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17. I am a most excellent cook....my wife, daughters and friends would agree!

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:06 PM

Aug 2012

Part of it, I think, is I am (well, was...retired) a chemist....spent much of my career mixing up noxious substances - cooking allows mixing together of heavenly substances!

What's cool is that the more you cook, taste, experience, the less you rely on cookbooks, and can do more improvisation and invention.

Oh how much fun a big central DU retreat/cook off would be!

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"guys always say they can cook, but it turns out to be nasty" [View all] Enrique Aug 2012 OP

Yes and no. Wait Wut Aug 2012 #1

that might be one of my problems OriginalGeek Aug 2012 #3

really, beer? Enrique Aug 2012 #5

I guess. Wait Wut Aug 2012 #6

lol, that reminded me OriginalGeek Aug 2012 #10

I freely admit being a substandard cook OriginalGeek Aug 2012 #2

yep Kali Aug 2012 #21

lol, one of my other problems OriginalGeek Aug 2012 #23

Sorry, but I can out-cook any woman I know. Denninmi Aug 2012 #4

Love to cook and do it well. GoneOffShore Aug 2012 #7

She was hitting on you FBaggins Aug 2012 #8

i realized that later Enrique Aug 2012 #12

The men in my family are better cooks than the women. By far. applegrove Aug 2012 #9

My son is a wonderful cook! lunatica Aug 2012 #11

the few times the men I've known could be bothered to cook eShirl Aug 2012 #13

It doesn't always turn out nasty - that was unfair. kimi Aug 2012 #14

This is no more true of men than it is of women. surrealAmerican Aug 2012 #15

So not true Aerows Aug 2012 #19

A mans guide to grilling shadowrider Aug 2012 #16

I am a most excellent cook....my wife, daughters and friends would agree! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2012 #17

"Oh how much fun a big central DU retreat/cook off would be!" Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #26

I'd eat Aerows Aug 2012 #18

I've known men who emilyg Aug 2012 #20

My ex was a pretty good cook. However, there was this one time The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2012 #22

In '85 I made "saged chicken" for my girlfriend (now my wife). HopeHoops Aug 2012 #24

Is this the dish that turned you into a vegetarian? jmowreader Aug 2012 #32

You owe me a new keyboard. HopeHoops Aug 2012 #41

My brother-in-law and spaghetti sauce Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #25

I would have just laughed, too. GaYellowDawg Aug 2012 #27

Have a guy cook, have a woman bring it in ... zbdent Aug 2012 #28

A related comment, about dudes building things UTUSN Aug 2012 #29

Chronic diarrhea is the main reason politicians drop out early on races. Kaleva Aug 2012 #30

I would say that's true for the typical American male. kentauros Aug 2012 #31

Of the three long-term girlfriends I've had as an adult... harmonicon Aug 2012 #33

Sometimes men will down play there cooking abilities Recovered Repug Aug 2012 #34

I am a great cook. ohnoyoudidnt Aug 2012 #35

Apples and oranges. mykpart Aug 2012 #36

Well.. sendero Aug 2012 #37

no, all the men i know who say they can cook are pretty good cooks La Lioness Priyanka Aug 2012 #38

My former boss is an excellent cook. Callalily Aug 2012 #39

I've never heard a woman say this, or imply they think this. It's also not true. Honeycombe8 Aug 2012 #40

"Honey, 'Rosemary Chicken' isn't supposed to look like the branch of a pine tree" Patiod Aug 2012 #42

My hubby is a far better cook than I am. I just open boxes and cans of things and heat them up. He GreenPartyVoter Aug 2012 #43

Blue Booties SoDesuKa Aug 2012 #44

What's so hard about cooking? 1) Cut slit over vegatable. 2) Place in microwave....... Cronkite Aug 2012 #45