why does is his cooking so bad?

[woopdedoodle]

10 years I've been eating his burnt offerings, 10 years of breakfast in bed of ruined bacon, frazzled eggs, porridge like concrete, cold toast. Strange salads, tough stews and over boiled broccoli. Tea with the tea bag paper label floating around in the cup. Coffee so bitter you can feel the skin peeling off your tongue.

This week I'm too ill to cook, nothing terrible , just sleeping, off my dinner , yesterday I fancied some soup. It was DH proof ,instant, but instead of a pint of tomato, half a cup of pale pink gloop with white bits floating around arrived.

The thing is he volunteers, he hums happily as he chops veg, he says "you sit down love I'll cook tonight " but I dread it.

Please cheer me up with your own tales of keen but incompetent cooks.

And I've fluffed the title!

Do you tell him it’s bad?

I don’t have a personal story but I remember watching an episode of Four in a Bed where the accommodation was self catering. The hosts brought round a lovely hamper of stuff to make breakfast from and one guy picked up an egg out of an egg box and seriously said he didn’t know what to do with it so he couldn’t make himself any breakfast. I don’t understand how some people can be so helpless in the kitchen that they don’t even understand how to boil an egg.

So I guess you could have it worse? 😂

Just thought of one personal story actually. My SIL once opened a can of ravioli and put the can straight in the microwave to cook it. She was in her mid 20s at the time.

Are you married to my DM? Oh now wait, you said he happily did it.

Because he doesn't care enough to improve. If he can't make toast, heat soup or make a cup of tea then I'd either have concerns about his level of functioning or he knows that by being consistently shit at cooking, that task will never fall to him.

Teach him. Show him how to follow a recipe. Hello Fresh boxes are excellent for people who are rubbish at cooking. You could subscribe to them and both cook dinner - they will show him the basics at least. Or buy him a cookery course or something.

No he loves cooking, he's eating his dinner now, the smell was so bad it woke me up.

So it's not the I'll be so bad she won't ask me, cause I never do. He volunteers. I come home and he's cooked for me , it's just always terrible.

He can boil the perfect soft egg.

Sorry Op but that has made me laugh!! Get better soon!

Could you maybe buy him a cookery course for a birthday or Christmas present under the guise of "as you love cooking so much I thought you might enjoy doing this course..."?

Love that idea.

My husband microwaved a black forest gateau once 🙈

Some people don't really put care into their cooking , getting it onto a plate cooked enough to eat is the most they can manage .

Aww, I feel a bit bad for both of you! He obviously thinks he's doing a nice thing and by all accounts he's doing a much better job of looking after you when you are ill than some of the tossers you hear about on here!
On the other hand it can't be pleasant eating the sub standard results of his enthusiasm. I think the cookery course for his birthday is a good idea.