Not everybody is an amazing chef, but one woman was left mortified when she realised her partner couldn’t even boil pasta properly and had a unique method to do it
A woman was left horrified when she asked her partner to perform a simple culinary task – but they fell dramatically at the first hurdle.
When you’re living with parents or guardians, most of the time, before you leave home, they’ll teach you how to cook some simple dishes so you can make evening meals for yourself with ease. Often, these meals will be pasta or rice-based, as they’re cheap and easy to make, and you can load up pasta with sauce, protein, and plenty of veggies to keep it as nutritious as possible.
However, one woman’s partner clearly did not get the memo, and she was appalled at what they did. Taking to the ‘Rate My Plate’ Facebook page, the woman shared a picture and captioned it: “I gave my partner one job. ‘Boil the pasta’. I didn’t mean boil it in the f**king kettle.”
Yes, that’s right. Her partner had put the pasta straight into the kettle, poured water around it, and set the kettle to boil.
A normal method for cooking pasta would be to put boiling water in a pan, bring it to a boil, add the pasta, and allow it to cook through until it’s the texture you want it to be.
But they’d decided to cut out the middle man, which left many curious commenters wondering whether it actually turned out okay. “Did it work, though?” someone asked. She replied: “Seems ok, I’m gonna get him to do me a pot noodle next time.”
“I know a woman who boils eggs in her kettle. Safe to say I’ve never accepted a cuppa from her,” someone commented. They weren’t the only person who had faced a culinary fail, however, as others shared weird things people had done.
One man wrote: “My wife didn’t know how to cook a jacket spud in the microwave. I told her 4 to 6 minutes. She put it on 46 minutes, and it ended up like a ping-pong ball.”
Another penned: “My bro tried to boil potatoes in a kettle when my mum’s cooker wasn’t working and knackered her kettle. Even my 5-year-old granddaughter knows you can’t boil potatoes in a kettle. But I suppose if you live with an idiot, you can expect madness like that”.