Now that we're gonna have an African American president, maybe the whole black/white thing can be put to rest. So now people have to start the man/woman thing all over again? Geez get over it!

My wife and I (she a female, me a male) have swapped weeks for years. One cooks, shops, pretty much all things kitchen related from Sun thru Sat. The other gets the week off (except for housework that week). This way we each get a chance to cook, try new things, have a week to research and put a menu together - and a rest from the kitchen every other week is nice too.

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In our house it is MY kitchen! Mine! Mine! ;-)
My husband is known to claim that I don't even let him in to cook.
I am not one to care if we divvy up kitchen duties. I do the cooking, the cleaning, the shopping - and like the retro house-wifey I am....I am happy with it.

Though he does make better pancakes than me. Just don't tell him that!

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It's probably not typical, but I cook just about every night in our house (and I'm a dude). And I love it. My wife doesn't mind either. Sometimes she feels like she's not doing her part, but it's more about who can do, not who should do. She works later hours than me so I am more than happy to have dinner just about ready when she gets home.

We cook together all the time. We both work, so we both cook. It's neither of our responsibilities, it's both of ours. It's great. I love cooking and don't understand when a guy laughs about not being able to cook.

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Well...I am very lucky, indeed...my husband does 99% of the cooking. I did do the cooking tonight, though (made pizza...he is an awesome cook, but poor guy can't bake)...so looks like we swapped tonight, only in reverse. :-) :-)

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I do the weekly cooking and meal planning at our house. It's just two of us now so I cook a few meals at once on my day off. I work in a clinical laboratory full time so multitasking in the kitchen comes naturally. My husband has been cooking every Saturday for over 20 years even when our son was still living at home. He's not quite as talented at budgeting and planning for weeks worth of meals. If work a Sunday or Holiday, he cooks then also. I taught my son to cook and sure wish some girl out there would see what a wonderful catch he is because of that. Our life has come full circle, sometimes we come home to our son having left something simmering in the crock pot for us. during the last 8 years my husband has taken up doing all the laundry. We have a cleaning lady so I have plenty of time to do the everyday cooking, which I love to do.

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My husband and I have our own way of divvying up the cooking... In the summer, he BBQs and does the majority of the cooking and planning because he really enjoys his BBQ. The rest of the year, I cook inside and do the majority of the cooking and planning because I enjoy the challenge of trying to cook with mainly local ingredients in Ontario in the winter (it really gets the brain in gear during the long winter months *grin*).

We're not totally strict on this. I will cook inside in the summer, and he will BBQ outside in the winter (as long as he can find the BBQ in the snow, he's willing to use it). But it means we know who will be cooking when for the most part, and we can both do the type of cooking we most enjoy.

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I'm with Sarah... the kitchen is MY place :)
I genuinely enjoy grocery shopping, meal planning, and cooking. I like being the caretaker in that respect.

We divide the work this way: I cook, he cleans.

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"I find this arbitrary national holiday more than a little offensive."

Thank you! Indeed, every day is "men make dinner day" in our house.

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hah--I'm a guy, and I do all the cooking and about 95% of the meal planning in our household. Aside from the tea cabinet, the kitchen and all its tools are completely mine.

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In our house I tend to sleep in, and my better half is an early riser. He makes breakfast, and sometimes lunch on days we are home. I am nearly always the one to make dinner. We are both pretty good at cooking and usually get the groceries together.

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