Neil can't judge on the cooking front. He makes casserole, and that's about it. Everything else is ordered in or taken out, and he's burnt water before, which he didn't realize was a thing you could do until he did it.

He's telling Caleb about that as they head toward the cash wrap, easy and casual and self-deprecating because it's how he knows how to be. When the reach the front of the store, he says, "You're not going to let me get anything, are you?"