Nice - I had considered plumbing specifically as something I could do with learning about. I'll take on most minor household DIY, but plumbing is a closed book to me. And something I feel I should learn rather than launch into, since the possibilities for calamity as quite sizeable!
Cooking projects are tricky ones. If I elect Beef Wellington, then it's easy to make it once and tick it off 'done'. The thing is, any idiot can follow a recipe, so making it once isn't really learning much. I'd have to make it a number of times, I think, until I felt comfy with it, could do it without references books, and mess about with variations. Which might be a bit excessive on the Wellington front.
Bread, though, is a good idea. I did do a bit of bread-experimentation last year, and the results were 'ok'. Bread is something which lends itself much better to repeated efforts, and I did mean to re-visit it after last year's attempts.
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Date: 2008-12-26 11:31 pm (UTC)Cooking projects are tricky ones. If I elect Beef Wellington, then it's easy to make it once and tick it off 'done'. The thing is, any idiot can follow a recipe, so making it once isn't really learning much. I'd have to make it a number of times, I think, until I felt comfy with it, could do it without references books, and mess about with variations. Which might be a bit excessive on the Wellington front.
Bread, though, is a good idea. I did do a bit of bread-experimentation last year, and the results were 'ok'. Bread is something which lends itself much better to repeated efforts, and I did mean to re-visit it after last year's attempts.