stormsbourne:

I always liked the idea that jake actually has practice cooking while dirk knows how to boil water and not much else. dirk has grown up eating canned food and instant noodles and cooking the occasional fish, but he’s never been super interested in learning to cook. 

meanwhile, jake may have been gifted with skaianet cooking tech, but he learned the basics of cooking without it and is such a natural hand at learning anything he gets interested in that he picks up the basics really easily. when they first start living together they take turns cooking but soon enough jake takes the lead without even being asked. he loves trying new things and learning new ways to cook and he’s singlehandedly responsible for getting dirk to eat full fucking meals 3 times a day instead of just eating a pack of ramen around dinnertime. he gets a lot of tips from jane and when all the alphas get together they usually end up buzzing around in the kitchen together to make dinner, but he also adopts this for his life with dirk. 

routinely dirk will come out of his workshop to discover that jake has laid them out a full four course meal and he feels so pampered and flattered and he can’t look at jake the entire goddamn meal because it’s too embarrassing and he’s too in love