Another thread has me wondering if any of the men on this board cook? I don't mean fry an egg or make kraft dinner. I mean full on, make-it-from-scratch meals. With or without your wife's help. If so, did you teach yourself/learn yourself, learn from your mom/dad, or learn from your wife?
i cook 99% of our meals, alot from scratch. pot roast/stews, every chicken dish you can think of, stir fry, a variety of mexican dishes and alot of bbq/grilling. i learned when i worked nights for several years
I do all of the cooking. This is going to sound mean, but I prefer that my wife doesn't cook. She never really learned how. Just like I never learned how to fix a car without making it worse.
I was the cook. Learned from my dad when I lived with him as a teen.
Whenever I tried to teach my ex-wife, she would get extraordinarily defensive. She didn't like it. Didn't enjoy it, and basically just didn't want to do it. Most of it had to with her concern about being criticized over it. She didn't want to be a bad cook - but didn't want to learn how to be a good one.
Every man should know how to cook ... aside from thinking that burning hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill makes him a cook.
I was the cook. Learned from my dad when I lived with him as a teen.
Whenever I tried to teach my ex-wife, she would get extraordinarily defensive. She didn't like it. Didn't enjoy it, and basically just didn't want to do it. Most of it had to with her concern about being criticized over it. She didn't want to be a bad cook - but didn't want to learn how to be a good one.
Every man should know how to cook ... aside from thinking that burning hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill makes him a cook.
thats exactly why my wife doesnt cook, fear of criticizm that wont be there no matter the outcome. absurd really, if a meal didnt come out quite right i wouldnt say anything anyway. she has one cassarole she cooks and i absolutely cannot stand it, she doesnt understand proportions and its just yuck. but i eat it with a smile, its just not significant
I was trained as a chef while in college, so I cook from scratch, although poorly. Seems that I need a recipe for boiling water, judging by how bad I am. My wife works part time, so we split the cooking. She is pretty exhausted after working, but neither of us like pre-processed food. She's a natural, so she helped me learn more. My daughter still lives with us, although she is in college. Currently, I pay her to cook several nights a week too.
We enjoy grilled foods, so even if there is four feet of snow outside, I'm grilling most nights I cook. Kind've mastered the ability to do vegetables on the grill as I cook the main course. Nothing like a Ducane to stay lit in a blizzard.
To be honest, we decided to use dinner and dishes to build our family time, so its important to us as a family to all participate. Food fights and joking are allowed. Just no TV.
I'm the wife. My husband doesn't cook anything. He doesn't even make his own coffee. The only thing he makes is chocolate milk for breakfast every morning. Even if he just wants an apple or some crackers, he usually will ask me to get it for him. He claims that he's afraid he'll mess up the refrigerator, or use the wrong dish, or ____ (fill in the blank).
I don't mind. He makes 80% of the money, my job pays less than cr@p, so if I can contribute that way, I feel better.
I cook all the dinners in our house... and all the cooking on the weekends. I learned from my dad. He was a firehouse cook. I took that and taught myself a lot more through books (on techniques not recipies) and playing with ingredients. I enjoy cooking from scratch with real food. Nothing from boxes, cans or packages.
I really insist my wife give me honest feedback. If it stinks I want to know. I'm guilty of trying to always improve a dish...and sometimes it's just right...leave it alone.
My kids actually can tell when I've prepared a meal or my wife...even though she follows my recipe. It's become quite the conversation at dinner.
We split it but I used to cook a lot more than I do now. When we first started she barely knew how to cook.
She's gotten better and I guess has settled into that role. I have to punch myself in the stomach sometimes
because I find myself waiting for her to come home to cook when she's running late and I could easily knock it out.
Just goes to show how we can get so accustomed to something. I learned to cook because I had 2 brothers at home with a single mom. We had to know how to cook, clean, mow, repair, etc. There were no expected roles based on gender.
I do 90% of the cooking, which includes grilling. My H will give me a break and make pancakes or waffles on the weekends. Once in a great while he will grill. Tonight I'm grilling venison burgers on the grill. I cook mostly from scratch and we never go out to eat. I also like to cook pretty darn healthy as well. The family seems to like my cooking. The neighborhood kids LOVE my cooking! Everyone's favorites are tacos(from scratch), homemade pizza and steak. I will make 100% whole wheat bread during the winter months. Although, the kids do prefer the white breads. We raise chickens, so we always have fresh eggs on hand. You'd be surprised how good fresh eggs taste in baked goods.
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My H and I do that a few times a week. Usually we take turns cooking though. I used to be an awful cook! I'd burn everything, but since we've been married, I've picked up a few pointers from the H and now we can share in that responsibility, he has his specialties and I have mine now It works for us.
I do most of the cooking anymore . . . although that has resulted in security issues on her part. Learned myself from cooking channels and the internet.
Who cooks? 
