What age to allow/teach kids to stove top cook?

I'm still not allowed.

Matilda was six.

All of my stepchildren, from 6 years old to 14, help their father and I cook. If they are in a mood where it seems like they are not going to be as careful as they need to be around a hot stove, then they are kicked out of the kitchen though.

Matilda was six.

LMAO isn't she a little witch or something?

You shouldn't call people names.

Having 5 kids, some days it's do it yourself or eat a PB&J, I think the triplets where about 6 when I showed them how to do mac n cheese, grilled cheese, soup. Now at 10 they love to cook all sorts of stuff, my daughter even made the bread we had at easter, with me just watching her and giving instructions, it came out amazing. We also grow and can many of our own fruits and veggies, and they help me with that prep and process. They can also make pancakes, omelets, scrambled eggs and other stuff that's easy.

They also do all their own laundry, they are pretty awesome LOL

My son learned how to grill the same day he helped me butcher his first deer.....7 years old...

My son will be 9 in June. He loves to be independant and make his own food. What age did you parents start allowing your kids to heat things like soup or a grilled cheese on the stove? (supervised of course)

:happy: What a blessing you have there@ independent son who enjoys cooking!

As a legal guardian and with my God Children, I'd first introduced them to making salads whilst they were still toddlers (surely after their potty-training stages), so that'll be around the ages of 4 and 5, after they'd thoroughly washed their hands (whilst singing the Lord's Prayer or Happy birthday to me ~ themselves that is); At the ages of 6 - 8 was when I'd introduced them to doing chunk cuts (with vegetables and fruits, olives mainly), making sandwiches (mostly regular) and then soon after, soups and stews, baking (quiches/pies/cakes/breads/buns), pasta salads/bakes, roasts (vegetables only) and mini-grilling which I'd introduced to them well before they'd turned 11. *They'd had the use of the veggie-cutting (manual) gadgets, all without the use of a knife ~ which sat comfortably with me at the time. I'd also gotten them to look through picture cookbooks where they'd select what they'd wanted to try, which I'd use to my advantage for colour/counting/word building/shapes and textures exercises before I'd advance them with what I'd use as a library excursion exercise ~ basic use of the library (research skill) to find out as much as they could about their select ingredient within a set duration.

Kitchen safety plus health & hygiene awareness aside, an encouraging environment with the general ambiance (accommodating) allowing them to familiarise themselves with food (cuisines), as they develop physically, intellectually building up on their language base(s), whilst furthering their emotional layers & maturity with the forms of interactive learning forced through the kitchen base within their family homes~ allows them to become positively socialised and adept.

*I'd specialised in Child Care & Development as part of my Finishing School Curriculum so I didn't exactly go about it as I probably should've done with the children; Executed and delegated ~ without leaving any room for options ~ just activity filled and project oriented, with the fun base in good company, whilst they were on my watch.

I would think 12 would be a safe age to allow kids to cook on the stove unsupervised. ...and maybe 8-10 with supervision.

My daughter started cooking about at 8 yrs old she is now going on 12 and she makes like soup...mac n chz.. eggs .. french fries and my son cooks also ... i just showed them once or twice and there they went :drinker:

I was 8 and Mom got tired of constantly making me a completely different meal since I'm a picky eater. It was fried bologna.