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Cooking: every man, at some point, has to cook something to eat. My father was a manly man type, he served in the Marines, could rebuild a car engine, was good at sports, and so on. One of the biggest “man lessons” he imparted to me was “A man should know how to cook.” Presumably, this was because my mother was a lousy cook, and my dad had to figure something out. His options being to just eat the dried out nigh-on-being-burnt “food”…or starve to death.

Too many men these days subsist on sodium-filled frozen food, drive-thru menus, and general food related garbage. Not only do they not know the first thing about cooking for themselves, but all that quick and easy food is making them unattractive and fat. No lady worth her salt wants that, let alone tries to procreate with it.

Let us dust off those nacho cheese chip crumbs and look in to why you should learn how to cook, shall we?

1. It’s much more impressive than you think

Cooking is way more impressive to a lady than anything you could possibly show her. Fat stacks? Muscles? Vehicle? Your night-moves in the bedroom? These all pale in comparison if you find out her favorite dish to eat and MAKE it for her mouth face.

However, you don’t even have to learn anything about her if you want. Make the ONE thing you’re really good at and that will still be more impressive than any fine dining experience.

2. It teaches crisis management skills

When you begin cooking a whole meal, you have to learn time management. But more importantly you need to learn how to handle yourself in the kitchen should the need arise.

The constant need to check the oven isn’t the point of this reason. No, you needn’t keep opening the door letting all that meal-giving delicious heat out. I’m talking about things on the stove-top that could catch fire. Do you know how to put out a grease fire if you get a little sloppy and spill?

It’s the small flammable things like that that separate the men from the boys when it comes to cooking. There is surely nothing less sexy than immolating your own home.

3. Cooking never gets old

Learning to cook is great in that it’s a perpetuating learning cycle. Getting tired of the dinner menu planning? Try your hand at making desserts, your own bread, the possibilities never cease.

Aside from the different foods, you can always learn new techniques. At the very least you can work on your knife skills, sharpening your own blades, and investing in better kitchen utensils all in the name of making your cooking top notch!

4. Total control

There is nothing better than manfully dominating something you set your mind to. While you may never truly be a master chef or give ol’ orange Crocs™ wearing Mario Batali a run for his money, you’ll eventually be able to exert your will over a bevy of food items and menu plans.

Once you have mastered kitchen crisis management and learned how to infuse flavor into your food without compromising taste, few things feel better. The control you have over cooking is a subtle way to let a potential lover know that you are in total control of everything and anything she throws your way will find no mercy.

5. Cooking classes are a great way to meet women

In fact, many adult learning classes offered in your area are a great way to meet women and learn a new skill. Well, making a solid birdhouse is debatable, but still a few cooking classes will teach you what good!

Oftentimes a cooking class will offer a specific menu to learn on top of teaching basic kitchen knowledge (for example, “hot things are hot”), learning how to use a knife, and other skills. In between the learning, or when someone catches on fire, maybe chat up a lady in the class that you have had your eye on?

If you and this cooking class paramour actually hit it off, then nothing is better than having a partner that also knows their way around a kitchen and could lend their expertise to the proceedings! Maybe she has a familial cooking tradition or passed down technique that could really shake up a few of your dinners?

Man has been cooking things since the dawn of time, when he first brought fire back to his cave and roasted a morsel for himself and his cave nug, so nothing could be manlier than learning to cook for you. If you succeed at it, you get amazing things to eat and share with others. If you fail, you oftentimes still get something to eat, or at the very least, a great story about the time you singed off your eyebrows pan-frying some chicken!

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Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:00:15 +0000 at http://www.returnofkings.com/73214/6-mor...ow-to-cook
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Post: #2

Good article. Women brag openly about not knowing how to cook now so we need to know how to more than ever. Also if you lift and if you care at all about fitness you need to be able to cook clean food for yourself. Bottom line it's a life skill.

Post: #3

You know, come to think of it, myself and most guys I know are typically far superior cooks to the women they date or have relationships with. Apart from the Polish girl I'm seeing now, I have never actually met a women who is any good at cooking [Besides my grandmother: But past generations don't count lol].

Post: #4

I agree that cooking can be very exciting as I sometimes can't wait to try to replicate/improve a dish that I really liked from outside the confines of home.

Post: #5

Bragging about knowing how to cook is about as beta as it gets. You want to signal to a woman that you're soft, beta cuckhold material? Tell her you love cooking! Why don't you tell her you love gardening, washing bed sheets, and cleaning the kitchen sink while you're at it?

You want to be a masculine badass? Be a man and be proud to not be good at cooking. I just tell girls "I'm a guy, so I'm not much into cooking, but I like to be creative!"

Post: #6

^^^
Bragging to impress people - about anything - is beta (though we sometimes have to do this, as anyone who's interviewed for a job can attest).

While I'm not convinced of the article's points, I will say that inviting a girl over, so you lead her while you both make dinner, is a good way to put her in a submissive frame, thus setting you up for some sexy fun times

Post: #7

(11-24-2015 03:58 PM)blacknwhitespade Wrote:  Bragging about knowing how to cook is about as beta as it gets. You want to signal to a woman that you're soft, beta cuckhold material? Tell her you love cooking! Why don't you tell her you love gardening, washing bed sheets, and cleaning the kitchen sink while you're at it?

You want to be a masculine badass? Be a man and be proud to not be good at cooking. I just tell girls "I'm a guy, so I'm not much into cooking, but I like to be creative!"

Disagree. I think many guys within the manosphere have a complete misunderstanding of what is alpha and what is beta. IMO there isn't some strict criteria of likes and dislikes which make someone 'alpha'.

Masculinity has always been the adherence of strong male virtues. Deciding to dislike a hobby or interest because it doesn't fit into a certain self generated criteria only serves to diminish your own happiness. It will have zero bearing on your masculinity outside of depriving yourself of something you enjoy doing.

Post: #8

Being good at everything, including cooking, without having to tell anyone that you are...that's what gets you laid like an egg

Post: #9

(11-26-2015 01:59 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:  Being good at everything, including cooking, without having to tell anyone that you are...that's what gets you laid like an egg

This is actually a topic I've been wrestling with a bit recently [Not with regards to women (As the above is standard) but in relation to business/lifestyle]. Perhaps it's worthy of a thread in the lifestyle section I.E: The necessities of ego.

Having grown up with the ideologies of 'being seen' and not heard - I've noticed that the opposite seems to be true [Or at least prevalent] in the corporate world. Perhaps this is a geographical thing but from my experience talent and skill routinely take a back seat to visibility and ego.

Not looking to hijack the thread. Your post just spun my brain into a bit of a tangent.

Post: #10

(11-26-2015 02:39 AM)Rush87 Wrote:  

(11-24-2015 03:58 PM)blacknwhitespade Wrote:  Bragging about knowing how to cook is about as beta as it gets. You want to signal to a woman that you're soft, beta cuckhold material? Tell her you love cooking! Why don't you tell her you love gardening, washing bed sheets, and cleaning the kitchen sink while you're at it?

You want to be a masculine badass? Be a man and be proud to not be good at cooking. I just tell girls "I'm a guy, so I'm not much into cooking, but I like to be creative!"

Disagree. I think many guys within the manosphere have a complete misunderstanding of what is alpha and what is beta. IMO there isn't some strict criteria of likes and dislikes which make someone 'alpha'.

Masculinity has always been the adherence of strong male virtues. Deciding to dislike a hobby or interest because it doesn't fit into a certain self generated criteria only serves to diminish your own happiness. It will have zero bearing on your masculinity outside of depriving yourself of something you enjoy doing.

I don't think we disagree on much. I actually like cooking a little myself. But I don't cave and say that to women, since modern PC feminists say they wanna hear shit like that. If I was married, my wife would do the cooking. I would cook occasionally, and be her advisor of what she should cook, but under no circumstances will I be pigeonholed into being a passive, apron-doning modern man.

Post: #11

(11-27-2015 10:16 PM)blacknwhitespade Wrote:  

(11-26-2015 02:39 AM)Rush87 Wrote:  

(11-24-2015 03:58 PM)blacknwhitespade Wrote:  Bragging about knowing how to cook is about as beta as it gets. You want to signal to a woman that you're soft, beta cuckhold material? Tell her you love cooking! Why don't you tell her you love gardening, washing bed sheets, and cleaning the kitchen sink while you're at it?

You want to be a masculine badass? Be a man and be proud to not be good at cooking. I just tell girls "I'm a guy, so I'm not much into cooking, but I like to be creative!"

Disagree. I think many guys within the manosphere have a complete misunderstanding of what is alpha and what is beta. IMO there isn't some strict criteria of likes and dislikes which make someone 'alpha'.

Masculinity has always been the adherence of strong male virtues. Deciding to dislike a hobby or interest because it doesn't fit into a certain self generated criteria only serves to diminish your own happiness. It will have zero bearing on your masculinity outside of depriving yourself of something you enjoy doing.

I don't think we disagree on much. I actually like cooking a little myself. But I don't cave and say that to women, since modern PC feminists say they wanna hear shit like that. If I was married, my wife would do the cooking. I would cook occasionally, and be her advisor of what she should cook, but under no circumstances will I be pigeonholed into being a passive, apron-doning modern man.

I get where you're coming from and agree whole heartedly. PC feminists have taken cooking as a symbol for dominance in the relationship, so to cook in a lot of ways is to cave. It's a shame. This is why feminists can't have nice things lol.

Post: #12

One of the benefits I get from cooking is that it's a "fuck you" to chicks. I don't need (or want, if you can find one that can actually cook) anyone to do it for me.

It's both empowering and shows independence.