Women can't cook................

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• so says \link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4370934.stm\foul mouthed Ramsay]

try again foul mouthed Ramsay

Fair enough ... I'll sit back and let dh do it all then.

arse.

According to the news this morning it was said after the results of a survey that states that 75% of women asked (who were they???) said they couldn't cook.

75% seems a huge amount. Who did they ask? What do they mean by being able to cook?

Don't like Ramsey anyway though!

Gawd love him....
twat.

Mrs Gordon Ramsey got owt to say about this????

he clearly didnt make it chez Enid

I'm gonna tell SherlockLGJ that you are slagging off her other half lmao

Oh God, why do they give him airtime?

Which women?

He is unavailable for comment.................

When the traction is removed and his jaw is un wired he may have an opinion, albeit a less controversial one.

he is so up his own arse

so, a few more men are doing a bit more cooking, and a few fewer women are doing a bit less cooking = Women Cant Cook?

yeah right.

I have to say that although I cook from scratch and dont have any ready meals in the freezer (I enjoy cooking and it is mostly cheaper) I have a lot of friends who dont cook.
AND this is both full time with no kids AND SAHM who dont cook....one of my friends is so useless at cooking that when her children were babies, DH used to cook on mass at weekend & then freeze for her during the week as he worked away from home.

this has nothing to do with upbringing though as my mum is useless at cooking and used to regularly burn the carrots for Sunday lunch

applies to my mum, mil & sil. fil asked me if my yorkshire puddings were home made or bought. didn't know whether to be flattered or outraged.

Nearly all, most of my friends can't cook.
All pre-cooked, shove in the microwave lasagne etc.
None of them can actually make lasagne.

I only know 3 who can manage a roast.
And thay can cook really well. Their mums did too - which I think explains it all.

My mum used to do dinner parties for 8 - beef encrout etc etc - 3 or 4 courses.
Without even blinking.

Now I can do a good roast, lasagne, shep pie etc etc.
But I can't to beef wellington and I can't do a top class dinner party for 8.

This GR thing is silly, but it is true that we are slowing losing all the cooking skills and experience.

And that really makes me sad

I can and cook well - and so does my dh. We will do anyting from making a stock to every day meals, to full blown gourmet dinner parties.

But I am 44 - and it does appear that younger people (and by that, I mean men as well as women) are losing the necessary skills.

I remember being shocked by a girl in the office about 7 years ago saying that she really did need Delia to go through the basics of how to cook an egg, as all she knew how to do was to read the insturctions on the back of a ready made meal and put it in the oven. . She would have been in her late 20s I reckon, and was not an unintelligent woman.

Interestingly, I learnt to cook via baking, as my mum was a working mum and din't have time to do every day cooking with me - but we did bake together at weekends. So I can follow recipes brilliantly (and cakes, pastries amd meringues are all easy as far as I am concerned) but it has taken me time to learn how to cook "instincitively" and to learn cuts of meat etc.

Whereas dh learnt to cook soups etc with his mum (also a working mother - but with 5 kids so they all mucked in) and worked in a butcher to help his BIL when he was at school, so was much more comfortable with throwing things together (although I have now caught him up on that! )