Generation Gap - Cooking at Home

chefwong · #1 09-08-2009, 05:08 PM

Alrighty...here's my poll of the week. Or question of the week. For use Generation X'ers....mid twenties - let's say the cuttoff is low-mids 30's, do you COOK at home .

I'm all about home cooking. Getting back at home at 10PM, cooking is like therapy for me. I would rather cook than do takeout....I don't mind blowing a couple bills on Omasake at 2 of my fav. joints around town but either nobodys into cooking or it's not getting ~schooled~ in as they grow up. The percentage of peeps I know can't cook to the percentage who can cook.

Seems so many in my age bracket if not older just don't cook at all these days. Or maybe it's the fact that I live in NYC and it's so diverse you can pickup anything for take-out every day of the week if not at any hour.

Went to a BBQ this weekend. Everything was store bought and served out the plastic tubs it came in. Hell, the burgers ----- don't laugh, frozen burgers from Costo/Bk. Straight outta the freezer to the grill. Not complaining. Good company, good laughs . Just one mans observation.....

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AzNMpower32 · #2 09-08-2009, 05:51 PM

I'm 20 and cook most of my meals. Eating out is a luxury that's actually less healthy than eating my own food. I haven't had a meal plan since this past Spring semester.

motordavid · #3 09-08-2009, 06:01 PM

Not to butt in, Chef, but most of our friends, (50ish to mid 80s and almost all
retired bums like us), eat out 4-6, to even 7 days a week! Quite a few of
them, (either hub or wife, or both), eat lunch and freakin dinner "out" of
their kitchen several times per week!

Remarkable to me, expensive after months of it on end, and while I am not
the poster boy for good habits/nutrition, I do feel cooking/eating at home
is better food. While some parties and social functions we attend at
others homes have home cooked stuff, many have the main dish catered
or brought in from a local joint or, the country club. Amazing to me...

Maybe it's the response to eating out on the road for 200+ days/nights per
year, for a Qtr century, but V & I eat in, home cooked, about 300+ nights
per year for the last 9 years, since we bailed.
I'll let you GenX/Y people get back to topic, but I just wanted to give our
anecdotal view from Geezer/RetiredBumDomVille.
BR,mD

chefwong · #4 09-08-2009, 06:29 PM

No Worries MD. I welcome you as the local mayor ;-)

Go figure. I have F&F come over every once in awhile and each year, I try to improve on my system. Even with 1-2 days taking off from work for ~prep~, anything that get's dished out has been washed, cut, chopped with my bare hands and it's madness trying to make sure everything is out on time.

One of my clients has a chef to cook lunch for the office every day. Really great vibe. Always amazes me how he can bang out a lunch for a crew of 25 people in a couple of hours.

What inspired me on this post was the BBQ. 1st time I've had had a BBQ with burgers right outta the freezer to the grill;-)

tweak · #5 09-08-2009, 06:51 PM

I am 21 years old and live in the midwest and I am amazed at the lack of cooking skills many of my friends display. I learned to cook out of necessity when i was 8 or 9 as mom and dad both worked late, so I had to fend for myself.

I love a home cooked meal, but working long days myself, I seldom have time to do it except for the weekends. Slowly I am teaching my girlfriend how to cook.

I pretty much despise every ounce of prepared food i have to put in my mouth.

jsears · #6 09-08-2009, 07:38 PM

Being 26 I cook for myself as well. My problem is though I hate left overs, so cooking anything extravagant seems a little bit ridiculous to me unless I am having guests over.

Most of my meals are pretty simple and it is way more cost effective to cook at home!

xnsf · #7 09-08-2009, 07:49 PM

I'm a 21 year old college student and I cook for myself about half the time, and go out to eat socially the other half. I really only eat 1 to 2 meals a day, so it's not that much cooking. I prefer to cook my own food, buying ingredients and cooking it, not buying pre-made meals. I would say about half my friends are like this, some are great cooks, and some can only boil water and press buttons on a microwave

I love cooking and food

B-Line · #8 09-08-2009, 08:31 PM

35..

I cook breakfast at home after workouts..
And I'll only cook dinner at home when the wife allows me..

See the problem isn't the shopping or the cooking.. It's the clean up.

It takes so much time to clean up after cooking a good dinner..

blondboinsd · #9 09-09-2009, 12:35 AM

25...I never cook, ever but then again I live alone so it's a bit prohibitive. If I lived with someone I would cook

Weasel · #10 09-09-2009, 12:58 AM

Almost everyone I know down here cooks. Great BBQs every other weekend, gumbo and jambalaya often, baked/fried fish, the crawfish... oh the crawfish. (gotta love the cajun south) Grilled oysters on the half shell (when my friend is out on the oyster boat) etc. etc. etc.

And when no one wants to cook there are many home cooking style cajun joints with truly great food with such flavor.

Did I mention the food is one of the reasons I love the New Orleans area? (I am disappointed with the food any time I travel...)

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