So who does the cooking at your place? Everywhere I look it seems men are taking over the cooking duties.
Here it’s mostly me. My wife is an excellent cook but she gets home from work after I do so I try to have dinner ready. Also whoever cooks gets to choose the menu so I cook what I feel like eating. On weekends and for company she’ll cook up a feast.
If my kids are around they’ll cook us a meal and they are both also great cooks. My daughter worked a couple of years baking breads so she loves whipping up a batch of yeasty dinner rolls or deserts. And finally my son is like me-he cooks without recipes and is prone to experimenting
I’d have to say its evenly distributed.
The lovely and talented Ms. Tubercle is a tremendous cook but stays with traditional recipes where the Tubercle will stray into unknown territories from time-to-time ;D
Pretty much all me in our house. My wife has gotten better since we got married and can churn out a lasagna or a meatloaf on occasion but the bulk of the cooking falls to me. I cook all of the meals on the weekends. During the week she handles the hamburger helpers, chicken nuggets, or sometimes (if I’m lucky) cheeseburgers.
She made me eggs and bacon this morning since it’s my birthday but she was nervous about it. She did a good job on it though. Very tasty and I didn’t have to make it myself
My older son seems interested in cooking, but he’s only three so we’ll see how that goes.
Happy Birthday!
me, me and only me.
Me too. Though the wife is a strictly supervised prep cook.
My wife and I both. Cooking is very enjoyable for us. Our social life often centers around cooking for friends.
It is mostly me since I get home earlier, but she’s a good cook when she has time. Cooking together can be fun for us, and sometimes I’ll just sous for her.
Same here. My wife handles day-to-day cooking, while I’m the specialist. However recently we’re trying a new thing, where she does mise en place and I do the cooking. See, I’m terribly slow with mise and she just blows through it. Seemed to work pretty well last night when we made bacon-studded meatloaf.
Man, you’re lucky! My wife is terrified of da little buggahs.
They don’t have exterminators there?
I do almost all the cooking here, although my wife does bake some awesome cookies. She tries to help, but gets frustrated that I never have a recipe to follow, so that pretty much ends the help.
Corky, I’m in a similar situation. My wife is a great cook, but she generally works 8-10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Seldom gets home before 8 PM. Fortunately, I enjoy cooking as much as brewing (AAMOF, it’s what got me into brewing) so I do about 90% of the cooking. Along with laundry, cleaning, and shopping.
Cooking together can be fun for us, .
It can be sometimes for us also, but we also have some of our best and biggest fights over cooking methods. She still has trouble understanding that I am the culinary master of the house and she should just follow my advice ;D
But most of the time we’re a pretty good team and can work together almost instinctively.
Denny, my wife is a school nurse and is working on a masters in public health nursing. She has to work out of town one day per week for a class so the rest of the week she’s at the school until 6 PM to compensate for her time away. I can leave work by 3, go to the gym and the grocery store and have dinner cooked more or less by the time she gets home. I enjoy doing dishes, it’s quiet time for me and I’ll sip a very nice beer while I do the cleanup so she can write papers.
We split the duties around the homestead, although I take care of 95% of the outdoor cooking.
I do the lion’s share of the cooking. When I’m cooking, my wife likes to assist. I really enjoy cooking and I’m always planning my next recipe. Sometimes I’ll plan the next weekends meals to get a jump on it.
Pretty much all me in our house. My wife has gotten better since we got married and can churn out a lasagna or a meatloaf on occasion but the bulk of the cooking falls to me. I cook all of the meals on the weekends. During the week she handles the hamburger helpers, chicken nuggets, or sometimes (if I’m lucky) cheeseburgers.
She made me eggs and bacon this morning since it’s my birthday but she was nervous about it. She did a good job on it though. Very tasty and I didn’t have to make it myself
My older son seems interested in cooking, but he’s only three so we’ll see how that goes.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYGO! 8)
My wife does most of the evening time cooking, mostly as she’s at home earlier. I do most of the breakfast as I’m normally up significantly earlier than she is. All the baking is done by me.
The trend among brewers (and among brewers that post in the “about cooking” section of the brewforum!) is going to be markedly in favor of the brewer being the primary cook…such is my case. It’s a hobby for me as much as brewing is, and my wife can do basic stuff, she doesn’t enjoy it, so I do 90% of the cooking. She does baking and sweets, though, because she is more motivated by good old sucrose than I am!
yuppers, I am the cook. When my wife and I first moved in together we made a deal that I would do the cooking and clean up the kitchen and she would do all the rest of the house work. hasn’t really panned out that way what with school and her being pregnant/giving birth/taking care of the baby but it’s not too bad. She does the baking, making bread etc. And Mac and Cheese. I really like to cook so it’s not a problem for me. although lately I don’t get diner on the table until around 7:30 so we may have to adjust as the kid starts to eat with us.