My grandma taught me how to cook using a fry method, basically she fried everything. My mom taught me how to cook using the baking method and the slow cooking method. I have since developed a combination of both. Some things just taste better if you fry it. Of course when I fry I use coconut oil since it's healthier than the other oils out there. It also taste better that way because you don't taste the oil, you taste the food. My mom is great about answering questions that I have about different methods of cooking. I tend to like recipes that call for a little more expertise than the average cook has. I then melt it down into an easy to make recipe.