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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I appreciate the replies.  Actually, I can cook a fairly decent meal.  I make a lot of chicken dishes; chili; stir-fries; do a good roast; flank steak; know how to make Thanksgiving dinner and have been doing it for years on my own; can make a simple cake, brownies, etc.  I always contribute to potlucks.  (Okay, hold the applause.)

[b]The point of my post was more that sometimes I see recipes that use terms that I know are not appropriate for beginners, or use several steps in tandem that I know from experience would cause a beginning cook to take hours to execute.  Or that would cause confusion.[/b]
That's all.  [/quote]

Well, thanks for the PSA on behalf of all beginning cooks out there [b](of which you are not one).  [/b]But perhaps they know that there's this handy function on your computer called Google, and you can use it to look up unknown terms.  Sometimes it even can be used to access simple instructional videos.  [/quote]

Well, apparently I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. If I am a beginning cook, I'm to be cursed out because I have the audacity not to have learned to cook which is a life skill everyone must have.  If I am somewhat competent, well, how dare I speak up on behalf of beginners.  What a nice bunch you experienced cooks are.[/quote]

OP, I think you're confusing a "beginner" recipe with an "easy" recipe.  For a beginner, any recipe beyond cut-and-boil is likely to be difficult and time-intensive.  That's how it works, and how it's supposed to be.  That's how you learn.  So, if I was approached by a novice cook who had no real interest in getting better at cooking, and just wanted a one-off recipe for a particular occasion (for example), I'd give him an easy recipe.  If I was approached by a novice cook who wanted to improve, I'd give her a beginners recipe.  Make sense?[/quote]

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