Why don't people like to cook anymore? Or even bother learning basic cooking skills?

[musicbrain5]

It's ridiculous, really. Cooking is one of the most useful skills you can have. It seems that people are just really lazy now and find it easier to drive up to McD's for big mac meals, go to the store and buy frozen processed foods that they can throw in a microwave, or get take-out delivered to their house. It's no wonder why there is such a weight problem in many parts of the world now. People complain that they don't like to cook because they've already been working all day and they're tired now, or it's because they don't have time (but you have time to get fast food and plant your ass in front of the TV?) It's also really expensive to buy those things on a regular basis.

Cooking your own food from recipes or from scratch usually means that you'll make healthier choices, as long as you're not frying everything or smothering it in oil, salt, or sugar. Cooking is also lots of fun and allows for experimentation with food - new combinations, new tastes, new meal ideas. Not to mention the fact that cooking is a key survival skill.

Baking is also a good skill to know, especially if you are in the mood for a sweet treat like cookies, muffins, or cakes. And both things are fun to do with your partner or your children!

[Goandtellyourmama]

I'm 19 and cooking is basically my life. I refuse to eat anything from a takeaway. Not because I am one of those health-fanatics but goddamn, eat real food. Eat the fucking chocolate soufflé, make yourself a motherfucking bowl of pasta and refuse to share. But eat real.

Cooking is so much more than a necessity. The breaking of bread, the process of creating something with your own hands, the sensual enjoyments you have, everything that makes it even more important.

And to answer your question: People don't have time anymore to be in the kitchen. But I'd also like to ask you something back: For what on earth more important thing than cooking are you going to spend this time you can't find for this basic human need? It's a society's problem: We don't have time anymore for anything, we make excuses and by this attitude we stop doing what in this sense is essential.

I love food. I love sports. I love reading. My life is a combination of different sensual enjoyments. And to be able to feel all these things, you gotta make time for it. You have to stop for a moment, take a deep breath and think about how much you value your life. And according to this you will be taking decisions.

[xHoneyxBeex]

As you mentioned, it's easier to just go out to eat. Fast food restaurants are everywhere so many people would rather pay for fast food than spend time cooking for themselves. In addition to that, if someone grew up with parents who did not cook very much, then they probably never learned themselves how to cook. So then it becomes a cycle. However, there are also people who may just not enjoy cooking. They may find it to be tedious or too much work. For me personally, I love food but I really hate cooking. I know how to cook but I just don't enjoy it. I still do it though just because, as you said, it is generally healthier than fast food.

[Megalizmo21]

A lot if it is that cooking is becoming a lost art. Peopke don't teach it, and we're too lazy to teach ourselves! There are soooo many restaurants and we've become so used to being served by others and not doing things for ourselves.

I attempt to teach people cooking skills whenever possible. It gives back! And there's nothing like seeing people appreciate something you put work into. I am a personal chef for a living, so I cook several different meals daily!

[Justacatlady]

We are the generations of fast and easy. So to some people it doesn't seem odd to eat preservative laden foods or to consume things that aren't actually food but you can get it for a dollar and someone hands or to you from a window. They were raised to think that is acceptable.
I love cooking. I love using things I know what they are and where they came from.

[Kinstrome]

I think Blue Apron--or a comparable program that butts in to compete with it--is going to bring back people cooking. It not only brings all the ingredients for a meal to you, but it does so for a smaller total price than shopping at a grocery store, evidently.

The rather complicated process of finding ingredients for a specific meal makes it not surprising to me that people are being turned off of cooking. You can't normally buy exactly as much of each ingredient as you need--you have to buy a WHOLE cabbage, a WHOLE container of olive oil, a WHOLE jar of queso, a WHOLE bunch of bananas, a WHOLE package of bouillon cubes. That ends up being pretty expensive, considering that some of those ingredients won't be used for anything else and some of them just plain out become useless after they expire in a few days.

I hope that with the advent of the internet and cool-ass things like Blue Apron, people will start to get back into cooking. It really is a valuable skill, and it's especially valuable in dating.

[Kinstrome]

Thanks for MHO :D

[Nojudge]

I have seen that... I had a old friend who is now 64... Saying, I don't know how to cook... Neither scrambled eggs... At barbecue, he didn't know it take 2 hours in advance. Mostly fast foods and got fatten. A guy who have a old friend that he brought over some meals and he was happily to fix it for him!
A nasty old deaf lady who was living off inheritance... Now dead from diabetic. She says her mother wasn't willing to teach her due to small kitchen. Her kitchen and house was hoarding mess! Designer Mary McFadden had trouble to cook frozen waffles... She was told to stick in the toaster! No one bother to trying to cook today.

[SleepyChan]

I cook quite a bit. It's nothing too special. Mostly sweets like Cookies and cakes. My dad is showing me how to cook foods like lasagna, baked chicken and sautéed asparagus. I just need to improve it before I ask anyone if they would want some. I'm sick of going out and eating.

[Bluemax]

I love cooking. Where I can, I incorporate it into math lessons.

There are few things more satisfying than coming home from work, pouring myself some wine, aND preparing my dinner while listening to Bach.

[BertMacklinFBI]

ikr. i like cooking my own meals. it's nice and you save money, know exactly what you put into it.

[deraz24]

Right, there's nothing like a home cooked meal, you can't spend money on food all the time. Everyone should learn how to cook especially if they're by themselves.

[DarthMeow]

Nowadays I cook almost everyday because I need to save money and cooking is so damn time consuming.
Even just making two side dishes to be eaten with rice would take at least 1 hour prep and the actual cooking. And the clean up afterwards oh god -_-

[falamercy]

Well I guess that’s what is prevailing in your area... majorly in west Africa, women who even are employees or business women still cook and are not so to say tired of cooking unless on occasional basis when they just feel like eating out or during anniversaries birthdays...

[hrlalal]

i love love cooking i have a cooking business. not everyone has to like it that doesn't mean anything

[MadeInAmerica]

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[Decentguy]

i dont like to cook, but i know i have to learn that someday.

[musicbrain5]

I think once you learn a bit and practice it, you will enjoy it. There's something really great about eating and enjoying a meal you prepared with your own hands.

[Decentguy]

hmm. well i guess i'll find that out once i learn to cook

[Decentguy]

i hope you are right tho

[Mynameisnottolong]

I like to cook, actually I like to bake more than cook but ya. I need instructions though.

[SunnyCaliGirl]

I love cooking and I am one of few who can cook, people don't cook anymore because people have become used to eating on the go and eating out too often

[ASEXY]

Laziness and they expect someone else to do it for them.

[douride2]

I love to cook & consider myself to be fair at it. My friends & family sad I very good.

[Waffles731]

I asked a similar question like two days ago,
its fucked up

[kimmieomally]

I love to cook. I follow a bunch of chefs on Utube. I have recreated so many things and have learned how to come up with many of my own things.

[Iraqveteran666]

A woman who can cook is marriage material.
People just don't learn basic life skills anymore.

[musicbrain5]

I say the same about a man, even though I can cook as well. Although it's not even about that - it's about how lazy people have become.

[Iraqveteran666]

True. Some of neighbors look at me strangley at the weekend when they see me cleaning my gutters, sweeping my yard, changing the oil in my car, mowing my lawn, painting my porch etc. I can't understand the mentality of paying someone to do something you can do yourself unless it interferes with your job.
They pay people to do these things for them. I do a lot of what are traditionally male chores and my wife does the women's stuff but it doesn’t mean I can't or won't lend a hand when it comes to cooking or the like.

[Razal]

I agree totally !! The preferences have changed !! People will put more effort in outdoor activities and things that they can show off. They have time and money fir that but don’t have time or mood fir something simpler and useful.

[littlelofty]

littlelofty; Most people they days don't have a vegs garden no more. And don't no how to boil a egg , It should be circumpolar in school, like it once was years ago..

[TsubasaCorrupted]

I love cooking. I'm not great but I enjoy it. Anything from liver and onions, to beef Wellington. If I can do it I will. :)

[yourmom89]

career women don't want to... and men think women should be the ones cooking. or well, lot of men