"You're doing it wrong" wwyd?

[Kushanku]

Your DH is making dinner and asks you to make the mash whilst he pops to shop. When he gets back he first complains that the potatoes are not peeled properly, you explain that since he broke the potatoe peeler, its difficult. He moans and says we'll have to make do. Once boiled, you drain the water, add some milk - but at this point DH stops you and tells you you're doing it wrong with a "No! no! no! that's all wrong, you put the butter in first!" comment. You say "this is how I do it". He says "but its wrong! you don't do it like that". You say "I do". He says "but its wrong!"
So you say "do you want to take over?" and he says "yes!".

He then takes over the mash.

AIBU to find this quite arse-hole ish behaviour?

You need a potato ricer. It is like a giant garlic press and means you don't have to peel the potatoes at all - just cut them in half (or quarters if huge) and steam them before squodging them through the ricer. It produces lots of worms of mash whilst magically retaining the skins. Honestly, it's brilliant.

I melt butter and heat milk and cream in the same pan before adding to my mash worms and beating with a wooden spoon, but I can't imagine adding the ingredients in a different order makes an enormous amount of difference. Your husband was being an arse.

Mrs Stubby was cooking stir-fry last night... and I removed all the half-cooked chicken pieces from the wok and cut them up smaller, and put them back.

I like them smaller

reading this I think perhaps IWBU.

but I did improve the stir-fry

Nope, drained spuds back in pan to dry, then add milk and let it warm through, then mash. Add butter and beat until spuds are required consistency. Yum.

I'm sorry OP, that's me, that is.

whichever way you do it is the right way for you (i have no idea whether i put butter or milk in first, whichever is closest, I suppose, but i don't mash until they're both in)

anyway.
i can't watch someone cook without making comments.
My solution is that if DH is cooking on his own, I leave the room.
it makes me look like i'm not being helpful, but really, it's better that way

He's quite right the butter needs to melt.

He is a control freak in the kitchen that's all. Buy him a lovely new potato peeler (good grips speed peeler is the best) and let him cook from now on.

I love a male cheffy control freak. Marco Pierre White once famously threw a punter out of one of his restaurants because he asked for....wait for it....salt and pepper.

Divaish behaviour in the kitchen is mandatory for an impeccable result

THEY ARE NOT PINK PEPPERCORNS. Where is my fine Chinoix? I need to pass my sauce through it before it splits. OH NO ITS SPLIT!!! Everybody get out of my kitchen etc.

No jury would convict, blah blah blah...

Milk before tea!

Esp if you live in a stupidly hard water area like I do - if you put milk in last, you get horrible discoloured skin-y bits floating on the surface of your cuppa .

DH would do this too. But he's been doing similar for so long, we'd have just had a laugh about his control-freaky tendencies and then I'd have left him to it (probably to go off and do some laundry, which I don't let him do as he does it "wrong" i.e. differently).

I put milk in first.

You did it wrong

It doesn't matter what order you put stuff into mash.

It does matter what order you do tea.

Potato peelers cost about 99p - go get a new one.

butter first so it melts faster

Ahh jusy let him do the dinner from now on gives you more time to neglect supervise the children and mumsnet!

Butter first, then milk, then wholegrain mustard.

As for tea, if making straight into a cup it's milk last, if making in a teapot then milk goes in the cup first!

Op:YANBU though! I would've chucked the mash at him!

Can't believe it's taken two pages to get a mention of that essential ingredient - wholegrain mustard.

The rule is... you can either ask for help and accept how it's done or you can do it yourself. Anyone asking for help then complaining about how it's done wears their dinner.

And you're wrong. It should be horseradish, not mustard :o

Wholegrain mustard is the devil's baby poo.

May I gently suggest counselling before you decide to leave/kill him?

I have absolutely no idea whether I put milk or butter in first, don't really care to be honest. Now tea is different, I like it really strong and if I put milk in first I always put too much in so teabag first!