The stats are probably better. Lots of people took up cooking during Covid when everything was shut down.
Cooking themed TikTok accounts and YouTube videos are very popular.
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When I went to Bible study with a friend, the other moms there were quite intrigued to hear my friend and I discussing the roast she was doing for that night’s dinner. They had no idea how you actually make a roast dinner lol. That was 30 years ago.
I love cooking. Not only can you make what you like exactly how you like it, but you also save a LOT of money if you cook your own meals rather than go to restaurants. Its a lot healthier too since restaurant food tends to be loaded in salt, sugar and saturated fat.
And the crock pot. Chili, chuck roast, stew, meatballs of various nationalities...
All the rest of it the lady does. Casseroles, those things that grow out of the ground in the warmer months, stuff that has to go in an oven or stovetop ('cept bacon - I can do bacon).
I can relate to this from many years ago, but thankfully I kept at it out of the glare of truly gifted people until I could establish my own self. This may be one reason why consumers now spend more on food in restaurants than on groceries.
Interesting concept, and worth considering in an implication concerning household budgets and family size. I’ve come to think of cooking as being similar to sewing.
Another interesting thought. My wife still sews, or at least repairs clothing. AFAIK, only one of our children still keeps a sewing kit available and uses it.
I think that all this is a consequence of our society growing more specialized in everything from the building trades to basic life around home.
And if too many parents used the TV as a babysitter when we were young, now look at how our grandchildren have a hard time surviving without a screen nearby. Now multiply this by an generation entering college and we see the fruits of sowing the wind.
Just as watching weightlifting videos on TY has not improved my cardio nor my strength, teaching children, especially boys via a Zoom call does not help them mature.
I actually just started to love cooking about a year ago. Most of our dinners (just my wife and me) I prepare. Healthy too. Seafood, greens etc. Just made a dinner that’s now one of our favorites. Creamy Garlic shrimp with sauteed mushrooms, coconut milk and parmesan cheese. Incredible!
That’s why so many people are so fat and always sick.
They keep eating that trash that’s full of chemicals and drugs.
Buy fresh food and cook it,it’s easy. Teaches you a skill that many people don’t have anymore, and the food tastes better.
You don’t have to love it to do it well.
You don’t have to love it to know how to fix healthy meals, budget properly for food, save money, save time...
Bringing back HomeEc for both sexes in publik skrewls is a great idea.
Especially if parents are clueless themselves and/or can’t be bothered to teach their kids.
I like cooking. My specialty is split pea soup/ My tip on that is to add some frozen peas at the end. I like cooking hamburgers. I use the stopwatch on my Casio watch to time them. 5-7 minutes depending on how cold the meat is and how thick the hamburger is. Lamb-burgers too. I ate one yesterday.
Best split pea soup I ever had was a the once widespread restaurant chain called Pea Soup Andersen’s. Started by a Danish immigrant. California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_Soup_Andersen%27s
I’m in group 1, and like trying my hand at new recipes. We eat out maybe once every couple of months, about 3 or 4 times a year. It is just the two of us, though.
Raising kids I was in group 3.
My wife and I love to cook together. She a genius in the kitchen. I can stir a pot really good. My place is tending the smoker and grill. I make a superb cedar planked salmon with honey-ginger glaze, excellent baby back ribs, and slow smoked reverse seared steaks. She can put together an amazing meal with little effort, shrimp chowder, the absolute best chicken and dumplings, Caprese chicken tortellini, and a host of other dishes. We rarely eat out since our home cooking is better than most restaurants.
I don’t like cooking.
But I do it because it is better than the alternative.
While many people do not cook, I see many people at the grocery store buying ingredients, and companies sell lots of ingredients so I know people are cooking.
I taught myself to cook, because mom wasn’t very good at it. Thank you, Betty Crocker!
When we (Sue and I) decided that we were going to do whatever it takes to get out of our debt and start saving/investing, I took it on myself to teach myself how to cook.
Here we are 7 years later and I do 95% of the food prep. I have had meals that were flops but overall not too bad. We eat like royalty in spite of my mistakes for about $600/month.
Let me tell you from direct, learned experience:
Most restaurant food is toxic.
If you care about your health & longevity, make ‘eating out’ a rare, exclusive event.
Its importance is on par with exercise.
The irony of this article is the amount of space grocers reserve for fresh food correlates to the percentage of those cooking and continues to worsen while startups like Hello Fresh & Home Chef fill the void.
Here’s the worst part in the form of a question:
Who else has noticed that a staple of grocery checkout - recipe books/magazines - have been slowly disappearing and that self-checkout are bereft of ‘impulse goods retail items’ such as magazines?
The grocery industry’s problem is somewhat self-inflicted, but placing blame upon them or the lack of home economics is classic deflection.
People literally need to look in the mirror.
I love to cook and experimenting with new recipes. All of the males in my family are terrific cooks especially my 22 year old grandson. He’s self taught and so accomplished. He’s in college and regularly cooks for his housemates. My two sons have also become very good cooks. The oldest one does a lot of fishing and makes some incredible seafood dishes. His tuna poke, ceviche and fish tacos are to die for.
I believe one of the obstacles to cooking at home is not having the basics always on hand. You might see a cooking video or recipe that looks good, but if you do not have things like onions, garlic, canned tomatoes and basic herbs and spices as well as staples like cooking oil, sugar and flour in your pantry making even a simple recipe becomes too much work. Our daughter often asks me how to make some of my dishes, but then balks when she doesn’t even have an onion or any seasonings on hand. I have recently been making Indian dishes and found that having five or six of the basic spices allows me to make a wide variety of dishes without making a special trip to my favorite Indian grocery. Given the availability of how to cooking videos for nearly every cuisine and appliances like slow cookers, air fryers, automatic pressure cookers and microwaves cooking at home should be easy for anyone with the inclination and the basics in the pantry.
It’s irrelevant is someone LOVES cooking.
You do it because you need to. It’s the cheapest and safest way to feed your family.
A really simple cookbook would help those who don’t ‘get’ cooking.
For example: totally basic recipes based on ‘cooking is making things warm or making things soft’. And a simple meal is a meat a starch and a vegetable. (basic basic basic stuff)
Chicken - first recipe at top of page: put chicken in pan, turn oven on to 360 degrees - remove after 45 minutes and eat.
Second chicken recipe: Salt chicken, put chicken in pan turn over on to 360 degrees - remove after 45 minutes and eat.
Then just continue down the page until there’s a chicken recipe most of us would be willing to eat and share with others.
Make it easy, show how much money is saved and let young people learn the patterns of cooking. In today’s world - and tomorrow’s - food is going to become more expensive and restaurants outrageously expensive.
The stats are probably better. Lots of people took up cooking during Covid when everything was shut down.
Cooking themed TikTok accounts and YouTube videos are very popular.