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RE: Ladies, how much cooking does it take to impress you? - 12/31/2010 1:34:15 AM

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
Reading this thread, I'm really amazed at how many men don't even know how to cook. What the heck do these guys eat? I moved out of my parents' house shortly after I turned 17, and thought I was in heaven because I could eat pizza, TV dinners, and pot pies every night. It took about 3 weeks before I'd had a lifetime's worth of that crap, and I motored straight over to my parents' house to raid my mother's recipe book. Haven't looked back since. I can't imagine how boring life would be if I didn't cook.

One of the nice things about the increase in interest in good cooking in the UK in the last few years has been that many more men (and, indeed, women too) are now interested in cooking and eating quality meals. Which is not to say that millions of people don't still eat junk, because millions do, but the number of people who can now prepare tasty, nutritious meals is on the up.

I have, many times, taught friends to cook; most of those were men, although there were several girls in the mix too. One mate of mine was so hopeless that he was incapable of doing anything beyond toast (not even a boiled egg, would you believe). He ended up eating a lot of toast :) In the early days it was guys who were leaving home for the first time. Now it's mates who have divorced after years of their spouse doing the cooking, and have realised that those nice meals didn't just magically appear on the table. BTW the "toast-eater" is now an accomplished cook, although he confesses it's not something that comes naturally to him.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
When I'm living with someone, I usually do all the cooking, because I'm better at it than most of the women I've been with. My last ex used to do a lot of the cooking because she liked the traditional dishes she grew up with in Russia and Germany, and I couldn't make them as well as she could. But overall, my cooking was still better than hers, so unless she had a hankering for borscht or sauerbraten or whatever, she mostly preferred to let me do the cooking.

I did date someone about 15 years ago who was a really good cook, and we would take turns trying to outcook each other. We'd attack each other every weekend with elaborate gourmet meals, her one Saturday night and me the next. She finally gave up when I clobbered her with lobster thermidor and baked alaska. After that, she pretty much let me do the cooking.

lol. I'm not quite so competitive, but I have to admit I don't generally like people cooking for me. I would much rather prepare meals for them. It’s that control-freak thing again, I think, if I'm honest. I like things just so, and thus I tend to do most of it myself.

(in reply to ThatDamnedPanda)