The person learning to cook needs permission to serve something imperfect.

Skill in a kitchen comes from repetition, and repetition means being willing to put a mediocre dinner on the table. Learners often stop not because they cannot cook but because they cannot bear the moment of serving, when the sauce split in front of people they wanted to feed. That fear costs more meals than any lack of talent.

If someone is learning, eat what they made and mention what worked. If you are the one learning, tell your household in advance that tonight is practice, and let a mediocre result be the price of a skill you keep.