First, I would argue that one needs to distinguish between chefs and serious amateurs cooking for the love of food and cooks who are making meals to feed themselves (and their families). Gordon Ramsey seems to be making a statement about the latter type of cook, not the 'chef' variety.
About this, well, I think everyone has already summed it up nicely. My two cents are that if some one (and I really don't care about the gender) claims to be a better cook than me and, thus, insists on doing all the cooking for my daily meals ... I respond YAHOOOOO! (more time for reading cooking blogs and planning gourmet meals)

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Waitaminit...

You mean to say that Gordon Ramsey is an egotistical misogynist prick?

Who knew?!?

:-)

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Yeah well his Mum was too busy cooking for him to teach him any manners.

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I don't know about other countries, but every man friend of mine cooks rather decently, whereas my girlfriends could't boil an egg. [There are the one or two exceptions which confirm the rule, obviously.]

Anyway, Ramsey is talking about home cooking, not comercial cooking, it seems. So any woman chefs don't enter into it.

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Nothing like a little controversy when you've got a new show to promote, eh?

The line at the top of this entry isn't a quote - it's an interpretation; and IMO a poor one. Isn't Ramsay just commenting on a trend he noticed in home cooking while filming his show?

In fact, the actual quotes from the interview confirm that: ""I've been visiting ladies' houses up and down the country with our film crew and you would be amazed how little cooking the girls are doing. Trust me, I am only telling you what I have discovered."

"[The comments] were based on a survey for a TV programme which claimed 75% of women asked admitted they could not cook."

Whether he's right or not, he certainly never says that female cooks are "better off" not "meddling with modern cuisine." Shame on you! :)

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It's not that women "can't" cook but women today "don't" cook. I know more guys who can cook than women. I don't know why the young generation of girls doesn't want to learn

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Justin...

If so, then I happily and humbly retract the word "misogynist" from my first comment.

:-)

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After taking some classes in Sociology I'm aware that Women now a days don't cook like they used to. They also don't have all day to stand around the kitchen in poodle skirts either. I think that this guy needs to cut women some slack, as it is we work an average of 40 hours a week and statistically still take on most of the household chores. Now it's all well and good that Gordon can be Mr. Mom and all, but women today just don't have time for all of that. Maybe he should focus his energy going to thier house and cooking a dinner for them after they've been at work all day or maybe teach the husbands a thing or two in the kitchen, maybe something that doesn't involve grilling.

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This is no shock to me. Women like myself simply have no time to cook from scratch! We have 2 full-time jobs--one outside the home, and the other inside the home. When I get home from work, I have to take care of my 2 year-old son and make sure he is fed, do laundry, clean the house, open mail, pay bills, g t the grocery store etc. Rarely do I have a moment to relax with a cup of tea before bed, let alone prepare a huge meal from scratch. In my opinion, many men are stepping into the kitchen beacuse women just don't have the time to do it any longer! Why shouldn't men be cooking!?!

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Who really cares anyhow.
To me, it only means that the ones who are doing the cooking care about what they are eating (for health, flavor or both). Those who dont either dont have time (as stated above) or simply dont care.

I had a female roommate who would never cook and actually thought of eating as an annoying chore mainly because she always ate terrible foods (ie: frozen/fast foods). She scoffed at me when I had "raw" tortillias. Then I had her try one. She retracted her scoffing. Despite that, she never picked up a fry pan. Not because she was female but simply because she DIDNT CARE for the foods she ate. I know plenty of guys who are the same way.

Havent we matured enough to get past the boys vs. girls type of thinking yet?

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