Comments on: Be a Man: Learn to Cook

By: Si

Si — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:59:33 +0000

I took home economics when at high school had not choice. I fell in love with cooking and wanted to be as chef when I left school. The hours an crap pay at the bottom of the ladder put me off.
I just love cooking it is the only thing that relaxes me and the kitchen is my domain not my wife’s.

It is a real role reversal in our house I do the cooking my wife does the DIY.

What is manly anymore. I cook clean, iron, raise children, tip my wage up every month for the good of the family and ask for nothing in return.

I am at an age where I don’t give a dame what people think of my cooking abilities in fact I sing it from the highest tree. I get great pleasure from it.

In the age of belt tightening I set the meals for the week and shop accordingly. Every meal is made from scratch every day. No of this horsemeat crap for my family. It is fresh home made meatballs, pasta, curries, roasts, stews and puddings.

I hate the mail female thing women and men are very able to do any job and be praised for it there is no difference. Sorry ladies with 2 expectations multitasking and giving birth.

By: FeatherBlade

FeatherBlade — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:36:18 +0000

To all those “gents” complaining about women who won’t cook: it may have something to do first with the feminist movement’s idea that “women’s work” is beneath the dignity of women, therefore they should be going out and doing men’s work, because that is the only worthwhile work to do (an attitude that they likely learned from men), and second, that “Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich” is a general term of disapprobation and (dare I say) abuse used against women of the younger generations when they do anything that the men their age dislike.

The kitchen and cooking have therefore become associated with both masculine and feminine contempt in the minds of many young women.

That said, cooking is survival skill and woe to them that have it not. ^_^

By: Alexander Connell

Alexander Connell — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:31:16 +0000

Another endorsement for Alton Brown’s shows and cook books. My brain is wired in such a way that I seem to do better if I know the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what’.

On another note; I went to school with a guy whose parents raised him to believe that cooking was ‘womans’ work’. Every meal he ever ate was made for him and when they first went on vacation leaving, left home alone, he spent a week living on potato chips and takeout. He couldn’t understand why he had no energy.

He’s married with 2 teenage children now and I still don’t think he knows how to use a can opener. I can’t imagine what he’ll do if his wife every takes ill.

By: Sean G

Sean G — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:09:56 +0000

As my grandfather used to say, “all of the greatest chefs in the world are men.” And then he’d whip up a Waldorf salad.

By: Catherine S.

Catherine S. — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:30:27 +0000

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By: Thomas Cunningham

Thomas Cunningham — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:25:37 +0000

Nice article. I should indeed like to getting around to that if I had time. No one has greater riches than he who has skills!

By: Tyler G.

Tyler G. — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:50:04 +0000

If you're like me, and looking at blocks of text in a recipe book makes your eyes glaze over, I'd suggest cookingcomically.com. You might recognize the 2AM chili; Tyler is the one who originally made it and circulated the picture. I've tried a few things from the site, and every one of them was amazing. I now make his chili and pineapple chicken burritos on a regular basis. Tyler's recipes also allow for budget shopping: none of the ingredients are very exotic and can be found at the nearest Wal-Mart, but you can always step it up if you want. One of the things I can't figure out is how to blend different flavors together, especially with spices. It doesn't help that people us words like "rich" and "robust" that sound very vague to me.

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:50 +0000

I can feed myself and others, be it from the kitchen or from the woods. :)

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15 Great iPhone Apps for Men | The Art of Manliness — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:46:43 +0000

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By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:27:38 +0000

Kevin, in response to the issue of leftovers. If you freeze most leftovers in single size portions with the meal arranged sort of like a t.v. dinner you can reheat and eat at another time. Not only do you then eat home cooked meals but if you become short on time you always have a home cooked meal in the freezer. They do sell tupperware that has split portions if I recall.