I 25(f) can follow a recipe but i can’t make magic off the top of my head like my mom and aunts can so i don’t cook often. My sister can’t cook at all and my mom says she won’t find a man (she’s a boomer)

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  2. In this day and age, just about as important as it would be for anyone being able to cook.

    Gotta eat to survive!

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    Now, being able to cook great food, goes a long way. Male or female, anyone with the ability to cook has one factor more loved about them. SO it’s about as important as that.

  3. It depends on the particular man and what he’s looking for in a relationship. Like for me, I’m pretty used to fending for myself in that arena, but I’m nowhere near a whiz kid and can learn a lot. If she can cook, great, if not that’s workable too as long as she’s capable of something.

  4. I’d consider it a red flag if she can’t cook. Like wtf is she eating? Fast food?

  5. Everyone should know how to cook – it’s a basic life skill. I do most of the cooking in my household but my wife can do it in a pinch.

  7. It will come with time, some of the cooking your relatives are doing is from memory out of years of cooking many of the same dishes, and just experience. Time is the greatest teacher; you will get there with time.

    Given how expensive eating out is getting to be able to cook is becoming more important than ever just to save money. I have a lady friend who was complaining about not having any money, I asked her how much she spent last night for supper. She said between her, her daughter, and her live-in boyfriend it was like 35.00 dollars, I then opened up my check register and showed her where I wrote a check the day before to Kroger for 67.00 dollars for a weeks’ worth of groceries for mom and me.

  9. If you can follow a recipe you’re good. What generally happens is you get used to several recipes and make them a lot. Then you don’t have the right wine, or you decide to throw in butter and whipping cream instead of the wine, modifying the recipes. Before you know you know what to mix and what works together.

    A fun early relationship my wife and me did was experiment with cooking together. Now we can both whip up a gourmet meal with whatever is in fridge…but at 25? We were “eh”.

  13. While my wife can cook. I am way way way better at it. My mom raised me to never need a woman to take care of me. I am thankful for it too.

    When I went to Basic training so many kids didn’t know how to do laundry. I was giving laundry classes in the evening for the first few weeks.

  14. You can literally type the name of any food you want to eat on Youtube and have people show you step by step how to make it.

    I’d worry less about the finding a man part and more about just having the skill to make your adult life easier in general.

  15. At one time your mom and aunts were beginners and they made a lot of mistakes along the way to knowing how to make magic in the kitchen. Start learning how to cook, give yourself permission to make mistakes and before long you too will be making magic in the kitchen.

    As for your question: everyone should know how to cook a few basics. But a woman who knows her way around a kitchen will definitely be more attractive to a man who is seeking a traditional partner.

  16. I taught my sons to cook so it wouldn’t matter if the person they ended up with could.

  17. Ability to cook isn’t nearly as important, as I love to cook. I cannot stand a picky eater though.

  18. My wife couldn’t cook at all when we first moved in together. She got the basics pretty quickly and then she started watching k drama where they feature a lot of food and then she became obsessed with cooking asian food. It is awesome. And I will now struggle with my weight for eternity.

  19. Personally I don’t care. I lived with chefs and picked a few things up so I can cook.

    I do value quality time though so it would be cool if she would at least hang out with me in the kitchen and share some wine with me while I cook something up, or even participate and cook something with me, even if she doesn’t quite know what she’s doing

  20. For me, not important. I can cook, so if you can clean… when can you move in?

  22. Cooking for yourself is important. But it doesn’t have to be intricate, just the staples to cover basic nutrition.

    Cooking for a partner… meh. I’ve cooked 99% of the meals my(m) partner(f) and I have shared over the last decade, so I’d say the whole “won’t find a man” bit is a little antiquated.

  23. I love cooking, wife doesn’t, and prefers I do it, I hate folding washing, she does not mind it. Compromise, I knew what I signed up for and she grew up in a house where she was never expected to cook. We both work so as long as the family can wait till I get home I don’t mind doing it.

    I’m teaching my son and daughter (10 and 12 ) to cook, clean, change a tyre, use a washing machine, pay bills etc not because they have to entice a partner with these skills but because it’s basic knowledge you have to learn before you live by yourself. I think you’ll be ok.

  24. Long as she has basic skills so she isn’t living off expensive ass junk food, I’m happy. I’m happy to cook for us most of the time, I’m not gonna complain just because she doesn’t cook for me all the time.

  25. Few people can cook on the fly without a recipe and with minimum ingredients. Cooking is learning and you never stop learning. Following recipes is more than most do.

  26. Define being able to cook?

    If she can survive on her own without fast food and can follow instructions on a jar of spaghetti sauce.. Im fine with that, I like to cook.

    If shes never learned how to cook anything because she was waited on hand and foot, unless she is someone whose willing to learn just never had the support, miss me with that shit lol

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