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Original poster

to think I should not have to explain this to a nearly 40 year old DH....

121 replies

morefalafel · 16/05/2014 18:52

I made a pie from scratch this morning. I left it in the fridge, covered with foil and with a note saying :

Brush me with a beaten egg using this (pastry brush that was on top) and put me in the oven at 180 for 35 minutes. I will look brown and bubbly and lovely when I am done.

So I get home from work and find a pie, in the oven at 220, covered in foil. The puff pastry was stuck to the foil and raw so when we took the foil off, it stuck to it and now we have a semi raw AND burnt pie with no lid Angry and the baby should have eaten this pie 45 minutes ago.

DH said he didn't know that a pie goes in the oven without foil. AIBU or is he a great lumping BUFFOON.

OP posts:
RedRoom · 16/05/2014 18:53

YABU.

stealthsquiggle · 16/05/2014 18:54

Great lumping buffoon, who will need a cookery for idiots course for his next birthday / Christmas.

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/05/2014 18:55

You are the kind of person who make pie from scratch. He is the kind of person so can't follow simple cooking instructions without messing it up. These two things are probably linked.

MuttonCadet · 16/05/2014 18:55

Yabu, why are you cooking a meal if he's home first? And what training from his parents did he get if he doesn't know that?

TheGirlFromIpanema · 16/05/2014 18:55

Did he glaze the tinfoil?

FunnyFoot · 16/05/2014 18:56

LTB.

Or give him a crash course in cooking following simple instructions.

Did he give reasons as to why he deviated from the plan?

AuditAngel · 16/05/2014 18:56

It depends. Does he normally have a problem following instructions?

DH could have understood this, but he is a chef. I have to give step by step instructions for similar type tasks that don't involve cooking.

Rosa · 16/05/2014 18:56

bet he forgot to turn the oven on so whacked it up high to make up for it ...
Mine would have done the same !

HerRoyalNotness · 16/05/2014 18:58

glaze the tinfoil Grin

I shouldn't laugh, this would be INFURIATING! I blame his parents, but he is young enough to learn new tricks!!

Raskova · 16/05/2014 18:59

I openly admit that I can't cook for shit but even I know what that means. (If by beaten egg, you mean stir it a bit?)

Whether id be capable of it??? Couldn't say!

YANBU

Original poster
morefalafel · 16/05/2014 18:59

He has no problem following instructions. He is a teacher.

Apparently I did not implicitly say "take the foil off" however I felt this was covered in the Brush with egg step.

Also... everyone in the world knows you don't cover a pie!!!!!

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BerniesBurneze · 16/05/2014 19:00

Yanbu! I would be really upset, to ruin a homemade pie is cruel... forgiveable about the tinfoil but 220 would annoy me

BitterAndOnlySlightlyTwisted · 16/05/2014 19:01

"You are the kind of person who make pie from scratch. He is the kind of person so can't follow simple cooking instructions without messing it up. These two things are probably linked."

Well, I laughed! Oh, and it's most definitely bloody spot-on.

A great lumping buffoon? Oh, yes

ZenGardener · 16/05/2014 19:01

You didn't say in your instructions to remove the foil. Hmm

My husband wouldn't be able to follow those instructions either. I once asked him to cook some pasta. He put in two small bags of pasta so doubled the cooking time. It tasted awful.

whatever5 · 16/05/2014 19:01

Why would he know that pie goes in the oven without foil if you normally do all the cooking? It's not obvious, especially as it was covered in foil in the fridge.

FengMa · 16/05/2014 19:03

I. Would. Lose. My. Shit.

YANBU.

Original poster
morefalafel · 16/05/2014 19:03

I actually don't do all of the cooking, we share it. I only made the pie today to use up all the crap that had expired!

OP posts:
curiousuze · 16/05/2014 19:06

YANBU. but at least he's not a spoonyfucker?

iklboo · 16/05/2014 19:08

He knows you take beans out of a tin first, right? Crikey - you even take the lid off a flipping Fray Bentos pie before putting it in the oven.

Very Poor Show.

softlysoftly · 16/05/2014 19:09

I could have fucked it up without the "remove foil" step.

In fact even if I removed foil, brushed with egg and put in at 180 at the right time it would still Have burnt because food hates me.

so YANBU but I feel for him :)

TravelinColour · 16/05/2014 19:10

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DejaVuAllOverAgain · 16/05/2014 19:14

But surely in order to brush the top with beaten egg you'd have to take the foil off? Confused Even I know that one and I'm usually a disaster when it comes to cooking.

Raskova · 16/05/2014 19:15

Oh, I didn't know you'd have to take foil off. I would have left it on Hmm

DejaVuAllOverAgain · 16/05/2014 19:15

Mind you, having said that I now remember once asking a friend how much garlic I should put in a casserole I was making. She said one or two meaning cloves, I thought she meant the whole bulb and put a full one in Blush

Bowlersarm · 16/05/2014 19:16

YANBU

Buffoon!

Laugh though OP, it's not the end of the world (quite close,but not quite..)