to say no to a roast dinner in this heat?!

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I want shopping today for some quick to cook/ not cook at all food.
Tinned tuna, sweetcorn, pre cooked rice, salad, deli items, bread, crisps, ice-cream. Just easy food that doesn't need anything or only needs to be heated for 2 mins.

Well dh wants to go shopping for a full chicken and have a roast! Well it is Sunday...

He thinks I'm lazy because I want easy dinners (that's not lazy it's good sense!)

I think he is suicidal and his aim of cooking a roast dinner in this heat Is to boil us to death in our own home.

Oh he also pulled all of my make shift curtains down because 'it's so dark it looks like a crack den in here'. I don't understand it, we have small children (2-10 years old) and we need to be cool in here.

Hid argument is that he has to work in it (good for you here's a medal) and he also has to work with boiling hot equipment In hot conditions so we should suck up a Sunday roast.

I can't even be bothered to argue.

(ps I lay frozen water bottles around him and put up some make shift curtains while he was sleeping earlier because our bedroom was so hot, so it's not like I'm an evil bitch who doesn't care he's hot when he works, I care about him!)

He's insane
This weather is meant for getting a chicken off the hot counter and having it with potato salad, bread, fresh salad bits

Electric pressure cooker the way to go. Whole chicken just cooked in there then new potatoes and no heat in the kitchen until you take the lid off but the steam then goes up the extractor.
Ninja foodie grill for other things that need an oven, no heat from that either.

At this moment in time I am absolutely starving so a roast dinner will be very acceptable thankyou....must include Yorkshire pudding of course!!

We are having roast chicken. DH is cooking it outside.

What sort of make shift curtains do you mean? If you don't usually have curtains and you've popped some up but not properly attached them then he's unreasonable, if it's a cling foil type monstrosity that will make your windows crack then he is not. If he wants to cook one I'd let him get on with it, just don't sit in the kitchen- imagine being being adult and having someone else tell you what you can cook!

I'm too hot to even prepare cold food.

I'm ordering takeaway kebabs and hoummus later.

It's never too hot for a roast dinner.

It's not too hot to eat a roast dinner but if you're going to be impacted by the heat of the cooking through the house it's unreasonable to cook one.

Oh yes, much too hot for a roast! We had Subway, partly because I could be bothered cooking and partly because Subway have aircon.

It is all well and good to say if he is shopping and cooking then he can do it but it will heat the house up for everyone else! I'm sure he could do without one for one weekend.

My teenage daughter with odd eating preferences asked me to cook her a plate of roast potatoes before! Bonkers

HIBU but I need to know why you’ve got makeshift curtains instead of just curtains!

Well, I have never cooked a roast dinner in over 30 years of marriage - horrible things! But if my husband had ever made a fuss about it I would have told him to cook his own. The temperature is irrelevant, because he doesn't get to dictate what everyone eats if it's YOU that's doing the cooking.

I did microwave lamb shank and just cooked some new potatoes and did one of them fresh veg packs I got on whoops you can microwave. Planning salad and cold meat tomorrow.

Nope. Absolutely not! My oven is not going on till Wednesday. I nipped to Tesco this morning and luxuriated in the air con bought a whole heap of stuff that either doesn't need to be cooked or only requires the microwave and at a push, the toaster. I've got all the windows and curtains shut and I'm not leaving the house unless it's on actual fire for the next couple of days. He's being unreasonable to expect you all to suffer the heat of the oven in this weather because he wants a roast.

Jesus no. Dh works in a foundry so always hot. I'm not sure I'd follow his reasoning if that meant he came home and demanded roast potatoes.

Is your dh going to cook it?

I have the oven on making roast peppers. I've got some squid to make calamari with later with garlic mayo and I'll serve it with mixed salad and roast pepper salad and there's crusty bread too. Got a big watermelon cooling in the fridge and ice cream.

I don't eat meat but if I did I would roast the chicken and have it with salad. Or steamed veg tossed in garlic and oil and vinegar.

Yanbu

im still roasting the chicken because it needs eating but I’m doing it with salad and stuff instead of veg and gravy and yorkshires

I wouldn’t want roast potatoes and gravy, but chicken roasted with lemon and garlic, and salad, would be perfect in this weather.

It's official 'picky bits' for dinner weather.

If he's going to be the one cooking it and cleaning up after I think yabu. Let him crack on and just stay out of the kitchen so you don't roast along with the chicken!

bluenameblue you can cook a slow cooker yes, I just stick it in on it`s own and it is lovely.
On a day like today you can use an extension lead and cook it outside.
(on a dry day in other weather you can use the extension lead and cook outside to avoid cooking smells, I do)

How does anyone have the appetite for a roast dinner in this heat? I’m living off watermelon, Greek salad, any salad with tonnes of cucumber and tomato, homemade frappes, and ice lollies.

The only chicken I fancy is a rotisserie one with aioli, baguette and green salad, eaten late at night in the garden once the heat has dropped.

Why does he have to have a roast chicken because it's Sunday?

I don't think anyone likes cooking in warm weather. Easy food is the way to go.

**Cook a whole chicken in (ffs)