Are You the Chef or Cook?

[Scheryl_O]

I regularly don’t cook, other than grilling or breakfast, although today my wife came home and I was all dressed up and she said are you ready to cook? Of course I replied yes. And usually I’m not enthralled by cooking I was actually into the process! My wife constantly keeping watch that I didn’t add the wrong ingredients at the wrong time! Does anyone else get into cooking either enfemme or otherwise?

[Cynthia_0101]

I have started to really enjoy cooking, as I do most of it now. But I would never hazard to cook while dressed as I end up with almost as much food on me as what's in the pot.

[Shirley Anne]

I cook almost everyday, but not always dressed.

[Lana Mae]

I cook almost all of the meals here! Nothing fancy! Shake n bake is my friend! I mostly go by the instructions with boxed sides! I do make an esteemed potato salad and have some say it is the best they have ever tasted! I baked banana and pumpkin bread for Christmas presents! They were made from the box as well! Everyone seemed to like it! I have done it dressed before but not always! Hugs Lana Mae Oh, and I have been called both chef and cook! LOL

[RADER]

I have done the cooking for years. My wife and my self shared the job.
Now that I am a Widow, well I am the only one left to cook, so I cook.
I try to be dressed for cooking, It just seams the right thing to do.
Rader

[biancabellelover]

My wife is a great cook. She hates following recipes, which is okay in cooking but disastrous when baking. So I’m the baker (and a pretty good one if I say so myself).

But I was a good baker before I became a crossdresser. I often bake when dressed; I love the feeling.

As for getting food on my clothes? I wear an apron, LOL!

[Maria in heels]

I am both the chef and the cook in our household...when the kids are all at school and my wife is at work, I have a fabulous day prepping food in the kitchen dressed as I usually do everyday, and laugh when my wife comments how "her wife" cooks so well and belongs in the kitchen! Now if only I could get pregnant <sigh> but I would have my heels on always and never barefoot lol!

[Elizabeth G]

I do most of the cooking dry home and I love it. I'm going to like it even more more that our kitchen has been entirely remodeled!

[JocelynJames]

I do all of the meal prep whether simple or complicated. My wife is more of a baker( mainly because she lives desserts)

[April Rose]

For several years now, due to my wife's health I have done all the shopping, cooking and housework. I almost always am dressed while cooking and wear an apron to protect my outfit. I sew the aprons myself as well.

[alwayshave]

I could burn water.

[Rayleen]

I am the cook for most of my life, my wife loves everything . I do not bake cakes , just cookies. I use to bake my own bread for a long time.

[Teri Ray]

I do cook but I am not the cook. I am a great relief cooker.

[Maid_Marion]

I enjoy cooking. I bought a cheap chef's coat so I don't get oil and grease on my good clothes.

[Leslie Mary S]

Being a widower I am the Cook, baker, and chief. Quality is debatable.
When ever the family has a get together I am requested to bring my Potato Salad, I fix about 3 to 5 pounds at once and refrigerate it over night. That makes it tastes better when the seasonings have mellowed together.
I did not get to bring any of it home, 14 people can easily put away 5 pounds of salad, so I made my private 1.5 pound batch Christmas eve.

Could it be because the family is fearful of what I might make. Like Beef Jerky , or baked Alaska (served flambe of course). or even Pizza made with my own Pizza sauce. Or Shisk-a-bobs Flambe using real lemon skin oil for the flames.

[GracieRose]

When first married, and we both worked, we split the cooking about 50/50. I had my specialties and she had hers. I enjoyed the process of preparing meals. When the children came along and she quit work to stay home full time to raise the children, I was chased out of the kitchen and relegated to doing the grilling. Even though I'm retired and home most of the time, she is unwilling to let me take my turn preparing meals with the exception of occasionally allowing me to pull the salad together. One time that she had an appointment, and allowed me to prepare dinner while she was gone. I put on my girl clothes and an apron, and had a ball.

[Crissy 107]

I cook almost everyday, but not always dressed.
Does this mean you cook undressed? Just wondering.

[t-girlxsophie]

I do the cooking now that my wife is unable to due to ill health but she has passed her expertise on to me and I can put together a nice meal,do it either en femme or male mode but seems much more fun when I'm dressed

Sophie

[Tracii G]

I love to cook and try new things to challenge my culinary expertise.
I am not very good at baking so I need to work on that I suppose but cake and pie are something I need to stay away from. LOL
Always did the cooking as I raised my two daughters alone and I taught them the basics and they are very good cooks now in their adult life.

[Helen Waite]

I do all the laundry, most of the cooking & grocery shopping, share the cleaning, all while working rotating shifts with a grueling commute. Ugh.

[Jojo2321]

Hell yes!!! I love to cook no matter what! Sometimes I just throw things together that I think sounds good, and my girl always likes it.

[Ceera]

I love to cook, but my mom taught me when I was little, exactly the same way as she taught my sister. She firmly believed boys needed to know the same skills for maintaining a household that girls learn, “because you won’t always have a mom or a wife or a girlfriend, to do it for you!” So I learned to cook, sew, do laundry, and other “girl skills”, and dad taught my sister and I both how to change our own tire, how to change the oil in a car, fishing, barbecue grilling, camping skills, etc.. When my wife was alive, I shared in doing all those ‘girly’ chores. Now that I am widowed, I am super-glad I can do all those things!

[Anna Stouf]

I can cook a little bit. I’m trying to learn. I have been alone for 8 years (since my last divorce) and making my meals has been a huge challenge. I’m getting better though.

[Beverley Sims]

I can cook up a storm, I learned Chemistry and Physics at shhool.

I also have learned about heat transfer processes, chemical change and physical change.

Chemical change occurs when I burn the food, physical change occurs when I dress. :-)

[Macey]

I've been learning, and doing quite well :) My wife is an excellent cook, so it's a challenge for me to try to get better at it.

Started a recipe thread in the lounge - could use more ideas!lol

[bridget thronton]

I am more of a cook (a chef has excellent presentation of the food not just excellent preparation) - I like to cook for a group -I can bake but do not enjoy it

[abbiedrake]

I've been cooking for myself since my early teens. My practice wife was useless. AND she couldn't cook. 😁
My actual wife is a great cook but her disabilities mean it's all me. Again. We used to love cooking together. The Kitchen Dance we called it.
Never cooked fully dressed though. Half and half? yep. Heels? sure. Gotta break em in, right?

[Bruce64]

I love cooking it goes good with crossdressing too.

[Diane Taylor]

I prepare my own meals and I always do it in various levels of "dressed" because at home I'm NEVER wearing anything male.300075

[Teresa]

Scheryl,
I have done all the cooking for years and admit I enjoy it . It's no bad thing because I'm separated and living alone now so enjoyed very much cooking the Xmas meal for my daughter and her family , I also love to put a meal on the table when friends call , I try to be a good host(ess) and a meal is part of that to me .

Cooking the Xmas meal as Teresa did put my wife in orbit , she tried to invite herself on the basis I didn't dress ! My home, my rules now , take it or leave it ! She chose to leave it . I wore my Xmas dress with reindeer and snowflakes on , it was avery special day for me .

Bev ,
Shame on you the physics and chemistry come together in cooking , getting the heat right to sustain the chemical process of the ingredients . When something tastes right a good cook has got his/her science just right .

[Anne K]

My wife calls me a chef, but I just cook. I love to experiment and she love to eat snd do the cleanup. A perfect situation!

[sara66]

I love to cook(and eat) so I do almost all the cooking in our house. I never dress when I cook. I would never want to ruin any my "good: clothes, And my wife would not be happy to see me dressed.
Sara

[Leslie Mary S]

I love to cook, but my mom taught me when I was little, exactly the same way as she taught my sister. She firmly believed boys needed to know the same skills for maintaining a household that girls learn, “because you won’t always have a mom or a wife or a girlfriend, to do it for you!” So I learned to cook, sew, do laundry, and other “girl skills”, and dad taught my sister and I both how to change our own tire, how to change the oil in a car, fishing, barbecue grilling, camping skills, etc.. When my wife was alive, I shared in doing all those ‘girly’ chores. Now that I am widowed, I am super-glad I can do all those things!

You and I grow up in simular house rules. Dad Said "EVERYONE IN THIS HOME MUST know how to maintain everything from cooking to Auto repair". My wife and I passed that ruling on to our three kids too.

[Rhonda Darling]

Like several here, I had a mom who taught me how to cook, clean, keep a neat home, sew, pottery, crafting, woodworking, painting (house interior), gardening, wallpapering, and how to change a furnace filter, and a host of other skills. In my teens I got involved in theater tech and learned additional woodworking skills, basic electrical, and then more advanced electriical skills. Of necessity I learned basic auto skills (oil/filter change, brake and bearing work, changing shocks/struts, etc. When married I learned basic HVAC upkeep, advanced plumbing, and mortar and concrete skills. My wife thought I was like all the other guys until her girlfriends repeatedly told her how "great" I was that I could do this or that, when they had to call for service and pay for everything.

I did say I learned to cook. I've continued to refine that skill, and it is not taken for granted. My current wife and I share the kitchen, often cooking together, complementing each others skills -- for instance, after preparing a basic dish, she'll ask me to do my spice magic and kick the flavor up. OTOH, I'll look a refrigerator full of random leftovers and see nothing -- she will take it all and whip it up into a fabulous meal. I grill, keep the cast iron pans properly seasoned, bake pies and an occasional cake, and think I would make a good wife myself -- but we've agreed there's only one wife in this family. That said, I now do all of the above in full on Rhonda mode whenever possible.

[MaidMarguerite]

While it wasn't impressed on me from my mother, I gravitated towards cooking and sewing more from a practicality standpoint. I always hated asking for other people (including my mother) to do things and thus practiced from an early age. Which leads to now, where cooking for me is a creative outlet and having a fiancee who doesn't enjoy cooking it is a daily necessity for me, regardless if I'm en femme or not.

[Krisi]

My wife and I share cooking duties. Colonel Sanders helps a bit as well. ;)

Keep in mind that wigs are very flammable and can also melt.

[Sidney]

I love cooking i have done it for years. It is so much more enjoyable when I'm dressed is my panties, bra, skinny jeans, tight fitting t and flats. I also clean the house and do the laundry dressed. My SO does benefit from my dressinf. LOL.

[char GG]

I've cooked enough in my life and am finished. I only make toast :)

My husband likes to "cook" for himself.

[Vicky Peters]

I retired first, therefore I do all the shopping and cooking. Now that my wife has retired, I still do all the cooking. In fairness she does the clean up work,which I hate.

[Robertacd]

I am definitely the chef, and a pastry chef at that. It is something that you are born with.

I remember when I was young my mother and I made cookies using the exact same recipe and ingredients side by side, and mine came out better. My mom's cookies went all flat as they cooked, mine came out all thick and nice looking. After that I anytime my mom needed a cake, cookies, or anything baked I was the one who made it.

Even meals I am the chef and my wife is the cook. My wife has a hard time with the timing when cooking a meal. So either the sides are cold or the main dish is cold or burned.

Drives me nuts

[Shannon michelle]

I am the primary cook in our House and have been for all 25 years of my marriage. it is "my" kitchen and even get cooking related gifts for most holidays.

SM

[ambigendrous]

My wife and I have a system: if it comes out of a box, or uses less than 4 ingredients then she cooks; if it uses more than 4 ingredients then I cook. I enjoy creating "fancy" dishes, but would get tired of it on a daily basis. I, however, do all the dessert dishes - pies, cakes, cookies, Nanaimo Bars - my family's favorite snack!

The clothes don't make the meal - I'll be wearing whatever I happen to be wearing while cooking!

Oh yeah - for daily meals if my wife cooks then I do the cleanup; if I cook then she does the cleanup - sharing like that has worked for us for over 47 years!

[Rachelish]

I've loved cooking and baking since I was a child and even chose it over woodwork at school, ending up the only boy in the class. I do 99% of the cooking at home (there's a Goan veg curry bubbling away atm), though en femme only rarely. When I do have the opportunity the results are the same but the whole process is rather blissful :)

[kimdl93]

I like making holiday meals. My fav memories all revolve around such gatherings and the preparations leading up to the feast.

[Alice B]

The role is split evenly between my wife and myself

[Joni Thomas]

I went to Culinary school at age fifty...………..Went on to manage a large chain dining establishment for ten years...I do all the Chef duties as well as shopping for food and manage to do all the laundry. However I do not dust!!!!! My retired wife lives like a Queen and I'm ok with
it.

[Asew]

My wife and I both cook. I typically do simpler stuff (outside of pizza from scratch which I love to make) since it more a means to an end rather an enjoyment.

[Dani0948]

I do about 80% of the cooking as my wife "hates" cooking even though the meals she prepares are delicious. I always cook the entire Thanksgiving an Xmas meals. I don't cook enfemme as that would violate our dadt agreement.

[Francene Lola Dupree]

I adore cooking, and take most of the responsibility in our household, usually in drab.

I especially love cooking Thai

If i'm dressed the meal would be simpler and quicker, as i have more important things to be doing :)

xXx

[Joni T]

If I can bbq or nuke it, yes. Other wise, nope.
Jon

[Leslie Mary S]

Joni I don't like BBQ so I never do that. Bake from box or scratch, I do both. Nuke only when I am in a hurry or feeling lazy. I like to use the pressure cooker. Once even tried to made a cake in it, what a mess. I was supposed to use a "Slow Cooker'. I'll stick to the oven for making a cake, thank you!

[Georgia K]

I probably do 75% of the cooking and washing up I've never done it enfem .But I have dressed up when I'm cleaning the house and love it . And I'm going to try and bake a cake tomorrow been on my todo list for a long time

[Cassandra Lynn]

I got tired of eating out (not to mention broke) early on in life and since I also like good food, I taught myself to cook decently in my 20s.
I also find it to be an escape of sorts; I actually do enjoy it! I was the chief cook and bottle washer in my second marriage; she being the Oscar to my Felix.

My gender identity, I don't think ever really played any part in it and no, the pots and pans, or stove top doesn't know any better, so the food tastes the same regardless of how i'm dressed. whilst cooking. I also grew up the youngest of 4 sons and we all had to help with cleaning house, it seemed to stick with me.

Cass

[Stephanie47]

I love to cook and bake. There are dishes I make which my wife will not attempt. And, the reverse is true also. If I have the opportunity my meal preparation is done en femme; dress, hosiery and heels, a la June Cleaver.

[sometimes_miss]

As I live alone, I have to be the cook. While I have the basic skills to make various fancy foods (cakes, pastries, all sorts of things but NO seafood as I don't like it), for myself I just make stuff that a short order cook does, because that's the type of food that I mostly prefer; simple.

[Dana3]

Sous Chef with many, many years experience (40+)

[wendy]

I'm no Gordon ramsay, so I have to say i'm a cook.

In our household, I do most of the cooking, but to balance out my wife cleans up afterwards so it is fair.

I do minor cooking in Wendy mode, I stop when I have to grill/fry anything as I don't want Wendy's clothes smelling like fried food.

[Michele14]

I am a cook. We split 50/50 on cook9

[Jenn A116]

I do a bit of cooking. Being retired there is a lot more sharing of the household duties. Between me and my wife its probably 50/50. Funny though, we have different cooking styles. My wife is very much a strictly by the recipie type cook. I'm more of the opinion that a recipe is a suggestion.

[Loveday]

Yes, being divorced and having raised a son by myself I cook. Just tonight I have made grilled cheese to go with homemade tomato soup, six quarts of homemade cranberry juice, wedding cake cookies, and now stuffing for additions to dinner the next few days. I enjoy cooking.

[Dontknowy]

Yes I have custody of my 3 sons from a previous marriage so I had to for years, now between my wife and I, we have 4 kids. I actually love to cook and everyone who eats my food loves it, just wish I could cook dressed, but when i told my wife about wanting to dress back in October one of her biggest rules/concerns, was not in front of the kids

[LeannS]

I do most of the cooking and most days I can do it dressed and change before she gets home works for me

[Krea]

Yes, i am the cook and enjoy it. I always wear an apron tho, don't wanna splash food on my best fem clothes.:eek:
We have an arrangement where i cook dinner six nights of the week. In principle my wife cooks on the remaining night, which in practice means we go to the fish shop or the chop suey bar once a week....

[Meghan4now]

I do 90 percent of the cooking. Have for 30 years. I do not cook enfem much. Maybe a snack or something simple.

First, I wouldn't want to ruin my clothes with spills and spatters. Secondly, heat from the stove or oven can damage your wig. Third, heck the phone is hard enough with nails. Fourth, I spent all that time doing my makeup, why ruin it sweating or splashes. Finally, dressing up time is for other activities like going out on the town. Beside, my wife doesn't like to hang with Meghan.

[donnalee]

When my SD and I met, in the late '60s, she was a fantastic cook, but by the mid '90s she had forgotten a lot due to incipient Alzheimers,something that wasn't diagnosed for another 10 years. We always had split the cooking as I had always paid attention to what my mom did in the kitchen and she was a great cook and baker. As my SO's condition worsened, I became the primary cook. Good, plain food, soups, stews, roasts, a pretty mean lasagna, pies (good, but nowhere close to my mom's) and pretty much anything I turned my hand to. My SO's been gone for nearly 8 years and I'm the only cook, but cooking is kind of a drag when there's no one else there to appreciate it.

[Sherrii]

I don't mind cooking, but I don't make a point of doing it. We usually make some sort of something that will last a few days so we aren't cooking everyday. A big bowl of salad will last for a few days. Crockpot meal, or pot of spaghetti or macaroni, maybe ham, that sort of stuff. I usually like to "throw it together" and not make a production of it, better things to do. I should add I do at least 1/2 of the cooking and often help with the rest. Most of the time I dress at least to some extent and it makes cooking more fun or interesting. Sherrii

[Maria in heels]

I am both the Chef and a cook in our household. Sometimes everyone wants an elaborate meal, and I can spend the better part of a day prepping and cooking, and other times, its just "can we have mac & cheese please" and I get outvoted.

[Leslie Mary S]

you are so lucky to have anyone to "out vote you". I am assuming that you do not cook dressed.

[Carla Bell]

Cook who is learning to be a chef

[Kiwi Primrose]

I first started cooking and helping my mother in the house when I was in my teens, just after WWII. My father was badly wounded during the war and we provided meals for tradesmen for some extra money. I didn't dress as a girl in those days but always wore one of my mother's aprons.
Now I do all the cooking and housework because my wife has health problems. I dress in skirts and tops during the day and for the evening change into a dress. This is what makes it easier for me to be in charge of the house, it is not saying housework is women's work, it is our way of coping with changing circumstances.

[Alexis00]

Yes, because it is very expensive to go out around here, and not everyplace is accepting of tgirls. Or maybe not go out at all. So I've often cooked for dates, though I have no special talent.

Usually I try to get them to drink enough wine that they like the food....:)

[RebeccaV]

Definitely more towards a chef I do all my own cooking and often with my gf. It's fun doing something together in the kitchen.

[Stacy Darling]

I'm a COOK!
Give me any food types and I will make a meal from it! In the soup kitchen where I work I'm the number 2 by choice as I can pick up on chefs mistakes and fix them before they hit the plate! That's in m/f mode!

At home I was quite Girly in the kitchen, that's lost at present though!
Stacy!

[Karen RHT]

My wife does the grocery shopping (I help) plans the meals. She's the chef, I'm the bottle washer. lol I help where I can, especially with the BBQ. When needed, I can carry out the basics in order to feed myself.


Karen

[Kay74]

I've always enjoyed cooking, though it's always in male clothing. My wife and I generally split cooking duties and other chores.

I've fantasized about cooking a meal in a 50's style dress and make up.

Katy

[Devi SM]

I love cooking, baking and grilling!
Now on HRT my taste and culinary preferences had change more towards my wife preferences too so she's happy that now I understand her more.
I was always the guy, in our group of friends, baking some pastry, sweet things and some salty as empanadas but on HRT I developed a better smell sense and taste too. My wife never was a fan of cooking so in whatever complicated dish I had to add my advice but she was the cook. Now she enjoys, on weekdays, if I'm at lunch time I cook. Weekends I'm the cook, do dishes, etc wife just rest and relax, dressed or in drab if some family present.

[Tina June]

My wife loves to cook. However, she is not very good at it! I used to call her "Queen of Brown Food" as this was the color of virtually everything - yet she insists on doing the major part of meal prep.
I have always liked to cook ( I have been cooking in Chili Cook-off competitions for more than 35 years.) and I have been teaching her better methods to prepare our meals.

A short non-sequitur that I would like to relate, is a story told to me by a good friend ---
My friend's Father once said to him - "Son, I used to think that your Mother was a good cook. Until I joined the Army!"

[AllieSF]

I am an eater! I only cook when in survival mode when my quick meals are really unappealing and I do not feel like going out. However, that usually requires some pre-planning and purchasing, which I really do not like to do since I let more food spoil than I cook!

PS: I can prepare the whole fancy (family style) USA Thanksgiving dinner with roast turkey, with stuffing inside the bird, mash potatoes and homemade gravy, sweet yams, fruit salad, green bean casserole and whatever else we may have. However, at the end of all that, starting very early in the day, I am very tired when we all sit down to eat and I enjoy it a lot less. Then when cooking for one, it takes it only takes a few short minutes to eat what took so long to prepare and cook, then the clean up sometimes seems like it takes even longer!

[Leslie Mary S]

Allie I hear you about the precooking times verses the eating time.
This thanksgiving I ate alone.
I fixed a 1 lb caned ham with pineapple rings and cherry haves attached with whole cloves and brown sugar glaze, a can of sweet potatoes in a baking dish with marshmallows , a can of jellied Cranberry sauce, HOME MADE (from scratch) biscuits, D dish of long beans and corn. No desert. Some is still in the freezer. It took me hours to fix everything and 1 1/2 hours to do the clean-up. and only 30 min to slowly eat and enjoy what I fixed along with a glass of white wine.
It was the first time my biscuts came out light and fluffy and not hockey pucks.

Normally there would be a clan gathering but we did that on the Sunday before. No I did not dress for the occasion.

[Beverley Sims]

I prepare a lot of edible food, not all very healthy but tasty all the same.

I studied Physics and Chemistry at school and University, I apply this theory to all my food preparation.

No one has died of food poisoning from any of my food preparation yet. :-)

[Leslie Mary S]

I am getting ready to prepare a banana nut bread from scratch.

[HollyGreene]

I am an excellent cook. Far better than any girlfriend or wife I've ever had, and not one of them would deny it.
I've never had a lesson in my life - totally self taught, yet I can open the cupboards and fridge and come up with a great meal from whatever is there.

So in our house, I cook at least 4 out of 7 days per week.

I don't usually get the chance to cook while dressed, though.

[adelinapa]

I cook quite often while dressed. I use it as an opportunity to try out clothes or shoes or whatever to see how it feels moving in them without having to think about it.

It's remarkable how much you have to change how you do everything wearing high heels though. I wasn't ready for how far I suddenly was away from the counter top on one hand, but on the other thankful I didn't need a stool to reach the ingredients I needed on the top shelf.