Do you know anyone who doesn't understand the basics and/or just doesn't care? (grill, pancakes)

[daylux]

I love cooking and learning new recipes and getting them to taste just right and watch people enjoy them.

My sister-in-laws idea of deviled eggs is to boil them, cut them in half and put them on a plate. She doesn't even put salt and pepper on them. Another sister-in-law doesn't add salt (or any seasoning) to her dishes when she cooks. As food cooks, it needs salt and other seasonings throughout the process or else the flavors don't develop. I end up over-salting her food and it just tastes like salty bland food.

These guys make me look like Julia Childs. Or maybe they are just smart; being purposefully bad cooks they are never asked to prepare anything.

[gentlearts]

I think the younger generation is pretty clueless about cooking. To me, it is laziness and/or lack of interest. My sons have had 3 wives and none of them could cook. I do not get how come females these days can't or won't cook. IMO, if you can read, you can cook, so it's just laziness.

[Ginge McFantaPants]

I guess some people just don't like cooking and have no interest in learning. Personally, I think everyone (male and female) should be capable of putting a decent meal on the table. There's really no excuse not to.

[Ohiogirl81]

My spouse was not a cook. He could grill meats, and he could make pancakes, gravy and scrambled eggs. He simply had no interest in cooking.

As for salt, that's a personal preference and has nothing to do with one's ability to cook. I don't add salt to food, unless I'm baking.

[ScarletG]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

I think the younger generation is pretty clueless about cooking. To me, it is laziness and/or lack of interest. My sons have had 3 wives and none of them could cook. I do not get how come females these days can't or won't cook. IMO, if you can read, you can cook, so it's just laziness.

It has nothing to do with the younger generation. I know teenagers and 20 somethings that are phenomenal cooks and I know women in their fifties and sixties that can't boil an egg and men of that generation that that cooking is beneath them and little wifey needs to do it.

Does that mean your generation is lazy? I don't get how any person no matter their gender chooses not to know how to cook the basics....but it happens.

[brocco]

who taught you to cook?

i do well with cooking but my mother also showed me lots of things in the kitchen growing up

[jade408]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

My spouse was not a cook. He could grill meats, and he could make pancakes, gravy and scrambled eggs. He simply had no interest in cooking.

As for salt, that's a personal preference and has nothing to do with one's ability to cook. I don't add salt to food, unless I'm baking.

I disagree about salt. Food tastes funny without saly added in the cooking process.

As for people not carimg? I think it comes from not having "role models" aka people around them do not cook so they aren't in the habit and do not have experience with it.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

My spouse was not a cook. He could grill meats, and he could make pancakes, gravy and scrambled eggs. He simply had no interest in cooking.

As for salt, that's a personal preference and has nothing to do with one's ability to cook. I don't add salt to food, unless I'm baking.

It's the guy thing. Give them a grill or a cast iron pan and they can produce some edible food. Minus that, you could starve waiting the next meal.

[JobSeeker101]

I can cook spaghetti, steak, super easy stuff. I absolutely despise cooking though. Do I get a little sense of accomplishment? Yes, but the process of cooking kind of ruins my appetite. My grandma is the same way. She won't even eat her own cooking. My mother and father don't cook, so I never picked up on it. I would appreciate having a partner that doesn't mind cooking though. I don't mind a chore or two to make up for it.

[SoCalCpl2]

Both of my sons are great cooks.. They take after their old man....