Depends on what you mean with “cook”. Yeah, I can throw pasta in a pot and boil it. I can even throw meat and a sauce packet into the pan and maybe cut a couple veggies.

That’s about it. My executive dysfunction forbids me from doing any more elaborate meals.

Honestly, I hate food and the concept of having to cook every day and everything that goes with it like figuring out what to eat/what my brain allows me to eat (sometimes eggs just taste too much like egg and pasta just feels too much like a wet noodle in my mouth, you know?) needing to go to the store, then storing everything in the communal fridge, trying to use it all up before it goes bad (never achieved that one).

If I had a pill that gives me all the nutrition for the day I would never look at food ever again. Even preparing and eating frozen food and pre-made meals are consistently the hardest chore of the day just because I despise food so much. I definitely have never reached proper nutritional value in my average week.

Of course you are not talking about dysfunctional people and you probably know of similar struggles, but people would never guess that I have these problems so maybe the people you have in mind are similar? I of course also know men that have never been taught anything before they were thrown into the world, but I also can’t really judge them too harshly.