cooking vs baking

anyone else LOVE to cook and hate baking? I would cook at any moment, any day.... baking, no interest, its too slow for me!
(or vice versa... any bakers out there who don't like to cook?)

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I love to cook, hate to bake. I hate to bake for so many reasons
- measurements must be exact
- 1,000's of ingredients all have to come out onto the counter and they usually all make a mess (powders and things)
- the clean up is greater than cooking for me
- I have no patience to bake, let cool, then decorate - I just want it done!

I do it all the time and am good at it, but I do not enjoy it at all.

Cooking for me is theraputic. I will read a recipe online then go in the kitchen and cook it. I use my judgement, add a little this, omit that.... making soup (the art of chopping) is by far my favorite thing to make. I love to gather my fresh ingredients from the fridge and chop chop chop. Simmer and adjust seasonings. I clean while I cook so that by the time it's done, I have bare minumum to clean.

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I cook because I have to, I LOVE to bake. I get enjoyment out of the finished baked product and bringing it to someone's house and seeing them get happy over it and watching them enjoying it as they eat it

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I am a MUCH better cook than I am a baker. I only bake once a year, Christmas time, with my mom. The rest of the year, the baking is left up to everyone else.

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I like both. I don't like to bake cakes though, neither DH or I are cake fans. I like to bake pies, breads and cookies.

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I'm more of a cooker. LOVE cooking. I want to get into baking more, and I do bake sometimes, but definitely better at cooking.

I agree with what the other poster said...with baking it's so messy. I dont have the patience sometimes, and you have to be EXACT! Cooking, I throw a little of this, a little of that, and make the recipe my own.

I want to get into baking more and I'm going to bake different cookies Sat to bring to DH's uncle's Sunday.

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i love to cook.

not really a fan of baking. i tried to get into last year but its just not for me.

i do like my perfect brownie pan.lol

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Much more of a baker! Even my best dinners are somewhat baking related :
BAKED ziti
Tomato Tart
Chicken Pot Pie etc

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I love cooking because I just feel so much more ability to change things and modify and get creative. i find baking to be a very stringent art and I don't work as well in that medium.

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I love to do both.. but I am more proud of my baked goods than my cooked goods.. I think cooking is relatively simple and its an art.. each person is perfectly capable of making a wonderful dish with their own twist and turn.. but baking is a science, so more thought, more effort.. atleast to me..

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I prefer to bake. I'm not much of a cook!

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I am a much better baker than I am a cook....my husband asked for steak when we first got married, and I said, I have no problem making you a cake that looks like a steak

I never thought I could cook until recently. I just have to build up my confidence, and I have to follow directions to the T....I look at them like a hundred times!

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I love to cook but not so much bake. It is not that I dont enjoy the process of baking. I just don't llike all these baked goodies lying around the house eying me all day. So when I do bake, I bake healthy lowfat, whole wheat, multigrain etc. Atleast I feel better if leftovers lie around. Overall anything that calls for a stick of butter or more will not be baked in my house.

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I love to bake. I really don't know how to cook that well, so I don't really enjoy it like I want to.

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my aunt is like that. she hates baking, i think my mother secretly does too and that's why she always pawns the baking off on me. i don't care, i love to do everything.

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it's weird because i think i've changed in the past year... i used to LOVE to bake but then when I started to cook more, I now prefer it. I like to make a nice special meal on Sundays and invite my parents over to eat. I do enjoy baking too, but just find myself liking cooking more. For instance on thanksgiving I cooked 10 different things and then just took the easy way out on desserts (mrs. smiths pies and cake and cookies from bj's!)

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I love to cook. I don't mind baking once in awhile, like around the holidays or if I have free time on a weekend. But I don't bake a lot. i'd much rather cook. DH loves to bake. I think it has to do with him needing a recipe and following exact instructions. I like to be able to use a recipe as a guide and change it how I please.

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I'm more into cooking, but I love eating baked goods. There's a saying that cooking is an art and baking is a science. I think that's why I like cooking more- it's more forgiving when you screw up

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I'd much prefer BAKING over cooking..any day!

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I'm glad I'm not the only lousy cook on this board!

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I prefer to bake because it has to be precise. I am a terrible cook because I am just not creative with cooking.

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definitely prefer cooking... I don't have the patience required for baking!

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I love both but I hate the clean up for baking!