Who is a better cook? Man or Woman?

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Malaysia
January 10, 2007 10:41am CST
I used to ponder over this issue. Not that it is any controversial but interesting to consider. In most hotels, the chef tends to be a male. At home, generally, the female dominates the kitchen. They become the queen of the kitchen naturally. Do you feel that men cooks better? I'd like to hear female members admit men being better cooks.
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• Portugal
10 Jan 07
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has claimed that women "can't cook to save their lives" while more men are learning what to do in the kitchen. i agree totaly with this afirmation...
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• India
10 Jan 07
i completely agree with that. All the greatest chefs in the world are men!
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@knutz18 (110)
• Philippines
11 Jan 07
totally agree with this one..men can cook.
@Duvessa (913)
• United States
10 Jan 07
I think that is a very sexist statement. There is no better or worse as you just proved by your post. Men & women both can be excellent cooks & then there are men & women who are equally crappy at cooking. Simple as that.
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• United States
10 Jan 07
good points
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• United States
10 Jan 07
i agree with your point also that men are good cook. there are lots of chefs in hotel & restaurants who are male & those that we can see on TV recipes are male chefs in majority. at home woman are just domesticated to do cooking & other household chores but sometimes my husband or my brother can do cooking too but just lazy to prepare the ingredients & clean-up the mess afterwards. maybe that's the reason that male at home won't do cooking 'coz they don't like the slicing & cleaning but for those who really are gifted on cooking skills they will work on it as a career.
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• Malaysia
5 Feb 07
Sometimes, we do not have choices. There was one year when my wife had to work long hours. I was working half a day then. I'd take on the cooking of dinner so that by the time wifee comes home, a warm lovely dinner is waiting. You should have seen the look on her face. That's how we bring passion into our married life. I mean one of the ways.
• India
11 Jan 07
Since long time women usually takes care of the responsibility of house & cooking. So folks feel Women is the best cook.I too accept this.But we cant say men are not good at this.In recent days men taking part in cooking & doing their best.So i vote fifty - fity to both.
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• Malaysia
14 Jan 07
I agree with you that no clear distinction can be drawn between either gender on cooking. Maybe a lot of chefs may be men, but I personally feel a woman is more at home in a house kitchen.
@nayand (168)
11 Jan 07
Its not generic. But considering that majority of the chefs in the hotel industry are male it must be males who are better cooks.
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• Philippines
11 Jan 07
its not a gender thing its the creativity and skills of a person. regardless of one's gender anyone can be the best cook. But I read some article physiologically speaking man has a more sensitive taste buds. Man is more on the creative side of cooking. Females can cook but males can create and invent a more delicious dish.
• Malaysia
15 Jan 07
I agree with you that it is creativity and skills that will make a person the cook he or she is. Men tend to think and rationalise their cooking before they do it. Women act on their natural instinct to produce food. A man would not immediately take up the frying pan. He would ponder first. A woman on the other hand would immediately handle the pan as if it is part of her.
• India
11 Jan 07
Of course a man has better skills than woman. Many 5 Stars hotels have men cooks. Watch out for Sanjeev Kapoor Recipes TV Shows.
@hemtata (284)
• India
11 Jan 07
I think cooking is an art and therefore anybody can master it. Most important thing is the person should be really passionate about it.
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• India
11 Jan 07
it depends on the situation,,,,,as said by u "males dominate in hotels, resturants" & "females r queen at home". but if talkin about who is better,,,then it is unreslvable coz everyone loves the food 4m MOM HANDS also they like foods of restaurants......this topic is going in controversies,,,i guess no one can decide who is better than the best
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@GigiFrana (114)
• Romania
11 Jan 07
i think that men cook better because there are a very few males who cook, and they cook because they like it! The females :P cook because they have to... so that's why man cooks better than woman! Also there are some exceptions, like allways
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@wingho86 (85)
• Hong Kong
11 Jan 07
We always consider female as the better cook than men.It is because in our childhood, we see our mum cook daily for us, this make our bias perception on who is a better cook. However, when we grow, we see that there are many cooks are men!
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• India
11 Jan 07
It has to be a man since women take things for granted while Men always look for perfection. Please gals dont mind.
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@aalekh12 (111)
• India
11 Jan 07
i wld jus say dat da best chef's in da world are men !
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• India
11 Jan 07
women are oviously better cook as they have been traditionally associated with it. But, when it comes to creative or innovative side of cooking males take the lead. that's the reason chefs in most 5*****'s are mele.
• Philippines
11 Jan 07
better cooker is a man... its depend on the skills he knows and learn. but i think a man cook deliciously than man.
@bugbaby (1787)
• Indonesia
11 Jan 07
I totally agree that men are better cook than women. because man have become good cook by training and it is generally not a god gift. however I just like eat if my wife cook for me. she is like my mother, can cook anything.
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• Indonesia
11 Jan 07
woman but th greater opportunitty for proffesonal cooker it will be man because is bussiness what we face
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@Chuchina (21)
• Argentina
11 Jan 07
I do not admit men being better cooks.I think that being a good cook does not depend of gender, but it can depend of particular virtues of a person. Even if, I can admit that sometimes a man can bring a strong taste to food,even if, it does not make men better than women.
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• India
11 Jan 07
women r the better cook...men suck when it comes 2 cooking!!!!
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@mirgji (80)
• India
11 Jan 07
MAN IS A GOOD COOK BECAUSE IN HOTEL ALL MEN ARE COOK
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