To not like the way DH eats his boiled eggs?

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It’s messy and it makes no sense.

DH boils his eggs and then puts them on his buttered toast. He then cuts them in half, puts one half in the egg cup, puts in a soldier but the yolk spurts out as there is no shell to accommodate the extra toast volume. The yolk dribbles down the side and his fingers are all buttery as he touched the egg which has been sitting in melted butter so everything else he touches is all buttery.

And then he asks me how I eat my boiled eggs so neatly and how does the egg cup stay clean? And then we argue because he says he’s a grown man with a grown up job and he can eat his eggs the way he wants to. And I say why did you ask me then?

No diagram but I have photos if you want them.

AIBU: he can eat them the way he wants to fgs
YANBU: it’s a waste of egg and butter

I think he eats them an odd way but I don’t believe in dictating my ways of doing things upon others.

Up to him

There's no wrong or right way

If he kept the shell on, or shoved them up his bum, that would concern me.

Failing that, it’s up to him I guess.

I was all set to tell you you're being ridiculous trying to tell a grown adult how to eat his own eggs. But then I saw the picture! Wtaf is that all about?!

When he cuts them in half, what does he do with the half that he didn't put into the egg cup? I'm massively over-invested at this point.

He asked you what you did differently - that's fine, he started the conversation. But for him to complain about buttery fingers when he rolls the egg in buttery toast does not make him come across as a competent adult who is able to hold down a job... doesn't he ever think through his actions?

The boiled egg in a shell just on the toast?!?! LTB

Your photo is not how he eats them! Why has anyone put the eggs on the toast with the shell on? Odd step.

Seems unreasonable to ask you how you stay clean etc and then start an argument about it..

YANBU and he's a mucky pup. I don't understand why he goes about it in such an odd fashion (ie getting butter everywhere and the effort of peeling the eggs).

Why does he place them on the toast still in their shells?

In future just top his eggs for him like a child. Don't give him the option to not understand where to cut the eggs.

Worthy of divorce in my opinion 🤣

Mmm buttered egg shells. Maybe they taste better when he inevitably misses a piece of shell when he peels them?

What an arsehole! LTB!!

If the amount of butter he has on his toast is indicative of the rest of his diet I would be more concerned about his health!

putting the egg on the toast is weird And the inability to foresee the yolk getting everywhere suggests he isn’t good with consequences. Have you ever seen the rest of his family eat boiled eggs?

if he cleans up after himself then I’d just ignore tbh.

Did you not know this before you married him?

This . If I boil the eggs they are in egg cups and decapitated with their heads resting back on the top and toast is cut into soldiers so nobody gets any options.

Yes, we all egg test our men before marriage

Why has he placed his unpeeled eggs on the toast? Surely that's not normal.
Adults eating boiled eggs with soldiers annoys me for some reason. Just peel them, slice them and put the slices on your toast.

I think it’s unreasonable for adults to be messing about dipping soldiers into their eggs neatly or otherwise.
just chop them up on the toast and use a knife and fork. Better yet poach or scramble them

Obviously OP didn't - very remiss!

This

WTF?! That's just bizarre, how has be never learned how to take the top off a boiled egg?! Did his father not teach him the way of it?

Buy him an egg topper for his next birthday.

Right.

For context: he is a wonderful man. Before we were married we used to have poached eggs but we moved and the new house has an induction hob and the egg poaching pan doesn’t work on it, which is why we switched to boiled eggs.

DH knows I’ve started this thread which is why I managed to take photos of the evidence.