Husbands who cook ??‍?

My husband cooks most days. He says he really likes it! He is an excellent cook - from curries to stir-fries, from fish pie to pasta dishes. Also he makes a really good paella. Most of my friends are envious and keep telling me how lucky I am. I do really appreciate him. He also does the food shopping!!!I

My husband was a good cook and loved cooking, unfortunately he passed away in 2007. It was 2nd time round for both of us and in the 16 years we were together he cooked Sunday lunch every week plus one or two meals during the week if he was working at home. When it came to Christmas, I baked mince pies, Christmas cake but Christmas dinner .....my husband cooked, the full works, now my eldest daughter does Christmas dinner and I just assist.

mine does the cooking too if i do get in there to do some myself he takes over so i leave him to it , cant complain i suppose.

I'm lucky because DH generally takes it in turns with me to do the cooking. He also makes all the bread - the only shop bread we have is for making toast. On the rare occasions we have cake, I make that. But he does say we really need two kitchens so I can't get in his way!

My oh has aboutique 3 things that he can cook (badly). I have done 99.9% of the meals through our married life but now he has retired and I have gone on strike (still working). When he eventually drags himself out of his office to ask "what's for dinner?" he gets met with "whatever you are cooking"! Since his retirement u have cut back a little on the "house" stuff because I've always done it, worked and seen to the kids and now it's my turn to chill when I get home from work. It's been a shock to his system (and mine when he cooks) but after 40 years I've had enough. Good job there's peas and gravy granules around though other wise there would be no veg on a dry dinner

When I first met DH he served up an amazing homemade meat and potato pie which certainly impressed me. Two weeks later his Mum told me she’d made it! But he really does cook these days. He’s especially good at the 5:2 diet recipes.

Amazing how much interest this post has attracted! It's an age-thing I think. Most younger men know how to cook. My DH would do it if asked but he has no idea, keeps asking questions and is so slow that I may as well do it myself. I'd love someone to cook for me as I loathe it. When I win the Lotto the first thing I will get is a Chef.

My husband does all the cooking. He's lucky as he enjoys it. I however do not enjoy ironing, cleaning toilets, or hoovering but that's my job!

Oh - and I tend to do all the washing up ( because I enjoy it... ) and he does the shopping now. He started it when he retired from shift work and kept it up...

We have always had what I call an 'equal opportunity household'. I am very lucky in that my husband shares in all the tasks. We share the housework and the cooking more or less equally, depending on what else is going on. We share dog walks too with him doing morning, and me the evening. We each have our own 'tasks' though. He will do the ferret maintenance (we have 7) of hutches and playtimes and I'll do laundry and ironing. It sort of works for us ...

Some years ago he was made redundant & was at home for about 2 months. I bought him a men in the kitchen cookery course which he loved & he brought home some wonderful gourmet dishes. He did made a couple of them at home but when he went back to work it all stopped.
TBH I love cooking & I think I would resent him taking over 'my' kitchen.
He does toast etc. if he fancies it but if I am going out for the evening he buys himself a ready meal rather than cook. I'm sure he could manage if push came to shove though.
I have made sure my grandsons all know how to cook basic meals! ( & some not so basic )

Mine cooks but I had to show him how to make a cheese sauce. He doesn't really bake though, so that is still my domain.

I do all our cooking and have done for the last 15 years. Mrs lefthanded is a wheelchair-user and our kitchen is simply not wheelchair-friendly. If I have to make something from scratch then I need a recipe (I have all the Hairy Bikers' cookbooks!) but I do tend to use ready-made sauces for most things.

Mine will cook himself breakfast, as I really can’t stand the smell of cooking first thing. Sadly, that is the extent of his repertoire!

We share, and are good at different things, but both excellent and inventive cooks. Neither afraid to try something new. However, I never bbq as he is far better than I.

My husband is a very good cook (although he only cooks once a month now). He had to teach me to cook, when we first set up home, 40 years ago...I couldn't even make scrambled eggs then!

My husband has done all the food shopping for the last 20 years. It started when he retired but I was still working. At that time he volunteered to cook dinner every evening. Now we share the cooking, depending on who is at home at the right time.

My husband doesn't cook, but he likes to bake. The trouble is he takes hours over it. He made some good bread last week when I was ill but it lasted all day - he makes up his own recipes and if it doesn't work starts again.
He's good at clearing up though, and does most of the cleaning.

No No No - we do not want Mr Teetime in the kitchen- Armageddon!

My OH manages beans/eggs on toast and that's about it. If I pop my clogs before him he's in for a very limited diet!
He doesn't help in the kitchen, I watch in amazement when he is trying to find something in a kitchen cupboard, usually in the place it's been kept for years - can he find it? Nope!
I nearly fainted when he washed up after one meal at Christmas.

Glad to say both my sons are the opposite and can cook meals from scratch.

DH does 70% of the cooking, I do 99% of the cleaning up afterwards. We shop together.

My husband doesn't cook. I have a friend whose husband does all the meal planning, shopping and cooking. He is also an inventive cook. Oh how I envy her.

When DH retired 15 years ago he took over all the cooking and rearranged the kitchen. My role became cake and biscuit maker and washer upper.

To start with he followed recipes slavishly and put all the ingredients out in little pots and used every saucepan in the kitchen. Luckily that phase didn’t last very long and he’s now very inventive with ingredients and, as our kitchen is tiny, washes up a lot as he goes along.

The biggest advantage as far as I’m concerned is that if he’s cooking he needs to do the shopping. I hate food shopping! I only cook meals now when he’s really busy with something or sick. Works for us!

MrB is the main hunter gatherer as I dither in supermarkets whereas he’s in and out in a trice. He also likes doing the butcher, baker and greengrocer shopping however once he has dragged the bags into the kitchen it’s mostly my job to make meals from the contents. Until I started giving him a list it was a bit like Ready, Steady, Cook in our house.

He does take a turn a couple of times a week though and usually produces something edible.

My SiL does pretty much all the cooking for DD & family and my sister’s OH has always been the cook in their house.

I think I’d live on snacks if it were just me in the house, I often just can’t be bothered with the thinking about what to eat.

Just to add Mr PECS may not be a cook but he does do the clearing up, loading/ unloading dishwasher, the cups of tea/ coffee, the laundry ( inc changing the bed linen) and his own ironing. Our home is cleaned each week by a cleaner. We share that cost. Shopping is shared, bins are his job.. I plump the cushions & we do a pretty equal share of the DGC childcare ?