Why Gen Z Stopped Cooking

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  @norwegianblue2017 · 3 months ago

  You know how I know that Kevin O'Leary is an out of touch rich guy? He thinks the average "kid" makes $70k a year. He threw that out there as an example of someone he thinks is poor.

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  @chloefieber6449 · 3 months ago

  As a Gen Z (1999) who works full time in a kitchen I do love to cook. What is hard is finding the time to make meals as a single person who also needs to accomplish all necessary steps to make a meal.

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  @mattmcc72 · 3 months ago

  Ok, so this is very Gen-X and British. When I was 12 and started secondary school, we had a class once a week that everyone had to take called Home Economics. <br> <br>It was mostly just cooking, with extra bits bolted on. Think of a classroom fitted out for MasterChef: hobs, ovens, sinks, and worktops. <br> <br>Each week we would get a shopping list. One of the first I remember was: 1 egg, 2 sausages, 2 slices of bread, and some vegetable oil. At 12 years old, I was shown how to, and trusted to, deep-fry a Scotch egg. <br> <br>Three years later, I was cooking an English Sunday roast for 8 to 10 people every weekend. Not because I wanted to, but because my family needed me to, and because my school showed me how, I knew how to cook. <br> <br>Home Economics sadly got cancelled (to save money) that same year, three years after I got given that start. <br> <br>That class taught me how to cook. I then watched my mother and used that to learn more. I can now cook far better than my mum. <br> <br>I would never have learned any of that without Home Economics. Sadly, we do need to force kids to learn how to cook. Most of them are never going to learn it at home anymore.

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  @aelfredrex8354 · 3 months ago

  The enemy of consumerism is self-sufficiency. The corporations don&apos;t want us to cook. They want us to buy everything from them. Those who bake their own bread are the revolution.

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  @beadybaby · 3 months ago (edited)

  The loss of art, music, recess, and all the things that made up our schooling is a big part of the problem. Home economics. Woodshop, metal shop. Chorus first period every morning<br><br>Also the definition of “disposable income”

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  @fawkesuk4288 · 3 months ago (edited)

  One thing you missed that&apos;s important to mention is house shares. I share a house with 5 random people in their late 20s and 30s. I get home from work at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDs5tM2_nIM&amp;t=390">6:30</a>, someone is already cooking, once they finish &nbsp;someone else jumps in to cook their food, and so on. It may be 8 o&apos;clock or later by the time you even get around to getting the opportunity to make yours and quite frankly, the last thing I want to do after a long day at work is wait multiple hours for my dinner. <br><br>Sure you could say that you can meal-share or whatnot, but I hated doing that even living with friends. We&apos;re not a family, we&apos;re not friends, we&apos;re random people that just so happen to live in the same building and share the same facilities. Therefore 9 times out of 10, I pick something up from the shop on the way home or occassionally eat out.

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  @pramwilson · 3 months ago

  I am a Millennial, but was overscheduled and never had time to learn how to cook from my mom. &nbsp;I had all of the experiences of eating what we had (lots of spaghetti) and being happy with it. &nbsp;But now that I have more disposable income, I am finding joy in learning how to make tasty meals. &nbsp;It started with all the crazy HGTV shows, Martha Stewart and more. &nbsp;And then has evolved into Bon Appetite <br>, Sorted, and ATK clips on YouTube. &nbsp;Its great, but I am aware of how expensive some of these individual ingredients and pieces of equipment are - and also storing them for the infrequent use. &nbsp;Even cooking at home has become more expensive because of wanting variety.

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  @joseposada1340 · 3 months ago (edited)

  40000 dollars in 2003 was about 72K in today’s money and that’s way more than most of us Gen Z make. We are most certainly not richer than you were in 2003.

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  @Peanutcat · 3 months ago

  Jesus christ 20% of this video is an ad

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  @amandaasimov · 3 months ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve learned the best thing is to have a small list of simple dinner meals that utilizes staple cheap ingredients. We never buy fancy ingredients like asparagus, or berries. We stick to carrots, potatoes, apples, and bananas. Also a few frozen pizzas for nights you just dont want to cook help too. Lunch is left overs.<br><br>My breakfast is oatmeal, and my usual snack is stove top made popcorn. The left over popcorn gets bagged up and used for a snack at work too. It cost almost nothing to make. We also never buy soda, and only buy juice occasionally. Coffee is made at home.. btw I&apos;m 32, but you&apos;d probably think I was retired based off my meal planning. Going out to eat is reserved for birthdays, and it&apos;s usually places I cant recreate, and are tried and true favorites. Like our local sushi restaurant. Restaurant meals taste better when they&apos;re a rare treat.

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  @123sensu · 3 months ago

  Reminds me of my mom&apos;s tuna boats. Hot dog bun, tuna salad, slice of velveeta on top (cut by the highest tech in the kitchen drawer: the velveeta slicer) and toasted in the oven - one of the benefits of being the first child of a 23yr old stay at home mom and a 26yr old law school graduate making $6,000/yr.

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  @gsogymrat · 3 months ago (edited)

  There is no excuse for having food delivered on a regular basis unless you just don&apos;t care about money. If people don&apos;t want to cook, supermarkets have sales on a wide variety of prepared foods every day. On Mondays, I can buy a large made-to-order pizza for $9 that is 4 adult servings. On Friday, they offer fresh sushi for $5. If someone is too lazy to go to a grocery store 2-3 times per week, and want to spend $20 to have one McDonald&apos;s combo meal delivered, they can live with the consequences.

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