More than a quarter of UK adults have never boiled an egg and do not know how to, fewer than a fifth have made a salad dressing and just 45% have baked a Victoria sponge cake, according to a report by Waitrose.
While more than a third of people (35%) rate themselves as ‘very good’ or ‘excellent cooks’, some 27% have never boiled an egg, a survey for the supermarket’s annual Cooking Report found.
Nearly two-fifths (39%) wish they could spend more time in the kitchen than they actually do, while one-fifth (20%) say they are entertaining more at home due to the cost-of-living crisis – although 34% now think the term ‘dinner party’ is old fashioned.
