WIFE ENRAGED BY HUSBAND'S BREAKFAST TRADITION

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Pregnant Wife Says Her Husband Has a Daily Breakfast Tradition – and It Fills Her with 'Hormone-Fueled Rage'

By Abigail Adams  Published on December 25, 2025 07:00AM EST

 

A wife says she's tempted to ask her husband to stop cooking breakfast altogether because of the smell, despite the meal being a long-standing tradition of his.

 

In a post on Reddit, the 31-year-old woman said her 34-year-old husband has been making the same breakfast for years: “a tofu scramble with various veggies made on the cast iron skillet.”

 

Though the scent initially did not bother her at all, she said the situation worsened a couple of years ago when her husband “started getting distracted while cooking,” causing his food to burn.

 

The result, according to his wife, “is that almost every single morning the food smells like burnt oil and just awful.” She said the smell is “revolting” and has even led to her to have “coughing fits” from all of the smoke.

 

Things got a little worse recently for two reasons.

 

For one, the couple moved into what the woman described as “a very old house with terrible ventilation.”

 

Additionally, she's currently pregnant “and struggling with morning sickness and food aversions."

 

“I've tried talking to him about it a couple times... and he says he will be more careful,” she claimed, but suggested that her husband seemingly doesn’t understand how irritated she has become.

 

"At this point I want to demand that he either 1) stop cooking breakfast entirely or 2) get a blacktop and cook outside so that I don't have to smell it," she wrote, before asking her fellow Redditors if they thought that would be too over the top.

 

One commenter suggested the husband “shouldn't be walking off and leaving things to burn” in the kitchen. “It really isn't that long of a process,” they wrote, “he should be able to stand by his food while he's cooking it until it's done.”

 

Another person agreed, noting that it was “especially” important for the husband to change his habit as they await the arrival of their first child.

 

“Leaving a hot cast iron unattended is a great way to have a horrible accident in a few years when kiddo is walking around grabbing random s–---,” they explained.

 

Another commenter spoke from personal experience. “My husband’s ex-wife set their home on fire by leaving a pot unattended on the stove,” they wrote. “He’s very nervous about open flames being left unattended now, especially since we have a mischievous cat.”

 

However, one Redditor posed a different thought: namely, whether or not the husband could actually taste or smell his burnt food himself. The original poster replied with, “I hadn't thought about this before and now I'm wondering.”