So ladies do you allow your husband to cook? (health, coffee, breakfast)

[Bulldogdad]

Of course I allow myself to cook.

[tarragon]

Are you kidding?! I would be thrilled if my husband would cook. He can barely cook an egg.

[younglisa7]

Originally Posted by tarragon

Are you kidding?! I would be thrilled if my husband would cook. He can barely cook an egg.

LOL..me too. When my husband tries to cook an egg it looks like a tornado hit my kitchen

[springfieldva]

I do most of the cooking in our house for practical reasons (schedules, division of labor, etc.) but my husband is an excellent cook. He keeps the kitchen pretty neat and clean, too!

[NY Annie]

While I do most of the cooking around here, I love when he helps or simply tells me to take a rest and takes over. It is no more a matter of "letting" - how insulting the concept to think it's a matter of permission. If he lives there, he uses the kitchen. Since when does a woman own that room?

[tarragon]

Originally Posted by NY Annie

While I do most of the cooking around here, I love when he helps or simply tells me to take a rest and takes over. It is no more a matter of "letting" - how insulting the concept to think it's a matter of permission. If he lives there, he uses the kitchen. Since when does a woman own that room?

Apparently I own that room in my house! It bugs me that he doesn't know how to cook. I have taught all of my sons how to cook.

[SCGranny]

My poor DH didn't know what good cooking was - until he met me. His mother was the world's worst cook - her submitted 'recipe' for the Church cookbook was 4 pork chops, a cup of ketchup, two cups of water, put all in a pan, cook at 400F for 1/2 hour. His comment about why he never gained weight in her house was "carbon doesn't have calories".

I introduced him to the wonders of home-grown, home-cooked meals, homemade breads, cakes, cookies, and pasta. For 25 years I not only did the cooking and baking, but taught all of our children to do the same - from growing it thru killing and butchering it to cooking and canning it.


Then - DH was badly injured and crippled in a work accident. As he was recovering and I had to work more outside of the home, he started trying to cook. He thought it had to be easy - after all, he never saw me with a cookbook in hand or on the counter! His first attempts were <shudder> awful. But I smiled and told him to start researching recipes. Once he discovered recipes online, he started to really get interested. He took my whole-wheat bread recipe and worked on it every week until her perfected it. He suddenly started watching Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on TV and became inspired - no more gelatinous glop for him, no sir! He's learned about the different cuts of meat, how and when to tenderize, how to make the perfect rice, the difference between a marinade and a glaze...


Now he not only insists on cooking every night, but plans menus and does all of our baking. We haven't eaten store-bought bread in 5 years. Last year I bought him a baguette pan to make real French bread, and he's taken that to heart as well. Homemade pizza, and we even have appetizers... I gave one of his recipes for soy-lemon pork chops to a professional cook - and now she says that she makes them for her family at least every two weeks!


"Allow him to cook"? Why would I stop him? LOL He even insists that he's the only one who can load the dishwasher perfectly!

[younglisa7]

Originally Posted by NY Annie

Since when does a woman own that room?

When I first moved in with my DH, he said the kitchen is yours and it's been that way ever since. It's a good thing I love to cook

[ABQConvict]

I am a man in my late 30s and have found that most women in my dating life (even women in their 30s) had really no idea how to cook beyond a couple of dishes/recipes. Heating Lean Cuisine and baking fishsticks is not cooking! To top it off, one woman I was in a relationship with thought it was unmanly to cook. Needless to say I dropped her. What am I supposed to do, eat Hot Pockets for the rest of my life?

I come from a mostly-from-scratch cooking family, so naturally I do most of the cooking. :-)

[Dogmama50]

I'm married to a chef, he cooks at work, I cook at home. If I want to eat his cooking I go to his restaurant.