Oh that sounds delicious! My husband doesn't offer to cook but when he cleans up, it takes him all night long, it seems. Like, hours.

Ir took me ages to clean up tonight, too. But it really was good. He's a Gravy Guru, never fails. But it takes a lot of equipment.

My SO doesn't know where anything is in the kitchen,other than the spoons to stir his coffee.

As for cleanup,i do ALL the cooking and cleanup afterwards,and for a simple meal for two, I have been known to fill up the dishwasher two times over. I don't know how I manage to do it,but there it is ......

That's because he's a man!!!! And they cannot wash as they go along! LOL!

Haha - I joke that hubby always seems to know how to find something to take it out & use it, but when it comes to putting things back, he seems to develop amnesia.

I think they watch Cook's Illustrated and use their recipes. Their recipes always seem to use an inordinate number of pots, pans and utensils.

My DH cooks about 1/3 of the time. But, he cleans up for every meal both filling and emptying the dishwashers and hand scrubbing the pans. We have two dishwashers in the kitchen and for just the two of us we manage to fill them both up almost everyday.

P.S. He also does all the laundry.

Mine can cook, but he finds a recipe that works and does it over and over! (the kids loved his chicken courdon blue (sp) and he made it for a couple of years!

It irritates me, cause I can't even get him to give me an idea of what to cook for dinner!

I'm kinda getting bored with having to come up with something different every night. I have been freezing stuff with my foodsaver so I can just pick from the freezer once a week, make a salad and call it a night.

I do have to hand it to him that he grills quite a bit in the spring/summer months. Then all I have to do is a vege from the garden and a side.

Sushi, my DH thinks counters should be free & clear. Even when I am cooking he grabs things to put away.

Okay, I'll stick up for the males here. Having been married for over 40 years with two different women, I did 99% of the cooking, 100% of the cleaning, and never thought twice about it. Of course, I came from a family where the best thing my mother made was reservations, so cooking became a priority while I was still in elementary school. But the few times either of my wives took over the kitchen, they emptied the drawers, used all the pots and pans, and left me with a minor disaster to clean up.

So women, if you've got a man who cooks and cleans, don't disparage him, don't get in his way when he's cooking, and for god's sake don't let him see this thread!

But he cooks and doesn't clean!

Hubby does all the shopping, I do the cooking. He does the cleaning! Love that man!

Dad always cooked when he could. Weekends, and then when he retired to work from home... he was cooking up a storm. Mom always cooked, too. Two different styles... Mom followed recipes, Dad played Chemistry Experiment Kit. Both were great at it. I learned a lot via osmosis from both, and have always been confused when hearing that women were supposed to be in the kitchen... WHY not both?

Mom wouldn't let Dad clean up, he ended up with water and soap spritzed everywhere.

So, um, that's where I came in...

(Maybe I should have tried cleaning up the same way he did... )

Oh, after Dad retired/worked from home, they loved to grocery shop together. They'd usually hit three or four groceries at the same jaunt out. There were only a few failed meals, but everyone should cook often enough that they have mistakes to learn from.

I'm single, but my brother loves to cook as much as Dad did. He experiments a bit less (I mean, how many people will bring home an entire goat's head and cook it?) but he's an excellent cook in his own right, too. And he cleans his kitchen along with his wife.

Same boat here as Ricky, I do all of the cooking (except baking, she likes to bake) and all of the cleaning. I would be ecstatic if my wife did ANY of the cooking, or ANY of the cleaning, and would be more than happy to clean up after her cooking. At least I could take a break from cooking for once. But, I knew my wife didn't cook or clean before we got married and accepted that.

If it bugs you that much, it's time to have a chat about it and ask your spouse to help with the cleanup or cooking.