Baking is for women

Suds · #1 02-04-2006, 11:47 AM

My probably slightly insecure, macho, friend says this. Another friend baked a cake for the first time last week. We were discussing it. The chauvanistic guy said baking is for women.
I said, ' He manfully roasted the cake'.
That shut him up for a second.
It used to be that cooking was unmanly, gay. In the film Alfie (60's) Michael Caine cooks breakfast. The film people were worried because a man cooking would be seen as gay.
I love baking, I'm not a woman or gay.
It cheers people up

and ruins diets. :tmevil:

godfry n. glad · #2 02-04-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Suds

My probably slightly insecure, macho, friend says this. Another friend baked a cake for the first time last week. We were discussing it. The chauvanistic guy said baking is for women.
I said, ' He manfully roasted the cake'.
That shut him up for a second.
It used to be that cooking was unmanly, gay. In the film Alfie (60's) Michael Caine cooks breakfast. The film people were worried because a man cooking would be seen as gay.
I love baking, I'm not a woman or gay.
It cheers people up

and ruins diets. :tmevil:

I've found baking to be rather therapeutic. Particularly baking bread. It's a great way of creating conviviality and making friends, too. I see nothing wrong with sustenance and conviviality. I shopped, baked and cooked for years for my wife and I. Consequently, the only time I ever had to wash dishes was when she was out of town.

Miss Shelby · #3 02-04-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Suds

I love baking, I'm not a woman or gay.
It cheers people up

and ruins diets. :tmevil:

I'm glad you feel that way. Bake me a cake will ya?

Cause I break the stereotype too, I like to cook, but HATE to bake.

Michelle

Veritas · #4 02-04-2006, 04:15 PM

Hey! Screw you bitch! Get in that kitchen and make me some pie! :cartman:

fragment · #5 02-04-2006, 04:21 PM

Agreed on the bread-baking godfry... there's something about it that's really enjoyable. Not something I've done for ages, though, living by myself and all seems to take a lot of the fun out of the culinary arts. Cakes I'm not so good at.

Suds, the "manfully roasted a cake" line is brilliant!

Miss Shelby · #6 02-04-2006, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by scarletpeaches

Hey! Screw you bitch! Get in that kitchen and make me some pie! :cartman:

Baking is for weak-kneed, weak minded women, which I am not. Bake your own pie, ho, and go fuck yourself while you're at it.

Michelle

TomJoe · #7 02-04-2006, 04:57 PM

Ooooo ... Michelle dropped an "f bomb"! How unlady like!

Carnivale Ed · #8 02-04-2006, 05:08 PM

Fine, I'll be the resident neanderthal. I can't cook, I have no intention of ever learning to cook, and whatever unfortunate woman I end up marrying will be expected to supply me with an endless supply of yummy baked goods.

'Manfully roasting a cake' - no such thing. Hand in your testicles at the front office, you're misusing them. Men BBQ. That's it.

Miss Shelby · #9 02-04-2006, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TomJoe

Ooooo ... Michelle dropped an "f bomb"! How unlady like!

Bakery brings out the worst in me.

ManM · #10 02-05-2006, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Carnivale Ed

Fine, I'll be the resident neanderthal. I can't cook, I have no intention of ever learning to cook, and whatever unfortunate woman I end up marrying will be expected to supply me with an endless supply of yummy baked goods.

'Manfully roasting a cake' - no such thing. Hand in your testicles at the front office, you're misusing them. Men BBQ. That's it.

I put frozen pizzas in the oven. Does that count as baking?

PS: Amen to the BBQ. And as we all know, real men use charcoal and strike the match on their stubble. :cowboy2:

MonCapitan2002 · #11 02-05-2006, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Carnivale Ed

Fine, I'll be the resident neanderthal. I can't cook, I have no intention of ever learning to cook, and whatever unfortunate woman I end up marrying will be expected to supply me with an endless supply of yummy baked goods.

'Manfully roasting a cake' - no such thing. Hand in your testicles at the front office, you're misusing them. Men BBQ. That's it.

Damn straight! Now all you ladies better get into the kitchen and bake us men some fucking cakes! :ffgiggle:

Carnivale Ed · #12 02-07-2006, 12:14 PM

Wow, I invented a time machine and sent ManM and MonCapitan back to the 1950s (or, as I like to call them, the good old days)!

Sock Puppet · #13 02-07-2006, 04:13 PM

You he-men would probably turn gay if it meant you could get one of my butterscotch brownies. MonCap & ManM, go ahead and kiss for a webcam and you might get half a square each.

[12 months later]
MonCap: Hey, did we ever get that brownie?
[ManM stares blankly]

MooseIBe · #14 02-07-2006, 05:23 PM

I suck at baking but I really enjoy it

. I agree that it's theraputic. I've only once had a really good result at baking and that was when I made a chocolate orange cake and forgot to put the sugar in. I rechristened it 'bitter chocolate orange cake' and it was seriously delicious - smooth and tangy and cocoa-y. I've been meaning to try and replicate that ever since but I've not got round to it yet.

fragment · #15 02-07-2006, 05:26 PM

This thread needs recipes.

lisarea · #16 02-07-2006, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Carnivale Ed

Wow, I invented a time machine and sent ManM and MonCapitan back to the 1950s (or, as I like to call them, the good old days)!

Oh, believe you me, I'm going to give those misogynistic bastards a piece of my mind.

You just wait. As soon as I'm done with their cakes and pies, WHAMMO! I'll lay right into them.

I'm going to sniffle, then run back into the kitchen and let out a single dramatically placed, apron-muffled sob, then I'm not going to talk to them for a while.

They'll be sorry. Mark my words.

username · #17 02-07-2006, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Suds

My probably slightly insecure, macho, friend says this. Another friend baked a cake for the first time last week. We were discussing it. The chauvanistic guy said baking is for women.
I said, ' He manfully roasted the cake'.
That shut him up for a second.

I told a male friend he was gay for baking when I found out he baked. Only reason I said it was he was going off on some typical macho rant when I noticed a Pampered Chef catalog on his desk.

As I recall I was able to rip on him for a good 5-10 minutes before he got visibly upset. His face turned a red/pink color and I told him I bet the color of his face matched the color of his apron.

Heheh, I was a real bastard. I don't bake because I don't like sweets, but I do cook. Even ordered a pizza stone from his Pampered Chef catalog. Still, why pass on a choice opportunity to rib a friend who has ribbed me? That's what friends are for.

mountain_hare · #18 02-08-2006, 05:42 AM

Suds:

Quote:

I love baking, I'm not a woman or gay.

Whatever you reckon.
Bake me a cupcake, cupcake.

Heheh, j/k!

Carnivale Ed · #19 02-08-2006, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by lisarea

Oh, believe you me, I'm going to give those misogynistic bastards a piece of my mind.

You just wait. As soon as I'm done with their cakes and pies, WHAMMO! I'll lay right into them.

I'm going to sniffle, then run back into the kitchen and let out a single dramatically placed, apron-muffled sob, then I'm not going to talk to them for a while.

They'll be sorry. Mark my words.

Just don't forget to do the washing up.

Bella · #20 02-08-2006, 01:37 PM

The only women working in our kitchen (at the hotel) are in the pastry department. So, when I got hired there, round-peg-me got shoved into that square hole, simply because I lack a dick.

I do know, though, why it is that GUYS are always doing the real food work: it's gotta be all the manly equipment. Our sixteen-burner stove (which I call Prometheus, affectionately) is like a Harley Davidson to these guys. They talk nicely to it and make sure it's clean, et cetera. Then there are all those big knives. And the industrial mixer, with its eighty-quart bowl and enough horsepower to rival a car and take your arm off without blinking twice.

Us girly pastry people? Well, we've got ovens and KitchenAid mixers. And an ice cream machine. Fuck, man, no wonder they think we're poufs.

livius drusus · #21 02-08-2006, 04:03 PM

Hey, ice cream machines can be super macho. My rents had a gigantic copper ice cream machine which used rock salt and huge amounts of hard labour to produce its cold deliciousness.

ManM · #22 02-08-2006, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by fragment

This thread needs recipes.

Preheat oven to somewhere between 400 and 475.
Unwrap pizza.
Cook 10 minutes.

fragment · #23 02-08-2006, 09:51 PM

You mean you have to unwrap the pizza? Damn. No wonder it always tastes funny when I do it.

Suds · #24 02-15-2006, 12:16 PM

I sometimes make my own pizza aswell.
The basic recipe my friend used was-
4oz marg or butter, 4oz caster sugar, 4oz self-raising flour, 2 eggs.+ whatever you want to add. Maybe a chopped apple, a banana, some cocoa powder or grated chocolate.
beat together the fat and sugar. Add one egg, mix. add second egg with 1tbsp of seived flour.mix.add rest of seived flour. mix. mix in the other ingredient. Pour into tin and roast for about 30 mins at about 180C.
Cover with icing or melted choc, whatever goes.
Yum.