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 could.

No my husband hates cooking. It stresses him out. I love it though so doesn't bother me.

My SiL and MIl hate cooking (not related to each other) but their husband's both love it.

I don't think it's a male/female thing. I think it's a person thing!

He'd absolutely embrace it willingly. He'd trash the kitchen but would clean up afterwards with no fuss.

He'd probably buy the sticky toffee pudding. Doing both at the same time might be a step too far...

Dh is the better cook by miles, cooks when he’s home from work in time because otherwise my family would never get a decent meal but he does leave a huge mess and uses it as a reason as to why he shouldn’t clean up/ why he’s wrecked. He does all the eg Christmas cooking, Easter dinner etc. I’m so jealous!!!

Not particularly. He's not much of a cook and is severely dyslexic so following recipes can be tricky for obvious reasons. He just doesn't really enjoy it whereas I do.

He's ok at food shopping though, great at other housework like hoovering, stacking dishwasher after tea, and does all the laundry. I'd much rather cook as I am the better cook so it doesn't bother me.

That said, he does know enough to make a simple pasta dish, an omelette, veg and meat tray bake etc. So he can manage when I'm ill or laid up with an injury.

@Starlight1984 Yeah definitely similar in our house 😊 DH is good and isn’t too experimental if young DC are also eating but if it’s just him and I sometimes he gets a bit wild flinging in stuff that he finds 😂

Yes, my husband cooks but it has taken a lot of training! 🤣

A few tips, my husband loves to BBQ, now we have bbq once a week even in winter.
It’s worth persevering, the only way to become better is practice. When he started I did not make myself readily available so he would figure it out. Also when he asks me for help, I would always ask him what he thought would be the right thing.
Im with you on the mess, DH uses 5 pans when 1 would do. We have a rule, one cooks and one cleans but I do like to point out that I clean as I go and he leaves a disaster.

Yes. He's an excellent cook, loves cooking and is far tidier than me (in the kitchen and in general). He's also very unflappable when cooking complicated things or for lots of people. He always cooks when we have guests and at Christmas and enjoys making fancy things from scratch.

Yes. He loves cooking and if he makes a mess he cleans it up

Yes. I do the everyday healthy boring stuff.

He cooks fun stuff like Sunday roasts, Christmas dinner, spectacular puddings and cakes. He cooks whenever we have people round, as I tend to get in a flap. He also cooks sometimes if I'm really tired after work and really can't be arsed.

It actually works out quite well!

I wouldn't know

Yes, although I'm a better cook. He's not bad though.

No chance. He can make brunch and freezer food.

Mine would probably manage to burn a boiled egg. But I like cooking and he does the majority of the household chores so this blindspot doesn't bother me. He's also far less messy in general than I am.

I think my DH would be horrified if I tried to make a meal now 😂. He’s a much better cook than I am, and enjoys it immensely.

DH does most of the cooking, all of the shopping and most of the loading of the dishwasher. He will use every pan in the kitchen for a fancy meal, but as he clears up after himself, it's no skin off my nose! And it's all delicious.

No, definitely not.

He couldn't microwave a dinner himself

I am a widow now but yes he absolutely could. Not sticky toffee pudding because we both loathed it.

My Dh is the cook in our home. He’s a really good cook (he’s hot too 😂).

Yes he does all the cooking and loves to cook (unlike me!)

My exP rarely cooked and I did all the day in, day out shopping and feeding the kids etc, to a budget. Despite rarely doing it he thought he was god's gift to cuisine. So he did cook sometimes usually when people were coming round.

The kitchen was trashed and every item used and left in a mess. But what drove me even more mad is that he'd go on a special shopping trip and buy absolutely everything for this one meal, regardless of whether we already had it in, and giving no thought to buying the right size, looking for bargains etc therefore spending ££££££££.

Then his elaborate showy cheffery would take hours so it wouldn't be ready until late at night.

Then he would insist on "plating" it and dicking around adding garnishes etc so you had to wait even longer as it went cold.

Finally you would eat the fucking thing and he'd constantly fish for compliments and act like he deserved a medal.

note the "ex"!

Those things? No. Well, he probably could but he never has, I always do roasts. But loads of other things absolutely yes. He cooks more than I do.

That specific meal, no, because he doesn’t do baking but the roast would be good. I expect he’d check a few details here and there but he’d be okay.
If it was just a normal teatime, he’d just get on with it no worries. Annoyingly he’s never home early enough and I can’t remember the last time he cooked so it’s all hypothetical!

Yep, my DH trained as a chef but had to stop because he became disabled. Despite a high level of impairment he still cooks a few nights a week with some help and supervision and really enjoys it.