Dp opened the golden syrup WITH A TIN OPENER

[Timri]

We normally get the squeeze bottle variety, but when I last got some they only had tins.
And he opened it with a tin opener!?!? I have just found the evidence in the cupboard with tin foil over the top.
AIBU to have assumed that everyone knows how to open golden syrup tin?!?

Hang on, should have read more. You're talking about the,paint can type ones?

I put my rice in a sieve for washing. Run cold water through.

Then it plops into the pan in a satisfying way afterwards.

If you use syrup a lot, how on earth has he not noticed that it has a replaceable lid?

I wash my rice by putting the rice in a pan and filling with water, swilling and then pouring the water out.
My Indian friend tells me that she doesn't rinse her rice and saves the rice water to starch her saris.

How have so many people got to adulthood without having seen golden syrup in tins?

What I like is the warning on Tate and Lyle black treacle tins that when it gets past its sell by date you should throw it away without opening as it might explode!

Black treacle DOES explode! Oh, the noise. And the mess... Ugh.

Whaaat? I must check my black treacle forthwith.

Oh I loathe golden syrup tins. They're a total twat to open and the lid always gets covered in the stuff so when you next go to open it you just get sticky hands. TBH I'm sure I thought it was a tin opener job the first time I bought the tinned variety too. It isn't COMPLETELY obvious.

TheSkiingGardener I quite frequently chuckle at the 'fresh' deli corned beef.

My Mum used to do buffets at a social club and if they asked for Corned Beef she got the big tins from the Deli counter. I'm not fussed which I have but I dont like cold out the fridge corned beef,

Hey OP, where did you buy your tin opener?! Mine has trouble enough with normal tins and those golden syrup ones are pretty sturdy! (seriously, where? I always seem to buy shit ones somehow!)

Yes it was a Filipino friend of mine who educated me on rice!
She said if you knew how it was harvested etc you would never not wash it.

Callous it literally would have been at a supermarket, or possibly wilkinsons. Its just a thick plastic handle one

Oh, I feel your pain, OP.

DH is oblivious to any "easy open" features on packaging, and just tears into it randomly.

And I found him trying to chisel the seal off a tube of tomato puree with a knife. He was astonished when I showed him you just reverse the cap to piece the seal.

I never wash rice.

BUT I do snap dried spaghetti in half to get it into the pan. So much quicker, and really not noticeable when it's cooked.

I wash rice in a sieve. Before and after cooking

It is noticeable if you snap spaghetti in half as it loses its twirlability! Very impressed that ds1 (10) read the syrup tin and told me where the quote was from! You could always use it to make millionaire shortbread to use it up.

Oh yes, can't do snapped spaghetti, unless it is chopped up for dd, who doesn't like it's twirlability. The rest of us like to twirl, otherwise you may as well be eating penne.

I was at this, then I remembered that recently, DH was cooking dinner, and called through to ask me if the mushrooms in the fridge were still okay. I said I thought they were, but to peel them if they looked a bit dodge.

Silence for a few moments. Then "erm...".

I went into the kitchen to find him looking puzzled, with a mushroom in one hand and a vegetable peeler in the other.

He does know his way around a syrup tin though, being flapjack-maker-in-chief.

DH, DB & DS all do the "opening cereal packets like a bear" thing - they seem to just grip it & pull sideways. None of your "sliding the finger to left & right under the flap" as per the instructions

DH can't open tetrapaks of fruit juice etc - he either cuts off a teeny tiny corner so it all glugs everywhere, or cuts off so much it won't fold down afterwards

I snap my spaghetti and still manage to twirl it. (shrugs)

My ex could open sliced bread so the bag ripped all the way down and never closed again. Same with reclosable ziplock bags... He would cut it open with scissors below the zip 😡