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?

Yes he can cook, he worked as a chef years ago too.

Great to hear it everyone! I was getting scared when my girlfriend said her partner can only do oven pizzas. In this day and age!!

Yes. Another one who had a roast chicken today. With hasselback potatoes (although DH said he knows why the are called hasselback because they were such a fucking hassle to cook 😂

He is currently making a chicken soup with the leftovers for tea tomorrow.

Yes he can, but rarely does 😂

Yes but he makes so much mess and doesn't clean it up after that it's just not worth it.

Of course! You and your DH are quite right, a grown man should be able to cook and clean up after himself. I don't know if it makes a difference that when I met my DH he had already been looking after himself for several years - first at University and then in rented houses where he worked, so he hadn't come straight from home with his mum running round after him.

DH is 60 so I think it a bit pathetic that much younger men are still playing the "poor little me I can't do anything in the kitchen" card. Shame on their parents really for turning out sons like that.

We have a DD 22 and DH always said he thought it important she grew up seeing him do as much round the house as possible so that if she ever hooks up with some lazy fucker who tries to claim men can't cook, clean, iron or whatever, she will know he is trying it on

Yup. He is the reason I am fat😂

I don't get adults not being able to cook at all. I know men and women like that.

My DP couldn't cook when we first met, he was young and still lived at home. His Mum did everything for him from washing to food and she wouldn't allow him to do it (I know, not believable and I didn't believe it until I saw it myself).

Since we've moved in together I've had to teach him how to cook, even the very basics but he loves it and cooks a lot now. I think it's really sad that a lot of men don't know how to even cook a basic dinner.

He can but he doesn't, unless specifically instructed to with shouts every two minutes of 'where's the x?' Or 'what do I do with y?'

My DH is a fantastic cook - not just my opinion - all his friends, and all my friends agree. He hates cleaning up though, but I love his food enough that I'll clean up after him.

My one doesn't cook at all but does enjoy doing the housework so I'm happy with that

Was truly terrible when we first met (hates pizza though) but is now an amazing cook who loves spending time in the kitchen too

Yes, he can. He couldn't when we met though.
We were students at the time (I think tuna pasta was the most complcated thing he could make). We've both got better as we've got older and now DH can make nice family meals like spag bol or a roast etc.

I constantly remind my wife that I can't cook, but I can read.

She can rustle up a marvelous meal in 20 minutes flat from whatever happens to be in the fridge, with zero forward planning.

Back in the 70's I bought an M&S Casserole Recipe Book by Mary Berry and lived off that and basics such as pork chops.

These days I Google for what I want and study the various recipes.

Any that ask for a pinch of this or season to taste or talk in cups or tbls or ozs or any other non-SI units is rejected.

I print off a recipe, laboriously collect and prepare the ingredients. This may entail a specific trip to the shops.

Lay out the carefully weighed ingredients in the order in which they are required..

Collect together all the utensils.

Follow the recipe to the letter.

Two or more hours later something broadly edible, but rarely closely resembling the photograph on the webpage, is served.

Eldest and youngest sons are better - they can do roasts. Middle son has even been known to bake - albeit rarely.

For balance my wife can plaster walls better than any of us! We claim it's because she attacks it like icing a cake! She learned how to this by studying Youtube videos.

These days there is no excuse for claiming incompetence at any common task. Google and selective use of experts sharing their skills on Youtube lets anyone have a decent attempt.

Anyone can cook. Following a recipe is not difficult. My dh grew up in a household that cooked rarely and so when we moved in together at university he hadn't learned much more than heating up soup or making oven chips. I mentored him through a few basics but basically he taught himself from cookery books. Both my teenagers learned on more of an apprentice type model, ds wasn't massively interested but cooks for himself and his roommate now he's left home. dd has taught herself lots of techniques from books and the internet. I really don't think that there is any excuse now, you can find video instructions on virtually anything you can possibly imagine wanting to make. Pretty much the same as I've learned to do a whole loads of DIY tasks.

DH does all the cooking in our house. He enjoys it and is very competent whereas I find it tedious and am just not very good at it. He's also a bit of a control freak in the kitchen so doesn't like me to "help" as he likes to do things a certain way. Fine by me!

PiggyPlumPie snap! Mine is in the kitchen doing roast chicken with ds helping. DS has also just whipped up a crumble using apples from the garden. My dh is an amazing cook - it's his passion so I don't like to interfere.

I am slumped on the sofa with a prosecco.

I used to cook a bit, but over the years, I have been muscled out of the kitchen and now do nothing.

I guess it depends what is counted as cooking. There are a lot to meals I do consider cooking even though they are not much more complicated than throwing pizza in the oven.

My bf is capable of following instructions therefore he can cook. He has no creativity he can stand in front of the fridge and see mince and tomatoes sauce and still have no idea what to cook. When I suggest that it could be a Bolognese then he is happy to cook together.

Mine is currently cooking a roast lamb dinner, so yes he can cook. DS (21) can also cook. I taught him the basics but he seems to watch a lot of You Tube videos about food and cooking. He is teaching his GF at Uni how to cook a wider variety of dishes and has even cooked at GFs parent's house for all of her family.

Yes. Waaaay better than I can.

Yes of course he can, it’s not difficult. He does the majority of the cooking in our house as he enjoys it more than I do, so bagsied it as one of his household tasks.

Yes of course he can cook. So can both my DS who are 16.

My wife is a far superior cook than myself.

However, I can cook, but have a limited repertoire. I cooked a roast beef dinner today, with 4 veg, roast potatoes, stuffing, yorkies etc (although I cheated with the yorkies, and used Aunt Bessies).

Midweek i'm usually in charge of dinner for my 10 yo and myself, and preparing food to cook when my wife gets in later. This is where my repertoire could do with expanding, but I am limited a little to what my daughter will actually eat.

I do a pretty good spag-bol (using a jar-I've never been adventurous enough to cook it from scratch) and the usual suspect sausage and mash etc. My technique is very basic, and am forever reading the instructions on things, and I admit I do struggle in sometimes getting everything to be ready at the same time when doing a full roast, but it usually turns out ok in the end.

So, to sum up, yes, I can cook, but there is definite room for improvement.

My dh can cook and is adventurous. However, I do the larger share, because I love cooking. I usually find it very relaxing. Plus I like to be in charge of what I eat for dinner. That probably makes me sound like a control freak.

Yes he can and he enjoys it. He'll use flavour combinations that would never have occurred to me - ie chicken and dill - that are absolutely delicious. He makes a banging curry, samosas and bhajis. He is also very good at bread.

Unfortunately, he is so busy at work that he rarely gets a chance to cook at the moment, except for at the weekends.