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moomoo said:
:hmm:

Are you a reincarnation of my husband? :hmm:

He always used to think he knew better than me about cooking. He'd make a big noise about doing egg and chips and tell everyone he taught me to cook. He used to come a bit unstuck when I'd ask him to explain how to make a roast dinner though........... :D
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Blokes just know more about BBQ's, accept it. ;)
 
Keep your knickers on MK!

I'm seeing if I can get banned by the end of the evening for being sexist. :hmm: :cool:

I'm not sure of the rules though............... :confused:
 
moomoo said:
The men always take over the cooking?

Why is that? After all, they're hardly first into the kitchen on a normal day are they? :confused:
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Fire, steel and meat of course.

And when I cook in doors, it usually involves at least one of those.
 
Is it wrong that i find the idea of you in 'sturdy knickers' quite alluring moo ?


;)



I love the word trollop !
 
moomoo said:
The men always take over the cooking?

Why is that? After all, they're hardly first into the kitchen on a normal day are they? :confused:
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I live in an all-women household (apart from me, obviously), and from the start, it was expected that I would "drive" the barbeque, on account of being the only one to be prepared to embark on the dangerous-looking process of getting it lit, this despite the fact that the rest of the family are a gang of slavering steak-gnawers, and I'm the solitary vegetarian.

Actually, I don't mind, since I take a couple of homebrews up there and spend a goodly time getting the barbeque "just right" while they do creative things with marinades and salads in the kitchen. It is important to generate impressive clouds of smoke every now and again so they don't think you're just standing around in the garden, boozing, and I use a bit of some kind of oil, and perhaps a couple of out-of-date sausages dropped into the coals to achieve such effects. So far, I think I've got away with it.

To be fair, though, I more than pull my weight in the kitchen, too. Herself does the setpiece recipe dishes and the big stir-fries. I do the "oh, damn, we done got no foodz in teh house, Agnes, fancy cooking tonight?

I can normally manage a 5-dish curry out of leftovers, and there's always frozen spinach, tinned toms and dried lentils for a spinach-and-lentil lasagne...
 
I think this is one of the secrets of good barbecue technique... Get those watching to think you're doing something, when actually you're staring at the pretty lights through a haze of alcohol. It takes a great deal of refinement as you need to keep others off your turf, an air of complete confidence and a mastery of dismissive grunting are essential; eg the question "can I help?" should be met with "Wha? hnngf... fn.", this conveys the impression that the interloper means nothing to you and would be as much help as a chocolate pokey thing. Should they become persistent wave a piece of cardboard over the coals or blow on them to create impressive wooshiness. The state of the barbecue is a frail one though and, should more than one other man attempt to stake a claim, sometimes it is prudent to retreat and wait for the fall-out from inevitable macho bickering.

Incidentally machoness can and should be ruthlessly exploited... I recently had to move my workbench and tools from one workshop to another. These are bloody heavy things so I just suggested that we should get another guy to help out. This is an instant threat to machoness and the two guys I was with fell straight into the 'nah, we'll just do it, ya wuss' trap. So lifting is done for you, plus you get to watch two fully grown men slowly realise that, in fact, the other guy idea may not have been such a bad one - a realisation characterised by an intense reddening of the face, bulging eyes and pained grunting. Mildly ammusing.
 
moomoo said:
The men always take over the cooking?

Why is that? After all, they're hardly first into the kitchen on a normal day are they? :confused:
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Between me and my good lady, I do 99.9% of the cooking at home and as we currently don't have a garden, I'm happy to do about 0.01% of cooking at any BBQ we are invited to and a significant percentage of all boozing.

So yeah, yer wrong on that one, moomoo. ;):cool::p
 
I do most of the cooking in my house. But I'm no fan of barbecues, so I'm quite happy to let someone else take charge of that: I'll prepare the salads. (My potato salad is legendary).

I was at a barbie last night, and completely avoided barbecued food. I stuck to the salads.
 
moomoo said:
The men always take over the cooking?

Why is that? After all, they're hardly first into the kitchen on a normal day are they? :confused:
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I'm always 1st in the kitchen on any day.

Been with g/f 6-8 months, seen each other nearly every night, she's cooked *3* times. I've cooked every other night.

Shove your stereotypes ;) :D :p

But.. I do tend to take over anything cooking wise, at home or BBQ :D
 
Last bbq at a festival a few weeks back my BF said he didn't know how to bbq when I asked him to put on the paneer kebabs I had prepared. I told him not to worry as I would supervise him...:D I got the impression he was trying to leave all the cooking to me.
 
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