All right. It's seven o'clock at night. You're a man, and you still haven't cooked dinner. After you had to cook seven nights a week, you became well aware that becoming a master chef could never have been your life's goals at any stage of your existence.
You may be a man who cooks for your aging grandmother or your disabled mother, because they don't have the wherewithal to prepare a meal in their kitchen anymore without the danger of harming themselves. You know that they don't like you putting off dinner until after 7:00 P.M., but you have other obligations and commitments as well.
Or perhaps maybe you have a live-in girlfriend or a wife who has the radical feminist delusion that every man was born with a Betty Crocker spoon in his right hand. Oh, brother! You feel like screaming at these people who place these same demands on you and exclaim, "IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY SCHEDULE, THEN HIRE A PROFESSIONAL COOK! I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS CRAP ANYMORE!" Then you get a hold of yourself and realize that you could really hurt some feelings in hollering such stuff from the top of your lungs.
It's a no-win situation for you, because no matter what you do, cooking has become a dirty, thankless chore that refuses to go away. For a man really to excel at cooking, the kitchen along with its stove and oven and even microwave oven has to be the love of your life. If it's not, you know that you absolutely hate cooking with a vengeance. In fact, you realize that there is no middle ground for it.
If you don't possess that certain burning, passionate desire to cook meals, it will become something that you absolutely hate with every inch of your body. You seldom ever meet anyone that tells you that cooking is something that they could take or leave. They either love doing it or hate it altogether.
I realize that this is the fourth article I've published here on my PeakD channel about how much I loathe, detest, and abhor the actual so-called art of cuisine. I can't even joke about it at this point in my life. What greatly amazes me is how many videos there are on YouTube about mageirocophobia.
My perfectionist brother-in-law actually doesn't believe that such a clinical term exists. He had the audacity to try to fool me into believing that my father actually liked to cook linguine, when I've never seen my father as so much heat up a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup. If you don't know what mageirocophobia is, watch the videos below.
Mageirocophobia Is Defined In Layman's Terms As A Phobia To Cooking
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oST7-bzlhcY?feature=share
Hmmm. I think that a radical feminist wrote the script for the second video above. These witches will ramble on about how anyone can learn how to cook and that practice makes perfect. How wrong they are. Even some of the most highly intelligent and knowledgeable men have complained about recipes looking as though they were written in Greek or Hebrew.
Like singing, practice doesn't necessarily make perfect when someone simply cannot cook. People who simply don't have the genetic design for it habitually fall flat on their backs if they even entertain the notion of trying to learn how to do it right. It's like Rosanne Barr could never be a professional singer, because she doesn't have the voice for it; and thousands of singing lessons wouldn't turn her into the next Olivia Newton John.
Cooking is not the same thing as vacuuming a carpet or mowing the lawn. It's a very specialized and professionalized line of work, and it requires for someone to have a natural-born talent for it to succeed at it. Of course, if you try to tell that to a radical feminist and you're a man, she'll turn around and falsely accuse you of being a lazy chauvinist. These women simply don't care about reality.
In his video below, Chef Todd Mahr gives a brutally honest explanation of what leads to mageirocophobia and why people should never take it lightly. Even as a chef, he knows what the score is with cooking.
Chef Todd Mahr Explains How Cooking Can Easily Turn Into A Nightmare For Someone Who Suffers From Mageirocophobia
Mr. Mahr believes that there is a way to overcome mageirocophobia, yet I remain skeptical of such possibility. I think that this phobia is so deeply wired into certain people's intellectual fabric that they have no way of escaping it, but that's just my opinion. I realize that there will be people that disagree with me on this same topic.
If you have mageirocophobia, don't go to a psychiatrist to have it treated. He's only going to pump you up with psychotropic drugs, and then your problems will be compounded. Chances are that this shrink is clueless about what you're going through, because he likely has a wife cooking his meals for him every night. If he doesn't, usually people in his profession can afford to hire someone to do the cooking for them.
The best therapy for mageirocophobia is to find someone who is willing to cook for you. It may not be an easy goal, but there has to be someone out there that will take over that same task for you.
I was both surprised and shocked that there were actually women that had mageirocophobia. Below in her video, this one female YouTuber gives her story about how she was afraid of the kitchen and all the dangers that cooking entails.
A YouTuber Provides Her Earthshattering Story About Why She Was Afraid To Cook And Felt Terrified Of The Kitchen
The woman in the video above should consider herself to be lucky in that she lives alone and doesn't have to cook for anyone else but herself. When I lived on my own out in Los Angeles, I liked the idea that whenever I didn't want to mess with the stove or the oven, I could pop a Hostess cupcake and the likes in my mouth.
When I was in middle school, I was forced into taking Home Ec all three years that I was there. However, back then I had no problem with it. It was something different for me to learn, and I actually grew to enjoy it. Then again, I also learned to take a car engine apart and put it back together in Shop.
Of course, for most of us, middle school was ages ago. We must deal with the here and the now, and cooking doesn't make it any easier to do so. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind learning how to become an auto mechanic as long as I got to know all the ins and outs about keeping myself safe from any kind of hazard.
When you're a man and you're too tired to cook, you absolutely don't want to be in the kitchen inasmuch as you know that it could be a house fire waiting to happen. It's kind of like driving a car when you're too tired to do so, and listening to someone's snide remarks about your less-than-perfect cooking begins to feel as though that person is engaging in backseat driving; if you know what I mean.
The woman in the video above has even posted a video about how tiring cooking can be. That is, you could be someone who once enjoyed cooking if you only had to do it once or twice a week or not at all. Then once you had to do it seven days a week, 365 days a year, it gave you the same infuriating feeling as having to deal with a toilet that clogs up every two days, if not every day. It wears down your patience.
Cooking Seven Days A Week, 365 Days A Year Can Feel Like A Never-Ending Jail Sentence
If you live alone and you're overweight, you can skip meals when you don't feel like cooking and not feel guilty about it. Then again, if you're not overweight or if you're even skinny, skipping meals could be medically detrimental to your overall health.
I'm not saying that obese people have it easy. They don't. I've been on both sides of the weight spectrum, and being skinny can be equally as disheartening as being overweight. Of course, that's neither here nor there.
I cannot imagine anyone loving to cook any more than I can imagine someone being in love with doing laundry. However, when I was a little kid, many women treated cooking as a favorite pastime like pottery, painting, gardening, crochet, and sculpturing. There were actually entire communities built around the art of cuisine back then.
When I used to travel on business trips, I actually preferred getting a hotel room with a kitchenette in which I could cook my own meals as opposed to eating out all the time. When I was in Houston, Texas on a business trip, this one colleague of mine argued with me that Houston had some of the best restaurants in the world. I argued back that I couldn't care less if I were to have been in Paris or Rome on a business trip. I wanted my own space and to make my own meals. Those days are long gone.
I now like the feeling of eating out and seeing life unfold around me out in public. I used to hate calculating how much the tip for the waiter or waitress was going to be, but now I like to do so in that it keeps my brain circuits flowing. Cooking my own meals at home feels so isolating for me now.
This one person that works for my mother once told me that women loved men that cooked for them. Well, let me tell you this about some of these male cooks. I've researched on the Internet about male cooks and have discovered that many of them have psychological problems.
In fact, this one friend of my mother named Donna married a chef who promised her the moon and the stars. He had her believing that she'd never have to cook another meal in her kitchen. After they were wedded to each other, he began behaving viciously with her. I believe at one point he was slapping her around. Therefore, being a male cook isn't as glittery as women may find it.
Now, you're probably wishing to ask me the million-dollar question. That is, do I have mageirocophobia? My answer to that question is that I don't fear cooking. I hate cooking. Therefore, a better word to describe me would be a culinary-averse person. I also came across the words procirevro and procoquophobic. You probably have never heard of those words before. I must admit that such words are new to me also. I found them on artificial intelligence ("AI") after I did a Google search. I'll stick with "culinary-averse person" for now.
Nevertheless, if you are someone that feels rage instead of fear whenever you have to walk into the kitchen to cook a meal, then you're likely a culinary-averse person. If you are someone who gets so enraged from having to cook that you want to start throwing the pots and pans against the kitchen walls or perhaps you may have wanted to take a baseball bat and smash everything up in the kitchen, then you're not a mageirocophobic. You're a culinary-averse person.
What do I know about culinary-averse people? Well, that's another article for another time. I simply wanted to inform you that mageirocophobia is a real thing rather than something that a hypochondriac would concoct in their mind.
This article is copyright-protected.