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Question of the Day: Are you a baker or a cook?

Do you spend more time flitting about the oven or the stovetop?

23 Comments:

cook for sure. My christmas cookies are a mess!

a cook. i am a horrible baker. my mom used to own a pie company and i most certainly did not receive those genes! i find rolling out dough to be extremely difficult!

I'm both. I learned to read so that I could make chocolate cupcakes when I was six. Baking was my forte when I was a kid, but I can make anything now except sugar arts like blown sugar. I've just never tried or been taught sugar art although I have a fantasy dessert book that could teach me, I suppose. It's just dangerous, touchy and difficult, that's all.

Both...what's a meal without dessert?

A cook. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so I'm not really into dessert. And I find measuring spoons, flour dust and cleaning the electric mixer to be tedious in the extreme.

Love that fire! Gimme a saute pan, I'm happy! Maybe finish in the oven. My wife, however, will bake just about anything. Hates the stovetop.

A cook for sure. Although I am trying to learn to be a baker too. I baked my first cheesecake from scratch this summer, which turned out great. Now want to tackle a homemade carrot cake. Any good recipe suggestions?

Cook. I think it's waaay easier cooking than baking. I did make cookies last weekend and I thought it was too much work.

I used to be more of a baker...now I think I'm more of a cook with a little baker thrown in for good measure! I do bake at Christmas, and various times throughout the year...but I think I enjoy cooking more.

A cook, but I work as a baker right now. I used to despise baking but now it is more of a love/hate thing.

Oh, both - I bake a lot more when it's cold out, though.

A cook. I've tried baking with varying results in the past, but with only 2 of us in the house, making baked goods--which are generally multi-serving--just seems excessive.

Cook, definitely. I proved that yesterday when my attempt at a country french loaf didn't rise, but instead became an amorphous mass that spread across the baking sheet. Cooking you can wing, baking you can't.

Both, but I think that in the deep of my soul I prefer baking...

Both! Actually I'm probably more a baker than a cook, because baking is all about following the recipe and I do better with instruction. As long as you follow the quantities and times and temperatures exactly the first time, and are willing to treat it as an experiment, because ovens will often vary. Then adjust as needed and hopefully the second time will be perfect if the first time wasn't! With a little patience it can be a lot of fun.

I often bake pizzas, biscuits and breads, but I much prefer cooking. Baking is way too precise for me, and I'd rather play with knives, herbs and spices than measure out cups of flour. Though kneading is lots of fun.

Cook. I can blame the elevation on the baking part, but truly I am just awful. I am however, the world's best batter eater (and yes I know it is not good for you).

While I do lots of baking, I feel I'm more of a cook myself. Unfortunately, I think my baking gets more wows though. But when I think of what I try to do regularly, it's usally heat on the stove.

Cook. Baking requires strange "measuring" devices that I'm not terribly familiar with. And close adherence to these "instructions" I hear the kids like so much. Baking also doesn't give up the sort of instant gratification that my gnat-like attention span requires.

No, seriously. I suck at baking. Unless roasting counts. Partial credit?

A cook who dabbles in ugly-but-yummy baking.

better at sweets but prefer the savory. go figure.

Both. I baked at 5. The easy bake oven was a joke I had a big oven. I cooked standing on chairs. There are pictures of me standng on chairs making the family saturday breakfast. I (as a young food bully) took over my mother's kitchen and barked orders at adults. No not like that,.......Take your time,......if you can't do it right just get out of the kitchen,......that looks like slop.
I still do not understand why someone didn't just smack the living daylights out of me. I would have smacked the hell out of a kid like me.

Baker! Bread and desserts. I don't like to eat it, but I love the precision and psychic sense of timing it takes to acheive repeatable perfection with so many variables. Thay may be why I like playing with chocolate, too. Cooking- I can throw together stuff that turns out tasty, but there's so much more leeway.

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