Who cooks the most in your home? NPR readers weigh in

Family holiday meals often involve lots of time spent bent over cutting boards, peeking in the oven and reading thermometers or adding juices. High temperatures - and tempers – abound and there's often a mess left to clean up at the end. As my mother would say, it's "a big potchke."

If you find yourself reflecting on how food duties are distributed in your household, you're not alone.

Recently, Gallup and Cookpad published data from their worldwide survey of trends in home cooking. In every country but one, women cooked more than men, as NPR's Allison Aubrey reported. Women made on average close to nine meals a week, while men cooked about four in 2022. And that gender gap has widened since the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021.

But researchers did identify one country where gentlemen outcook ladies – Italy.

This made us curious about