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, very well. He got a bit pissed the other week and came hone via Waitrose with two poussin as he’d always wanted to try cooking them.

He has a sous vide too - I basically only cook now under duress.

Mine does most of the cooking at home. He a much better cook than me.

My husbands a much better cook than I am. He's a chef though. He doesn't cook a lot at home though

Yes he can and it's split. I tend to do more original meals and try new things rather than him. But it's fair. My dad on the other hand can't do anything really. Peels the veg. That's it.

I can't cook a full meal from scratch, I strongly dislike cooking. My husband likes cooking.

Yup he cooks at weekends and on Christmas Day while I get sloshed he makes and amazing lentil curry

But my god he makes fucking mess

Depends on what you define as 'cooking.' He likes to think he can. If it involves bunging it on a baking tray and putting it in the oven he's fine. If it involves more than one item however I can't watch. He puts everything on to cook at the same time. Then has things standing round going cold or burning. He is very likely to put frozen peas on at the same time as the chicken goes in.

I cook during the week however we have just started doing whoever gets home first starts the dinner off so on days when he’s home early we normally have a fairly easy dinner as he works full time

My dh is currently cooking a roast for dinner and knocking up the babies lunches for the week. I’d say we probably split cooking 60/40 in my favour, he’s good at batch meals, I’m better at quick and easy or takes forever to cook meals.

I’m sure he could if he looked it up on the internet or in a book.

Just like I could probably change a tyre if I looked it up in the internet or in a book.

Anyone who can read can cook. Anyone saying they can’t it a bit of a twat tbh.

My husband “couldn’t” when we met.

He can now.

No. Mine is shit. I picked up my iPad one day last week and he had googled "how to boil two eggs" 😂

Yes. If you can read you can cook

Yes and I'm doing so now.

Also teaching my 2 boys to cook. Brilliant way to meet the opposite sex at Uni. They are all hungry. Failing that bait a trap with chocolate.

Enough of the sexist stereotypes and back to the kitchen for me.

I’m better at cooking than DP but he always helps out and will occasionally cook dinner for us himself. He’s good at desserts whereas I’m better at the savoury stuff

Yes. He’s much better than I am. He can bake cakes and make pancakes and roasts- he always does Christmas dinner and Sunday lunches.
I can do the basics- oven, boil/ fry and stick the slow cooker on.

Yes - he is an adult!

DH is the cook in our house. He does Xmas dinner too. He's also pretty good at cleaning. I can't fathom why an adult would choose to live with another adult that isn't capable of looking after themselves for no good reason (of course disability counts as a bloody good reason).

Mine cooks for all of us every eve, but I know I'm lucky with this. I'm a terrible cook so found my match lol

Yes and he does so every evening
I’m in charge of laundry

Yes, DH can cook. So can our three 20-something sons, who've grown up helping us prepare family meals.

My DH does all the cooking. I can cook but I detest it - I definitely am missing the feeding gene.

DH is ex forces and didn't like the mess grub so started cooking when on leave. He also eats red meat and I don't so if wanted it he cooked it.

It evolved from there as a teen and now 30 years later he's cooking for all 5 of us but not cleaning up

Mine is far better cook than me and does 90% of it I’d say. I’m more likely than shove something in the oven. I’m trying to learn, there’s a few things I do really well but most of the time I hate my own cooking.

When I lived on my own for a few years I cooked a lot and really enjoyed learning and trying things for myself but I’ve lost my confidence somewhere along the way. I get a bit panicked if there’s lots of ingredients or different timings. I’d struggle to do a roast dinner for example, I’d have raw meat and hard potatoes! Hosting Christmas dinner gives me the fear.

Yes, although he doesn't clear up after himself, which for me is - albeit the worst part - an important part of cooking!

On his online profile it said he used to be a chef, so that was a big tick. However, if he'd mentioned that he uses every pot and pan in the house and leaves a trail of oily footprints across the kitchen floor, it might have made me think twice

Honestly though, I don't want another child to look after, if he couldn't fend for himself for a day I'd find that a massive turn off. I do wonder if some of these women like being needed, as if having to sort out food for him means that he wouldn't survive without her, therefore won't ever leave her?!

Mine is pretty good. Not cordon bleu standard or anything but usual family fayre. He'd still probably be tempted to grab an oven pizza if he were just in by himself though, he loves that shit.