To be hopping mad regarding pie?

[MrsCantSayAnything]

We decided to have a beef pie for lunch. I put all of the filling ingredients together to cook slowly in our biggest pot. I asked DH to keep an eye on pop...and stir it now and then.

Then I went for a bath.

I could hear DH clanging around and thought he must be stirring etc.

I come down about 40 mins later to find DH has put the pie ingredients in a tiny pan on a higher heat....and begun to cook fucking lentils in the big pot.

AIBU to think you don't mess with someones pie ingredients and CHANGE THE POT AND THE HEAT???

DH thinks I'm crazy.

He often interferes in my cooking because he thinks he's better than me ...he''s not...we are about equally skilled in the kitchen.

And WHY cook a big pot of frigging lentils when there's a bastard big pie on the way with loads of veggies???

What were the lentils for? They're an ingredient, not a dish, so...?

I have seen this 'mutual cooking interference' before, where both people think they know best (and usually one believes that their method is THE method and cannot help but give 'helpful advice'). The only answer is to have a 'lead chef' for each meal. The other can help, but not change things, ask why and listen but not 'advise'.

ROARING @ "in my opinion it has set the pie back"

Don't mess with my shortcrust, bitch.

Yes, what were the lentils for?
I think we should be told.
Though lentils will never darken my door, like, ever.

Who the fuck wants lentils when there's pie on offer?

Did you know if you do Slimming World people FORCE YOU TO EAT lentil pie?

Not even joking. I never enquired further as to what it was.

Pie-wanker Rie??! I've now got that scene from Ametican Pie in my head

Why was the beef on the hob? Surely once it was browned you pop it into the pie to cook there. That's rather the point of pie isn't it?

But YANBU OP. We usually leave the other to keep an eye on dinner whilst the other goes upstairs for whatever reason.

I'm with sparkle. Lentils?! When there is pie?
LTB

I can't believe anyone else would want to take over if the other persons offered to cook.

I don't mind putting plates and things out to help DH if he's cooking, but why would I take the chance of getting roped in on the actual cooking bit if he's got everything under control??

LMFAO @ pie-wanker

My Dh used to do this when we first married.
I put the meat in the oven on a certain temp, he would go in and turn it up/down
I would put the veg on the hob, he would turn it up/down
He doesn't do that now [evil]

Sorry, Frank. I only thought of That Scene after I posted. I was thinking more of "Bus-wankers"

Who cooks lentils (about 40 pounds of them} when there is a pie on the hob??

Well, I assume that no one cooks a pie on the hob that it was actually just pie fllling and thus indistinguishable from, say, some kind of casserole which requires lentils.

Also "briefcase wanker"

YANBU.

You have him instructions and he meddled.

If you ask someone to stir something, you don't expect them to meddle.

Make his pie with lentils.

I suspect husband will be eating humble pie at some point today, with lentils...

I'm struggling with "briefcase wanker", Jodie. Remind me.

Leave the pie-wanker

He's obv. a crazy lentil weaver. LTB!
But not until you've waltzed back in there, tipped his poxy lentils into another pot, your delicious pie filling where it belongs and then booted him in the nuts a bit.

So he decanted the pie filling from a suitable pan into a less suitable pan and then washed the pan to cook a epic amount of lentils that have no purpose?

Your dh is weird.

I'm now dreaming of steak pie with gravy and pastry and mash.
The perfect winter comfort food.
I agree with others, no pie for him, let him feast on lentils , that's a vom emoticon BTW.

When the posh one turns up at school for the very first time, avec briefcase

Just for Jodie

Fwiend

The important question is whether your pie is going to be a real pie, or just a stew with a lid on.

Oh yes . Brilliant!

Poor old Will.