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[sivasilvan]

Four days to qualify might seem short, but it’s clear the real test is keeping everyone fed and happy without any disasters.

Well, it’s interesting how certifications work differently depending on the setting, like how the army cook might have qualified based on prior experience. In jobs like this, salary and opportunities often depend on more than just certifications—several factors determine the final salary, including experience, specific qualifications, and even the demand for the role in certain areas.

[j.sabourn]

Well I’ve taken up all the cooking in my home as wife is incapacitated. I know nothing about cooking but now know all I need to know as a last resort just read the instructions on the packaging. Anyone can peel spuds and carrots etc., no training required. The kitchen is now my domain , as any time the wife visits it she replaces certain items in unusual stowing places so slows the job down she can never remember where she put them and pleads ignorance, I call it sabotage.JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
I am full time dish washer and part time assistant cook, but mostly computer occupied until needed, but definitely not to advise. LoL.
Des

[j.sabourn]

I do all the shopping as well Des. The wife is with me but quite agreeable to me saying what is needed. Sometimes if has the arthritic gloves off she will get her hands into the sink for the hot water effect. Trouble is she puts things back in different places and forgets where.So would prefer to do myself. Can see why too many cooks spoil the broth. At sea always kept on the cooks good side, too easy to slip a spoon full of black draft in the soup. Was on one Norwegian seismic ship out here in Oz where I was the official master with an Australian crew as per the regulations at the time. What Norwegian crew members were kept on board were signed on as supernumerys. The Norwegian doctor on board went round the storerooms and condemned a lot of the foodstuffs both frozen and dry stores. The cook complained to the Norwegian master who sacked the doctor and said he had no authority to do so, sent him home and the ship employed a medic or first aid man in his stead. I kept out of the way and let them have their own arguments and rules as, as soon a vessel was off the coast the supernumerary master resumed command and I went home to sunny Perth. Silence is golden and let others sought out their own problems. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

John, no worries mate you will be fine in the galley.

Bit like us, my wife has never had to cook, not sure if she can. Good at cakes and Apple pie but that is about all she has ever done.
Started when we were first married, she got a subsidized meal at work, I was with a catering company and got a good meal.
Into the pub and restaurant, a cook to do it all.
Then here in Oz I was first home so cooked.
But she is a great dish washer and stove cleaner.
Share the shopping, she pick the goods I push the trolley!!!!

[Les Woodard]

John was in a similar situation as yourself as had to take over cooking detail years ago. Since the sheriff died I have found that catering for myself is no burden and in fact I prefer to cook my own meals over using take aways. But one caution I have found at my own expense is? Be very careful with sultanas. I loved using them when cooking. Then wondered why my skin started to be so fragile. I would only have to brush up against a hard surface and would end up with a large sore. It seems that sultanas are a substitute for asprin and thins the blood out or something like that. Since cutting back on them I am back to normal and can take a few knocks and bruises when working on the old car. I still have scars from the old injuries. So hope that this answers anyones concerns that are experiencing same.

[j.sabourn]

Their own mortality is the first thing one discovers with age , than one has less than a 60 year old.Sorry about your missus and as said is always in the back of one’s mind the inevitability of it all. When you have a partner you have trouble shared and wouldn’t like it any other way. One still has the use of any talents left that either partner has left.My wife is at the stage where she would survive on sandwiches which I don’t agree with she went down to a size 8 until I took over the cooking and now back to a 12. The big thing that is soul destroying with me is the visits to the medical profession they are well intentioned but you can’t make a purse out of a sows ear as the saying goes.Would prefer to let nature take its course maybe., why waste time on seeing doctors who these days only seem to pass the buck to some highly paid specialist , the final result is always going to be the same. My skin is similar to yours and millions of other OAPs ,bleeds profusely if damaged., Cheers JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

John.
Specialists? I think are people who train as DR's but pick a spot where the money is good. Four years ago my wife went to a visiting Kidney specialist, who advised her to go to his surgery in Canberra to have the veins on one arm joined so she could have dialysis, he told her she wouldn't last a year if not, that would have meant two or three trips a week from Cooma to Canberra a round trip of about 200 kilometers, She ignored him and went to a palliative DR on Cooma who told her at your age it is your choice, it is just over four years now and though her Kidney reading has gone from 14 to 8 she s still mobile enough to go to the Club three times a week for dinner, and do the cooking at home. She is more worried about her knees that have worn away and having to use a wheely.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Good health is one of the greatest gifts of life,
My wife and I are I consider very lucky, we are on no regular medication.

She has knee problem, was operated on 8 years ago by a surgeon I now consider would be better employed as a butcher.

With luck she will get a knew knee next month, had a partial replacement which specialist told her 2 years ago should have been a full.

Both of us come from families that had problems but go back 3 or 4 generations and find such as my GGF who lived to 99.75 yeas without and problems.

Les, know what you mean about certain foods, amazing what you discover when you begin to cook.

[Tony Taylor]

John was in a similar situation as yourself as had to take over cooking detail years ago. Since the sheriff died I have found that catering for myself is no burden and in fact I prefer to cook my own meals over using take aways. But one caution I have found at my own expense is? Be very careful with sultanas. I loved using them when cooking. Then wondered why my skin started to be so fragile. I would only have to brush up against a hard surface and would end up with a large sore. It seems that sultanas are a substitute for asprin and thins the blood out or something like that. Since cutting back on them I am back to normal and can take a few knocks and bruises when working on the old car. I still have scars from the old injuries. So hope that this answers anyones concerns that are experiencing same.

Les, my skin has been like that for many years and I agree it is very painful and bleeds a lot, but dont ea many sultanas. I do occasionally bake a banana bread to which I add sultanas which have been soaked in rum for about a week - very tasty, but have not noticed any change.