Is it just me or do you also cringe when someone asks you, "How long do you cook a cake?" Don't you bake a cake? Cooking is what is done on top of the stove....baking takes place in an oven.
Am I just too picky?
Cooking is, technically, still correct. Cooking is preparing food for consumption, especially by means of heat. Baking is simply a dry heat method of cooking.
I mean I get what you're saying, it's one of those things that might get on your nerves, but it's not incorrect.
I think it sounds goofy, too. I just assume they don't know the first thing about baking.
I also think it's very funny that so many people assume I love to cook just because I love to bake. I HATE cooking meals. After over 30 years of cooking dinner for my family, I am SO over it. I'd eat a bowl of cereal every night if I had my way!
Is it just me or do you also cringe when someone asks you, "How long do you cook a cake?" Don't you bake a cake? Cooking is what is done on top of the stove....baking takes place in an oven.
Am I just too picky?
Yes, it gets on my nerves in a big way. 
My son told me that I'm a beautiful cooker
PinkZiab- I have learned so much from your vast knowledge of the science of food. Thank you. I always enjoy your posts 
I actually don't enjoy baking at all. I'm a looky-lou and I need instant gradification. I do love to cook though and prepare meals. And lucky for my family I'm good at it 
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I have a hard time when someone thinks I like to cook also. I like to bake cakes. I don't like cooking dinner so much. I especially don't like the smell of cooking dinner, on my clothes. I even have to put a roast in a crock pot and plug it in outside so the house doesn't smell like meat and onoins for two days! Now, I don't mind smelling like chocolate cake or vanilla. That smells great! O.K. one more thing kind of bothers me. My sister sometimes calls me a baker. "My sister the baker". That implies to me that I bake bread. 
I like the words bakery and pastry but not baker. But I guess I can't be called a pastry chef because I didn't go to school for that and I can't be called a bakery because I don't own a shop. 
How about "My sister makes custom cakes". I like that!
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