re: Are less and less women cooking?

Gen X wife who can’t cook eggs, let alone anything else not out of a box without very specific directions, and don’t ask her to season anything. Apparently, a tbsp of salt is three grains. My mother tried but couldn’t cook either, so I learned from my grandmother when I could.

I’m trying to teach my kids to cook…there’s some interest/hope, but it’s still a process and usually just weekends. Getting home late from work really makes it hard during the week for them—just easier not to cook.

I think it’s a combination of not knowing how to cook and being too busy to cook.

Some of it is simply not being able to follow a process with multiple variables.

People that struggle with putting together Ikea furniture also can't cook.

It's simply too much for them and their brains don't work that way.

I don't care about that. I do like a clean house though.

I know a lady who never cooks, they eat out every day for every meal.

I cook every day but I am a member of the older generation. I was raised to cook meals for my family every day. I do know some women who don't cook but most of them are younger.

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It seems like less and less women are cooking, especially in the Millennial and Gen Z generations.

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Mostly true, but not just the women either. More stratified too, the remaining few that do cook think they are either the next contestant on Beat Bobby Flay or follow recipes they find on Facebook that involves tossing various pre-packaged crap together.