can you cook

[dannyd]

what the title says. i know most of you are married and wifey may do all the cooking or you live with you mom and she cooks so dont really worry about it but i was wondering how many of you know how to cook with out the microwave?

all i know how to do is make eggs, french toast and french friies.

 

[Revo Rancher]

If you ever happen to notice, they are called "Chefs", not "Chefettes". Men are by far the better cooks!!!!

OK, bash away.

I do 99% of the grocery shopping and 80% of the cooking in our household. Fast Eddy does the BBQ'ing and intoxicating his relatives and guests, so I guess that counts for 80%, too.

 

[jetmechG550]

In our house, if I don't cook, I don't eat. In the 7 1/2 years I've been married I think I can count on one hand how many times my wife has cook! LOL Well maybe not that bad but close. My neighbors laugh at me though cause I'll grill all year long, standing in the rain, trudging through the snow, makes no difference to me. The other excuse is cause I'll eat later than my wife and daughter, whether it's cause of work or after I work out.

However, unlike RR, I'm not allowed to grocery shop, I tend to be a little too honest with people that think they are the only ones in the store or the guy who stands in front of me when I'm looking for something. Grocery shopping with me can be a physical sport! LOL I do run in for the meat though, but that is all since I'm only dealing with the butcher.

 

[Buggyracer28]

Does PB&J count?

 

[Revo Rancher]

In our house, if I don't cook, I don't eat. In the 7 1/2 years I've been married I think I can count on one hand how many times my wife has cook! LOL Well maybe not that bad but close. My neighbors laugh at me though cause I'll grill all year long, standing in the rain, trudging through the snow, makes no difference to me. The other excuse is cause I'll eat later than my wife and daughter, whether it's cause of work or after I work out.

However, unlike RR, I'm not allowed to grocery shop, I tend to be a little too honest with people that think they are the only ones in the store or the guy who stands in front of me when I'm looking for something. Grocery shopping with me can be a physical sport! LOL I do run in for the meat though, but that is all since I'm only dealing with the butcher.

Uhhh, Jet, this is exactly my life. I actually had a neighber ask once if I did my eggs, too, on my grill.

As to the store, yeppers, I consider it a sport. The same, exact, thing happens to me all the time. My wife won't go with me anymore, says I will get shot one day.

 

[SMaxxin]

My wife is a great cook...Thats why I'm getting fat. But I do consider myself a good cook. I get together with a group of guys once a week and we take turns cooking....We are a hungry group that loves to eat so anybody that cooks better know what there doing :whip:

 

[SMaxxin]

I'm not allowed to grocery shop, I tend to be a little too honest with people that think they are the only ones in the store or the guy who stands in front of me when I'm looking for something. Grocery shopping with me can be a physical sport!.

Same here, my wife said I can go by myself or stay home. It's not so bad when they do poop to me but I usually push the buggy and just point at what I want, but when some asshat does something stupid to her I'm ready to bitch slap him/her doesn't matter and I tell them that I'm about to bitch slap them...She get embarrassed and then she gets pissed at me and now I'm standing there with that why are you mad at me look. So now I just stay home.

 

[Jeep]

I am , without any doubt, a great chef. Sorry if that sounds immodest, but it's true regardless.
I'm 40 years old, I live alone and I don't order pizza delivery except about once every 3 months or so if that often. I can cook eggs in about 6 different ways, one of which I call "egg in the hole",
I lightly toast a piece of light bread of which the center has been cut out using the top of a milk jug.
I then fry an egg in that piece of toast so that the white is cooked on both sides but the yolk is runny.

And I also make a mean meatloaf, "baked" spaghetti, and unreal enchiladas to say the least.

Also, every woman that I "cooked" for,,came back for more

Jeep

P.S. ,,and they wanted me to cook again as well

Jeep

 

[Jeep]

If you ever happen to notice, they are called "Chefs", not "Chefettes". Men are by far the better cooks!!!!

OK, bash away.

I do 99% of the grocery shopping and 80% of the cooking in our household. Fast Eddy does the BBQ'ing and intoxicating his relatives and guests, so I guess that counts for 80%, too.

Extremely true , bro

All of the greatest "Chefs" (that's not a "genderous" term") are men, it's a simple fact.


Jeep

 

[digger]

My Ol lady can cook anything!!




As long as it comes out of the freezer in a box and goes in the microwave!


She got on a kick for a while she wanted to cook chicken 2 or 3 nights a week. A piece of cardboard couldn't have been more dry. Probably would have tasted better too.
No, I didn't have the balls to tell her what I thought of it. Finally just told her I was sick of chicken.

She asked me once how long to boil an egg. I'm not kidding.
She will open a can of beans, corn or whatever and put them on the stove. Any kind of meat I fix.
I do some grilling as serious as some of you. Been on the deck in the snow freezing my ass off cooking steaks before.

And for the grocery shopping.... I've did that the last 4 or 5 times it was done. Can't stand it when both of us go. I want to be in and out quick as possible. She could shop for an hour or more. My poop's done about 10 minutes.

 

[Revo Rancher]

She got on a kick for a while she wanted to cook chicken 2 or 3 nights a week. A piece of cardboard couldn't have been more dry. Probably would have tasted better too.
No, I didn't have the balls to tell her what I thought of it. Finally just told her I was sick of chicken.

Just forwarded this to the your little wifey for ya! J/K!:OMG:

When my wife and I were dating we ate so much BBQ'd chicken one night she remarked, "If I eat anymore chicken I am going to grow feathers!" :whack:

 

[digger]

Just forwarded this to the your little wifey for ya! J/K!:OMG:

That's OK bro. You will stick your foot in the mouth, soon....

Paybacks are a bitch!

Wonder how many of us are watching the door while we are typeing? Wife watching TV? We are talking poop?


Wanna send out for chicken bro?????

 

[Lessen]

hell, I burn soup.

 

[dannyd]

sorry if i made look like men can't cook. its just all the guys i know can't cook without a microwave.

 

[Candyman]

My girlfriend and I agree that the second most important room in the house is the kitchen. We both cook a lot and love every minute of it. Hell, that's how I got my Candyman nickname. Because one of the things I love to create is candy. But we cook everything. And we always set aside at least one night a week for some outlandish dinner for the 2 of us. My family laughs because we're total kitchen gadget freaks. I was ecstatic this Christmas because she bought me a Microplane grater/zester. Best you can get. It rules! For my birthday she gave me a set of Henkels knives. Last Christmas I got a food processor and my mom just gave us a KitchenAid stand mixer. That should tell you how much time we spend in the kitchen.

 

[godale03]

I am by far a cooking freak. I love the grill.... (Hey Digger I know the feeling, standing out in the snow, or just plain freakin cold grilling steaks... beer in hand!), but I do love the kitchen as well. I love kitchen gadgets too, I just wish I could afford more. I even go to Pampered Chef parties! I know...:loser: My finace is more than willing to step aside in the kitchen so long as the cooking gets done. She can cook pretty well, just doesn't like to do it. Hell, I think I am the only guy here who watches the food network and takes notes! You would swear I was listening to a proffesor talk in class. I own two or three boxsets of various Food Network shows, like "30 minute meals", and "Good Eats". In fact my soon to be mother in law got me two box sets for Xmas. We also have a rule, that whoever cooks does not have to clean up, so when dinner time rolls around you know where to find me.

Tom

 

[Plaidfish]

Kitchen is THE most iportant room in the house in my book....I love to cook...I have a microwave but I'll be dipped in poo if anyone will eat microwaved leftovers.....every christmas my pop and I make around 16 9x13 pans of lasagne....and I mean make the sauce from tomatoes...it's about 50 lbs to make 5 gallons....and the pasta my aunt makes.....my unle raises hogs in central FL....cross breeds domestic and Wild hogs....that's where the sausage comes from......my dad's family has the gift of cooking while my moms is good they just make like 4 or 5 different dishes OVER and OVER again......

I am the chicken cooking master.....for 10 years the only meat I cooked was bonless skinless chicken (breast or thighs)...and I prep them myself.....just buy a ton of thighs and breasts and cut the meat out.......I like making stuff up on th efly.......right now I have chicken breasts marinating in roasted peanut oil and Teryaki w/ mustart powder......gonna grill for dinner......and steaks tommorow marinating in Mojo Creole.....

 

[FastEddy]

The most important room in my house is the bathroom. This holds true expecialy if my wife cooks. The best thing she can make for dinner is reservations. I love the woman to the end of the earth but she just can't cook.

I do most of the cooking. A good part is done on the grill thus making the back patio an important room for us. Our lifestyle (No Kids) makes it easy having not to keep a regular eating schedule. I have been known to light up old sparky on the back porch close to midnight. My neighbors don't hesitate to ask whats for a midnight snack.

 

[robriguez]

Since I was tall enough to properly hold the handle to a frying pan on the stove I have been cooking for myself. I have been experimenting with different tastes and ingredients since then as well. I spent most of my adult life single and living on my own so cooking for myself just became the norm. When I meet my girlfriend she was the exact opposite. The girl had problems boiling water and making toast. So, for the first few years of us living together, if "I" didnt cook, "we" didnt eat. Shes gotten better and I've kinda hinted that, as my wife if we get married, I'd like her to learn to make at least ONE dish really good. This way I always know I dont have to cook on my Birthday.

When I lived with my parents (thats the only time i had access to a grill on a regular basis) EVERYTHING got cooked on the grill. I mean I even got good at making pasta on the grill while I was cooking the suasage that would eventually make its way into the meat sauce that went over the pasta. 2am, foot of snow, rain, didnt matter. Throw a couple thin steaks or a couple links of sausage, or even just a burger or 2 on the grill anytime and I was a very happy man.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Yes, I cook. I have to! My wife burns water (no poop, I've seen her do it!) Last night she tried making turkey steaks and rice. I shoved it down, told her it was good, went down to my basement and nuked up four of those $.39 burritos to get the taste of burnt hair out of my mouth!

I'm a griller, same as any man with a properly placed set of testacles will claim! But during the colder months, I turn to Old Faithful...my Crock pot! I love this thing! We've got one of those bigguns, so I can make enough to carry us into the next week. Sunday's are usually the days I break Old Faithful out and make something. This last Sunday it was an awesome hamburger, ham and bacon with vegetable stew, man was IT good! I also make a killer pot roast, ham-n-potato soup and baked potato soup! I'm feeling really up to it, I pull together a mean Mexican meat loaf with cheese-n-garlic mashed 'taters!

While I do go to the grocery store, I tend to go in off hours, like midnight! The one right by our house is 24/7, so to avoid all the friggin' idiots that wonder around aimlessly in the middle of aisles and, worst of all, push their carts right in the middle of the parking aisle (geez, one day I'm outting a brush guard on my Tahoe and I'm going to tatoo one of those dipshits!) If I go during normal times, I get so frustrated I end up forgetting what I need! My wife refuses to go with me, but she'll gladly go by herself if I make out the list, so it works out!

Danny, what I've found is that a lot of men cook and like doing it. I'm a lot like Robriguez, I like to try different flavors and I have yet to follow a cookbook to the letter!


And Jeep, having worked at a Bob Evans, I've learned to make eggs about the same as you. I make the same "egg-in-bread" dish as well, call it an "Egg-Drop Sammy". Make some of those with some fried goetta (scrapple). Good eatin' right there!