Husbands who cook ??‍?

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

"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!

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!)

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.

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 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

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.

"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'.

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?

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!

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 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.

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!

Exactly the same for me Stella14.

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.