Men, cooking and the Egg

I do all the cooking if I'm not travelling. Norma calls the appliances "the big hot thing" and "the big cold thing"


Steve

Pre BGE purchase my wife did most of the cooking 95%...I dabbled in a few things here and there...since the bge purchases I do 75% of the cooking...she loves it...

She does not want it to ever go back the other way........

Kim Youngblood
(aka vidalia1)
Lawrenceville, GA

I cook on the egg two to four times a week. I have never in my life cooked a meal in a kitchen. I have never even scrambled eggs (in a kitchen). Not being a good cook, I didn't know any better than to have a nice big gasser. Once in awhile I even had some good food come off of it, but it was very inconsistent. Finally I decided to learn how to do things right...hit the internet, found this forum, and discovered BGE. Now, people even REQUEST that I cook for them! Thanks to everyone here for the help you all give.

When I am at home, I prepare ALL the meals. My wife cooks seldom, but can cook well when she does. But when she cooks it's a stressful event.

I used to make pancakes and waffles for breakfast on the weekends but stopped because my wife was feeding the leftovers to the kids every day during the week. They no longer like pancakes.

Hey Wess how have you been doing?
Larry

Been cookin 53 yrs. Got my first grill with S & H green stamps. Just paid the tax. Dad loved the burgers thats mostly all we cooked back then. Wife and I share the cookin duties I lead with the most meals, but she does some things much better than I do. I rule the egg. She rules the fried chicken and country fried steak. I rule the gravey.

Doin good Larry, trustin all is well with you and yours...hopefully we will cross paths at at least ONE of the upcoming fests...

I started when I was about 15. Cooked for my frat house a few times. Really got into after college. Then got better when I got my first egg. Overall about 34 years.
I cooked most everything when I was married. She just burnt the sides on the oven. :woohoo:
Now, I cook almost everything on the egg.

Mike

i have always cooked more out of necessity than for fun. i started really enjoying cooking about 2 years before i got my. which means i was cooking more for fun than necissity. i usually cook 5-6 nights a week.

I learned to cook as a child - as much as anything over a campfire in scouts. For instance while others had boring breakfasts I'd fry eggs and bacon and even had toast. Augmenting those experiences a buddy and I used to "camp out" and we would grill burgers and fry fish that we caught. BTW my Mother also taught me how to sew and iron in case I needed those life skills which did come in handy during college when we still ironed our clothes and polished our shoes!

My parents never had a "BBQ" grill until I went to college so Q was something I learned later. Heck, I had never had a pizza until my college years for that matter!

My wife taught high school English (translated into much-o work at home grading papers) for 36 years so I tried to carry my half of the cooking. While I grilled using smokers and later gas grills most of my cooking was inside - until 8 years ago when I became an egger.

Now between inside and outside I cook 4 to 5 evening meals per week and all noon meals. We only eat a big breakfast on Sundays and that's a shared cook but some breakfasts are strictly mine.

My longest run to date has been 11 straight nights egging supper - skipped a day and then egged 3 more nights.

I can get my wife to cook shrimp creole, cajun pot roast the way her mother did it (yum), and red beans and rice. She is also the pastry chef, although I do a little of that. I love that chocolate kahlua cake from an eggfest.

She often works evenings, being a family therapist and it never made sense for me to sit on my b*** waiting on her to come home and then expect her to cook. So I learned to cook...and to adapt recipes to what we had around the house. Now I cook just about every meal. I do enjoy it, especially when there it time to to a real gourmet feast for us and company or to invent some new dish.

HH

Cook in and out of the house for many years. This is the first winter I haven't done at least three lo 'n' slo cooks. Only did two. Grilled steaks, chops and chickens though.

I've done 90-95% of the cooking since we first got married 13 years ago. It's my way of unwinding after a tough day at work and fun for the weekends.