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 boil my eggs so they are runny and then squish them onto wholegrain rice cakes.

Boiled eggs are a very particular thing. He is not being unreasonable.

Sorry just read this @BetterWithPockets - solidarity sister!!

It does remind me of how angry my mum used to get when my late Dad would eat each item on the plate separately 😆 Because she mixes a bit of potato with a few peas, a slice of carrot etc, she became irrationally angry at him not doing it how she did!

The vote is split in a very Breggsit way.

I feel sick seeing those photos. Please go back to poached eggs, you don't need a special pan, just a normal saucepan that works on your induction, simmer the water and pop the egg in.

For the love of god. Just NO.
pop the butter in the microwave for literally two or the seconds until melted. Cut the eggs in half and spread on the toast and eat like an adult. The soldier thing just means the yolk to white ratio is not pleasingly distributed on the toast. The wasted yolk is upsetting.

What about his Dad? Mum blaming!

This is one of those irresistible force/immovable object things. It's completely unreasonable for you to dictate how he eats his eggs and it's completely unreasonable for him to eat them like that.

I am sad at how many people don't think adults should eat boiled eggs with soldiers though. Their souls have died, sad to see.

I would just let him eat his eggs as he likes..🙄

That's just odd lol. My ex used to get food on his fingers..used to drive me up the wall.... because instead washing his hands everything he touched left food remnants everywhere... foody fingers i called him.
Food fingerprints everywhere ugh

buy the man a pan and let him poach his eggs

The butter is the best bit of eggy soldiers. I have LOADS more than that.

Noooooo, nothing like a freshly laid dippy egg.

Perfect for mopping up with another soldier!

No wonder your kid doesn’t like eggs.

Ugh, you've reminded me that this is the way my exh used to eat his boiled eggs, after peeling all the fragments of shell off, one tiny piece at a time. By the time he started actually eating, I had sliced the top off my egg, eaten it and the toast and my dishes were in the dishwasher.
Ridiculous egg practices should be grounds for divorce.

I have this:  https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-stainless-steel-egg-topper/p5169573?tmad=c&tmcampid=7&sshare=jlappioss_Y29tLmFwcGxlLlVJS2l0LmFjdGl2aXR5LkNvcHlUb1Bhc3RlYm9hcmQ=

Are you serious? Life’s a journey and you find things out as you go along-you don’t have a bloody check list 🙄 really don’t care for the ‘ you should have known’ vibe on Mumsnet sometimes- very victim blaming.

Presumably because he cuts the eggs in half rather than just take the top off he puts them on the toast to catch the yolk?

He could at least have two egg cups to put the two halves in.

Plus be much more careful when dipping the bread in!

Wouldn't it be better to peel the egg first & then just eat half on toast?

You can poach eggs in any saucepan, or in a microwave.

Ha this is madness

Where did he pick this up from?

No!! NO! No egg, in any format, should be runny. Not boiled, poached, fried or scrambled. In fact, I'm going start a march outside the Houses of Parliament to start a revolt over this revolting cooking of eggs.

A firm egg would be the answer to all of your problems, OP 😆

What the frickadoodle?! How can you enjoy a poached egg if it’s firm?! You’ve got issues, pal.

I mean, he obviously is a weirdo, but I'm on the 'live and let live' way of thinking.

So, YANBU to dislike / think his way is very peculiar but YWBU to try to make him eat them normally if he is happy being odd.