There are several reasons that people want to be able to cook better.
One of the highest on the list is health concerns.
It is obvious that making cooking mistakes like burning steak or overcooking oatmeal carries with it a great deal of embarrassment.
After all, who wants to look the fool, by presenting a burnt birthday cake to a group of people that you've invited to your home to celebrate with? Nobody wants that.
One of the things that's always amazed me is, how many people actually don't know why they seem to cook so bad.
They think it is just the way that they are...
that is, they believe they are just "bad cooks", and think that they need to have more experience, more culinary arts training.
For instance, they may want to attend a cooking school, to improve their cooking skills.
And of course, that entails more money, and more time, and not many people can afford to go to a good cooking school.
In reality, if you are overcooking foods often, like messing up and overcooking pastas, burning steaks, or totally charring toast, maybe you aren't such a great cook after all.
But, it's not just you.
There are also the cookware to blame.
If you're using your Dad's twenty year old toaster, you're probably not going to get the best toast every time.
Another example is, if you are using some cheap cookware, instead of copper cookware, then maybe you are not using the best materials.