Welcome to Dad's Kitchen 👨‍🍳

Dad's Kitchen started the way a lot of good things start. With a problem that needed solving and no one else stepping up to solve it.

As a single dad, I realized that a surprising amount of my best time with my kids happened around meals. Not planned activities. Not expensive outings. Just cooking together and sitting down to eat.

So I started being intentional about it. I'd give them something age-appropriate to do in the kitchen: stirring, measuring, carrying napkins to the table. Then we'd sit down and I'd ask questions that couldn't be answered with "yes," "no," or "fine."

Those dinners became some of our best conversations. And I thought, if this works for me, maybe it works for other dads too.

What Dad's Kitchen is

Dad's Kitchen is a program of the Mens Philanthropy Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We make short videos showing real dads cooking real meals with their kids and having real conversations at the table.

We also provide resources: conversation starters, age-appropriate kitchen tasks, and tips for making the most of the time you have together.

Why dads?

Everything we make here works for any parent. Moms, grandparents, guardians. If you're cooking with a kid and talking at the table, this content is for you and we're glad you're here.

But we focus on dads because that's where we've found the biggest gap. There's a large percentage of dads who want to connect with their kids but haven't been given the encouragement, the education, or the community to make it happen. Nobody showed them how. Nobody told them it was important. Nobody made a space where it was normal for a dad to say "I'm trying to be better at this."

That's what Dad's Kitchen is. Not because moms don't matter, but because dads need this, and not enough people are building it for them.

What's next

We're just getting started. We're building out the video library, growing the community, and looking for dads who want to share their own kitchen experiences, from following and sharing our content all the way up to filming their own guest chef episodes.

If any of that sounds like you, check out our process and find where you fit.