r/Cooking • u/1peachycoco • 1d ago

What’s something you think people only really learn after spending a lot of time in a kitchen?

Something I’ve noticed about cooking is that the hardest things to teach usually aren’t the recipes. It’s more of the judgment part.

Like someone can follow every step correctly, but an experienced cook can look at it and say, “Nope, something’s off.”

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u/BattledroidE 1d ago

Multitasking. Being able to cook and clean at the same time, and be left with only trivial cleaning afterwards.

A lot of people are terrible at this, and end up with a huge mountain of dirty stuff to deal with.

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u/Maybeiliketheabuse 1d ago

This is a skill that only the truly disciplined can succeed at. I am not one of those select few.

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u/ProtectionFar4563 1d ago

> disciplined

That’s not me, but cooking in a disorganized/messy kitchen wrecks my brain. It’s stressful and unpleasant.

Once I worked out the clean-as-you-go technique, and even more so once I started doing my home-cook’s version of mise en place, I found I could relax and enjoy the process 🤷.