To feel that sad that basic cooking skills are dying out

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Me and my brother were taught to cook by my gran and mum. Dad used to cook too but worked away a lot so wasn't around as much.

So many people now seem to be incapable of basic food prep and spend a fortune on food. Cooking seems to be an undervalued life skill, I think its so important to have the skills to be able to prepare simple cheap healthy meals.

I have taught my teen to cook and she could fend for herself if she left home tomorrow. She can cook healthy cheap meals.

I see so many threads on here where people can't boil rice, boil an egg etc

I quite like peeling potatoes and it is the one job everyone in the house ( Dd, Ds and DH) will volunteer for and do uncomplainigly, especially on a warm summer's day outside with a bucket of water.

I went to a girls Convent school in the 80's ( lots of 2nd generation Irish- big families). It was absolutely expected in home economics that we could already peel and chop vegetables, understood what for example " browning the mince" or "separting an egg" might mean. I remeber in yr7 having to write an essay on the different types of pastry and give examples of when I would use each one.

Oh dear. Just shows how different people are. Just the thought of it is enough for me.
I very occasionally cook a dish with sweet potatoes. I have to peel and chop them one night and cook them the next night. The whole thing in one go is too much for me.

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I'm an 80s child and my sister and I would always be tasked with peeling and chopping vegetables. I have fond memories of pickled onion night. Mum would arrive home with a sack of shallots, boil up a huge vat of vinegar and spices on the stove. My sister and I would peel the onions like this 😭and cover them in salt to sit for the night. It was nice. Cooking and food preparation has been a part of family life since the beginning of civilisation.

Probably been hated by many people for millennia as well.