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

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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 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.

YANBU
I think he has deliberately failed this task so that you never ask him to cook again.
You need

Haha, dh would do that! He once put a saucepan on an electric hob but the hobs had covers and he didn't remove them!

jasmine he was meant to know he had to take the foil off, because otherwise he would have eggwashed the foil. As someone upthread has already said in jest!

Martorana Fri 16-May-14 19:40:26
Everyone knows that men can't do domestic things, bless them. Their willies get in the way. It's just not fair to ask them. The only way thy can possibly do it is if they are taught by their mothers when they are little enough for the willy thing not to be a problem. So if it's anyone's fault it's his mother's.

Rubbish. This isn't about a man being unable to do anything, but a person being left an unfamiliar task, without clear enough instructions.

And it was my dad who taught me to cook.

I woukd of put foil back on unless someone told me otherwise. Tbf I would of just waited until dh got back and done something else if he had spent time cooking it in case I did it wrong

I would have specified to take the foil off.

We do often cook cooperatively especially if we are having staggered arrival times. I took DS swimming today and had started prepping tea but DS wanted to "walk" home (read, look at every flower and push the buggy) so I rang DH on the train and outlined the first stages, which he'd done by the time we got home.

You didnt say to put the foil back on and the foil was already off anyway. YANBU.

To everyone who has said they would have cooked it with the foil on, whenever have you cooked a frozen pie or ready made pie with foil on it? Plus he shares the cooking, hes not a newbie!

Stupid eejit, give him the chair for that one.

Ive never seen anyone cook a homemade pie but they sometimes have tin foil on when you see it on tv. I would probably have googled it if I was left in this situation. I dont think this is obvious if you dont cook.

Did he actually egg wash the pie? I bet he didn't.

Did he ever live alone and look after himself?

DH has just admitted to probably doing the same thing, also stating, 'but the instructions didnt say to remove the foil'

He's a buffoon. Sounds like he didn't engage his brain. At what point was he expecting the foil to go brown?

I had similar with dp today. He offered to cook a pasta bake for tea. He calls me at work to ask if you boil the pasta first. I tell him no, put half a bag of pasta in the dish, add the jarred sauce then fill jar to top of label with water add that to the dish, stir and bake, follow the instructions on the jar.
So on my way home he calls again to say there are no instructions on the jar. (He bought a stir in jar not a pasta bake jar of sauce) I told him no matter do it as I said. Then he says he has but had boiled the pasta for. 5 mins first
End result, watery pasta bake with not a lot of flavour!

Why would you use a jar to make a pasta bake?

I actually do boil the pasta first for a pasta bake, add the meat/veg with a tin of tomatoes and some spices and only put it in the oven for 30 mins with a layer of cheese on. But I get that that is quite a long process and with no instructions on the jar, DH would mess up for sure.

But a pie? Even a pie from the shop would come in a foil tray and nothing else? Even a pukka pie from the chip shop doesn't come covered.

Oh dear,

this is not something i would have much to moan about but then I have been ground down by someone who acts like a teenager at home so my standards are probably lower

I'm with Fryone. It's a vital step. It's the step that fucked the pie as it turns out. (Be glad it wasn't "an American pie" as in that film the bloke does.)

You know for future write instructions for numpties.

YABU for not saying to take the foil off. If something I didn't know how to cook was going in the oven, and it had foil on, I might assume the foil was there for a reason unless stated otherwise. Not everyone knows how to make pies. The temp is less forgivable, but I wonder if he noticed it wasn't cooking properly and turned it up?

Very annoying, I'm sure I would be upset too, but an honest mistake.

Would drive me nuts, but your situation OP made me think of this picture.

The jar for the pasta bake was to keep it simple, not too instructions to follow, but it was more instructions to manage than choose from menu & dial which is his usual contribution!

To many instructions even

I have never ever cooked a pie

unless ypu count cottage pie