Does Kendall Jenner Know How to Cook? An Investigation

Also: I have a lot of thoughts on the recent "Summer House" drama.

On the most recent episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kendall Jenner appears to slice a cucumber in bizarre fashion, as her boss Kris Jenner watched on and asked if she needed “the chef” to help. 

♔b @badtasticb

The way Kendall Jenner cut that cucumber will haunt me

Many people were perplexed. Twitter had jokes.

Brodie Lancaster @brodielancaster

Obsessed with Kendall Jenner trying to prove she’s not an out of touch spoiled rich girl by insisting on making her own snack and almost dislocating her shoulder trying to slice a cucumber.

marissa (taylor's version) @MarissaSaysWhat

kendall jenner cutting a cucumber is the most "it's a banana, michael, what could it cost, ten dollars?" thing i've seen a rich person do in a long time

qinnitan @qinnitan

the way kendall jenner proved she has never cut a cucumber in her entire life and was just trying to be relatable to the cameras will never not be funny, hey chef 🙋, can you come cut this cucumber for my 26 year old daughter 😭

Ellie Navarro @_Ellie_Navarro_

Kendall Jenner may be rich and famous, but at least I can cut a cucumber.

After receiving a serious roasting on the bird app, Kendall attempted to poke fun at the whole thing by agreeing with someone via quote-tweet calling her cucumber-cutting attempt “tragic.” She’s so ~self-deprecating and relatable.~

Kendall @KendallJenner

tragic! https://t.co/DY2pnbg2vk

Sophie @SophieScribbles

Kendall Jenner trying to cut a fcking cucumber is the most tragic thing I’ve ever witnessed #TheKardashians https://t.co/QNoJMHXzJD

The saga doesn’t end there, though. Not for me at least.

Writer Emily Kirkpatrick—subscribe to her Substack, too!—also resurfaced a clip of Kendall on Hailey Bieber’s YouTube series asking why Hailey wasn’t “buttering” the water as it boiled.

internet baby @kirkpate

in light of kendall's recent cucumber debacle, just a reminder that she also thinks you're supposed to butter boiling water

So, it’s safe to assume Kendall’s never gone near a kitchen in her entire life.

UNLESS…

She, in fact, has stated many times over the years that she loves cooking! 

During a live Q&A with that tooth-whitening brand of hers, Moon, in May 2020, she claimed she loves to cook and usually nails recipes on her first try.

"Me and my friends love to cook together, but we're more experimental… growing up I loved to bake—it's how I would kill my time after school when I was done with my homework. I find cooking very therapeutic and generally enjoy letting something other than a phone or a TV occupy my mind."

Interesting. 

In July 2020 while touring her home for Architectural Digest, she said she’s a “pretty good cook.” 

“I’m always in [the kitchen] trying to up my chef game… At this point, I’m a pretty good cook. [My kitchen] is definitely the most-used room in the house. We’re in here almost every single day and night. I make dinner with my friends most of the time.”

She even has a signature pasta recipe! These are the ingredients:

16 oz. fettucine

½ onion, chopped

1 bag, frozen peas

1 clove minced garlic

¼ cup grated Parmesan

Salt and ground pepper

½ lemon

What I’m getting is… Kendall does like to cook, and seems to do it often?

Is this how she chops all her vegetables?

Does she add butter every time she boils the water to make her signature pea-and-wine-sauce fettuccine? Has she been doing it this whole time?

Kendall has admitted to being a stoner before, so maybe she was just being high and awkward during the cucumber video. But how does she explain putting BUTTER IN BOILING WATER? Whomstve taught her that? Was it Kris? Cookbook-writing Kris?

So many questions. So few answers. This isn’t over.

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Craig Conover Was Apparently Kicked Out of Kymanda’s Wedding

It’s no secret that Summer House is one of my favorite shows. It’s a national treasure. And, clearly, many others agree: It was just renewed by Bravo for a seventh season, along with a slew of other other shows (including—to some people’s surprise after a lackluster past two seasons—Vanderpump Rules).

That said, I can be honest about something I love: This season was a bit of a letdown. The energy was off, the partying seemed more toned-down, Craig and Austen’s appearances brought drama but changed the dynamics, some of the fights felt like rehashed arguments of seasons’ past, too much airtime was afforded to girls lying in bed while we didn’t get nearly enough Luke… the list goes on. (Did I still park my ass on the couch at 9pm ET every single Monday to watch? You betcha!)

One thing that would’ve made it all worthwhile, however, would’ve been getting to watch Craig Conover get kicked out of Kyle Cooke and Amanda Batula’s wedding—a segment that, in and of itself, oddly took up only around 10 minutes of the season finale after years of buildup.

samantha bush @takeyourzoloft

Just me thinking about how Craig got kicked out of Amanda and Kyle’s wedding for being a belligerent mess 💀🤡

Originally reported by Samantha Bush of The Dipp (aka @BravoHistorian and @TakeYourZoloft), several sources claim that Craig was so drunk and belligerent at the wedding—which was held at Amanda’s family’s home in New Jersey—he was personally asked to leave.

(He apparently still hasn’t apologized, to this day, and his team denies the claims.)

To our misfortune, all of this allegedly went down after the Bravo cameras had already left, hence why we have no footage of it. But it definitely happened according to several sources, and it wouldn’t be too far off from the entitled and despicable behavior we’ve come to expect from Craig, a man we’ve grown to know and hate over the years on Southern Charm. And Winter House. And Summer House.

The thirst levels are unmatched.

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