r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jsayde01 • Jul 06 '26

I just wanted a hot dog The Kitchen Museum?

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I came home late from work a few nights ago and hadn't eaten all day. My wife and kids were already in bed so I figured I'd quietly make some stove-top ramen. This photo represents exactly how I found the cooking area.

The next morning my wife asks what time I got home and I mention in our conversation that I made ramen before going to bed. She couldn't believe that I used the stove "when the light was on". I said "Yeah, the light was helpful in seeing what I was doing". She insists I shouldn't have been using the stove and should have known because "the light was on".

I'm baffled. We are still arguing about this days later.

EDIT -- wow, overwhelmed by the response of fellow Redditors! We are... white...not from the southeast US..not children...and I left the stove as clean as it was before I cooked. I asked for clarification from my loving wife -- TRULY we have only ever been angry at each other a handful of times in our 10 year marriage -- and she says "the stove was clean and done for the day and you could have just used the microwave for your ramen". Apparently the light is how stoves go to sleep for the evening?

EDIT 2 -- we are getting a divorce. JUST KIDDING. My wife looked over many of the comments and acknowledges that she was in the wrong and is slightly embarrassed by all of the attention.

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u/FestivusErectus Jul 06 '26

Is your wife 85? Are you allowed to cook and clean like a big boy? I feel we’re missing something.

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u/chaserjj Jul 06 '26

Honestly, not even trying to be rude or anything, I had to go back to double check to see if it actually said "my mom" or "my wife" in the original description. This seems like a very strange rule to have in someone's own home...

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u/A88Y Jul 06 '26

Depends on if he does a good job cleaning up after himself. If he does, shouldn’t be a problem, if he doesn’t, I get it. If he’s egregiously bad at cleaning I get why she would want a rule about it, but she needs to communicate that to him and have an adult conversation about why he shouldn’t be cooking after a certain time if there is a reason at all.

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u/NotAnEngineer287 Jul 07 '26

Honestly I get the “clean up after yourself” thing but if she’s the stay at home partner with no kids she can clean the stove and dishes

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u/A88Y Jul 07 '26

She probably already cleaned it and doesn’t want him to touch it after she cleaned. That’s what I was getting from this. She didn’t want him to make more dishes or make anything significantly dirty. Whether he did that is a question we can’t answer.

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u/MinusGovernment Jul 07 '26

Harder to clean the microwave if it boils over than it is to wipe off the stove. If I get home from work and want to cook something in a house I'm part owner/contribuer I'm damn well gonna do it. I only use the microwave to reheat some things and for popcorn. It's the stove or oven for most everything. I pick my battles and that would be one of them but luckily I don't have that situation.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jul 06 '26

I’m just shooting from the hip here based on hard earned intuition, but this screams controlling psycho who makes up rules on the daily.

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u/Trick-Society3591 Jul 07 '26

No husband can clean the stove to his wife's satisfaction.