Brewers tend to be cooks

[McKBrew]

I Love to cook. Sometimes the SWMBO feels guilty because, I make many of the meals, but I let her know I don't care because I enjoy doing it.

I'm like Yuri, in the fact that I rarely use a cookbook. I've thrown together some really decent casserole type meals just using random ingredients. For some reason I always think about dinner starting first thing in the morning. I'll start to piece together an idea based on what we have available, come home and throw it all together.

Both my parents are awesome cooks, and while I never cooked at home, I learned alot just by watching.

 

[BierMuncher]

I've been doing the grocery shopping and cooking for the last 16 years. SWMBO isn't allowed in the kitchen except to clean up after me. That's our deal. I cook, she cleans up.

For me, deboning and stuffing a leg of lamb and slow coooking on a spit is no more work than throwing a frozen DiGiorno's in the oven.

But I do enjoy a frozen burrito, dipped in mustard every now and then.

 

[BNVince]

I've been doing the grocery shopping and cooking for the last 16 years. SWMBO isn't allowed in the kitchen except to clean up after me. That's our deal. I cook, she cleans up.

That's my deal too and I think I'm getting the better end of it. I love to cook but hate to clean. SWMBO hates to cook and hates to clean. Winner = Me.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

I am the cook in my family. SWMBO hates cooking, plus I'm usually the first one home from work, so I do it. I'm not a gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, but we don't go hungry, either.

 

[PeteOz77]

I am definitely the cook in the family. For a while I was studying hard to be a gourmet chef, but then I realised that 99% of what I make without a recipe is VERY good eating, and "Good" is based on what each person likes.

I have a few very nice dishes that I have put together that friends and family now make after getting the "recipe" from me

 

[Melana]

I love to cook. I guess brewing was just an extension of that. My husband can cook basic meals and is learning very quickly how to make a tasty dinner (and beer) though.

 

[zoebisch01]

My experiences in the restaurant world more or less led me to brewing. More importantly though, there is something special about people who love fermentation as an art form imho.

Fermentation in general (I am not just talking beer ) is really not terribly integrated in our modern culture of mass produced 'insert product here', but rather a fringe attraction to a minority. I am proud to be in that minority.

May all your ferments be successful!

 

[Beerthoven]

I cooked professionally for about 10 years, and I do much of the cooking at home as well. I really enjoy it. Its another one of my hobbies.

Having cooking experience definately made it easy to learn how to brew.

I haven't worked in a restaurant kitchen since 1995, but I still have dreams about it.

 

[Soulive]

I do about 85% of the cooking. Cooking for me is like brewing in that its relaxing. Actually cooking led me into brewing in a convoluted way. I've only recently started incorporating beer into recipes. Its a good time...

 

[jds]

Another confirmed cook here, although I'm a lousy baker. SWMBO does the baking and some cooking, I do a lot of the cooking and most of the kitchen cleaning. Thanks to a youth spent as a dishwasher and prep cook in restaurants, cleaning the kitchen is second nature to me.

I'm going to add a corollary to your theory: In the population of homebrewers, you find a greater proportion of home coffee roasters than you do in the general population.

 

[TerapinChef]

Yet another professional chiming in here, school trained and still a slave to the stove. I got into brewing mostly because it was a source of good beer and a chance to collect recipes for something that not food. Drink recipes are boring. Plus how can you have a great summer BBQ without custom tailoring a beer for it?

I always get asked why I'm not in the trade or don't open a restaurant.

I don't have the drive or the $$$$$$$$

Orfy next time someone tells you that, kick them in the shins, steal their wallet, and go kiss your wife.

 

[SuperiorBrew]

I'm the cook in this house. SWMBO and myself have a simple deal: I cook, she cleans.

+1
Now if i could just eat less of the stuff I cook

 

[cubbies]

Yeah, I am the cook of the house too. Pretty much everything I make is good, and I have been told that numerous times "this ____ is the best ___ I've ever had". I am far from gourmet, but the stuff I make is pretty good. Like some other though, I am not a baker, never really figured that out. SWMBO has that down though.

 

[jdoiv]

'Nother former restaurant guy here. Managed all aspects of a restaurant at one point or another. But one of my favorites was running the kitchen. I love to cook and cook at least half the meals around the house. SWMBO tries and is getting better, but if we have company coming over, it's my skills that come to play. Brewing is just an extension of that creativity I get from cooking. I just got tired of the long hours the restaurant biz had.

 

[Danny013]

I love to cook. I like to try new things and experiment with recipes and tailor them to my liking. I do most of the cooking around the house, too. I'm not much into sweets, so I don't do much baking, but I would love to get into making bread and such. SWMBO is a decent cook, too, but I like to cook so I usually do most of it.

I like to eat, too, and drink good beer whilst I am cooking, so I probably consume more calories than I should, lol.

Once I get a house with a bigger kitchen and a shed in the back (soon, hopefully!), there will be much good cooking and brewing going on!