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 of course he can. It's pretty pathetic if a grown man can't cook at least a few meals. Women who leave food for their DHs when they go out or away are just enabling this lazy behaviour

Yep, and he does 80-90% of the cooking at home.

DH does all the cooking in our house. He's much better at in than me and loves it, I absolutely hate it!

My boyfriend CAN cook, but he doesn't often. I love cooking so do it most of the time. He's v capable though.

Mine can if he needs to.. but hes very slow and gets timings wrong. Hed cook rather than me "leave him oven food" tho.. but ad a general rule i cook... theres jobs he does that i dont if i dont need to though

I like cooking and can rustle something up from the cupboard or fridge that would be good.

Husband can cook but he wouldn’t look at recipes or think what we could eat. He’s good at what he does cook but he’s not that interested.

Yes DP can cook, and he's a good cook . I wouldn't be attracted to a man who can't cook. It just spells 'lazy & entitled' to me, as anyone can learn it doesn't have to be to gourmet level.

Never a meal on the table for you..? Men that have to be over-facilitated. .just no, thanks

Yes, of course he can cook. He lived in self catering halls at University, he lived on his own before we got together & he had a great mum who raised him with the skills to cook (his Dad died young). However, I really don't like the way he cooks, nothing wrong with his theory but it's just not the way I cook, neither of us is right or wrong, he probably doesn't like the way I cook. He likes to cook a lot of fish which I don't eat .... I tend to do most of the cooking as I work p/t & DH works long hours with a lot of travelling; we have agreed that he will do the cooking when we retire (only a few years away) but in all honesty I will suggest that we just cook separately. I am bored senseless with home cooked from scratch meals every single night after 30+ years of marriage & would just prefer a plate of cheese & a glass of wine.

DH can't. He was in boarding school till 18, then joined the RAF straight away and ate all his meals in the mess. To be completely honest, I'm not even sure he could manage an oven pizza, because he's never had to do it.

He does most of the cleaning though, and I like cooking. So it's a fair trade I guess.

@SoyDora both my parents tried their hardest to teach me to cook, I just couldn't be arsed!

Chips, crisps and booze was my diet when I lived alone. It's a miracle I never got scurvy.

I bake and create a lot of new dishes but DH is perfectly capable of cooking and making all standard meals (fajitas, lasagne, cottage pie etc) I do the cooking as I love it

He can cook brilliantly, his baking on the other hand (bread or cakes) is abysmal despite numerous lessons.

Yes he can. He's a better, more patient and more adventurous cook than me. He understands flavours and how they work with each other. He can rescue things that have gone wrong.
I, on the other hand, can cook but hate doing so and will avoid it if at all possible.

I wanted to put him on a TV show Can't Cook, Will Cook, he can make a three day event out of anything. Once when I was ill I suggested that he got a batch of spag sauce out of the freezer, defrost and reheat in the microwave and cook some pasta, Two and a half hours later we had pasta and almost cold sauce, the kitchen looked like the Somme.

Fiancé can cook when he can be arsed. I do most of the cooking and cleaning because it has to be just so.

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

Well I can read but whenever I cook it's at best tasteless, at worst inedible. It takes practice and that's a lot of inedible meals to throw in the bin in the mean time...!

There's the ability to cook, and the ability to cook anything remotely appetising. You almost certainly wouldn't want to eat this twat's cooking!

DH can cook or I would not have married him in fact he is a better cook than I am. There is no excuse for not being able to cook, if you can read and follow instructions then you can cook.

Yup mine can. His mother is an excellent cook and no one matches up. Very local dishes and loads of milk based desserts. She hand milked 19 cows 2x daily and had 5 kids in 5 years. All her kids can cook.

Come hell or high water every child and grand child of mine will cook.

DD13 is the most resistant of my 4. I now work full time so they're learning a lot faster. Results are mixed but they'll all get there.

My husband can cook in that he can feed himself and the children. That may be oven food, but at the end of the day, many families live on oven food/simple food and there are plenty of women who can only do oven food and crucially- only WANT to do oven food. Not every wants to cook from scratch. Plenty of people are happy eating convenience food because it's, well, convenient.

Personally I love cooking and do 90% of it at home because of that. But that's not because dh won't it's because I want to.

Mine is very good at cooking. But then since he is a chef I'd be worried if he wasn't good at cooking

DH and DS both love cooking, we often cook as a family, or one of them will take the reins. I think because we are all foodies it helps, but we all have our specialties. DH is great at roasts, and traditional English and Irish dinners, DS does Mediterranean cuisine, and I am good at concocting new recipes.

DH is a better and more adventurous cook than me. He was fussy until he got his 20's apparently and then taught himself

My DH is a brilliant cook and is always trying out new recipes and inventing his own. We share the day to day cooking, but he's always the one who cooks when we're entertaining and he loves to pull out all the stops.

I don't think I could be in a relationship let alone married to someone who couldn't cook or didn't have the inclination to learn. To me it's an essential life skill and there's no reason why men shouldn't be able to cook as well as women in this day and age.

Yes!

DP is a chef and a bloody good one at that! But as he cooks all day he’s reluctant to do it at home too often

Dh is currently batch cooking his world famous curry