My Dad got myself and others in the habit of cooking usual meals before I even graduated high school & left for university.
By the time I moved into the freshman residence halls in undergraduate school, I had a small tepid plate & an electric griddle & was making a surprising number of apartment cooked meals even though it was highly against the rules.
In retrospect I get it because they didn’t want a situation where an avoidable fire could start out of nowhere & potentially kill dozens or hundreds of students in the process, then and since a roommate during our sophomore year once used our toaster oven when I was away without our consent, I can totally see a situation like this happening when you have these grownup children who never l acquired how to take care of themselves dealing with lethal appliances. At least I managed to get away from the university campus by the following year & was residing in a studio apartment for a number of years. My cooking improved with time, & now I’m constantly in the kitchen from a single afternoon to the next. I cook so much food in this apartment that the fumes collect & leave oil deposits in our Heating and A/C filter. I notice the smell of burnt food whenever I open the filter tray in our air handler & replace the filter with a modern a single. That’s when I realized I need to better utilize our vent hood above our stove top more, & putting a charcoal filter inside to collect some of the cooking smells before they can permeate the rest of our apartment & the Heating and A/C plan along with it.