Men who like to cook

[mrs rubble]

My fiancé is an ex chef and butcher. He cooks most of the time. He makes an absolute mess in the kitchen though! I have to interfere with the vegetables otherwise we wouldn't eat any.

[Els]

Yep. Don't recall my father ever cooking a single meal. I honestly don't think he'd know what to do.

 

On the extremely rare occasions Mum goes away without Dad my sisters fuss over him as though he was helpless.

 

My grandfather rarely cooked, but he was a surprisingly good cook when he did! He picked it up after retirement, probably.

 

Yeah, I think older generation men are less likely to cook - but that makes sense in the context of their time, when the men were breadwinners and the women were housewives. Doesn't make sense for younger couples where both partners work, though. I'll never understand why a woman would put up with a relationship where she worked as many hours as her partner but was expected to do all the cooking (unless he did all the cleaning).

[salparadise]

In my culture, men never went near the kitchen only to sit at the table and eat...The women would set the table. prepare the food, bring it out, clean it up, and all the men did was sit there, talk among themselves, and ask for stuff(from the women) if they needed it......It was a different time and those guys were good men that were major providers and worked extremely hard....

 

Same when I was a kid. It was a different world. We'd go to my grandmother's house (Appalachian mountains) to visit and all the men would sit out on the porch and talk about mining, trucks and car racing, and smoke, while the women cooked. They'd call the men to the table and the men ate while the women served. After the men finished they'd go back to the porch and the women would sit and eat. Kids could get a plate at any time but kids didn't eat at the table for these large family dinners.

 

The women then stayed at the table talking, peeling apples, or stringing beans for the next day. They churned butter/buttermilk, gathered eggs, milked the cows, slopped the hogs, canned vegetables, etc. They cooked on a huge wood stove that was probably eight feet wide. No electric appliances. Men were not involved in any aspect of preparing food. The kids would catch chickens for Sunday dinner and grandmother would wring their necks and we'd all help pluck.

 

My father could make a grilled cheese sandwich, but that was the extent of his cooking, and it was something of an undertaking for him to do that much.

 

My girlfriend and I are doing Thanksgiving together this year. The kids don't know it yet. Our kids haven't met each other before. I'll be making my cornbread-oyster-liver dressing but my daughter and I will be the only ones eating it. Just the thought of oysters and liver grosses the others out. It's truly wonderful stuff.

Edited November 14, 2016 by salparadise

[Popsicle]

I'll be making my cornbread-oyster-liver dressing but my daughter and I will be the only ones eating it. Just the thought of oysters and liver grosses the others out. It's truly wonderful stuff.

 

I would tear that up!

Sounds delicious to me.

[Birdies]

Just to offer a different perspective.... My ex loved to cook, but after a while, it started to seem like he'd rather do that than do just about anything with me. And you can't really help someone cook when they're super into doing it themselves, so it'd turn into him spending like 2 hours cooking, and me being elsewhere reading, watching tv, working out, etc. Then we'd eat, then bedtime. No real quality time together, but yummy food.

 

My current guy doesn't cook well, but he does love to spend time with me, which I vastly prefer!

[Osmium13]

I make a mean cheese on toast

 

I enjoy cooking... I just don't get much time to do it. When I do, I like making something Italian or Indian. Or just making a mess.

[Blackened Heart]

Cooking is a great skill, especially when you can do a variety of things. I love making ribeye steaks on a cast iron skillet, some baked potatoes, and broccoli. Can be a bit heavy but very good comfort.

 

When going light, I'll make an egg white omelette with onions, tomatoes, and spinach, lightly seasoned with some fresh cut strawberries on the side and a bit of spicy sauce on top. Very filling and only 250 calories

[Mr. Lucky]

I've been involved in some aspect of the restaurant business all my life. Worked around a number of very talented chefs and have shamelessly appropriated many of their recipes and shortcuts.

 

One thing I often do is make a double batch of the dinner I'm making and seal/freeze the other half. Nice to have the option some nights of going frozen to table in 15 minutes.

 

My wife admittedly has little talent or interest in cooking, it was evident early on. One of our family jokes is that even the covers and pages of her cookbooks are burned...

 

Mr. Lucky

[lucy_in_disguise]

I have a feeling millennials are better cooks on average than older generations, and men much more so. We have the benefit of cable cooking shows, the Internet, grocery delivery apps, and blue apron to inspire us, help us develop skills, and make the process more convenient, along with low marriage and birth rates to level out the playing field by gender. All of my boyfriends were reasonably capable. It's not that hard when you are following a recipe from blue apron with all your ingredients pre-selected and pre-measured.

Edited November 15, 2016 by lucy_in_disguise