AIBU to ask if your 10 year old can make toast?

[Fantail]

I would say most 10 year olds can do this, but perhaps they can't.

6 yr old dgs can make toast in toaster and apply spreads. He knows not to put a knife in the machine!

6 yr old dgs can make toast in toaster and apply spreads. He knows not to put a knife in the machine!

Actually my 9 yr old can use a toaster, kettle and make cupcakes from scratch on her own, with just a little supervision with the oven stage.

DS can but being a lefthander he has a tendancy to massacre the butter when spreading. He makes brews and can make a mean spagetti bolognese from scratch. DD is 7 and can also do basic stuff.
I don't see why the majority of children providing they are well supervised and able can't learn.

Toast? No problem. Washing up? That is another story.

My children cook a lot, I may get asked to take something out of a hot oven, but they get on with it on their own, if they want a roast, they cook it, if they want cakes they make it(far better than I can), it considered a privilege to cook in this house, so they teat it with the respect it deserves, or risk losing the right to do so.

I really hope it a joke someone asking about toast.

My 3 year old can make toast, badly, supervised, I'm pretty sure that at 10 he'll be able to make toast. Why?

RaisingASelfSufficientChildTiggaxx

I've got an 11 year old DS and he's just getting there.
DD(13) is getting confident in getting simple things together. And even did a "Come dine with me" for her friends (with a little support)

This thread has got me thinking that maybe I should get a pair of those wooden toasting tongs for getting the toast out - and save them from poking at it with knives. Though I guess it's not as dangerous after it's popped up ??

Yes, he has been able to use the toaster since he was 6. Clearing up the dirty knives and plates afterwards is a different matter, though :-)

My 10 year old has been making his own sandwiches and toast since he was 4. His 13 year old sister wouldn't have a clue despite having the same opportunities. Yet can cook fantastically at school.

Also thinking I might get a toasted sandwich maker for the teenage years ?
Anyone found one of those useful ?

My cousin, his DP and their 10 year old son were staying with us in the weekend. I was getting DD her porridge and he asked for toast, so I suggested he pop it in the toaster himself, presuming that aged 10 he would know how.

His Dad then came in the room and told him to sit down as he would do it because he didn't know how. This after a big long conversation the night before about how self-sufficient the 10 year old was...

I didn't think that it was an unreasonable suggestion on my part. I have memories of baking unsupervised at that age, so I presume I could make my own toast!

Thought I would ask, just in case...

My 11yo was making toast and tea at 8. He gets up in the morning, gets ready for school, makes his own breakfast and leaves to get the bus without even seeing me or DH most of the time! He can also do simple meals and can use the oven, grill, microwave etc properly.

Whoever said 12/13 to use the kettle

My dd is 10, she does toast on weekends for her and ds and scrambled egg for me and dh if we want (in microwave), she can make coffee as well though i dont request this often - she has also just mastered making super noodles in the microwave and always does our sunday tea - sandwiches. I am training her so when she is in secondary she can let herself in and crak on with tea whilst i pick youngest from primary.

DS 8 can do his own toast but the rate at which the peanut butter jar empties is directly linked to how often.

My 5 year old can in the toaster. But my 9, 7 and 5 year old struggle to spread the marg on top.

My 8 yo can use the microwave and toaster, and has chopped veg with a sharp knife since she was 6. Very handy with it too, though DH had to supervise her chopping potatoes then as I just couldn't watch her! Now we all do the meal preparations together. DD was using a scissors from 3- a real one, with the pointy end. No harm came to her!

8 yo DD makes me coffee too on Sunday mornings while I grab an extra wink. We then make yeast bread rolls together.

my 10 year old can make tea, toast, a simple spaghetti bolognese, toast and does breakfast for the other 2 some days

my 8 year old makes cakes with supervision - even my 4 year old helps make sandwiches - so yes a 10 year old can make toast!

YY fantail - I too hear about how amazingly skilled cousins are, only to be faced with the not so shiny reality on sleepovers..... Though maybe the giddiness from excitement is a factor in reduced functionality :)

I would happily let DD(5) use a toaster, I think. Unfortunately we don't have one, just a grill in the oven, and our grill pan doesn't have a handle so has to be taken out with an oven glove. I don't let her do that.

I let her prepare stuff at the table - she does things like cutting up easy things like ham or mushrooms, stirring things, pouring, weighing things out-, but I don't really like her at the stove just because she isn't tall enough (and I worry she might fall off a chair, because she has some balance and co-ordination issues). Once she is taller and stronger, or if we can find something more suitable for her to stand on then I think it is a really important thing to be able to learn to cook and prepare simple things from an early age.

Mine (6 and 8) both can and I have taught my 8 year old how to use the nespresso and milk frother, important skills to be able to bring me coffee and toast in bed

I have 2 words for you- toast tongs.
6 yo ds has no problem making toast- gets a bit frustrated that he can't spread as neatly as us, but that'll come.
He has also made his own mushroom omlete (chopping, whisking, cooking- the whole lot).
Kettle- not quite yet. He has enough trouble with pouring regular drinks!
We make sure that plates, cups, bowls, cutlery etc is on his level, so he has no problem getting things himself.

No using the kettle before the age of 13?

WOAH?