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?

I’ll give you an alibi OP when you get the patio slabs out. 😉

I'm guessing as you do all the cooking, he's not that confident a cook or a bit out of practice?

Eggs are always the tricky bit, as they're last to get cooked, he's probably juggling finishing all the other bits off at the sane time and let's the eggs go a bit long.

He's doing his best OP, just be gracious and don't start threads slagging off the poor mans eggs

Be like the conductor of an orchestra

I actually used to be the conductor of a choir.

When he does his hobby at the weekend I do not complain.

@thekaiserswife how do you know the OP’s DH hasn’t ever started a TTC thread on her slagging of her eggs tho’?

Do you think he knows he’s rubbish at cooking eggs?

Perhaps a compromise would be for you to do the eggs every other time, which will hopefully show him how/when it should be done.

Overcooked eggs are so disappointing and unpleasant.

Also, it’s possible that once he’s put the eggs on, he pops out to shag a neighbour and loses track of time.

We do not have gas cookers (or gas anything) in most of Scotland.

We don't?

I've only ever had gas hobs.

I do put up with his hobby every weekend.

I am the designated egg-maker in the Noodle household, and he is the mushroom man. Both can do it but not as well as the other does.

In the north and west of Scotland there is only electricity.

Interesting. I didn't know that. I'm in Glasgow.

@Spieluhr

They don't build gas pipelines to rural areas.

Some people use Calor gas bottles if they want to cook with gas.

That must be a real pain. Although I know that some countries are trying to phase out the use of gas because of environmental issues but personally I think that it's much better for cooking.

I'm with you on the runny eggs, though I'd probably cook my own. The best bit of a breakfast is dipping the sausages and bacon in the yolk.

Also the potato scone.

Eggs are such an important part of a cooked breakfast that I think it is only kind to do them how your partner likes them. It's taking care of her desires .

I would ask him the day, the day before the next cooked breakfast day, to do them as you prefer them please.

Hardly a great ask of him is it, for his two cooking efforts a week?

Is said hobby terribly outing in true MN approved style?

Ahh I had this problem with my DH. But the reverse. Eggs were always too runny!

I solved the problem by telling him I couldn’t stomach snotty eggs. It seemed that description gave him a picture in his head of the thing to avoid.

I now get eggs with perfectly firm whites and a dippable yolk!

Omg I’d hate not cooking on gas. How does that go for you Mustress? You love cooking from what I’ve read about you. We have gas and electric hobs in the MOLD household.

Yanbu btw. It took a concerted effort for me to get dh to make me a decent cup of coffee. Why are eggs any different? It’s about getting to know what someone likes.

Oh yes - the tatie scone, dipped in runny yolk. Wondrous.

I agree about the cooking. We live in a small village in Argyll and I have had to get used to cooking with electricity.

Argyll is lovely but the thought of an electric hob fills me with horror. Needs must though of course.

I do think that he should try to cook the eggs the way you like them, but if he won't I'd just make them myself(grudgingly). I think it's considerate to try to make them the way your loved one prefers.

I was going to have a stir fry tonight but after this thread I think I'll be having potato scones, egg and beans.

I mean cooking the perfect fried egg is not rocket science but, unless you think your DH fucks it up on purpose to annoy you, he obviously just doesn't know how to do it to your liking. Have you tried showing him?

I think you need to sit down and talk about it. That would be a dealbreaker for me.

Right, shut up about eggs for a minute and go back to the square sausage Can I buy sausage meat and shape it into square sausage myself or are they Special square sausages that you can't make yourself?

(The word sausage looks funny to me now)

Is the hobby online chess?

In which case, his SiL disapproves of him very strongly.

They're special square sausages, also known as Lorne sausage. They are spiced differently from regular sausages and the texture is different. They're traditionally made with a mixture of pork and beef, but sometimes just beef.