I've long since moved out and I could deal with it on account of my mom making me into a pretty good home cook but I despair at the thought of a time strapped adult trying to learn to cook on that piece of shit.

Imagine reading "let simmer at medium low heat for 10 mins", cranking the dial to 4/10, return 10 minutes later and have all your shit burned. You'd fucking call it quits immediatly and think you're like Homer Simpsons levels of bad cook, meanwhile, the problem was the cookbook presupposes some sort of halfway functioning cooking equipment and you get the landlord special