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 he can and does cook very nice food. He usually cooks on a weeknight but can do a pudding. He has never done a roast, we don’t have them that often. The main reason he does not cook more is that he would be happy to cook the same 7 meals in rotation as he does not enjoy shopping or meal planning.

My DH does that without any problems, he does all the cooking, due to my disability.

Yes. He doesn't particularly enjoy cooking/complex recipes, and if it were up to him he'd eat pasta & pesto or beans on toast several times a week. However, he knows I like a bit of variety, and appreciate dishes that take a bit more effort, so he will regularly cook things like lasagna and moussaka.

He always cleans/tidies as he cooks, much more so than I do.

Yes, mine is a marvelous cook and he cleans up after he has finished cooking .
He cooks everyday for us all, now he has retired , he does enjoy it though and as l cooked and cleaned up for 36 years so l think it's his turn now

Yes. He does use a LOT of pans, but usually only because Melissa Clark/Ottolenghi has told him to. He's actually an AMAZING cook and it's only of the reasons I lurrrrve him. Sorry for being a smuglord! But you did ask.

He can. I can't.

(To be clear, I don't know where stuff is in our kitchen - I don't get a temper!)

Definitely yes to the main course. He doesn’t generally bake - I think he could do a sticky toffee pudding but I like baking so would probably do that. I think expecting one person to do a roast and desert all by themselves is a fairly big ask - I would be annoyed if I was expected to produce two courses without any help.

I'm no longer anyone's husband, but I can certainly cook without a fuss. But then I did live on my own for 8 years before I lived with a partner/wife, so I had to be able to. I can use a washing machine and an iron without a fuss, too.

As my late ex-father-in-law used to say, I wouldn't call anyone a man who can't keep himself clean and his belly full. Just being biologically male doesn't qualify: you have to be a functioning adult, too.

Not sure about the pudding as we don’t really eat it but yes, he can and does just get up and whip up a ( very decent) meal; cleans up as he goes most of the times too

Yes, although he has never baked and we don’t often have puds so I wouldn’t ask him to make a STPudding.

The kitchen would be immaculate afterwards (i am the messier cook) but I would have to help with the location of less used ingredients. I’d also have to have meal planned and bought the actual food. Which is half the work really.

He gets home at 7.30pm earliest, so I probably cook 6 out of 7 nights.

Absolutely God no lol
We got together very young and I’ve always cooked. He’d have no idea. We are early 40s.

But that’s also been because I enjoy cooking. He would struggle by if he had to.

DH is a terrible cook and I'm a fussy eater so I prefer to cook (and also enjoy it). However, whenever he does cook he is always clean and tidy and leaves the kitchen spotless. I'm the messy cook and so we even though I usually cook, he does the cleaning.

DH cooks and cleans the kitchen without my input. In payment we have to spend an hour saying how delicious it was and analysing how it was different/better than the last time he cooked 🤣

Not that specific meal but then TBH neither could I. We both cook equally for the family though, maybe him slightly more. I'm a bit messier but a bit more elaborate/ aim higher/ try new things more meal wise. His cooking is lovely and reliable though.

Yes, my DH and I both cook, but my DH has better organisational skills in a kitchen than I do. He cooked a lovely dinner for 7 adults and 5 children for New Years Eve with no fuss, he cleaned the kitchen as he went along, and no asking me where things were. He cooks a lot of our every day meals (I cook some, too, but have some chronic health issues meaning I'm sometimes too tired). It's just a normal part of being an adult.

He could make a roast if I asked but I like doing that. He makes things like paella and bolognese and he is an excellent cook. Always cleans. I am the baker in the house.

My husband can’t and won’t cook. I do the cooking and he does the cleaning up. I make quite a lot of mess.

Yes DH is the main chef in our house and cleans up the kitchen. Including Christmas Dinner and puddings. He enjoys it. I do most of the other household chores. Our son worked in a kitchen during his Alevels and now loves cooking for his house mates at Uni 😊

Yes mine can.

But your description of your husband reminds me of my dad. I could genuinely tell you every time my dad cooked when I was a kid as he made such a meal of it, pun definitely intended!

DH can cook but tends to leave pans and roasting tins in the sink to soak rather than deal with immediately.

I've never attempted a roast dinner. He cooks roasts, curries, is a mean baker, makes fantastic chocolate fondants, banoffee pie, sticky toffee pudding, all sorts of chicken dishes, casseroles, cottage pie, lasagne from scratch etc etc. Never asks for help - but I do all the washing up.

Yes, my husband is the main cook and finds it relaxing. I don't care if he uses loads of saucepans, utensils etc which I clear up because I get a fab meal. It can be a bit like ready, steady, cook for him as I'll often buy random things I fancy when I see them at the supermarket and he just smiles before turning them into something fab! I'm looking forward to boeuf bourguignon at the weekend 😋

No, he's hopeless and can't boil an egg without instruction. It's annoying. BUT he earns works long hours, earns a lot of money and I'm a sahm mum so I'll let him off.

Yes but I’ve started to tell him he could use fewer pans etc as it’s ridiculous

Imo a sticky toffee pudding would be much easier than a roast for an inexperienced cook. All you need to do is be able to read and follow a recipe! A roast requires getting lots of things with different cooking times ready at the same time!