Men and Cooking

[Zazzy]

BBQ Season Is Coming!

After the long months of cold and winter, we will soon be coming up to summer and BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking as it's the only type of cooking a real man will do, probably because there is an element of danger involved.

When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:

Routine...

1) The woman buys the food.
2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.

Here comes the important part:

4) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.

More routine....

5) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
6) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is burning. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he deals with the situation.

Important again:

7) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

More routine.....

The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces and brings them to the table. 9) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

And most important of all:

10) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.
11) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed "her night off." And, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there's just no pleasing some women....

[mamafitz]

LOL!  this is so true!!!

i'm still trying to train dh that making a meal also includes cleaning up the pans you used, not leaving them on the stove.


Linda

[Huh...What?]

I swear! There's just no pleasing some women...

[Betsyv]

We have a deal in this house - the person who cooks is excused from cleaning up. It doesn't work 100% of the time, but it works enough. This goes back to apartment-sharing with college friends. It worked very well then, and I taught a very good friend of mine how to prepare a meal more efficiently. I had some restaurant training; she didn't. She had other talents I didn't, so we had a wonderful exchange that year we shared an apartment.

That said, my DH is a great cook. His specialities are: anything that uses the grill (natch!), pizza (from scratch, he makes the dough, too, and we canned the tomato sauce from our own tomatoes), pies (awsome crust!). And, bless him, if we are having a roast chicken, he gets it started (in the oven, with a lemon inside and pesto rubbed under the skin) by 5 or 5:30 on a weeknight so we aren't eating at 9 or 10 (I don't get home until nearly 7).

I am lucky in this regard, even though I still do most of the inside cooking, and I try to remember to tell DH that, too.

Betsy