Mars vs. Venus?

I’m about to make a bit of a generalization: generally speaking there is a HUGE difference between the way men and women cook.

How they actually cook the meal and how they think about cooking a meal.

Granted, I have man-friends (love that!) that love cooking, reading recipes, grocery shopping, preparing a dinner party and eating as much as I do. And they’re not gay. But generally speaking men and women think about preparing a meal in a very different manner. Then again, men tend to think about all things differently than women …

When it comes to cooking, men are very black and white. I think the person who thought of the slogan “meat and potatoes,” must have been a man. The woman would ask, “What kind of meat?” “How are the potatoes cooked?” Women think about every little possible detail from a tablespoon of salt, to the type of candle they’re burning at the table. This probably accounts for why women tend to freak out if one of these unimportant details goes wrong …

Don’t worry I’ve never been guilty of that …

Alas, here are some opinionated ideas that I have about the differences between male and female cooking … I’m sure you’ll agree …

FYI: This does NOT include trained chefs (both male and female). These people are PROFESSIONALS and a different breed, my findings are about your average at-home cooks.

1. Women agonize over recipe after recipe, grocery shop to find the exact ingredients, freak out if they can’t make it the “way the picture looks,” while men don’t usually follow a recipe, improvise their menus and rarely care WHAT the food actually looks like.

2. Women use every possible dish, spoon, plate, and utensil in the kitchen. Men would use one bowl and one spoon if he could make it work. Actually many of them make it work, simply because that’s how they function.

3. Women enjoy napkins, wine glasses, candles, ambiance gentlemen. Do guys my age even know what a placemat is? Possibly. But kitchen tables are hard to come by in a 20-something male household. Tables are beaten up beer stained coffee tables, ping pong tables, or laps … in front of the TV.

4. At the end of the cooking process, regardless of how the meal actually taste, men are going to eat it either way. Probably out of the same bowl they made it in. This isn’t mean, it’s SO TRUE! Women, will pick at it, probably mope about how it “didn’t turn out right” and watch as the guy they made it for eats it all … either to please her and not start a fight, or simply because it’s food.

5. The “cook” always expects the “eater” to clean up, male or female. But if driving solo, the chance of a man cleaning up his mess the moment dinner’s done is highly unlikely. Women on the other hand will isolate themselves from the dinner party, clear and clean the table, pots/pans, and kitchen … while still moping about what went wrong …

Granted these are just my experiences …