Do you enjoy cooking?

Don't really enjoy cooking, eat to survive 😂 other half is happy cooking, just as well!

I wish I had married a man who loved cooking

In a nutshell. No!

I have just made the first toad in the hole of autumn which we are having with baby potatoes and green beans and gravy.

I absolutely love cooking. At this time in our lives, I try to make one completely new (and sometimes quite complicated) dinner once a week. It doesn’t matter how good it is, we will never have it again, as there are too many good recipes out there to try before I die!!

I only enjoy cooking if someone else is doing it.

Sadly not. I cook from scratch, but have only myself to cook for.
My mother was a very indifferent cook, and I cooked as a teenager, simply because that was the only way to get food I enjoyed.
At 76, and on my own again, I cook only because I prefer hot food to cold.
I so wish that I had been blessed with a man (or indeed anyone) who enjoyed cooking and would have saved me the trouble, even if it was only sometimes!

No I don't! I wish I did but after 36 years of it I'm more than happy for someone else to do the honours 😅

My baking is almost always a disaster so I leave that to Mr D except in the matter of wedding cakes. (At least they were in tiers, so the failures could be replaced!!) And I really don't like cooking - unless it's for about 50 Guides over an open fire when I appear to be in my element! However, all of my offspring plus eldest granddaughter have been known to come home from work saying "I am soooo tired. I think I'll bake a cake to relax." I'm still trying to work out where I went wrong - or has it been self-preservation on their part?

DH and I used to cook together and often entertained friends - but I cleared up because he was imaginative and adventurous but SO untidy.
Nowadays, I find I do enjoy cooking, it's kind of calming doing something familiar. But apart from cooking for guests, for me alone it's batch cooking for the freezer of stews, sauces, veg dishes etc.

Bijou

I have always loved cooking right from the days of rationing. I still make my own bread and cook everything from scratch. The days of making six Christmas cakes however are past.
My children used to do French exchanges and could never believe my cakes didn’t come from a patisserie. My Danish pastries won competitions and when I moved the WI members said that now some one else would be able to win the marmalade competition. I also used to demonstrate yeast cookery. Trouble is my husband would never eat out. “Why eat out when you have a good cook at home”

I understand. I spend at least 4 hours a day in kitchen and dining room. We cook well, why spend money, leave home and be disappointed by food prepared not as we prefer and noisy restaurants?

I cook from fresh every day apart from a Saturday. Do I like cooking NO. It's just something I have to do to keep us fed lol I did a bit of baking when I was stuck in the house during covid. Although the majority of things turned out well, I never found it enjoyable. Stressful would probably be the adjective I'd use lol

Why indeed Bijou.

Never really enjoyed it so I gradually stopped cooking after 50 years of marriage and my husband has carried on since then. He had progressed very well and has no Plan to stop thank goodness, which suits me very well.

Aww, Bijou… never went out to eat? Your husband should have given you a day off here and there. Well, that’s all hindsight now. I bet your cooking, baking was fabulous! And you didn’t mind.
I would love ❤️ to dine with you.

I have always loved cooking right from the days of rationing. I still make my own bread and cook everything from scratch. The days of making six Christmas cakes however are past.
My children used to do French exchanges and could never believe my cakes didn’t come from a patisserie. My Danish pastries won competitions and when I moved the WI members said that now some one else would be able to win the marmalade competition. I also used to demonstrate yeast cookery. Trouble is my husband would never eat out. “Why eat out when you have a good cook at home”

No, I can’t say I enjoy cooking. I am not very adventurous, so it is
meat or fish and lots of veg. DH needed to follow a very basic regime so now I am on my own I can be more varied. I have never been any good at pastry, of making complicated recipes. I make a nice lasagne but might use a jar for one of the sauces to make life easier.

Love any kind of cooking/baking, especially at this time of year. Jam, Christmas cakes, get the oven on and radio 4. Heaven!!

No… I eat to live 🤦‍♀️

When my husband was alive and our home was open house to 'all and sundry' I loved cooking and knowing my efforts were well received. However, now there is only me, I hate having to bother and the endless T.V. cooking programmes leave me cold. Don't know why every Channel flogs them to death!!

I (guess 🤨) I can forgive the people that hate to cook or have cut back on cooking due to being single or find it boring or are impaired.

But it just blows my mind to know there are people who hate to eat! What??? What DO they eat? They must be very unhappy.

I love to cook and bake - for friends and family and myself… from start to finish. The kitchen is the heart and hearth of home. The most important room in the house. Nothing better than breaking bread together at your table, whether at home or out.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

I used to love cooking but after 40-odd years of almost daily meal preparation I am heartily sick of it - I've totally gone off it. For the last ten years I've stuck to very simple meals which require little preparation.

I try to eat reasonably healthily but I don't pore over recipe books like I used to.

Not really, have more interesting things to do.

I absolutely hate cooking, I have been doing it for 50 years and now that it’s only the two of us if I can get out of it I will.

I used to, trained and did it for a living at one point for an agricultural college, but now I am decrepit, standing to cook gives me so much pain and nausea, by the time I have done it I don't want it anyway ... I can't stand processed meals so am living on toast and sandwiches now to be honest.

I did at one point try to find someone who cooks anyway, to do one plate extra 5 times a week and they would have got £3 for each one (this was years ago so would have been well worth it), but couldn't find anyone!

I love cooking but don't really do any. 1. I have had several nasty accidents due to a medical condition 2. I've been married to a (now retired) chef for getting on 40 years - and he wants to do all the cooking.

He had to survive last week as he had a torn retina mended and couldn't cook, but between me, my FinL and our son, plus a takeaway we managed.