But cooking is hard - it's time consuming and not every young man has been taught how to do it right, let alone set up a proper kitchen with necessary ingredients and tools for making a quick meal.
Business Insider reached out to Jared Spafford Director of Culinary Operations at Snow Day, a maple syrup themed food truck launched by not-for-profit Drive Change. Drive Change employs previously incarcerated individuals to better acclimate them to the outside.
They also learn how to cook with limited resources.
Spafford sent Business Insider a list of items - from tools to spices - that should go inside the modern gentleman's kitchen.
If you build it, it will come, and it will be delicious.