Women - How important is/was it to learn to cook before marriage? Men - How important is this to you?

Answer 1

i didn't learn to cook anything until i got married, but i did fine. my hubby never had to pretend to like anything and i didn't burn anything. maybe i got lucky, but it is a good idea to at least know a few things around the kitchen.

Answer 2

I'm sure cooking was a must in the old days. These days when both spouses are out working and carving out careers and stuff it isn't practical to have some one slave over the stove instead of in the office. Besides, I'm sure every household could make good use of the dual incomes.
Cooking these days are more of a pleasure or a hobby rather than a necessary function. Wife doens't cook and I'm fine with it. The kitchen's my domain 'cos I love cooking as a hobby or when the inspiration strikes......when it strikes. Hehe
Personally, I felt it wasn't important at all that the wife couldn't cook or clean. After all......I was looking for a wife, a spouse and not a maid or a servant

Answer 3

My mom was a paraplegic, so I learned to cook early on in order to help her. By the time I got married, I was an experienced cook which was VERY important considering that we were both poor college students. Granted, this was in the mid '70's, but even back then, my $15 a week grocery budget wasn't extravagant, and I had to make every penny count.

It was pretty important to my husband, too, considering that he would've been one hungry guy if I hadn't been able to stretch a dollar until Washington screamed for mercy!

Answer 4

It's very important because eating out gets old real fast.
If and when you have a family you will need to know how to prepare a meal for your children.
Unless you can afford to use a caterer for all of your entertaining then you will need to know how to cook and prepare appetizers etc...
I don't know what the men will say but I do know several whose wives are not proficient in the kitchen and though they have been married for many years the disappointment they feel is apparent when they heartily eat what we have prepared.

My husband takes a great amount of pride in my cooking.
I will admit that when I got married ; I didn't know how to boil water. Since then I have learned and can cook very well Egyptian,American,Puerto Rican, Hawaiin (portugese,chinese,japanese,filipino),Mexican, Italian, Greek and few Russian dishes.

However, I didn't learn any of this BEFORE I got married but it would have helped to know the basics. Good Luck to you.

Answer 5

Very. My family is from the south and food is common hospitality, comfort food, and above all else important that it tastes great so everyone can enjoy and not go hungry. It's like taboo to let someone be hungry if you're from the south. Most everyone in my family grew up with scratch cooks ( ie no box or convenience foods). It really does come natural for most of us, thank goodness. I did take a basic Home Economics class which was a little helpful but I already knew most of it. We were raised that you need to be able to cook for your family because it's healthier and cheaper and an embarassment if you cannot feed your husband and he has to waste/spend his hard earned money on restaurant food when it could go to the nest egg and our future savings, etc. For me and my family, its embarassing if a woman doesn't know how to cook and raise their family on box food. We all learn to become better cooks as the years pass on, but I would just die of embarassment if I cooked something that my husband, family or friends and they spit it out because it was horrible.

Answer 6

Should I ever marry again (which I doubt) it would be very important to me. I was married for almost 48 years before my wife passed on and I did most of the cooking. Would be nice to have someone else do the cooking for a change. My wife didn't know how to cook before we got married because neither did her mother. I taught her how to cook but her only down fall when it came to cooking was the telephone which seemed to be more important to her. Was the only woman I ever knew that could burn water before she put it on the fire.
P.S. I hate TV Dinners and Choke & Puke Fast Foods.

Answer 7

I did not feel it was important to know how to cook before marriage but I did learn to cook eventually and been told that I am very good at it , but frankly I do not like to cook.....

Answer 8

It was a good thing that I knew how to cook when I got married because, my husband was in the Air Force and he did not make enough money for us to eat out. My mother in-law does not cook well so, when my husband married me he was not use to having a good home cooked meal. We have friends whose wives do not cook and they are always after my husband at lunch time to bring them in some food too. People are always begging me to have them over for dinner too. My husband really appreciates my skills in the kitchen. He always knows there will be a nice home cooked meal on the table waiting for him when he gets home. Who could put a price tag on that? You know they say that the way to a mans heart is through his stomach, well, I think that is absolutely true!

Answer 9

I learned after I got married. I knew the basics, like how to boil water and what certain things were for, but the actual cooking part came after I got married. It's actually not too hard, just follow the recipe. You can find recipes for just about anything online or in a book.

Answer 10

well in my family my dad was a stickler on the subject
he made me learn how to cook very early
i started learning to cook simple meals around 8 yrs old
he was a strong believer if a girl becomes a woman without common culinary skills she'll never get a husband

since then i've learned that cooking skills aren't the only thing that helps to catch a man
but like the old addage says
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

it never was and never will be important to me but i guess it's a good life skill to posess

Answer 11

I hate cooking. I told my husband long before we got engaged that I hated cooking and I would probably try to get out of cooking as much as possilbe.

We've been married for over 7 years, and it doesn't bother him. When I worked he used to do most of the cooking. Now that I stay home with our children I do more of the cooking, but he stills does some. I cook basic things and he's fine with it.