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I want to learn how to cook...but how to overcome one's fear of facing the ingredients?

I admit I'm scared of holding raw things. I also pity the animals. I can't even look at fish or chicken heads.

😅 I need a lot of help on this one.
BlueVeins · 22-25
Here is my recipes list.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oZengrqjSvESOSPRtU8-qIZeLWfyLhpy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105972850557649712119&rtpof=true&sd=true

Most of them have some raw ingredients, but no animals at least. Are you afraid of raw vegetables? What's the trouble, exactly?
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Casheyane How about raw nuts?
Casheyane · F
@BlueVeins Raw meat haha XD I have no problem with veggies or fruits. But the best meals seem to include meat.
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Casheyane Oh, OK that makes a lot more sense. Try my vegan recipes! Do it! Really, just open one up and make it. Animals deserve to live, and you deserve to be able to cook stuff in comfort.
Vinkyma · 18-21, F
Well luckily half the meats coming through stores are lab grown so technically it isn't an animal. Think about it that way! I used to hate touching raw ingredients but the outcome always made me persistent to perfect my craft.
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Vinkyma No they're not, lab grown meat is extremely expensive and rare. The meat on the shelves is almost always from a factory farm; the animals suffered horrendously and were killed.
Vinkyma · 18-21, F
@BlueVeins The lab grown meat is not rare at all. There's some brand of chicken now that don't taste the same. The meat just feels different. But ykw now that I think Abt it, my original comment wouldn't have helped anyway because she also has a texture issue
Allow me to say I have cooked many a chicken in my life and not once has it been necessary to deal with a chicken head.

Use disposable gloves (that aren’t powdered or lubricated). Or just put your hand in a baggie. Or both.
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
I don’t like touching raw meat. I wear gloves

I would never touch a chicken head or feed or fish head
Casheyane · F
@Jenny1234 You get me haha
DrWatson · 70-79, M
Maybe start by baking bread. The bread can include nuts, if those do not bother you as raw things.
Casheyane · F
@DrWatson I can bake :) But am not a cook haha
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@Casheyane I am the reverse. I cook, but I hardly ever bake.
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
Start slow
If you have Pinterest you may want to start with five ingredients or less recipes they've got quite a few good recipes on there.
Pretzel · 61-69, M
maybe start with filets?
Discretion · 41-45, M
Try nitrile gloves
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Get yourself some disposable gloves, like the kind deli people use. And when it comes to meats, buy the ones without the head.
Lilnonames · F
Buy foods that are precooked and not raw

 
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