How do I tell my wife I want her to learn to cook better, I dont wanna hurt her feelings?

Answer 1

Cook together on weekends. Buy cooking light magazine. Does she have the time to put into making better stuff? It takes effort to buy fresh herbs and other ingredients and get them into the food before they rot in the fridge. Go out to eat at fancy places and find out how to make the stuff you like at home. It might be that cooking should be your hobby. There are ways of cooking ahead so she just has to do the protein component of the meal or the carbs. Watch the Food Network.

Answer 2

Whenever a man asks others about women, it is best to know the person you are asking extremely well. Wives are even more dicey because a woman and a wife are not the same creature. To all appearances they appear to be the same, usually, but actually they are not. Many of the answers you have received have merit, such as learning to cook together, but suggesting that can be fraught with risk. Some of the answers are from people on the fast express to divorce. You should never tell your wife her cooking needs improving and especially NEVER tell her your mother cooked better. Probably the best thing is for you to learn to cook some meals really well and if she like them she will ask how you did it and from that small start and with a lot of love and patience meals and relationships will improve.

Answer 3

I'd be honest that you love her, but know that cooking can be a real challenge. Is it that she's burning stuff or that your tastes are different?

Do you cook? Why not try cooking together so that she can learn from you? It's pretty hard to complain about her cooking skills if you're not also doing your share of the cooking! Or could she learn more by cooking with a friend or relative? Maybe your family could share some family recipes with her?

You might encourage her to take a class at a local community college or cooking store. Or buy her a good basic cookbook like "The Joy Of Cooking" or "How to Cook Everything"

Answer 4

The easiest and most inexpensive thing to do would be to come home with some nice new cookbooks and tell her you would like her to try cooking new things. You could even get in the kitchen with her and help her out (if you are one of the cooking enclined). This should work well because as long as she follows the recipe, the food should come out good.
You could also take her with you to a bookstore and pick out some cookbooks together - that way she feels more a part of it. You don't have to tell her you hate her cooking, just make let her know you wanna spice things up and try new things.

Answer 5

I have a great idea! Find a cooking class in your area. If you have a Sur La Tabla or a Williams Sonoma nearby, they sometimes offer them. If not, there should be other opportunities...perhaps a community class. Enroll yourself AND your wife and do it together. She will think you wanted to do something special just for the two of you, and you will know that she is learning a skill. Then instead of hurting her feelings, you will be her attentive husband who was thoughtful enough to want some time with your bride, doing things that you can enjoy learning together. *wink*

Answer 6

First off, I'll be honest -- I don't like men like you. Why don't YOU start cooking if you want it done differently? She'd probably love the break. Secondly, I would enroll BOTH of you guys in a cooking class to learn better. Unfortunately, some people just don't have a knack or instinct for cooking, so even with classes, or you telling her, she may simply not be able to cook better. It's an art. I wouldn't cook for your sorry ungrateful butt though.

Answer 7

subscribe (or buy at store) some of the great cooking magazines out there such as, "Simple and Delicious"....."Cooking For Two"..."Taste of Home".....You could say you found some books? You begin looking at them and start pointing out all the easy good sounding recipes. Then suggest the 2 of you make something together. If she doesn't want too, then you choose a recipe and make one yourself to impress her and perhaps get her interested in trying to cook some new ways to make dishes.
Worked for my son and DIL.....DIL couldn't boil an egg, but is now a very good cook and can make many easy, great and different dishes. Subscriptions to these magazines were the best gift I've ever given her and my son!!!

Answer 8

You should pick up a cooking book and learn together. Until she learns on her own, and you can help out once in while. But don't tell her she sucks at cooking, just say you want to try to cook with a different taste, style, and/or Flavor...Good Luck!!!

Answer 9

Don't tell her. It will only hurt her feelings. If she cant cook, try and help her out. Then maybe the two of you can cook together. Make's for great Quality time.

Answer 10

Sign up (yep, you too) for a cooking class. Maybe once a week? The rest of the time, be in the kitchen with her and help her cook. After all, just because she's a woman doesn't mean she has to cook all the time...oh, and cook dinner all by yourself one night to surprise her.

Answer 11

I would take her to a cooking class, but at the same time, you would be in that class with her and learning to cook yourself. That way your both learning to cook and nobody feelings get hurt.