Who is Primary Cook of the House

[Dtail]

It is rare that we cook indoors or outside. Thus our food budget is 1,400 monthly.

 

[VanWinkle]

I'm the breakfast cook, we both cook lunch, and dinner is also split duties.
I use the air fryers for many of our meals and the grille for many during the warm season.

 

[donheff]

I am the primary cook. DW likes to bake. Now, as we enter our mid 70s we cook a lot less and a lot simpler. A lot more carryout/delivery too.

 

[Jerry1]

I usually am the one dealing with fire but DW does the majority of the cooking. So, I’ll grill the meat and handle the pan when we do a stir fry. I also will do some prep work like cutting up the vegetables when we make soup. We split clean up pretty evenly.

 

[braumeister]

One of my older neighbors has a kitchen that has never had a meal cooked in it. Either restaurant or delivery for every meal. So there are some folks whose answer to the poll would have to be "Neither".

 

[Trailwalker]

We share cooking. I usually prepare the main course and one of the sides. DW is in charge of the salad/vegetables and cleanup. I do the grocery shopping; she prepares the lists.

 

[jollystomper]

Wife enjoys cooking, so she does most of it. I will do any outside grilling. If she is out of town I will cook, particularly things I like that she is allergic to.

We have different cooking styles, she goes by feel and experience, I treat it like chemistry lab and carefully measure and time everything .

 

[Midpack]

We split cooking and cleanup 50/50. Always from scratch while working and now that we’re both retired. But I retired before DW, and I made all breakfasts and dinners Mon thru Fri during the years I was retired and she was still working. She always told her friends she didn’t want to retire because it meant she’d lose her “personal chef.” It was a grind for me those years, but only fair…

 

[ShokWaveRider]

I put DW as she does most of the cooking and clearing up. I do BBQ and make the occasional supper, but she is the main cook in our home, and may I say a very good one. We are conscientious eaters to she has a tough job keeping the variety in our meals as we do eat a lot of the same things.

 

[Music Lover]

We both cook but my wife does most of it. She also does all the baking and runs the smoker. I do all the BBQing, homemade pizzas, and a few other things.

It's probably 60%-40% my wife in summer, 80%-20% in winter.

I do 90% of the cooking cleanup.

 

[imjustawarrior]

My DW makes most of the dinners. I fill in when necessary. Usually once or twice a week. Most days I make lunch for DW and me. I like to grill something and make some fruit and vegetables to go with it. She gets upset with me because she says I am making dinner for lunch. We each like a hot lunch. I can't tell you how many sandwiches I ate growing up, in college, and brown bagging for lunch at w*rk. I'm so happy to have a nice lunch every day.

On Saturday we make breakfast together. She cooks the bacon, and I do the hashbrowns and my eggs. Otherwise, we make our own breakfasts.

 

[pacergal]

I do majority of the cooking/baking, DH does the outside grilling.
Whoever cooks, the other one cleans up.
Since I find it difficult to only cook for two, we have leftovers most meals.
I probably only cook 2-3 meals a week, DH grills maybe 1.
The rest of the time it's leftovers, sandwiches, salads, cereal for meals.
Or we go out to a restaurant.

 

[marko]

One of my older neighbors has a kitchen that has never had a meal cooked in it. Either restaurant or delivery for every meal. So there are some folks whose answer to the poll would have to be "Neither".

You must live next door to my mom! The last time her stove was turned on was when it was installed in 1968. Literally, Literally.

 

[Chuckanut]

I do all the cooking in my house. I live alone.

 

[Lorenzo]

My first wife did not enjoy cooking, so I made most meals. Later, when I was single again and in my 30s and 40s I made a point of not eating like a stereotypical bachelor and cooked myself good, healthy meals with real food. My wife values my cooking skills, but she enjoys cooking, too, and she took the reins when we got married. I have cooking duty from time to time and still enjoy it.

 

[Kings over Queens]

I voted split.

wife cooks most week nights and I cook on the weekends.

I cook all of the holidays and if we are entertaining.

I do most of the grilling, all of the smoking, pizzas, fresh bread. She bakes cookies, I don't.

Pizza for todays lunch below.

 

[Kings over Queens]

 

[CM]

Me: BBQ pork spare ribs are in the slow cooker for tonight. With corn on the cob!
Husband: ingredients purchased for yellow curry with chicken, cauliflower snap peas and carrots tomorrow

We eat like kings. Life is good.

 

[N02L84ER]

Neither. We go out for lunch and occasionally eat a small snack around 5 - 6 pm. The last time we prepared an actual meal was at Christmas, I think.

 

[Stormy Kromer]

Good post Street.

We live on my farm. I process our meat (elk & venison) and buy whatever beef, pork and poultry locally and take care of it myself. I have a huge garden and process this myself too. This is about my favorite part of being FIRED.

So, I love to cook and DW is happy to let me. She is a good cook but doesn't mind if I cook what I like for the two of us.

Its funny, the year I FIRED I was offered two jobs. One was in the business world in a large city. The other was to be a camp cook at a hunting and fishing camp in Wyoming. I didn't consider the first, and I almost took the second.

 

[Tom52]

We pretty much share the food preparation duties as well as the clean up. However, I do the majority of the baking. Wife, while a good cook is not much into trying new things. Me, I like to try something different from our routine occasionally, and wife is all for it.

I usually handle the majority of the cooking and baking for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like to cook and bake and wife is thankful for it.

 

[brett]

I do the Thai, souvlaki, and all the barbeques. DW does the rest.

 

[Dtail]

We pretty much share the food preparation duties as well as the clean up. However, I do the majority of the baking. Wife, while a good cook is not much into trying new things. Me, I like to try something different from our routine occasionally, and wife is all for it.

I usually handle the majority of the cooking and baking for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like to cook and bake and wife is thankful for it.

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Looks good, we will be there soon.

 

[Healthy Lifestyle]

DW is just so much a better cook, that I have taken on the roll of full time kitchen help which oddly I seem to enjoy!

 

[ls99]

Yours truly, chief cook and bottle washer.
Late wife stopped cooking several months before she died. Until then she cooked most of the time.