Why all Indian men should know how to cook Abhimanyu Mishra,TNN

[krish44]

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Most housewives would not like their menfolk to take over the kitchen.

even if some could be passable cooks, they would not like men to be fully self sufficient.

They would prefer to use the men for cleaning the plates or vessels or laying the table and such activities which are

labour intensive calling for low degree of skills

many women think that kitchen is their domain and some would not like men to enter the kitchen. In fact kitchen is

the place where women hide their precious items like money.I know one who keeps jewellery in one of the dabbas in

the almirah.It is safer than lockers.

 

[Raji Ram]

Most housewives would not like their menfolk to take over the kitchen. .......

Reason obvious, Krish Sir!
We are afraid of the mess created, to be cleaned up by us!! :ballchain:

 

[Raji Ram]

If a ladle of cooked rice is left over in the afternoon, please don't eat it and gain weight! :nono:

It could be added while grinding the rice for idli / dosA batter in the evening, to make soft idlis!

 

[krish44]

If a ladle of cooked rice is left over in the afternoon, please don't eat it and gain weight! :nono:

It could be added while grinding the rice for idli / dosA batter in the evening, to make soft idlis!

most hotels convert their left over rice into pre mixed thayir or sambar saadam and recycle.

Even left over vada, idlis get re offered as sambar, rasam ,thayir vada,idli.

not many hotels convert left over rice to idly batter . most use poor quality of rice to convert into batter.they add some softener [ some undesirable material]

chemicals

one gets exposed to infections when one eats out. Seniors need to watch out. I have got food poisoning more than once even consuming in best of restaurants.

even water infection is very common.

now i take all this as a way of life and take it in my stride.

As long as no one sends me to another world it is okay.lol

 

[CHANDRU1849]

It is a myth that women can only cook they are meant for it.

Whenever lunch, dinner or any item is well accepted and appreciated, we generally call it as 'NALA BHAGAM'.

From small hotels to very high class hotels, the Chefs are predominantly male.

 

[Raji Ram]

......... From small hotels to very high class hotels, the Chefs are predominantly male.

So far, I have not heard of females cooking in hotels!

Probably, feminists have not touched this area of job opportunities!

P.S: I saw two females preparing 'kuzhip paNiyAram' and 'aappam', in one of the wedding receptions in Sing. Chennai. :thumb:

 

[krish44]

Do you know male chefs do not eat the foods they have cooked.?

they prefer to eat what their wives cook for them home.lol

 

[Raji Ram]

Do you know male chefs do not eat the foods they have cooked.?...

Yes! I know the reason too!
The chefs know what all left overs became new hot dishes of that day! :decision:

 

[vgane]

So far, I have not heard of females cooking in hotels!

Probably, feminists have not touched this area of job opportunities!

P.S: I saw two females preparing 'kuzhip paNiyAram' and 'aappam', in one of the wedding receptions in Sing. Chennai. :thumb:

One Mami used to come at Adyar Anandha Bhavan near Vadapalani Bus Stand for preparing hot Adai & Avial combo!

 

[Raji Ram]

One Mami used to come at Adyar Anandha Bhavan near Vadapalani Bus Stand for preparing hot Adai & Avial combo!

The two I saw at the wedding reception were not brahmins.

 

[krish44]

Sometime back there was a film '"Çheeni Kum'' staarring Amitabh bachan as an old bachelor chef in a UK hotel and Tabu

playing a youger single lady in thirtees finding fault with one of the hyderabadi dishes made by the chef.

she ends up proving that chef was not having the right recipe for the dish and teaches him how to make it.

He falls in love with her .lol

a very unlikely plot for a movie, enjoyable though

 

[Raji Ram]

Moral of the story: Don't teach a chef unless you want to marry him!

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Every Saturday, between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., a popular chef Venkatesh Bhat presents preparation of various items, both Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian, in Vijay TV.

I think Bhatts are Brahmins and it is surprising to see his preparation of NV items with ease.

 

[tbs]

hi

male chefs are famous for NALA PAKAM........palakkad brahmis are best tambram chefs in hotels...

 

[kunjuppu]

i think all men, regardless of their ethnic origin, should know the fundamentals of how to feed themselves. it is a sorry sight to see, still, young men from india coming over to usa, and not knowing how to boil water. worse still are middle aged men visitors, who expect 4 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, tiffin, dinner) and get desperate for food by the clock.

in my home, i cook at times, and clean if mrs K is doing the cooking. one role balances the other, as cleanup often is as elaborate as the cooking itself.

 

[prasad1]

i think all men, regardless of their ethnic origin, should know the fundamentals of how to feed themselves. it is a sorry sight to see, still, young men from india coming over to usa, and not knowing how to boil water. worse still are middle aged men visitors, who expect 4 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, tiffin, dinner) and get desperate for food by the clock.

in my home, i cook at times, and clean if mrs K is doing the cooking. one role balances the other, as cleanup often is as elaborate as the cooking itself.

I started this thread after seeing the plight of some of the men (Indians and vegetarians). Non-vegetarians can always walk into KFC or Burger Kings.
Yes You are right in including all men.

Vaagmiji,
You said

There is no big deal in cooking.

It is not a big deal if you know how to cook, and the person eating it does not have any taste buds.

For a person who has very selective palate, cooking is a science and an art. Very few can really cook well.

 

[Vaagmi]

Vaagmiji,
You said

It is not a big deal if you know how to cook, and the person eating it does not have any taste buds.

For a person who has very selective palate, cooking is a science and an art. Very few can really cook well.

I cook well. When i taste what I cook I find it as tasty as what others cook. So it is no big deal.

With those freaks with taste buds in the wrong place I wont be able to pass the grade. Anyway it is like saying "I am not going to say you are good. But you can keep trying". LOL.

 

[prasad1]

I cook well. When i taste what I cook I find it as tasty as what others cook. So it is no big deal.

With those freaks with taste buds in the wrong place I wont be able to pass the grade. Anyway it is like saying "I am not going to say you are good. But you can keep trying". LOL.

My comment was for people who do not know to cook and downgrade cooking. If you are a good cook, congratulations, you are an exception to to the average man.

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Kunjuppu Sir,

Most of the boys who go for higher studies and live with a few friends, sharing an apartment, usually cook decently well! But, some of

them never care to learn well and dump the kitchen duties on the wife, as soon as they get married. Now a days, girls are very smart

and train their hubbies to clean up, which, as you say is equally time consuming!

It is sad to note that most of the Tambram mAmAs still feel entering the kitchen is below their dignity!

 

[krish44]

Young people where both boy and girl work in offices, cooking is best left to servants. in india servants are easily available

at very low rates. in fact it is misuse of educated girls to make them housewives and confine them to cooking.

Similarly all women past 58-60 yrs should retire from cooking and pass on these tasks to others who are younger.

only abroad , where it is expensive to engage domestic help, it is worth thinking of labour saving devices or sharing

of house work in kitchen

a basic philosophy is never use your/wifes hands if other hands are available at low cost.

same goes for brains. pay for good brains and multiply your wealth.

One should learn the art of delegating and living peacefully