• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My wife mostly because she doesn’t work full time and she’s an incredible cook. When she doesn’t want to then I usually grill up something.

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    I work from home, and unless things are going a little crazy I do most of the cooking. Occasionally my wife will cover a lunch or breakfast or maybe even a dinner if things are crazy but it’s probably one out of 10 times max.

    She’s pretty big into pre-packaged or just making a sandwich, I’ll break out the baking soda flour and sugar and make pancakes, or if I think about it a couple hours early I’ll make pizza dough or something I don’t usually plan much past that. If I am using something pre-packaged I’ll usually go out of my way to do something interesting with it. Make a buffalo sauce toss the nuggets in it throw them over a bag salad.

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    4 months ago

    We kind of split it but when doing a grocery delivery subscription like hellofresh for a few weeks, I cook most of it because I find following the baby step instructions less tedious

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m (m) gluten free and my wife is vegetarian so we often just cook for ourselves. When both of us eat one thing, I cook probably 70% of the time. I’m the better cook.

    Although we do have specific roles. I make all of the popcorn she makes all of the smoothies.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If we want to eat today, then me. She’s a good cook but very slow. I used to work in restaurants so my chopping speed is orders of magnitude faster than hers.

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    4 months ago

    Usually wife during the week, me on the weekend. Changes sometimes due to circumstances obviously.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Mostly my mother and I. It’s almost certain my dad will complain about cooking taking more than 5 minutes and only sometimes helps ( only if my mom gets him to do it ). And my brother sometimes does it and sometimes helps, but more often than not I don’t need his help.

    I personally don’t mind it since I don’t hate doing it. And it’s a pretty good life skill to have in general. None of us are professional chefs, but I imagine my mom and I could definitely outcook the average family in America anymore. Cooking is a dying art because of a combination of lack of convenience, laziness, grocery prices going up, and impatience, I swear.

  • peaches@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Mostly I do the cooking because I love it, I am very fast doing it, I am very good at it and I like us to have healthy food in the house. He does some specific dishes that I don’t feel like doing. I made the rule of whoever does the cooking, also cleans up. It is strange at first glance, but I clean while I cook, so I don’t have to clean a bunch of stuff at the end. And he is a messy cook. So I don’t get in the kitchen while he cooks, otherwise I would get mad with the lack of efficiency.

    And he loves my food much more than I do. It is a pleasure to see him enjoy what I cook.

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    We usually make our own things, like breakfast and lunches and whatnot. I like to cook peppers down to add to eggs and hash browns or to make breakfast burritos, and I’ll try to make all kinds of things but end up being the only one who eats them. I also do lettuce prep for salads and whatnot.

    If we make a multiple person home cooked meal then it depends on what we are having. I tend to get stuck with cooking meat ir pancakes as I enjoy making both, while my wife often makes nearly everything else because she is fairly picky but more forgiving if she was the one who made it. I often get to do sous chef stuff like chopping things.

    She is the better overall cook, mostly because she has a better memory than I do for flavors. I literally cannot remember which spice is which and tend to stick to salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, or premixed spices with the names of the foods unless using a recipe. She is able to mix and match as she goes and does an excellent job!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Generally, we each cook for ourselves unless someone is sick or it’s an event or something, then I do the cooking.