Can your other half cook well?
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No.6 in a range of mildly provocative sexist posts brought to you by Pistonheads during their Summer season of sexism
I believe Ms Carthage can do a bit as she regularly features in the Cooking/dining forum, but she doesn't live anywhere near and probably wouldn't entertain me regardless of that.
Anyhow (and as I'm cooking for a lady tonight) I got to thinking, it's been circa 12yrs since I dated a woman who can cook a decent meal, in order to eat well one has to either DIY or go out, what about you?
shirt said:
i've never dated a woman who can cook well. most of my male friends are better cooks than there OH's, there are exceptions to this.
however all the women i've dated have been top drawer at baking which is a skill i've never mastered, so swings and roundabouts.
Bake what out of interest?however all the women i've dated have been top drawer at baking which is a skill i've never mastered, so swings and roundabouts.
Looks like I'm the odd one out, my OH is a fantastic cook and makes probably 95% of the meals we eat.
I don't think I'm too bad but I'm nowhere near her level - I usually need a recipe whereas she can somehow invent things from scratch like its a masterchef challenge with unseen ingredients and somehow it turns out brilliantly.
I don't think I'm too bad but I'm nowhere near her level - I usually need a recipe whereas she can somehow invent things from scratch like its a masterchef challenge with unseen ingredients and somehow it turns out brilliantly.
t. only butters the middle of the bread and puts the tiniest amount of filling possible. Either I do the cooking or we go out/takeaway.My wife can cook well but rarely does.
She's a recipe follower....rather than someone who reads a number of recipes for the same thing and works out the underlying principles. This can result in a perfect meal or a disaster quite easily depending on how much attention is paid to following the recipe precisely.
Stuff she's cooked time and again she does extremely well.
She's a recipe follower....rather than someone who reads a number of recipes for the same thing and works out the underlying principles. This can result in a perfect meal or a disaster quite easily depending on how much attention is paid to following the recipe precisely.
Stuff she's cooked time and again she does extremely well.
She does most of the cooking in the house, so much so, if I'm cooking she takes over and tells me I'm not doing it correctly! All I need to do is keep her company and topped up with wine. My OH makes cheese on toast, and can put things in an oven to cook for an appropriate amount of time, but states that he can't follow recipes as he gets worried about forgetting something, or leaving something to cook too long while chopping ingredients up etc etc
I'm not a great cook by any standard but it's more lack of practice. I'd happily eat spaghetti bolognese every night of the week, so before we started dating I had a very limited set of recipes to work from. Nowadays I've managed to expand that, and continue to actively search for new recipes that I can test and learn to make, just so I'm not cooking the same old thing when he stays round.
I'm not a great cook by any standard but it's more lack of practice. I'd happily eat spaghetti bolognese every night of the week, so before we started dating I had a very limited set of recipes to work from. Nowadays I've managed to expand that, and continue to actively search for new recipes that I can test and learn to make, just so I'm not cooking the same old thing when he stays round.
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