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I am all about the cooking. Nothing makes me happier than to see people enjoying the food I prepare. I eat a little, but rarely do I sit down and eat a full meal after I have presented it.

I feel the same was as joyyy. Although I want to say both I know deep down I'm really an eater since I mostly cook so I can eat the things I really want.

My first thought was both, but really I love to cook to see my friends enjoy what I've made. I love to plan and create a holiday or party meal. Very often on nights when I'm alone I'll have a piece of toast or a bowl of yogurt, and that's all I need.

I don't know if you can really love to cook until you REALLY love to eat.

Both, but I'm perfectly happy to cook things for other people that I don't eat much of myself (except for tasting, which is usually part of the cooking.) If I was only cooking for myself, I'm sure my cooking and presentation would be much simpler.

Eat. I'll cook because it leads to food I want, but if someone else wants to cook for me, I have no complaints.

Cook. I love food, don't get me wrong, and eating an amazing meal is, well, it can be life changing. But for me, eating takes a back seat to being able to provide that life-changing moment for others. If you can do that, you can whip yourself up an amazing meal anytime, right?

Cooking--which makes it hard now that my children have grown up and moved from home. Nothing gives me more pleasure than planning and preparing a big meal. I start working on Christmas somewhere around Labor Day!

I love to eat, and in order to have the food I love eating, I need to cook. Example, if I would like a tasty bowl of chicken soup, I refuse to open a can of Campbell's. I have to make it myself, as I love eating a steaming bowl of homemade chicken soup. My family is very happy I love to eat, as they know what to expect when they come to visit. I cook for my family, but is is a result of loving to eat and secondarily sharing the good stuff with my family.

Of course I love to eat but I tend to love to cook more and most of the time don't even eat that much of what I cook. I cook for my husband and daughter and really prefer their reactions to my cooking over my own.

I love to cook. My love of cooking came from my love of eating at first. It has evolved into my love to feed people. My family always comes first, but times are rough for many and sometimes a home cooked meal is just the thing to brighten their day.

I love both and don't quite get the concept of loving one and not the other. If I just loved to eat and not cook, then I'd be at the mercy of outside sources whenever I wanted something tasty to eat, and correspondingly, if I didn't love to eat, why would I want to rattle all them pots and pans? I mean, I love to cook for other people, but I'll usually go to just as much effort when I'm only cooking for me. I'm a firm believer in "Tonite Lucelllus dines with Lucellus."

Both!

I cook a lot I don't eat as much as I cook and I often cook things I don't like. Cooking and baking are my art form. So I cook therefore I am. (this also holds true for shopping lol)

Both equally , but neither under pressure - time or otherwise.

And I like to cook alone - I can lose my focus too easily with others watching.

Eating. I enjoy the zen and creativity of cooking, but when I eat out the food is much, much better than what I can cook

Embrace the power of "and" -- this is not an either-or question.

Now that I've thought about it, I've got to say that a lot of my cooking is also based on my desire to recreate something that I'm craving. When it comes to sweets, though, I might be perfectly happy with creating it and tasting it and then I'm done. I've satisfied the cooking and the eating cravings, and I end up giving the rest away.

And sometimes I make things just to see if I can. So that's just about cooking/

I do love to eat, though. And honestly, there are times when I'm hungry but there's nothing worth eating, and I'd rather be hungry until I can have something that I really want to eat.

I grew up in a non-cooking household. My interest in food began as a desire to get healthy, improve my sucky athletic performance and enjoyment of my body, and general disgust with my addiction to junk food--or not so much junk food, but sweets.

I am single, so I don't have lots of experience cooking for a crowd, and as other have observed it's not as much fun cooking elaborate food for yourself.

I would say what I enjoy the most is selecting good food that is good for me, but I don't really have enough cooking experience to put cooking first. The people around me have such different tastes whom I would cook for regularly it wouldn't be that much fun to cook for them--my father likes really oily, cheesy, fishy food and is the type to pour a half a jar of Costo mustard on something before he tastes it, and loving food means eating a lot to him, and that's not the type of eater I wish to go back to being.

I guess I am a selfish eater, since my health is the number one priority in my cooking and preparation.

Yes.

Both, but really its eating. It makes me sad that there are so many of you that don't take the pleasure of eating the great food you spend so much time and energy preparing. I understand the satisfaction of cooking for others (I like it too), but why miss out on the additional enjoyment of eating it yourself? I don't think I'll ever understand this mindset, just like I'll never understand people who don't like chocolate or dogs.