They didn't cook my 'pizza'!!!!!

[ilovegushoneybun]

I make pizzas for my family every Saturday night. It was easy when the kids where young they choose their own toppings. I make the dough, roll it out and leave them to get on with it. To be honest I'm finding pizzas quite boring so have started to just use the dough to make a focaccia and have cheese and tomatoes and olives with it. So I make the dough tonight, roll it out onto individual baking trays, put tomatoes and cheese for them to use. They make their pizzas put them in the oven........and leave my pizza/focaccia on the work top. FFS it just needed putting in the oven!!!! BTW they are 24 and 61 (DH not DS)

[lyralalala]

Your night off from cooking involves you making and rolling out pizza dough for two other adults?

They are taking the piss. Let them make their own bloody pizza dough if they want pizza every week

[FredaFrogspawn]

Your supper sounds delicious!

I would definitely ‘forget’ to cook for them for a bit.

[Shizzlestix]

If they can read, they can cook. Stop being their enabler, I know it is hard, but don’t let them away with it.

[TW2013]

We do something similar but with bought bases. I get the toppings out, prepare mine, pop it in top shelf and pop oven on so for once I get to eat first 😂🤣😂. Generally by this time some of the others are preparing theirs to go in next / lower down.

[Viviennemary]

I wouldn't have put it in the oven either. If you were in charge of the cooking that night I would think you would have put it in yourself if you wanted it to go in. I wouldn't put a random prepared dish left on the side in the oven unless I was asked to. But they should take turns cooking. They'll never learn how to unless they do.

[Conniethesensible]

I feel you should be having this conversation with them and not us. Call them out on it already.

[justasking111]

My uni. son while home is taking his turn to cook, his tacos are gorgeous as is his sticky chicken. He is years younger than your son, I would make yours cook on a Saturday night from now on.

[PyongyangKipperbang]

"I didnt think"

The classic excuse of every lazy bastard everywhere. And FYI it is translated as "I didnt care enough about you to consider your needs"

I am betting that DH can put an Ikea coffee table together? And if he can do that then he can cook. A recipe is just following instructions. He can but he would rather have the maid do it.

DD sounds like she needs a gentle reminder that "Mum, what do you want on yours?" was all it would take and how would she feel if you cooked for yourself one night and not her. DH needs a short sharp lesson in starvation.

[curiousierandcouriser]

When we get bored, we turn to YouTube. There are plenty of channels showing how to prepare nice, simple recipes that provide variety. You could create a new tradition / challenge - once a week everyone tries to cook something new.

But to your OP, I would have expected them to ask if you wanted your's cooked as they were cooking their's.

[Smallsteps88]

I’d forget to make them dinner from now on.

[violetbunny]

Time to read them both the riot cat. From now on they're each in charge of dinner one night a week. Doesn't matter if it's beans on toast or 5 course meal, they're in charge of making sure the ingredients are in, and cooking enough for everyone. Bastards.

[violetbunny]

Riot act. Not riot cat 😂

[Daph73]

Seems like an awfully silly overreaction on your part. They probably didn’t realise it could go in at the same time, etc. Move on.

[Sh05]

I also think that if you are going to continue doing all the cooking then your DH should atleast do the shopping.
Sit down with them and meal plan together. They can each cook one night a week as well as making sure everything you need for the rest of the weeks meals is bought and stored correctly.
I cannot and would not accept any excuses from them in regards to doing the bare minimum to make your life easier.

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

Seems like an awfully silly overreaction on your part. They probably didn’t realise it could go in at the same time, etc. Move on. After years of the same Saturday meal? Not likely! They just did theirs and that was it! No thought for OP at all.

OP - it's never too late to tell them that they are lazy fuckers and need to up their home game!

(Violet - I quite liked the riot cat )

[Nikori]

It's weird because I follow so many male cooks on Instagram, but yet so many men claim they can't cook at home. It doesn't make any sense to me at all. Cooking isn't a skill that anyone is born with, it's something that's learnt through practice. I think as you are a house full of adults everyone needs to pitch in and do a share of the cooking. As others have said, there are loads of recipes online. I really like the BBC website. It's fairly simple to follow a recipe and make something nice.

[Nonotthisagain]

@violetbunny

Riot act. Not riot cat 😂

I want a riot cat! Sounds much more exciting than mine who sleep 23hrs a day 🤣

[WorraLiberty]

Unfortunately DH only cooks when asked and then his repertoire is limited to pasta with pesto from a jar (boring again). DD who is back for lockdown can cook and does but dishes are limited. So effectively I cook nearly every night of the week plus the planning and shopping.

That's ^^ your problem, not the fact no-one put your pizza in the oven.

Tell the lazy gits to stop pretending they can't cook, plan and shop otherwise you'll cook for yourself only.

Then sit back and see how quickly they 'learn' and even if they don't, it's still their own lookout. Everyone in your house is an adult, it's time they started acting like one.

[tiredanddangerous]

Buy DH a recipe book and tell him he's cooking something from it twice a week from now on. DS can do the same. I have no patience for people who claim not to be able to cook, they just don't want to!

[violetbunny]

@Nonotthisagain It must have been a Freudian slip because I do in fact have a riot cat. She is a year old, quite feisty and is trying to shred my curtains as I type this 😂 Be careful what you wish for!

I do hope the OP did read them the riot act in the end