/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11796312
ive always wanted to try those

>>11522406
bastard

Alright /ck/, I only rarely lurk here when I'm bored and hoping to find something worthwhile but I'm finally fed up to the point where I'll just go ahead and ask myself:
How the fuck do I learn to cook?
Everything I've made has been an absolute disaster. The only things I can reliably make are pasta and rice (only via rice cooker though), and even then I forget to salt the water half the time. I once accidentally lit a wooden spatula on fire. I'm unable to sautee or anything like that which requires guessing a good timing and stuff. The only exception to all of this is baking pastries like muffins or whatever, since everything is so precise in those recipes with exact timings and amounts, and I can do everything at my own pace and not have to worry too much about keeping an eye on it, plus they're usually just a simple "mix and heat" type deal. And also, I already know someone's gonna say "the only way to get better at it is to do it more often" but that's not gonna work for me since I'm not made of money that I can spend on ingredients I know I will waste and time I can better spend. What the fuck do I do?

Went to meet my slim, qt3.14 gf's family for Easter. They were all morbidly obese rednecks who spilled food all over themselves while they ate. She and I were the only people there without double / triple chins. It was like watching animals at the zoo.
Then they handed out Easter eggs that contained $1 scratchers.
Not devastating but still disappointing, and now I don't find her as attractive as I did two days ago.

>>9276052
Came here to post this, OP is a massive todger with no class.