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To be pissed off he won't stop touching stuff when I am trying to cook?!

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VelveteenBunni · 15/07/2020 21:02

DP is really trying my patience. I'll be cooking something and leave it to simmer or whatever, and DP will come along and turn it all the way down!

It winds me up a bit because it's usually potatoes which means when I come back after 15 mins and should normally find basically cooked potatoes, I'm finding raw ones bumping around in tepid water (my hobs go LOW)

I bloody snapped at him today. I don't understand why he keeps doing it when I've asked him not to?!

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verybritishproblems · 15/07/2020 23:37

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow I felt that and emphasise. My DP is the same!

FortunesFave · 15/07/2020 23:37

his potatoes are like rocks, because the water has taken forever to get to boiling without the lid on.

Don't you boil the water in the kettle first? So they can go straight into boiling water @Father?

verybritishproblems · 15/07/2020 23:37

Empathise*

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 15/07/2020 23:51

thanks @verybritishproblems ...you can come into the kitchen and chat to me ...the dh's can sit in the yard.

@Justmuddlingalong ...I am a Peggyfucker....dh somehow hurls stuff at the line and just fixes it where it touches, doesn't match the pegs, find the side seams, turn stuff out the right way. He also pegs socks up, in pairs by folding the toe so they never dry. And he doesn't hang stuff up in order

I know it doesn't really matter, but YES to the twitching!

TheClitterati · 15/07/2020 23:52

I only had to read the heading to know you are married to a Spoony Fucker.

verybritishproblems · 15/07/2020 23:53

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow Deal

TheClitterati · 15/07/2020 23:57

@FortunesFave

his potatoes are like rocks, because the water has taken forever to get to boiling without the lid on.

Don't you boil the water in the kettle first? So they can go straight into boiling water @Father?

Yikes! If it's grown underground you should start to cook with cold water - carrots, spuds etc. Save the boiling water for veg grown above ground.

HarlinRay · 16/07/2020 00:00

@TheClitterati utter bollocks. Why is there so much myth and nonsense around cooking?

damnandblastitagain · 16/07/2020 00:02

"Yikes! If it's grown underground you should start to cook with cold water - carrots, spuds etc. Save the boiling water for veg grown above ground."

WHAT? Why? What is this rule that I don't know about. I always boil the kettle, put it into the pan, then add raw potatoes. Otherwise they take for ever to come to the boil and you can't leave the kitchen in case I've set the temp too high and they come to the boil and then boil over?

Shinygoldbauble · 16/07/2020 00:03

Overground start in boiling water, underground start in cold water.
If you start potatoes in boiling water the outside cooks too quickly and the middle will be undercooked. Secondary school home economics but has always served me well.

BitOfFun · 16/07/2020 00:06

@TheClitterati, I've never heard that- how come?

Giggorata · 16/07/2020 00:06

I have to tell him constantly “out of my triangle” although to be honest, it's more of a rectangle, as it includes the pantry.
I have taken to just mowing him down, you know when you get to the moving fast for timing bit. It's actually been a lot more effective.

BitOfFun · 16/07/2020 00:08

Well, every day's a school day!

TheClitterati · 16/07/2020 00:10

I don't know how come & can't remember when I learnt it - I just have always followed this. Makes sense.

I enjoyed a reread of the spoonyfucker thread / incredible that it was 7 years ago.

BitOfFun · 16/07/2020 00:10

Ooh, I've got one for you: you should put the potatoes in cold water as soon as they are peeled and chopped, and then change the water before boiling. It rinses off the excess starch.

TheClitterati · 16/07/2020 00:13

If you make sweet potato oven fries you soak them in cold water to get rid of excess starch too. Gotta dry them off after though. Makes them more likely to be crispy.

TheClitterati · 16/07/2020 00:14

@BitOfFun

Ooh, I've got one for you: you should put the potatoes in cold water as soon as they are peeled and chopped, and then change the water before boiling. It rinses off the excess starch.

Growing up my neighbours used to have to come home from school and peel the potatoes and leave them to soak in a big pot of cold water. And then the mum would cook them when she got home from work later in the evening. They had potatoes every bloody night.

TheClitterati · 16/07/2020 00:14

It's over 40 years later and I still think of my old neighbours every time I peel potatoes. Isn't that strange?

rosegoldwatcher · 16/07/2020 00:15

Mine does something similar; not touching, but he will give me his best advice, based on something he saw a random chef do when watching Saturday Morning Kitchen.
It gives me the rage (and he knows it) - one look from me and he asks, "Shall I shut the fuck up?"

This has now become legend in our household and known as STFU.

BitOfFun · 16/07/2020 00:27

Yes, it's funny what sparks certain memories. There are important events in my life I have no recollection of, yet I can remember our neighbour's Colwyn Bay teatowel in all its glorious detail .

Mothership4two · 16/07/2020 00:27

To be pissed off he won't stop touching stuff when I am trying to cook

My mind went somewhere completely different

Ingridla · 16/07/2020 00:34

@OldBean2 I found that a wooden spoon worked really well in these circumstances, if I saw a hand creep towards a saucepan or the the dial, it sometimes came down with great force as I screamed, "Don't." Bit like Pavlov, it soon stops.

😂😂😂😂

Yeahnahmum · 16/07/2020 01:40

Why do you let him then?
I would just serve him up onboiled potatoes. Or cold veggies or whatever he decided to turn the gas down or off for.

See how fast he would change

Hangingover · 16/07/2020 01:58

If you start potatoes in boiling water the outside cooks too quickly and the middle will be undercooked

Oh so THIS is why my mash is always shit but my roasties are amazing. Thank you, I've always wondered this!

I have a spoony fucker too. He is generally not allowed anywhere near the kitchen because he'd burn it down but one time about three months ago I was feeling tired and said to him that I'd made the rest could he just do some rice. Thrilled he was! Bustled off to kitchen (not my kitchen at the time so don't care if burns it down). Comes back. Which rice and where is it? Either, it's in the dry food box in a bag with Rice written on it. Great! Bimbles off. Comes back... how long for? Read packet DP. Okay! Shambles off. Curious I go into the kitchen twenty minutes later to see DP at the stove triumphantly and continually stirring a pan of white cement in about a cm of water.

THIS MAN HELPED INVENT MOBILE INTERNET.

Happynow001 · 16/07/2020 07:53

@Shinygoldbauble

I have a poury fucker here. In the morning i like my tea from a pot. I like it to sit a while and acquire colour and flavour. DH cannot help himself. The minute he sees the pot he pours. This wasn't a problem until lockdown as he was usually out of the house before i made my tea but now he's working from home it's a different story. As soon as he hears the kettle he's out waiting to pour. I have to watch him like a bloody hawk.

Get him his own "special" teapot and he can pour (wrongly) whenever he wants to.

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