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 would like to hazard a guess about the hobby, but it would be too outing to do so.

Eggs are inedible in any form.

YANBU.

The isue I have with all the comments along the lines of 'being precious' or 'just do it yourself then' is where do you stop?
So Dh doesnt liike spicy stuff. he gentky trlls me numeprus times but I carry on preparing the evening meals with spicy food. Is that OK?
I am pregnant, have bad morning sickness and cant stand some spices and dont want to risk eating shelfish/shrimps (because they make me gag too). DH cooks a curry most nights for us. Is that OK??

In a relationhsip, I think its normal to listen to the other likes and dislikes. Making a mistake is normal. Constantly doing something knowing that this is a way that doesnt work for your partner is showing a total lack of respect for that person.
Expecting your partner to make an effort for you when you do X whilst refusing to make an effort for them by doing Y just shows that you take them for granted and that you dnt care about them (but do care that they should be nice to you).

Tbh if someone cant be bothered to make an effor by taking the egg off the pan two minutes before theirs, it makes me wonder what sort of effort they happy to make for their partner. It would sound like its nothing at all....

Oh good god are we so stupid we do not understand the concept of a dippy egg hmm

@PityParty4one

Can I suggest you extend your party to two and take pity on the poor poster who didn’t know what a dippy egg was. Not their fault. Some people just aren’t egg-ucated.

Would poached eggs be a good compromise? Easier to get 'dippy' and no crunchy, white bits - if crunchy white bits are a negative factor for you. They are for me.

Dear me DandyAF - was that supposed to be a yoke?

Is it Loren sausage?

Are you in the room when he cooks the eggs? Just jump up and say that’s enough cooking for my egg. DH likes his nearly cooked through I’m with you it should be runny. YANBU if he listened he would cook it like you like it. BUT he is a man!

Surely if someone is being kind like this and going to this much effort to Cook you breakfast the least you can do is be grateful and Cope with a harder egg than usual.

Haha yes what a saint his is to cook 2 out of 16 meals! Perhaps OP you should humbly worship him for his offerings.

I like runny eggs so much that my favourite comfort food is raw egg yolk (just the yolk) in hot buttered toast.

Food of the GODS.

Watch it @TheMustressMhor or my hard eggs and soldiers will be challenging you to a battle at brunch dawn.

If this was the other way around everyone would say your dh should cook his own bloody breakfast.

An instant pot . . . .

You're right damaged888

It's just not fair.

Yanbu
He’s making it anyway, he can at least do it properly .
I feel your pain

TheMustressMhor

Dear me DandyAF - was that supposed to be a yoke?

It made me crack up.

I want Loren sausage now.

Is the black pudding Stornaway black pudding? Or Macbeth’s ?
The two best black puddings in the country.

Is the bacon crispy?

You could buy him a cooking class for his birthday making sure it has eggs on the menu.
I’ve had a better idea. Write to Saturday Kitchen and ask if he can go on and would they teach him to make the perfect fried egg. Don’t let on. Just let him think he was picked at random.

We don’t have gas either but last year we bought an Everhot. Mmmm.

I am picky about my scrambled egg too. Only my best friend and I make the best scrambled egg. I used to have it cooked more until I met her 30 years ago and she made me lunch of scrambled egg on toast. Now I take it off earlier and while buttering the toast it continues cooking in its own heat and it is soft and creamy. No milk or cream just egg, pepper and salt.
Poached eggs 🥚 I have a poacher.

Does he apologise for the hard egg as he gives you the plate or does he stand there awaiting praise?

I know my DH likes friend eggs done a bit less than me but I don’t always manage it! I like them slightly dippy but not slimey.

Can you imagine the outrage if a man said this.

OP - your DH needs lessons from mine....

I do all the cooking apart from Sunday morning breakfast.

He takes requests.....

Typically:

Me: bacon, square sausage, potato cake, grilled tomato and runny fried egg (or a bacon/grilled tomato sandwich in an oven bottom muffin)

Him: bacon, square sausage, potato cake, black pudding, beans and scrambled egg (or a bacon/sausage sandwich with a hard fried egg in while sliced bread)

DSD: Bacon, soft fried egg, beans, potato cake (or poached eggs on toast)

DS: square sausage, beans, potato cake, scrambled egg (or a sausage sandwich in an oven bottom muffin)

Breakfasts elsewhere are always a let down.

So no YANBU - a "dippy" egg is the cornerstone of a good breakfast imho and there is no excuse for getting this wrong (or dry overcooked scrambled eggs - DH cooks them slowly in a double boiler)

P.s condiments are allowed and placed on the table. Brown sauce for me and DH and tomato ketchup for the kids and we don't taste it first #autocondimentgate

P.p.s this is the only meal he can cook so it's good imperative he excels at it....

God you lot are so rude-calling me thick!

“Dippy” eggs sounds like toddler food. We use grown up names for our food, so I would call it a fried egg with a runny yolk. The “dippy” description could be assumed to be a soft boiled egg, a soft poached egg or a runny fried egg. It’s unclear.

"FWIW - my DH likes his egg yolk fried hard (sick bastard!). I have to break the yolk, and fry the egg on both sides to ensure inedibility the are solid."

I think that's one of the worst things I've ever read on MN @SchadenfreudePersonified.

Why are you putting up with this awful behaviour, let alone facilitating it?

You probably don’t have a husband. You probably have cats or birds or something. I’m sure that in your lonely little head this was probably very amusing. But it’s probably best left in your head, with your imaginary husband.

Breakfast eggs (unless softly scrambled) should always be "dippy" regardless of fried, poached or boiled in my world.

There is nothing so sad as opening a boiled egg/cutting into a poached/fried egg with feelings of joyous optimism (and a toast solider/forkful of potato cake) to be faced with an undippable egg yolk.

It's heartbreaking

You're just eggsagerating, OP.

But it’s probably best left in your head, with your imaginary husband

I have to disagree. And I know a thing or two about imaginary..

@DeRigueurMortis this is true. The dippy word makes my toes curl though 🤢