When you first learn how to cook you will probably have a disaster or two but remember everyone has to start somewhere and even those who have been doing it for a long time have their occasional disaster. Never let this put you off cooking, always have another go and whatever went wrong, work it out and learn from it.
Try something simple to begin with so you can learn to understand how a recipe works. See if the people you know or your family members have something you can borrow which is not too complicated. Try looking in a book store or on the internet for simple recipes.
Start with boiling water if you have never cooked before. Turn the heat up and down and this will give you a feel of how the stove works and how things which are cooking can boil over very quickly when they are not watched.
This is important to know when cooking other things like vegetables. There is usually a time needed to cook something through, and there will be things that will cook quickly and other things which will be much slower. Knowing how long something takes to cook is another important step.
If you were planning on boiling eggs, soft boiled takes about four to five minutes from the time the pot starts to boil, while a hardboiled egg will need about eight minutes. Vegetables are usually cooked when they are soft this may be anything from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Practice is another thing, the more you practice a recipe the better you will get at it. Knowing a few simple tips can also help like wiping the inside of the frying pan with a little oil so that what is being cooked will not stick to the bottom. This is also needed when cooking a cake or biscuits. When cooking in an oven, preheat it first then your timing should match that of the recipe. There are many simple tips like this which can save a lot of problems.
Remember when you start make it simple, have another go if it turned out a disaster and try to work out whatever it was that went wrong. And practicing will help you to become a good cook. There should be some sites on the internet you can look up so do a little research on those tips and check to see if there are any simple cooking games you can start with and try the local book store.
