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

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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.

What does a condemned cake get for its last meal?

I thought the BITCHBITCHBITCH thread was odd but this one take the biscuit. heh heh.

At least this is a nice gentle form of oddness.

Murder thank you, will have a read now.I may be a while

and yuou all dictate what your husbands eat, assuming you cook their dinner!

Well, no actually. Regardless of who cooks, the decision about what we eat is agreed upon, not dictated to.

Hahaha @ are you thinking of fish?

I dictate it in my house I stand over DP with a massive bullwhip as he weeps into my curries.

A lesson in morning temptation,
Undenied- I cannot regret the sunken sponge,
The charred raisins do not haunt me,
No matter the late words and the ice,
A crumb on my thigh, it speaks:
Forbidden cakes taste all the sweeter.

Ah, I get it (I think) did your DH scoff the burnt cakes so he wouldnt have to empty the bin? Crafty fucker, personally I wouldnt put up with it.

I totally get where OP is coming from. I knit a lot, and I tell DH "take from that pile- the other pile is for the bin sometime next week"

What does he do? Goes up Asda's in the three fingered gloves!

I felt like such a fool

New acronym (for use when the OP is clearly batty) WDTBG? (where did the birds go?)

Is the errant husband's name Alfred by any chance?

Maybe if you put the burnt offerings outside, it would encourage birds, and bring joy to your life.

The thing is, OP, you have asked if you were being unreasonable, and despite the fact that EVERYONE thinks you were, you still continue on insisting that you are right and that your poor husband was in the wrong.

I'm with him.

You seriously need to step back and have a read of what people are saying - jokes aside. This kind of behaviour is very controlling and not of the real world.

And assuming that you have started this as a genuine thread then why wouldn't you listen to people's answers?

OK, OP, serious question time.

If your DH isn't allowed to eat imperfect cakes, can we come round and eat them?

SERIOUSLY! You are wasting a hell of a lot of food, and tbh, I agree with your DH, you DO sound like a control freak.

At least compost the bad cakes or something, it's dreadful to hear someone wasting so much food when others are relying on food banks (actually, there's an idea, donate your imperfect cakes there?).

Very funny thread

A lesson in morning temptation,
Undenied- I cannot regret the sunken sponge,
The charred raisins do not haunt me,
No matter the late words and the ice,
A crumb on my thigh, it speaks:
Forbidden cakes taste all the sweeter.

Sylvia Plath?

Look.

Take a deep breath.

Nobody on this thread thought that you were serious.

Everyone took one look at what you describe and thought this has GOT to be a joke. Nobody could possibly be like this.

Now if you can just look at that for a minute. And consider the possibility that there's a reason for that.

It is not normal to behave as you describe.

It isn't.

That isn't attacking you in any way.

It is a simple fact.

Now, if you can't see it, that's worrying. I am not attacking you, I am not taking the piss, I am not joking when I say that you should stop being angry at everyone thinking you were joking and think calmly and logically about why nobody could believe that it wasn't a joke.

Please. That should tell you something.

Compulsively baking and disregarding anything that you decide is not perfect and throwing edible food away repeatedly because it hasn't met the criteria for serving to your family and getting enraged with your husband because he doesn't care if the cake's a bit burned or didn't rise and having a system for disposal of unsatisfactory cakes and seeking to control the kitchen and back again to rage...

It is not normal. If everyone is saying this to you - why do you think that is?

You need to address it.

This is madness, utter madness. Crap cakes are part of the fun. You make a cake, will it be lovely or will it be rubbish? Either way, you have to eat it. It's like Revel roulette. Once you agree to play you have to see it through. No spitting out the coffee ones.

Just requires more buttercream if it's not one of your better ones.

I think OP that you should gateau ver yourself. It's perfectly eclair that you shouldn't be getting in a flapjack about such a storm in a cupcake.

After you have words again with your dh tonight can you start a new thread? This one is taking a while to load now. Thanks.

Oh and I'm a very amateur baker but I've never made one that required binning, let alone enough for a system.

@ Floaty!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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I still don't get why eating the condemned cake is disrespectful. Surely your DH has reasonably high/normal standards when it comes to what he will and won't eat? So therefore his eating a 'condemned' cake demonstrates that it is still, to him, quite edible (and maybe even very tasty) even if it doesn't quite reach your high standards? In my world that would (if anything) be a compliment.

Now, if he was eating the condemned cakkes instead of the 'passed muster' cakes, well then.....