Can your husband cook?

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Does/can your partner/husband cook?

Mine was brought up always cleaning after himself and well able to cook a meal ( thank god ) when I met him he was actually way more into cleaning than I was, and I was the messy one.

However some of my friends have told me they leave 'oven pizza' for their dps when they go away for a night for him and the kids as 'that's all he can cook '

Myself and dh agree a grown man should be more than capable of cooking a full meal from scratch and there is no reason a grown man should only be able to do oven pizza or oven chips/chicken...

I used to be a chef so dh learned lots of extra tips and now he loves going off on his own and cooking a fulll meal from scratch , knowing all the spices to add to a certain meal/methods etc. he doesn't love/like cooking but knows it's a necessity and therefore is not lazy..

What about you?

Yep, he's in the kitchen right now doing roast chicken and all the trimmings.

To top it, DS aged 18 is helping.

My husband is a far better cook than me. I actually really only learned to cook after we got together.

Cleaning on the other hand......abysmal!

But I suppose we can't have everything! 😂

Yes but he doesn’t love it.

In this house me and DS both love to cook, DH and DD are not as keen. I’d say the both can though.

When we met he wasn't that great but 6 years on he is now!
Still the odd weird concoction but getting less so!!

It's obviously not your personal fault, OP, but the fact that this thread even got started in 2018 is depressing as fuck.

Both of us can cook, but DH can't breastfeed, so in our household he makes dinner every night while I put the baby to bed.

Yep I've just had a full chicken roast courtesy of mine. Apart from he always gets me to do the Yorkshires 😏 I'm sure he'd manage it if he tried, he can do pancakes afterall.

Nope, he went to boarding school from young so had no experience of cooking at home. He can make do with a few small things but I was a chef so I prefer to cook at home. He recently learned how to boil an egg when I was in hospital by googling the method.

mine's in the kitchen now, too!
he does all the cooking- i absolutely hate it (cooking, not the fact that he does it!!)
for full disclosure i should say that he's pretty awful in every other area of domestic duties- but i wouldn't swap our arrangement.

Of course!

Mines doing a roast chicken too. He can't make Yorkshire puddings either, but I'm from Yorkshire so that's my job -but only when we are having roast beef because I'm very strict!

My husband really can’t cook! He cut up a broccoli for the first time a few weeks ago!

He can make spag bol, a steak and bung anything in the oven. And of course anything ‘on toast’ scrambled eggs, beans, bacon, sausages and that’s his whack really.

I really enjoy cooking so I prefer being the one to cook but if/when I don’t want to he can make the above lol

If we want to eat well he cooks, I wash up. If we want food poisoning or a fire I cook, he washes up. Lol

My DH is an amazing cook and he cooks every night. I think it’s probably been about a year since I cooked. He loves doing it.

Yes ~ and does it all 😀😀

I jolly well hope so seeing that he's in kitchen at this very moment jointing a chicken. If not, we're in for a nasty time.

Dh learnt to cook from his dad (born 1909) who took over the family cooking when he retired- much to the relief of the family as my late MIL couldn't cook for toffee: she had spent her preteens/teens as an evacuee in some posh place in the US and never learnt the basics.

I'm sure anyone of any sex would find it difficult to cook anything that requires any degree of close supervision while being the sole carer for young children if they aren't particularly used to it. I can certainly see why it would make sense to have something that takes very little effort in that case especially as they would also have to deal with all of the other evening tasks alone.

yes mine can cook. He is very good at following a recipe, but not that inventive when the cupboards are looking empty.
He is a particularly good baker. His scones are the best I have had. His roast is also great.

DH is a very competent cook but takes ages due to his faffing. He is cooking tonight as we have the luxury of time of time. More often than not, we don't have an hour for him to cook so I do it. He also has to check he can use X, Y and Z everytime he picks something up which winds me up.
His cleaning is good but tidying is awful. He just puts all toys in the toy kitchen which means bit go missing.

If I went away he would cope just fine. It is when I am home he appears to lack initiative.

Mine can't. Not well. Managed to live independently prior to marriage, But really never learnt to create, just heat.

But cleans so much better than I do.

So whilst we both cook and we both clean on a daily basis, if we have friends over i cook he cleans (before and after we do it together)

@Heismyopendoor

I think that probably counts as "cooking" in this case. Spag Bol and steak are meals.

I know a fair few men who can't cook at all. One even put the pizza left for him directly onto the bottom of the oven

He’s not a great cook, but I certainly don’t worry that he’ll starve if I’m away.

He can cook excellent steak and chips, pasta bakes, lasagne and anything that comes with instructions 😂

My fiancé can do basics but nothing elaborate. He managed ok when living alone though! He is very good at housework though!

Yep, very well, we’re mid 30’s. One friend’s 50ish y/o partner literally can’t even boil an egg or “cook” oven chips and an ex colleague’s partner just expected not to have to cook/wash his own socks- they were mid 20’s!!
My maternal grandfather (he’d be 98 now) was a chef in the army during the war. He taught my Mum, her sisters and all of the Grandchildren lots about cooking.

Nope, intentionally inept describes his attempts.
He can just about manage oven chips and heating up ready meals or baked beans in the microwave.
Unlike DCs who can rustle up amazing meals - I made sure as youngsters that they helped with cooking and learned to cook a range of meals before going to university.

Yep my DH is a really good cook. He does the best roast lamb, Thai green curry and is chief gravy maker in our house!
He can cook loads of different stuff but he's the best at those.