Husbands can’t clean kitchens

Your husband is a wet lettuce. Mine has just cleaned the entire kitchen PROPERLY, and is now cutting the grass. He doesn't do sitting quietly very well.

My DH does a much more thorough job on the kitchen than I do.

Again... Men don't have a problem with anything you've listed. Your man has a problem.

Men have a blind spot about putting clean Tea towels out, cleaning the sink properly, especially the plug, cleaning around cooker knobs, cooker hood and the container for washing up liquid. They cannot see greasy fingerprints on cupboards, handles and drawers. They just don’t do the finer points of cleaning, but it’s better than nothing, and if I complain he might stop doing anything. Just don’t get me started on men cleaning toilets!

Unless he has an actual mental retardation condition then he knows perfectly well that that isn't clean. But he also knows he can get away with pretending he's compus mentus but doesn't know that a pan with sauce on is dirty.

You beat me to it.👍

My OH could teach people how to clean a kitchen and as for replacing kitchen towel, a new one magically appears even before the old one has been finished (same goes for loo roll, hand soap, washing liquid, toothpaste, shampoo, dishwasher tabs, bin liners etc).
He is a Ninja when it comes to keeping us well stocked with necessities!😁

Err.. of course husbands can clean kitchens?Maybe yours can't though, or he cleaned it but then it got messy again?

Did you not say to him, “what do you mean you cleaned the kitchen, there is last night’s washing up on the sink and the dishwasher isn’t stacked?”

I can’t vote, because your options are ridiculous.

I hate this sexist claptrap. Your husband can’t clean, OP. It’s not ‘men’.

My husband is far better at all things domestic than I am. I’m inherently lazy and also no good at cleaning, laundry or cooking. Does this make my husband think ‘all women’ are like me? No. We’re not homogeneous.

Mine has a very different idea of cleanliness to me. He also told me his mothers kitchen was super clean, it wasn’t.

They all can. Because it’s not rocket science. Some of them choose not.

Yabu in going from your crap husband to generalising across all husbands
he has a couple of blind spots ( the window sill for some reason ) but he mostly does all the kitchen cleaning
( apparently I have a blind spot some where in the shower. He also does as he misses the soap tray. This is why we tend to take turns)

Men aren't incapable of cleaning just because they are men. If your DH is useless and lazy that's a problem you have to work out what you do with.

Mine can. Does most of the cooking too because I find it boring.

Lol, YANBU. 😄
You are getting some harsh responses, though.
My 75 yo husband cannot/won't clean like me, doesn't see dust or the occasional spillage in the kitchen.
However, he is very fit and healthy, so does heavy work, shifting furniture, cleaning garage, recently he fixed the roof and has re-done the upstairs (shifted heavy boxes and tools).
So I happily clean the small crap myself.

Me: Who used the last piece of kitchen roll without getting a new one out?
DH: smugly probably the person who cleaned the kitchen.

Oh, there was me thinking he was implying you hadn't replaced the roll (or cleaned the kitchen recently apparently)

Your DH sounds like a knob.

But in no way would I say he's typical. So YABU for generalising like that.

Same, I leave him to it but op your husband doesn't seem too why would that make all husbands do something one way or the other?

They absolutely can ! Mine does ALL the cooking and cleaning. It’s definitely possible.

Mine can ....but mostly doesnt!

He cooks frequently but makes loads of mess (uses every pot/pan/utensil,doesnt wipe spillages, doesnt wash up as he goes along, and doesnt put away ingredients)

He occassionally does a big spring clean and tidies everything and mops the floor but does very little day to day "maintenance" cleaning and tidying

It’s really not a good idea to generalise because it turns a problem with an individual that could be addressed, into a class problem that seems unfixable.

Women do this a lot irl, partly to bond I suppose. I’m only one generation removed from a society where there wasn’t a way out of marriage (Irish, Catholic Church influence and a huge social stigma for deserted wives) and I saw that kind of discourse a lot among my gm’s generation and into my DM’s. I push back on it when they offer those sort of “men! 🤷🏼‍♀️” observations because it’s really, really important not to allow ourselves to be disempowered.

Thanks to those two amazing generations of women, I can walk away. I won’t lose my dc, my community or get put away in the mad house (and those things happened) so dh can either shape up or ship out. Family life is something we all work together on and while we have strengths and weaknesses there is no cute posturing behind sex stereotypes.

Don’t make excuses for him op!

Why is he wasting kitchen roll on cleaning? That's what j cloths (or your cleaning cloth of choice) are for.

My DH is perfectly able to clean the kitchen (and the rest of the house) to an acceptable standard. And doesn't waste single use products whilst doing so.

I'm fairly confident you meant this to be a light-hearted moan about husband's thread OP. This might be a bit of a wake up call that actually, your DH is pretty useless and wasteful.

YABU. My husband cleans the kitchen just fine (and more thoroughly and frequently than I do). I've no doubt that many husbands are like yours in this respect though.

Husbands are capable of cleaning kitchens. Some simply chose not to

Your DH can’t clean a kitchen. I’d of asked him what part he’d cleaned cos there’s a massive pile of pots

YABU to generalise so much. YANBU to consider your particular husband incapable.