How often does your husband cook?

[Anonymous]

He cooks 95% of the time, I clean. We both do the grocery shopping.

[Anonymous]

Dh cooks about 70% of the time. When we have a dinner party or make food for others it's mostly me. He has a slightly shorter commute so he normally starts before I get home.

I have no patience for men who aren't doing their share of house work or cooking.

[Anonymous]

DH works at home so he ends up doing a fair share of the cooking. I would say it's about 50/50. We both like to cook and most times, we are cooking together. He had never been much of a cook before we met but over the years, I have to admit that he does a lot of things better. Since I have a commute, my dinners are often quick and simple but he takes/has the time to do things the right way.

[Anonymous]

I'm the DH in this case.

I cook 100% of the time we eat at home. She's not much of a cook and has a way more intense job than I do. It's okay because I love cooking. Plus it allows me to control the nutrition.

[Anonymous]

Rarely. We just had this discussion this morning. I only work 3 days a week so am willing to cook more often, but he needs to step up to the plate (so to speak) too. I've asked him in the past and it never changes for good. So we are going to write it down on a big calendar who cooks that evening.

I think it's good to have kids pitch in too. I've told ours that once they reach a certain age they will be responsible for one night a week. Am thinking that age might be 11 or 12.

[Anonymous]

Every Saturday night

[Anonymous]

DH here. I cook as often as DW changes the oil, mows the lawn, rakes the yard, changes the filters, etc.....

[Anonymous]

Never. But he does all the clean up (dishes, dishwasher, trash) and is a decent sous-chef if I'm clear about directions. And he'll happily pick up dinner on his way home any night of the week.

I wish he cooked something....anything...but we do ok w/ this division of labor.

[Anonymous]

Divorced Man here.
I cooked almost every day. It's one of the many reasons we're divorced.

[Anonymous]

I cook most of the time because I'm only working PT right now. So my husband cooks maybe once a week. Though usually if he is home to cook (so, not a weeknight) then we are cooking together.

When we both worked FT, he cooked more - maybe 60 me/40 him.

Neither of us cooks well despite lots of effort over the years. (And embarrassingly, my dad was a cook for many years, so it's not like I didn't have access to home cooked meals and someone to teach me!) Since neither of us likes doing something we do poorly, we both kind of hate it. But we know eating out too much is a terrible idea.

Anyway. Our general rule is that if one person cooks, the other cleans up. That helps a lot.