Cookery Books - A Bit Of Fun

[Barmaid]

I have no idea whether this is true, but I just saw something on social media saying that the average number of cookery books a person owns is 8. Only 7% of us own 20 or more.

I just did a rough quick count of mine.

So let's play a guessing game. You guess how many cookery books the person above you has (but because of cross posting, perhaps best to post the name of the above poster too).

[Redhelen72]

Barmaid has 54 cook books

[ferlew]

I guess that Helen has 17 :)

[Barmaid]

Nope!

Redhelen - 63
Ferlew - 21

[choux]

Ferlew probably has more craft than recipe books but I will say under 20 so 16 :)

[Redhelen72]

Ferlew - nope

[Redhelen72]

Barmaid - 98
Ferlew - 23

Barmaid very close

[choux]

P.S. to help anyone out, my earliest book is a spiral one and was published during WWII...

[naomi24]

Choux 40.

I hate cooking - which may - or may not be a clue.

[Redhelen72]

Naomi - 2

[Barmaid]

Naomi - 2
Choux - 48
RedHelen - 68

[naomi24]

Higher!

[Barmaid]

Naomi - 7

[naomi24]

About 50 I'd say - and all sorts of cuisine. I think the people who buy them for me live in eternal hope! :o)

Actually, I'm quite a good cook - but I don't like it. Such a waste of time when the blighters just eat it! All my hard work demolished in minutes! My husband uses them more than me. He loves cooking - and is good at it too.

[Barmaid]

lol, in some ways, I agree with you. I can spend hours slaving over a meal for it to be gone in a few minutes and then I survey the scene of devastation in the kitchen (I am the world's messiest cook).

Mr BM says I have "too many". For once I probably agree with him.

[Redhelen72]

I have 71, and I have previously culled them when we moved so goodness knows how many I had then!!

I have to say I rarely open them, preferring the internet these days.
Apart from a specialist ones which I use more for reference.

[naomi24]

Exactly BM. Nothing but hard work and a waste of time. :o)

[Barmaid]

RH, I don't actually use many of them now since I do tend to use the internet. But every now and again I'll remember a particular book and go to it for an idea. I also have a ring binder full of recipes I have printed over the years.

I think I might have to cull my collection. I counted roughly 112.

[naomi24]

I must say I'm a clean cook. Clear and clean as I go, so the kitchen is always tidy...ish. My husband, on the other hand ... you've heard of that expression 'Looks like a bomb's hit it'? And I swear he uses every dish and pot and pan we possess - and that's just for something simple! Jeepers!

[Barmaid]

lol, I am just like your husband in that respect.

A neighbour once asked Mr BM what I was making and he replied "a mess".

[naomi24]

Haaaaaaaaaaaa! Oh how funny! Crying here!