On this week’s Adult segment, one man asked for solutions to deal with his wife’s terrible cooking. 

“When I first married my wife, we used to eat out regularly, but then when the kids came along, she worked shifts and my job was more flexible, so I did the majority of cooking,” he told Moncrieff. 

“Then about a year ago, she took a really generous redundancy package and now that she’s not working, she’s taken over the cooking and let me tell you, it’s not good. 

“We’re together so long that I can’t figure out how I didn’t notice the fact that she has no taste buds – some of the flavour combinations just don’t make sense. 

“She tried a curry last week and I wouldn’t even give it to the dog. 

“I’ve started just landing home with a takeaway, but it’s costing me a fortune. 

“I’m happy to do the cooking so at least we enjoy a meal that’s edible, but she’s really thrown herself into this; I don’t want to completely kill her enthusiasm, but it can’t continue. 

“How do I approach this without it backfiring on me?” 

Cooking.

Playwright Amanda Brunker said that perhaps the letter writer could try asking his wife to cook really simple dishes to reduce the possibility of disaster. 

“My husband can’t even make a sandwich, he came to me broken,” she said. 

“But he would even feel it okay to go, ‘By the way, I didn’t really like that’. 

“And I would pride myself on my cooking but if he said, ‘I wasn’t feeling that’, I go, ‘Okay, right, I won’t do that again’. 

“So, maybe just be nice about it and just kind of go, ‘You know what I would love?’ - I mean, there’s certain dishes that you just can’t mess up. 

“Get her an air fryer; you can put steaks in an air fryer, there’s no way of messing those things up.” 

'Only prolonging it'

However, actress Mary McEvoy said this was only dragging the issue out. 

“You’re only prolonging it,” she said. 

“There’s a way of saying it; you’re not going to go, ‘That’s shite, I’m not eating it’.” 

Mary said an honest conversation was needed, even if it was awkward.  

Amanda also questioned how this man’s wife hasn’t put the pieces together when her husband is regularly coming home with takeaways. 

Main image: Older Caucasian woman cooking in kitchen. Image: Lumina Images / Alamy. 9 September 2015