Member Advice on Learning To Cook

One of the many things you'll probably have to learn at uni (if you don't know already) is how to cook. When I say 'cook', let's be under no illusions. I don't mean fancy haute cuisine, I just mean you have to be able to feed people, or at least yourself. Obviously you'll be trying to do this on a budget, but if you don't eat properly you'll soon be too run down to party anyway, so I'd make sure you get a proper diet, even if it means cutting back on beer money. Absolute basics like sandwiches or beans/cheese on toast, toasted sandwiches and the like can do for the occasional lunch or snack ... more

I would just like to write a review on learning to cook, although I don't claim in any way to be an expert! It is just that I have seen various ways of doing it, so would hope that some of my wisdom (no jokes please!) would be passed on to others. In doing so, I will break it down in to more manageable chunks. How does one learn to cook through paying for it and what are the advantages or disadvantages of doing so? Well, of course the most common way that a lot of people will learn to cook is through going to an actual cookery class. But of course, cookery classes don't really run that often ... more

After the first few weeks at university, it dawns on most people that they actually have to fend for themselves. This is usually accompanied by the realisation that you know all of the staff by name in your local takeaway and that you actually don't have the foggiest idea how to cook things for yourself. Now I'm not going to tell you how to cook anything per se. A-true-ben has written another opinion in this category which does just that, so I'll be offering some general advice on how not to kill yourself and others in your new student kitchen. Now, Hygiene is a word that you should at least ... more