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setting every thing on fire when I try to cook
can anyone tell me why the fuck is it everytime i cook it ends up on fire or blown up in my face i mean oce i even set my poptart on fire wtf?
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Well if you are catching your poptart on fire it could be the electrical wiring, or maybe you leave it in too long at a higher settings then you should have it on for cooking poptarts. You should keep thinks at a medium or low temperature and keep your food almost always moving. If your cooking meats or rice you should put a cover over it to lock in the moisture and the heat in, so you'll cook the inside before you burn the outside. Happy Cooking!
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Well I can honestly say, there's nothing wrong with you. You just don't know how to cook which is normal for a lot of people. This just means you need to start reading the directions on packages and following recipes until you feel you can cook without them. But you have to start at the basics, and I mean learning all the different measuring spoons.
Trust me, cooking can be really fun when you do it right. All you have to do is start out slow. And speaking of small, your pop-tart caught on fire because you were either cooking it on a very high temperature, but I'm sure you used a toaster, which means you left it in there WAY TOO LONG. But everybody makes those silly mistakes. I started a fire in my microwave trying to cook a Lunchable.
So start by learning the basics, and work your way up from there. If you don't know where to start, try going to your public library and find as many books as you can about cooking and make sure they have a few pages dedicated to cooking terminology and ho to handle knives.
In the event that you do not want to take my advice, just find cookbooks that look appealing to you.
I sure hope this helps.
~Andrew~
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Your probably cooking at to high a temperature. Experienced cooks and chefs can cook over high heat though it requires their constant attention.
Cooking is not something we are naturally born too, it is a learned experience. When we cook, even if it is putting a Pop Tart in a toaster you are playing with fire. Be it a gas or electric stove the heating elements are hot enough to ignite things and cause a fire so you must keep a constant eye on what is cooking.
Try cooking at lower temperatures, use meat thermometers to judge when meats are done. As for the Pop Tart use a lower setting on the Toaster. If the tart is not done when it pops out put it back in again and monitor it. You can manually pop it from the toaster if you think it is going to start burning.
Food cooks better at lower temperatures. Higher heat is generally used to sear meats so as to retain juices. Once the meat is seared you reduce the flame under the pan or put the meat in an oven safe dish and roast it in the oven.
When I first started cooking I burned a lot of food as I tried to copy the chefs on TV. Today I can cook like the chefs on TV but it has taken many years to prefect my techniques. When I am cooking, especially on the stove top, I never leave the stove unattended.
There are two reasons for this. First I have learned why not too. Second: as a firefighter I have had to extinguish more kitchen fires than I can count. Each and every kitchen fire has been the result of unattended food cooking on the stove.
The moral of this is: If your going to cook something, even if it is a Pop Tart. Make sure you have the time to be in the kitchen and watch what is cooking.
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I should watch the heat (gas or electric) settings and keep your eye on the food for a while yet. True, people DO just 'bang stuff in', look and walk away and magically come back just at precisely the right time to turn it/take it out etc. It's not magic, or natural 'flair for cooking' at all, of course. It's EXPERIENCE. Keep going, keep your eye on the ball and treat a few cremated dinners as 'collateral damage' (as the army say!) while you're learning. You might not ever want to be a 'chef' type and cook for entertainment and enjoyment. A lot of people just learn like this, by trial and error, enough to get by. Try your very best NOT to burn the house down though, eh? Banging something in, forgetting all about it and going out with your mates and leaving an empty house...you do not wanna go down this path mate!!
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It sounds as if you may need some cooking classes. Perhaps some YouTube tutorials?
If it makes you feel better, my dad put a can of soda in the microwave and it almost burnt down my house.
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