I don't mind! I'm not, like, the best or anything, but I used to help my mom out around the kitchen from time-to-time. I'd cook at school sometimes, too, when I was in the mood.

[More often he'd use his allowance to buy from the cafeteria and vending machines, or whine at Trey to cook for him, but sometimes!]

Things are fine.

[A suspiciously bland answer? Well, he is a teenager.]