Husbands who cook ??‍?

My husband does all the cooking, and menu planning. He enjoys it but says he feels a bit guilty at ‘taking over’. I don’t mind as he is a very good cook. In this cold weather he also makes soup for lunch most days. He makes a very good scone too! I still make bread and occasionally cakes and I do cook the odd meal, just to keep my hand in.

Oh, and he clears up as he goes along too! I’m very lucky to have him.

Mine can but as I’m retired and, as he prefers to work than retire, I am the provider of meals. He’s good and able when I ask him to be my sous chef, but he never voluntarily offers. When he does retire I am going to have a chat with him about dishing out the household chores more equally and I will have to learn to shut my eyes and mouth when he doesn’t do things “properly”!

I allowedDH to do the ironing after did once AND only once! criticise my ironing of his shirts.

My husband said he wanted to learn to cook when he retired. Started with baking cakes and I helped him with the basics. Since then his Mary Berry lemon tray bake is in great demand at the community centre coffee morning. He has then gone on to cooking our evening meal with great success. It’s lovely to share cooking.

My OH can cook two meals, sausages and cheese on toast, so I have to be ill for only 48 hours!

DH is doing lunch today. That'll be beans on toast and if I'm very lucky there might be a poached fried egg on top.

DH does cook but not often and has a limited range :-)

He's always happy to peel, chop and other prep things such as putting things in the correct bins and clearing kitchen.

It's taken some training but happy now with the division of labour.

We used both to cook and DH is as good a cook as I am, but since he broke his collar-bone and is going through the "help I've retired " male syndrome, he hasn't cooked for ages.

I'm trying to get him back into the kitchen because he likes cooking.

Exactly the same for me Stella14.

Husbands who cook? Where can I get one of those?
Mine thinks he's helping if he makes a cuppa! And that's only once in a blue moon!

Mine will cook but it's usually dreadful. Yesterday he did a roast dinner with fast roasted belly of pork so tough, carrots almost raw, mushy cauliflower cheese, burned roast potatoes, rock hard Yorkshire puddings the frozen type, and lumpy instant gravy. Wish he didn't bother as if it's a fried meal it's swimming in grease too.

My husband could cook a few dishes when I met him but they soon disappeared and he left me to do the cooking. Since we retired he has cooked breakfast and made sandwiches for lunch sometimes but most cooked meals have been left to me. He does make the most delicious scrambled eggs. For the last two months I have been unable to stand or walk much so he has had to take over shopping and cooking duties. So now we have mostly ready prepared food which we would never have had before. But he does add extra cheese etc and I am not complaining. This last week or so I have been able to get around a bit better and have prepared a few meals and even managed to walk at the supermarket but I am determined that he can carry on preparing and cooking some of our meals even when I am better.

Mine is an excellent cook and therefore, makes all the meals. I bake, but I’m hopeless at cooking. The snag is, he has ruined me for any other chef. If we eat out, it’s never as good as his dishes. That takes the shine off holidays, but
I certainly can’t complain. The price to be paid is that he leaves the kitchen like a bomb site!

When I first met my husband he couldn't even make a cup of coffee - his mother did all the cooking at home and he survived on take-aways and junk food when he went to uni - so I taught him the basics, but still did most of the meal planning/shopping/cooking myself.
After the arrival of our two children, when I went back to full time work, he started to cook a little more as long as there was a recipe and all the ingredients were to hand.
Then four years ago I was diagnosed with a brain tumour and he took early retirement, so he has gradually taken more and more responsibility for cooking our meals. It was difficult at first and the kitchen did resemble a disaster zone, but he has improved over time. So much so that now he does all the cooking and most of the clearing up. However, he does love a gadget and our stock of knives, rice cookers, egg slicers, mandolins, graters, garlic presses, pots and pans keeps expanding. I still do most of the meal planning, but in this last year he has started to search for recipes online - we had a really good made-from-scratch chicken curry last night - I just had to show him how to peel and grate the fresh ginger.
Friends say I'm so lucky, but they won't let their husbands into their kitchen, complain about the extra mess he uses every pan, critisize and belittle their efforts - is it any wonder their husbands don't cook?

"Take over the kitchen" is a funny way of putting it.
I remember a schoolfriend of one of my DD describing her father as 'the kitchen man'.

Haha Hilly well, he showed resourcefulness and you do get a Chinese meal out of it.

Seems mixed then, some DH’s do no cooking or very little, a few do it all ( they must be the ones from Escape To The Country) and some do half.

My husband is 86 and the only thing he cooks if you can call it that is poached eggs or omelettes but I don't mind

When we first married (over 43 years ago) I told my husband that Friday night was my night off from cooking and it was his job to get us a meal. So every Friday we have..... a Chinese takeaway!
What annoys me is that he dumps the takeaway in the kitchen and expects me to dish it out. I made an issue of it once by cooking our meals and then leaving them in the pan for him to dish up. After a few nights he got the message and helped dish up. For a while anyway.

My DH took over the cooking when he retired and since having operations he has taken over all the housework and washing and ironing. The kitchen is his domain and drawers and cupboards are arranged to suit his needs.

DH does nearly all the cooking and also makes bread and kefir. He does the ironing, & cleans bathrooms and floors. Mostly we shop together but DH can do this on his own. When we met, he couldn't do much around the home - he just learned it! (Though we can both do simple jobs, neither of us is a DIY-er but we know when to get someone in!)

"Take over the kitchen" is a funny way of putting it. We both cook, sometimes together, sometimes separately. Neither of us regards the kitchen as their domain, any more than the bathroom is!

Baubles, I live on snacks. Whatever, whenever. Bliss. paddyanne I now see you as a cool cook!

My DH took over cooking duties several years ago when he was made redundant and I was in a challenging job and worked long hours.
When I was about to retire I did say that I was happy to take up the position of chief cook again but he was by then really into cooking and had even slightly reorganised the kitchen! I must admit, that irritated me a bit.
He's quite an adventurous cook and really enjoys it. I suppose after 35 years of cooking for a family, I was happy to let him take over. ?
Nowadays, I do the batch cooking for the freezer and any baking and he does the rest. It suits us.

My husband never does any of the cooking - I am so envious of those that have hubby’s that share the cooking.

This week I asked DH to pop a pie (home-made) in the oven and cook some ready prepared veg whilst I was at choir practice. His face showed signs of panic, vegetables? No he could not possibly manage them. He could open a tin of baked beans!
If necessary, if I go out, he will cook pasta and heat a tub of shop bought sauce and make enough mess, you would think he had cooked a banquet. After fifty six years of cooking I could do with a break!