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

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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?

@IgglePigglesAnnoyingGiggle quite! Will have a word re. his dicing skills too

Its so nice to know others have these little bugbears too. I love him to bits - he does all the ironing, school runs (wfh) and mows the lawn the day before green bin day without fail but my God does the kitchen behaviour get on my tits!!

Regardless of the pan, he has definitely sliced those onions incorrectly for a hot dog.

Hot dog onions should be thinly sliced circles, so that when they cook down they are all stringy and sweet and get caught in your teeth when you bite into the sausagey goodness.

HTH

Mine sets tea towels on fire. Even the beautiful unused Irish linen ones I found in the antiques centre that brought me deep joy every time I touched them.

He is a better cook than me as well, so I don’t even feel I can get properly cross.

Oh my I thought mine was bad. He uses massive spoons for taking food out the roasting pan...but that is bad OP!

I caught mine using the salad tongs to make risotto.

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.

He must have been reading about the proverbial MN "sex lube and a fish slice".

I do get into a high dudgeon over the misuse of kitchen utensils, considering the resulting mess.

But I do feel some guilt over my regular use of an old butter knife as a screwdriver, a screwdriver as a chisel, a chisel as a lever, and vise grips for pretty much everything (using vise grips in place of a spanner rounds off the corners of nuts). In fact I very often use specialist tools for unrelated purposes, possibly sometimes doing a small bit of damage to the tools, because I cannot be bothered to hunt up the correct tool for the job. These are undoubtedly worse crimes.

What you've not LTB already?? Yabu !
We could do one of those double jeopardy type swaps if you like, you 'deal' with my DH and l'll deal with yours.
I want mine to be held somewhere he can never harm my lovely non stick pans with fecking metal utensils ever again.

@Bahhhhhumbug sounds like a deal - yours might end up in a pan and slotted spoon related accident and mine slices his artery with a kid's plastic knife while attempting to use it to eat steak...

DH uses a massive saucepan to heat soup. Gives me the rage! He has also been known to use a spoon to butter bread rather than wash a knife. And uses my Cath Kidston napkins to wipe down the work surfaces despite me explaining repeatedly that's not what they are for, he seems to think they are interchangeable with tea towels (which in my view also shouldn't be used in that fashion but I lost that argument a long time ago). Argh!

Both DH and DD are guilty here.

Both will heat a pan of beans or soup, then put it back on the same ring so the residue heat bakes the scrapings onto the bottom on the pan.

Thise onions are not the correct cut for hot dogs. I agree with pp half moons or rings are correct.

DH leaves one mouthful of food and the crockery on the surface above the empty dishwasher. DS never shuts a cupboard door. I use all the pans and utensils and it drives DH mad (we have a dishwasher). I would use the serrated knife for bread and tomatoes but would use a butter knife for spread.

I hate being out for dinner and getting a dessert spoon instead of a soup spoon.

I feel your pain, my dh eats ice cream with a fork

I have to click off this thread because it’s making me irrationally angry

Your pic made me laugh.
My DH wouldn't attempt even doing that without a bazillion questions first: which pan, how to cut the onions, what with, which chopping board? I've stopped answering his questions now.

He recently made a pasta sauce when I was struck down with a virus. I told him which veg to lightly fry before adding the Loyd Grossman sauce. When I looked in the kitchen he had used 4 separate pans for the veg He really does try. I'm just going to leave him to it in future.

I feel your pain, my dh eats ice cream with a fork
Dude. I've never actually said it and meant it before, but you have to LTB. He's clearly a psychopath.

Maybe he thinks he's a "Borrower" and needs the tiny tools?

I’m more intrigued about whopping cream tbh

Hide all the tiny pans and bowls so he will have to use large ones.

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@NowWhatUsernameShallIHave whopping cream is reserved for "special occasions" like when he used a bread knife to actually cut bread

Drives me mad! The other thing that enrages me is when he can't remember the name of the utensil. My FIL has called a fish slice an "egg lifter" for years.

Has he got tiny hands and the small utensils make them seem bigger? Are you married to Donald Trump?

I've had to hide the 'knife sharpening steel' from DH.

Every time he's in the kitchen he feels a caveman-like need to sharpen knives by waving them madly around against the steel in something that resembles an octopus having a sword fight with itself.

And then he wonders why the knives are wrecked. Hammering them would be just as effective.

I've also seen him using a huge carving fork and knife to cut up a chicken breast. I had to leave the room.