To get irritated by DH's forays into the kitchen to "cook"

[MattDillonsPants]

He occasionally gets an urge to cook...which is fine of course. It's not MY kitchen though I cook most of the meals at home.

So he wanted to make some tomato sauce which could be used for pizza bases and or as a base for soups or pastas. SO he spent a long time chopping ridiculous quantities of tomatoes and cooking them down with herbs in a MASSIVE catering sized pot.

Finished it...I tasted it and it almost took my head off because he'd put loads of fresh chiilis in it.

Whatever. WHY he did this is beyond me because we have two children who can't eat the enormous amount of sauce he's made....that was yesterday...it's 3.00pm here in Australia so I just decided to begin to make tonight's tea...meatballs.

I chop up some onions...look for the garlic...can't find it...ask DH where it is...he says, "Oh. The garlic. I used it all yesterday"

He used two whole bulbs of garlic and never bothered to replace them or tell me where they've gone!

I am tired so probably more irritable than usual. He's now gone to get more...but I'm so annoyed. These self indulgent experimental cooking adventures are wasteful and silly.

And how can I de-chilli an ocean of sauce please? Not milk or cream as DH doesn't eat dairy.

[MattDillonsPants]

Cherry on a rabbit hutch yes.

[cherrytree63]

[SwearySwearyQuiteContrary]

It's only "cooking" if you produce something edible in a reasonable number of serves given the quantities of ingredients used. I'd tell him that I would not be including him in any meals I prepare until he has consumed every last portion of his creation.

[poppy54321]

I'm late but I have to add to this one. When you are organised in the kitchen and make sure that you throw very little food away, because you don't like throwing things away, then this kind of thing can be annoying and frustrating. If you regularly have a lot of waste then perhaps it is no big deal to you. I was taught to use things up, I do not like wasted food at all. I'm not saying I never waste food, I do, but never a massive vat of tomatoes and garlic, that is crazy land. I would be visibly calm but it would take me some considerable effort to let this go, probably by moaning to someone else who understood.