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?

My DH does this with serving food on plates. Doesn’t seem to see the need to have any space around the edge of the food, so if it’s beans on toast, say, or pancakes and maple syrup, it’s on a side plate as it fits. Well yes, it fits, just, but there’s no room for manoeuvre! I like space around it to mop up sauce or just not have half the food falling off the side as you cut it up. Plates all go in the dishwasher so saving on size has no benefit!

@ShatteredTattered sorry you've had a shitty day but glad I put a smile on your face . I wish I'd videoed him though as there were onions everywhere but he just kept saying "they'll cook down"!!

@SingleCellParamecium yy to the small plates thing too. Mine doesn't use side plates though, he gives me the kids' plastic ones. They don't even have any substance to get a good traction on your sauces!

Brace yourselves for this one - you know those expensive metal bundt cake tins? I coveted and eventually bought a beautiful Christmassy one that gives the effect of a fir tree forest... with a little train running along the bottom, ffs (Nigella used it in one of her shows). Intricate moulding and therefore a very non-stick interior.

Second time of triumphant use .... intending to lovingly clean it myself (with a normal washing-up brush), left it soaking for an hour or so. Returned to find dh had resorted to his tool of choice to clean dried on food - metal scourer, followed by wire wool. Cake tin is no longer non-stick, therefore useless (cake now turns out with no detail and broken-off treetops.
Surprisingly, I am still with him.

Oh god quince, that's awful. The most abrasive thing allowed in our house now is the dishcloth, DH would otherwise be scouring the bone China with a metal scrubby. Same man also proudly told me how good cream cleaner was on the glass shower screen.

I could write a long, sorry tale of the tea towel abuse that goes on in our house.

You could weep at the utensil misuse couldn't you!

My dad used to borrow a knitting needle to do something to the car and return it with a 45 degree bend to it. He wondered how mother knew he had used it.

DH mops spills on the worktop with a tea towel; I have tea towels for show that are never used. This is us.

I use cream cleaner on shower screens. We live in a hard water area and spray doesn't cut through the limescale.

they'll cook down

.... the words of a desperate man

Mind you, I have been known to use a spoon or fork to spread butter in emergencies can't face the washing up

Oh, quince, those tins are expensive (and beautiful)! Why are you still with him? He must be something quite special for you to overlook that incident!

Yesterday I went to put the rubbish in the wheelie bin, ready for bin collection this morning. But I couldn't because it was full to the brim with polystyrene from packaging that I was going to take to the tip. Obviously I couldn't because it was now covered in bin juice and no way was I fishing it all out of a massive bin.

DH's response to me querying the sense of this was "It's FINE" and then I was treated to the sight of him jumping up and down in the bin at 10pm to break the polystyrene down in order to squeeze in our weekly rubbish.

He's so weird.

quince please tell him he needs to buy you a new one! Saving up if needs be.

Same man also proudly told me how good cream cleaner was on the glass shower screen.

Why is that a problem? I know nothing about shower screens, I CBA doing housework and have a cleaner

Nikita, I think because they're abrasive cleaners and so would cover the glass in tiny scratches. Possibly not visible the first time you do it, but it's the sort of thing that builds up over time.

Ah, I see. Thank you.

Yep scrambled. I did consider laminating a copy of the mohs scale and sticking it to the fridge....

@ShatteredTattered has reminded me...

Years ago during a long bout of depression I couldn't cope with cutlery - using it, washing it, opening the drawer of it

So for about 3 months I used one set of tools exclusively: chop sticks. I was a bloody pro by the end

Dp uses every single item of cutlery and crockery in the house when cooking. He'll open a pack of prawns say for a stir fry, tip them into a clean bowl then tip them into the wok. WHY WOULD YOU NOT JUST TIP THEM STRAIGHT IN?!

also mops up greasy spills with tea towels. And puts plates in the washing up water with food still on them. The man is insane.

Whalebird your post “ Yep scrambled. I did consider laminating a copy of the mohs scale and sticking it to the fridge...“ says everything about why I love mumsnet. I can totally see myself holding a cream cleaner aloft and yelling “Do you not understand the mohs scale?” At my husband.

@BouleBaker now that really did make me laugh out loud. Commuters on the train with me now desperate to know what I'm reading

Oh think you must have been so unwell. Trendily minimalist of you, mind...

with my DS15, tea towels are just general mops, cloths, whatever - its grab and go!

though we have two decent chopping boards out, i saw him chopping pieces of chicken yesterday hunched on a small curved melanine ridged side plate.

Dh has lots of redeeming features, but yes, he will be buying me a new cake tin this year. Was too traumatised last year to consider it.
Here’s a photo of the loveliness:

@quince2figs in the words of Keats "a thing of beauty is a joy forever" - RIP beautiful bundt tin