Kitchen

[chessylady]

I have a friend who has told me she doesn't cook. She nominally cooked while raising her children. I am single yet I cook almost every day. I can't imagine living on frozen food and take out. My mother was a good cook but she was too busy to teach me. Still eating good food as a child must have left an impression on me. Do you know people who don't cook?

[birkin baby]

I try to not cook as often as possible. Summer is when I try even harder to not cook.

[millieshops]

Some of us who say we don't cook actually do cook a little.  I make "real" oatmeal most days, I put a chicken breast in the oven along with a potato to bake and I make fresh tossed salads or a fresh steamed veggie (no sauces, few herbs).  Sometimes I substitute  fish fillet for a chicken, but i just put it in a small casserole sprayed to keep it from sticking.  Again no sauces please.

I just don't consider what I do cooking, I guess because to me that involves a recipe which I seldom use any longer -  but not a whole lot of takeout and even less frozen except for bags of plain veggies.

I still like to look at dishes and kitchen gadgets, still enjoy cookbooks.  Strange maybe, but that's the way it is.

[Mz iMac]

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@chessylady wrote:

Do you know people who don't cook?

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MOI.....and proud of it.  I do take out on weekends & go to restaurants the rest of the week.  I eat breakfast at my local diner every day.

My S.O. buys my groceries & does ALL the cooking when he comes over.  Good thing he knows how to throw down in the kitchen!

I grew up in a household where my father & brothers did ALL the cooking.  My mother only cooked on Sundays but my father did the meats.  I was never taught to cook. 

Never taught my 43 yr old daughter to cook either.  SIL can't cook.  When they walk into a restaurant, everybody knows their name!

[giddy up]

When I was a younger adult I didn't cook for myself much.   But over the last 5 or 6 years I have learned to cook and have started cooking with different appliances....slow cooker, pressure cooker, toaster oven etc.   The best part about it.......I am loving my own cooking   I also like being able to stay home around the dinner hour and not have to run out somewhere to pick something up.

[tedEbear]

I second what birkinbaby said!!!!  I have never been a good cook, even watching the food real close.  I do cook because DH says he is hungry and then complains.  I can barely microwave.   My Mom was an OK cook.

[Annabellethecat66]

I almost never cook.  Every now and then I'll make my favorite spaghetti sauce, freeze it and when I get hungry for it cook the noodles.

I eat out with a friend at least 3 or 4 times a week.  If I'm out, I'll get something to eat.  We don't eat fast food but we eat at restaurants.

It doesn't make sense to cook much when you are by yourself.  Sometimes I go by my daughter's on way home from the Drs and eat at her house.

There are a lot of older people who don't cook much.  If you live alone it is a pain in the neck to do much cooking and then sit and eat it.

[Kachina624]

People who've never cooked are usually too lazy to read and follow directions.  Cooking isn't rocket science.

[scotnovel]

I used to have a friend who didn't cook.  Her husband asked me to buy her a cookbook for Christmas one year.  She had expressed some interest in a few things that I made so I felt ok getting her the cookbook.  She learned how to make 2 or 3 things and after that she always acted like an expert when anyone was talking about cooking skills.  It was kind of funny.  I knew her for several years and don't remember her ever baking anything.

The mother of a girl I went to grade school with made only 7 main dishes, one for each day of the week  They had the same meals over and over again each week. My friend liked to stay overnight at various friend's houses so she could actually have the opportunity to eat some different dishes. 

[GenXmuse]

I don't think I know anyone who doesn't cook at least some. I love cooking. It's the cleaning up I dislike.