Why do men put the tea towel or oven gloves over their shoulder when they’re cooking?

[Snooks1971]

Just that really. DH does it. He slings them over his shoulder as if he’s bloody Gordon Ramsey. Then I can’t find them because they’re on his stupid shoulder. He’s only dishing up crinkle cut chips and beans fgs.

I shove a tea towel on my husbands shoulder when he's washing up and I'm drying the dishes and I have to stop to see to children/dog etc... His shoulder is rather handy, it won't stay put on mine.

God, yes, this annoys me so (irrationally) much! Also the FIVE supplementary teatowels and every bloody pot and pan and fricking colander in the kitchen.
It's French toast, babe, keep it simple.

I reuse pots in the course of a meal if the timing works, and wash-up as I go. I also don't do the arm-around-passenger-seat thing when reversing. I am feeling rather emasculated right now!

That's the best way to do it :)

Bah ha ha!

This post is just so funny 😂

Although I do the tea towel on shoulder thing, I don't do the manly arm-wrap around seat when reversing thing. That would feel kind-of cross-dressy.

However, I do like to rest my elbow on the window frame of my car when the window is down, and casually steer with the fingers of my right hand. That's an enjoyable level of blokey.

I do it too.

And this

I don't do it but my husband does!

Wish mine done it. Would mean he actually cooked 😅

I don’t do it either but DH does. It annoys me but I don’t know why 😂

I do it, my dad was a chef and I grew up with him having a tea towel
over his shoulder - I thought it was impossible to cook without the stunt tea towel. All my siblings do the same.

I do this too.

We have two tea towels and 2 sets of oven gloves on the go at once though, so hopefully I'm not annoying DH.

Did you you only mention “crinkle cut” as a stealth boast because he IS Gordon Ramsay? Eh? Eh?

Mum always had a tea towel over her shoulder when cooking. She called it her parrot.

I do it with a tea towel.

Last time I checked I was female.

I don't like throwing a dirty tea towel down on the work surface I'm preparing food on.

Plus it's there to wipe my hands when needed.

I use separate oven gloves so it don't do it with them!

Neither of us do it and we’re both men, but then we don’t actually own any teatowels, so maybe we do do it, but as they’re invisible we just don’t realise they’re there.

"his stupid shoulder" ha ha.

But what are you doing in the kitchen when he's cooking? Get out of his damn way woman!

Ha ha ha there's a special bit in the boys' version of the driving test for this.

See also elbow out the window.

I have separate mits and pads. I'd have to balance each one carefully.

Where do I stand?

And incidentally, why would one need to 'stabilise your body' while reversing? One is sat down. Stable already, surely?

Or tuck their biro behind their ear.

I don't do it
My DP does! Drives me mad too!
I'm more a hang it on the cutlery drawer person!

I do it. But. I don't cook much. my Chef does (he does it too) and he's way better then Gordon Ramsay who probably thinks he's my DH

Tea towels are soo rank.