Do you make, fix, or cook your dinner? (grill, pizza, broil)

[Coldjensens]

Order.

Go out for.

Wait and hope someone else makes

Just have cereal for


That pretty well sums up our household.

[kokonutty]

Current poll results indicate one in five here have broken their meal and need to repair it. I screw it up occasionally but certainly nowhere near that often. Who'd have guessed?

[kokonutty]

Originally Posted by Zoisite

Ha. It's not redundant in my house. My guests always know I never stint on an unexpected number of unusual goodies and extras to choose from and they'll be in for elaborate surprises every time they come to my house for a "big (whatever) dinner with all the fixings". Fixings here means everything but the kitchen sink and then some more exotic treats on top of that, that's in addition to all the usual traditional servings.

The fixings you listed to put on a cheeseburger are about half or less of what I'd offer guests to choose from if I was serving up cheeseburgers.

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Hmm, shouldn't that be "serving down?" After all, the plates are put down on the table not up in the air.

[orbiter]

Cook, or prepare dinner.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by hertfordshire

I use all three interchangeably.

Same here.

[cebuan]

I said "cook" because it best implies a significant amount of non-pre-packaged elements, and at least heating them up..

For my mother, "fixing" dinner meant tearing open the half-pint milk carton and getting a fork out of the drawer for her meals on wheels.

"Making" breakfast can mean pouring the milk on the corn flakes.

[debey]

Make or cook

[Debsi]

Wow, I'm really enjoying all these viewpoints! I especially enjoyed posts likes these where there is such specificity about what the different words mean.

Originally Posted by Southern man

We cook supper, but we fix lunch.

Originally Posted by southbound_295

I fix meals unless it's something like Sunday dinner, Christmas dinner, etc. (Those are makes)

When you fix the meal you are getting the foods together. It may or may not involve cooking. Having leftovers? Yes, you might be reheating the food. You aren't making it.

Originally Posted by cebuan

I said "cook" because it best implies a significant amount of non-pre-packaged elements, and at least heating them up..

For my mother, "fixing" dinner meant tearing open the half-pint milk carton and getting a fork out of the drawer for her meals on wheels.

"Making" breakfast can mean pouring the milk on the corn flakes.

[Ketabcha]

I "fix" meals.

I also say "I'm fixin' to go to the store."

Pure Texas, y'all.

[mommy2be1053]

I tend to say make most of the time. Every now and then, cook slips out of me and I seem to say that when it's a roast I'm cooking. I never say fix. In fact, I was confused when I heard someone say that in reference to their dinner. Often think of that word as a southern thing when people talk about fixing dinner.