Non-Cook Bahu.......

I don't know about the rest of you but I just hate it when they show tracks like these in serials, where the new daughter-in-law doesn't know how to cook and is stuck making the dinner, first rasoi. I understand that not everyone is the greatest cook, but everyone...I mean everyone, including men and women both.....should know the basics of cooking. Its a survival trait if anything!.....I hate it when I see stuff like..."i didn't even step into my kitchen at my parents home"...."or I never bothered to learn because I just hate cooking, and i will either eat out or have a cook"............Kal kisne dekha hai bahi??? What if you don't have the money to eat out or hire a cook??? There is a lot of things in life that we hate but have to do it to survive. In pre-cap they show Mona throwing in whole sabzi...I mean come on even if your not Guju, ur still Punjabi and their is one thing common in all Indian food......TADKA!!!.......if you know how to do TADKA, you can basically put any clean veggy in and cook it. I am not saying that everyone should know how to be excellent cooks but at least know the basics. If the roti isn't round that is ok....as long as u know how to make the dough..........if the rice is un-cooked thats ok as long as u know how to put it on the stove. Dal gali nahi vo be ok...but know how to put the cooker on the stove. Cooking is something if not for others u should know for urself, its a trait that will help you anytime......its a education..........Sorry that I am so upset about this but I just don't understand how grown people don't know basics? You should attempt it....no one is born a cook. I learned since I was in the 8th grade. For myself.........And I am sure many of you don't know how to cook, which is fine, but just learn the basics that is all I am talking about. Do it or don't do it I don't care but know it................

I understand where your coming from but after the Maha whaver it's callled they needed somethng to ease back into the show.

@isahra... It still not a excuses not to know... In fact she has so many females in the home that could have taught her the basics...... N what bothers me is that Mona keeps crying that she needs to be a good bahu blah blah... Well y is she not doing anything to make it better.... First mistake as I said before them going to Bombay(yes I know it was for the special) but logically it makes no sense for them to do that... Right now what is more important is making anu,a family happy with moa.... N she is doing nothing to make it right...

Mona should have learnt some kind of basic cooking.

@taral83 My points weren't excuse they were just bringing light to mona's charater she hasn't done anything that has something to with cooking since there are alot of women in her house she should have learned by now she has no excuse and and what's going on today was not creative , Im not saying "mona wasn't taught the basics'" have you seen their house all you saw were women. Mona should be complaining or crying she shouldn't be blaming her self on why she didn't try to learn the basics Today's episode is asking for a gourmet meal not a simple sandwich. so i can feel for her.

I can relate to Mona not knowing how to cook anything because I have a rich cousin in India who only steps inside the kitchen to tell the cook what the menu for the day is. The cook buys the grocery, cooks all meals, and washes all the dishes, etc.

But my female cousins who married into middle class families have to cook all meals, morning and evenings, even when they have full time jobs outside of the house. So it all depends upon the families you marry into.

even i don't knw the basic of a kitchen.. but i know how to make a sandwich.. use a microwave... even how to dial a number on the phone! there ARE things to get one through without knowing how to "cook" and as for mona her in=laws expect a gourmet meal so basic of cooking wouldn't help her anyways!

Today what they were asking was a big Gujraati Meal 😕

Learning to cook for oneself is good, but you have to see the lifestyle of the family like for Mona case it was either done by servants or her mom/taayi was doing it. Mona never had to be worried about this stuff, so it's okay to say she can't cook. But what irritates me most is not knowing how to operate say microwave or cooker not knowing how to cut vegetables c'mon you see your Mom work all the time you pick up on these things whether you actually know how to cook or not.

that's exactly what I'm talking about kajolj... The basics..... I am hearing over n over that Mona lifestyle was different... So she never learned.. Why not??? I had two elder sisters and my mom... Still I was expected to know at least roti... As I said who has seen tommorow? Cooking is a education. Money is something that can go or be taken away any min by god... But education that can never me taken away... As someone said they wanted a full on dinner.... So basics wouldn't have helped... Yes it might not have helped her get a wonderful meal on the table but it would have gotten some meal on the table. At least it would not have been burnt roti n uncooked sabzi..... The point is that anu was ready to help n he is a guy.. He knee something about the kitchen even though he had females in the house n was not allowed in kitchen..... So y is mona being excused with "have u seen her lifestyle"