DH 'baking' AIBU

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Eurgh I may be U. DH had to go out last night, he told me if I bathed DD5, he would make a marshmallow/rice crispy tray bake with her at her request to take some baking to school. Great! He made the tray bake, didn't follow any recipe but said it tasted good. DD excited. I've just gone to check it and noticed he's lined the tray with bloody cling film instead of going out and buying tin foil. That means one sticky mess as I've tried to remove it with the cling film not really judging. Now got to go and buy sweets instead to give DD something to hand out.

AIBU to say only a fool would like a tray with cling film?!

Must add, I'm a little cross right now but there won't be a huge row, by the time he's home from work it will be a jokey 'if you had a brain you would be dangerous' type teasing.

Cling film is how you make most fridge cakes. That's how we always do it. We never follow a recipe. It's always come off OK.

It was his failure to use or read a recipe that was at fault.
Lack of butter, lack of pressing it down, probably too much marshmallow: krispie.

Might popping it in the freezer help to stiffen it to get the cling film off?

Wow that is a pretty basic lack of understanding. That's not even coooking knowledge basic.

Rubbish. If you do a lot of baking, you often come across recipes for things that set in the fridge which call for lining tins/trays with cling film.

Cling film can usually safely go in the microwave with things that get very hot. He hasn’t been stupid here.

What do you mean @dudsville?

Bang it in the freezer cling film doesnt like that and wont stick to anything

And I would never use foil for this. Not necessary and Very environmentally wasteful.
Just grease the tin.

Kind of thing my dp would do, I'd let him off, it's annoying but easy enough a mistreat to make especially if you're not used to it.

I think it’ll be the marshmallows, I made the same error a few weeks ago Melted way too many marshmallows compared to the amount of butter I melted as I don’t like marshmallows and wanted to use them up. They turned into a gloopy mess but did set eventually!!

People telling me to calm down need to, er, calm down! Ive said im a bit cross, not raging! Cross as in 'FS now I've got to deal with his fuck up on a Monday morning'.
He cut corners thinking he knew best(an unfortunate personality trait at times) but he didnt know best. I've popped it in the freezer and put a Super Freeze setting on so hopefully it can be recovered!! Fingers crossed!

He tried to do something nice, take a task off your hands and was actively doing some of the parenting. Yes, he made a minor cock up, but at least he had a go!

It’s his recipe that’s wrong, not the use of cling film.

Absolutely. Lining the tray with cling is perfectly standard when making any sort of fridge cake. Not foil. If he's got the wrong ratio of marshmallow to cereal that's not the cling film's fault.

Your poor husband. Trying to do a nice thing with your daughter and you're just awful.

Foil would have also stuck. Cling film was the right choice.

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And I would never use foil for this. Not necessary and Very environmentally wasteful.
Just grease the tin.

Yes another point, the tray needed a bit of a scrub to get cooking grease off it, would have took 2 minutes. That would have been preferable and easier.

In his defence I don't think his mother baked with him much as a child whereas my Mum did a lot of baking. Not to blow my own trumpet but I also have a GCSE Home Ec.

He did a nice thing. But he was an arse not to use a recipe. So don’t give him too much sympathy.

I agree OP is being a bit U.
As others have pointed out, the situation could be a couple of things- too much melted marshmallow, not set at a cold enough temp, or poor quality cling film.

It’s harsh to refer to baking as a “fuck up” or “cock up” when we all have bad cooking days where things do not always come out right. That doesn’t make her DH or us incompetent.

Can someone please acknowledge that this is lighthearted and I'm not raging. Am I not making myself clear?

I always fuck up when I bake. For some reason my kids live me to make their birthday cakes, which never come out right. He will always joke that people should avoid my cakes. I tell him to do it better. Its just lighthearted teasing between us.

PurpleDaisies
"It’s his recipe that’s wrong, not the use of cling film."

It depends on the quality of the cling film, cheaper types release BPA into heated food.

It's fine if you decide to use it, but not when baking for others.

It's unnecessary and it's worse than other single use plastics.

This is lighthearted, you are not raging.

Like I wasn't when dh made scrambled egg by pouring the mix into boiling water.

Or melted CDs on the BBQ.

Or turned the oven on to be helpful when I had three cakes and two tray bakes in it for the village show. I had ran out of space and put them there to sit as only I ever use the oven.

I could go on......

AIBU to say only a fool would like a tray with cling film?!

As previous posters have pointed out, its quite common to use cling film for recipes like this, so yes YABU.

In his defence I don't think his mother baked with him much as a child whereas my Mum did a lot of baking. Not to blow my own trumpet but I also have a GCSE Home Ec.

Congratulations.

Can’t you acknowledge that you’re wrong here and using cling film (as stated by lots of posters) is a perfectly normal way to line tins for fridge cakes? I’m sorry your mum never showed you how to do it like that.

You're all wrong ... non-stick baking paper is waaaaay better than cling film or foil.

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You're all wrong ... non-stick baking paper is waaaaay better than cling film or foil.

The king of lining material is ready shaped loaf tin liners that you just pop in to the tin.

To be honest, it sounds like a recipe issue!

I get it! It is one of those annoying little things our DH sometimes do. Makes are irate at the time, but we calm down relatively quickly.