Is not allowing my husband to cook scrambled eggs in the morning an unreasonable request?
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Anonymous
| My husband would eat eggs with buttered toast & a coffee every morning if he could. I don't have an aversion to eating scrambled eggs at a restaurant but the smell when they're cooked at home drives me insane, likely made worse by that being the first thing to smell when I wake up. It's right up there with fish, which I do not cook or eat. I also work remotely in the kitchen area, while he heads to an office, so any faint lingering smell of cooked eggs bothers me after he departs. He's down to cooking them once a week or so (today, of course) instead of the five or so times a week he'd like to make them, but I'd prefer he stop period. |
Anonymous
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It’s unreasonable. Buy a better kitchen hood vent.
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Anonymous
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I was gonna say you are being ridiculous but given that you work in the kitchen area, I think it's ok to be bothered by this. Maybe compromise on two days a week? And put a hepa air filter in the kitchen and open a window.
How is his cholesterol? Eggs every morning is a lot of eggs. |
Anonymous
| Get over it, jfc. He already only eats them once a week. Work in a different room or turn on a fan that one day per week that he makes them. |
Anonymous
| No your request is not reasonable. Work on getting a better fan system. |
Anonymous
| What if he cooks them a different way? I need my eggs in the morning so this would be a hard compromise. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I thought you were going to say he leaves a mess. That is my one big complaint about scrambled egg mornings (we use a cast iron that has to cool, and then it has to be cleaned/burnt off at high heat). Breakfast dishes then tend to sit for a while (I also WAH and it bothers me although I’m not in the kitchen). But can’t you fix the smell issue by running the hood vent and/or opening a window. Get a nice soy candle with essential oils to light for a few minutes. Brew some nice coffee (we have a fancy Breville that freshly grinds our beans so it makes the kitchen smell like a coffee shop in the morning). I feel like this is solvable although I would object to daily eggs based on potential health implications (unless you know he is in fantastic shape and can handle all these eggs). |
Anonymous
Cast iron doesn't have to be cleaned like that. Take the hot pan, hold it under running water, soap and sponge or chainmail scrubber, dry on high heat. Cast iron is hard to mess up, drive it like a rental. |
Anonymous
| Unreasonable. If my spouse asked I'd tell them to go work in a coffee shop until the "smell" was gone. Unbelievable |
Anonymous
Does a vent exist to have no cooking smells? I find that a little hard to believe. I don't think our vent is bad. We live in a nice home. |
Anonymous
| Get an air purifier. It is great for kitchen smells. And work somewhere else for an hour or two. It seems really controlling and overwrought to ban eggs. He has already compromised by going to once a week. |
Anonymous
Congratulations for having a nice home. You might have a nice home but either a poor quality kitchen hood vent or a poorly functioning kitchen hood vent. Properly functioning kitchen hood vents eliminate much of the cooking smells. |
Anonymous
Does he run it? You really shouldn’t have a lot of smells if you do. |
Anonymous
| What if a spouse said the smell of coffee bothers them? Would it be reasonable for the other spouse to go without? |