I can follow recipes. If the technique involved is something I've done before, the dish usually comes out successfully. It's my personality type: Extremely lazy, but proficient at getting the job done correctly. All the things that I have made which have turned out poorly have been related to cooking videos labeled as hacks, cheats, etc.
I've successfully made things from the range of baby back ribs to creme caramel and panna cotta. Brownies from scratch. Took a cooking class instead of Physics in high school. Didn't look good on my transcript, but useful life skills. Should've took Physics instead of AP Art-especially since I didn't even create a portfolio and ended up a STEM major.