How many Men here can actually cook ? What's your special?



I guy I know got married last year and he is a Chef.

His wife enjoyes delicious meals, he posts regular
On FB and has his own business.

That's one thing his wife doesn't have to do for him!

This is the 21 century and Men don't always look for partner, who can cook, in the Kitchen .

I'm a whiz at boiling water. I think if I had to I could do it but for me the easiest thing to do is just go to a restaurant every night.

Restaurants can get expensive!


Boiling water don't count as cooking!

Sure I can. Pasta dishes, stew, or oven bake dishes, just to name a few

Lars

You are a good condidate for a mate!

I can't really cook.
It just doesn't stick in my head.

I can follow recipes.
I'm good at that. I really like The Joy of Cooking cookbook. I also have my own set of recipes I use.
I like watching cooking shows like british bakeoff and iron chef and good eats and cutthroat kitchen, looking up online the recipes they use and recreating them.

I can look at recipes and figure out how they're going to taste and what I can/need to add to it, or which spices to interchange, in order to get it to my tastes and know what the final result will be, how any new ingredients will interact. I can figure out how I need to modulate my oven/stove temperature to match what they're telling me.

I can read a recipe and figure out alternative means to achieve the same result. Like turning something into a casserole and knowing what ingredients to add to reduce or increase moisture, or retain a crispy crust, and still taste good (to me).

I can be following a recipe while cooking and see what's going on and what I need to change in order to not screw it up. Like making cheese sauce from a roux and knowing I need to add lipids to facilitate a better bonding.

I just can't get the basic concepts/ingredients to stick in my head without that recipe.
Take omelets. Just beaten eggs, fold over filling like meats and vegetables.
But I just now had to look up a recipe on the internet to try and remember if I need to add milk or cream.
But then I remembered I don't add milk or cream, that's for scrambled eggs. How much? A teaspoon? 6 gallons? Stove temperature hi, med, low? Can't remember off the top of my head. If I just decided to randomly make some eggs without a recipe, I'd end up with a souffle that hatches a live chicken wearing a sombrero.


I reload my own ammunition. I can remember how much of which brand of powder to use with which primers, which brass, which bullets, proper seating depth, and which cycles best in which firearm, and fps per load.
Even if I haven't done it for 2 years.
But I can't remember if I should add milk to scrambled eggs, omelets, or both.

I can follow recipes, I can experiment, but I can't really "cook."
The steps and ingredients just don't stick in my head, even with practice.

I am good with a grill.

In the past I made tasty gumbo, as well as a decent tuna casserole. I haven't adapted those recipes since going vegetarian though.

Any man can be trained to cook

personally I love cooking for a man and myself .., have never considered it a chore , certainly . not a prerequisite in mate selection .

Cooking together can be sensual and bonding . Sure it is lovely if he enjoys cooking too and many men do . Some are creative and experimental in there style .., I never considered butter chicken lasagna ... until a man surprised me with it .., delicious

I like meat!

Ciretom

Seems like you can at least plan a meal by
Following a recipe. That's cooking!

With that Plan in place, a meal should turn out right.


Some men cannot do that!

Some women cannot cook. Don't assume because she's a woman
she can cook or even likes to cook.

Men don't always go for Just a good cook.

I've been the primary cook in my home for the last 20 years...

I don't do fancy items and most meals are meat and potatoes/pasta based. Grilling, stovetop, or oven cooking...

occasionally I can burn water though... lol

in mine life it's the way around, only woman who cant cook and not even know how to do the dishes,
dont forget, the best cook's in the world are still male

I can cook... my best recipe, so I'm told, is lasagne, but I am very good at cooking pasta in general, carbonara, amatriciana... I also prepare all sorts of salads and I am reasonably good with meat. Can't really cook fish instead.

Debatable. Women were probably too busy raising children to spend the time to leisurely be geniuses in the kitchen.
I believe it is equal. Both men and women have the capability to reach Masterchef status.

That's great! Men that believe cooking is for just women are truly
Out dated .

That went out in the 70's.

Great Chefs out there, Yes!

That's Great !

Would a Man choose a woman mainly because she's a
Great Cook ?

No way, I'd rather choose her because she's good in bed! much more important!