Like others in the responses, we split the labor, not chop veg while doing doggy style or whatever that couple in the picture is doing.

Generally, I cook, my husband cleans up after.

Sometimes I ask my kids to prep or I prep and ask them to cook (if I have to leave the house).

Occasionally I ask someone to open and assemble bagged salad while I cook, that's about the only "cooking together at the same time in the same space" I can think of off hand.

There are some different modes of cooking in the kitchen.

If you want to intentionally cook with someone, then there needs to be a plan made in advance of who is doing what/where. Plan to make the salad, while the other works on the main dish, etc. This establishes individual work flows and understanding of what resources need to be allocated.

When cooking solo, task scheduling is done in the head linearly and having to stop the flow and redirect it to words can be frustrating as it disrupts speed/timing of scheduled tasks to be completed. This can be done with multiple experienced cooks that are aware of what's going on without disrupting flow but not your typical couple.

If being intimate is the goal, then choose something that can be done as a group project in a more laid back manner. Think baking cookies, or a sit down activity like shaping gyoza dumplings where more hands the better. Or choose a single recipe where one can be the hand and the other can be the brain as an instructional/learning experience.

So true. I have never raged (nor been raged at) as hard as I’ve raged (and been raged at) in the kitchen!

My girlfriend always asks if she can help and my answer is no 99% of the time. I'll ask her for help stirring something while I go to the bathroom. Nothing more.

Then again, she does drive a long way to come to my house, the least I can do is cook for her and let her relax. So works out for both of us.

My wife likes me in the kitchen for my mad knife skills but only if I'm on the other side of the butcher block out of her way.

This is flat out wrong... This person is telling on either themselves, or their incompetent partner.

I do most of the cooking, but I love help in the kitchen.

Can confirm. If I am in the kitchen, everyone else gets the cleaver brandished at them. It's not that I don't appreciate the help, it's that I am kinda dancing around the kitchen and no one else knows the steps and I end up bumping into them.

The house I live in has an open floor plan so the living room kitchen and dining room are all one big area. It is literally impossible to make something in there without my housemates trying to have some inane conversation with me and asking 20 questions about what I'm making. It's annoying as fuck. This is just quick stuff too. Trying to make an actual meal is completely out of the question

You guys are getting told things?

Why they both have the same face?