If your parents never taught you how to cook eggs, you’d only have to attempt it a few times (or Google it) before you’d learn the golden rule of cooking them: “Low and slow.”
Apparently, attempting this simple act is to “stressful” for the youth of Gen Z.
From the Daily Mail:
“Nearly two thirds of Gen Z adults admit they lack basic cooking skills – with around 61 per cent of those surveyed saying they do not know how to cook an omelette.
A study by dating app FindingTheOne has revealed that young adults aged between 18 and 28 prefer eating at a restaurant or takeaway because they do not know how to cook. The poll surveyed 1,500 participants across different age groups and showed a growing number of young people who are useless in the kitchen.
Nearly 64 per cent of Gen Z respondents said they prefer dining out because they ‘can’t cook’.
Just under half described the act of cooking as ‘stressful’ and said the anxiety about cooking is what often caused the reliance on takeaways and restaurant meals. Even simple meals seemed to be a struggle for many, 42 per cent said they could not cook a stir-fry and 27 per cent said they struggled to make soup.
Shockingly even omelettes, which at their most basic feature just one ingredient proved a problem for 61 per cent of Gen Z adults in the survey.
One in four also admitted to deception, passing off food which was ordered in from a restaurant or takeaway as a home-cooked meal.
More complex meals seemed entirely out of reach for most, with more than 80 per cent saying they wouldn’t know where to start for cooking lasagne or roast chicken.
One Gen Z participant, 23-year-old student Mia, said: ‘I feel like a lot of us just didn’t grow up in kitchens the way older generations did. Plus, with food delivery apps and ready meals I can just stick in the microwave, it’s easier to get by without cooking.
‘But when it comes to dating, I’ll admit it’s a little embarrassing. I wouldn’t dare invite someone over for a home-cooked meal unless I had help.”
Read the whole story here.
You’d think that growing up as a “digital native,” one would be able to quickly search on YouTube for an easy omelette recipe. Here you go, kids: A 1:30 minute recipe for cooking a super easy omelette!
PS: If the omelette shape doesn’t turn out properly, they just easily turn into scrambled eggs!
Back in my high school days, I took Home Ec where I learned the basics of cooking, baking and sewing. These days, home economics classes are much less common in public education as bureaucrats have been more focused on critical race theory, gender ideology, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
President Trump is bound to change that. He desires a more focused public education system where states have local control. Hopefully his administration can implement the changes needed that will enable common sense teachings and, more importantly, critical life skills.
DCG
Got to remember they can’t even tell a man from a woman so this is mind boggling for them…..lol
Bingo!
When HomeEc teachers retired fr middle & high school in our district, they were not replaced. Most positions are vacant 30 yrs now…Some less, but even so, Home Ec rooms & district curriculum fell into disrepair/ became unusable, even if to be rehired now. Meanwhile, my kids come to school at 8 AM chowing down (during classes/breaks/FREE LUNCHES …essentially all day long) on “family -sized”chip bags from home, Takis, all manner of garbage snacks. I’ve contacted parents many times abt this, & get CRICKETS in return. I daily dig out discarded “free” fruits fr my garbage to reserve for my art colleague who rescues miniature horses, wild burros, and peacocks, as well as has her own laying hens.
Kids also don’t know how to shop, budget, cook an easy, at home meal (eggs, pancakes, cheese sandwich, oatmeal….) They also are FAT & getting FATTER every yr that I teach. Our school tried to re-instate the Home Ec program at our school, renaming it “Teen Living.” The kids LOVE IT!!!! The prob is, we (in CA) had to go to NEBRASKA to find a single subject Home Ec college grad. that would accept & move here. She has hardly NO BUDGET …similar to my art budget…& like the rest of us…no support for behavioral problems that arise in an elective “activity class” that might not present in an academic class. No doubt in my mind she’ll leave us.
We are having similar problems in other areas ….we lost dance as an elective after trying 3 different teachers who quit, so we finally just “ditched” dance as an elective…SAME w/band teachers….we’ve been without & w/”patchwork” hiring for the last 2 yrs…lots of subs. We just lost our choir teacher & are about to lose our drama…both of whom were only part time to begin with. I will retire soon (art), as will our computers teacher…..which means that within a year, our entire “elective” department will be either gone or on life support w/unqualified subs…or maybe just exited/not hired to keep in the curriculum. It should also alarm everyone that, now, this is also seeping into other areas in ed…we cannot find or hire special ed teachers anymore. We’ve had 2 positions quit within a month. These positions are now “flying.” We have one additional position that NO ONE will apply for.
In 30 yrs of teaching, I’ve lived through every POTUS who thought he was an education Czar, who made demands thru’ Dept of Ed like “No Child Left Behind” that ultimately not only left behind those in most need, but sacrificed everyone from top to try to save the bottom. Did not work. The biggest failure of this approach has been that, in a quest to teach algebra & language arts to our kids, all of them “cookie cutter” standards, we’ve neglected and even nearly banished the subjects that not only support these two testable subjects in REAL LIFE USAGES, but allowed our kids to enter into an adult world SUTPIDLY unprepared to handle every-day tasks that will affect their livelihood, their health, and the way they rear their children. In this way, it’s an ongoing failure– affecting not only the generations we teach, but their children and ongoing generations….
I am not sorry I’ve given 30 yrs of my life/career to these kids & their futures. Believe me…I do not SHOP in my local grocery stores b/c I can never make it past the right-hand produce aisle before I encounter a parent or child–past or present…who engages me w/stories/pictures of their present lives…I never make it to the dairy aisle…so I just turn around & go home. My husband does the shopping
I appreciate this, tho’ it is disruptive in my private life. I am sorry, however, that I could not change or affect the ongoing national policies. I could only ameliorate them on contact with my students, one-to-one.
God Bless you for your efforts in educating youth. Although. I graduated with a BS in Elementary Education–thank God I never went into teaching. At the time there was an over-abundance of newly minted teachers. I now view the fact that I did not start teaching as a supreme blessing to me. Frankly, when I compare the schools here in Portland OR yo what we had when I was growing up–it is just pitiful! We just churn out all these young people who are truly ignorant and are not able to function in the real world. I am sure that these same circumstances are seen all over our land. My heart aches when I contemplate this situation.
It seems our younger generations have caught a severe case of stupid.