I have rarely seen men taking interest in cooking, but when it comes to best chefs in top hotels it is outrightly men.What is the reason ??

Oddly emough, there was an article somewhere - maybe the Miami Herald, I'm not sure - that says it's not just men who aren't interested in cooking, it's women who don't really care much about the kitchen either. The crux of the matter is that when prepared foods (and I'm including canned foods and frozen dinners here, not just fast food joints or restaurant food) became really dominant, the amount of time spent by either gender went from four hours a day to roughly one or even less. This meant that (a) no one really bothered to learn much about cooking and (b) the nation's obesity rate went up because all that prepared food is full of unhealthy ingredients and for so many years it just seemed cheaper to go out to eat rather than "slave over" a hot stove and cooking.

As for the male-female gender issue you raised, I think that if a man's parents don't teach him to appreciate the fine art of cooking and dispel the notion that it's a "girl's" task (or a sissy one), he will not have a more active role in the kitchen. It's really that simple. I've known lots of guys who learned to cook, some of them quite well, because they weren't "programmed" to think that meal preparation is essentially a feminine activity. (I also must stress that at least one of them, my mom's brother, was once a restaurant owner and a caterer.)

Yeah this is where our world is heading towards and going to bang at the houses designed minus kitchens.Yes this trend of eating out and canned food is catching up, good or bad that you guys got to decide.

This is an interesting point, why are all the head chefs in restaraunts males? Maybe because men take a really tough approach, for example, in hells kitchen any female cooks on there cried. You cant do that in the middle of service. Im not sexist or anything, it's just the way it comes across......

I think that in some ways, there are many cultures in which it's fine that men cook under some circumstances but not others. In the military, at least as far as I know, most of the cooks in a combat zone are nearly always men. During World War II, when women in the service couldn't be assigned to a combat outfit, men certainly did all the cooking.

Barbecue cooking is still considered a male activity, and like you point out, most restaurants have top chefs that are guys.

Yeah, I don't know why BBQ is considered a male activity. I just can't imagine a female doing a BBQ. I think I'm treading on thinice here Maybe its something to do with men handeling meat or something

Well all over when we look around it is men who are the front of cooking besides the kitchens at home.May be they don't show any interest in routine cooking intentionally, so they are not pushed to kitchens every day.

I like that excuse.

I don't think that's it for every man who doesn't show any interest in cooking, though. I think it's more of the way they are raised or treated by their spouses. In many Latino families, for instance, you hardly ever see the man of the house cook (unless it's a BBQ); it's always the mother/wife who cooks the meals.

As for other men, maybe they think it's a "gay" or effeminate activity. (Unless, of course, it's BBQ.)

Or they are just plain lazy and don't want to cook.

Men who are scarred of being accused of being "Gay" are clearly not comforable with thier sexuality. If they think its "Gay" they should look at Gordon Ramsay, hes got more balls ,than those who think its "Gay"

Men who don't know how to cook deserve to starve or eat the junk they do. I'm proud of the fact that I know how to cook and that my 12 year old son loves to help in the kitchen. Just the other day he took out a cake mix, read the instructions and put it together with just a little supervision. I have an older son who is 20 and I've tried to teach him but he isn't too interested so I figure he'll either eat poorly or a hungry stomach will be the motivating factor the learn to cook.

I really like the approach, yes that is the right method to deal with such spoilt brats.It is high time if men want to eat healthy they need to learn to cook.Life patterns are undergoing major transformation.

Yeah. Men should learn to cook. But this can happen only if they are taught about this from their childhood. We can't expect grownups to just wakeup one day and start learning cooking ( Unless they are starving offcourse).

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This is I think right method that we start training our kids when they are young, it is not necessary that they cook every thing but at least they should have some exposure and some idea how to handle cooking if required, unlike my husband, who loves to be in kitchen and if asked to hand over a knife or something, he is blank.

I'll have you all know that I come from a family where all the men learned to cook at a very young age. The cooking AND kitchen cleaning duties are equally shared with their spouces. My husband and I share the cooking and cleaning equally as well. I taught my son how to start cooking at the age of 6 and he still loves being in the kitchen as well as on the grill. It's all a matter of how a person, man or woman, is raised.