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to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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alfrex · 21/01/2013 14:57

OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

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madoldbird · 21/01/2013 16:20

Grin genius thread! Thank you Alfrex for cheering me right up!

LadyBigtoes · 21/01/2013 16:21

If you do so much baking, why do you create rubbish cakes so regularly that you need a "system" for dealing with them? Confused

I can just picture your DH "cramming" them in as you say, hoping you wouldn't catch him. It's madness. If you leave a freshly baked cake lying around someone will be tempted. If it's that terrible, put them outside in the wheelie bin straight away - no confusion.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 21/01/2013 16:22

I have RTFT.

I don't care why the OP will not allow her DH or DCs to eat anything unless it is of Michelin star quality.

I don't care that ringing up a man to fix a fan oven takes about 30 seconds.

I don't even care that there are people in existence who would rather put washing up liquid on their cakes than let people eat them.
And whilst I feel a bit sorry for the DH having to "sneak" into his own kitchen and shove cake down his throat so quickly he may choke, in case the OP catches him, the only thing I really care about is....

WHERE THE ACTUAL FUCK DOES THE OP LIVE THAT THERE ARE NO BIRDS?
Literally no birds anywhere in the sky?
No even a solitary sparrow hopping on the lawn or a teeny tiny magpie in the sky?

How is that even possible?

Was your DH so hungry one day that he ate all of the birds?

LadyBigtoes · 21/01/2013 16:22

x-post coola!

CheerMum · 21/01/2013 16:24

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DoItToJulia · 21/01/2013 16:26

Arf at being married to Paul Hollywood! It's the only explanation!

OwlCatMouse · 21/01/2013 16:26

How on earth do you fuck up so many cakes that this is even an issue?

magimedi88 · 21/01/2013 16:28

I've had to go to the loo twice while reading this - it's really cheered me up!

Condemned cakes!

No birds

And other various brilliant & genius ripostes!!

TantrumsAndBalloons · 21/01/2013 16:28

There's a system owl
A skanky cake system.
But DH keeps ignoring it.

I'd suggest it's not the fault of the oven but the fault of the person using it.......

seeker · 21/01/2013 16:28

I bake cakes for money. My family know better than to eat a perfect cake if the see one out on a plate!

Fortunately there are usually enough sunk or burnt- (but not wet in the middle, I am inclined to over, rather than under, bake) -to keep people well supplied!

threesocksmorgan · 21/01/2013 16:28

this thread will for ever be "condemned cake at the house of no birds"
in my memory now

magimedi88 · 21/01/2013 16:29

And I've just realised OP's name has to be a combo of Alfred & Trex!! Grin

valiumredhead · 21/01/2013 16:29

How on earth do you fuck up so many cakes that this is even an issue?

Especially as you do so much baking Grin

Kormachameleon · 21/01/2013 16:29

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KatoPotato · 21/01/2013 16:30

You gotta have a system Bun tray/ Bin tray/ In Tray.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 21/01/2013 16:31

Hey OP, have you tried those "just add water" cake mixes.......?

Kyrptonite · 21/01/2013 16:31

Are you Tana Ramsey? Or Jools Oliver?

Or even possibly Anthea Turner.

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 16:32

hmmm I think this is interesting actually....I mean who do the cakes belong to once they are baked?

The perfect cakes are free game it seems....so ownership of perfect cakes is transferred from the OP to the family and the OP no longer retains the right to distribute them as she sees fit...

But sub par cakes remain the sole possession of the OP.

All clear so far...but why does the OP get to be the sole arbiter of sub-par-ness?

What if the DH, apparently a rational sentient adult has a different definition of sub par?

In this case the OP is essentially removing his adult right to decide if a cake is edible.

This seems to me to be infantlising the DH and somewhat controlling....

So on balance I think YABU, for thinking your opinion on a cakes worthiness is more important than anyone else's. ust coz you baked it doesn't automatically make you right.

PacificDogwood · 21/01/2013 16:33

YABU.

Another weird fred? WTF?

TantrumsAndBalloons · 21/01/2013 16:33

WHY ARE THERE NO BIRDS???

MurderOfGoths · 21/01/2013 16:35

MNHQ I beg you please don't delete this thread! I don't care if it's a bridge dweller or full of troll hunting it has had me in fits of giggles!!

Bella88 · 21/01/2013 16:35

The Op is obviously Mrs Kipling.

Sallystyle · 21/01/2013 16:35

I feel sorry for your husband!

My husband eats a lot of my shit that I considered ruined. It's a compliment!

It makes me smile that he still enjoys something I make even if it isn't perfect.

Plus, he would be really pissed off if I wasted a cake and just threw it out. What a waste.

ShamyFarrahCooper · 21/01/2013 16:36

Actually krytonite I've made Tana Ramsey's lemon drizzle cake and it's lush.

Didn't burn it either. Wink

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