Originally Posted by
KukriKhan
If you have zero experience cooking, but want to learn to fend for your self, I recommend starting with breakfast. It's the simplest meal to prepare (and some folks say it's the most important meal of the day), and will introduce you to the kitchen, the stove, pots and pans, and utensils.
Start with bacon and scrambled eggs.
Cooking (with fire) is all about planning ahead. You don't want to be in the middle of having something in the pan, over a hot fire, and suddenly realizing "Oh, I need this thing, or that! But I can't stop paying attention to this pan and fire right now! I might burn down the house.".
So, looking ahead, assemble near you:
a small fry pan
a spatula
a fork
a plate
a piece of paper towel
a small bowl
2 eggs
4 slices of bacon
1 slice of your favorite cheese
Start with the bacon (cuz it takes longer): heat the fry pan up to medium heat (should take about 15 seconds); put in the bacon slices. After about 1 minute, flip the slices over with the fork. Wait another minute, and flip 'em again. Repeat a couple more times, until the bacon looks like the crispiness you like.
Take the bacon out of the pan and place them on the paper towel to drain. Turn off the fire under the pan.
Crack the eggs on the rim of the bowl (this takes a little practice, if you have never done it before; but you'll catch on quickly), and pour the contents into the bowl. Stir the eggs up with the fork.
Heat up the fry pan to medium heat, and pour the eggs out of the bowl, into the fry pan. It makes a pancake-looking thing in the pan, and the outside edges start to curl up a bit.
Take your spatula and break up the mass of eggs, and stir them around in the pan, until you see no more "shine" on the eggs. Turn off the fire.
Using the spatula, lift the eggs out of the fry pan, and onto the dish. Add the bacon, and put the slice of cheese on top of the eggs.
Sit down and eat.
Clean up all the stuff you used (or at least soak them in water in the sink, so they are easier to clean later).
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