I cook for myself usually. Husband is a picky eater and is willing to fend for himself (he generally does meal prep with the handful of things he likes for the week and heats stuff up.) If I am cooking something he does like I’ll cook for us both.
Mostly I do the cooking because I love it, I am very fast doing it, I am very good at it and I like us to have healthy food in the house. He does some specific dishes that I don’t feel like doing. I made the rule of whoever does the cooking, also cleans up. It is strange at first glance, but I clean while I cook, so I don’t have to clean a bunch of stuff at the end. And he is a messy cook. So I don’t get in the kitchen while he cooks, otherwise I would get mad with the lack of efficiency.
And he loves my food much more than I do. It is a pleasure to see him enjoy what I cook.
I cook about 1/3 of the time my wife about a 1/3 of the time and both of us together about 1/3 of the time. We are both very good cooks but have different strengths.
I’m better when I plan ahead equilibrium brines, sousvide, smoking, Indian currie etc. She can look at what’s in the fridge and whip up something good at short notice.
Together is usually each of us working on a different dish or me doing Mise en place for her.
I cook, I don’t mind it. Wife doesn’t like to. She does other things I prefer not to. A balance if you will.
Same here but reversed. I hate cooking, they love it. So I’m on dishes, it evens out.
Same for us.
She hates cooking and it looks like a bomb went off when she’s done. I hate doing laundry and it looks like a toddler folded the clothes when I’m done.
Cooking and cleaning probably takes more time per day, but we’re both happy.A win/win that has never been explicitly agreed to, just happened naturally.
The same person who did the cooking when I did live alone: not me.
We kind of split it but when doing a grocery delivery subscription like hellofresh for a few weeks, I cook most of it because I find following the baby step instructions less tedious
Usually I. My GF is usually exhausted after work in the afternoon (while I have a pretty chill Wfh-situation going on), I don’t mind it, I’m reasonably good at it, and I usually get to do it in peace.
In our house people know that if they’re hanging in the kitchen while food prep is happening, they get assigned something to do, usually mostly so I get left alone.
I’m (m) gluten free and my wife is vegetarian so we often just cook for ourselves. When both of us eat one thing, I cook probably 70% of the time. I’m the better cook.
Although we do have specific roles. I make all of the popcorn she makes all of the smoothies.
Generally, we each cook for ourselves unless someone is sick or it’s an event or something, then I do the cooking.
My wife and I take turns cooking. We typically plan everything out at the start of the week so can shift to one of us doing multiple nights in a row if need be. We started having whoever doesn’t cook doing the cleaning, but my wife refuses to do basic cleanup as she goes so now whoever cooks also cleans up.
I do the cooking because I enjoy it and am halfway decent at it, he does all the dishes. It’s a fair trade for both of us, since he hates cooking and I’m not a fan of doing dishes.
The one that gets home first.
My wife on weekdays, me on weekends/holidays/any days I don’t work.
Just me and my wife, I usually cook because I am by far the better cook. I cooked a lot growing up and did it professionally for years, she barely ever cooked at home until she moved in with me. I love her, but she has no sense of culinary coherence, she just kinda throws things that she likes into the pan without any consideration of how the flavors work together.
I’m fine with doing the cooking because I can just slip into the groove, and she doesn’t mind it either.
If we want to eat today, then me. She’s a good cook but very slow. I used to work in restaurants so my chopping speed is orders of magnitude faster than hers.
