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!)

Idk. I roasted a chicken yesterday, and some potatoes. Today we ate both cold with coleslaw and salad. Oven didn’t make a noticeable different to the room temp qs it was only opened briefly to take things in and out.

But yeah, nobody gets to demand what other people cook! So tell him to crack on if that’s what he wants to make. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why though? What’s wrong with extractor fans?

He sounds like a child. Yanbu.

Is DH autistic? Can’t he cope with the change in routine?

I had my hob on for 10 minutes about 5.30pm to cook some quick cook pasta, cooled it and added tuna, sweetcorn and cherry tomatoes and that will do me for cold lunches and dinners for a few days. However it's due to drop to 19 degrees here on Wednesday (NW) and I cannot wait.

Made the mistake of eating a hot dinner tonight (reheated leftovers) and I'm sweating like a beast.

YANBU, your DH must be mad to want to cook a full roast in this heat. My DM invited us round for tea yesterday. She decided to make pies from scratch (1 meat for her and Dd's and one vegetarian for myself and my DH). All with vegetables, potatoes and gravy. She also did extra pastry so my Dd's could make jam tarts (with my help). It was definitely hot in the kitchen helping the kids make jam tarts while she cooked. Then the oven was on even longer for the jam tarts. Now my DM does make really great pies, but we were all sat there boiling eating it.

Today my kids just had sandwiches for tea (which they love). Followed by raspberries and strawberries. I figure it won't hurt them for a few days. Myself and DH had a Greek salad with crusty bread. So much nicer in these temperatures.

Hot pies are very popular in Australia, even in the summer.

Nope. Too hot

buy a pre-roasted chicken and make
ceasar salad

or have a bbq

I wouldn't want to cook a roast in this weather, but I would gladly eat it 😋

Slow cooker doesn’t warm up the room. I always cook our chicken (and beef actually) that way. Chicken breast side down, with tin foil slings underneath to help take it out once cooked as it just falls off the bone 😋

Oh God. Why does somebody come out with this whenever anybody exhibits any stubbornness? 😵‍💫

He is just like my husband no sense. Everyte I close the blinds and open the windows and we are in a 3 storey house. He opens the blinds again. Won't accept the fact that it is cooler to keep them closed. I think the sun is impacting these men's brain. I wouldn't be cooking a roast either.

I just asked mine if we could have a roast tomorrow and he said "has the heat melted your brain? The only cooking I'm doing is outside on a BBQ or you can have ice cream"

I think you should take it as a compliment from someone asking you for one of your roast dinners.

I think he's being bloody ridiculous! Who wants to cook in this heat, unless it's something quick on the hob or in the microwave? If he wants to cook, then let him.

That’s the equivalent of whacking the heating on for a couple of hours. He sounds like an idiot.

“It’s not that hot today” on literally the hottest day the UK has ever had.

What is it about this heatwave that’s turned people into such contrarian assholes?

SE early is a large area. So bored of the competitively stoical I can handle the heat brigade.

I can also manage it but doesn’t mean everyone else wants a kitchen above 30’s with no way to cool it. Can you imagine someone else isn’t like you just for 5 minutes?

I cooked a roast beef in a pressure cooker last year during a hot spell. Dh ate an entire hot dinner with spuds, carrots & gravy! Everyone else just used it for sandwiches over a couple of days.

I wouldn't have oven roasted it during a heat wave though.

Tell him to cook his own or send him up the to the nearest carvery if he’s that desperate

"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."

So, I hate to tell you this, but if he really cared about you, he wouldn't want YOU to suffer in the heat even if he has to.

He is being TOTALLY unreasonable about the curtains.

Ask him why if it's so hot at work, he is willing to come home to a hot house, too.

Oh, but logic isn't their STRONG POINT.

We have a roast every Sunday normally but is just not bearable in this heat. We are still buying a roast chicken but converting to a roast chicken salad: potatoes cooked and cooled and sometimes made into a potato salad, carrot sticks, green beans uncooked and then topped up with other traditional salad items. Our teens are enjoying the variation too. Would that work for you both as a compromise ?