Can your husband cook without a big fuss?

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For example could he make a roast dinner and sticky toffee puddding without trashing the kitchen, pestering you for help/asking where things were and without losing his cool?

Yes. My DH cooks 5 nights out of 7 anyway and he ALWAYS does the Sunday roast.

Yes he is an excellent and tidy cook but my god he is slow. So slow. He cooks at weekends only and does laundry in week or we wouldnt eat until 10pm

He's my XH now, but no...not a chance. There'd be major tantrums, shouting and slamming about and I'd have to go in and rescue it/him to make sure we all got fed. And on the odd occasion he did manage to make something nice we never heard the end of it...

DP can. He's an excellent cook and enjoys it, does dinner half the week, bakes and stuff. He clears as he goes and the kitchen is immaculate afterwards. I regard this as decent grown up functioning rather than anything that exceptional tbh.

My late dh was sometimes a perfectly decent cook (and made brilliant jam and marmalade) but fuck me he made heavy weather of it at times. Not bad at clearing up, it was more the NOISES.

Anything more complicated than beans on toast, no. And he wouldn’t even clean up after - just leave the stuff in the sink / on the table.

Of course, excellent cook. I couldn't imagine being attracted to a man who couldn't

The roast- Yes
He doesn't normally make cakes/pudding, so he likely wouldn't even know where the cake tins etc are kept.
He's just go a buy one if needed 😆

Yes he can , no problem.

No one in this house would bother making a sticky toffee pudding, but normal meal provision, yes, no problem. We tend to take it in turns.

When my husband cooks it’s elaborate, takes ages and he likes to add lots of chillies so the kids won’t touch it. He then gets cross no one appreciates his brilliance.

I usually choose to cook to avoid the above.

My DH absolutely could and he's a great cook and will tidy up as he goes and load the dishwasher up etc. I don't have to ask him to cook either. I do however plan the meals and the weekly food shops but otherwise he would get too many snacks! 😂

My ex DH was completely hopeless in the kitchen and would moan if he had to even make himself a sandwich for work!

Yes, he usually takes the lead and is a better savoury cook than me.

Yes of course, although he can get stressed serving up - there's a lot of us, he cooks at least 50% of the time

He cooks 3 nights a week. Doesn't fuss at all. He never cooks anything too complicated (think meat and two veg or something with chips) but not a grumble or complaint.

He can do a roast but not a sticky toffee pudding. He does make nice ginger cake though.

Mine does the vast majority of the cooking. He likes it and he's in before me.

He takes such a long time though, likes making faffy dishes but he cleans up after himself.

If I come in starving and he hasn't started yet I do something quick for myself. I don't have 2 hours in me if I'm hungry. Reheat what he makes the next day.

He's mint my husband.

nope, not a chance🙄

Yes to the roast, no to the pudding but pudding is not something we usually do.

The roast, yes. I'm sure he'd manage the sticky toffee pudding, he doesn't bake too much now I think about it.
He would clear up (usually) but there would be some stuff left undone.

Nope. But we have very different diets so eat separate meals anyway. The most cooking he does is frying a sausage or making rice in the microwave.

He cooks fine, doesn't usually bake much so the sticky toffee pudding I would be a bit unsure about how good it would be first time but he would give it a go. But he could find a recipe and follow that.

But meals, of course, he is adult so would be concerned if he wasn't capable of making a meal without having his hand held.

He does more of the cooking than I do at the moment as my health has been lousy.

No. I do the majority of the cooking. There's a few meals we will have that he likes to cook. Sticky toffee pudding isn't something either of us would make from scratch.

Absolutely, I haven't cooked a meal for years, OH is better at it and generally enjoys it more.

DH could definitely do that, although he would use every possible pot, pan and utensil. He would also load the dishwasher afterwards.

He regularly cooks a lot more than I do as he enjoys it

DH could do a roast, but he wouldn't make a pudding from scratch. His cooking and cleaning skills are 'good enough' rather than excellent, but he is very good at things I can't do at all, so no complaints from me.

Yes, I've never made a roast, we have a Sunday roast probably once a month and he always makes it - he also cooks Xmas dinner. He can bake, he could make a pudding and often bakes a cake or biscuits at weekends. He makes excellent home made bread. He can follow a recipe and enjoys cooking.
What he is no good at is meal planning - so I tend to plan what we'll have, shop for it all and then just send him a link to the recipe so he can make it. He probably does 50% of the cooking but none of the meal planning or food shopping.