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To be surprised she couldn't use the oven?

151 replies

LemonSherbetFancies · 13/05/2021 12:31

Last night partners sister came round and as I was on a potential new job call, I asked her to turn the oven on (Had a chicken in there already). When I got off the call, I checked and saw it had not been turned on. Aibu to say a grown woman should be able to turn an oven on?!
She said she thought she had done it.

OP posts:
ShirleyPhallus · 13/05/2021 12:54

Honestly some of the shit that gets started as threads on MN Shock

Vinto · 13/05/2021 12:54

Yeah you’re being unreasonable.

Every brand and model differs when it comes to things like phone operating systems and electrical goods/household appliances.

Triffid1 · 13/05/2021 12:55

My oven needs a master's degree in engineering or an hour with the manual to figure out, so I have sympathy for her.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 13/05/2021 12:56

YABU, mine has at least two knobs to turn and very specific settings to make it work. No one would know without instructions.

DogsSausages · 13/05/2021 12:56

Why would you put a chicken in a cold oven

Sweetmotherofallthatisholyabov · 13/05/2021 12:57

I once was bitching about my moms hob being shite because the water was taking an age to boil and eventually I coped that I had it set to 1 and not 6 because the orientation of our knobs are different and I just automatically did what I do at home assuming they were the same. Eejit.

username985 · 13/05/2021 12:57

god yeah my oven has 2 knobs and is about as basic as they come but I regularly forget to switch on both the oven / grill control and the temperature knob. it's not difficult but still.

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Hadjab · 13/05/2021 12:57

My mum and sisters can’t turn on my oven - you need to turn the dial to the oven icon, turn the temperature dial, press the timer button, set the timer, then press the timer button again. With my mum’s, you turn the temp dial then press a button, easy peasy!

TheUndoingProject · 13/05/2021 12:57

It sounds like you just don’t like her. And leaving a chicken in a room temperature oven for any length of time seems a bit gross.

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 13/05/2021 12:58

DS2 and his gf house sat for us one time and had to Google how to turn the induction job on. It’s not always obvious as others have said.

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 13/05/2021 12:58

Hob. Induction hob, not job 🙄

Exhausted4ever · 13/05/2021 13:01

You sound lovely 🙄

OhRene · 13/05/2021 13:01

I cook from fresh for my family if 5 every day. I love to cook. I spend my life in the kitchens whipping up something new to try.

I couldn't work my SIL's.overnight though. Apparently you have to switch the oven part on with one button, use one dial to set the heat and it still won't come on until you turn another dial for the time. So yeah, it's perfectly reasonable to believe a full grown woman may not know how every make and model of oven works.

Scarlettpixie · 13/05/2021 13:02

Do you mean she hadn’t turned any knobs/pushed any buttons (as in she forgot) or she turned/pushed the wrong ones. Ovens can vary - thats why they come with instructions.

Topseyt · 13/05/2021 13:05

Not all ovens are the same. Some can take a bit of working out.

It took me a while to work out how to use my mother's oven and I am no stranger to ovens.

AMillionMilesAway · 13/05/2021 13:07

I can work my own oven.
I might not know, if it wasn't my oven, that to set it on, you have to hold a button for around ten seconds, not just press and let go quickly.

lap90 · 13/05/2021 13:09

Were you not able to sort out the oven before and slowly cook the chicken?

Ovens are different. It depends on how familiar one is with the oven.

idontlikealdi · 13/05/2021 13:10

Depends on the oven. I'm a bloody good cook, know how to work an oven. Went o a holiday let and they had some fancy pants triple affair, I couldn't turn it on. Had to call them to come and sort it.

You had to fire in the timer first, hold down spin and release at the time you want. I didn't know what time I wanted, it was a wait and see thing. Pissed me right off.

mainsfed · 13/05/2021 13:10

I'm still confused by my oven. I think the squiggly lines mean grill but there is an inverted version of the squiggly line too.

Also have never even attempted the timer. Same with the washing machine.

My mum got a new Bosch WM and washes everything on the same 40 cycle.

1Hazel1 · 13/05/2021 13:11

Some ovens are more complicated than others. What did you want from this thread OP - lots of people piling on and saying what an idiot she was?

motherloaded · 13/05/2021 13:11

YABU for all the reason above

but bonus point for the cringe factor about your passive-aggressive pride about mastering ovens Hmm

angstridden2 · 13/05/2021 13:13

Have stayed many times in holiday cottages with a group of adults and been mystified by the oven controls until we found the manual (where there was one).All well educated competent people but some equipment (I’m looking at you washing machines with NASA worthy controls) defeat the best of us.

DahliaMacNamara · 13/05/2021 13:13

Mine is quite straightforward to use, but is temperamental. It's not even old. I wouldn't inflict it on anyone else. Not saying I wouldn't trust anyone else with it (but I don't). YABU.

Horst · 13/05/2021 13:15

We have to set two different nobs to certain settings to turn on and then if you get it on but it decides you’ve done it wrong will cut off as a safety feature.

shouldistop · 13/05/2021 13:16

When I was looking after my niece and nephew once I had to phone my brother for step by step instructions on how to use their oven. It was completely different from mine.