Do BAs like to cook?

Being able to read a recipe well is very important. I sometimes mix different aspects of recipes when it's something I haven't made a enough times but I know what I want for example taking the crust from one pie recipe and the filing recipe from another.

 

That, I'll remember! Thx!

 

Love to cook, love to drink beer!

 

I LOVE cooking, but also prefer baking. I'm certainly not pro at it, but I really enjoy good food (and good beer with it). I have staple meals that I like to go back to over and over, but I also enjoy trying new things.

I normally get meal ideas from: FoodGawker, AllRecipies, Pinterest, random Google searches, or cooking with other poor college friends. I'm slowly getting used to just throwing things together and coming out with something good. Also getting better at estimating cooking times, or improvising with what I have. Thankfully the boyfriend is slightly older, so he has more experience with cooking. He's slowly teaching me some of the stuff he knows.

 

One thing that can force you to cook is to join a Co-op share through a farmers market. You will get items (either meat or veg depending on what kind you join), and often you'll not know what to do with them?

Often they'll have suggestions on how to cook the items, or even have recipes, or you just find something online so that you know how to say... use sorrel... or prepare an arm roast.. .etc.. Plus it's a good way of buying local and supporting local farms. Sometimes they are good other times it can be a bust, I've had both good and bad.

It costs a little more but it can be worth it, and nine times out of ten the produce is way better than the regular supermarket.

 

Sounds like the TV show Chopped. "Here's a basket with some random ass items. Make me something delicious or you're kicked outta the show."

Whenever I watch the show I'm like "Oh, that's easy! Just do this and this." but when I am presented with random items, I run away as fast as possible. Hahaha.

 

My cooking involves grilling and using the smoker. I don't mind doing meals in the kitchen but I prefer the grill and smoker. Pizza is alot better on the grill than in the oven!

 

I think your logic is correct, people that seek out and make interesting food probably translate this into drinking beer. I have a friend doesn't like to cook and orders the exact same thing every time he goes to a restaurant, guess what he drinks, Coors Light!

 

I absolutely love to cook and try new things. I'm usually the one planning out the food items when having a get together with friends. There's nothing better than good food, good company and great beer!

 

http://drinkwiththewench.com/2011/1...imperial-stout-bacon-chocolate-chip-pancakes/

This looks pretty amazing. Bacon Chocolate Chip pancakes (w/ bourbon maple syrup!) paired with some KBS (or any other bourbon barrel aged imperial stout). I will definitely be making this very soon!

 

No.

Just eating.

 

Love barbecuing brisket, ribs, or pulled pork on special occasions.

 

I absolutely love to cook. I have been cooking professionally for 6 years now and have a desire to open a restaurant/brewery for a hobby after I retire one day. Anything that requires a refined pallet(Cooking, libations, cigars, etc.) I have been actively engaged in for the pure enjoyment of the crafted use of flavor profiles. Living in Washington I have been lucky enough to have amazing breweries local along with many superb restaurants.

 

I love to cook, I did it professionally for 14 years and now I just do it for fun. I use to do the wine food pairings but now (last 6 years) I've been trying to master food to craft beer pairings. I smoke my own bacon with appleword and red peppercorns and I found that great lakes Edmond Fitzgerald goes perfect with it, add some smoked Gouda and well damn you have your self a party!

 

Yes we do. Some of us even get paid to do it.

 

did it for a living for 10+ yrs when I was young. Now I do it for enjoyment.

 

Although I like to cook, most of the time I'd rather drink and let someone else cook. And I can attest to the fact that drinking more beer makes food taste better. Putting the two together, if you drink alot, let someone else cook. And don't drink and try to follow a recipe. Especially a complicated one. And oh yeah, if you're going to drink and cook, chop everything up before you have too many. As my 6th grade shop teacher told us, ten fingers to a customer.

 

The term "restaurant industry" covers everything from Mickey Ds to five-star gourmet establishments and covers everybody from dishwashers to owners. Quite a generalization I would say especially seeing the results of the poll so heavily favoring one side.

 

I really do not see my statement as being as that much of a generalization. I think you will find plenty of people who like to cook that have no interest in good beer, I don't think that is a stretch.

If we want to further the discussion of the term restaurant industry, lets remove the production line "food" assembly workers and focus on trained culinary professionals. Based on my acquaintances and personal experiences I really do not see a direct correlation between preference for the finer culinary experiences with a preference for better beer. Of course it will happen but I do not think it is a given or even dramatically increases the odds.

Now let me address the poll. The poll and the thread is not set up in a way to provide an accurate portrait of BAs and the better beer drinking community. The poll only portrays the feelings of those who viewed and voted in the thread. I would imagine a number of BAs who have no interest in cooking would have no interest in even opening this thread let alone contributing to the poll. This is a worthwhile thread and poll but lets be realistic about what it really represents.