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'm cooking a leg of lamb with roasties and trimmings later. Rarely have a roast but both fancied one today and wanted to use it up.
It's not that hot today fgs.

Stuffed peppers tomorrow night - again in the oven. DH cooks 340 days of the year so can't complain.
Am in SE of England before anyone asks if I'm in a colder climate.

MN is even more pearly clutchy than usual at the moment

If people have slow cookers, halogen ovens, mini ovens or any other gadgets that can be plugged in outside, I recommend cooking out there. If you have to have some heat in the kitchen, stick the extractor fan on full blast to get the heat out the house.

It's what I do in Spain and it really helps.

South London here and I’m doing a lasagna… tbh I’m not over hot - infact this day is perfect weather for me 🌞

I did though wake up at 5am cold with just a sheet 🤣I might be just a cold person…

Tomorrow is a little too silly though and will prob not cook anything hot!

If he was willing to stand in kitchen and cook it, also keeping door closed so heat didn't transfer to rest of house, fine.

I told DH I wouldn't be cooking a few days ago, have just got in from work and mixed a packet of coucous with hot water, but that's the limit. He hasn't dared argue. I've bought salad, canned sweetcorn, coleslaw, bread, pickles, ham, cheese, quiche and tuna lined up. Oh, and DH has done some hard boiled eggs while I was at work. Nectarines, pineapple and yogurt for dessert.

C8H10N402 brilliant answer!!

Did you manage to buy a roast? I went for a chicken and they had none at all, in fact it was like the locusts had swept through Lidl. We are at the coast ... apparently head office hasn't grasped seasonal demand

You can have different meat every week and use different vegetables so i don't get sick of them.
I prep all the vegetables the day before and really don't think it takes longer for than any other cooked meals.

I made paella today, it was 27 here, bit of a breeze. It's hot but it's nice. Wouldn't fancy a roast but if he's cooking it let him. Open the kitchen door and close the door to the rest of the house/sit in the garden while it cooks.
People are being a bit dramatic, we've not even hot the peak yet. 25-27 is not unheard of and it's not been warmer than that in most places today.

It’s very weird wanting roast in midsummer never mind a heatwave

I had a roast today. The weather doesn’t affect what I cook.

I am completely flabbergasted that even now in 2022,men assume its a womans job to cook for them. As a fully grown man if he wants a sunday dinner then he can cook one himself. He seems incredibly selfish, he has no thought for comfort of you or his children. Put him out the garden to work if he doesn't like your makeshift curtains.

I am in the middle of roasting a chicken so we can have it cold with salads for later.

I am absolutely dripping now. Our kitchen is in full sun. It will hopefully be worth it in the end though! (Although I shall have to reheat the chicken later for DS1 as he cannot eat cold meat - sensory issues at play. Microwaved chicken is not my cup of tea, but never mind!)

Just no!

Mine had no choice it was salad with French stick or go without. I am not cooking or allowing the cooker to be used on this extreme heat. Takeaway tomorrow.

So let me get this one straight - your husband offered to make you a roast dinner and you're complaining about it?

I'm only using my air-fryer (which is really a multi-cooker) and put it right by the window so it doesn't heat us up. We're living on fajitas and chicken. I certainly wouldn't put the main oven on in this weather! Or even boil potatoes or rice.

On doing a roast chicken but having it with salad, too hot to do with anything else x

Just tell him to fuck off.

You'd think wouldn't you, the boyfriend on the other hand would happily east a roast most days throughout summer 🤢

Amazingly, the elderly relative that I cook for invited family around for roast lunch yesterday AND THEN informed me that I was cooking 😂 The guests very politely postponed to next week as it wouldn’t be fair on me to cook in the heat (I actually have a health condition which makes me very unwell in hot weather) BUT I somehow still ended up cooking a roast for dinner instead of lunch (we have one every Sunday evening as elderly relative likes it).
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Never turn the oven on in the hot weather

I'm not cooking anything.My adulr daughter cooked some gnocchi earlier before going to work,took about 5 minutes.I'll just have some yogurt and fruit.Only thing I'm cooking is chicken for my cats,one of them has kidney disease and needs the chicken broth to keep hydrated.
My kids are all adult now so can feed themselves.I have the grandkids tomorrow ( ugh 40 degrees) I'm dreading it a bit as they will be fed up but their parents are moving house so 2 fractious children whilst doing that won't be nice for them
Keep well everyone.Enjoy your dinners whatever they are and be safe x

He's mad! Or pregnant! Your idea of easy cold foods crisps n deli type stuff is the best for this kind of weather! We had shreaded chicken wholemeal pittas with salad n it was very much appreciated n enjoyed. Your fella would hate me then wouldn't he lol, u went to way more effort with a lil picnic :)

A roast in this weather? One word: silly!
I just went and bought shop-made pasta salads so that I don't even have to boil the pasta because of the heat! All am making so dinner will be a bit healthier is making a spinach, cucumber and apple smoothie which we will ALL have to drink before we are allowed the pasta salads and the ice cream....

Do you really think it is ok to dictate what your husband eats? If he’s cooking it then just stay out of the kitchen. You don’t have to eat it