Thanksgiving is this Thursday, and while your wife may be able to cook a nice holiday meal - that doesn't mean she is a good cook (according to science). And if your wife is a horrible cook - science has given you a reason to not like my her cooking. According to a new survey, women don't REALLY know how to cook until they reach age 55.

The average woman bakes her first cake when she's 21 . . . makes her first romantic dinner at 23 . . . hosts a dinner party at 26 . . . and makes a big holiday dinner for the whole family at 27.

But she's still following recipes and measuring ingredients at that point.  Once she reaches her fifties, she just KNOWS how to make stuff.

55-year-olds can make roasts, bake bread from scratch, and make their own pasta and ice cream.  They have 15 different "go-to" meals they can easily make.

80% of 55-year-olds can make a meal from whatever random ingredients are in the house at the time . . . most of them know what herbs to use to bring out flavors . . . and they don't have to measure out ingredients.  They just add the right amount.

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