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Mullen: Only 10% of Americans cook at home

Debbie Wei Mullin · #54 Is Selling in Walmart a Good Thing? · Mar 3, 2025 · at 5:23

Copper Cow Coffee founder Debbie Wei Mullen explains to investors why she abandoned her previous artisanal Vietnamese cooking line.

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“Only 10% of Americans cook, you know, and I need to meet my consumer where they're at, and I'm not gonna convince, you know, 90% of Americans to cook by an oil and vinegar line.”

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Only 10% of Americans cook at home.

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Assessment

The assertion that only 10% of Americans cook at home is demonstrably false. Nationally representative data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) American Time Use Survey (ATUS) shows that approximately 62% to 66% of American adults engage in home food preparation on any given day (including 52% of men and 72% of women). Furthermore, a May 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that nearly 90% of U.S. adults eat a home-cooked meal at least a few times per week. The 10% figure likely conflates cooking frequency with a well-known 2017 Harvard Business Review market study by Eddie Yoon, which found that only 10% of Americans 'love' cooking (while 45% are indifferent and 45% dislike it), despite the vast majority cooking out of necessity.

BLS American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data indicates that 66.2% of Americans engage in daily food preparation and cleanup on average weekdays and 62.9% on weekend days.
A May 2025 Pew Research Center study (n=5,123) reported that approximately 90% of U.S. adults eat home-cooked meals at least a few times a week.
The 10% figure stems from a 2017 Harvard Business Review finding that only 10% of consumers 'love' cooking, not that only 10% cook.

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Eddie Yoon HBR only 10 percent of people love cooking how many Americans cook at home survey Pew USDA BLS American Time Use Survey food preparation percentage of Americans who cook percentage of Americans cook at home survey data

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