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.

See also elbow out the window.

Nowt wrong with an elbow out the window, perfect resting place, the same way some women seem to use the steering wheel to rest their boobs as they try and press their faces as close to the windscreen as possible.

There was dress up day in my daughters kindly, years ago. She went as me. Dressed in regular clothes, with a tea towel slung over her shoulder.

İ used to do this until the day when I went to the Coop to buy a missing ingredient and walked round the entire shop with a tea towel draped over my shoulder...

I don't do this. I can't see the point! I've never managed to lose a tea towel yet, it's always there when I need it, on the side or hooked over a drawer handle.

😂😂

Oh god, are tea towels the new toilet brush?

Are you more disgusting if you don't wash your tea towels separately??

To be honest if you cook regularly from scratch I don't know how you can not use a teatowel.

Neither of us do it !

A Cunard trained waiter told me NOT to do it because there is higher risk of hairs being transferred to customers plate.

We use over mitts so draping not possible. But dh sometimes uses my nice tea towel which is for decorative purposes only. Bought on holiday years ago. I like to hang it on the too oven door displaying water it says. Though he doesn't put it over his shoulder.

A habit I got when I was a bar tender.

Tea towels are soo rank.

yours might be. We have at least one new clean one every day. They are washed altogether once a week at 60° (if not 95°) and are perfectly lovely, thanks. You may be a slattern, not everyone is.

Yes, I have a tea towel laundry basket in my kitchen and a drawer full of clean ones. They go in the basket as soon as they are slightly soiled.

😂 slattern! I’ve not heard that since my Nan died. You might be a misogynist but not all of us are 🙄

It's a badge of honour 😂

Omg boak

I suspect that is also true for me.

I went for drinks with friends. Had a pizza too so wandered round the town a lot. Got home and my DH cracked up because I still had the size sticker on the leg of my new jeans. So everyone knew I was wearing size 12 jeans. 🥹

I would perhaps put the tea towel in the front pocket of my ample apron but not over my shoulder, it would be forever falling down when I bend.

I do it and I AM fucking Gordon Ramsay.

That could be taken two ways! 🤣

My DF does it but DH doesn't.

However he does something equally annoying which gives me irrational rage.

Whenever he's doing anything vaguely DIY he has to have a short blunt pencil/paper clip/other random short object in his mouth.

It makes me want to stab him, especially when he insists on talking mumbling incoherently with the damn thing in his mouth.

Strike through fail 🙄

XH used to do it.

But he was actually a chef, so that's why.

What used to REALLY bug me though was that he'd use the corner of the tea towel to wipe round the edge of the plate to that no unsightly drops of sauce/gravy would mar the appearance of our beans on toast. Which meant, of course, that all tea towels forever had sauce/gravy stains around the edges.

I don't do it, having nearly set myself alight one time when leaning over the hob to peer into a saucepan. I now prefer to deposit them all over the kitchen, because I enjoy swearing while I look for it when I urgently need to take something out of the oven.

Aaaargh! Can confirm that I am not, in any sense, fucking Gordon Ramsay!!