nervous

I didn't really know anything about cooking before I got the egg. I just knew I wanted to cook better than I had. Since getting the egg and mastering the basics, the folks here have given me the courage to try other things, and although I'm no chef, and only a middling cook compared to many of them, I'm still light years beyond my old self. There are beginners here and professional chefs. They often teach us as much as they learn too.

I was at a fellow egger couple's party over the holidays, and all of their friends said they were too intimidated by their food to have them over for dinner. I think our hosts would be crushed to hear that. Here they are showing everyone how relatively easy it is to produce this great food (though they are a great pair in the kitchen frankly) and it's backfiring and folks are being scared from trying it themselves.

I tried to tell the other guests that although the food was great (and it was), we and the couple (and pretty much all egg owners) were pretty used to eating like this all the time. It wasn't the egg itself, but the mindset that came with the egg. Basically you arrive at a point of dissatisfaction with your current food, and just start paying attention. Here, on television, in books, at restaurants.

A year later your family is saying "I could never cook like this. your food is always great". Sure, the egg helps jump start things, and the old things you always cooked will immediately be better, but you will be encouraged and feel comfortable expanding your repertoire. Hard to say what comes first, the inclination, or the egg.