How do I tell dh that he's a REALLY bad cook?

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I don't know what he does to everything to make it so shit.

Of course I'm grateful for him cooking sometimes (not often, thankfully), but it's getting to a point where I dread him cooking.

We are beyond skint at the moment, and he has used up so many things in one really crap dish, and I'm fuming. Not only that, but I have to sit and eat it and pretend it's nice because I don't want to hurt his feelings.

What do I do? He's so proud and chest puffy-outy when he does it, and generally he's an ok partner. But mother of God 🤮

He can cook a really good steak, tbf. But those days are gone for a while!

Well I like it with mash. Or at least, I did...

This was bread added to the ingredients..in the pie..toast by the side would have been preferable!

He's off work until Tuesday, and I'm wfh, so he's going to try and help and cook more 😭

Having being skint at times, I bet your frustration comes from him wasting food that could be used for different dishes for a single one that is crap.

I had a boyfriend like that, he would do something in the garden and then make himself a couple sandwiches leaving me without enough ingredients for DS’ school lunches while complaining he was still hungry.

Ultimately what worked was to speak openly about it and the costs involved and asking him to show up with some groceries if he was expecting to have a main meal at my home.

Obviously, as you are living with him and sharing a budget and to make it worse he thinks he is great at cooking, the only option is, talking from the experience of always being broke with Mr Come Dinne with Me, divorcing him.

It took less than a month to realise DS and I could eat much healthier and better only using about 1/8 of what he used to spend at the supermarket.

BREAD IN THE PIE??

What the fuck? Sorry, but that's really made me laugh!

I can’t understand how someone can be a bad cook. I mean I’m no chef but I can manage to make things taste decent by following recipes and just throwing it all together and hoping for the best. I use some initiative sometimes if I add some extra herbs or spices. I will be honest I probably couldn’t be arsed to make pastry so I’d buy some 🤣 but I don’t understand terrible cooks!

Are you the better cook?
because quite frankly of you are skint meals need to be edible ,I'm not the world's best cook but I can cook for my family,I took over the cooking because my cooking is far better than my dh!

I'm starting to think divorce might be the easiest option. Can I cite "he's a crap Paul Hollywood"?

*he does look a bit like Paul Hollywood

Can you suggest a recipe for Tuesday perhaps, see if that helps.

I've taken gammon out of the freezer for tomorrow, I might hide it.

It wasn't good..the plus side was all 3 DC were competent cooks by teens ..self preservation kicked in..🤣..
Being skint also cut out all the behaviour shown in a couple of posts by kids eating all the food...a) we couldn't afford snacks b) the urge to snaffle meal stuff was removed
Every cloud and all that!

i am sorry but this made me laugh in a way. Talk to him, honestly or try and cook together if that ever work??

Make him watch masterchef

I feel your pain OP. My DP’s efforts are hit and miss. I’m a terrible liar so when he does muss I just say as pp suggested, I appreciate the effort but it wasn’t your finest hour!

If he is as bad with the finances as he is as cooking. It is the best option, you don’t even need to include it in the reasons, he will hang himself at court when he presents form E detailing his expenses 😁

Surely if he’s going to be home and cooking you say to him what you fancy him cooking with the ingredients available. You had eggs and bacon so I would have suggested eggs and bacon, id have said hmm I fancy a bacon omelette or scrambled eggs with bacon & xyz on the side because you know he can’t mess this up. You know he’s crap at mashed potatoes so suggest roasties or sautéed.. I’d then critique his meals nicely going forward, hmmm this is nice, you know what next time try adding some more salt or less herbs it would be so much nicer. I do with my DH, he’s gone from a bad cook with 1 or 2 alright dishes to a fairly decent cook as we communicate. Same with me, though I usually know when I’ve done something bad before he needs to mention it.

If you want to boost his ego tell him you fancy one of his good dishes, say you’ve been craving it but don’t want to make it yourself because he makes it so much better.

No, I was working upstairs and he just made the quiche without asking. I would have preferred a bacon sandwich!

His mum makes an amazing quiche. He does not.

The reason I wanted mash so badly was because his mash used to be so great. I thought the last couple of times were just hman accidental fuck up. Apparently this is how he makes it now 🤮

*an accidental fuck up

My DH is an amazing cook but has no clue about cooking budget food as he loves to use every ingredient. When we were totally skint I used to print out recipe and say I really fancied this particular thing and would he mind making it. I wonder if that tactic might work for you....

Oooh, that's also a great idea. But he will think he knows better than the recipe, and find a way to ruin it!

I feel so guilty even writing this. He's at the other end of the sofa and I feel like I'm betraying him 🤣

DH is an awful cook. Awful. He can burn water. A jacket potato is either raw or over cooked. Salad cut up as if he's feeding it to a horse.

So we agree that I stick to my skillset (cooking) and he sticks to his (clearing my mess up).

Tell him straight, no more cooking. It's a lovely effort but wasteful of good food.

My last two boyfriends and my current one have all been terrible cooks. None think they need to follow a recipe, suggesting it makes them scoff.

I'm a reasonable cook so it annoys me that I have to eat terrible food.

Current bf, I gave him a large gammon I bought for Easter but ended up not able to use. He told me he cooked it in the slow cooker in bisto gravy from granules, with veg.

He's a bit better than the other two because he does take instruction. However, I once left him with all the ingredients for one of those meal boxes, and the instruction sheet, while I had a shower.
When I came down he told me couldn't find the cheese. I suggested that cheese was an odd ingredient for a Thai curry and I wasn't surprised there wasn't any, why did he need it? He said it was in the recipe.....turned out he had followed half the instructions then picked up a different card from somewhere else for a different recipe and started following that without realising it was completely different.

Anyway, the only success I have had is to get them to be good at a couple of things. Chili is a good one, big fry up, that sort of thing. So you can just say "why don't you make your chili tonight?" And be reasonably confident!

Quiche seems ambitious for someone who can't cook. I don't think I can even make a decent quiche and I'm an okay-ish cook. Pastry is not my forte.

My husband is not a good cook. He also thinks he is. He has incredibly low standards when it comes to food and will basically enjoy anything so he thinks everything he makes it's great.
He was making a curry yesterday and shouted me down saying it was ready after TEN MINUTES. I told him to put mine back in the pan because there was no way in hell it was cooked properly.

Send him a simple recipe to follow!!

My DH was the same, terrible food and using up every ingredient in the kitchen. But if I fancy something, I send him a simple recipe and it's a hit!!