Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.
I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.