AiBU to be angry with husband for slow roasting pork during heatwave?

[Prok]

I do my best to keep the house cool when it gets really hot. I do not cope well with heat. I make an effort to draw curtains, keep windows closed etc.

Come down during my lunch break and the formerly cool kitchen is now a sauna. Of all days dh has decided today is the day to use up the frozen pork for pulled pork sandwiches (dinner).

This after I told the kids not to open windows etc.

Dh doesn’t normally work from home so wanted a “treat”. I said it was an incredibly dumb thing to do. And I got called hysterical. And a nag.

Why are everyone’s ovens heating their houses? Do they not have insulated doors? Are people leaving the oven doors open after the food has cooked?Psychologically it’s difficult to imagine roast food when it is hot, but ovens should not really be making the room hotter. Especially a slow cooked piece of meat at a low temperature. Using a hob probably will, even if it is induction because the hot food is poofing steam in to the room 🤷‍♀️

https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/prepare-for-emergencies/heatwaves-uk/advice-and-tips/keep-home-cool

Show him this, it mentions not using hobs or ovens!

I’d be annoyed too. We had two roasts to use this week so I did both at the same time on Sunday when it was cooler, and plan to have them cold with salad this week. I don’t want the oven on either after spending time cooling the house down.

Open some windows and enjoy your pork.

We have an open plan kitchen, diner and tv area. There are other rooms but we like to spend most our time in the big room. It’s normally lovely and cool in Summer

He is being unreasonable for using the oven. Everyone knows the best pulled pork is in the slow cooker which would cause no problems

No but it's perfectly fine staying in the freezer.

This

Team husband.
Great a grip woman.

No but deeply buried would!

No they don't but given that they have, no doubt, had years to acclimatise to their hot weather it's something they're used to.

I've lived in a hot country and no, I didn't live on cold food but my apartment was designed for life in a hot country: built to keep out the heat with stone floors etc. Whereas the houses in this country are designed for keeping in the heat and keeping out to the cold.

And we get this sort of weather, in extreme cases, for a few days every summer.

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You don't have a porch or concrete slab? Find a parking lot and start tailgating.

Love a good spit roast…

Sensible!!!

I'd be fuming. The oven is banned this week at mine !!

The hell??30°is not a normal summers day. This week is up to 39 where I am. Nothing about this is normal.

well it appears to be now but prior to 5 years ago it wasn’t

Me too

A few years ago my dh went shopping and bought home stuff for a casserole... On one of the hottest days of the year. When I queried this decision, he informed me "it was on offer" 🤦🤣 Apparently it hadn't occurred to him that it was on offer because hardly anyone would be daft enough to want to cook a casserole when it's 33 degrees 🤣

On the other hand @Prok ... A pulled pork sandwich does sound amazing 😋

Things that don't take hours in the oven!

Tonight im having 'wrap in a bowl ! Put a wrap in the bottom of a pasta bowl, load the bowl with salad, eat all the salad, finish with the wrap with all the dressing @ little bits of salad.

different cold proteins, dressings, salad keep it feeling different every night.

Well, the pork shoulder should have gone in the slow cooker for 5 hours or so then in the oven for only 20 minutes in which case the kitchen wouldn’t have got so hot.

Where the preference is about the health of the whole family ..1 persons greed doesn’t trump the others well-being

That's a terrible analogy 😂

I am terrible for not liking cold food, so will be cooking something hot at some point today. I'm not sure what, I doubt it will be anything that takes long or requires more than a pan and possibly the air fryer.

Now there has been a mention of pulled pork, it may end up being sausages. Nom.

Should have done it yesterday with half price electricity if you have British Gas!!!