There’s a disturbing trend in our country that more people should be made aware of. According to a recent survey, a majority of Millennials are unable to cook for themselves.

That’s right. Our society as we know it is in danger of collapsing due to a shortage of cooking ability.

According to porch.com, the cooking ability gap between Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials is wide and getting wider. The survey of 750 people found that 12.4 percent of Baby Boomers consider their cooking ability to be very good and more than 76 percent claimed to be good cooks. Only 5.5 percent of Generation X and 5 percent of Millennials consider themselves to be very good at home-cooking. Slightly more than 70 percent from Generation X consider themselves good cooks and just about 65 percent of millennials classify themselves as good cooks.

Averaging roughly 13 homemade meals each week, Millennials prepared their food at home less than any other generation. They also confessed that 18 percent of those meals came from frozen or prepackaged foods. The younger generation also claims to only cook for themselves on average four nights a week.

As a result, more and more people are eating out these days. Approximately 43 percent of most American food expenses come from dining out or ordering in.

Now I don’t claim to be an expert cook and I am very guilty of eating most of my meals out since I live alone, but I do enjoy grilling up a nice steak now and then or making my famous pasta salad during the summer months. So I do have some ability to cook without a recipe.

But the most disturbing trend, in my opinion, is the skill level in the ability to cook at home.

According to the survey, just seven in 10 Millennials said they could make an omelet and only three in 10 can poach an egg. What hurt my heart the most is that only four in 10 claim to be able to fry chicken. Less than half were confident in cooking salmon, barbecue ribs or shrimp scampi. Millennials were nearly 30 percent less likely than Baby Boomers to have the skill in roasting a chicken.

Only 41 percent of millennials claim they can carve a turkey, while 70 percent of Baby Boomers claim to have the ability for that Thanksgiving feast.

And desserts are just as bad.

Only 40 percent said they could make a birthday cake from scratch.

It seems with each passing generation more and more children are not eating home-cooked meals and cooking even fewer meals for themselves as adults.

I’m fearful that by the time my daughter’s children are grown the kitchen will no longer exist in the home. Can you imagine? No smell of a turkey cooking in the oven on Thanksgiving? Or the waft of a pie baking in the oven? That’s just un-Norman Rockwellish if you ask me.

If you want to learn more about these cooking results, visit porch.com.

Meanwhile, I’m going to throw a roast in the crockpot.

Rob Sigler is editor of The Vicksburg Post. He can be reached at rob.sigler@vicksburgpost.com. Readers are invited to submit their opinions for publication.