I probably am a subversion. I absolutely loath cooking. I like baking a pie or something like that, and I like eating food, but I hate cooking diners etc. I was once told by a female classmate that boys would probably not like me because of that. I laughed in her face because of this ridiculus assumption. I will find me a man that can cook and likes it, thank you...

This. This is me. I'm an Independent Successful Career Woman, and I have a grand total of about three recipes that I can pull off. (We eat out a lot.)

Inverted in my family; my mother is a rock climber with an adoration of long, challenging walks and quite manly clothing, and a dislike of dresses, fashion, and the feminine, I'm a lesbian and not of the lipstick variety, and my sister is never home so she doesn't count, and yet we all cook quite well.

On the other hand, a Canadian exchange girl described my mom as "one of those ol' fashioned moms who know how to cook".

This is me as well. I can bake potatoes and make cake and brownies from a mix. I have made passable cookies, but other than that I eat a lot of frozen things and sandwiches.

This troper is a real-life subversion. While she's very tomboyish (Heck, she pretty much only hangs out in the VideoGame sections on this site), she's also a pretty good cook, and she would probably {{squee}} herself to pieces if she ever met Alton Brown.

Objection: this troper's a heterosexual male noncook, but would do the same thing.

This Troper is pretty much this, minus the Alton Brown, haha. Also, my friend's mom, who's basically a second mom to me and a lot of other people, drinks, smokes, curses like a sailor, loves anime... and is one of the best damn cooks I know, good enough to have been one of the top 10 chefs in Louisville before she had her car accident.

This troper is the ultimate subversion of that: she's pretty tough, she grew up on a farm and hauls bales, pulls rye, and isn't afraid to take on a boy in a fight. However, not to brag- but I am a very good cook and one of my friends once called my triple-chocolate cookies "orgasm-worthy." I also second the Alton Brown squeeing of the above troper.

This troper's mother is a subversion of the Independent Successful Career Woman type. At one point in her life she was going to work in a restaurant, but academics called.

This troper is a tomboy who cleans up nice when she sets her mind to it; but she is proudly an awesome cook. She's convinced her boyfriend to try spinach, and has had people repeatedly ask to be adopted. A few years ago, she baked cookies from Thanksgiving to Superbowl Sunday, and people would start asking for them around Labor Day.

This troper, an Independent Successful Career Woman who deals with massive computerized lighting rigs and creating her own *very* precise recipes for blood, guts, and anything else you can think of from horror movies for a living...burns microwave dinners. And this is a heartbreak to her uber-cook father--now and when I was a growing up, my dad did ALL the cooking.

This troper's mom can kick your ass and doesn't take shit from anyone, and makes some damn fine pumpkin bread.

Proud to be a subversion! This troper (Hazuki) is a "chapstick lesbian" (halfway between butch and femme) but loves cooking to an almost unhealthy degree. Luckily she's also very into health food, so the deliciousness coming out of the kitchen isn't lethal in the long run. Come the holidays, however, beware the spinach pie...even all fat-free cheeses and whole-wheat crust don't help when you can eat 3/4 of one of them yourself ;-;

If this troper put her mind to it, she could probably be a decent cook. She's just too damn lazy to really make anything. It doesn't help that her friends think she's a LethalChef under the belief that she's out to kill everyone.

This troper is an unusual sort of subversion-rather than being butch or Successful Career Woman, she's the shy and geeky engineering student who's acing her math and science courses. She's also a pretty good cook, especially good, old-fashioned Southern food. Sometimes she thinks her friends only tolerate her for her biscuits and cornbread.

While this troper's housewife mother and {{troubled but cute}} younger sister can't cook, she and her father are both excellent chefs, most well known for inventing inexpensive family meals. Of course, since this troper is a self professed girly-girl at a male dominated engineering school, this may be a subversion, or just going along with the flow.

Subversion for this troper's family--it's the father who cooks and he also owns a restaurant business. This troper's younger brother has also become interested in baking. This troper's mother, while mostly traditionally feminine, isn't much of a cook.

This troper fixes her own bicycle and cares not for clothes, but can pretty much whip up anything with a recipe as a guide and make it delicious. She's also a total slob. Many people have commented on the irony.

Subversion for this troper. I'm proud to call myself a tomboy and I can cook up a mean steak and pot roast (better than my mom's according to my dad), and my classmates have told me that my secret recipe banana fritters are to die for.

This troper is the feminine half of an identical twin pair. She learned the basics of cooking surprisingly well (particularly in French cuisine) while her sister is indifferent at best. A twist: this troper flails around mentally whenever she has to ''say'' the names of the things she cooks and just goes to said sister for help on pronounciation.

This troper's girlfriend has occasionally admitted embaressment that he is the better cook of the two.

This rather tomboyish troper cannot cook. Though,subverted,due to the fact I've only cooked once. Chocolate cookies in her Real Meal Over,for Christmas. They turned out somewhat burnt,and it they would have been worse if her mom hadn't helped. I can most likely cook,but I'm too scared to try.

This troper can kind of cook. I'm not up to cordon bleu standards, but I can make salmon, various pasta dishes, cookies, cakes... My younger sister, who's much more of a {{Tomboy}}, can't make a single thing from scratch and is terrified of putting things in the oven. I'd made a pie from scratch at her age. It might not spring from the fact I'm more girly than she is so much as that she's never had to do so much cooking because she's had me around to do it.

This troper's wife is an uncute tomboy. She's also a Ph.D chemist, a highly competitive runner, an elite equestrian, and chair of the Chemistry Department at our local university. Oh, and did I mention she's fit and strong enough to lift a hay bale with either hand? And yes, she is an excelent cook... but I end up doing most of the cooking because she just doesn't have the time!

In an interesting subversion, in this Troper's household her father does most of the cooking, though her mother can certainly cook (is it anything that she's a successful college professor?). Anyway, said troper and her sister are both good cooks, and obsessed with food.

I play it ''straight'' even if I'm a tomboysh lesbian and a good cook. My Latino mother and her family (three aunts and a grandmother)think that if you don't teach your girl how to cook you have failed as a family forever. So they put all their energy into making me able to bake cakes and do elaborate dishes. They suceed, and I'm glad.

Um, no, I'm not the most feminine troper out there. But I can totally cook.

Double-subverted by my roommate's dad, who's the most dedicated cook in her family. As such, my roommate and her mum bought him a big, shiny chef's knife as a gift. It terrified him too much for him to ever use it. Apparently, girly guys can cook, too.

This troper is a subversion, in being an adult tomboy who can cook just about anything (even making oven fried chicken and meatloaf for my family (not bad for a vegan)). My current specialty is veganizing my favorite baked goods (chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin bread, etc.) by substituting bananas for the eggs (which works especially well in the pumpkin bread).

I can not cook. I have been laughed at by the guys who live on my floor when I asked if you're supposed to peel the carrots before cooking them. I have been forcibly stopped by my RA when she decided that she was afraid for my safety when I was trying to chop sweet potatoes. My personality? Closer to DitzyGenius than tomboy, but the trope generally holds. I stopped wearing skirts (more because of dislike of pantyhose than anything) when I graduated high school. I'm trying to learn now, if only so that I'm not a laughingstock of my floor anymore.

If you bought the carrots from the store, it's usually a good idea, since the sprays stores use to keep carrots fresh will make the peelings taste bitter. If you bought the carrots at the farmer's market and they HAVEN'T been sprayed, washing them off will usually do. Taste the carrot first. If it's bitter, peel.

This troper is fairly mannish and doesn't mind not being your stereotype of "feminine", but likes to see what she can whip up in the kitchen and considers herself a pretty good cook. An evening in the kitchen for her usually involves a lot of slamming plates around, kicking the oven and Gordon Ramsay-style swearing, but no one has ever told her that her efforts weren't appreciated.

My mom's cooking is mediocre at best... But my dad's an excellent cook.

This troper is somewhat of a subversion, since I usually fall somewhere in between TomboyAndGirlyGirl, yet I can cook and bake pretty damn well. It helps that pretty much ''everyone'' in my immediate family, man or woman, feminine or masculine, is a good cook.

This troper is another tomboy who can cook! On Christmas and Valentine's Day she made impeccably decorated sugar cookies, each one different from the last. She meant to for Easter but forgot. Anyway, cooking is way fun. Feminine guys, masculine guys, in between guys and feminine girls, masculine girls and in between girls should all do it and not pass it off because it's too "girly". And if you make it, you get to lick the spoon!

Straight example here, or at least I like to think so. I graduated from culinary school, often cook at home, and aside from having geeky interests and not being very sentimental, am very girly.

This, tomboy, Troper is practically incapable of cooking. Her girly sister, on the other hand, is a pretty good cook. On the other hand, this Troper is the unofficial baker of the family - something her sister has trouble with.

I'm a fairly butch lesbian, but I seem to be pretty well supporting myself with my own cooking. I can also make pies and deserts pretty well. It helps that my mom and dad are both pretty good, even if dad mainly sticks to grilled cheese.

This troper's sister is a subversion. She is halfway between TomboyAndGirlyGirl and is a great cook. Her chocolate chip cookies are to ''die'' for.

This troper is a man. This troper's sister is quite the tomboy (she did long haul trucking). We can both cook very well.

Subverted for my family. My dad loves cooking, and when we're at his house, we often get to taste lots of new and exciting dishes. My mom, on the other hand, mostly seems to make the same 12-15 simple dishes over and over again.

Also, I'm kind of tomboyish myself, but I'm great with all kinds of desserts, cookies and snacks. My carrot cake is pretty awesome, for example.

The women in my family are all more likely to burn food than the men. Even i barely know how to operate an oven and i have never burnt anything. I also know a 25 year old woman (straight, attractive, girly, etc) who has never cooked a meal in her life.

Living breathing subversion here- a GirlyGirl who is a great cook...when she isn't being a CordonBleughChef with an odd love of honey and mayonaise, oftentimes together,

Main/{{This troper}} subverts this trope. I am very feminine but I lack a lot of cooking skills. I tried baking cupcakes but they got stuck to the paper foils and did not look nice but they tasted good.

This troper is considered by many to be quite tomboyish (with bits of girly traits tossed in), but I completely lack cooking skills---I can't even whip up macaroni and cheese on my own. Strangely enough, the only thing that I do know how to make are cookies and relatively simple french desserts.

Strange case with me; total girly-girl who wears nothing but dresses and loves typically "girly" things. I also love to bake (And I'm not too bad at it, if I do say so myself), but anything that isn't from The Baking Bible and the like seems to go horribly wrong. I think it's an experience thing; I've baked since I was a child, but I'm still slightly afraid of the combination of sausage meeting frying pan.

This Troper is definitely a subversion. The first time she was picked to provide snacks for a group, everyone was surprised that she could bake, and she has suspicions that it might be due to the whole ButchLesbian thing. Besides baking more or less perfectly (seriously; when she makes items involving fruit her mother asks her if she counted the individual pieces of fruit) This Troper can cook ratatouille, chicken, salmon, pork tenderloin, Indian and Thai curry, several Italian pasta dishes, pancakes, waffles and French toast. And makes a pretty good Caesar salad dressing.

This troper isn't very feminine but able to cook. However, she learned all her best tricks and recipes from an old boyfriend.