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?

He can. DH cooks for the DC and then I cook for him and me. That's during the week. At weekends I cook for everyone except for the odd occasion when DH does it.

My DH is an amazing cook and cooks all our meals.

Cleaning he cleans with vinegar so I do cleaning.

Yes, it's the other way around in my house. I don't cook and if alone will have beans on toast! I do do most (not all) of the housework though. Works well for us as I loathe cooking!

I once dated someone who, having moved out of his dad's at 24, ordered takeaway every night or ate prepacked sandwiches. I found it funny for about 3 weeks and then it became a horrible indication that not only was he unable to do basic stuff, he also couldn't be arsed to learn. My OH left home at 16 and later became a chef so he's great and I cook very rarely here... Delighted!

Yes but he's not an intuative/natural cook. Needs all the ingredients and a recipe generally. He does cook but I prefer to cos I LOVE cooking

What an interesting thread. I'm a man and I couldn't cook properly before I met my wife; she taught me how to cook and I can do now (a wide range) and enjoy it. She is still a better cook than me though! Of my closest male friends, all of them cook and two are superior cooks to their OHs. All were taught as children. Neither my Dad nor my FIL can cook anything much, nor would it occur to them to do so.

He's a chef...

Nope not even toast lol

But he's good at lots of other things so I let him off

My husband cooks most meals in our house

Yes, he’s a better cook than me. He had more patience and enthusiasm.

My DH is an amazing cook, he loves cooking and cooks all the families meals.

I taught my dp when I was about 7 months pregnant. He loves it now! I thought I'm not doing everything when this baby comes so showed him a roast dinner, I think if you can cook that and get the timings right everything else is a doddle. He does use every single pot and pan though.

Yep! He cooks more often than I do, and went through a baking phase too. He sometimes does weird combinations and always leaves a massive mess, but otherwise he's a good cook, sometimes even a great one!

My DF and DB both cook(ed) so to me it's totally normal for men to be able to cook. It's a fundamental life skill, I couldn't be attracted to a man who couldn't feed himself (and me!) properly.

I don't think I would have married one who couldn't, ditto fussy eaters.

I lived on fags and vodka when we met so luckily he taught me to cook

He struggles to follow a recipe though (dyslexia) so I tend to make new things but he is brilliant at all the stuff I can't do so it evens out

My husband had to teach me to cook when we got together (almost 40 years ago), and he occasionally cooks now (once a month perhaps). He has always cooked the Christmas dinner, though. He manages to mess up every single worktop when he cooks.

Both of our sons can cook (one lives alone and he cooks with fresh ingredients every evening. Not a packet mix or jar of anything in his house!

I suspect my DH could cook perfectly well if he tried. He can make porridge, scrambled eggs, and cakes. Also poached eggs. I can't eat eggs.

My bloke technically CAN cook and has made me lasagne once and a few steaks. However, he has zero interest and, before we lived together, happily lived off single-portion ready meals and a sausage sandwich on a Sunday.

absolutely, and he cooks way better than I do.

I do a mean roast dinner and spag bol, everything else is down to him:)

Dp can only cook very very basic things. He wouldn't be able to do a soag bol or roast. I don't think he ever had the opportunity to learn at home, he will help me sometimez if he is home but I've normally cooked ready for when he gets back (shift work).

My mum was a chef and I like to cook

Yes, have just had very nice beef stir fry thing. He wooed me with his cooking initially, then confessed that the three lovely dishes were his entire repertoire. I did most of family cooking , because his commute was so much longer but we share cooking now, though I do set piece or other time sensitive meals like Xmas as he takes for ever and underestimates prep time.

My father could not cook a thing - when my mother went away for a few months to help look after a sick relative, we had 4 days of my cooking at age 11 ( pre ready meals days) before he gave up and we dined in style at the quite fancy village pub every day.

I lived on fags and vodka when we met so luckily he taught me to cook

I lived off wine and ice cream . I could cook perfectly well, just couldn’t be bothered.

Yes. Because he is an adult.

He only really cooks basic stuff but has been known to actually follow a recipe, occasionally.

I do most of the cooking and, in return, he loads the dishwasher all wrong.

He does basics but to be fair to him he's not much of a foodie. He'll happily just wolf down a jacket Spud every night and get on with other things. I adore cooking (my DF is an amazing cook) so I just do it all and DP gets a delicious and imaginative meal every night He does do all the washing up though, which I hate. I don't feel like it's a gender thing, that's just an us thing.

He can, but it's pretty grim, I prefer my own cooking so we never argue really.