reading the recipe again.... and it said "makes 12 cakes". Ooops
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Old 19-02-2012, 15:04
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Do chocolate rice crispy cakes count?
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Old 19-02-2012, 19:05
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The earliest thing I can remember cooking was boiled eggs on toast. I wanted to make breakfast in bed for my mum and dad as it was their anniversary. So, I crept downstairs early morning, put the saucepan of water on the hob. Then put the eggs in the water, timed it for 3 minutes, and put the eggs in the eggcup, on the plate with the toast. Went up stairs to give it to my parents.. and the eggs weren't cooked at all. I'd forgotten to turn the hob on

The next time I remember trying to cook we'd recently got an electric hob, with the old fashioned metal spiral rings that glowed orange when they were hot. I switched the hob on this time, and was waiting for it to warm up. Seemed to wait forever and the rings weren't getting orange. So I did what every sensible 8 yr old would do.. and slammed the palm of my hand directly on the ring to see if it was on. That hurt

The first successful cooking I did was making steak and chips on my dad's birthday. Not much to go wrong with there
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Old 19-02-2012, 19:09
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I used to make cakes and biscuits from about 7 and help my mum. I was about 10 when she let me do my first roast dinner, which funnily enough is still the thing I'm best at.
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Old 19-02-2012, 19:31
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I must have been around 10 when my grandmother taught me how to make cheesecakes (the buns), soda bread and vegetable soup
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Old 19-02-2012, 23:49
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can't remember when, but should be around 10 when i burned fried rice with sausages LOL
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Old 20-02-2012, 09:13
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Whoa, you made a cheese sauce from scratch aged 10?! Now THAT is impressive! I think I first did a roux when I was around 16/17.

My nephew and neice used to prepare and cook ham & cheese omelettes to perfection aged 9 and 7 respectively. The only thing I'd do to help was turn on the cooker and watch over them quietly. Never had to direct them in any way, and they produced the most perfect, golden, delicious omelettes possible.
Thank you. I was a cheese sauce demon (still am actually) with my favourite meals being Cauliflower Cheese or Macaroni Cheese so I had a vested interest in perfecting the technique. For the first year after I learnt, I must have had one of those meals twice a week!
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Old 20-02-2012, 13:56
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Do chocolate rice crispy cakes count?
Only if you were allowed to melt the chocolate yourself, over a saucepan of boiling water, not the microwave cos that's cheating!
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