Husbands who cook ??‍?

We are fifty-fifty in the cooking department. Mr GG13 can cook most things apart from a roast (no idea why). He will also shop for the ingredients, he has even taught himself several fish recipes as I like to eat fish a couple of times a week.

I love cooking so have always done the cooking. DH can cook for himself if I am away and he is great at setting tables, pouring wine and clearing up.

My husband is an excellent cook and also brilliant at chopping onions, garlic, preparing veg etc, and makes at least 50% of the meals. We both enjoy cooking and eating, but he is more ambitious with his recipes. DIY, on the other hand, we are both useless at, and we never do gardening!

Mine cooks ...certain dishes he always does but he'll have a go at anything. He developed a cake repertoire when I was still working too, which was nice. Actually sometimes I'd quite like him to just let me quietly cook on my own (I love cooking) but hey ho, cant have it all ways!

My DH has always cooked extremely well-he follows the recipes unlike me. I tend to be more ‘intuitive’.
Now I’m still working and he has retired so he is now the king of the kitchen. This is an arrangement that suits me down to the ground. He has also taken over the shopping and this is still a work in progress. He’s fine with food but not the other stuff- loo rolls etc. But is getting better.

Mr absent can heat up something that I created and froze and then manage either potatoes or rice. However, even though I spent more than 30 years of my life writing more than a hundred cookbooks, still feels entitled to tell me how to cook.

As "Onslow" would say; Cooking? That's women's work"

And that’s how it should be , we’re both retired , I’m not the housekeeper lol
Ah, well, I don't mind cooking but I hate ironing …..
and very rarely do it.

My dh cooks once a blue moon, and then it'll be something like egg on toast.
However he invariably clears up the kitchen instead, so IMO it's fair division of labour, and since I'm a messy cook it suits me fine.
Also he's a completely un-fussy eater - will eat and appreciate whatever he's given. So on balance I count myself lucky.

I'm really lucky, DH does more than half the cooking. This started when he retired and I was still working more than full time. He claims I am the better cook, but he is certainly catching up fast!

MrFinn has always talked a great deal about learning to cook, and he really does want to, and has a ‘signature’ dish that he cooks very well, and thinks up all sorts of ideas, and yet.... and yet... he’s not conversant with the reality of budgets, practicality and the fact that one has to think of food (and feeding) every day. This needs organising, as our tastes differ, so we need to discuss meals and the cooking of such.
I’m not a bad cook at all, but dislike the ever present need to provide a meal.
We’re still, after nearly 45 years, tussling with this, but happily so! We’re cool with it.

My DH doesn’t cook. He will help with food prep . He makes nearly all the cups of tea or coffee.
I don’t mend things and anything to do with our cars is down to him.
We could probably both could do either if we really had to.

About once a month DH bakes bread. Lots of bread - enough for the next month. He makes some very good bread, but never remembers exactly what he's put into individual loaves so everything is always a bit of a surprise. And he uses every bowl, utensil and inch of space in the kitchen. I've learned not to venture in there until he's finished or I have apoplexy at the state of the place.

Grampy does his share, probably slightly more than me.

He doesn’t bake or things like this but he’s very capable of making a selection of dinners etc . And that’s how it should be , we’re both retired , I’m not the housekeeper lol .

My DH has taken over the kitchen, he also does the shopping! If I want a look in, I have to get myself together well in advance and announce my intentions! Mostly I don't mind because he means well and enjoys it but I do feel usurped sometimes, bless him.

In the very early days of our relationship, nearly 50 years ago, MrA invited me to his flat for a curry.
He put Brussels sprouts in it.
That ensured that he never had to cook for me again, except on the rare occasions when I’ve been totally incapacitated.
He does bring me a cup of tea in bed though and makes a mean cup of coffee.

I joked that when DH retired he could take over all the cooking,
He took me at my word and has cooked virtually every meal including breakfast since he retired 2 years ago.
Luckily he finds cooking enjoyable

I just bake bread, the odd cake and make soup in my new soup maker.

Plenty of time to 'play' in the garden.?

the cook not the cool

I'm the cool in the house,OH will make a cup of tea at bedtime but thats his limit .When I spent time in hospital with an at risk pregnancy he cooked for our daughter or so I thought .He did make "oven chips" which had never crossed our door but most of the meals were delivered by lovely neighbours it was just the chips he provided.
Its all my fault(isn't everything) I cant stand anyone under my feet in my kitchen I like it al to myself .

Sadly not the case with Mr PECS! He tries hard but has little success

My husband was a chef so always does the cooking as I hate it. He does the shopping as well. I am relegated to the role of washer up.
My friends insist this was one of the reasons I married him. ( not true )

We both cook. DH makes a great Shepherd's Pie, Sunday Roast and various other things, although he doesn't tend to make cakes or biscuits.

I've made Moussaka for dinner tonight and some shortbread biscuits to nibble on.

No he doesn't cook anything. He helps me prepare by doing the chopping of herbs, chilli etc. He also cleans up behind me which I appreciate!

DH could manage if he had to but I am the foodie in the family and enjoy collecting recipes and making meals from my collection of recipes. I prefer to do the cooking.

However, DS is the main cook in his family, having inherited my interest in food. DDiL is a good cook, but DS does mosr.

My husband cooks a mean chilli with peppers, red wine and mushrooms added.
Obviously it’s his signature dish as in the 45y we’ve been married he has never added to his repertoire!