To expect DH to do this for me

[TheMustressMhor]

Every weekend DH cooks breakfast.

And every weekend my fried egg is too hard.

I only like dippy eggs. If he's going to go to the trouble of cooking bacon, black pudding, square sausage, mushrooms, eggs and toast, he could at least get the eggs right.

AIBU to expect him to take more care?

DH cooks bacon and it’s still mooing

Are you sure he's not actually cooking you steak in that case?

Good lord, I wish my DH would cook me a big lovely breakfast like that, however the eggs are! Just let him cook all the the other stuff and then cook your eggs the way you like them at the end.

Yabvu, your poor hubby. Make them yourself you ungrateful...

I’m with you, op, whenever my husband cooks anything (quite often) he asks for my opinion and tells me to be truthful, I tell him the truth which is usually complimentary, but if there’s something I don’t like about it, he’ll change it the following time he cooks.

And he does the same for me.

And even though I am a cook, my husband still does some things better than me. Like Yorkshire puddings. His outshine mine every time.

But then, my fried eggs are 100% better than his 😁😁

Just go out for breakfast. Treat yourself

I don't think it's the way he cooks the eggs that is the real issue here, it's that he doesn't appear to care enough about what you prefer to do it for you and I'm totally with you OP.

My husband is a lovely guy and always tries to please me but he is essentially lazy and has never taken the time to listen to me or take note of my preferences. He'll buy me treats when he goes shopping for instance but it's what he would like, not what I would like.
In direct opposite, I know exactly what his favourites are, how he likes his food cooked, etc and I always make sure whatever I'm doing for him or getting him, is as he prefers. I know he loves chocolate cake so I'll buy him chocolate cake. It's the last thing I'd ever choose for me but he still buys it for me.

Its not the eggs, it's the thought put in to it.

DH cooks bacon and it’s still mooing

Are you sure he's not actually cooking you steak in that case?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 crying

Ok it kind of seems unreasonable but I’ll bet there are loads of things you learned to do right for him. It winds me up that I’ve learned the perfect coffee/tea for my DH but he can’t see it’s important to get mine right too

I agree with you OP. What's the point of making you an egg when he doesn't do it the way you like it, and you've repeatedly told him? I have a relative like this. For 40 years she's insisted on making me a cup of tea as weak as gnat's piss, even though I've told her and told her that I won't drink it that way. For about 30 years I've been telling her not to bother. I think it's a control thing with her. Maybe also with your DP?

Crikey - you’re harsh OP!

It’s all a matter of timing and maybe he just can’t quite manage it, but he’s doing his best. Not everyone can do perfect eggs you know. Maybe tell him you don't want eggs then?

I’d be chuffed to bits if my DH produced a breakfast every weekend, runny or hard eggs

LTB. He's obviously seeing someone else on the side and is cooking your eggs the way the the Other Woman likes them. Such a tell-tale sign. Look through his phone, I'll bet she's sent him sexy texts with the recipe for hollandaise.

Why not cook them yourself? He is cooking several things, you are complaining abt one.

He could think that you are not grateful so he cooks eggs in a passive aggressive way. The way you are phrasing your unhappiness, you do not sound grateful. "The least"??? do you talk to him or complain?
If you have a problem not the eggs, address it.

I have cooked hard eggs for my dh for 3 decades. He loves soft. I don't have the patience or skill. He cooks his own.

If he wrote what you wrote on here, he would be eviscerated.

I have cooked hard eggs for my dh for 3 decades. He loves soft. I don't have the patience or skill. He cooks his own.

If he wrote what you wrote on here, he would be eviscerated

Does your DH cook every other meal in the house, and you do him eggs as a treat and ruin them because you don't care enough to try to do them nicely?

No?

I thought not.

YABU.

@AzraiL

Sexy texts

Don't you mean s-eggs-y texts?

MistressMhor

I really can't cook dippy eggs for some reason, no matter how hard I try. They always end up hard. Tbh they eat what they're given or they can do it themselves.

Crikey, how ungrateful.

Have you logged it with 101?

I love a fried egg with perfectly cooked white and a soft runny yolk. My local greasy spoons does great ones as part of their breakfast (my Saturday treat).

OTOH, my 16 year old DS has the yolk smashed and mixed into the white..........

How would you feel if he bitched about your cooking?

It’s not ‘bitching’ to want your egg cooked the way you like it. 🙄

You can buy the square sausages in Tenko.

OP is having a wind up!

@TheMustressMhor

I had the opposite problem OP. My DH likes his eggs runny and I don’t but he never used to cook mine long enough! He has learned now though and either flips my egg or puts mine in a minute before his.

I don’t think it’s ungrateful at all to request something cooked the way you want it.

YANBU: as you say, he only cooks 2 meals a week and it's not much to ask that it's cooked properly.

If he told you he didn't like his steak well done would you cook it well done EVERY time? No.

If he said he didn't like sugar in his tea would you put 3 sugars in it? No.

If he can't cook the egg how you like it then he just needs to say so and you can do it, it's not hard, your marriage is not awful and neither are you.

Ignore the b***s.