Are there just some people in this world who can't cook

I've been trying to teach my son to cook. I don't want to have a son who depends on a woman to cook. I don't know what is wrong with him. He's 16 and I can give him a recipe and it will still turn out tasting bad. He recently caught rice crispy treats on fire. Last month was making coffee on the stove and caught that on fire. I gave him a recipe and he said he followed it to a tea and it tasted like ass. My husband said there are just some people in this world who can't cook. Is that true or is it an excuse?

Edit: I watched him cook a few times. I watched him make butter chicken because he's been on an Indian food kick lately and really wanted to make butter chicken. He found a recipe for it. Made it and I watched him. It tasted like burnt tomato soup with chicken.

Edit2: He is dyslexic. I guess I never thought about that possibly being a problem.