Gender imbalance in cooking ability

Cooking skills are lacking generally. This of course is due to the availability of convenience foods and takeaways. I learned to cook from the age of about 14, I could make buns, xmas cakes, a meat and spuds dinner by the time I was 16.

In relation to healthy cooking simplicity is best and only basic cooking skills are required i.e no complicated recipes. As a rule this is how I eat most of the time as I find it helps to keep the weight down as I get older. It also saves me rather a lot of wonga.

I honestly think cooking skills and other basic skills such as sowing should be taught in all secondary schools as a core subject.


When you consider the effort we go to offering seperate biology, chemistry, physics, accounting, business studies, latin, german etc. yet alot of the students lack basic life skills.

spaceHopper wrote: »

One of my wife's friends got scurvy after she moved out of home, enough said!

Holy ****. That takes some doing, or a Napoleonic-era sea voyage.

Few suggestions why

Men and women need to take a more equal approach to household tasks now that more commonly both spouses are working full time. Perhaps men have opted for cooking and women have opted or been left with cleaning, washing, uniforms, lunches etc

Perhaps men are fussier with their food and so prefer to cook it themselves. ie wife would cook but it’s not good enough for the husband? My husband will not ‘let’ me cook his steak and I’m not even joking.

Perhaps men could criticise the woman’s cooking in bygone days but now they rightly don’t so they are left to cook themselves. Women may have historically always done the cooking but they weren’t always necessarily good cooks.

Perhaps in households with children the husband opts to cook and the wife opts to catch up with the children after work.