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Just curious, I guess I tend to be old fashioned in the sense that I do all the "women" things like laundry, cleaning, cooking. DH is so busy with his PhD that I like to take on that end of things. However, cooking wise, I always, always cook. DH has maybe only cooked once. He burnt grilled cheese for me. But for us, I am a great cook/baker and I enjoy doing it so I like to. He appreciates it, however sometimes I think it would be nice to not have to do all the grocery shopping, cook the meal, etc. How about you?
We both loooove to cook so we switch off. The only thing FI doesn't do is bake and I don't grill (the grill scares me).
I really enjoy cooking too so I always do. He will if I'm sick or something (which I think is terribly sweet) but he really only knows how to make like 2 things and has no interest so I happily take over. :)
I'm spoiled. My husband does the majority of the cooking. I will occasionally cook on a weekend or if he wants something that I make that he doesn't, but for the most part, it's him.
He just enjoys it far more than I do. To me, cooking is a chore like any other. I do it because it needs to be done. He finds it relaxing and looks forward to doing it...who am I to deprive him of that?
We switch off. He tends to do more of the cooking right now because I'm busier at work. We both meal plan and grocery shop on Sundays.
usually its both, he has his special dishes that I love and I have mine.
We make a lot of things together too. We like cooking together.
We split it. When we were commuting out of state for our jobs I got home first, so for about 2 years I did all the cooking during the week. Now he gets home before me so he usually starts dinner. Lately I have been trying to cook extra stuff on the weekend though and freeze it so that we have a quick meal when we get home. Tonight its chicken in the crock pot :)
He's actually a much better cook than me, so I secretly love that he cooks dinners now :)
I cook everything but he does the dishes. I like it that way. Cooking is fun, dishes suck ;)
We both love to cook, and are very good cooks.
I do most of the cooking but that’s not because I’m the woman, its because we have a nerdy little system where he reads aloud and I cook. We’ve gotten through almost 50 novels that way over the past couple of years. (Yeah, we’re dorks like that).
We meal plan together on the weekend, and try to limit the shopping to 2-3 times a week, and we switch it up on who goes to the market.
@lessons: Ditto! And I hate the laundry so he does that. I hate ironing too but so does he so no luck for me there :(
@gabrielleelise1981: That is so the sweetest thing. I wonder if my guy would do that for me? I love love love to read and to be read aloud to. One of my ex's did that :(
I like to cook, and because I enjoy it, I started doing it all the time when we moved in together. Now, a few months later, I'm kind of resenting the fact that I'm the only cook in the house. DH can cook, he cooked forself for many years, but he's gotten used to me doing it. I've been considering having a chat and asking if he'll take on the planning, shopping and cooking for at least one meal a week. I'm definitely the more experienced cook, and I know i like to do it more than he does, but getting to sit on the couch after work now and then would be nice!
One great thing is that any time I cook the meal, he cleans up afterwards. So, I know he appreciates that work I put into making the meal and wants to help out. We have a one cook in the kitchen rule though, anytime we try to cook at the same time we get frustrated with each other!
My FI is the head chef in our house. He even makes me lunch to take to work each day. He is the best! I do all the dishes and clean up after.
We both cook. Sometimes one week one of us will cook more than the other but over the course of the month it evens out.
We cook together - usually I direct and get the ingredients together and cooking, and he does all the chopping/prep work! :)
My husband is not a cook. He's terrified of cracking an egg. He looks at it like it's going to explode. If I'm not feeling well, there are certain things (pasta, canned soup, a sandwhich), that he can cook for me.
In our house I do about 99% of the cooking. FH is just not a good cook, he tries, but it usually ends up burnt, lol. When I am tired of cooking I just tell him that he is in charge of supper that night and he will usually order in. It works for us since I enjoy cooking and he does a ton of other stuff around the house.
A perfect example is the other night I was running errands and asked him to make supper or order in whatever he wanted. Well he thought he was pulling Chilli out of the freezer after I told him we had no more chilli but pulled out homemade tomato sauce as well. So when I walked in the door I could smell burnt pasta sauce since he set it to auto defrost in the microwave. We ended up ordering something in and airing out the house :)
I used to do all the cooking because he'd work until 8pm or so and I get off before 4:00. But now that we both have normal jobs, we trade off. I don't want him to be one of those fathers who can only make pancakes and eggs for his kids. Or have to order pizza. He cooks about twice a week, I cook a few times (usually a bulk soup or something), and we get creative with the rest of the meals. Also, we only eat out maybe twice a month. I enjoy it, but I also think it should be a shared responsibility because I want him to garner some cooking skills
We both cook! It's our fun time together, we love goofing around in the kitchen. The sink sprayer has been known to come out and soak either one of us!
We have an unwritten rule that whoever cooks, the other does the dishes. My biggest pet peave is when someone doesn't put their own dish in the dishwasher when they are done, I don't think dishes should stack up. I definitely don't mind washing the pans and everything else if he did the cooking.
My FI is a stick to a recipe guy and I put in whatever I feel like at the time without measuring (which surprisingly works well). He is the pancake king though, I can't top him on that.
We look forward to dinner and having a break to make a mess together.
@bRooklynRocks: OMG it’s the best thing ever! You should totally ask your SO to read to you! My husband does voices and everything, it’s awesome. Start with a book he's already read and is comfortable with if he is nervous :)
Its my favorite part of the day, to be honest.
We both cook. But more often then cooking we go out or order in.
I like to cook but I can ONLY cook from a recipe and I'm not good at knowing how to sub for ingredients I don't have (so I cannot cook without going to the grocery store).
FI is very good ad making dinner with what we have in the house. His mother used to be a caterer so he is a very good cook and really knows how to improvise.
I probably cook slightly more often, but that's only because I get home from work earlier than he does.
He says I always try to be "too fancy" since I can only cook from recipes.
We both cook (although he does all grilling and I do all baking) and when we're both home, we often work together to prepare meals. But DH is definitely a WAY better cook than I am so we eat better when he is cooking! :)
He's a chef, and I can't cook at all. He does all the cooking in our house (I think I have made a total of 5 meals the 5 years we've been together...all of which were total disasters.
We both love cooking, but he probably cooks more than me. He just gets so hungry for certain dishes that he starts cooking asap when he get home. lol
I usually cook dinner. He will help if there's something he really wants that I've never made before. He will also cook if I'm sick. I feel like I should cook since he works 11+ hours a day, and I work part time and go to school. He tries to help though.
I'm definitely more of a cook than he is, and I don't think there are any nights I don't participate in making dinner. But he does all the grilling, so sometimes he ends up doing most of the work. When I make dinner, I make more complicated dishes than he does. But we "cook together" and we also go grocery shopping together, so I don't feel all alone doing all the work.
we take turns. sometimes I don't feel like cooking and he'll take over no problem, or other times he'll want to make something special [he's a bbq guru], and vice versa. It works.
We eat seperate things most of the time unless it's pasta or something not meaty. Usually he'll cook his own thing and I'll cook my own thing at the same time.
I'm a better cook, so I do most of the cooking. He helps out on the weekends when we eat more junkfood, haha. Whoever doesn't cook has to clean up though (actually, he does 80-90% of the cleaning in our home anyway). He's definitely better at cleaning than I am. :)
Yesterday he jokingly asked me what life would be like if we switched roles - I told him it would be "dirty and untasty."
We both enjoy cooking! I just wish our kitchen was big enough for both of us!
I voted for "he cooks all the time" but really its he cooks most of the time and I cook occasionally. He really enjoys cooking and is really good at it too! I got lucky :-)
Sometimes he helps but I do all of the cooking (and cleaning). We've been together for almost 6 years and I can only recall one meal that he's ever made me. It was fried chicken that took 3 hours to make and just as long to clean up. What a disaster that was. He STILL brings up that meal when I complain that he never cooks for me. Sorry buddy, but 1 meal in 6 years hardly counts!
I love to cook, he loves to cook. He doesn't have as much time to do it- so now it is mostly me. When we met, I didn't know HOW to cook a thing and he did all the cooking and taught me everything I know :) It was awesome.
gabrielleelise1981 I LOVE that you two do that! You know we love reading aloud to each other as well, and someday when we have evenings together (and can cook together), that would be a great time to do it. I think that's awesome.
he cooks like 80% of the time. he has a cooking blog and would love to drop everything and be a chef--i'm def lucky ;)
i'm a good cook too though so i take over sometimes as well. our kitchen is too small for us to cook together, and he's an alpha in the kitchen anyway and gets too bossy for me ;)
He does probably 75% of the cooking, but I do probably 75% of the cleaning. He's a better cook and I'm a much more clean person in general. Lol. I think he's always nervous when I cook. I do bake a bit more than he does, but he also does the "manly cleaning things" like fixing all the crap. :) haha.
We both love to cook and cooking together is one of our favorite things to do.
We usually switch on and off because some days I don't feel like cooking and vice versa. We usually try to make something new once every 2 weeks!
This weekend we're going to try duck cassoulet.
On February 14 our engage-aversary I'm going to make Cornish Hen again because I made that the weekend we got engaged. But then we'll probably work on sides together. :D
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