to think my DP is very rude to pour curry sauce over food

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Tonight I cooked a curry for dinner from scratch. I asked DP to get some rice from the Chinese on his way home from work as mine always goes wrong. He came home with rice, curry sauce and vegetable spring rolls. Before he even tasted the curry I had cooked he poured the curry sauce all over his dinner. AIBU to be a bit pissed off about this? When I told him I was annoyed he seemed to think it was funny!

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper "People are allowed to like and dislike different things. It's not ignorant to know that you don't like/want a particular foodstuff for whatever reason"
If you've tried chick peas and not liked them that's fine. It's also fine to have allergies. Or to have philosophical objections to a food and not eat it-that's fine too.
Saying that something you haven't tasted, or even seen or smelled is ignorant.

Saying that something you haven't tasted, or even seen or smelled is ignorant.

But how can you know whether the people on here disparaging chickpeas have tried them before or not?

You have just committed a hate crime against the people of Asia.

Someone above who said If I want to add salt and pepper before I start then I will do so without giving a shit what anyone else thinks has a very different attitude to someone who has prepared me a meal than I do.

Inspired by this thread, my family are now getting chickpea curry for dinner.Thanks

@swallowedAfly you have captured the spirit of my original post 😂

I am not about to LTB over this, but it did irritate me.

To clear a few things up, I suppose it was more of a tagine rather than a curry. It had apricots and roasted almonds in it. Serving suggestion was couscous, but I thought the easiest thing would be rice. I will probably get slammed even more now. My point is, however, I don't think it really matters what I cooked, it's the fact I went to the trouble and he slathered it in the curry sauce - without even tasting it.

I think that's on a different level to seasoning with salt and pepper.

Tbh I’ve got the breaking strain of a kitkat, so a chippy trip “just for rice” would have escalated into rice, chips, curry sauce and probably more for me too. Once you’re in there and the smell hits you…

It seems he at least still ate what you cooked as well? I wouldn’t overthink this.

Yanbu

Very few dishes wouldn't be improved by curry sauce, op. YABU.

People are so weird about food. If he likes curry sauce and knows he will like the curry better with it added then let him crack on. His taste buds.

Tbh I’ve got the breaking strain of a kitkat, so a chippy trip “just for rice” would have escalated into rice, chips, curry sauce and probably more for me too. Once you’re in there and the smell hits you…

You could probably buy a rice, chips and curry sauce-flavoured Kit Kat in Japan - they have something like 300 or so varieties there, many of them quite 'interesting'

You have my sympathy, my dh is Dutch and adds satay sauce or mayo to everything! 😝

Buy a microwave rice cooker. It’s the best purchase I made this year for the kitchen. I can cook rice but it’s one less thing to have going on the stove. I bought the Sistema one and it was £8 on Amazon.

Don't want to be pedantic but calling tagine a curry is like calling bolognese a gulash🙈
So now i wonder if ha fancied curry so bought himself a curry and how terrible that combo had to be!

Very few dishes wouldn't be improved by curry sauce, op. YABU.

I was trying to think of examples to disabuse you of that ridiculous sweeping belief... but I've got nothing

And re. the rice.

Some of the suggestions here are good. Thank you. I will try them.

I actually think a lot of people would agree that it is difficult to make rice well.

Obvs anyone can boil rice in a pan.

Mine is never as good as I would like it to be.

Rice from the Chinese round the corner is always perfect and cheap.

I am a bit of a perfectionist I suppose.

I generally don't make chilli as hot as DH would like. Once I made some and I couldn't smell the chilli powder when I put it in and wondered if it was old/lost flavour, so opened a new pack and added some more. It was the hottest chilli I'd ever made, but still just about palatable for me and DS (DD won't entertain the idea of chilli)

DH sat down, didn't try it, and added loads of chilli sauce, he nearly combusted, it was very funny! 🤣

I just boil the rice with a load of water covering it just like I'd do pasta. I never do that matching water to rice thing.
I use Tesco basmati.
Then I drain through a colander.

If I went to a takeaway I'd probably be thinking just get the Chinese then tonight and keep the curry for tomorrow night.

I'd be annoyed that you made a dinner and then DH had a Chinese takeaway as well.

😁

He didn’t order a Chinese takeaway , he simply got some curry sauce to go on the meal he had waiting at home .

I can now see that alot of people do actually get rice wrong 😂

I know he was only getting curry sauce but he got curry sauce, so rolls n rice.
So spent about £12 quid?

YABU. That’s how he likes it so let the poor man be. Would you like it if he told you how your food had to be served?

Fizbosshoes

You weren't the recent poster whose DH insists on adding lots of chilis to everything he cooks - even though neither he nor OP like chilis - were you?!

I have problems with rice. Not sure why really as I can cook lots of other things easily and without using recipes. So I use the microwave packs now.

I’d be annoyed if I had spent time and effort on a meal and someone immediately put a completely different sauce on it without tasting it. I cook from scratch most of the time and it can be time consuming. Adding salt or pepper isn’t the same as those will enhance a dish, whereas putting a Chinese curry sauce on a Moroccan dish is going to make it a completely different dish. It would be like someone immediately pouring gravy all over the lasagne you’ve just served them.

Also that curry sauce from the chippy is overrated and looks like newborn baby poo so no thanks to that

No, not guilty