I love to cook. Indoors, outdoors, simple, fancy, I cover a lot of ground.
I do know people who can’t fry an egg. I don’t know how they survive.
In Post-Industrial America, if you work full time, you work way past full time. If you are the other half of the population and don’t work full time, you have lots of free time.
I cook, at summer BBQ’S.
Good news and bad news.
It sounds bad that so many can’t cook worth squat.
And they should develop some skills.
But on the other hand, there has been great growth in restaurant, fast food, casual dining, etc in recent decades, which in turn creates business opportunity and jobs.
I know there are exceptions, but when women chose careers over home, the grocery store aisles for prepared foods expanded and delivery, pickup, and dinner out did the same. Frankly, I don’t see how anyone who has been out working all day would feel like starting job #2 when they get home at 5:30 or 6:00.
Thankfully, I had the opportunity and the desire to stay home. I cooked and cleaned and gardened and home-schooled and tutored and did canning and baked and on and on. Do I cook now? Very rarely.
Also, when you order in a restaurant now, you basically get two meals for the price of one. Half of the sandwich and salad for lunch, the other half for dinner. It’s often cheaper to dine out.
I love cooking, partly because I am no expert and see following a recipe to success as a challenge (think “Cooking for Dummies”). I think I have aptitude for it, but just don’t have the time (I could give up FR, I suppose, but nah).
My hope is that cooking will be one of my retirement pleasures.
My wife used to like to cook, but doesn’t like to cook for just the 2 of us... so now we generally eat out 4 or 5 times a week. Since we never do fast food, I guess it adds up a bit.
Maybe we are wierd, but my Wife cooks Every Day, makes me a lunch in the morning, I do the BBQing and she does everything else. We eat out about once a month. She also doesn’t work outside the Home, her hands are full taking care of all our crap and me, while I make sure she lives in the lifestyle she wants to live in.
I stopped eating out two years ago. I prepare all of my own meals and I pack my lunch in the morning. Since then I have lost 25 pounds without going on a diet and I am not hungry.
I am amazed that so many young people, especially women, cannot cook anything. They don’t even go to grocery stores. They go to fast food restaurants whenever they get hungry. No wonder there are so many obese people in America.
I love to cook...especially on old days when its so nice and warm in the house and the aromas fill the room...
I learned at an early age cause my mom was already out drinking by the time I got back in from the woods when I was 11 or 12.
That's how my semi-infamous "Fried Spaghetti" came to be. Hehehe.
Cooking is fun! d;^)
I love cooking, way cheaper than a delivered $13 meal! Got lots of handy gadgets and toys, too, they make it easier. Recently bought a big countertop convection oven, best $50 I’ve spent this year!
Who didn’t see this coming when they pitched HomeEc out of public schools?
To us, food is medicine. Going out to eat is a downgrade. For those times when we risk it, we usually both feel ill afterwards.
Our homemade food is higher in nutrition and less dangerous to eat because we prepare our REAL food with clean hands and utensils in a clean kitchen.
This sounds pretty high...Most people I know cook and go out to eat for special occasions, or truly hectic days.
I enjoy cooking and using Hello Fresh as a meal ingredient delivery service takes away the shopping drudgery. Additionally, it ensures I get just what is needed for the 2 of us rather than me buying too much for just two people. It actually helps reduce costs, IMO.
That’s my family. We work full time, I go to school part time, we have 2 kids playing high school sports.
I’m not cooking during the week.
I love to cook. Guess that puts me in the top ten percent. Now if I can squeeze my way into the top 1%...
90% of Americans don’t like to cook, but 15 % love to cook?
Huh?