AIBU - dinner related

[AnnField]

AIBU to expect a 32 year old and a 13 year old to be able to make their own dinner?

Said dinner involved following the very basic and clear instructions on a jar of sauce (I know some of you will think I'm BU for this alone but it was chosen specifically as it was easy to make!)

Of the 4 steps on the jar (cut up chicken, fry chicken for a couple of mins to brown, mix with jar, put in oven) they've managed only 2.

AIBU to be a little pissed off at having to rescue their dinner?

If you keep rescuing them they won't learn, though!

But no YANBU.

DP and DC cookery class for father's day?

Yanbu, had they fried the chicken and not put it into the oven?

Am intrigued to know which steps they omitted. I have images of massive lumps of raw chicken, warming through in a bath of jar sauce. Which, if that is the case, they probably deserve to have to eat.

Why are you rescuing them? Leave them to it.

Either they cook or go hungry. You sort yourself out.

Whole raw chicken breasts dumped into the sauce which they were about to eat as 'it looked cooked'.

I'd have left them to it but the resulting food poisoning wouldn't have been pleasant!

Is your DP at least a little bit horrified that through carelessness he could've poisoned your child?

Not as horrified as he should be, though he was pretty sheepish.

Even worse, it's my DSD and I can't imagine her mum would have been too delighted at her returning home ill

Unless someone has spent time teaching the 13 year old I'd probably not expect her to manage. I think chicken can be awkward as it can look cooked from the outside. However I would expect your DH to manage! Maybe some time spent teaching your DSD wouldn't go amiss? So I don't think YABU in regards to DH but potentially you are in regards to DSD

YANBU! perhaps your DP needs to be left to cook meals more often given that he clearly needs the practice, how the heck did he manage to make it to 32 without being able to follow the instructions on the side of a jar?!

TBF, I would have missed out step 2 simply because it's plain not necessary

I'm sure once they realised the chicken was raw (are you sure it was?)they would have remedied it and no-one would have been ill.

Anyone who's never had to do it needs to learn/be taught though.

I cook with DSD most weekends and she does some kind of lessons at school which involve cooking too. DP can only cook really basic things. They can both read!

Chicken was definitely raw - I had to take it out the sauce, cut it up and put it back in the oven for over 30mins before it was edible