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DP never uses the right utensil for the job - LTB? [Lighthearted]

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 16:55

So this is a pan of onions to go with hotdogs for tea - hotdog bun and kid's plate for scale!!

Why, when we have at least 6 suitable sauce or frying pans in the drawer, is he using a pan designed to fry a single egg to cook onions for 4 people????

He does it with everything- teaspoons to eat pudding, a paring knife to cut bread, tiny bowl to mix ingredients so they go all over the worktop, same for whopping cream so it takes forever as no air gets in.

AIBU to LTB?

DP never uses the right utensil for the job - LTB? [Lighthearted]
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Lindorballs · 02/09/2018 16:56

yanbu mine does this too. Gives me the rage.

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 17:00

@Lindorballs makes me all stabby!! Glad I'm not alone Smile

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 02/09/2018 17:00

Do you take over and finish the job when he does that? Might that be his ploy?

ArcadePixie · 02/09/2018 17:01

My DH is exactly the same. Uses the tiniest knife in the kitchen to cut everything, smallest pan available to cook everything. Pisses me off big time

Userplusnumbers · 02/09/2018 17:04

Infuriating. The only thing worse is restacking the pans in the cupboard in the wrong order

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 17:04

@curious probably with the whipping cream (not whopping!) so I don't eat my own arm but no he doesn't seem to mind the inconvenience or additional mess. Weird.

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Baumederose · 02/09/2018 17:05

My son (19, and nit bad at cooking) made a risotto in a griddle pan recently.

Yes a griddle pan.

I despair.

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 17:05

@Userplusnumbers I just redid the pan drawer this morning for that very reason. They all fit so well until he gets in there!!

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 17:10

A griddle pan Grin

Apparently they will "cook down" Confused

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Fluffyears · 02/09/2018 17:15

I dropped a tub of e-45 and DH came running with a fish slice!! He had read you need a spatula or knife to scoop it up. I couldn’t be angry as I was laughing too hard at him standing in his pants brandishing a fish slice.

concretesieve · 02/09/2018 17:15

YANBU. (I do like the dinky frying pan, though Smile)

S0upertrooper · 02/09/2018 17:18

Does he think size doesn't matter?

CraftyGin · 02/09/2018 17:20

My DH is 55 and a lost cause. He is too old to be trained. He defaults to the very biggest pans and utensils, and never has a thought to the size of the dishwasher and what mug will have to clean up after him.

BillywigSting · 02/09/2018 17:20

Yanbu my dp does this too but with things like tongs, knives etc.

I once caught him using a steak knife to peel a potato.

We have two perfectly good potato peelers AND a paring knife.

I just laughed and let him crack on

motortroll · 02/09/2018 17:31

YANBU

Athoigh I do like to eat my pudding with a teaspoon ....nothing wrong with that lol

AwdBovril · 02/09/2018 17:34

Leave him to it. And the inevitable clearing up after. Natural consequences.

I must admit, I too am a teaspoon eater. It helps me eat more slowly.

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Tizzlebizzle · 02/09/2018 17:56

I stand corrected with the teaspoons then - I think I'm just greedy and like a big mouthful of crumble and custard!

There were quite a few escapees when he cooked the onions but he's tidied it. Still gives me the rage though!!

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Lindorballs · 02/09/2018 18:25

Mine is very clean and tidy, does most of the cooking and more than his share of housework. It’s definitely not a ploy to get me to do things. I think it’s a kind of laziness - he’s already using a bread knife to cut his roll so he may as well use it to chop cherry tomatoes too. he’s started using the wrong tool so feels switching to the correct one will make more work - more washing up etc. I don’t get it at all.

IgglePigglesAnnoyingGiggle · 02/09/2018 18:27

Take about two weeks to "cook down" in that pan surely?
Also have a word re his large dice on hotdog onions - thinly sliced is what he needs!

HildaZelda · 02/09/2018 18:44

My DH uses 101 utensils to cook even the most basic of meals. Then he leaves them all dumped around the cooker or in the sink. Never ever bothers to wash them up or put them in the dishwasher.
Drives me bloody insane!

applesisapple5 · 02/09/2018 18:51

@HildaZelda same here! I wash up as I go as far as reasonable, so why am I left washing every pan in the drawer when DP is only hearing something up from the freezer?

mommybear1 · 02/09/2018 18:53

LTB OP mine does this to as well as using a) every utensil humanly possible b)making a mess where no other human would find it possible to do so Confused

IWantMyHatBack · 02/09/2018 18:55

I use a bread knife to chop cherry tomatoes. It works better.

ScrambledSmegs · 02/09/2018 19:00

My DH puts a milk pan on the largest ring of our electric hob. No amount of me explaining about the heat wasted and the fact that all he's gaining is a pan handle hotter than the fires in hell will make him change this habit. He also used to wreck frying pans by heating them up to smoking level, then immediately after cooking would plunge them into cold water. I eventually got through to him on the ideocy of that but not the wrong size ring. Yet.

He has a science degree ffs.

Rebecca36 · 02/09/2018 19:14

Mine is the same. Soup spoons for food that is not soup, steak knives for fish fingers, any old pan or dish. He'll also open a new thing, eg tomato puree, when there is one open in fridge.

However atm I am recovering from an injury so I say NOTHING and just enjoy what he prepares for me which is lovely.

(Back to normal moaning when I've recovered :-) )