Would this upset you or am I being silly?

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Whilst cooking dinner I told my aunt a cooking tip. Perhaps everyone knows about it, and it seriously is a tiny thing, but something that works well in a recipe. I'm probably the last to know!

My husband leaned over and smirked at my aunty and uncle and said "for my next tip, I'll be teaching you all to suck eggs".

Everyone thought it was hilarious and laughed loudly.

I know its a just little thing but I felt upset and stupid. Face went red and hot. My husband said there's nothing wrong work what he said.

Am I overreacting? I can laugh at myself normally and do. I dont know why this upset me, DH doesnt normally poke fun at me in front of others - which is what it felt like. I'm being silly right?

oh please, what was the tip? I can almost guarantee i don't know it

This only works for beef OXO as it is quite soft. The other ones are too hard to make this work.

It's always a bit risky advising other people on how to do something - when they haven't sought your advice.

Especially when offering advice to people who are older and more experienced than you. It can come across as a bit patronising.

But I guess it all depends how you phrased it. If you were excited by something you'd just learned and what a difference it's made to you - opening the way for aunty to also offer you advice, it's not a problem.

Maybe it's worth considering if DH has a tendency to rescue and protect people in social situations? As in, he was making sure a guest was okay, without thinking of the unintended consequence of making you feel vulnerable and exposed.

I'd discuss it with DH, just so you better learn how each other behaves and feels in social situations. That way you'll feed into each other strengths and be a stronger team socially.

You have lots of good husband material in a man who is sensitive to feelings of those people around him. He just needs to be aware that protecting you is his no.1 priority.

I actually doubt they did know that.. as I think it's quite a new way of doing it

I mean obviously people have been doing dor years but how often do a lot of people eat flat breads. I doubt my parents have ever eaten them let alone thought how to make etc
Jamie oliver did then on his Air Fryer prog last night as if it was a novel way of making them and at the age of 50 I bought some yogurt today to give them a go.

And we have a winner!! 🤣🤣🤣

I mean this kindly but IMHO you're being silly. But perhaps you don't banter with an around your DH normally? So I suppose is depends on what's normal for you. DH and I indulge in frequent gentle banter with and around each other and certainly with family and friends so I wouldn't think twice about this.. he would just get a laugh from me and well light hearted (eg bugger off!) type comment in response.

I only discovered the yoghurt and flour making flatbreads around a year ago and felt morally obliged to share it with a popular Fb group I am on as I couldn't believe how easy and delicious they were so I think it's entirely possible your aunt and uncle wouldn't know this and you husband was mean saying that and you're not being silly.

Not nice of him to make that joke. Also, concerning re the ‘sorry, not sorry’ attitude afterwards when he knew he’d upset you. Shows he doesn’t care much about your feelings.