Enjoy food but never like making or cooking it

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I seem to find myself getting flustered whenever I cut vegetables and stuff whilst my mum's partner watches and reminds me to use one end of the knife not the other because I get into a habit of doing it that way and there have been times when I get defensive as though I want to feel like I know what I am doing even I may not have much experience with cooking and preparing meals.

I have even felt like not wanting to make beans on toast because the way he does it is he puts beans in a sauce pan and heats it up to a temperature which varies to boiling point and then puts the toast on but he checks it regularly rather than leaving at the exact time to toast which also varies because I don't always know when the right time is to take it out in the way he does it. When I used to make toast in the past I just used a microwave to heat the beans and toast the bread at the exact time I preferred.

I do feel ridiculous about this even when it's just making beans on toast just in a different way.

If it were me, I'd want to be left alone to chop up vegetables or make beans on toast because you're perfectly capable of doing both by yourself. You don't need someone watching. That would drive me up the wall and I'd feel self-conscious.

The same as BB said, I'd get really self-conscious if someone were watching my every move, and I can understand not wanting to cook under those conditions.
Can you cook when he's not there, or tell him you don't want him watching?

And you're perfectly entitled to make beans however you want.
Microwave is fine.
Lots of people do it that way.