What is one food you just can't cook?

[Danmel]

For me, it's pancakes 🥞. I'm a pretty solid home cook and make a very wide variety of food. Pancakes elude me.
How about you?

[True Dough]

1. What is it about pancakes that confounds you so?

Is it the flipping? Do you pre-heat the pan enough and let them cook sufficiently before attempting to flip?

[MiHale]

2. Deep fried Snickers bar...

3 years on and I still find caramel spots on the ceiling…please no further details…

[PJMcK]

3. Baking

Baking is fundamentally chemistry. Specific amounts of ingredients, specific temperatures a timings. I just don't get into it because I'm impatient.

I can cook pretty well and I love to try new recipes but baking eludes me.

I truly admire good bakers.

[davsand]

4. I can't roast a turkey that I want to eat once it's done.

I've tried different methods and every time I end up with dry meat. I can, however, do a turkey breast in the instant pot and it stays juicy. Turkey is my personal Waterloo.



Laura

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Scrambled eggs

The pan's not flat, it's too hot. I wind up scraping them off the bottom.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Popovers! 🤬

[BigMin28]

7. Fried chicken

I can bake anything, but I can't fry chicken properly to save my life.

[quaint]

8. Rice

Daily I eat it too dry and hard, too soft and mushy, never just right. Otherwise, I can cook!

[NBachers]

11. I got a Zojirushi fuzzy logic Japanese rice cooker and never looked back. It's expensive but well worth it.

The ultimate set it and forget it. Perfect brown rice every time. I can either cook it right after I get home from work, or I can set it and let the timer come on to be ready at a pre-chosen time when I get home. Plus, the nutty aroma of cooking brown rice is delectable.

I gave one to my brother as a gift and he has commented several times since that how much he loves his too

[House of Roberts]

12. Zojirushi fuzzy logic Japanese rice cooker

I dare you to say that real fast five times!

[surrealAmerican]

9. I don't deep fry ...

... so any food that requires deep frying.

[IzzaNuDay]

21. same here

I tried cooking fried chicken, wasn’t good at it. Later tried beignets. Not a chance. Salmon croquettes, falafel, they suffer under my hand.

[mwmisses4289]

10. Beans.

I have tried every method that I know of, and still can't get them to cook right. So I just do canned beans, easier and more likely to get a meal on the table, lol. 🫘🫘🫘

[NBachers]

13. Eggs over easy. For years, I've been on a campaign to buy every expensive pan in hopes it would work for eggs over easy.

I won't buy Teflon, so that's out. I always end up with a gloppy mess failure. it's disheartening.

I've recently got an Emnura pan and a hand-sprayer that sprays olive oil in a fan-shaped pattern. I actually cooked perfect eggs over easy a couple of days ago. This looks encouraging.

[QED]

14. Gravy

Not a big fan anyway.

[Marthe48]

15. Homemade pudding

The kind you mix up and cook in a pan on the stove. I can make custard, either boiled or baked, but my attempts at homemade pudding have failed.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. Any food that needs to be prepared in some way.

[Boomerproud]

17. Almost everything.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. I can make "Bread for Dummies" (the rustic no-knead kind with 3 ingredients)

But the real soft white bread or dinner rolls, mine always turn out dry and hard. I can bake just about everything else. Not sure about pancakes because we don’t eat them.

[2naSalit]

19. Liver and onions...

Because I think it's one of the most disgusting things you could put in your mouth. I wouldn't touch it with gloves on.

I know how to cook it, I just refuse to even consider it an edible substance.

[rsdsharp]

20. Gravy. I can cook damn near anything, but gravy eludes me.

If we’re having gravy, it either comes in a jar, or somebody else makes it.