When did you learn to cook?

I started learning as soon as I was able to understand the instructions basically. By age 11 I was cooking meals, baking cakes/cookies etc. I love to cook! I started experimenting more with recipes & such when I was about 15 and was working part time so I could buy my own ingredients.
Now, I get cookbooks from the library all the time, watch cooking shows and anything I can think of to get inspiration for new recipes.

The age I am now Let's just say I'm a work in progress

cooking class grade 8. I loved cooking class. I really didn't use those skills until I got married. My Mom was a wonderful cook but would never allow us in the kitchen.

We had cooking classes in high school, but then my mom has also taught me so much, along with just trial, error and buying LOTS of fun cookbooks that help too

It can be a lifelong process! I love to cook, and I'm a firm believer that anyone can do it.

I started cooking in high school. My parents sometimes worked unusual hours, so my sister and I would make quick dinners for the family. We made very simple things (Hamburger Helper, anyone?), but it sparked an interest.

When I was out of college, I came across a book for people who don't know how to cook. It didn't have many recipes per se, but each chapter covered a cooking method and how to apply that method to various ingredients and/or dishes. I learned a lot from that book, and later on of course from "The Joy of Cooking". Later on I met my SO, who actually worked in a restaurant at one time, and we've learned a lot together. I'm not a great chef, but if I find something I like in a restaurant, I can often make it at home.

I still can't cook... I probably could if I REALLY tried, but I just don't enjoy it.

I'm still working on it. I hate to cook so I avoid it whenever possible.

I tried to help around age 3-4, but my mother was never one to let me help. My uncle, dad, and grandmother would, though, so I guess I started learning pretty early. They all took advantage of me being able to read at that age, too. They'd also make me do the stuff they didn't want to do... like peel potatoes or chop onions (5 or 6, then).

I started baking and cooking more complex stuff around 9 or 10. (mother was more depressed then, stayed her room more so I was left to dabble in the kitchen)

It's a work in progress for me too, I can cook some things but I have no patience and I burn stuff way too often.
I can cook pasta pretty well, also scrambled eggs and sometimes if I have a certain vegetable on hand but I don't know what to do with it, I look up recipes with it and follow them and they turn out good.

As soon as I could help...sometime around age 5 or 6 ... Papa would let me in the kitchen with him( lucky for me he was a chef ).. Grandma started teaching me about age 7 the basics .... I am just now learning to bake...

I also started learning as a child from my mother, grandmother, aunts, great-aunts, etc. They were all wonderful cooks. I had a class in junior high school, about 1963. I enjoyed that.

I still have my Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, circa, 1958. I remember making some things out of it and being thrilled with the whole experience.

I love to cook. Even more, I love to bake. But, I don't do it like a hobby. It's just part of life for me.

I tear out recipes from the newspaper and magazines. I have way more than I'll ever use. I have a lot of cookbooks, too. I like to read them. I read them more than I use them. I get recipes off the internet. I watch a few cooking shows (not many) and when I see there a recipe I'd like to try, I get them off the show's website. It's great to see the dish made rather than just doing it from a recipe. I think my hands-on family training helped a lot.

I'm a long time vegetarian, so I cook those kinds of recipes.

Robin

I helped mom in the kitchen pretty young esp with prep of foods for canning and freezing.
Had home ec classes from 7th grade all through high school (as well is sewing).
I was a nutrition/experimental foods mgr in college so more cooking.

Been doing it ever since!

As soon as I could stand on a chair and reach the counter, I was helping in the kitchen! When I was 3 or so, I would help my mom put cookie dough on the cookie sheets because she would use the table to load 'em up. I can't remember a time I wasn't helping in the kitchen, but I don't consider myself a pro. I do enjoy cooking and baking and like to try new recipes.

When I was in high school, I could make our pork loin dinner on my own. It took 1.5 hours to cook, and about 20 min to prepare, so my mom always wanted me to get it going by a certain time. My dad always said mine came out the best

I am nowhere near as good a cook as my mom, who makes her own sauces and can make the most delicious meals consistently. I can make a few, but have a long way to go. One day I'll bust open the Newlywed Cookbook I got at our wedding, but both of us are picky on some ingredients on things.

I'm a work in progress on learning to cook. Hubby compliments it all the time, probably because I'm his wife, but also because he grew up eating LOTS of hamburger helper and dry meatloaf. His mom isn't the biggest on cooking.

Seventh grade home ec. I think my first dish was instant pudding. I love to cook!

I learned to cook around the age 8.

I started at the age of 4 with help from Mom and my "Snow White" cookbook. My specialty was "Dopey's Breakfast Biscuits". I often locked horns with my HomeEc teacher because I had been cooking and baking for so long.

About ten or so? Been too many years, lol! My mom taught me the basics, learned a lot from her, and a lot over the past 20 years from my husband (who had three years of foodservice training in high school)... at this point I can do just about anything that he can do...when I want/need to....except decorate a cake.... I can write on one and do a decent border on one, but forget flowers!!!!!!!

well, i started baking sometime in my tweens, i think. i mainly bake - i occasionally cook something else, but not often. it's just me, easier to nuke something!

I started baking things like brownies, cookies, and lemon squares around 7/8. Christmas cookies were always a "thing" in our home, and I always got to help. But I still remember "learning" the lesson to use a knife to level a cup of flour, you don't blow on it!

I don't really enjoy cooking, though brownies from scratch are so good and so easy, I do make them a lot still. I went vegetarian in high school so made all my own meals - but didn't keep that up after college. Gary was always the chef in our relationship, and he's amazing. Sadly, he doesn't make many of our meals anymore. We eat a lot of stew, or rice- and noodle-based dishes, sandwiches and salads.

My mum always made everything from scratch so we've always helped in the kitchen from a very young age and just continued on from there.

About 3 or 4 years ago I started cooking on a regular basis.

I learned how to cook when I moved out of my mom's house about 6 years ago. She was always really weird about letting me use her kitchen back at home so she never really taught me. Once I got out on my own, I started reading a lot of cook books and watching cooking shows. Between all of that and the internet, I've learned to cook a lot now and I really, really enjoy cooking! I've also been given some really yummy recipes from my sisters that I enjoy making.

I think one of my favorite things about cooking is how theraputic and fun it can be. I especially love cooking when my nices/nephews visit! I love having them in the kitchen and teaching them how to have fun creating new recipes!

Really young..I remember when we lived in Kansas my mom slept in and me and my sister wanted scramble eggs and I was allowed to make them in the microwave but vetoed that idea and made them on the stove...and got grounded for it...That happened somewhere around 2nd or 3rd grade. I cook almost everynight but basically its the same stuff over and over again because there are only certain things I like and BF is uber picky...One thing I still to this day cant make is grilled cheese, I always burn atleast one side of them so BF always makes grilled cheese when we want it.

I make a mean homemade chicken noodle or chicken corn soup....speaking of which..I really need to get the stuff to make it we bought some from a fundraiser but it was horrible, it tasted like watered down chicken and didnt have any salt but ten tons of pepper in it...YUCKIE!

Everything I know about cooking and baking, I learned from my dear MIL, who is the best cook on earth. There is nothing that woman cannot do. And when I married her son, I think she thought he was going to starve to death unless she took me under her wing. So we made breads, we made cakes, we made cookies, we made pies. We roasted chickens, we did everything. She taught me so much and I will forever be in her debt.

My mom served meat and potatoes because that's what my dad wanted. If mom didn't feel like cooking, she made rice and we had it with milk and cinnamon for our dinner. She wouldn't let us in the kitchen because we would makes messes (but that's how you learn!) and she didn't want to deal with it. My grandmother could bake anything and she tried in vain to teach me, but I didn't want to be bothered. I wasn't going to get married and no way was I going to cook anything.

And when I took Home Ec in school? I got a D in cooking, my only grade below a B my entire life. Didn't matter; I wasn't going to cook. Not me. Ugh.

Well, I love cooking. I love the idea of coming home and dicing vegetables (anybody see that commercial on tv about that? For me, I really do.). I love creating meals. I love to feed people. I take satisfaction in cooking something that people love to eat.

That being said, I cannot make hamburgers to save my life. Or meatloaf. Or meatballs. I cannot get them to stay together. DH does a wonderful job, so whenever we have something like that, he becomes prep person in our kitchen. He doesn't mind.

I took over cooking dinner for my family every night at age twelve, so I learned to cook long before that just by having to help out in the kitchen. I used to bake cake, cookies and bread while I was still in elementary school.

I have always hated to cook. I cook just so I won't starve and never invite people over for dinner or something like that. I always feel like such a slave feeding other people, that's just the way I feel.

When I was married I did cook every night except Fridays, that was our night out. I learned some different meals from my MIL who was German and was a terrific cook. She taught me how to make the delish German gravies and I taught her how to make Italian sauce.

Now that I mostly just cook for myself, I don't kill myself in the kitchen. Now I have all the time in the world to cook since I am retired but I'm not going to waste time cooking, no way. I just don't enjoy it. I find other uses with my spare time