Would you still cook if you diddn't have to?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don’t have to cook and I still do, so that’s a hard ‘yes’. I enjoy the process.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

Same as @BrianSoddingBoru4. I do not need to cook, yet I do, quite frequently. I enjoy the process and the food is so much better than what you get from a box from the freezer section of your local  grocery store.

Now, if I could afford a professional chef..?
Probably I wouldn't stop even then. Just reduce the frequency.

[Jackalope]

My wife does the cooking, she enjoys it and is very good at it. I am not particularly good at it, and I
don't really enjoy it at all.

If left to my own devices, I would depend heavily on reheated meals, delivery, and dining out.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I only cook on the (3 day) weekends when Boss Lady wants hot food. Breakfast is cereal or instant oatmeal.

[The Valkyrie]

I like cooking once a week at least.

Don't think I could do it every night, though.

[Anomalocaris]

I am lazy 95% of the time and during these times only the annoyingly overwhelming genetic aversion towards starvation motivates me to even try to find something vaguely nonlethal to consume,  so cooking would seem like it is many orders of magnitude more trouble than it could possibly be worth.

During the other 5% of the time I am stricken with the inexplicable desire to show with enough gadgets even something as ineffable as gourmet food fabrication is not out of my reach,  then I am not myself and I actually go out of my way to find something to cook that seem fancy.     Like piece of waterfowl marinated in their own grease.


I have to admit that, during those 5% of the time, even those who know me very well for many years find the sight of my going through the motions of cooking so startling that they usually quietly retreat backwards.down the entry and out the front door to check the address again and make sure they didn’t go into someone else’s house by mistake.

[Brian37]

I have been waiting for years and years for the meal pills that the Jetsons had.  I do not like to cook, I don't like any part of it from the planning and shopping through the prep and clean up.  It isn't unusual for me to prepare a meal and not have any appetite for it when it's ready.

i love certain foods, and eating, but I hate the prep and the cleaning.

[Anomalocaris]

I rarely have enough appetite for the stuff I cook to make cooking worth the trouble. I usually cook just to say: “see, I’ve done it”.

[Fake Messiah]

I guess I wouldn't do anything if I didn't have to. When it comes to cooking, I don't find it that big of a deal. It usually takes me about 30 minutes to cook: I just put some legumes and or cereals into the water and boil it for 20 minutes; plus maybe some potatoes in the air fryer that fry simultaneously.

[Astreja]

I occasionally invent a completely new recipe, and enjoy assembling mass quantities of food for Yule, so it's a "yes" from me.