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!

Dp recently had to empty his freezer and, I am not kidding, made a "fish and mince casserole" with assorted veg. Even he says it wasn't very nice.

Ex once made me a "lamb casserole" by warming through a lamb chop in the slow cooker in stock. That was it. A lamb chop (grey and chewy) warmed through in, essentially, salty water. Nothing in it or with it. I'm not ashamed to say that after a long day at work I actually cried at that one.
He once mixed Ragu sauce in which he had previously cooked meatballs (but fished them out for himself) with fajita sauce and added cooked chicken. It looked and tasted awful.
Once a 'risotto' that was plain boiled rice with peas in (even more insulting because I'm a great risotto cook), nothing else.
And one time I caught him putting the slow cooker into the oven because he'd put a stew in it and it was "taking ages to cook".

I have no patience with people who can't cook. It's not rocket science-it' following a recipe. I like Jay Rayner-somebody asked him if he could cook-he said "Of course I can-I'm an adult."

Add a bit of mustard, a dash of milk and grated cheese 👌🏻

I'm cracking up here, can't tell DH what I'm laughing at either 😂
Some of these show my DH isn't the only 'inventive' cook...😂

😂 brilliant

My husband made a beef spaghetti Bolognese and added a tin of tuna because "there wasn't enough mince"

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Why do people marry incompetents?

Because generally speaking, the pros outweigh the cons. I'm sure most people on this thread would agree. I'm certainly not perfect, in fact I am very flawed, but hopefully I make up for it in other ways.

My dh isn't an incompetent, he is an incompetent cook.

Easily!

Put liquid in it and make it too runny.

Or don’t put enough in and make it too dry.

This has actually made me feel sicker than my dinner did 🤣🤣

Dear DH

I have really f*cked up. Im so sorry, I will never never do it again. (Get him all omg what has she done)

Im so sorry I have LIED to you, you arent going to be able to forgive me, i dont think I can forgive myself, what shall i do…(more omg what did she lie about)

Im so sorry but I lied about your cooking, its awful, properly bad and I told you I liked it. I am SO sorry. Ad lib

How can I make it up to you, i know, I will cook every night from now on to try and make it up to you, I am so sorry etc etc

😬

"this mash is a bit thin, thanks so much for making it, but could we go back to your previous technique? I really liked that".

"Let's leave the quiche to your mum. Tomorrow, shall we have XYZ?"

You have to communicate, you're entitled to not like something. It isn't being ungrateful, it's having an honest opinion.

If he's pig ignorant to think he's better at cooking that chefs, then he deserves brutally honest feedback.

DH became a reasonably competent cook after we both did a basic cooking course in a style of cooking that he liked. The course tutor had no compunction in telling him that whole chicken thighs (with skin & bones) were not an acceptable substitute for thigh fillets, and that his cooking was below par. Luckily, he takes instructions from experts in very good humour.

Same here, he can fix anything in the house, contribute to everything else fairly but he just has not interest in cooking and it works for us. Not everyone can do it all or thats a lie.

@Ohmygodmakeitstop"My dh isn't an incompetent, he is an incompetent cook."
No. He's an incompetent. Cooking is not rocket science. Is he literate? Is he an adult? Then he can follow a recipe and feed his family.

I know with my ex-husband it was because he thought he didn't need to follow a recipe because I didn't tend to use one when I was cooking. The difference was that I'd been cooking for about 20 years by then and didn't need to use a fucking recipe as I knew them off by heart. So he would slam everything together, and it would taste awful.

Oh stop being so horrible. Go and take your bad mood out on someone else.

Runny mash can be saved with a couple of tablespoons of instant mash.

Gnocchi and cucumber curry can never be saved. But it did make me cruise through the kitchen and help DH tweak the seasoning of food just before serving.

I'd be honest (in the joecest way possible) I'm not one to eat it and pretend it's nice or that I'm enjoying it. I'd also just make sure he isn't doing the cooking unless it's steak because u say he's gd at that.

Assign him to steak night once a week!! He will feel good about himself 😊

@Ohmygodmakeitstop Fair enough. But remember, this the man your sons will model themselves on-and who is showing them how to look after your dil and grandchildren.

Of course people can be incompetent at different things. I am an adult I can read, watch videos, understand instructions, measure, cut and use glue but I am fucking shite at wallpapering.

Some people are crap cooks, some people are crap gardeners, some are crap drivers.

Well she will teach their kids how to cook then, whats the problem with that.

Fecking bunch of Gordon Ramsay’s in here don’t remember what they cooked like when they were learning.

Yis are never fucking happy.

Our children are grown up. All 4 of them are well functioning adults at this point - very possibly fairly incompetent at a couple of things each, and very competent at other things. You know, like most humans.