Do you consider yourself a good cook?

Are you a good cook? Do you like cooking? Or, the wife, husband, partner does most the cooking? Do you like to experience new recipes?

 

I make a few things really, really well and I can grill just fine. My wife does the bulk of the cooking because she enjoys it and she's really good at it. She also likes getting me to try new things. And at the moment, she's in love with her new Instapot.

 

I can bring good food to the table I have a couple of recipes that are restaurant quality but I hate every minute of it. I absolutely loathe cooking.

 

I love to cook. All us boys learned from our Kentucky grandmother because she didn’t have any granddaughters to pass along that knowledge to. Just finished some lime-garlic chicken legs; cooked them in the marinade for about three hours in the Anova sous-vide setup.

(Side note: All y’all need to get yourselves a damn Anova.)

 

My wife enjoys cooking, planning the menu, and gardening. I am more than happy to do the dirty work beforehand (setting up the garden bed, breaking up the soil each spring, watering) and afterward (dishes).

Oh, and I help eat her creations, too.

Doesn't mean I can't cook. I can whip up most breakfast items without a problem, and many of the basics for lunch and dinner. Back when I could still eat them, I made some damn good chocolate chip cookies.

And when it's time to grill out, she will do the prep work and I'll man the grill.

Very stereotypical, I know, but it works for us.

 

I like to cook a lot, though I don't get to do it as much as I'd like. I don't make a lot of things -- I'm very much a habitual eater, and don't mind having the same things for a week or two straight. But what dishes I make, I make well, and I'm confident I could make anything else if I wanted or had to do so.

My mother always says that "if you can read, you can cook," and I subscribe to that, too, although I do think it takes a combination of touch, talent and experience to do it well, and with really tasty results. My mom and grandmother were both excellent cooks, and they passed down that interest/skill to virtually all of the next generation.

All of my brothers are good cooks (one is a trained executive chef and restaurant/hotelier business man and one an expert on the barbecue grill), to the point that it is they, not their wives, who do virtually all of the cooking in each of their families. My mom, still old-fashioned in that way, frequently shakes her head in disbelief and laughs about that.

 

One pandemic benefit has been upping my kitchen game. Before shutdown, my wife and I really only had 2-3 nights a week together for dinner because of opposite work schedules. We went out to eat for one, and she usually cooked one or two nights.

We’ve now spent five months doing a couple of meals a day together. Planning, shopping, cooking together. It’s been great.

We’ve ordered in only 5-6 times. And we’re planning to do some outdoor dining soon. Oppressive heat has been the main obstacle on that thus far.

So, yeah! I cook!

 

I cook for one and eat for two.

 

I don't know that I'm necessarily good, but I'm good enough to keep myself fed with stuff that's tasty, affordable, and at least vaguely healthy. No spouse or partner, so if I don't do it then it doesn't get done. I only seriously took up cooking around 2015 or so, which if I'm honest was far too late in life. It's a skill I wish I'd picked up in high school (add that alongside basic money management, sex ed, and a long list of other things that would've been useful to know but school couldn't/wouldn't teach).

I do enjoy cooking, though it feels slightly strange to say that as I only really do one serious session each week. I make a big batch of something in my slow cooker on Sunday and eat my way through it for the rest of the week, with sandwiches and other basics for the rest of the meals. Could I make something new each day? Probably, assuming I had the time, money, and energy. I like the setup I have, though -- it covers my needs with a minimum of fuss and dishes. If I ever have to cook for more than one, I might have to re-evaluate.

 

Yes.

 

I make a handful of things really well and some others are better than edible.

Mostly, my wife enjoys what I make. But she has her favorites and we rotate through the same things. In my bachelor years, I made peanuts at my paper so I was limited to how much I could actually cook.

But I stand behind my record of no bouts of food poisoning from my cooking.

 

Love to cook and am very good at it.