Gen Z claim they're the best cooks but there's 1 thing they're not so good at

Gen Zers rate their cooking skills the highest out of any generation - but only know how to make a handful of recipes from scratch. A poll of 2,000 adults explored their culinary aptitude and found the average person can cook 14 dishes with a recipe, or nine without. But this dropped to 10 and five respectively for Gen Z.

However, when asked to rate their own cooking skills, the highest percentage to label themselves as 'excellent' were Gen Zers, followed by Millennials.

A spokesperson for pan brand Circulon said: "There seems to be some disconnect between Brits' level of experience in the kitchen and how highly they rate their own skills.

"As you might expect, those who know how to cook a wider variety of dishes would see themselves as more accomplished chefs. But instead, it seems that confidence is purely in the eye of the beholder."

The most common dishes all respondents were confident in their ability to whip up with or without a recipe were a simple jacket potato, omelette, or scrambled eggs on toast.

Whereas the top meals they'd love to have a stab at if they were more adventurous were homemade bread, a fragrant Indian curry, and a hearty beef wellington. But despite these lofty ambitions, half end up cooking the same things week in week out.

Four in ten kitchen confident Gen Zers will make the same dish multiple times a week - with 31% of Millennials saying the same.

However, when varying what they were cooking, 19% of Millennials were motivated by a desire to try out new cookware and 25% of Gen Zers followed social media trends.

Gen Zers and Millennials were also the most interested in using a wider range of kitchen gadgets and cookware as well as more innovative products such as all-in-one-pans or multicookers to improve their cooking methods.

But uniting all generations was the shared experience (77%) of some sort of kitchen mishap that has put them off.

With top blunders including burning the food or themselves, realising they were missing a crucial ingredient halfway through, and making such a mess it took forever to clean up afterwards.

Other ways amateur chefs ruined dishes were through misreading recipes (14%), over seasoning something to the point it was inedible (11%), and having non-stick coating from a pot or pan flaking into the food (eight%).

Circulon's spokesperson added: "As a nation, we seem to be stuck in a bit of a culinary rut and end up eating a lot of the same dishes on rotation.

"While I'm sure many of us see ourselves as adventurous people - it seems our taste buds aren't always seeing the proof of this. And a lack of trust in our cookware is clearly contributing to a lack of kitchen confidence.

"We shouldn't need to be worrying about our tools letting us down, as this stands in the way of true creativity."