Okay maybe this isnt the best demographics here but like I mean as in if you know someone who’s Gen Z, do they have a “idk how to cook” issue?

(Please don’t be like “omg its easy, how could you not know” in the comments, be nice in the comments okay 🙈)

  • 4gramsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Is this really a thing? My kids regularly help with the coooing, they know meal prep, we have them sometimes cook entire meals for the family. I did the same as a kid, although it was largely due to having a single parent who often worked nights.

    I can’t really imagine a human growing up without at least some culinary skills. Enough to feed themselves and have basic nutrition literacy anyway.

      • 4gramsEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Wild, I honestly hadn’t heard this before, but it really does make sense considering some of the hilariously novice cooking instruction videos that I’ve seen popping up recently.

        I’m involved with scouting so most of the kids I know are a good bit more self sufficient than average I’m guessing.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I think you touched on a good point, cooking is often a generational skill, for different reasons - you were poor so your meals were cheap and made at home - you were poor so your parents worked too much and never had time or money for “real” food - you come from a single parent household and cooking for multiple people is too much to do daily as the sole bread winner. Or the other side of the coin, your family was wealthy enough so you never leaned life skills. I guess my point is there’s a lot of lifestyles that would require you to learn to cook, to some degree but not in a dedicated way taught by a competent home cook and a variety of techniques. I started cooking for myself when I was probably 10 because my mom decided she didn’t want to do it anymore and I was plenty competent at making poverty meals but I didn’t really learn “how to cook” until well into adulthood when I was the mom; I used a steak knife for everything, all prep work, until I was like 30, for example. Learning to cook well makes cooking a lot more enjoyable and delicious and it’s just not a skill that is being passed on because most of us are too over worked to do it and that’s been true for a few generations now.