Here's a question for the guys on here

i've always cooked 100% of the time. 100%. from the rooter to the tooter.

i have always enjoyed cooking... now with eggs, i cook all the time...no complaints from the other half, since my cooks ain't half bad

I have always cooked 99% of the meat meals. My wife will make some sides and do the baking that I don't end up doing on the egg. We do cook a lot more since I purchased the egg. For the most part, we get really disappointed when we go out and have inferior food, which seems to be most of the time.

If we are talking total cooking, before the egg wife about 80%.
After the egg (and after daughter moved off) more like 50/50.
I do 100% on the egg, but she is getting closer to useing it.

Until we got the 1st large egg, most of my "outside" cooking was with dutch ovens and charcoal. Not more than once a week though. We had a weber genesis but did mostly the odd steak and or hamburger stuff. The egg has opened the cooking world considerably. We then started cooking on he egg at least two times a week, sometimes more. Would probably have done it nightly, but leftovers filled the interstices between cooks on the egg. The old wait two days and finish up the rest of "whatever" routine. With the purchase of the mini last month, we are at it most every night now. Just the two of us, and not many leftovers. The wife is the baker, and I do the entres. We also have been doing all of our dutch oven cooks on the egg. Works great, and no more messing with charcoal briquettes. Much more stable temp control and no concerns with wind, cold, rain or ???. UPEgger

I think most Egg owner/operators can say: "since purchasing the egg we seldom go out to eat". That is true with us. UPEgger

Up until maybe 10 years ago, my wife and I shared most of the cooking, although it was always me doing the BBQ. For a number of reasons, I got "serious" about being able too cook. The 1st Egg purchase was part of that. Now I do about 90% of out cooking. Most of the time, its a pleasure making the food, even if its sometimes not so good. On the evenings when I'm too bushed to bother, my wife is quite happy to do a carry-out

there is a trend out there where a woman will tell you right out that they dont cook, wont be cooking, dont expect them to be cooking :laugh: fortunately for neil it hasn't spread that far north into maine yet :laugh:

Interesting question Julie!

I didn't expect the responses you've received thus far.

When Anke and I first got married, I did all the cooking because Anke didn't know how to or was afraid to cook. Then I said "what's the worst that could happen - we have one bad meal and learn from it".

We started sharing the cooking duties at that point. Not long after that Anke cooked everything in the house and I cooked everything outside. Anke gradually got much better at indoor and outdoor cooking than I.

To tip the scale back in my favour, I bought our first Egg. Again, I did all of the cooking outdoors. In Anke's words - "it's way too dirty". Now that we've had the eggs for a while on our egg family has grown, Anke has started cooking on the eggs and kicking my butt.

A few weeks ago, she told me that I should buy another LBGE. I love that women!

Michael

I have cooked most of the meals in my home for over 24 years. My wife is a great cook but it has always been a stress reliever after a day of work. In the past I have used gassers, charcoal kettle, and Brinkman smokers.

Pre-Egg I only grilled in the summer and rarely during the winter. Post-Egg, I got mine last year, I cook outside 3 to 4 times a week. Everything from grilling, low and slo, to baking on the Egg.

Now that our daughter is off to college and I travel at least every other week I am likely to cook extra meals, to take with me when I am gone and so that my wife can choose to cook, or not. I love trying new recipes and methods, pre-Egg to use a rub was just salt and pepper maybe some garlic salt, now I love to try different rubs.

Julie,

Norma calls the fridge and stove the big hot thing and the big cold thing

Steve

I cooked for myself as soon as I left home. Before the egg it was offset smoker, before that water smokers, before that gassers and Weber kettles. I enjoy the creative process of cooking food and eating well. Cooking outdoors with a live fire is something I'll always do, it was only a matter of time that I found the egg to be the perfect cooker for me. That's why I have 4.

See ya soon at the party. (I'm bringing my small egg with us to Florida.)

I do most all of the cooking now. Before the egg, I used a weber gas grill and I now realize I had no idea how to grill. The egg and this forum has taught me how to grill and smoke things I would have never imagined a few years ago. Yrs go, if someone would have handed me an 8 lb prime ribeye roast and said cook this for dinner, I would have laughed at them. Now we have friends wanting to come to our house for dinner and drinks instead of going out. Thanks to all who have responded to all of my questions!

Sure cooked pre-egg on my wood brick - oven, but never with the efficiency or variety of the egg & certainly without this great forum family. Wife's a great cook but never cooked on the egg

I always cooked a lot but my traveling companion did the majority up until 2004. Since then, my first retirement, I do 95% of the cooking in and outside. My traveling companion says she had the first 30 years and I have the second 30 years.