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!)

I was with you till you said he want to cook it and you won't allow him to use the hob and the oven

We had roast chicken, it was delicious, but I did roast the carrots and some onions with the chicken and roast potatoes together in a pan, for ease.
The only other vegetable was broccoli, it seemed easier.

It was delicious, but hot. We did have sausage meat stuffing too. 😀

No one asked me to make it, the chicken need to be used or frozen, and I really fancied a roast potato

Even someone else cooking the meal will heat up the house. A roast dinner takes too long for the heat to just stay limited to the kitchen.

I don’t think it heats the kitchen hardly at all. We just have a basic one that a 1.5kg chicken fits in, 7 hours on low.

I've got a pile of salady things in and nothing that will need more than 15 minutes in oven max, including preheat. A roast wouldn't get eaten here anyway, we are all eating so much less in this heat.

That was my first thought, but everyone wanted roast potatoes here.

Let him cook what he likes. Eat the chicken with salad if you think the full dinner it too much.

Roasted a chicken yesterday. It will do us until tomorrow. Then i will get some no cook stuff. YANBU

I LOVE a roast and dp and I generally take it in turns to do one most Sundays and continue to in the summer.......but NOT in this heat! Utter madness!

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I've just done the same (except less, we have 40) so we're only having baguettes tonight with salad stuff

I've chucked a chicken in the air fryer. I'll have it with new pots and salad but DS will want yorkshires and veg. He doesn't eat potatoes. I don't mind doing that as it's easy.

I don’t think the op is looking for any alternative to a roast dinner!!! Cook what you want. 😁

Same. I think we had one at Christmas and since then, one weekend where we had roast lamb but done with flatbreads and Greek sides, and can’t think of another occasion. Always something better to eat – or do! Hate to be tied to the house by cooking and washing up on a Sunday.

I boiled new potatoes this morning, had a cold read6 cooked chicken. I did cook a piri piri chicken early this morning , but only because it was use by today.

lots of salad and coleslaw.

mond you, I’ve spent all morning ironing

I'm doing a roast. I find it's the hob that makes the kitchen hot, not the oven

Fuck that. Too hot- who wants roast in this weather?

I live in a hot-summer climate. We have aircon so I do use the hob/oven, but when it's as hot as the UK is these next few days, having it on for too long during the hottest part of the day will still heat up the house. No one wants to eat something as heavy as a roast dinner once it's over 30 or so, either. I'd cook a chicken before it heats up too much and then eat it cold later.

YANBU, although we're having a roast dinner today (but did the gammon in the slow cooker, just finishing off in the oven with the roast potatoes) but there's a lovely breeze where we are that's keeping it the temperature nice and comfortable, the thermometer in the garden says 30 degrees but it does not feel like it.

We're doing lamb chops on cobs with salad. Too hot for the full shebang!

No one wants to eat something as heavy as a roast dinner once it's over 30 or so

I have cooked and eaten a full traditional Christmas dinner in 40 degree heat. I can’t say that it was the most comfortable experience cooking it, but there wasn’t much left at the end.

I'm cooking a roast dinner right now

He sounds really annoying. We have curtains shut, fan on and have bought loads of cold food. We baked lots of bread yesterday and are not planning on cooking anything other than couscous until Wednesday.

I'd happily eat a roast dinner as long as dh cooked it (he's in charge of roasts). As it is, he is making marinaded oven-cooked pork belly with rice and stir-fried veg. It's 25° here, so it's not really a problem.

I'm always a bit surprised at the roast dinner haters and secretly suspect they must never have had a very good one!

Everyone seems to be focussing on the roast and not your DHs horrible behaviour!

Food wise though DS wanted a roast so I cooked a gammon in the instant pot and a few veg sides in the microwave. Oven is not going on!

You could find a hundred ways to cook a chicken without adding any additional heat into the kitchen and you'd still be married to a rotten arsehole.