Can your husband cook without a big fuss?

Yes to all except he does occasionally loses his cool if he is cooking several things at once or it goes wrong. Expects no help though.

Yes he can. But it would take approximately 647 hours because he is anal methodical.

No.

If he opens the fridge and everything is right in front of him he would ask what to cook.

I have to give the ingredients and ideally with instructions. Unless it is spag Bol.

My husband can't even cook 'beige' oven food without double checking with me which temperature he should put it on, setting a timer on his phone for the exact time stated on the box, then asking me to check it 'looks ok' before plating it up.

We've all got different talents and passions haha

Not without following a recipe. He really enjoys it though, he just has no confidence in getting things right so constantly asks me to check and i end up taking over so it's my fault (i actually enjoy cooking and there's only the 2 of us to cook for)

We recently had HelloFresh for a few weeks which was great for him. He had a lovely time prepping everything and following the recipe card. Now it's finished, he wants to choose something to cook a couple of times a week which is lovely.
I know I've made him sound like a 10 year old 😂but he joined the forces at 16 so it isn't something that he's grown up getting involved in, and I've always turned down his offers to help as it's quicker to do it myself in the week. He's great at clearing up after.

@Starlight1984 Not coming for you but I think it's more experienced cooks vs more novice or basic cooks re: being able to throw things together.

Baking is too precise for me so I much prefer cooking as it's more forgiving! But I think being able to cook from a set of random ingredients is more something you can do when you're a very experienced cook who has followed loads of recipes, and therefore gained knowledge about what flavours work together, the right type of seasonings, how to lift a dish with acid, fat, etc.

Yes, I can. I'm probably not as good or inventive as my DW - but no one will starve, smoke detectors won't go off, dishwasher loaded, kitchen will be cleaned afterwards.

My late Dad on the other hand. I always it was more stressful when he cooked. It involved my Mum is more work than if she'd done the whole meal.

He often used to reminisce about him making soup when my Mum was in hospital after having my youngest sibling. That was 1963.

I started cooking in about 2009. Love my wife dearly but I may have said something about her Yorkshire puddings. Not a metaphor, so don't go there.
She challenged me to make them the next week, so I spent the week mugging up on it and nailed them first time out. They were MASSIVE! Next challenge was Sunday lunch. Got there too.
Then I got to enjoy it, although it did take me 6 hours and the use of every pan and pot to make fish cakes the first time I tried to be a bit clever.. Rustic. Tasted ace though.
The kitchen's been 'mine' since about 2010 now, and I love it, baking too.

This male partner can and does cook. I don't eat pudding so that might baffle me but I'm perfectly capable of a roast.

DP is vegan and I'm not so I do quite a bit of batch cooking for the freezer too.

I also do a mean kedgeree.

He always does the roast dinners - I cab with them. He doesn't tend to do desserts but he can whip up a hollandaise sauce from scratch in minutes and always cleans the kitchen when he's finished.

Where do people find these incompetent men? My sons can all cook and clean up after themselves, as could my brothers.

There are some dishes I normally cook and others that he does. If we have to cook “each other’s” recipes we often ask each other for instructions! He’s a much messier cook than me but he doesn’t expect me to clean up after him so I don’t really mind.

Yes, he enjoys cooking and makes our children's birthday cakes so he would be able to do both no bother.

Nope. His specialities are beans on toast, pizza and oven chips.

He’s a great cleaner though and does a lot around the house in all other ways so I forgive him!

DH is a competent cook, but with a limited repertoire. DS or I cook more, but we have a rule that the cook gets assistance with the clear up.

Yep, my DH trained as a chef but had to stop because he became disabled. Despite a high level of impairment he still cooks a few nights a week with some help and supervision and really enjoys it.

That specific meal, no, because he doesn’t do baking but the roast would be good. I expect he’d check a few details here and there but he’d be okay.
If it was just a normal teatime, he’d just get on with it no worries. Annoyingly he’s never home early enough and I can’t remember the last time he cooked so it’s all hypothetical!

Those things? No. Well, he probably could but he never has, I always do roasts. But loads of other things absolutely yes. He cooks more than I do.

My exP rarely cooked and I did all the day in, day out shopping and feeding the kids etc, to a budget. Despite rarely doing it he thought he was god's gift to cuisine. So he did cook sometimes usually when people were coming round.

The kitchen was trashed and every item used and left in a mess. But what drove me even more mad is that he'd go on a special shopping trip and buy absolutely everything for this one meal, regardless of whether we already had it in, and giving no thought to buying the right size, looking for bargains etc therefore spending ££££££££.

Then his elaborate showy cheffery would take hours so it wouldn't be ready until late at night.

Then he would insist on "plating" it and dicking around adding garnishes etc so you had to wait even longer as it went cold.

Finally you would eat the fucking thing and he'd constantly fish for compliments and act like he deserved a medal.

note the "ex"!

Yes he does all the cooking and loves to cook (unlike me!)

My Dh is the cook in our home. He’s a really good cook (he’s hot too 😂).

I am a widow now but yes he absolutely could. Not sticky toffee pudding because we both loathed it.

He couldn't microwave a dinner himself

No, definitely not.

DH does most of the cooking, all of the shopping and most of the loading of the dishwasher. He will use every pan in the kitchen for a fancy meal, but as he clears up after himself, it's no skin off my nose! And it's all delicious.

I think my DH would be horrified if I tried to make a meal now 😂. He’s a much better cook than I am, and enjoys it immensely.