Comments on: Kids Can Cook

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:05:55 +0000

I love to cook (especially in my backyard in my dutch ovens), and on occasion, my son has cooked with me. I’d never really given it much thought, as he doesn’t really have the attention span to follow a dish through start to finish, most days.

But to my surprise, one day I came home from work and he announced that he was making pizza. I looked, and there was the dough nicely rising in a bowl. In another bowl was the sauce he’d made from scratch.

I tried hard not to interfere. When the pizza was done, it was amazing! And his sense of accomplishment went sky high.

By: Tickie Young

Tickie Young — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:30 +0000

What better way to spend quality time with your child than to cook. You establish a sensory bond and a memories that most of us have…baking cookies or preparing something with a beloved aunt, dad, mom, or sister. The good feeling comes back each time we repeat the act. In the deep south, food is attached to feelings of love, nurturing and all things pleasurable and good. Time better spent in the kitchen playing in the pots than playing some violent digital game. provides a foundation for a value system to grow. Learning to grow your own food further enhances this process. You can teach so many lessons on just about anything thing informally with flour on your nose or pasta in the pot. Wonderful, constructive and humanizing in a society that fails to stop and savor the simple pleasures of life. and encourage back to basic in family relations.

By: wokstar

wokstar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:34:14 +0000

RG, you have a fabulous site! I just registered to get on your cooking forums. I teach Asian wok cooking, I won’t repeat what’s on my profile but I’ve had tons of parents who now cook with their kids in their woks and love it.

Congrats Maddie with your first post. I learned to cook from my mother and all my fondest childhood memories are of cooking with my sisters and mother!

RG, you are so right about all the points of “cooking with kids”, I also have a post on my site about this topic under TIPS. I know I learned to be tidy and methodical like my mom and dad from watching them prep and cook. These skills get transferred to everything I do. But I didn’t realize till I was older.

By: ray

ray — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:57:58 +0000

We buy dough from the local bakery and my son then builds his own pizzas, learning how to grate cheese, use herbs, puree tomatoes in the blender, using a hot oven etc etc. and then loving what he made for him and us. He is 13 years old and loves cooking.

By: Natalie Sztern

Natalie Sztern — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:43:23 +0000

Maddie, i also love caramelized onions and ask daddy to make onions in the oven which get soft and caramel….i could eat a gazillion onions just like u made..mmmmm