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Both, but maybe baking a little more. I always feel like I have no idea what I'm doing when a recipe says to "season to taste". Why can't they just tell me how much?! haha
DH and I bake a lot. We do game nights with friends quite often, so we keep our oven busy baking up goodies to snack on.
I enjoy cooking, but it feels more like a chore that's satisfying to accomplish, whereas for me baking is fun. I love the science of it and knowing which kinds of batters should have what texture, measuring out ingredients, the amazingly flaky and delicious pie crusts DH and I roll out...it's all good.
I Love both. However, I prefer tasting my baking :)
I usually dont follow recipes for baking. I am excited that I am to a point where I can just make stuff up. For cooking I can do it sometimes but it does not always turn out right if I just make stuff up. Also, we dont eat meat so it makes it a little easier with cooking recipes....
I actually just finished making banana pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and pumpkin chocolate cupcakes. :) SO FUN! I will freeze them and take them to work Monday (if DH and I dont eat them all) :D
I like cooking for the process of it, and baking for the final results. I have a serious weakness for carbs. LOL
You need an option for "I am pretty terrible at both!" My poor hungry husband! But at least I try!
I always thought of myself as a decent baker until I met a girl who has a serious skills. she was talking about methods that reminded me of high school lab experiments, only delicious. I'm talking about distillation, the weird properties of sugar in it's different heating states, etc. never before had I realized how crazy precice and complicated baking can be. it truly is a science.
and then on top of it, she would take her delicious creation and decorate it like martha stewart, and serve it on some crazy cool vintage cake stand / tray/ etc. I bow down before her as baking queen.
although I am only on the novice level of baking, I love it way more than cooking. and my apple spice cake is loved by all.
I genuinely love both!
Cooking together and inventing dishes is one my husband and I's favorite past times. I love it because everything we cook inevitably becomes some form of Asian fusion because of me. Unless we're making an ethnic dish even then we always put our own spin on it. We've yet to ever follow a recipe, we always switch things up.
I love baking because it's just so comforting. Again here I've gotten to the point where I don't follow recipes. I'll usually alter it to taste or change because I just know something in the recipe is not going to work. And I ALWAYS use unsalted butter no matter what the recipe calls for.
I'm actual the only dessert lover out of the two of us. But baking entails much more than just sweets. It's always a challenge to me to find something new to make my husband each year for his birthday. This year I made him a apple pudding pie with a crumb topping that he LOVED. I know he loved it because he wanted it again the next night! He has no sweet tooth whatsoever, I don't know what's wrong with him.
I'm dying to take a bake decorating class!!! It just always get pushed to the back of my priority list. I can frost and pipe but that's about it. I would love to learn how to make sugar flowers, fondant, etc. I know I can learn at home by myself but I want to learn from a pro the right way.
we're definitely on team cooking! we don't eat dessert that often anyways, so baking doesn't happen much in our home anyway. dh does most the cooking though, so really, he's on team cooking and i'm on team eating.... lol
I am 100% a cook, not a baker. I hate being precise, but I love when things sizzle on the stovetop. I have ZERO patience for baking (bake for an hour?! what is THAT?!) and can't deal with how precise it is. I also don't have a sweet tooth, so on the rare occasion I bake, I make things like oat bran muffins that are pretty much unpalatable to anyone who isn't me.
I love both (and I like to think I'm pretty awesome at both). Before I moved in with my fiance I used to do quite a lot of molecular gastronomy when showing off but all he really wants is a huge steak!
I'm not a big fan of baking.
I like cooking. I love that I can tweak recipes, or make up my own recipes, and I don't have to worry about chemical reactions. I also enjoy the combinations of herbs and spices, colors, textures of food.
Also, I like savory more than sweet, baked goods have more sweet options than non-sweet/savory.
I love both! I used to be all about baking, but in the last few years I've really really come to enjoy cooking as well. I don't like super complicated recipes (either baking or cooking), so for baking, I usually stick with brownies, cookies, bar type treats, or cupcakes/muffins. I do like making pies as well. But anything requiring any sort of fancy equpment is just not gonna happen.
I like both, but probably cook more than I bake. I do really, really enjoy baking my own bread from scratch! That's fun! I don't make many cookies/pies/sweet baked goods though. As much as I would love to, my thighs don't need 'em.
I love baking and tolerate cooking. It is funny because people will drive eight hours for my cooking but pass up my desserts. Go figure!
Both! I love having people over and cooking for them, but anywhere we go I have baked goods with me. :)
I love both but baking has the edge because I LOVE being precise! My family makes fun of me for following recipes to the letter (as in, I measure everything and hardly just toss something in) and baking pretty much fits my personality. I can be creative yet still measure everything out.
@LGenz: haha, yes! That's my issue too. And a "pinch." For a while I had no clue if my pinches were enough so now I just add like, 1/8 of a tsp and call it a day. lol
Oh baking! I love it with all my heart! haha. I always follow the recipes but add my own twists to it too, so it is more "me". I have thought about taking some classes so I can do it professionally one day, I just love it! Cooking is so so to me, my fiance loves it, I don't mind it, when I get to experiment more, but for every day cooking, I'd rather not.
I really like both, but I would say that I really love baking. I actually find it to be a good way to unwind because it keeps me very focused and I can just throw myself into it completely!
I was horrible at both until a few years before DH, when a roommate, also a passionate baker (professionally) taught me to make bread. Hooked. DH taught me to cook. He is an AMAZING cook!
I'm more of cook, I've rarely baked. Thankfully, FH is a great cook and baker.
for some reason. I freak out about germs when cooking, but not when baking! I know it makes no sense- raw eggs can be just as bad as raw meat, but, I guess that's what labels me as a baker!
cooking is fun and an adventure.... baking, for me, is buying a box of cake/muffin/brownie mix.
I am so much more a cook than a baker... I am making a pretty care bear cake for my daughters birthday party (tomorrow) But im using boxed cake mix... As long as it tastes good right?
I enjoy both but cooking can seem like a chore sometimes, especially when I get home after a super long day. Baking, and the results, seem more indulgent so more fun. But it's way easier to fix a cooking mistake!
I love both!
Once you learn the basics of baking, you can ABSOLUTELY tweak recipes! I have a basic yellow butter cake that I use to make coconut cake, lemon curd cake, various stuffed cupcakes, and an amazing dulce de leche. Likewise, I have a great carrot cake recipe that can become a zucchini bread or apple cake with a few changes.
Find one cake recipe that you love or at least are comfortable with. Don't subtract anything, just add flavors to it and see what happens.
@Miss Longcoat: Do you mind PMing me the receipe, that Dulce de Leche sounds to die for.
Baking is a science, cooking is an art! I can't bake worth a crap, but man can I cook!! :)
I am definitely leaning more towards baking then I do cooking. But I like doing both. To me cooking is more savory and baking is more sweet. At least the savory, I can eat it more so then I can the sweet. Even though I have a mean sweet tooth. Just that it is really hard to bake in small batches.
I'm the same way as you. I love to cook, but baking doesn't do much for me. I think with cooking I enjoy the sponteniety of it, adding a dash of this here and there, but baking is so methodical and kind of boring to me.
I love both, but I'm a much much better cook than baker. Cooking is very instinctive for me, baking I have to work at...but to agree with a PP, baking is very comforting for me. I don't bake sweets, though, mostly breads (loaves, cheese buns, biscuits, with the occasional banana or zucchini loaf thrown in, and a mean caramel apple pie during the holidays). DH has no sort of sweet tooth, so more often than not, things like cookies and cakes are wasted on him (and my waist expands).
i love love both, but i'm definitely the baker. i am not super precise however, and in fact, i'm always modifying recipes. i've rarely had something turn our horribly though. baking does often require more steps and wait time/patience than just cooking. but then again, i am the world's slowest chopper and i hate having to do all that prep work. whereas in most cases, i tend to have most of the ingredients on hand for, say, whipping up a batch of chocolate chip cookies. and i loooove making crusts! the hubs is def better on the stovetop sometimes than me. he has his "standards" and can just make something off the top of his head, but I'm always consulting recipes.
I used to prefer cooking.... then I met the Mr. and he cooks wonderfully, and loves it.
Over the past few years, I have come to adore baking - cooking is like a chore to me now, but baking is fun, relaxing.
Made a yummy pumpkin bread with spiced glaze this afternoon. =)
I am a professional chef, I have attended culinary school and have spent seven years apprentecing (that's right SEVEN years) under red seal chefs to earn the right to be called a Chef. I have owned and operated a full service bakery ( I opened it at the age of 23) until I sold the rights to it in 2008, and I can tell you from experience that anyone who can read can be a baker, in fact in the business we call baking recipies formulas (because of the exact nature of them, there is NO room for error when baking). I much prefer cooking to baking, it allows you to be creative and free. Every dish you create while cooking is an adventure; while baking is so very structured and formulas must be followed to the letter there is little room for experimenting. I love making pies and cookies but would much rather have a beef wellington in the oven than a batch of scones. :)
On a side note, Men tend to be better bakers because of the need to follow formulas. (They seem to like the structure and the science of it more) Most of the best bakers I know are men, while most of the best Chefs are women. Although there are of course exceptions to the general rule.
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Y'all, I freakin hate baking. I hate the precise nature of it , i dont like pounding dough, rolling, the excess of flour everywhere. How you have to wait for butter and eggs to be room temperature or whatever. The importance of salted vs unsalted butter for baking....I never got this.
I love to cook. I love just making creative dishes that allow me to throw whatever I have on hand into a pot. Unlike baking, I feel like if I mess up somehere I can always fix a dish or repurpose it for something else.
FI is definitely more of a baker ,he's just more practical and precise (aka less crazy) than I am and likes the science behind it all. He makes a mean banana nut muffin and apple crisp and I sure do eat it all. But I get so bored baking....
What about you?