November 8, 2007
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Why Women Can’t Cook
Sam Holden wrote an interesting article titled, “Why women can’t cook.”
He starts off asking, “When was the last time a woman cooked you a really excellent meal?” He points out that woman produce plain meals and even nice meals. But he notices that it would be difficult to point out a time when a woman has cooked you a good meal.
He points out that part of the reason that women cook so poorly is because they cook as a matter of necessity. Here is the link: Link
When I thought about it for awhile, my mom was a really crappy cook.
Do you think women are poor cooks because they cook out of necessity?
Comments (153)
Some maybe. But I also think women add an extra special ingrediant to their meals…LOVE!
Holy crap! First twice in one day! Is this some sort of record?
I think that man is a chauvinist pig. Let’s watch him cook dinner for four every night.
I think it depends on the woman. My cooking is horrible, but I really don’t have much experience. I think my grandma’s cooking is good, but my mom’s cooking is ‘good’ out of necessity. Out of my parents, my dad is the better chef, but that’s mainly because cooking was his career for 20 yrs…
If women could enjoy cooking and do it for pleasure, the results would be a lot better.
my mom was a crappy cook too.
I think people get into routines in everything we do. If I was the primary meal provider, I’d probably have only 7 or so meals in my repertoire myself.
Few times are wonders created out of joyless endeavours.
I think that man is a chauvinist pig. Let’s watch him cook dinner for four every night.
I agree.
Dan? What the hell are these ads? Get them off!
No idea. I don’t cook.
No I don’t agree with that..now there are some women that have no business being in the kitchen b/c they suck & can’t even boil water, but there are a lot of women who are great cooks.
My mother is decent. My dad is slightly better, but he almost never gets home early enough – not that he would cook anyway.
My grandma is amazing.
I don’t know. I don’t think gender determines how well you cook.
However, my brother is a much better cook than my mum. But, he cooks out of necessity. His fiance gets home after him and he makes dinner. (Or used to. But that’s another unrelated story.)
WTF Dan, you have ADS? You’re premium- you’re not supposed to have ads!!!!
KILL THE ADS!
I personally am a great cook, I just choose not to do it very often, because great cooking requires alot of ingredients, which requires alot of utensils and pots/pans, which requires even more cleaning and I HATE CLEANING!!!
Just because women cook plain meals out of necessity does not mean they are poor cooks; it just means they are usually rushed and doing five other things at the same time. When women have the luxury to concentrate only on cooking a fabulous meal, they can be fabulous cooks. Same goes for men.
My Mum is a good cook and when my Nan cooks Christmas lunch for my family and relations she does very well cooking for about 14, but she has some help from my grand-nan and a bit of help from my mum.
My dad is a much better cook than my mom, but they both are really good. I love cooking and can concoct fantastic meals, as well. But we own a restaurant, and cooking is a way of life and a hobby for my family so I would say we are the exception! But generally, I think that if anyone, man or woman, was cooking out of necessity, the quality would slack. Unless they really enjoyed it.
that should probably say why SOME women can’t cook
i for one cook very well, excellent in fact. so unless you alter the title i refuse to adress it!
wow. he could have had a good point in his article, but then he goes on about how women are afraid of failure and that men are all amazing cooks. not a very good argument at all…
now, could it be that many women do not go into the cooking profession because its something that they feel they will be stucking doing anyway? that sounds like a better reason to me.
I see – and what is this spoiled brat’s definition of a good meal? You’ll have to tell me because I don’t feel like clicking over to read his article.
My mom is a really good cook. I can’t wait to go home for thanksgiving, this college food is disgusting.
my mom is a awesome cook. i am a awesome cook. yes, i get tired of cooking but, i am good at it. my husband is mexican and i made it a priority to learn how to cook mexican food. i am very good at it. i do it to make my husband happy.
You’ll have bad woman cooks and bad man cooks. You’ll also have excellent woman cooks and excellent man cooks.
The argument is weak. On that basis I don’t buy it.
The title of his article doesn’t even make sense, if his point is that they choose not to cook well because it’s a chore and not something they like doing. Cooking can get monotonous. I don’t love doing it 7 nights a week, but that doesn’t mean I can’t cook well. Maybe it’s the Italian in me but I love eating great food, so if I want to eat great food, I gotta make great food, so I do.
Hey… I’m a good cook!
Ugh. I agree that when someone is cooking for the joy of it and not when he/she is rushed and stressed, the meal will probably turn out better and have more thought put into it. But this guy is taking that idea way too far. If whatever woman he’s chastizing isn’t good enough and only makes a ‘nice’ meal (and of COURSE this is because she is female…), he can damn well cook for himself.
Where some may call him a chauvinist pig, I don’t think he was personally just attacking women…because the argument makes sense.
I know when I get married, I’m bound to get tired of trying to make some awesome meal every night…it’ll just become making food out of necessity. Where as, say, Thanksgiving or Christmas, or maybe a special birthday/anniversary dinner…that’s cooking because you want it to be special. Who will be lazy with something that’s supposed to be special?
Okay…lazy is probably a bad word for me to use there…but hopefully you get my drift…
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Of course, I didn’t read this article yet, and as I’m making my comment I’m seeing others about how he went off in the article…so I guess he is some chauvinistic pig, then.
Oh wow. I really want to meet that man and ask him when was the last time his face met a fist…
My mom cooks awesome meals. Yeah, every TIME someone cooks, it is out of necessity…someone NEEDS to eat the food…people NEED to eat.
What an asshole.
I don’t care as long as I’m not cooking.
Well if women can’t cook what else can they do?
I”m just kidding
i don’t think women are bad cooks. but yes, cooking can be boring, and sure, sometimes it just is a chore.
my mom and grandma are both real good cooks. so id have to disagree with that general statement, lol
I have always thought my Grandma was a great cook but she cooks all the time because she loves cooking.
I think I am an excellent cook. Although I will say I don’t cook excellent food out of necessity- I cook that way because I enjoy it and consider it a form of creativity. My other friends, both male and female, who are also excellent cooks are also very creative- even more so than I am.
I think the ability to cook excellent meals has nothing to do with gender, but everything to do with whether or not you like to cook. Also, I wonder how he defines “excellent.” If he’s expecting fine dining quality from someone cooking at home, that’s pretty extreme because it takes expensive equipment and ingredients at the hands of trained professionals.
All the great chefs are men … hihihi
My mother is a fantastic cook.
Hush your mouth, silly man.
My grandma is an awesome cook. My mom makes good meals when she actually cooks (which isn’t often). I am a good cook (I think), but rarely, if ever, have the time. I’m not sure what to say except that if guys want wonderful meals, they need to let us girls stay home so we have time to prepare them or they should start doing the cooking!
First off, where did your Xanga TV module go…and what the hell is up with all the Google ads all over your site?
And in answer to the question…not always. My mom is an excellent cook. When I was a kid and we were lucky enough to have something to eat…it was also delicious! I swear my mom can make an old shoe taste great!
my great aunt is a fantastic cook.
You were smart going with “mom” and not “wife”.
I think some of it .. is because we now work full time.. and don’t have the time or energy to come up with something excellent.
there are ads on your page. what the hey. kill them dead.
I think that guy needs a kick in the teeth. cuz if men cooked out of necessity, they’d be too exhausted to make a 5-star meal every night after work, too!
Yes, he’s a chauvenist pig, and he obviously hasn’t met many of the wonderful female cooks all around the world – usually our moms and grandmothers.
You try cooking every night (sometimes breakfast and lunch too) for the rest of your life and see how gourmet your meals would be. and if you’re trying to take care of your kids and make sure the house is clean…i bet even sam holden couldn’t make even a good meal.
Dan are you trying to pick up extra $$ by putting up these google ads? Or is this some kind of sick experiment
I love to cook. This guy is an idiot.
Does he cook excellent food for his wife? or girlfriend?
It’s basic stuff for women. You cook because it’s a woman’s job. It’s been like that for years. I do like to cook but I cook crap. But hey, to a man’s heart is through his stomach :]
and my mom makes awesome food everyday. So shut up Sam Holden.
I think some women cook b/c they cook out of necessity and women who are great cooks love cooking. I
cooking.
That’s like asking if you still beat your wife.
I disagree with the premise that women are poor cooks. If some women are poor cooks, there are many reasons why that might be, and one of them might be necessity. More likely….it’s not that important to her.
I know many excellent, female cooks!! I, however, am not one of them. I am only a good cook. Why? It’s not important enough for me to be an excellent cook.
Um.. this guy is an asshole. I’m sorry if HIS WIFE can’t cook well. Get the fuck over yourself. I couldn’t even finish the article, his arrogance and ignorance disgusted me that much.
I will in no way call myself a good cook, but even I know the difference between teaspoons and tablespoons and have never switched items in recipes by mistake. I also like how his anecdotal evidence of men’s multitasking abilities being so much better than women’s completely contradicts all sorts of evidence from studies done on the sexes.
He makes women sound like bumbling idiots. Jesus Christ. I hope his wife rips him a new one for this article.
hahahaahaha. that’s interesting.
it might be true that many women cook out of necessity, but i know a few women (mom’s friends) that are EXCELLENT cooks. i absolutely love going to dinner at their houses. i love to cook as well, so it probably depends on the person.
i know my mom doesn’t really like cooking, but has to, and i wouldn’t say she sucks, but she’s not great. or maybe it’s just because i’ve been eating her food all my life and i’m sick of it.
I don’t see any google ads???
I love to cook and I’m damn good at it. I don’t treat it as a chore. I treat it as something magickal and spiritual. While I’m preparing the meal I infuse my love for my family into the meal. Guess it’s the kitchen witch in me.
I cook awesome meals! This is what happens when you marry an Italian.. it ALWAYS has to be good!
I think that women cook less, and I guess “not-so-great” because it’s inconvenient. When you have family members in different places at different times, it’s hard to cook something and keep it warm for everyone so that everyone gets that warm meal, so the motivation gets lost.
Often, especially if you have young children and you are busy nursing babies. But, in my defense, I have made some awesome meals. My husband would say that I am a fabulous cook, but that is because my children are not wee babies and I am a stay-at-home mother who has more time.
I can’t remember the last time my mom made a meal poorly. She’s freakin’ awesome at cooking.
I think it’s a day to day issue…sometimes I can be a poor cook cause I don’t have time and simply don’t care and other times I get inspired to cook something incredible. I have the ability to cook well, it’s just whether or not I’m in the mood to do so, well that’s a different story.
I wish you wouldn’t sterotype. There are some awesome cooks out there including my mother-in-law. And for that fact I am making a EXCELLENT meal of brisket (already smoking) diced rosemary potatoes and glazed carrots. I put on a really supreme spread for my family 3 or 4 times a week and then next day we will have it as leftovers. Next spread is already planned: okra and chicken gumbo from scratch…and after that is chicken pot pie…
i read the article and left a comment on the article but didn’t get to do all the cussing there that i wanted for fear my comment wouldn’t be read and posted.
what an ignorant, sexist bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he needs to pull his fucking head out of his ass and realize that just because you have a vagina doesn’t mean you are naturally inept at multi-tasking or hopeless at reading numeric values!!!!!!!!!! and just because you have a penis doesn’t magically give you the amazing ability to do eight things at once….he watches too much television. its people like these that make me lose hope for humanity.
Well I know that I only cook out of necessity.
But I wouldn’t be speaking for my mo. She can definitely hack it.
HEY! Oh never mind, it’s true i suck at cooking as does my mom.
I think that some women are crappy cooks just like some men are crappy cooks. I personally thoroughly love to cook and it shows in my food. My cooking is also dependant upon my mood, much like OTHER things in my life. I came from a home where my Dad did cook and was really good at the things he did make. We were taught young, and that quality does matter. If you use crap ingredients you will get crappy results. Crappy effort = Crappy results. That is across the board male or female.
if i didn’t like cooking, i wouldn’t apply myself to make it wonderful. cuz a good meal would have a lot of small steps that make all the difference, and if i didn’t like cooking, i wouldn’t do all those stupid steps.
My mom makes exceeeeeellent meals. My dad usually cooks, while my mom works. But my mom still makes amazing meals.
So Sam Holden: QED, bitch.
and if my future husband wants me to cook, he’s going to cooking classes with me so we can cook meals together. i am NOT gonna cook for the family 7 days a week. he’s doing something too! i think every person would get annoyed to cook 7 days a week.
He’s a moron. In my youth, my Dad tried..lord help us. My mom was a fantastic cook, and my Grandma was better. I can cook nice meals if I try to do it, but I honestly don’t have time to whip up something fancy every single night. It’s also harder I think to plan “extraordinary” meals for two people since most recipes call for TONS of stuff and you end up with too many leftovers.
Yes!
I don’t know about that, my (paternal) Grandmother is an amazing cook. So was my (maternal) Great-Grand-Mother. Now my Mom on the other hand, I’ll have to give you that one.
My Gram was one of the best cooks EVER! I think that my cooking sucks when I cook out of necessity… but there are times I do a wonderful job…. when my husband and I cook together for a date night I love it… just not the everyday part.
my mom was an excellant cook. =] i am proud to say. its one of those things that my family has got, even the boys. as for most people, its possible. its possible that some people cook because well, their family needs to eat. but you also need to consider the work load.
and i also agree that this guy is a complete idiot. maybe if he thinks his wifes cooking suck so much, maybe he should get off his lazy butt and do it!!! i bet you he can’t do any better.
i say we assign him the duties of a working mother. =] =]
My boys said they disagree with it.. So I’ll take my son’s word over it!! I’m a good cook cuz I said so, not only me, as well my sons too plus among my friends.. They have spoken..
Well, women just may be good cooks but if it weren’t for them cooking there would be a lot of expenditure to go to restaurants…and the chefs there don’t do a spectacular job either. So, I guess for the handful of men and women who are excellent culinary achievers, the whole damn world gets fed ordinary meals because it’s necessary to eat.
So much for Sam the Man Holden and his obvious opinion!
It probably applies to me. I’m not going to lie, I rarely ever cook unless I have to because my husband is a way… better cook than me. =)
No. I think that writer is high maintenance. There is no real line of overdoing it, under doing it or what you are cooking. I grew up to eat what is set before you. The only things we weren’t force to eat was the expensive food.
HE IS SOOOOO WRONG!!
my mom and her friends are thee best cooks i know!!! they’re thai and laos immigrants who were raised in a culture where it is custom that the women know how to cook for the family. they cook lavish feasts every lunch on sundays after our lao-american church service!!
lol a man would write that.
how many men do you know that don’t cook unless its necessary?
therefore, shouldn’t men be horrible cooks too?
i personally am a wonderful cook which is my downfall; people keep asking me for food =_=;
I do cook out of necessity but when I cooked for fun I cooked better.
Wow….this guy is a retard. He must not have any women in his life. My grandmother, and my mother, and my aunt, are all excellent cooks. And I know…. two…men who cook, and it is very mediocre every time.
Rachel Ray anyone?
and props to god4ever72088. (long username)
us international women know how its done ;X <3
JTsgirl87
Rachel Ray is a wonderful chef.
but then again, how many FEMALE chefs are there really?
that would make a horrible example.
my mother was a lousy cook, but she hated, HATED to cook. I am a great cook, BUT we simply don’t have the money to cook well 99% of the time. I used to make sure that at least once out of every payday we had a really great meal. With four kids, sometimes even that was tricky, but it happened.
I also can’t help but agree with the guy’s wife at the end of the article that he probably took a few compliments tossed his way and blew them way up. Men do that. As she also pointed out, the kitchen is not the only room in the house where performance counts.
This dude’s a douche bag. If he had said people who cook out of necessity don’t make very good cooks, that’d be okay.
My mom made delicous ass food.
I think that man is a chauvinist pig. Let’s watch him cook dinner for four every night.
EXACTLY. I am highly offended by this. I am an excellent cook.
Maybe. It makes sense, that you would be crappy at something you’re forced into doing… My mom is a superb cook, but then again she enjoys it. My grandma, on the other hand, hated it, and according to my mom only produced pretty much toxic food
I do most of the cooking and im good at it, not in a vain way. Ive been cooking for over 30yrs..i made my first lemon meringue pie when i was 9yrs(,freaked my mom out) During the winter i always have hearty homemade soup in the fridge,when my kids were little i cooked breakfast,lunch and dinner. in my family i cooked for all the party s,graduations etc.
Yes, it can get boring cooking day in and out but if its made with love its always good
Based on that article, I think that man is an idiot. He also claims women can’t read recipes, follow instructions, multitask, think creatively, experiment, or take risks in the face of criticism. Both of my parents are good cooks, although my mom cooks more because she’s home sooner. My host mother in Spain was the best cook I’ve met, and she cooked out of necessity, but she also enjoyed it. Maybe what we should be looking at here is why women are the ones who cook out of necessity, not why this jerk feels like it’s ok to assume women should be doing all the cooking and then say that they suck at it.
This guy needs to come home from work every day after fetching the kids from school and doing some laundry and then cook for a fmaily of 4 or 5. Â Then we’ll see just how long his meals are really something special. Â Idiot!
On the weekend or in the summer I cook awesome. but in the midle of the week you bet I’m opening a box of hamburger helper. With 4 kids, homework, Boy scouts, girl scouts, and Awanas there is no time for anything else
well if we had all damn day to plan the meal! lol Actually I cook half-assed during the week but on the weekends I do the all out all day cooking kind of meals
I’m the bestest, my husband says. My kids, too. They all want me to prepare dishes for their friends and co-workers!
My mother was an awful cook when I was growing up. Her mother was an awful cook when she was growing up.
I am a pretty not-bad chef to be sure, and it all started when I asked for a cook book in sixth grade, because the stuff she made was soooo AWFUL!!!
My grandfather, the husband to the grandmother who was an awful cook opened an Italian restaurant after he retired.
Maybe instead of asking if women are bad cooks you should ask “are the men who eat the bad food prepared by women more likely to turn out to be great cooks?”
Because it was necessity for me.
My dad made our food when we were growing up. And yes, he’s a bad cook.
My mom is an amazing cook
agree. cooking everyday is not a easy job.
Routine, yes! We get busy and cook out of neccessity but please step into my kitchen on the weekend when the praises to Chef-ala-Mom are astounding
It’s because every time a woman attempts to make a great meal, the man is unappreciative and finds everything wrong with it, so the woman doesn’t bother putting in the effort. Women think women cook great meals. I haven’t cooked for a man yet that appreciated the fact that some one was cooking for him. Their standards are too high but I have yet to see a man cook a great meal for US.
I can’t cook because I never learned as a child… it’s not a responsibility for me.
i’ve met guys that cook really well and girls that cook really well. why the gross generalisation?
I hate to cook and it stems from all those years of slaving over the right meal and then the battle with the kids to eat what I prepared started after we said Grace. Go figure!!
I am appalled, my mother was a great cook!…hehe
I guess. However, I for one am an AMAZING cook. So that really doesn’t apply to me. My husband tells me quite frequently how wonderfully I cook. I don’t think he would lie. (I don’t catch him feeding anything to the dog under the table, either.)
When I cook for necessity, then I would have to say I’m a poor cook. But when I cook to make a meal for someone, for a reason other than necessity, it’s damn good.
I come from a long line of good cooks! I love to cook and look forward to it.
I think he’s right about men loving to experiment…at least my dad does. He throws stuff together just because it’s in the fridge. I wouldn’t call that gourmet.
My wife is an excellent cook! My three ex-wife’s couldn’t cook worth a crap!
I’m an excellent cook.
And I do cook out of neccessity.
If I’m not making filet mignon, it’s because I’m pressed for time.
But I’m not making crap casserole either.
who has time to cook a cook meal these days?
How many men take/pick up kids from school, do all the shopping and errands then cook dinner.
what an a-hole.
My mom is an awesome cook. I remember she tried to teach my g/f at the time how to cook. My g/f would get mad and say “She’s trying to domesticate me!”. I think now days both the husband and wife should know how to cook well.
idk what he is talking about my grandma and mom are amazing cooks
I think I’m a good cook, but then I’m a grandma (I’m even a great-grandma.)
I can make good pot roast, fried chicken, biscuits from scratch, lemon pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip cookies, homemade pizza, fried rice, tacos, homemade bread without a machine. I have to admit I do kind of get in a rut, and get tired of making the same things over and over. Plus my husband can’t eat sweets anymore, and I shouldn’t. I’d love to make some fudge right now, but I’m not going to. Now I’ve gone and made myself hungry………….
what an asshole!!!!!! at least women for the most part are fairly attractive unlike his ass!!! i would hate to be married to him.
Maybe women are tired after a long day of work, whether they are in the corporate world or a stay at home mom that has to balance the bills, care for the kids, drive the kids everywhere, do the kids’ homework, etc. Women are busy. They don’t cook well at the end of the day because they have so many other things to do. Oh sure, men “help” by drying the dishes or bathing the kids or taking out the trash, but rarely all three on a daily and consistent basis. When will the “second shift” end?
when the mood swings the right way i`m a pretty good cook.
That man better know how to cook for himself, otherwise I think it’s just rude of him to say that.
I consider myself a very good cook. I have worked hard at learning all I can and putting that knowledge into practice (without going to Chef’s school). I would literally sit with a notebook and take notes watching all the different chefs on PBS and later on, the Food Network Channel (no one can beat Alton Brown for explaining in detail). It is true that now our family life is down to a few vegetables here and maybe some homemade bread, but that is due to circumstances not desire. I am best at cooking “large”. 75 to 100 people does not scare me, but I prefer 30 to 50 because you can make the dinner more intimate and fun. I think for most people it is out of exhaustion that a meal is put together – especially if the MOM, or main caregiver of the family, also has a full-time job.
My opinion is that if he wants a good meal, he should cook it himself. lol
No way, my mom rocks! My father is awful… once for thanksgiving he insisted on cooking and my mother did warn him that the turkey does truly take all day – well, he tried to take a shortcut and only the outer layer of the turkey was cooked. The inner layer was quite bloody. >.<
My dad is a much much better cook than my mom.
Maybe women cook because they HAVE TO cook to serve the family. So, not all of them are great cooks.
I don’t agree with that. Even if it is true, SHOW SOME RESPECT!!! If we can balance watching the kids, cooking supper, laundry, and dishes all at the same time and still produce something edible, you’re very lucky. I do all of this often and it isn’t easy. Men however, tend to only do one thing at a time and tend to do less housework than women in most homes. In the south that is, I don’t know about everywhere else. Besides we have what is called Down Home Country Cooking. Most of us have very little to work with but can still feed anywhere from 4-12 people. You can’t say you don’t like a meal until you eat S.O.S. anyway. It stands for shit on shingles. It is a compilation of gravy and hamburger (if you can afford it) on bread. When you eat this for a month straight, you can complain.
Just because I have a need to do something dosen’t mean I’m not good at it. As a matter of fact, it’s because I have to cook so often that I’m good at it.
I’m assuming this article is coming from a man who cooks his own meals because he has to.
I would say that most of the time my meals are necessity meals, however when I do have the extra time I go a long way towards making the meal extraordinary. It takes a lot of preparation and planning to make fancy meals that taste really good. It isn’t something that can just be whipped up in a few minutes. Unfortunately much of the time when a four year old, a two year old, and a 26 year old who acts like a five year old are pulling on apron strings a few minutes is all there is…I should also mention that I come from a family of fabulous female cuisine artists
What an a-hole. I can cook. Really well in fact. I’m a woman, that’s all we’re good for. If we’re not in the kitchen, we had better be in the bedroom.
Cleary I’m kidding.
This guy’s an idiot. Even if we cook out of necessity, after 25 yrs of it you become a really good cook!
well i’m not much of a cook myself so i can’t say too much. (and i’m male)
well, he probably just doesn’t have women in his life that will cook well for him. it’s not worth it for his ungrateful attitude.
I hate to cook!!!
i think that some people aren’t good cooks because they don’t put much thought into it and do cook out of necessity, but it’s not fair to generalize so much. my mom is a great cook.
haha my mom fixes great meals thank you!
Keep in mind this guy lives in the UK where all food sucks!
im a pretty good cook. my mom’s okay. my dad’s better, but since he doesn’t cook anymore my mom uses his recipies, thus making her a better cook.
I don’t care what the article says, my grandma could kick any man’s ass in cooking and im quite sure she’s a woman.
Never take cooking or oral hygiene advice from an Englishman.
Women a generation ago were expected to cook for the family, weather they liked it or not. The only men that cook a generation ago were the ones that actually enjoyed cooking, hence they were better cooks.
Now with a combination of modern prepackaged foods and the de-emphasis on the traditional female role in the kitchen has lead to a generation of women who lack even the most basic cooking skills.
I avoid cooking at all costs..
I can go months eating pb&j sandwiches. And if there isn’t any bread I would rather starve or find me a date that can take me to dinner.
Men should cook since they are obiously so great at it.
I agree that there are some women that do not belong in the kitchen, but it is not fair for those to represent the entire base of women… My mom was is an excellent cook and I love to cook as do two of my brothers and both of my sisters….
I love being in the kitchen and I have yet to have a complaint on my cooking after 25 yrs….
this man sounds clueless…. I think he needs to reverse roles with his wife and see if he can make ” excellent” meals everyday for the rest of his married life.
I know a lot of good cooks who are busy but they still make a wonderful meal!!
I’ll have you know I’m an excellent cook, and I make everything from scratch.
I’m not a bad cook! lol That seems a bit (sarcasm) unfair.
Personally, I think a lot of men are bad cooks. Unless they’ve been bachelors their entire lives. Then they get pretty good at it.
I am an excellent cook – in fact, most people tell me I’ve cooked some of the best food they’ve ever eaten. So I can’t even answer the question, because the basic premise is that women are universally bad cooks, and that just ain’t so.
Yep. Plus the general acceptance that women don’t have to be homemakers.
Not all women can’t cook. I know plenty women who can cook a very good meals. Sound insulting towards all women especially coming from men writer. I don’t see all men are great cooks at home either.
Oh god thats a lie in my house. My mom cooks and shes downright amazing at it.
My mother is a terrible cook, burns nearly everything on accident, but goddamn do I love eating her food. ((tinged-brown is actually how I prefer my eggs, I hate them moiste =/))
And my aunt Irene makes one hell of a Thanksgiving dinner. My gram is amazing at Skuddel soup and stuffed shells as well
What a great whopping lot of twaddle.
who pretty much cares, my mom is a excellent cook, but my dad burned alot. i think it’s not in gender who is the “perfict” cook >.<
btw! i’m not that bad of a cook since i’m female, i’m still learning…
You can’t say that women can’t cook. It’s like saying men are strong. I know many women who are strong and many men who are week. It is sterotypical and I hate sterotypes. I try hard not to fall into those when I see people. I think I am a very good cook. I mean, some things are better than others. My cousin is a man and he went to the cullinary institute of America and is now working at a five star hotel in California with their food service. He must be a great cook. My brother on the other hand, can barely make a grilled cheese sandwich. Both my grandpa and my grandma are good cooks and they have their specialties. Both of my parents make good meals, not saying everything they make is good, but sometimes thier meals are delicious. I know some women that are excellent cooks and others who could mess up making dry cereal. Its sterotypical to say women can’t cook, but that doesn’t mean they can. It is all up to the individual. Some people may be good cooks and others may be good at visual art. Another person may be good at athletics or singing and someone could be good at making people laugh. Everyone has qualities that they are good at and ones they arn’t so good at. Some women can cook and others can’t.
This is stupid. Women are people, and just like everybody else, some can cook well, and others cannot. Nobody writes an article about men not being able to cook well. Just because women are expected to be able to cook well all the time doesn’t mean they always do.
I love to cook. When I’m at home, I like to cook for my family, and when my parents come and get their plates, they don’t find the unappetizing swill that the author describes. I like to cook and experiment with food. Cooking is a joy for me, not just a chore, and I would like it very much if he would stop with all this dumb sexist talk, or at the very least, shut up and cook his own food.
This is a SEXIST post. :~)
My wife’s cooking is FANTASTIC!!!!
But I really wish that at church the pot luck announcement wouldn’t say, the ladies will be bringing the food. I want to do it!!!!!!!
Some women think their priority is to feed their starving husband and kids, not spend hours after coming home to try make gourmet meals. There’s nothing wrong in that. While it’s true great cooking takes passion, it also takes time and concentration. How do you concentrate when after coming home from a gruelling day at the office, having to set the house straight and bathe the kid on top of making dinner?
If those picky men wants really good dinner, then after office hours he should be taking care of all the other things while the wife concentrate on cooking. Deal?
I love cooking and I make great meals, thank you very much! I’m one of those people lucky enough to have a man that cleans up. Whereas whenever I’m at my own house and is pressed for time, I just make whatever fills me up. There’s a difference with cooking for yourself and cooking when other people are eating too. Pigs are better fed than I feed myself.
My wife is an excellent cook Dan, but we live such busy lives that most of the time we eat out…a lot! But every once in awhile when everything slows down she can make a killer enchiladas with rice & beans dinner, man I’m hungry all of a sudden.