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If I am making something that requires a lot of steps or making multiple dishes, I don't mind a helper that actually helps and stays out of the way of what I'm doing while they do what they're doing.
Of course that also assumes I am in a kitchen with room. My apartment's kitchen wouldn't make a difference even if my helper was a clone of myself. Not enough room for a second person to not be in the way constantly.
I feel this one in my soul. I am not an expert cook, though I don't do too badly--but I do need to concentrate on the kitchen. People need to leave me the heck alone when I'm cooking or baking.
My wife and I love to cook together.
my greatest creations while drunk involved frozen pizzas with added toppings. bake as usual. extra cheese, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes... w/e was available. occasionally passed out before the timer went off. slight smoke damage until it became charcoal. quit drinking but still like the pizzas;
here's fish tacos with sardines. feel the love;
With the right marketing and ambiance, those tacos could go for $60.
When I cook, anybody else in the kitchen who is there not there by invitation is just an annoyance. So people can be there if asked, otherwise FOAD.
Imagine not wanting someone cutting the vegetables and watching the pots for you
Having worked in a kitchen, cooking with others brings out the most toxic version of me.
Why are you slicing carrots like its a salad? You've seen a bowl of gumbo, right? Do you need me to show you how to cut a carrot?
That's what makes it intimate.
For me, I hate cooking. My spouse hates cooking. To me, love is us encouraging each other to cook.
I absolutely love to cook I've been cooking since I was a teenager when I worked in restaurants as I got older I ran a fine dining kitchen for a while. I absolutely love when I get to cook with other people in my kitchen. It's an absolute joy to share that moment sometimes it feels intimate sometimes it's just fun sometimes it's teaching them sometimes I get to learn things. Anyone that doesn't like to have other people cook with them is just odd to me.
depends on the size of kitchen available.
100% and like, I cannot cook with my family but my partner is an amazing lead or sous chef. She takes direction well when its my turn to lead.
Really? I had great fun cooking with my girlfriend. Or cooking with kids. Or cooking a massive meal with a bunch of friends. This is a bad post.
I love cooking with a group of people for a just that group or an even larger group. My fav. neighborhood restaurant, I often sit at a table adjacent to the kitchen. ZOMG, it sure sounds like they are having a great time, laughing, singing, srsly.
I disagree. I love cooking with my wife, because we distribute the tasks and I enjoy her company. Those of you, who have issues with stuff like that might need to work on your cooperation skills.
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Yeah, my partner and I cook together all the time and it's great! I also enjoy cooking for them and them cooking for me though.
Unless the work is easy to break down. Food prep like chopping or split work like you cook I'll prep the salad and dessert.
Well, except literally every professional chefs, of course.
If you get in the way of a professional chef, you'll be knocked out, chopped up and served as soup.
Either they're want to do everything or don't know anything.
my gf's a chef and loves having me in the kitchen (or so she says) i stay at a station though to keep out of her way eg at breakfast I'm making espresso, cooking toast, heating something in the microwave for her etc she has the stove/sink/fridge/bench area
95% of our meals are at home because she is particular about her food ( and she's good at it IMO)
Ya! You gotta be conscious about the space you're using. If you're going in for cuddles when I'm working the stove.... However if you're in the wings helping out with the myriad of tasks required to get a meal plated? That's when you get the chefs kiss!
As a wise drunk philosopher once said "You Goddamn right not!"
My wife is fucking useless in the kitchen. I would absolutely love it if she even attempted to help in the kitchen. Typically she sits on her ass and doomscrolls while I do all the work. She's not a great cook, and for that reason, I do most of the cooking. There are still small things that you can do to help out like cutting veggies, finding spices, setting the table, etc. If she did those things, she might learn a thing or 2 about how to cook and improve her culinary skills. Also, whenever she cooks, she acts like the person in this meme wanting no help, and it comes out tasting like shit (too much oil, not enough seasoning and burnt to hell is her usual). If I try to help, she gets frustrated and quits leaving me to make the meal (which may be what she's trying to do anyway). So think about the other side of this coin OP.
This is my Ex Wife . She could burn water. My new wife is a delight in the kitchen so much so that I make weekend breakfasts with zero help and don't even feel slighted. It's a treat.
Have you considered therapy?
My wife and I have both worked in a kitchen, when we are both in the kitchen it works really well, but there are discrete tasks and we don't hoverr over each other or any of that shit. And we call behind and turn pot handles in and put towels on hot handles and keep knife blades turned down. All the little things.
Only if they're teaching.
Or, if you have a big enough kitchen.
And, maybe two stoves.
Two kitchens, that's what's needed. Two whole kitchens next to each other, then you can cook together.
Don't fucking tell me how to chop onions, I've been chopping onions my whole life. I don't care what you saw on YouTube. And, yes, I just cracked an egg on the edge of the bowl, do you SEE any shell in the egg? No. Because I've been cracking eggs that way longer than you've been alive. Go grind sea salt, or something, leave me alone.
I cook and my girl does the dishes because I’m terrible at dish management and when I’m done there’s dishes everywhere. Our system works well for us. She gets good food and I don’t have to do dishes. Win win.
There is a distinct difference in cooking as a couple activity and cooking as a chore.
Bullshit, I love it when my partner hangs around the kitchen while I cook. We get into all sorts of silly discussions or deep philosophical debates.
I especially love when my child is in the kitchen because I have the chance to teach them new things, or they tell me about their day, or vent their frustrations, or tell me a cheesy joke ect.
Only grumpy assholes wouldn't want other people in the kitchen and frankly I don't care what grumpy assholes want.
It works if you establish who’s the lead and who’s helping before you start.
This is the real answer right here!
Not just partners but really anyone it's easy if you establish who is the head chef and who is the sous-chef(s).
I'm happy to cook with as many sous-chefs as we can cram into the kitchen. Heck I'll put someone on a grill outside if I get too many. An extra two sous-chefs? Sounds like we're about to have two extra side dishes. Maybe a pie. Now the dishes are washed before we're done. Now they're dried and put away! I can find more tasks! Floors swept, counters wiped, I can find tasks for a small contingent of sous-chefs! Mad with power.
And same in reverse, there's something so hypnotic about just being the sous-chef. YES CHEF. Cut the veggies smaller YES CHEF. Just go with the flow. Ahhh