UK: Young People aren't interested in Cooking, research reveals - Polidicks

im interested gordon is my man

make tonnes of chilli and freeze it, eat with broccoli and rice, yay

Fillet Steak cooked rare in butter. Live fast and die young

I really enjoy cooking. I like to make my own thing, adding different ingredients and what not to see what tastes good. Most of the time I don't even know what the hell I'm doing.

I like cooking. I just hate grocery shopping/picking out what to eat. So we got the Hello Fresh box. Every week i can pick 5 out of 8 recipes to be delivered to my door. Including recipe cards and fresh ingredients. I only have to turn on some music and cook! Its not that expensive either.

I fucking love cooking i can actually cook really well i just never get time to do it.

Whenever I want to try cooking, I get discouraged looking at all the instructions on the dishes I want to try. In other words, I'm too lazy to figure it out and find all the mats in the store.

I love cooking so much that I became a professional chef. However, At 22, I'm the youngest in the kitchen by quite a bit.

People don't have the time or the ingredients to do a lot of good cooking. It irritates me when celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver start talking to working class like they're useless at cooking and too lazy to get the right ingredients, all this from the confines of a spacious kitchen worth thousands - most people don't have that luxury. That said I made stew for the first time the other week and it was hella nice. Girlfriend's family are brilliant at cooking and got me into eating food I wouldn't have touched years ago (pasta, lasagna, pastry, roast dinners etc) and they've given me inspiration to start trying stuff but yeah.

I find not being able to cook weird.

I want to cook, too bad every goddamn ingredient costs way too much to do it from scratch.

I like cooking but I don't do it very often because it just takes such a long time that it doesn't feel worth it at first (except baking, I do that all the time because fresh bread is heaven). EDIT: And the ingredients. Planning meals for shopping is a pain, everything else like making music, reading books, shopping for clothes etc we can do in by phone or Internet whenever we feel like, but with cooking you have to go down to the goddamn store yourself.

[QUOTE=Swilly;51159519]I work 36 hours a week during the closing shift, I don't get much time to cook anymore.[/QUOTE] I work 40 hours a week, sometimes (more often than not) more than that. I'll be happy to have time to make sandwiches in the evening sometimes.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51159806]People don't have the time or the ingredients to do a lot of good cooking. It irritates me when celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver start talking to working class like they're useless at cooking and too lazy to get the right ingredients, all this from the confines of a spacious kitchen worth thousands - most people don't have that luxury. [/QUOTE] Cooking shouldn't take hours for normal meals nor should it be wildly expensive. I'm a fan of [URL="http://www.thugkitchen.com/"]Thug Kitchen[/URL] because unlike a lot of pro chefs their recipes are simple, fairly quick, and don't rely on a bunch of exotic ingredients you use once and then throw away. I mean if you work 12hr shifts, multiple jobs, or very late shifts I can understand not having the time and inclination, but for most people that's not a reasonable excuse. Prices on ingredients vary depending on where you live, but generally it's significantly lower than delivery or eating out. Chances are you can do 'good cooking' in twenty minutes with stuff from your local supermarket for less than take-out costs. It's just a question of whether you're willing to put in the effort. I typically work ~50 hours per week, and sometimes I come home after a long workday and the last thing I want to do is cook, so I order. But it's not like I don't have the time, and it's not like ordering out is saving me any money.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;51159652]I'm off work at 9 pm I cook as much as I can but fuck if you just aren't in the mood to really go whole hog. I have several fast and easy dishes from a few ethnicities but there's a limit to willpower at the end of a day when your day ends at closing hours. When I worked grave yards I never cooked. Never had time.[/QUOTE] amen, been on those 40 hour overnight weeks for a year now and holy shit if it weren't for the fam letting me stick around i'd have died of hunger ages ago

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;51159589]I can cook many meals I just choose not to get too creative for the sake of cost. Cooking in school was pretty dope though I enjoyed it, I don't even recall if it was taught in school still without you having to choose it as an option.[/QUOTE] Think its still mandatory but its on the basis that the school has the resources to do it. I didn't mind doing cooking for the 2 years at school, I made some really weird looking shit but it tasted good, ever shoved a full breakfast into a pastry roll, I did and it was amazing, leaked like a motherfucker though. [editline]6th October 2016[/editline] As for cooking now, I mostly stick to simple stuff that I can make in bulk and freeze a fair amount of it. Chili can last for months depending how much you make and chicken is so easy to cook its stupid.

I'm 25 and fuckign love cooking. Hell I watch food network more than I'd like to admit. It's just so worth it when you cook something and it turns out good.

[QUOTE=Reagy;51160348]As for cooking now, I mostly stick to simple stuff that I can make in bulk and freeze a fair amount of it. Chili can last for months depending how much you make and chicken is so easy to cook its stupid.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I feel like this is where a lot of people go wrong with cooking for themselves. If you cook a single portion of something moderately complex every night, you're going to spend 5+ hours per week just cooking your food. It's way easier to manage cooking for yourself if you: -Make enough for at least 2-3 meals' worth of a dish at a time, -Cook a week's worth of chili or stew and freeze it, then thaw and reheat for dinner, -Use a slow cooker, since you can make really good recipes with very little work, -Cook up some beans or ground beef and chop vegetables, then have burritos, taco salad, or rice bowls whenever by just throwing everything together Like, it's nice to know how to make Beef Wellington, but you shouldn't have to put in that much effort every day just to have something to eat.

Cooking is the easiest thing in the world. If you have a slow cooker it's literally as simple as choosing a connective tissue rich piece of meat and throwing it in the pot for a couple hours with some aromatic vegetables (carrots, onion, etc) and spices. No wonder everyone is so unhealthy. It's not that it's hard, it's that popular media has convinced everyone that it's difficult so will they stuff their faces with addictive sugary shit.

I love cooking. I hate cleaning everything afterwards.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51159806]People don't have the time or the ingredients to do a lot of good cooking. It irritates me when celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver start talking to working class like they're useless at cooking and too lazy to get the right ingredients, all this from the confines of a spacious kitchen worth thousands - most people don't have that luxury.[/QUOTE] well people in the past were able to cope without ready meals and microwave dinners every day and their kitchen was even shittier and they were even poorer Nothing to do with wealth in most cases

Well i'm a fussy eater, who does not really [I]enjoy[/I] eating. Obviously i do have a preferance to certain foods and i do like things, but eating has always been a 'chore' something i have to do, but something i don't feel the urge to do. Thing is, this got worse when i left college and got alot worse when i became a chef through happenstance. Cooking food for others knackering myself doing 45 hour week split shifts just killed off my drive to make myself anything 'good'. I'm perfectely capable of cooking anything, i just can't be bothered anymore because to me a Capn Birdseye ready meal does exactly the same job as a gammon steak, the former requires 8 mins of work, the latter half hour or more and simply put, i'd rather be doing anything else than cooking. The only exception is when im cooking for a friend or a loved one, i wouldnt do it for just myself. I havent been a chef for over 4 years either.

When I went to uni I was the only one in our halls that could properly cook. (Had a mum that was a great cook and pretty anal about food, meaning no jars or packets. And I was brought up watching cooking shows.) So not willing to live off tv dinners and noodles, I decided to round up the flat and see if anyone was willing to get together for meals. Most of the flat agreed. We did our weekly shop together, had spreadsheets to handle our due payments and keep an even circulation of meals throughout the week. (Saturday would be do you own meal day). I did most of the cooking whilst getting some help from my sous chefs (flatmates). It was great. The cooking and eating together strengthened our relationship, we were eating healthy homemade meals, and it was economical, (cooking and shopping solo is quite expensive). Flatmates learnt to cook from me and developed new tastes. To hear that after we parted ways that a lot of them still cook their own meals from scratch is really rewarding.

I can't blame them, I'm sure even more people would eat takeaways if it didn't cost minimum of £10 for a pizza. For me it's pure laziness, i just cook a huge pasta on Sunday and eat it throughout the week.

Like everyone said here, cooking is time consuming and not worth the hassle if you have something near by which sells quality food at a good price. For example, there's a place that sells food by weight. 1kg of already cooked food goes for 100 pesos. Schnitzels, pasta, salads, ribs, rolls, etc That's basically next to being free. The only thing I consider cooking is desserts, because they are actually quite expensive and some can't be find anywhere, such as baked apples with chantilly cream.

Stouffer's microwavable meals for life.

Ramen for me

I don't like to cook, mostly because I fatigue very easily, and so I try to not move so much when I get home from work. It's gotten so bad that I eliminated bread and rolls from my shopping list because I'm too exhausted to put cold cuts on bread with mayo and I just eat a few out of the package. :v: Most days I just get subs or other semi-healthy fast food on the way home. Shopping for ingredients is exhausting, so is the thought of having to prepare food. At most I'll either do a crock pot or fry up a steak, or microwave vegetables, but usually I'm eating microwave meals or fast food. When I actually have energy I don't mind cooking but fast food or restaurants taste just as good.

I'm capable of cooking almost anything I want, it's not hard to follow a recipe. It's just being unemployed means it's cheaper for me to just buy ramen and microwaveable stuff.

[QUOTE=Grandzeit;51159524]Cooking and baking are both amazing skills and hobbies. Great for gifts, too. But I understand why a lot of people aren't interested in it, as it takes its fair share of time to do/learn. Over in Denmark there's at least a mandatory cooking class in primary school which covers the necessary basics, like cleaning and preparing ingredients.[/QUOTE] We had that class in my school but it was absolute trash. Learned how to make snacks and that's it. [editline]6th October 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Cutthecrap;51161013]Like everyone said here, cooking is time consuming and not worth the hassle if you have something near by which sells quality food at a good price. For example, there's a place that sells food by weight. 1kg of already cooked food goes for 100 pesos. Schnitzels, pasta, salads, ribs, rolls, etc That's basically next to being free. The only thing I consider cooking is desserts, because they are actually quite expensive and some can't be find anywhere, such as baked apples with chantilly cream.[/QUOTE] 2.2 pounds of food for about $5, I'd never cook at home for those prices.