To tell DH I don’t like his signature dish?

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He makes beef burgers. It’s his thing, bbq with beef burgers. He’s a good cook, cooks other stuff really well. But he’s convinced his dry, stodgy, unseasoned beef burgers are the best thing he does. I’ve avoided eating them pretty much for the last 10 years of our relationship, there’s usually other stuff, people round, it’s a bbq…you know? . Tonight he said ‘as a treat, I’ll just do the burgers’.

my heart sank. And the little hungry bit of me died a bit.

Could literally give me a tray of roasted garlic ☺️👌

Trying to think of mines sig dish now🤔

You could do a Gordon Ramsay and tell him the pan was clearly too hot 😃

I do most of the cooking at home so when DH cooks he expects nothing but praise and will have a little strop if I criticize. Worst is when he tries to get "creative" with recipes. I still wake up in a cold sweat when I remember the chickpea concoction that had tinned chickpeas, BBQ sauce, marshmallows and crisps for "crunch" - absolutely vile. Couldn't even choke it down.

Should add there was also peanut butter in the chickpea monstrosity.

smittenkittennn, that sounds absolutely disgusting! 😂😂😂

hahaha!!

My OH makes the most amazing burgers, his friends have seriously offered to pay him to make them!
I feel for you 🤗 no advice though sorry... I'm simply here to find techniques for upping my burger game so I can challenge him one day 😁

Ooh, have you done something different this time? They’re drier / not so flavoursome / rank compared to usual …,,

I think fat quantity is where I'm going wrong then. I get a dodgy tum with too fatty mince normally, so always buy it lean. I'll try fattier mince next time as I don't normally have a problem with shop bought burgers - probably due to most of it cooking off and setting off the smoke alarm

Windows and extractor don't help with mine - think I need a bigger top oven where I can have a bit of a bigger distance between the meat and the hot element.

When first dating my husband, I casually asked him what was the best meal he made at home. "Mince and noodles," he replied.
"Oh is it a Malaysian style dish?" I asked... because surely it was something a bit more involved.
He made this favourite dish for me... He just fried mince and had it with plain noodles. Not a single other ingredient. But then this is the man who boiled mushrooms to have with what was, in his eyes, a ham salad: two slices of ham, some tomatoes, a quarter of an iceberg lettuce and the boiled mushrooms. No dressing.

He's never done the cooking since unless it involves heating something up.

Good strategy

This thread has made me feel so much better about the fact that I have to do all the cooking. It's nice to know I'm not alone.

This sounds like my DH's family. His DM didn't like "fancy" food and swore that even seasonings made her ill, so food was regularly just cooked with no regard for flavourings, etc.

The worst was similar to DailyMaui's - penne pasta and fried mince. No sauce.

It's no wonder DH has a slight obsession with tomato ketchup on everything - it was the only way to make it more palatable.

DH also doesn't "cook" unless it involves simply putting a packet in the oven. All at the same time and all at the same temperature, be damned if they're supposed to be different!

I had an accident last year and he had to do more cooking as I wasn't able. He didn't even know how big to cut the potatoes for a roast dinner, let alone make roast potatoes.