Cooking Challenged

A survey by Betty Crocker Kitchens in 2004 showed adults don't realize how cooking-challenged they've become.

We don't realize how little we know as a culture...even about an everyday topic like cooking....

The national survey of 1,500 adults found that 70 percent rated themselves "above average" in cooking knowledge, even though only 38 percent scored above average on a 20-question cooking-skills quiz.

While 98 percent knew the abbreviation for teaspoon, only 44 percent knew how many teaspoons were in a tablespoon. Even fewer, 34 percent, knew how much uncooked rice is needed to yield one cup of cooked rice.

(Answers: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon; one-third cup of uncooked rice yields 1 cup of cooked rice.)