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.

[stealthsquiggle]

Much easier to learn with properly sharp knives IMO. Ours started with one of us standing behind them with hands over theirs - gradually backing off as they get the hang of it, but always hovering to make sure fingers are kept properly out of the way etc.

10yo has made steak tartare, working side by side with DH, each making a portion.

[jamdonut]

At school we have these little knives to chop with that have a rounded end,but a very sharp cutting edge. Fruit salad is always a good thing to start learning to chop for. It is better that knives are sharp to chop with and the children shown how to hold things safely. A cut finger with a sharp knife is much better(!) than with a blunt knife.
I know its scary, but the younger a child is shown how to do this the right way, the better. I can remember using sharp knives when I was 5 or 6. I'm sure I had a few cuts along the way (had one fairly recently...ouch!

[Domjolly]

Not being funny a 6 year old sould be able to make toast if they cant then [cofused] you get put unwrap the cotton wool

[SomeBear]

All 3 of mine can make toast, use the grill to make cheese on toast and use the sandwich toaster to make a cheese toastie. DD1 (11) and DS (9) can all follow a recipe to make a basic meal - DS makes fantastic pastry! DD2 is not so interested but would be allowed to if she wanted to. Our view has always been that they are easier to teach before they become teenagers so they all know how to use sharp knives, kettle and oven.

[morethanpotatoprints]

I think it depends on the dc, they all develope at different rates. Mine started using the toaster about age 7, but obviously I watched them and gave a lesson on H&S.
Ds1 was making hot drinks at 9. I couldn't trust ds2 until he was 11. DD is 9 and I wouldn't truat her quite yet.

They are all different and I wouldn't really expect them to do it until they show an interest. As long as they are not generally lazy, I don't see a problem.

[twofaceshenanigans]

DD 10 makes toast and hot drinks for us, she also does basic meals. She can also bake cakes and makes lovely jam tarts

[EricNorthmanIsMyMaker]

My just turned 3 year old makes his own toast. I have to get it out of the toaster but he gets everything out & butters it himself

[exoticfruits]

No, there's nothing magic about 12/13 that makes them suddenly immune to scalding accidents. Thinking about it now that's probably the age it became ridiculous for me to still be stopping them

I think it is long before that. A secondary school teacher would assume that all pupils were used to using a kettle.
For what it is worth-I must have started about 8yrs and I was 34yrs before I scalded myself! (Luckily not badly) I don't think that you would surmise that I shouldn't use a kettle-simply that I shouldn't have been distracted.

[greengoose]

You get really good sharp knifes with round ends for kids to use. (you can also get proper Swiss army knifes with round end on the properly sharp blade which are great for bushcraft/ camping etc).

[skaen]

My 5yo DD makes her own toast while I keep an eye on her, she sometimes makes her packed lunch too.

[MrsMushroom]

My 2 month old can cook chilli.

[JackieTheFart]

Well, DSS age 11 can but won't.

He absolutely cannot spread butter though. Well, he can if he has to but I have a feeling he does the 'do it badly enough times and I won't be asked to do it again'. Clearly hasn't thought it through!

[stealthsquiggle]

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[newcastle34]

My8 year old does.

[girliefriend]

My dd has been able to make toast for about a year, she is now just turned 7yo. She is fine with the spreading!! My dn who is 9yo recently said he can't spread because he is left handed going to go through life only having dry toast then!!

[QueenMaeve]

Ds is 10. He can make toast, tea and scrambled egg in the microwave. He's also just mastered chicken, noodles in soy sauce. He reckons its just the same as the Chinese takeaway

[Rowgtfc72]

DD learnt to make toast for my birthday, shes nearly six. Ok the butter wasnt quite where I like it but it was a good effort. She knows not to poke things in the toaster. She can fetch her own juice and do her own cereal. Friends are amazed, I thought most kids could do this at her age. We're just waiting for her to grow a bit to master the kettle! Its a whistling one and she knows how to turn it off and we're just teaching her turning it on.

[Amphitrite]

My 10 year old can make toast. She can also bake a victoria sponge cake without consulting a recipe book, follow most recipes, use a mixer without supervision, make white sauce from scratch, cook pasta (though I will drain the boiling water for her), make scrambled eggs, pancakes, yorkshire puddings etc. Nearly all of her friends can do the same.

Why did you ask OP? Have you come across a 10 year old that can't make toast? Or isn't allowed to?

[ByTheSea]

Yes. She can slice the bread too.

[squoosh]

As long as the child is taller than kettle height I really can't see the problem.

[ddubsgirl]

All my boys can and also can cook meals make tea coffee etc and know how to use the washing machine,making drinks was taught from a young age (not allowed to pour kettle) and all make lovely cuppa

[hatgirl]

urm I was doing everything from scratch for roast dinners (stuffing/ cauliflower cheese/ roast potatoes etc) baking cakes independently and generally putting a proper tea on from the age of 11 onwards. Before that I was making simple things like pasta/ baked potatoes from about 9/10.

I am genuinely shocked that people think that children this age are entirely incapable of doing this kind of thing... and we wonder why as a country we have an over reliance on ready made things from the supermarket!

Do they not do food tech at school from about age 10 onwards anymore?

[Ghostsgowoooh]

My 9 year old brother (at the time) severely burnt himself and had to have skin grafts after pouring a kettle of hot water down himself trying to make our mum a cuppa.

His screams have never ever left me and I've been very iffy about letting my dc use the kettle but I have done. Dd is 10 and makes tea and she is very careful but I still worry.

Ds although asd is very careful about hot stuff but can cook, he's brilliant at Victoria sponges. But he is very ocd at turning switches off,

[Ghostsgowoooh]

Hatgirl I remember ds coming home from school one day after having cookery and he told me that they had to make beans on toast for their first lesson. He said the majority of the class didn't have a clue and he was seen as amazing because he could.

These were a class of 11/12 year olds in mainstream school.

But then he does have a friend who is not even allowed to make a sandwich in case he cuts himself on the bread knife! This boy is nearly 13.