| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/9/2007 4:26:50 PM | | MMM I think it's absolutely Erotic to cook together! There's so much opportunity for physical contact someitmes must force yourselves to stay focused! To tantilize and savor the meal is just to build the excitement! But... if my guest doesn't want to "help" I certainly don't mind being watched either... a dance, indeed. I have no problem sharing at all.... :)~ my kitchen, that is! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/9/2007 5:53:58 PM | .
Nah . . . let ‘em laugh at how I do things, I don’t care. As long as the food comes out pretty good, that’s all that counts. Who cares if I may be just a little unconventional? 
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/9/2007 11:59:09 PM | If I'm cooking, I zone out and don't like to be bothered. You can watch but don't bother helping me. I don't know why that is... | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 2:54:40 PM | Don't just stand there staring, cut up these veggies!
Seriously, watching is fine-- but I'd much rather you pitch in... unless I'm making something special for someone special-- but then I'd have it ready by the time they arrived. (Or cook it while they enjoyed a long bubble bath.) | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 3:24:10 PM | | I hate being watched in the kitchen. People always want to push you out of the way so they can stick their nose over a pot to get a smell, they watch your ingredients like a hawk, and you know full well they're not allergic to any thing, and they do indeed let all the steam out of the pot of rice sitting on the back burner. Burns my biscuits every freakin time! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 3:24:18 PM | | Not at all. i enjoy it in fact. i concider cooking a multi-media experience. Doing your all in a kitchen to make the perfect meal, is as important to entertaining as the food itself and the conversations at the table. | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 3:25:34 PM |
MMM I think it's absolutely Erotic to cook together! There's so much opportunity for physical contact someitmes must force yourselves to stay focused! To tantilize and savor the meal is just to build the excitement! But... if my guest doesn't want to "help" I certainly don't mind being watched either... a dance, indeed. I have no problem sharing at all.... :)~ my kitchen, that is!
I couldn't agree with you more. bon Apetite | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 4:06:15 PM | | Frankly, I enjoy being watched and having company while I'm cooking. As long as I have a nice glass of wine at easy reach, I think that it's kind of fun to have someone join me for the preparation and I'd rather have them watch than have them try to help. | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 6:48:03 PM | Someone coming in and lifting the lid on a pot, without knowing what is cooking, has to be one of my biggest pet peeves. Do it when I'm cooking rice or chicken and dumplings and you're liable to get hit with a rolling pin!!! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/10/2007 6:59:24 PM | | i could let them help but i have a problem when you see them a few days later and they say how did you cook that.............meal every time i try i get it wrong and i wont let you cook in my kitchen if your a guest in the house | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 12:29:15 AM | That's a great analogy! Cooking is like dancing. My family cooks together. Everyone gathers in the kitchen. There is always a use for an extra pair of hands.
One year my dad and I were on holidays at his brother's house (my uncle) and we had a ceasar salad challenge. Find a different recipe every day, get the ingredients that day, prepare the salad. It was never a one person event. Everyone joined in after a few days. Sometimes other people even took the lead. It was fantastic! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 12:41:46 AM | | I HATE being watched while I cook! I can cook some things pretty decently, but I'm still a little iffy about my cooking techniques and I feel like someone is critiquing me in their mind while they watch me cook. It's especially bad when my parents watch and worse when they're in the kitchen making something as well. Half the time they watch me stir something and then they go in there and stir it again like I didn't do it good enough the first time. Or my mom will do this thing where she should be stirring whatever it is she's making but instead she just sits there staring at me like she's waiting for me to do something wrong while she holds her spoon. There has been times where whatever she's making has burned because she didn't stir it and once she melted a plastic sponn because she held it still against the bottom of the pan while she watched me make my food! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 2:15:51 AM |  We've all burned a plastic spoon but that's the first I've heard of it being done that way!
Reading the rest of this thread.... Wow, does it ever remind me how far I've gone since I enjoy cooking alone now and I was taught it almost as a group sport. It can be especially special with one you love. But initially you almost have to learn by watching and doing, a bit at a time. Cooking is such a sensory-filled experience that it is almost impossible to describe in just mere words to some one learning to cook.
I know I wouldn't be able to cook as good today if I wasn't eased from the watching into the doing phase. Specifically with doughs and pastry techniques. They're extremely tactile.
But cooking with many people used to be fun to me and now most of the time it is not. Last year I had my mom over and we did have a lot of fun making homemade tortilla dough and deep frying chimichangas and making soft tacos/burritos. I turned the little rolling pin on my wood lathe like Rick Bayless shows in his TV show just to be able to make those just like the mexicans do. The fresh beat the socks off the cardboard, half stale flour tortillas you buy at the store. Very basic recipe, too, but its definitely labor intensive.
Sometimes I really get in the mood and make a show of it. Fun to see the look on some one elses face and eyes when you flip a bunch of food out of the skillet and it flies through the air and lands back where it is supposed to!
I did one that amused and baffled even me the other day. I had just put a pat of butter on this huge ten inch wide hash brown going in the skillet. When I flipped it the hash brown flipped but the butter went up and came down on the top side. I could never do that again if I tried! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 2:44:13 AM | Whew... I didn't think there were many people who didn't like to be watched.
Personally, I don't really like it. I'll put up with it, but it takes me out of my zone. And plus, I would rather my guest(s) see the final big picture so to say. Same goes for when I put my make-up on haha. (not that I can't go without it)
It's odd though, since I LOVE watching the Food Network and watching other people cook. And I tend to take over someone elses kitchen too if their cooking... isn't that terrible? haha | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 5:46:49 AM | Having someone watching means that they can tell me if whatever creative ingredient that I feel like adding would disagree with them.
I tend to try new things on the fly when I'm not cooking something for the first time.
(Ex: Last week I added rice steamed in water and a bit of hot sauce to my Mexican food, and it was quite yummy, but someone else might not find it appealing.) | |
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Posted: 11/11/2007 6:13:33 AM | cooking is a group activity in our home.
more friends more to delegate!
who is watching? it is too busy there for watching... I'll give you a chore!
my 5 year old neighbour loves to bake... we bake cookies about once every two weeks.
if there is no one here to spend that bonding time with in the kitchen, then there may not be any food prepared.
the dishwashing machine does a great job of the dishes! | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 6:33:06 AM | I believe it depends on WHO we're talking about may be watching. I do not like guests either distant family or friends 'watching' me grill or cook in the kitchen. I seem to get off track with my thinking & the food is not as tasty :) However, on the other hand, if it's a hottie there in the kitchen...watching, it wouldn't matter lol
Finally, if its my main squeeze & I cooking together, I really enjoy it. Or if she would be cooking & I come to...help. Over the yrs. & thru the women (sounds like a Christmas song...) I always loved 'assisting' my woman in the kitchen - knowing full well how HOT things would always get. Turn the burners down...way down - back in an hour :) | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 7:02:11 AM | | Yes, it bothers me to have someone watching me cook. Either they can help or get out of my kitchen...What bothers me even more is when someone is in my kitchen trying to help out and cook and they don't "wash" their hands before cooking or wash the veggies or whatever...I'm a clean person and I clean as I go and I hate someone who cooks and gets it all over the place.....I'd rather cook in my own kitchen "ALONE"...lol.....if I have a SO and he wants to help it could get exciting and romantic in the kitchen..Nothing wrong with spicing it up in the kitchen. But, other than that,,,Stay out of my way in the kitchen...:-0) | |
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 2:37:26 PM | Watching while I am cooking, no way, you better get to work too.
Actually, I love to cook in company. Few years ago, I had three families in my house for Christmas. We were four women in my kitchen / and it is not too big one/ and had the most fun ever. Every one of us was cooking different dish and we had good time.
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| Does it bother you to be watched?
Posted: 11/11/2007 3:15:50 PM | Being watched doesn't bother me at all but if you stay too long in the kitchen, you'd better be prepared to help too!  | |
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Posted: 11/11/2007 7:39:31 PM | | I flip back and forth on this....I love talking and chatting while in the kitchen....but I ultimately work alone. My room mate ahs clearly pointed this out to me as I am the resident cooker! She always asks to help and asks how I want it done....this is usually appreciated and when I decline her offer she understands! Whne I am at work with the kids I love to have them with me in the kitchen because it is a a great opportunity to get them talking and to teach them how to cook and clean up! | |
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I LOVE being watched.
... mouth starts watering and conversation flows until we ready to sit down and get "cracking" 
